The cemetery of the Gu family is in a feng shui treasure land south of the capital, and it is said that the wife and grandfather made their fortune from that vicinity, and bought a piece of land to build a mausoleum for the Gu family after making a fortune.

The real marquis of the Gu family started from the generation of the old marquis, and began to descend after three generations of hereditary succession. In short, Gu Changqing will be the last generation of the Marquis of the Hou Mansion, if he does not make great contributions, then his son will become an earl, his grandson will become a viscount, his great-grandson will become a baron, and when he arrives at his great-grandson, he will become an ordinary commoner.

Of course, in Zhaoguo, there are also hundreds of years of Wang clans like Dingguo Mansion and Zhuangjia, who have produced many talents and have a stable position.

Yao got up early in the morning, wearing a plain white tunic skirt wrapped around laurel branches, an apricot-colored pipa placket, and no gold and silver ornaments, only two white hostas.

The little maid brought the rouge box. Yao waved his hand: "There is no need for fat powder." "She's going to grave people, not to go to the door.

"Yes." The little maid held the rouge box and retreated.

"It's overcast, I'm afraid it's going to snow again." Mama Fang came in from outside and rubbed her stiff old hands,

"Madame's body is too thin, put on the cloak."

"Hmm." Yao nodded, and put on a white satin cloak. You can't fault this outfit if you're dressed carefully.

Mama Fang was afraid that she would freeze her body, so she asked her to prepare a few more soup women, and she also used hand warmers.

When Yao came to the gate with rabbit fur to warm his hands, the three brothers Gu Changqing also came from their respective yards.

Gu Changqing's expression did not change. Gu Chengfeng and Gu Chenglin's faces were not very good-looking. Gu Chenglin glanced at Yao coldly, and snorted: "Aunt is really, why let her come?" Isn't it good for us to worship our own mother? Gu Changqing looked at him solemnly: "Get in the car." Gu Chenglin said dissatisfiedly: "I'm not wrong!" Mother was killed by her! She still has the face to go to her mother's grave! Gu Chenglin also thought so, but the eldest brother was here, and he didn't want his younger brother to be punished by the eldest brother again.

Gu Chengfeng pulled his younger brother's sleeve: "Okay, get in the carriage first, it's too late for a while, in case it snows and the road is not easy to walk." ”

"Humph!" Gu Chenglin glared at Yao angrily, and got into the carriage angrily. Gu Chengfeng got into the same carriage with him.

Gu Changqing rode a horse. Yao and Mama Fang sat in another carriage, and two other carriages pulled the offerings to Xiao Ling.

"Alas, why suffer this grievance?" Mama Fang helped Yao to the stool in distress.

"Nothing." Yao said. She was used to hearing these words, and at first she would be sad and aggrieved, but now she is numb.

She didn't kill the first lady. She is self-purifying. After more than an hour, the group arrived at Dongyue Village, where the cemetery was in a mountain forest behind the village.

Gu Changqing and the three got out of the carriage. Yao also got out of the car, and she ordered someone to take down Xiao Ling's offerings, and planned to go to the grave to put a stick of incense on Xiao Ling's family.

Gu Chenglin stopped her way one step at a time: "I don't allow you to worship my mother!" You don't deserve it! "Yao's family understands, Aunt Ling called her over to humiliate her by her stepson's hand.

Yao said calmly: "I promised the old lady to give the first lady a stick of incense." ”

"You go away!" Gu Chenglin stretched out his hand to push Yao's family, Gu Changqing stepped over with an arrow and grabbed his younger brother's wrist: "Do you want to make a fuss in front of your mother's grave?" Gu Chenglin withdrew his hand indignantly.

Yao handed the incense candles and paper money in his hand to Gu Changqing: "Then I won't go, and the prince will bring my heart." Gu Changqing took the things she handed over: "Madame, go to the carriage and wait, it's windy outside." Yao Shi gave him a strange look, he was concerned about her, did he really go to his mother's grave, did everyone become well-behaved?

Yao didn't speak, turned around and got into the carriage.

"I shouldn't have let her come with me!" Gu Chenglin muttered.

"Say less!" Gu Chengfeng said. The Hou Mansion hired nearby villagers to guard the ancestral graves of the Gu family, and each grave was sprinkled and cleaned.

The three brothers worshiped Xiao Ling's family, and then worshiped Grandpa and Grandma, and then went to the village to have a look according to the custom.

The ancestor of the Gu family is not from Dongyue Village, but he has received the favor of the local villagers, and the ancestral tomb of the Gu family has been very well protected thanks to the guards of the villagers over the years.

Yao brought the gifts on the carriage to the villagers one by one. In previous years, it was Aunt Ling who did this, and the villagers thought that Aunt Ling was the real lady of the Gu family, but when they saw Yao's at first glance, they asked her if she was the aunt of the house, but she was angry.

This is Aunt Ling's second move. borrowed the unintentional words of the villagers to block her. Yao wanted to laugh.

Aunt Ling has never been a mother after all, and she doesn't understand that for a mother, she can break the curse that her son can't live more than fifteen, and recognize her own flesh and blood, she has nothing else to ask for in her life.

After visiting the villagers, it was getting late, and it was time for them to go home. Not long after they stepped into the carriage on their way back, the sky was literally snowy.

There was no food at noon, and several people were hungry and cold, so Yao asked the maid to send a box of snacks to the three brothers.

Gu Chenglin sneered: "I don't eat what she makes!" Gu Changqing frowned with a complicated expression.

"Big brother, it's down there, you come and sit in the carriage." Gu Chengfeng said to Gu Changqing. Gu Changqing said lightly: "No." "People who march and fight, where can they care about such a little wind and snow?

"Ma'am, they don't eat." The little maid brought back the dim sum.

"Then forget it." Yao took the snack box back. In fact, she didn't do it herself, so she didn't rush to make snacks for a few stepsons, and she brought them from the house.

She ate two pieces by herself, and her appetite has not been very good recently, so she didn't eat much, and gave them to Mama Fang and a few little maids.

The snowy day slowed down the carriage's journey, and there was no decent restaurant in this wilderness, and Gu Chenglin couldn't look down on the food in the ordinary tea shed, so the three brothers went hungry all the way to the city.

On the way back to the Hou Mansion, there is a family selling crispy duck, Gu Chenglin usually loves to eat his duck the most, and now he has been hungry for so long, he can't help it, and said to Gu Changqing: "Big brother, I'm almost hungry!" Let's go in and get some food! Gu Changqing looked at the two younger brothers who were really hungry, nodded, and rode his horse to Yao's carriage: "Eat something and then go home?" Yao wasn't hungry, but she was really tired from a day's carriage ride.

The group got out of the carriage and asked for two wings on the second floor, one for the three brothers and one for the Yao family. Yao didn't eat anything himself, so he ordered a table of food for Mama Fang and the accompanying people.

The room was stuffy, and she happened to want to go to the toilet again, so she went to the Gong room in the back room on the first floor. When she came out and walked to the lobby, suddenly a man's voice stopped her: "Yao'er? Yao hadn't heard this voice for many years, but he still recognized it all at once.

Yao's face changed, and he turned around in a daze.

"Yao'er, it's really you!" A man in a navy blue shirt strode over, he was about thirty years old, he was born with clear eyebrows, handsome and handsome, and his figure was not as burly as Gu Houye, but he was also tall.

Yao came back to her senses a little, but the moment the man approached her, she still took a few steps back with self-denial.

The man's expression darkened, and then he said: "I'm abrupt, I haven't seen you for so many years, I'm so excited that I almost forgot the etiquette, please forgive me!" He said, bowing his hand.

Yao Shi turned sideways to avoid it, and did not accept his salute: "You don't want to do this." The man looked at Yao with complicated eyes: "Yao'er, how have you been doing all these years?" I heard that you married into the Ding'an Hou Mansion, Hou Ye, how well he treats you? Yao lowered his eyes and said, "I'm fine." The man smiled with relief: "I'm relieved if you say that." Then the two of them didn't speak, and the scene was very embarrassing.

Yao pinched his handkerchief and said, "I'm leaving." ”

"Ah......" A trace of disappointment crossed the man's eyes,

"My mother, she often asks about you." Yao's steps paused. The man smiled bitterly and said, "Actually, I have also married over the years and have my own wife and children, I'm sorry." Yao closed his eyes and said, "It was the Yao family who withdrew first, and it was me who should say I'm sorry, you don't have to blame yourself." The man said sadly: "My mother had a stroke a few years ago, and after that, she has not been very well, and she has been muddy lately, and she has your name in her mouth." The two families have always had dealings, and the relationship between the Yao family and the man was decided very early, and the man's mother was very satisfied with the Yao family, and looked forward to this daughter-in-law being able to pass the door as soon as possible, saying that she would definitely be treated as her own daughter.

It's a pity that this family business has been stirred up after all. It was not so much the oppression of Gu Houye, but the deliberate stammering of the Yao family.

I was angry, hated, and annoyed, but now I am at peace.

"You ......" the man scratched his head in embarrassment,

"It may be too abrupt to say that, and I really didn't expect to meet you here, but since I did, I still want to ask you...... Can you go and see my mother for the last time? "His mother is dying, the doctor said that it was just a few days.

But his mother has always refused to close her eyes. His mother was in pain, and he was also uncomfortable. He looked at Yao, hesitated, and said: "I, as a son, didn't give her a day of glory and wealth, I don't want to be there, but I can't even satisfy one of her wishes......" Yao had a marriage contract with him after all, and it stands to reason that he should avoid suspicion.

However, his mother did treat Yao as her own, she was a very kind woman, and Yao can still feel the warmth in her heart when she thinks about it.

If she had married him back then, her life might have been very different from now.

"Where do you live?" Yao asked. The man's eyes lit up: "Did you agree?" Yao paused: "I'll think about it, I won't necessarily go." ”

"Ah, no, it's okay, it's okay if you can't go! I live in Qingfeng Street, Qingyue District......" The man reported his address.

Yao didn't expect him to live in such a poor place.

"I'll go first." Yao said to him.

"Huh! You, you go slowly! The man looked at Yao excitedly. Yao entered the lobby and went upstairs. Over there, the three brothers of the Gu family finished eating, and the group got into the carriage and went home.

The Yao family first went to Mrs. Gu's side to recover her life, and when she heard that nothing went wrong along the way, Mrs. Gu was very pleased.

Gu Houye asked Huang Zhong to go back to the house to send a message to the Yao family, there was a conflict between the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, Gu Houye is dealing with urgent matters in the Ministry of Industry at this time, and he may not be able to come back tonight, let his wife rest first, and there is no need to wait for him.

Yao was restless in the house. As soon as she closed her eyes, she could think of Zhen, her former future mother-in-law.

"Mama Fang."

"Ma'am, what's wrong?" Mama Fang opened the curtain and came in. Yao put on a coat: "Prepare the carriage, I'll go out." ”

"It's so late, where is Madame going? It's time for the eldest lady and the youngest boy to rest. "Mama Fang thought that Yao's was going to Bishui Hutong.

Yao said: "Don't ask so much, find a tight-tongued coachman." Mama Fang opened her mouth: "...... Huh. Yao came to Zhen's house in a carriage.

She knocked on the door of the courtyard with the paint off.

"Who—" was a woman's voice. Yao didn't speak. The courtyard door creaked open, and out came a plainly dressed woman describing premature aging, the woman was as old as Yao's, but she looked more than ten years older than Yao's.

Yao guessed her identity, opened her mouth, and was about to say who she was, when she heard the woman turn her head and say to the house: "Boss, there is a guest coming!" Zhen Ping walked out quickly.

Seeing Yao's, he was startled at first, and then stepped forward happily: "It's cold outside, come into the house and bake the fire!" Then he said to his wife,

"It's Mrs. Hou." The woman owed herself to Yao. Yao bowed slightly. Apparently, the woman had heard of Yao, and she took her half-washed clothes from the front yard to the backyard with good taste, and never appeared in Yao's again.