Chapter 135: Madame Gu's Name
After confirming that there were no pursuers coming, we scattered around the courtyard to investigate the situation, but Xin Yi seemed to remember something, and said to Mrs. Gu: "Mother! Why did Mama Chen Shu call you and call you......"
"Ah Rong? Not bad, what's wrong? Mrs. Gu looked at her daughter with a confused look and was a little funny.
"But isn't your girl's name Liu Jie?" Xin Yi was even more puzzled, and I, who heard this conversation, also became interested in Ah Chu and Sun Zhongjing, and gathered around.
Mrs. Gu's maiden family is the Liu family, and the head of the Liu family, Si Ben Chaoqintian is the supervisor, and she herself has always claimed to be a daughter of the Lu family.
In fact, the Liu and Gu families both had a lot of complaints about each other when they first got married, the Liu family disliked that the Gu family was born in a hospital and was a servant who served people, and the Gu family thought that the people of Qin Tianjian were a group of gods who had to take bribes from time to time.
Xin Yi's father, Gu Shen, grew up reading medical books and Confucian and Mencian sages, and was a well-known gentle-toned son, but for the first time he showed unprecedented toughness in his marriage.
So this family affair was finally formed in the mutual dislike of the two families, but the Liu family, except for Mrs. Gu's biological parents, who still came to visit their daughter's family from time to time, seemed to be deliberately avoiding the rest of the time, and did not want to have more intersections with this Liu family woman who had left the cabinet.
"But in my heart, I don't have the surname Liu, let alone the Liu family." Mrs. Gu looked up to the sky and reminisced, "My father, that is, Xin Yi's maternal grandfather, was sold to the Liu family as a subordinate in the middle of the family, and he was also an unremembered age at that time, so he changed his surname to Liu together with the adults in the family who were bought by the Liu family. ”
"My father is a very capable person, so later he became the personal retinue of the young head of the Liu family from an ordinary subordinate, and then after the old master passed away, the young master succeeded him and became the chief housekeeper of the Liu family." Madam Gu suddenly sighed, "Sounds beautiful, right?" But in the eyes of the Liu family, they are the masters, and my father and our whole family are servants, and even the surname is not his own. ”
"My mother's ancestral home is in Huzhou, and later the whole family settled in Shuangqi Town, Minxian County to open a pharmacy, and she herself with that bit of courage and business acumen, first came out for two years, and then went to Beijing alone, selling medicinal materials to the capital."
"Looking at it this way, my grandmother is also a heroine among women." Xin Yi couldn't help but praise.
"Yes, but Shi Nong is the last businessman, so back then, the combination of a big housekeeper of a family and a commoner merchant girl was a proper marriage in the eyes of others, but until they had me-"
"Three days after I was born, my father suddenly said to my mother that he wanted me to take my mother's surname, and although my mother was happy to do so, she felt the depression in my father's eyes when he said this, so she did not accept his proposal."
She said that her father was not willing to break the convention of the son following his father's surname for her, but had a heart. She has no obsession with the surnames of her children, but a reluctant decision may really affect the relationship between husband and wife and my father's attitude towards me in the future, so if my father does not say what he really thinks, she will not accept it. ”
It was also on that day that she realized that her father's concern and inferiority to her former servant status and the fact that he had forgotten even his own surname, and that he wanted me to take my mother's surname because he felt that my mother's surname was "true" and that he was not, and that he wanted his child's surname not to be given by the so-called "master". ”
A few of us were stunned when we heard it, the story told by Mrs. Gu should be far away from now, but the story of the older couple about the "surname" is really intriguing.
"That's why I wasn't originally named Liu." Mrs. Gu smiled, "Until I marry Xin Yi her father, in the name of the daughter of the Liu family." ”
"Why is that?" Xin Yi was puzzled.
"Maybe, for the sake of a Liu family head who is the head of the Qintian Prison, he wants both face and greed." Mrs. Gu said, "Xin Yi's grandfather, that is, the head of the Gu family, is the imperial doctor, it sounds like this is a position to serve the royal family, but in fact it is quite influential, but it is much stronger than some officials in the court who have good names but empty titles. ”
"Now there is a good chance that the family that has close contacts with the Gu family is going to this, and the Gu understands it and is still happy to do it, if I come to be the master, I will definitely disdain to gossip with these people." When Mrs. Gu talked about Xin Yi's uncle, she shook her head playfully, "Of course, this is a later story, but at the beginning, my marriage was a heart-to-heart play by the Lu family in exchange for interests, and when the benefits are in hand, in order to prevent the stuffing from being exposed, my fake Liu family has to be deliberately ignored by them." ”
Saying that, Mrs. Gu smiled slightly: "But now, I don't have to worry about the Liu family and the Gu family." Xin Yi, to be honest, as far as the virtue of the ancient family house is full of people, if our family is not separated, I am afraid that I will have to fold my life for ten years. ”
Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they saw Mrs. Gu's raised eyebrows.
"When Dafang pushed the marriage of the Lin family to you without telling me and your father, I really had the idea of taking you away after leaving." Mrs. Gu said to Xin Yi, "I won't hide it from you, I even wrote the book of separation at the beginning, and when I saw Xin Yi's father, I didn't want him to be sad, and then I was reluctant to leave, so I also tore up the book of separation." ”
"I wrote this and left the book three times, and I tore it three times." Mrs. Gu shook us with a "three" gesture, and said with a smile, "Now that her father is far away, I just run out of this kung fu, and I actually want to go back." ”
"It seems that I have spent too much thought on my husband, and I have planted myself in it, you little girls, don't be like me."
Mrs. Gu told this long story, stared at the ice wheel in the sky, and said to herself: "By the way, even he doesn't know, so I won't call Liu Jie of Raushzi." ”
"My surname is Song, my name is Song Tingrong, and I have the same surname as my mother." Under the cold moon and clear light, she smiled slightly, "By the way, my mother's single name is like a word, she is not only the owner of a pharmacy, but also used to be the doctor of Chen Rong, the ancestor of the Broken Blade Sword Technique, and her group of disciples, but unfortunately Chen Rong has no sect and has never opened a sect, otherwise it can be regarded as a qualification." ”
Now, I finally understood Mrs. Gu, no, Song Tingrong could still plan her escape so calmly after hearing that her yard was surrounded by the forbidden army, and even agreed to such a thing as blowing up her own kitchen, all because she knew the origin of her mother and Chen Rong, so it was really difficult for her to stay out of the matter.
However, Minxian County, where Shuangqi Town is located, is only a mediocre small county in the north of China, regardless of economy or people's livelihood, it has to be ranked at the bottom of many counties in China, and Shuangqi Town is even more inconspicuous in it, but now it seems that there is a bit of "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" taste.