Chapter 5
Xinya Middle School is a national key high school, Gu Nuanyang was invited to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in the first half of the ninth grade and did not take the high school entrance examination.
In order to leave a good impression on the teacher, Gu Nuanyang pulled his hair into a well-behaved ball head, and put on the white short-sleeved shirt, black trousers and white sneakers of Xinya High School in a regular manner, and the only jewelry was ancient jade Buddha beads.
When she arrived at Xinya Middle School, Gu Nuanyang followed Xu Jinghong to meet the principal, and her transfer to Xinya Middle School was a letter of recommendation written by the Minister of Education himself, and she personally called to explain, but she only took the college entrance examination in name, and the attention of the Ministry of Education also made the principal pay special attention.
After a few pleasantries, the principal handed her Gu Nuanyang's student ID card and admission ticket, there were still four days before the exam, today was the last class of the school, Gu Nuanyang had no need to go to class, thanked her, and left the school with Xu Jinghong.
For the upcoming college entrance examination, Gu Nuanyang is not too nervous, although she has been focusing on painting all these years, she has not fallen behind in the cultural class, and she is still quite confident in being admitted to Beijing University.
After leaving the school, Gu Nuanyang and Xu Jinghong did not return to Tianxi Water County, but reviewed the old house together to visit their grandparents, and the car drove all the way out of the city, as if walking a maze up the mountain.
The mountains are full of clouds and mist, and the white mist is like the attack of the clouds after the immortals, the breeze blows, the wind is heard, and the emerald leaves rustle, as if whispering.
Going around and around, the car stopped in front of the quaint house located in the middle of the mountain, the top of the red vermilion lacquer gate is hung with a golden silk nanmu plaque, and the word 'Gu Fu' is inscribed with gold powder and iron painting silver hook, and it is a magnificent momentum that makes people dare not be presumptuous.
After the car stopped, the maid who had been waiting for a long time opened the car door, Gu Nuanyang and Xu Jinghong bent down and got out of the car, stepped on the bluestone steps and walked towards Gu's mansion.
All the way to the main courtyard, the four corners of the courtyard building are raised high, graceful like a swallow with wings about to fly, and the delicate glazed palace lamp is hung on the corridor, even if hundreds of years have passed, the fine carvings that can be seen everywhere are still beautiful.
Walking through the courtyard, Gu Nuanyang raised his feet and walked into the living room, the layout of the living room was atmospheric, there were many priceless antiques on the shelves made of good mahogany, and the surrounding walls were hung with authentic works of famous artists.
The old lady who was sitting on the sofa wearing gold wire chain glasses and was checking Gu Nuanyang's coming-of-age ceremony process heard the sound, got up from the sofa and went to the foyer, "Oh, my heart and soul baby Xiao Tangtang is back." β
Gu Nuanyang stretched out her hand to give the overjoyed old lady a big hug, held her face and kissed her heavily, and said softly: "Grandma, I miss you so much." β
The old lady sat on the sofa with Gu Nuanyang in her arms and asked for a while before she said, "Grandma thought you would have to wait until after the college entrance examination to come back, but sure enough, it was still Sugar Candy Grandma, who returned to China yesterday, and came today." β
The old lady is seventy years old this year, she looks like she is only sixty, her gray hair is permed with fashionable small curls, she is wearing a peacock green embroidered hibiscus flower nine-quarter sleeve buckle cheongsam, with a white pearl necklace around her neck, and an emerald jade bracelet on her wrist.
Gu Nuanyang took out a pair of antique red jade earrings from his backpack and handed them to the old lady, saying, "This is what I auctioned at the auction, and at first glance, I felt that it was the best match for grandma." β
The old lady has never seen any good things in her life for most of her life, but it is rare for her children and grandchildren to be filial piety, so she quickly ordered the maid to bring a mirror and let Gu Nuanyang put it on for her.
Gu Nuanyang carefully took off the black pearl earrings on the old lady's ears, put the red jade antique earrings on her, and said with a sweet smile: "It's really good-looking, grandma's new hairstyle is also good-looking, and she is 20 years younger." β
Hearing her granddaughter say that she was good-looking, the old lady looked in the mirror happily, raised her hand and touched her hair, and said, "It's still my sugar candy that has a vision, unlike that bad old man, not to say that my new hairstyle is not good-looking, and my angry grandmother is distressed." β
As she spoke, the bad old man in the old lady's mouth walked down from the upper floor.
The old man was wearing a purple hand-buttoned Tang suit, his gray-white hair was meticulously combed, he was actually eighty years old, and he looked like he was only in his seventies, majestic and tough.
Xu Jinghong got up and shouted, "Dad."
Gu Nuanyang shouted sweetly: "Grandpa." β
The old man bowed slightly at Xu Jinghong, and said to Gu Nuanyang happily: "I just got home yesterday, why didn't I have a good rest." "He has been a horse all his life, and he has been in a high position for half his life, and he is strict with the children in the family, but he is very spoiled by this only granddaughter.
When the old lady saw the old man coming down, she snorted arrogantly and turned her head not to look at him, the old man winked at Gu Nuanyang and motioned for her to say two good words.
Gu Nuanyang pursed his lips and smiled, stretched out his hands and shrugged his shoulders, and silently expressed to the old man that he was angry with himself.
The old man sat down opposite the old lady and said with a smile: "Jiaojiao, tomorrow there will be a new corner on the stage in the pear orchard, will I accompany you to listen?" β
Gu Nuanyang's mother and daughter were caught off guard by being stuffed with a mouthful of sweet dog food, realizing that the wattage of sitting here was a bit big, and the mother and daughter glanced at each other.
Xu Jinghong said: "Mom and Dad, I'll go and see how the lunch prepared in the kitchen is." β
It just so happened that Gu Nuanyang's mobile phone alert rang, and she found a reason and said, "Grandpa, I'll call back." Then he pinched his phone and went to the side hall.
Grandpa could be faintly heard coaxing grandma with a soft voice, Gu Nuanyang sat on the chaise longue by the window in the side hall and snickered, tilting his head to look at the crape myrtle flowers blooming outside the carved window lattice.
Otherwise, Mu Qingjue's appearance came to mind, Gu Nuanyang pursed his lips and smiled, muttering to himself: "I'm really good at demagoguery." β
Mu Qingjue, who is good at demagoguery, had a one-day meeting, and as soon as he returned to the office, he received a call from his sister Mu Qingxi.
Mu Qingxi said on the other end of the phone: "Let's go back to the old house for dinner in the evening." β
Thinking that he hadn't returned to the old mansion for a while, Mu Qingjue responded, "Okay, I'll go back when I'm done." β
When Mu Qingjue arrived at the Mu family's old house, Mu Qingxi's family had already arrived, the couple were chatting with the old lady about the current situation, and the nephew Su Mu was sitting on the single sofa cross-legged and playing with his mobile phone.
Taking off his suit jacket and handing it to the servant, Mu Qingjue shouted next to each other and sat down on the single sofa, the old lady glanced at her youngest son and asked him, "Have you received the invitation for Tangtang's coming-of-age ceremony?" Are you ready for the rite of passage? β
Mu Qing took the blue and white porcelain teacup presented by the servant and replied: "The coming-of-age ceremony is ready, the invitation has not been received yet, and it is estimated that it will only be these two days." β
Hearing this, the old lady nodded, began a clichΓ©, and said to Mu Qingjue: "The young lady of the Li family has just returned from France, and we will meet each other on Sunday to see if it fits each other. β
Mu Qingjue's forehead jumped, and he undoubtedly refused: "I made an appointment with Tangtang to eat at home on Sunday, and I didn't have time to meet any Miss Li." β
The old lady looked at Mu Qingjue, who was unmoved, and said helplessly: "If it weren't for the difference between you and Nuan Bao, I would have suspected that you have bad intentions towards her, Nuan Bao is about to become an adult, you should also avoid suspicion." β
Mu Qingjue's fingers holding the blue and white porcelain cup tightened slightly, he was silent for a moment, and calmly replied to the old lady: "It's just a generation that has been inherited from several generations, and there is no blood relationship, so what about the difference in generation?" β
"Ahem." Mu Qingxi took a sip of tea stuck in his throat and coughed.
Her husband Su Ye, who was sitting next to her, hurriedly reached out to help her pat her back, pulling a tissue and gently wiping the corners of her mouth.
The old lady looked at Mu Qingjue with a calm face for a moment, unbelievable but had to believe it, pointed at Mu Qingjue's nose, and scolded angrily: "Bastard thing, that's your niece's daughter, you are seven years old." β
Su Mu was so frightened that his hand shook, his mobile phone fell on the carpet and made a muffled sound, and he looked blankly at his grandmother and uncle, and he replied to WeChat, what happened?
Mu Qingxi stopped coughing, got up and helped the old lady to sit down, patted her on the back, and motioned to Su Ye to go upstairs and call the old man to come down.
Mu Qingjue didn't want to argue with his mother, but he also had to make his attitude clear, and replied in a calm voice: "You and your father are eleven years apart, the old man and the old lady of the Gu family are also ten years apart, and Tangtang and I are only seven years apart." β
Mu Qingxi looked at Mu Qingjue, who was already a blockbuster, and asked him, "Already together?" β
Mu Qingjue went to Italy frequently, but because the two were different in generation, no one thought about it.
Mu Qingjue shook his head and replied, "No, Tangtang doesn't know yet, but I'm going to put it into action." That's why he told his family bluntly that he liked Tangtang, that he liked it first, and that it had nothing to do with Tangtang.
Su Mu swallowed his saliva with difficulty, feeling that his head as a future diplomat was a little insufficient, and his little uncle fell in love with Nuanbao?! What kind of fairy plot is this?!
The old man was invited down from upstairs by Su Ye, followed by Mu Tingwen, the head of the Mu family.
Su Ye had already briefly said what had happened upstairs, and there was no emotion on the old man's face, but Mu Tingwen's expression was indescribable.
Mu Tingwen is two years older than Mu Qingjue, and when he was young, he was beaten by his own father because he refused to call Mu Qingjue's uncle and insisted on calling his younger brother, and he succumbed to violence and called his uncle, and now he is telling him that he is about to have an aunt who is nine years younger!
Mu Qingxi got up and gave way, and the old man sat beside the old lady, held her hand and comforted: "I don't want this son if he doesn't like it, don't be angry with your body." β
Mu Qingxi, Mu Qingjue, Su Ye, Mu Tingwen, Su Mu: "......" They were speechless to refute.
The old lady knew that she was overreacting, and when she calmed down, Mu Qingjue and Gu Nuanyang were nominally uncles and nephews, but in fact they had no relationship, the two were unmarried and unmarried, and they grew up together, so it was understandable to have feelings.
The old man knows his wife best, and he knows that he has figured it out when he looks at her expression, and continues: "Nuan Bao was grown up by us, didn't you say some time ago that when she became an adult, you coaxed her over to be Tingxiao's daughter-in-law?" β
Mu Tingwen silently put a stick of incense on Mu Tingxiao, who was cheated by his grandfather, in his heart, according to the fourth uncle's black temperament, Mu Tingxiao wanted to live in peace within a year.
The old lady's expression loosened a little more, and the old man made persistent efforts and said: "The fourth child looks at Nuanbao because he has a vision, and it is also our blessing, you see that the eldest son of the Wu family has been exposed to fooling around with celebrity models in three days, and is on the entertainment news, do we have to worry a lot about this?" β
The steps were almost given, and the old lady opened her mouth: "I know that Qingjue likes Nuanbao without harming nature and reason, nor violating ethics, but how can the Gu family explain it?" People are not yet adults, so they are worried about it? β
The old man replied disapprenously: "How the Gu family explains is the matter of the fourth child, let's just wait to see the in-laws, prepare the dowry, and drink the tea from the daughter-in-law." β
The old lady snorted coldly, glanced at the young man who was standing with his hands down, motionless like a mountain, and said angrily: "Drink the tea of the daughter-in-law, and wait for him to chase the person, I am afraid that the person has not yet been chased, and the sons of the Gu family will be thrown into the moat with a sack first." β
is worthy of being a mother, and every sentence pierces her son's heart.
The old man felt that Mu Qingjue was really embarrassed to be disciplined in front of his nephew and nephew, so he coughed lightly and said, "Qingjue, you come to the study with me." β
Mu Qingjue followed the old man up to the second floor, and the old lady couldn't help but worry, and asked Mu Qingxi, "Your father won't beat your brother, right?" β
Mu Qingxi smiled and comforted the old lady and said: "No, Qingjue didn't make a mistake, it is estimated that he will explain a few words, after all, the other party is the treasure of the Gu family, and we can't afford not to pay attention to it." β