In addition to reading and doing needlework, Gu Ying also likes to learn medicine from his father, the Gu family has studied medicine for generations, the Gu family has produced several famous doctors, and even a big country, the Gu family's medical books are piled up in a whole room, the old yellowed books are full of dust, and spiders have made webs between the books, as if the years have sealed those wisdom.

My father rarely looked through these books, my father didn't like to practice medicine, he wanted to study for the imperial examination, but he didn't have the talent, and he didn't read anything famous when he was old, and finally his father had to give up his pen to practice medicine and became a langzhong.

Those books were abandoned by her father, but they were Gu Ying's favorite, she would always find an opportunity to sneak in to read books, as long as her mother didn't look for her, she often looked at it for a long time.

The father pinned all his hopes on the child, to be precise, on Gu Jin. Gu Ying and Gu Jin were only given birth to their father when he was nearly forty years old, and it is said that he also gave birth to two children before that, a boy and a girl, both of whom died early, until Gu Jin and Gu Ying were born in the Gu family. Of course, Gu Jin is the queen of the Gu family, and Gu Ying is an incidental gift, and a girl cannot inherit the incense.

It is precisely because of this that the father and mother love the elder brother like eyeballs, and the elder brother is so promising, and the father and mother want the stars not to give the moon.

When he was twelve years old, his brother was admitted to Xiucai, which caused a sensation in the entire Daimyofu City, Xiucai is not unusual, but the twelve-year-old Xiucai is very rare, for a while, the guests of the Gu family are constantly coming and going, and every day someone invites his father and brother to eat and go to the banquet, and it is precisely because of this back and forth banquet that his father gave his life.

On that day, my father drank a few more glasses of pleasure, and when he came back, he insisted on riding a horse, but somehow the horse was frightened, and my father fell off the horse, and was trampled to death by a hoof of the frightened horse.

After the death of his father, the hospital was closed, and his mother regarded his brother as his life, and his brother was already pampered, and under his mother's indulgence, his brother became even more intense, and he did not read every day, only drank and had fun with others, and spent extravagantly, and the business was ruined in a few years.

When he was fifteen years old, his brother failed in the township test, which was a heavy blow to the arrogant brother, and he didn't even want to go out, feeling that everyone was laughing at him.

The mother felt sorry for her brother and felt that her brother's failure was due to the relationship between her master's teaching, so she sold the dowry that her father had saved for her, raised a large amount of silver for her brother as a teacher, and worshipped a great Confucian in the Daimyo Mansion as a teacher.

The great Confucian was famous, and the process of apprenticeship was very difficult, but it didn't take long for his brother to quarrel with his classmates, and the great Confucian reprimanded him, and he ran home in a rage, saying that he would no longer go to school.

Mother didn't say anything about her brother because of this, she even felt that these classmates were jealous of her brother, so she bullied her brother, that big Confucian is not a thing, she took her money for nothing and followed her son together.

Since then, my brother has only been studying at home, and my mother can only take Gu Ying to embroider and sell flowers for money in order to provide for him, but my brother is not restrained because of her and her mother's hard work, and everything he eats must be high-quality goods.

In fact, she can cure her mother's illness, but her mother does not believe in her medical skills, and her mother only believes in her brother. My brother said don't waste money to take medicine, but my mother stopped taking medicine after hearing this, thinking that she would be fine if she was sick for a while, but she didn't survive that winter.

After her mother went, Gu Ying supported the family, she washed and cooked every day, and the rest of the time was used for embroidery, small embroidery was worthless, Gu Ying began to embroider large screens. She embroidered not those usual rich peonies, but took some elegant calligraphy and painting to make patterns, she embroidered well, and the money she earned was barely enough to maintain her brother's expenses.

A few years have passed, until the age of seventeen, my brother did not have any plans to say goodbye to her, during this period it was not that no one came to say goodbye, but my brother refused, and the reason my brother gave him was to wait for him to be admitted to the fame and give her a good kiss, so that she should not worry.

When he was seventeen years old, he was going to come to the capital to take the township examination, but last year the first emperor died and the new emperor ascended the throne, so the imperial examination was postponed for a year.

During this year, my brother did not study hard, but continued to eat, drink and have fun, and somehow met the foreign manager of a large family in the capital, and he learned a news from the mouth of the foreign manager.

In the mouth of the foreign steward, the elder brother learned that the Hou Shizi of Xuancheng was terminally ill, and Mrs. Hou intended to carry a noble concubine home for the prince, and the requirements of the Hou Mansion were extremely high, that is, to be innocent, to have a first-class appearance and temperament, and to be literate and hyphenation、、、

It's not that there are no such ladies in the capital, but the families who can cultivate such girls are all well-established, and no one is willing to send their daughters into such a fire pit, and the low-level Xuancheng Marquis Mansion is unwilling to give in, so the matter was delayed.

Brother heard the thoughts, he thought that he was full of wealth, all these years of unlucky because there is no backer, if you climb this noble family, then his backer will not be there!

Gu Ying didn't know about this at first, it was her brother who was drunk once and lost his words after drinking, so she understood her brother's plan.

The elder brother smiled and took her hand, touched her hair as he did when he was a child, and said to her as if looking at a treasure, "My sister has grown up and looks so good, isn't it a pity to marry an ordinary person with such a character!" Although the Hou Shizi of Xuancheng is a sick man, his family is noble, and if it weren't for his bad health, he would definitely not be close to people like us.

Although it is a noble concubine, my brother has inquired, and the son of the world is not married, and you will marry just like the lady of the main house、、、"

The elder brother babbled about the benefits of the family affair of the Xuancheng Marquis Mansion, and after talking about the benefits, he looked forward to the scenery of his gold list title, until the wine rose after half an hour, and then he fell asleep.

Gu Ying sat in a daze all night, she didn't cry or make trouble, she understood since she was a child, no matter whether she cried or made trouble, it was only useful to people who felt sorry for you, and for her brother, it was useless for her to do anything.

Gu Ying also once dreamed of getting married, what kind of person would she marry? Will the husband be good to himself? Will the mother-in-law be difficult for herself?

Gu Ying had thought a lot, but she had never thought about being a concubine, and in her opinion, there was almost no difference between being a concubine and selling herself into slavery.

Gu Jin smiled bitterly, once my brother also said to find her a good mother-in-law's family, it turns out that this good mother-in-law's family is to make people small!