Chapter Seventy-Nine
When the Gu clan returned to his seat again, there was a rumor outside that the eldest young master had come with Shi Qigongzi, and the Gu clan hurriedly asked people to welcome him in.
Two more foreign men came in, and many girls blushed. Xu Dashao and Xu Zishu know each other, knowing that he is married, and he is very affectionate with his wife Yu, nothing does to them, but what about the other son? None of the girls present had ever seen Shi Qigongzi, they only felt that he had an elegant appearance, and the clothes on his head and crown were not ordinary. It's just that there has never been such a character in Songyue County, how come they never knew?
"Mother, this is Shi Qigongzi, who came to our county to do business and happened to be met by me, so I invited him to come over and have a small gathering." Xu Zishu is naturally not good at telling the truth in front of everyone, and besides, Shi Qigongzi has not agreed to kiss his father, so their Xu family has to be tactful and not leave a handle for people.
"In Xia Shitong, Mrs. calls me Qilang."
The Xu family does not have a seventh son, and there are few foreign men here, so this Qilang Gu clan shouted very smoothly. Shi Tong smiled slightly, looked up at Xu Yirou, and saw Xu Yirou looking at him in surprise, he couldn't help but smile at Xu Yirou again, Xu Yirou immediately lowered his head.
"Okay, I still have something to do, so let's play by yourself young people. I don't think many of the girls are coming back for the first time, so you can just walk around the garden by yourself, and you're welcome. ”
Jiang Xuehe knew that this was to give Xu Yirou and Shi Tong a chance to get along alone. Even if these girls are frequent visitors to the Xu family, no matter how familiar they are with the Xu family, they are definitely not as familiar as Xu Yirou, and it is very easy to complain to each other while others don't know. Although I don't know if I have a sincere appeal, judging by Xu Yirou's reaction, she should have seen Shi Tong before.
Jiang Xuehe walked around with a few sisters for a while, and when she passed by a vine trellis, she saw Xu Yirou running out of a rockery with a red face and crashing directly into Jiang Xuehe.
Jiang Xuehe hugged her, patted her back gently, and asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”
Xu Yirou subconsciously covered her flushed cheeks: "A few younger sisters go and sit in my room." ”
Sure enough, Xu Yirou had met Shi Tong before, and Fang Cai was also dragged by Shi Tong to talk in the rockery.
Last winter, Xu Zheng and Gu took several of their children to Fucheng, Xu Yirou met a worker who was moving things to do heavy work at the dock, the worker's hands were covered with frostbite, and his hands were cracked.
A few days later, Xu Yirou met the worker at the dock again, and saw that he was being bullied and had nothing to eat, so he asked the little guy around him to secretly lead him aside and invited him to have a meal, and gave him some broken silver. On the day she left Fucheng, she met the worker on the dock again, and gave him a jade pendant, telling him to go to their Xu family's shop in Fucheng if he was in trouble. The Xu family doesn't have many shops in Fucheng, but the scale is okay, and it's no problem to hire more workers.
Xu Yirou thought that he was helping a poor man, but how could he have thought that it would be the seventh son of the Shi family?
Jiang Xuehe said strangely: "There is more than one such poor person on the dock, right?" Who wants to be a coolie for anyone who can live a good life, why did you help him alone? ”
Xu Yirou bowed his head and said: "I naturally know that there are poor people everywhere in this world, but I only saw him at the time, obviously he is a dock worker, but he is excluded everywhere, I can't get used to it." Coupled with his appearance, even if he is ragged, it is difficult for me not to notice it. At the time, I thought that this person was strange and good-looking, and I didn't think much about the others, but I helped on a whim, who knew that people were disguised and went to the dock to inquire about the news. ”
Jiang Xuehe understood it, Xu Yirou was originally kind-hearted, and she liked to look at her face, and it was normal to meet a good-looking and pitiful person who couldn't help it for a while. She forgot about it after helping people, who would have thought that Shi Tong would come to propose?
But that Shi Tong is not a simple person, after he finished the matter of the dock, he asked people to check the Xu family, and I don't know if the ancestors of the Xu family have been checked for eight generations, in short, when Xu Zheng and Xu Zishu went to Fucheng to check the accounts last month, they met Shi Tong again. It's not a coincidence, it was Shi Tong who specially brought gifts to visit the Xu family's courtyard in Fucheng, and by the way, he mentioned the meaning of getting married.
Shi Tong is a concubine, his biological mother died early, and he is not interested in being the heir of the Shi family, so Shi Sanye doesn't care about his marriage, he can marry whoever he likes.
Xu Zheng and Xu Zishu father and son didn't want to agree when they heard that it was the Shi family at first, after all, there was a huge gap between the two families, but later they calmed down when they heard Shi Tong's words. Speaking of which, this Shi Tong just has the identity of the Shi family, since Shi Sanye doesn't care about him marrying, and it is confirmed that he will not inherit the Shi family in the future, then Shi Tong can get at most a courtyard and some silver in the future, maybe there are one or two shops. But these things can also be given to Xu Yirou by the Xu family, so the difference is not too much, Xu Yirou married in the past, just like marrying an ordinary big family with a large population, there is nothing to worry about.
"What do you think?" Jiang Xuehe asked.
"He said that he would not inherit the Shi family, so he asked his father to divide him early, and now he has two shops and a yard at hand, as well as some fields and cash, and he may not have any interest in the future as other brothers of the Shi family, but he can always live." Xu Yirou lowered her head and said, "I think it's actually not bad?" If he really wants to fight with his brother, I am afraid. ”
Jiang Yuxuan looked at Xu Yirou's red face and smiled: "Sister, when you see Sister Rou like this, you must be willing in your heart." ”
"How old are you girl, how can you understand so much." Xu Yirou was annoyed and ashamed, and stretched out her finger and flicked it lightly on Jiang Yuxuan's forehead.
The girls in the room all laughed and bent over, and even Xu Yirou laughed too.
The main purpose of Jiang Xuehe and the others coming today was to see this Shi Qigongzi, now that they have seen someone, and the matter is almost settled, they saw that the sky was almost dark, so they left in advance. Originally, they knew that someone in the Gu family's West Courtyard wanted to come over to make trouble, but because a lot of things had happened this day, everyone had long forgotten about it.
Qiao's mother and daughter sat in the ear room for a long time, although the ear room was in the backyard of the Xu family, it was still the smallest room, but it was very elegantly furnished, and there were many good things that the three of them had never seen, so they didn't suspect anything when they first entered. In addition, there are people who entertain them with tea and snacks, and the mother and daughter eat quite happily. Especially Gu Dandan, she was originally greedy, she loved to eat very much, and her figure was a little plump and fat.
Gu Shuangshuang didn't want to eat it at first, she only picked up the teacup with both hands and took a sip gently, full of style, wanting to show that she was not inferior to everyone's beautiful demeanor. However, it was useless, as soon as she put down the teacup, Gu Dandan picked up a piece of pastry and stuffed it into her mouth.
Gu Shuangshuang felt that his image was ruined, and he almost turned his face on the spot, but a grandmother came to persuade him, saying that this pastry was originally used to entertain guests, and they should eat more, otherwise Mrs. would think that they were not well entertained.
Gu Dandan was very proud when he heard this, but when the Gu clan really cared about their guests, he immediately ate it. The pastries on the Xu family were all bought from the famous dim sum shops in the county, the taste was not bad, and the appearance was exquisite, Gu Shuangshuang saw that Gu Dandan ate so deliciously, and finally he couldn't help but eat it.
After they finished eating two pots of tea and four plates of dim sum, Qiao's finally couldn't bear it, and urged the next person to call Gu again, and the next person still said the same thing, there was a distinguished guest in front of him who needed to be entertained by Mrs., and Mrs. was busy.
This time, even if Gu Dandan was stupid, he reacted that the three of them mother and daughter had been tricked, and Gu Dandan was willing to be convinced, so he made a fuss on the spot and wanted to go out directly to find Mrs. Xu. Qiao also said that her son and daughter were also guests at Xu's house today, and she wanted to sit at the same table with them, so as not to entertain Mrs. Xu separately.
"Tsk, these years as a concubine is embarrassed to call herself the mother of her son-in-law? It's really brazen. ”
The people in the house naturally didn't allow them to go out, and they made a sarcastic remark, Gu Shuangshuang was in a hurry and wanted to break out like Gu Dandan, but those guarding the door were all guards who knew martial arts, where could they get out.
When he was extremely stupid, Gu Dandan held up his plump and full chest and counted two pieces of flesh and threatened: "If you dare to stop me again, I will shout indecent." ”
Seeing this, the Xu family's nursing home couldn't cry or laugh: "If the girl is not afraid of ruining her reputation, she can shout out, although the girl is not as beautiful as Lingmei, but it is still the villain who picked up the cheap, and the villain will not mind." ”
Gu Dandan's face was flushed with shame after reacting, and he immediately hid back, but Qiao's was so angry that he scolded them, so that they didn't need to slander their daughter.
The caretaker smiled and said, "Where is this where we want to slander Miss Gu?" Miss Gu has to say that we are insulting her, so doesn't she have to rely on us? It just so happens that the villain hasn't married a daughter-in-law yet, so he doesn't mind making do. ”
The Qiao clan was so angry, but he couldn't do anything to them, he could only hate why the Gu clan wanted to find these people to humiliate them.
Gu remembered that he had already had dinner when they were there, and it was almost dark at that time, so Gu thought that it was not very kind to hang people there all the time, so he asked them to send them away. However, Qiao Shi and the others have been waiting for her for almost a day, and they are willing to leave, so they have to meet her.
"Don't you know that our lady never likes to deal with concubines? Don't hurry up and go back, lest we be embarrassed when we throw you out of the Xu family! ”
Concubine! It's a concubine again! Qiao's family hasn't heard this title for many years, she thought that she gave birth to four sons and two daughters for the Gu family, and after the Bai family died for so many years, Gu Jiaxing didn't continue to take any more concubines, and gave her the right to take stewardship, then she is the mistress of the Gu family, why do they still call themselves concubines?
However, no matter how they struggled, the Gu clan still didn't want to see anyone, but called a few powerful mothers-in-law to come over and forcibly stuff them into the carriage and send them back to the Gu family.