The mother of the head of the West Mansion is surnamed Xie, who is three years older than Gu Weisheng, and is the daughter of Xie Shen, a member of the former cabinet university.

She comes from a famous family, has been trained by the boudoir since she was a child, has a gentle and quiet personality, and is one of the best people in the Ping Gu family.

The only downside is the legs.

She was born with legs of different lengths, and the problem became more pronounced as she grew older.

When she was a girl in the Xie family, her parents were worried about her leg. Later, Gu Lidong of Dongfu heard that the teacher's youngest daughter was not married, so he enthusiastically pulled the red line for Gu Weisheng in the West House.

That year, Gu Weisheng had just won the show, and it was the time when he was in high spirits. His mother Su followed his father Gu Lixian in Beijing, and he grew up with his grandmother Yang when he was a child.

The relationship with his grandmother Yang is deep, but the relationship with his parents is thin.

At that time, the Yang family was protecting his niece and granddaughter and wanted to marry her to Gu Weisheng.

At this moment, news came from Beijing, and Gu Lidong, the eldest lord of the East Mansion, had already said a family affair for Gu Weisheng. The Yang family had no choice but to give up and gave Xiao Yang's family to Gu Weisheng's younger brother Gu Wei to become his wife.

After Gu Weisheng got married, the Gu family saw the bride for the first time......

On the wedding night, Gu Weisheng slept in the study for half a night!

The ancestor Yang was distressed.

Therefore, the relationship between the Yang family and the Xie family is a little flat, and he has a slight complaint about Gu Lixian, the eldest lord of the Eastern Mansion!

After a few more years, Gu Weisheng and Xie's relationship slowly improved, first giving birth to the eldest daughter Gu Lianniang, and then giving birth to the eldest son Gu Zhongkang in the first year of Jianwu.

Wait until the fourth year of Jianwu, Gu Weisheng will be promoted! This year, the second son Gu Shuqi was born.

Back then, Xie did not produce anything for a few years after giving birth to Gu Lianniang. The Yang family was worried that the eldest grandson had no children, so Gu Weisheng accepted a talented daughter Jiang as a good concubine.

Jiang entered the door and was pregnant, and the family was happy.

At this moment, two more pieces of good news came one after another. One is that Xie is also pregnant, and the other is that the fifth grandmother, Xiao Yang, is pregnant at the same time.

Xifu ushered in three happy events at once, but these happy events only became two in the end.

The three women gave birth on the same day, and Gu Weisheng's concubine Jiang died after giving birth to her eldest son, Gu Mengping.

Xie gave birth to his eldest son, Gu Zhongkang.

Xiao Yang's child, the fifth grandmother of the second room, was stillborn, and she didn't recover all of a sudden, and she rested for several years. It was not until the third year of Jianwu that he gave birth to a son named Gu Jihong. Because of pity for Gu Zhongkang as the only concubine who survived that day, the old ancestor Yang and Cheng Wu's grandmother Xiao Yang took Gu Zhongkang very seriously, even more than the Xie family.

Xie is a broad-hearted person, seeing that the ancestor and brother and daughter-in-law love their eldest son, where can they say half a word? On the contrary, I am glad that Gu Zhongkang has a few more people who love him.

Today, because Gu Weisheng returned late from visiting friends, the dinner in Xidafang was set up later than usual.

When Gu Mengping was sent over by Gu Weide, the grandson of the old patriarch, Xi Dafang was having dinner.

Seeing Gu Weide from the Eastern Mansion leading people in, Xie Fang's face slammed with a smile, and then returned to normal.

"Have you ever had dinner for the German brothers? Do you want to use some more? Gu Weisheng didn't squint, only greeted Gu Weide.

It seems that he didn't see Gu Mengping standing behind his clan brother.

Gu Weide saluted the Xie clan first, and then smiled and excused himself, "We came here after eating in the big sect, why did the clan brother eat so late today?" As he spoke, he pulled Gu Mengping in front of him, "This is your father, this is your mother-in-law, this is your eldest brother Zhongkang, and this is your younger brother Uncle Qi." ”

After speaking, he pointed to the green-clothed girl sitting next to Xie Shi and said, "This is your eldest sister Lianniang." ”

Gu Mengping saluted one by one, and when he arrived at Gu Zhongkang, Gu Zhongkang stood up in a panic and returned the salute.

Of the rest, none of them stood up, as if Gu Mengping was not standing in front of them at all.

Gu Weide frowned slightly.

Gu Weisheng put down his chopsticks and complained to Xie about the cook, "...... Why does this fried bamboo shoots with deer breast taste weird today? You know that I love this dish, why don't you tell the kitchen to have a snack? You go find someone to summon Chef Ge, and I'm going to teach her a good lesson. ”

Is this a lesson to the cook or is it a lesson to him? Gu Weide's face turned red with anger, and he took half a step forward.

Gu Mengping hurriedly stretched out his hand and grabbed his sleeve.

He didn't really want to come, because he knew what he would be treated when he came. It's just because of the relationship between father and son and the persuasion of the old patriarch that he reluctantly came.

On the way here, Gu Weide also advised him to focus on the overall situation. After all, he is getting older and older, and it is not suitable for him to stay in the mountains anymore, and sooner or later he will have a career. If you don't please your parents now, will you make farming a career in the future?

But when it came to the end, Gu Weide was even more angry than Gu Mengping.

Gu Weide turned his head, looked at the sensible and steady Gu Mengping, and then looked at the slightly frivolous clan brother, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

Fortunately, Meng Ping did not grow up with his brother's family, just looking at their attitude towards Meng Ping today, you can know what happened to Meng Ping.

Thinking of this, he coughed and flicked his sleeves, "Today, the nephew of the Mengping clan went down the mountain to congratulate his grandfather on his birthday, this love, my grandfather said that he received it, and said that he would like to thank the brother of the Sheng clan for his thoughtfulness, and he specially went to Fenglin Temple to call the nephew of the Mengping clan to come down the mountain." Now that we have seen this ceremony, and seeing that it is time to rest, we will not bother much, so let's take our leave! ”

After he finished speaking, he grabbed Gu Mengping's hand, turned around and walked out.

Gu Mengping sighed lightly and followed him obediently.

The two of them walked extremely slowly, and the threshold that they could usually walk out of in three or five steps, Gu Weide walked ten steps.

However, there was silence behind him......

Gu Weide was completely disappointed, holding Gu Mengping's hand, trembling slightly.

He turned his head forcefully, looked at Gu Mengping and smiled, "Shaohua talked about you a few days ago, saying that he wanted to see you for a long time. It's a pity that he followed his mother back to his grandfather's house yesterday, why don't you sleep in Shaohua's house, okay? ”

Gu Shaohua is Gu Weide's only son, one year older than Gu Mengping.

Hearing Gu Shaohua's name, Gu Mengping had a smile on his face.

Gu Weide let out a long sigh, turned his head to look at the brightly lit West Mansion, and shook his head slightly.

The news that Gu Mengping did not sleep in the west room but in the big sect reached the ears of Gu Weiyu of the East Mansion before it was locked.

"This bastard! Can the father ask for filial piety if he is not merciful? Although Meng Ping is a concubine, he is his seed. It's good that he counts a few lonely books more than a son? No wonder Xifu is not promising! Gu Weiyue scolded.

His wife, Dong, was ironing the official robe he used when he used to go to court, and her hand was slightly stunned after hearing this.

Almost ironed out a big hole in the complement.

"Look, what did the master say? Shut it up, don't be sent to Xifu. In the half month since the concubine returned to Suiping, she heard some things from the past. Dong carefully folded the complement and put it in a locked cabinet before turning around.

"What's the matter?" Gu Weiyu's anger did not disappear, and he was angry.

Dong looked left and right, waved his hand to order a few personal maids to leave, and walked to Gu Weiyu's side after they closed the door, and said in a low voice: "The concubine heard that as soon as Gu Mengpingfu was born, he killed his mother-in-law Jiang alive, and lost the biological son of the fifth grandmother of Xifu. That's not all, before the moon, the ancestor of Xifu had an illness inexplicably. Xifu asked for a doctor, and spent countless silver dollars to no avail. In the end, the ancestor of Xifu really had no choice, so he had to avoid the village Zhuangzi. But who would have thought that on the second day after living in the village in the countryside, he would be cured without medicine. Isn't it weird, you say? ”

"The son is silent, and the strange power is confused!" Gu Wei glanced at Dong, but his tone loosened.

Dong Shi continued, "Later, the ancestor of Xifu felt that he was in good health, so he was ready to come back, but on the third day of his return, he vomited and diarrhea endlessly. It's been tossing and turning for months, and I'm about to give my life to it. Later, I invited a Taoist priest to do it, saying that it was Gu Mengping's eight-character pure yang, and the father and mother of the brother and brother ......"

Gu Weiyu was angry again, "Where did you invite the Taoist priest?" Must be a liar! Then Jiang's death must be because of his weak body, so he died of a blood collapse after giving birth to a child, how can he attribute all the sin to the birth of the child? What does a newborn child understand? ”

"But the ancestor of Xifu is always sick, so what's the explanation?" Dong asked with a smile.

Gu Weiyu choked, and just glared at Dong hard.

"Later, the concubine heard that the ancestor of Xifu had been sick repeatedly for several months, and as long as he returned to the house, he would be sick and leave the house. It was really impossible to stir up the fourth master of Xifu, so he had to listen to the words of the Taoist priest and put Gu Mengping on the side of the road, hoping that some kind person could adopt him, which was better than the person who killed Xifu. ”

When Dong said this, his tone was slightly embarrassed.

In the end, it is a motherless child, and no one hurts. If her appointment had been told like this, she would have fought with others. If anyone dares to throw Yo'er to the side of the road and leave her to fend for herself, she will definitely do her best to get the child back.

Fortunately in misfortune, Gu Mengping was adopted by the old monk Mingkong of Fenglin Temple.

"Therefore, I don't blame Fourth Master Sheng for treating him coldly! After all, there is no father-son affection in it. Dong said.

Gu Weiyue let out a long sigh, and he didn't know who he was sighing for.

Early the next morning, Gu Mengping got up early and went to ask the old patriarch Gu Rongchang for his resignation.

The old patriarch did not keep him, but ordered a cart full of rice, flour, oil, vegetables and vegetables, and ordered people to follow him up the mountain.

"Master is old, his legs and feet are not good, if you can not let him go down the mountain, if there is anything to do, you can only go down the mountain to find a tenant, and let him come and send me a message. You're young and haven't been through anything, but you don't dare to make decisions indiscriminately......"

Gu Mengping knew that the old patriarch was afraid that the old monk Mingkong would be angry when he knew the news that he was snubbed in the Xidafang, and he was afraid that he would be angry when he went down the mountain to find Gu Weisheng's theory.

He wasn't really a child, how could he tell the old monk these things? Naturally, it is deeply hidden in the heart, reporting good news but not bad news.

"The great-grandson of the clan remembered." Gu Mengping saluted solemnly.

Seeing that he was well-behaved and sensible, the old patriarch had mixed feelings in his heart, and he couldn't say anything.

personally smoothed Gu Meng's clothes.

The carriage of the old patriarch's family is naturally not as spacious and comfortable as Gu Weiyu's carriage, but it is a flatbed car, which is better than the person who drives the car is an old man, and he is extremely stable along the way.

Gu Mengping sat side by side with the coachman in the front of the car, and on the car was the grain and oil sent by the old patriarch.

He was not a native of the Ming Dynasty and would not look down on these lowly people.

The coachman was a tenant of the Gu family, and knowing that he was a literate man, he was in awe of him at first. After walking for a while, I saw that he didn't have the slightest, and he was not like those brothers in the Gu Mansion, so he gradually relaxed his heart.

The two talked and laughed along the way, and walked along the country road to Fenglin Temple.

After walking for a while, I suddenly saw a carriage in front of me overturned on its side, and several people were surrounding the carriage with sad faces, not knowing what to say.

A man who looked like a steward was standing in front of the carriage directing, and when he saw them coming, he hurriedly waved his arms and ran over.

"This old man, this little brother is invited, dare to ask where is this place? The axle of our carriage has just been broken and there is no spare one, which is really sad for the people who are not in the village and behind the shop. Can you please show me where I can change one? ”

"Broken axle?" Gu Mengping jumped out of the carriage and glanced at the carriage that had fallen on the side of the road, only to see that the outer wall of the carriage was covered with a cyan tarpaulin, and he couldn't see the inside clearly. However, the faint decoration in the carriage can be seen that the owner of the carriage is either rich or noble.

"Uncle Gui, take your drive back to Gufu again, and lead this gentleman to change the axle. I'll just wait here for now, and when the axles come, I'll go back to the mountain. ”

As soon as Gu Mengping finished speaking, he felt a gaze fall on him. Then he noticed that there was a curtain made of blue cloth on the side of the road, and the curtain was being lifted.

There were bright eyes staring at him for a moment.

He couldn't help but smile.

The bright eyes were startled, and they suddenly ducked behind the curtain.

Immediately afterward, he heard a reprimand coming from behind the curtain.

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