During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Chengjiang Mansion in Yunnan.

In the east of the city, the Gu family in Qingyu Lane is the first prominent family in Chengjiang Mansion.

The ancestor of the Gu family was born as an imperial businessman, and after five generations of painstaking management, he finally became one of the few wealthy businessmen in the whole of Yunnan.

The Gu family has been working hard in Yunnan for so many years, the family is big, the population has become complicated, the ancestors have been separated from the brothers because of the improper division of family property, several brothers fought in the ancestral hall, and the old lady of the Gu family at that time was furious in the ancestral hall. Later, this matter was spread throughout Yunnan, and the Gu family used a lot of manpower and material resources to reluctantly suppress this matter, but some people would still take out this matter after tea and dinner, and talk about it for a long time.

After the old lady Gu died, she left her last words to tell every Gu clan sect master who took office, and the first thing the Gu clan sect master did after taking office was to preside over the family separation ceremony. The children of the Gu family stayed in Chengjiang, and the children of the Gu family were sent to Shiping's hometown and Pengpu Township, in order to avoid re-emergence of conflicts between the children, this is also a last resort.

Gu Yutang's father Gu Lichi is the patriarch of the Gu family of this generation, Gu Lichi is young and promising, and he did not inherit the inheritance left by his ancestors, but chose to study hard for ten years, and finally won a solution. He originally wanted to continue to take the road of scientific research, but at that time, the eldest lady of the Gu family was dying, and the other Gu family disciples were running around, so he had to put the burden of the Gu family sect master on him, and from then on, his scientific research road was cut off.

Gu Lichi adhered to the rules left by his ancestors, and after he first became the head of the Gu family, he ruthlessly did the matter of splitting the family. Since the separation, the Gu brothers have been separated from each other, the brothers are calculating each other, conspiring and treacherous, and everyone wants to snatch the shares of tea and silk held by the other party.

Gu Lichi is the eldest son of Gu Da Lao Ma, and he is a person who grew up with a golden spoon, and since he was a child, he only knew how to read sages and sages, and took the road of scientific research, and he did not suffer too much. Although the second master Gu is also a descendant, he has a gentle temperament and has no intention of scientific research, and he has taken over the general affairs of the clan since he was a child, and took care of the general affairs of the Gu family in an orderly manner, and has been loved by the old lady Gu, the Lin family.

The two did not separate, and still lived in Gu's old house in Chengjiang.

Gu Yutang threw herself into Mrs. Gu's arms and cried, she hadn't felt the warmth from her mother for a long, long time, when she was eight years old, she was picked up from the Gu family's mansion in Chengjiang and taken to live in the house of Master Gu Liu in Pengpu Township temporarily, no one told her what happened that year? Why was she suddenly taken to live in her sixth uncle's house?

Later, under her repeated questioning, Ping'er, the little girl who was taken to Punpu with her, told her that her mother had madness that year, and it was because of her that if she hadn't made that peach blossom cake and sent it to her mother in person, her mother would have gotten mad because she ate peach blossom cake? She won't be picked up from Chengjiang to Prunp?

She was very upset at that time, but there was nothing she could do. Later, when she heard that her mother was dying, she gave all the money on her body to the mother-in-law on the second door, and the mother-in-law refused to let her out. But she, an eleven-and-a-half-year-old child, who has never been out of the house a few times since she was a child, knows where it is, and as soon as she got out, she fell into a lotus pond on the side of the road.

She originally thought she was dead, but she didn't expect that she would come back to life again, and also returned to when she was seven years old, when her father and mother had not been separated from each other because of Aunt Chen's appearance, and the second uncle did not quarrel with her father in the ancestral hall because of the Fujian farmland, and her mother's body did not fall into madness because of eating the peach blossom cake she made herself.

Since God has given her this opportunity to be reborn, she will definitely grasp it firmly, and she will no longer be like before, being kept in the dark and stupidly not knowing, and in the end, she will be sold and stupidly count the money for others. She is the daughter of the Gu family, and she has to take on the responsibility of being the child of the Gu family.

"Tang'er, silly girl. Usually you fall to the ground with a big bag bulging above your head, and you don't shed a single tear. Why are you crying like a tearful person now? Mrs. Gu looked at her daughter in front of her, there was a trace of melancholy in her eyes, Tang'er is still so young now, if she knows those things, maybe how sad she should be.

Those bad things, she must not start with half a sentence to her. Even if she dies, she will take care of Tang'er and fulfill her responsibilities as a mother.

But Gu Lichi did such a thing three years ago, and she definitely couldn't bear it. Whether she is a wife or the head of the Gu family's long house, she can't bear that thing.

Mrs. Gu looked at Gu Yutang, who looked innocent in front of her, and closed her eyes slightly. In her mind, she went back to the day three years ago, when she got the news of tracking Gu Lichi's spies, she rushed to Zhaozhuang outside the city in advance, and caught Gu Lichi and Chen doing something unsightly, Gu Lichi was like a dead dog that had collapsed, and his mouth was constantly panting.

At this moment, he has forgotten that he still has a wife and children waiting for his return at home.

She stood outside the window and watched the two of them inside having a good time. Afterwards, she didn't make a noise, but pretended to be nothing, and still lived a so-called husband and wife life with Gu Lichi in a fake way. It's not that she doesn't want Gu Lichi to marry the Chen family as a concubine, but she cares about Gu Lichi's original promise to her, a couple for the rest of her life, and since he has broken this promise, then she doesn't have to continue to abide by it.

"Auntie, what's wrong with you? Why aren't you happy? Is it Tang'er who made A-Niang unhappy? Gu Yutang looked at Mrs. Gu with a confused expression.

Although she has been reborn once, but in the last life, she died in a blur, what can a half-grown child see from the face of an adult? She didn't understand Mrs. Gu's mood at the moment, and it was understandable.

Although Gu Yutang didn't know what happened to her mother, she vaguely felt that her mother must have something to hide from her and didn't want to tell her. When she was seven years old, she looked at her mother, and she didn't look as sad and full of worries as she does now.

"Tang'er, your grandmother just came back from your second uncle's house yesterday, would you like to go and greet her now?" Mrs. Gu took Gu Yutang's hand, helped her off the bed, and tidied up her clothes.

Before Gu Yutang could speak, Mrs. Gu turned her head and instructed the woman in pink behind her, "Ah Hua, send your young lady to the ear room to wash her hands, she has slept for three or four days, and her clothes have not been changed, so let's change them together!" I'll go to Wanghaiju first, and wait for you to send the young lady over. ”

Gu Yutang held hands, not knowing what to say. She felt that there was something unusual about her mother's behavior that she couldn't understand. Her grandmother, Lin, has lived in her second uncle's house for many years, and her relationship with her family is not very good, if it weren't for her second uncle's family going to Jinling Province this time, her grandmother would not have come to her house to live temporarily.