Ning Xia Qing hurriedly rushed to the private room of Yongfu Building, and almost bumped into Gu Xuesong, who was coming out of it.

As soon as he saw her, Gu Xuesong immediately asked, "Why did the girl come back, she wasn't affected by the fire just now, right?" ”

Ning Xia Qing was stunned, then only shook her head, Gu Xuesong saw that she was indeed well, and immediately made way and said, "Ling Tang and Ling Mei are fine, girl, let's go in and have a look." ”

Ning Xia Qing nodded, and then walked in, leaving Gu Xuesong and Ah Zheng outside, standing in the open-air corridor directly opposite Shouhe Building. Gu Xuesong looked meaningfully at the person next to him who had taken away Ningxia Qing before, but he only said indifferently: "It's a good fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but I didn't expect such a turmoil." ”

Ah Zheng hugged his fists and said: "I heard that it was Lord Gu who saved the second girl of my family, Ah Zheng thanked Lord Gu for his righteous action." Ah Zheng immediately looked at the Shouhe Building opposite, which had been extinguished, and said, "I heard a person who ran out of it say that it seems that someone set off fireworks in the building, and the private room was lit?" ”

"Really? I don't know how the fire started. Gu Xuesong said: "However, if it is really because someone set off fireworks and lit the private room, it is not unusual." It is a tradition to set off fireworks on the 15th day of the first lunar month, and there are always people who try to light fireworks at the window and cause a fire. Gu Xuesong sighed: "I don't know if anyone in Shouhe is injured." ”

Ah Zheng shook his head: "No one should be hurt." I met a guest who ran out of the Shouhe building, and he said that he was the last to come out, and when he came out, he could only hear the sound of men busy fighting the fire, so the guests should have run out a long time ago. ”

Gu Xuesong said with relief: "That's good." After Gu Xuesong finished speaking, he looked back at the private room and said, "They should have finished speaking, let's go in." ”

When Gu Xuesong entered, the three mothers and daughters of the Ning family had already wiped away their tears. As soon as he saw Gu Xuesong, Cao got up and cried gratefully: "We are going home, and I will thank Lord Gu for rescuing Zi'er tonight, if there is no Lord Gu, I'm afraid my Zi'er will ......."

Gu Xuesong immediately bowed his hand and said, "Mrs. Ning, don't be so polite. ”

The Cao family obviously didn't expect this Lord Gu to be so polite, he was stunned for a moment, and before he could reply, Gu Huailang helped on the side again: "Seeing that Sister Zi'er fell, the sixth uncle and I naturally want to help, Aunt Ning doesn't have to be polite to the Gu family." Sister Zi'er must rest well after returning home, and the wound must be changed frequently, so that it can get better quickly. ”

Cao Shi said: "Lord Gu and Eighth Young Master Gu saved Zi'er, and treated us so kindly, I don't know what to do...... After speaking, Cao gently pushed Ningxia Zi and whispered: "Zi'er, don't you say thank you to Lord Gu and Eighth Young Master soon." ”

The frightened Ningxia Zi heard Gu Huailang mention himself, wiped the tears overflowing from the corners of his eyes, glanced at Gu Huailang, and then looked away, and turned to look at Gu Xuesong who was dusty, showing gratitude, but looking at his unattainable bearing, he cringed a little, the expression on his face changed and changed, and finally he held back a sentence very quietly: "Thank you......"

Ning Xia Zi's voice was so small that it was almost inaudible, Cao's face turned red, and he said timidly: "Zi'er is introverted, and she was frightened again just now, so she is a little rude, and I hope Lord Gu and the Eighth Young Master will not blame." ”

Gu Xuesong hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Mrs. Ning, don't say that. The Gu family and the Ning family are world friends, my aunt and Mrs. Ning are like sisters, those of us who are juniors, when we see the second girl fall, if we don't help, it will be a real faux pas. ”

Cao's face flushed. Where are the Gu Mansion and the Ning family world friends? It's just that the old ladies of the two families were childhood playmates, and they have been disconnected for more than ten years and have only met again in recent months. Such an inconspicuous Ning family, where can it be called a world friend of the Gu Mansion? Cao Shi whispered: "It was Lord Gu who lifted ......."

At this moment, the coachman of the Gu Mansion informed outside, and Gu Xuesong immediately said to the Cao family: "I have asked the coachman of the Gu family to drive the carriage to the gate of Yongfu Building, please let the carriage of the Gu family take you home." ”

Cao Shi was flattered and waved his hand again and again: "This ...... How does this make ......"

Gu Huailang said enthusiastically: "Aunt Ning, don't shirk. The carriage of the Ning family must be parked in a place with few people, it must not be nearby, Sister Zi'er is young and frightened, how can Sister Zi'er be allowed to walk again? The Gu family's carriage has gone downstairs, you can just take the Gu family's carriage, and you can also let Sister Zi'er go home early to rest. ”

Gu Xuesong and Gu Huailang put the mother and daughter of the Ning family into the carriage, and Gu Huailang did not forget to tell the coachman: "Sixth Uncle and I have to go shopping again, so you don't have to rush back to pick us up." You hurry up and catch the car, don't bump Sister Zi'er. ”

After speaking, Gu Huailang leaned over to the side of the car window again, and looked at Ningxia Zi who showed a half-pulled face from the window, Gu Huailang smiled, took out a pony-shaped wood carving toy from his sleeve, handed it into the car window and said, "Sister Zi'er, this is a good thing I just got today, give it to you to play!" ”

The pony-shaped wood carving is extremely delicate, painted with ochre and eggplant purple paints, the colors are natural and harmonious, and the pattern is extremely smooth, and it is by no means a toy that ordinary people can get. Zi'er looked at the wood carving, didn't answer, and whispered: "I can't ask for your things......" She was afraid of Gu Huailang, and she knew the etiquette of not being able to take other people's things casually.

Cao Shi hurriedly said: "Eighth Young Master, don't give Zi'er things, we already owe Gu Fu a great favor, if we accept the Eighth Young Master's things again, how can we be happy in our hearts?" ”

Gu Huailang said politely: "Didn't you say it just now, the Gu family and the Ning family are world friends, we are just like a family, but why is Aunt Ning still polite to me?" Gu Huailang smiled and said mischievously: "Aunt Ning doesn't let Sister Zi'er ask for my things, isn't she still seeing me?" ”

Cao Shi smiled and whispered to Zi'er: "Since the Eighth Young Master has said so, you can take it." Zi'er blinked her big eyes, obediently took the delicate wood-carved pony, held it in her hand and looked at it seriously, and couldn't take her eyes off. Cao looked at Gu Huailang with gratitude, and thanked Ning Xia Zi with a smile: "Thank you, Eighth Young Master." ”

"Aunt Ning, don't call me Eighth Young Master in the future, just call me Brother Lang." Gu Huailang saluted the mother and daughter of the Ning family in the carriage and said, "When Aunt Ning goes home, please bring a message to Grandma Ning, my grandmother thinks about Grandma Ning these days, and always mentions Grandma Ning, and asks Grandma Ning to be a guest when she is free!" ”

Politely watching the Ning family leave, Gu Xuesong quipped: "That's not the pony you begged for a long time, since you got it this morning, you have been holding it and not letting go, even when you come out to enjoy the lanterns, why do you give your beautiful sister so generously?" ”

Gu Huailang said nonchalantly: "Send it out, send it out, I can get another one." It's good to make Sister Zi'er happy. ”

Gu Huailang suddenly jumped up and down a few steps, and said excitedly as he jumped: "I heard my grandmother say before that Sister Zi'er is coming to study at Gu's Academy!" My grandmother said that when Sister Zi'er comes to study, she can always keep Sister Zi'er in my house! ”

At night, Ningxia Zi sat on the small bench, carefully put the pony wood carving into the box where she usually put the baby, and then climbed onto the bed with her calves.

The old lady had heard Ningxia Qing talk about the accidental fire in Shouhe Building, but she was frightened.

The old lady picked up Zi'er's chubby hand and saw that it had been wrapped in a thick layer of gauze, making her already fat hand even fatter. This made the old lady feel distressed for a while, and she hurriedly asked Zi'er if it hurt, and then held her little granddaughter in her arms and rubbed it for a long time.

After coaxing Zi'er to sleep with the old lady, Ning Xia Qing sent the old lady back to the room, and then went back to her own house.

When she returned to the house, Jade was making her bed, and her Kuixing mask was on the table.

She sat down at the table and poured herself tea. When she saw the fire in Shouhelou, she was worried that something would happen to Cao and Zi'er, so she called for them in a hurry, but she shouted at her own voice.

She drank tea and moistened her throat as she looked at the Kuixing mask. She remembered that she saw a Kuixing mask on Gu Xuesong's body that was the same as her.

Gu Xuesong's expression was so soft and light, and his eyebrows were so elegant and beautiful, but he had such an ugly and gloomy Kuixing mask on his body.

Ning Xia Qing shook his head slightly, drove away the distracting thoughts in his mind, got up and walked to the wardrobe, put the Kuixing mask in the box above the wardrobe, Cuiyu also made the bed at this time, Ning Ningqing walked to the side of the bed and lay down, and asked in a low voice: "Didn't Tan Ye go to find me?" And then he never showed up again? ”

Cuiyu replied in a low voice while serving Ning Xia Qing to lie down, "Hmm." After Tan Ye escorted his wife out of the fire, he went to find the girl, and never came back. However, the little guy next to Tan Ye came back and said that there was something suddenly at Tan Ye's house, so Tan Ye went home directly and asked the little guy to come and explain to us. ”

Ning Xia Qing nodded, Cuiyu put down the bed curtain, and the room fell silent.

However, Ningxia Qing couldn't sleep. Her mind was both frightened and mixed.

She didn't dare to think that it was Tan Wenshi who protected the Cao family tonight.

She had heard Cuiyu describe before that the situation at the time of the fire could be said to be very chaotic, but fortunately, Tan Wenshi was closely guarding behind the Cao family, and did not let the crowded crowd squeeze into the Cao family.

Cao's body is weak and he rarely goes out, not even much stronger than Zi'er, if there is no one to protect him, in case he is pushed, falls down the stairs, and is stepped on again...... That kind of consequence is simply unimaginable to Ningxia Qing!

Unexpectedly, it was Tan Wenshi who protected the Cao family, Ning Xia Qing thought about it, and sighed lightly in his heart.

The nineteenth day of the first lunar month is the most important day in Du Qiutong's life.

Early in the morning, before dawn, the Du family crackled and set off a cannon battle, waking up many neighbors who had not yet gotten up. In short, the Du family made the momentum extremely bright, and Du Hongsheng and Du Zhengshuo, the father and son, dressed in red and green, stood at the door of Du's house and shouted, while greeting the guests who came to say goodbye with a smile.

Unlike the Ning family, who made a fortune by relying on mulberry gardens and engaged in cloth trading for generations, the Du family was once a small scholarly family, although it has long been gone, but there are still a few hard-working people in the clan who are determined to gain fame, including Du Qiutong's fourth uncle Du Hongwen.

Du Hongwen is not young, and he has already married a family, but he only relies on renting a few acres of land from his ancestors to support his family. His family persuaded him countless times to give up his studies, to become a bookkeeper, or to be a teacher, so that he could still supplement his family, but he did not listen to anything, and worked hard in his dilapidated thatched hut all day long, threatening not to give up if he did not take the exam.

Du Hongsheng has always looked down on his younger brother, and has always felt that this younger brother is a dead eye and a nerd, and Du Hongwen has always looked down on his brother, feeling that his brother is cunning and has a bad stomach. In short, the relationship between the two brothers has never been close.

But today is Du Qiutong's happy day, no matter what, Du Hongwen is Du Qiutong's uncle after all, Du Hongsheng can't help but invite Du Hongwen, and Du Hongwen can't help but show up.

But as soon as Du Hongwen appeared, his face was always black.

Du Hongwen looked at Du Hongsheng, hated iron and steel, and said: "It's just to be a concubine for someone, you just send your daughter over quietly, but you still do it with such fanfare, it's really shameless!" ”

Du Hongsheng said noncommittally: "Qiu Tong is my own daughter, today is her big day, and it's not a shameful thing, I naturally want her to have a good time!" ”

Du Hongwen pointed at Du Hongsheng's nose and reprimanded: "You also know that Qiu Tong is your own daughter!" Qiu Tong is an innocent girl, you actually let her be a concubine, if the ancestors knew that the Du family was out of your family, they would have to be ashamed of you! ”

Du Hongsheng sneered and sneered: "Are you embarrassed to mention shame?" You're all this age, and you're still bored at home all day, and you don't go out to earn money! Aren't you afraid that others will laugh at you for being useless?! I advise you to please me as soon as possible, you have made me happy, and my good son-in-law may be able to make you a bookkeeper under him, and reward you with food! ”

Du Hongwen said disdainfully: "This world is really laughing at poverty and not prostitution, and what's even more ridiculous is that there are villains like you who are not ashamed but proud!" After speaking, Du Hongwen shook his sleeves full of patches and rushed out of the door angrily.

Du Qiutong, who was in a concubine-colored wedding dress, sat in the house, waiting for Tan Wenshi's people to carry her out of her mother's house, and she heard the noise of her father and uncle outside the house clearly.

She was silent.

She is not the only one who looks down on her fourth uncle, she is silent, but she keeps all this in her heart.

She vowed that one day, she would make everyone who once looked down on her regret it!

Including Ningxia Qing! Including Xue Qianqian! Including Cao Liuwan! Including Du Hongwen!

One day, she wants these people to know that there is a price to pay for looking down on Du Qiutong!

However, on the night of the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, Du Qiutong had not yet succeeded, and the new house was on fire!