The girl was stunned, and then she heard the sound of messy footsteps, a woman in her thirties came out with a curtain, with deep Sichuan character lines on her eyebrows, with a little sadness, and ran to the young man in three steps and two steps, with red eyes, and asked, "What did you say, who are you?" Who do you send home? Who's back? ”

"My name is Gui Chongyang, the grandson of Dahai Gong, and the son of Gui Siye." This is still the Gui family, not a foreign surname lived, it should be an elder in front of him, Gui Chongyang took a little solemnity and replied respectfully.

The woman saw the little boy's face clearly, her body froze, and immediately looked behind the little boy, but she looked around, but except for the little boy in front of her and the little white cat in her arms, there was no other figure, and her eyes finally fell on the young man's mourning clothes, her body shook, and her voice was sharp: "What about Gui Yuan, what about Gui Yuan?" Where is he? ”

Gui Chongyang remembered that "Dad" once said that there were two uncles in the family, among which the eldest uncle and uncle were the elders and had already married; The little uncle and uncle are ranked third, and there was a fiancée who did not pass through the door back then, and another cousin uncle who was ranked second and uncle who was the fifth was from the uncle's grandmother's family.

Gui Chongyang looked at the woman in front of him, remembered the past mentioned by "Dad", inexplicably felt a little weak, hesitated, estimated the woman's age, and asked tentatively: "But...... Auntie? ”

"Auntie?" The woman was stunned for a moment, first stunned, and then hid her face and wept.

Gui Chongyang was crying, guessing the identity of this woman in his heart, he became more and more polite, adding a little respect: "That's the third uncle?" ”

If it is really Gui San's wife, Gui Chongyang should indeed be respected, although the world attaches great importance to etiquette and religion, there are many women who can do it "from the beginning to the end", and the widow who may watch over her dead fiancé is even more pitiful and respectable.

The woman couldn't stop crying, so she heard someone at the door: "Don't ask again, she is Guiyuan's daughter-in-law!" ”

The one who spoke was a black-faced old lady of the age of a sixtieth birthday, wearing a washed half-new gown, in good spirits, and walking with the wind. She looked at the young man, her brows furrowed tightly, and when she saw the little white cat on his shoulder, her face was full of pickiness and dislike.

Gui Chongyang was surprised: "Isn't the old man joking? The father and the mother were married, and there was a marriage certificate as evidence, when did the father marry another? ”

As soon as the old lady wanted to speak, she saw movement in the courtyard next door, and she didn't want people to see the excitement, so she lowered her face: "What are you shouting outside, come into the house and talk!" ”

The woman had stopped crying, her face was ashen, and she was carried into the house by the maiden.

Gui Chongyang was full of depression, and the excitement of "returning to his hometown" and the faint expectation of seeing his blood relatives also disappeared. He was sick and weak because he was born prematurely, and he looked slightly younger than his actual age, but he was actually twelve years old, so he naturally knew the difference between his concubines. Although he was born and lost his mother, he grew up with his "father" since he was a child, and his father and son have a deep affection, otherwise he would not have traveled thousands of miles back to his unfamiliar hometown for the thought of "Dad", but this has just arrived in his homeland, and his good original son-in-law has become a concubine this time?

Gui Chongyang's classmates have sons who are out of the house, and the good and the bad are uneven. However, scholars pay the most attention to their innocence, and those sons of concubines, except for those who are really recognized and respected by everyone, are mostly picked and treated coldly.

Gui Chongyang doesn't want to generalize, but he won't really recognize his identity. The woman in front of her has been guarding the empty house for so many years, and she sent her grandparents to the Gui family with filial piety, and was recognized by the grandparents and relatives of the Gui family, and she is the daughter-in-law of the Gui family in the eyes of the world, but in that case, what is the other woman who married Gui Yuan with a dowry and died in childbirth for the Gui family's bloodline?

When they entered the west room, there was a fire kang on the north side of the room, and under the south window was an embroidery stand, on which were half-embroidered.

The old lady sat cross-legged on the north kang with a grin, looking at the woman's dejected appearance, with an expression of "hatred of iron does not become steel", and shouted: "The major event of marriage has always been 'the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker', he has a marriage certificate, but you don't have a marriage certificate?" You and Gui Yuan were engaged at the age of three, and when he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, he went to the door to fulfill his filial piety to his parents, and his name was written on the Gui family tree, and he served your father-in-law and mother-in-law for six years of mourning, what is your heart? ”

Gui Chongyang's little face tightened, according to what the old lady said, the woman in front of her should indeed be regarded as the wife of "Dad", but why did "Dad" mention his hometown relatives, but he didn't mention this? Now that this woman has been in the door for more than ten years, she has come back from outside, if this woman bites her grandmother to death, how should she deal with it?

These dilapidated rooms will never enter his eyes, but there is a "father" who will leave him, and going home is his first task.

The woman wiped her tears, stared straight at Gui Chongyang, and sighed for a while: "You look a little like your father's youth, where has your father been all these years, and when has he not been?" He...... Why haven't you ever come back? ”

The old lady stared at Gui Chongyang like a knife: "Empty mouth and white teeth, you said that you are the son and grandson of the Gui family, but what evidence do you have?" ”

In addition to scrutiny, the gaze also brought out a bit of resentment.

Without waiting for Gui Chongyang to reply, the little white cat on Gui Chongyang's shoulder had already noticed the old lady's unkindness, jumped on the kang, arched his body, and rushed at the old lady, with a "grunt" sound in his throat.

The little white cat is just the size of an adult's palm, and this kind of posture is not terrible, the old lady sneered when she saw this, but she looked away.

Gui Chongyang didn't know who this old lady was, but seeing that she was doing something in the Gui family, she was obviously an elder who could speak, although she didn't like her gaze, but she still opened the package she was carrying and took out the household registration certificate inside.

The old lady was so angry that she refused to answer with a dark face, and only looked at the woman.

The woman stretched out her hand, took it tremblingly, and opened it to see, but her face became whiter and paler.

The old lady frowned, and she was not in a hurry to ask, but the woman raised her head, trembled her lips, and said to the old lady after a while: "Yongle settled in December of the seventh year of Nanjing, and his wife Gui Wu, the eldest man Gui Chongyang, the head of the household...... Gui Yuan, formerly a native of Mujia Village, Xiji Town, Tongzhou, died of illness in November of the 18th year of Yongle......"

It is now May of the 19th year of Yongle, the anniversary of Gui Yuan's death, and Gui Chongyang still has a heavy filial piety.

The old lady listened, her face was full of anger at first, and then her eyebrows rose: "What's the matter with that Gui Wu clan?" ”

The woman exhaled, looked at the household registration post and said: "Gui Wu's family, born in Shilipu, the daughter of Wu Da, married in December of the seventh year of Yongle, and died on the ninth day of September in the eighth year of Yongle. ”

When the old lady was young, she had a fiery temper and was jealous and hateful. It's just that Gui Chongyang is in his teens in front of him, and his body and bones don't look strong, and the orphans who have lost their fathers and mothers have come back all the way, how can people deal with it?

The three women in front of them, the old, middle-aged and the young, all looked at Gui Chongyang, but they had different ideas.