Chapter 8: This Life
"Big brother, thanks to your many times of care in the past few years, Yutang is very grateful, please accept my worship." Gu Yutang said, seeing that his knees were about to bend down, Gu Yucheng hurriedly supported Gu Yutang and asked her not to continue to salute.
"Third sister, broken bones and tendons, we all have Gu's blood in our bodies, we are all a family, don't be so different from me. If you see each other like that again, the big brother will be angry. Gu Yucheng helped Gu Yutang sit down and smiled slightly.
"The current situation in Yuli is getting worse and worse day by day, and I can't wait any longer. Grandmother has ordered Imperial Doctor Zhang to rush back from the capital, and only hopes that Imperial Doctor Zhang, who has returned from afar, can rejuvenate himself and cure Yuli for so many years of dementia. ”
As Gu Yucheng spoke, he glanced at the room from time to time, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that Gu Yucheng remembered his younger brother very much.
Doctor Zhang is coming back? And was it ordered by the Lin family to come back? Gu Yutang thought carefully about what Gu Yucheng said just now in her mind, she had never heard of what imperial doctor the Lin family had hired for Yuli? Or what is the Imperial Doctor?
She seems to have an impression in her mind that when she was sick in Yuli in the last life, her mother spent a lot of money to let the Lin family invite a doctor from the capital to see a doctor for Yuli, but the capital is far away from Yunnan, which is full of dangers, plus the Sichuan during that period of time, the rogue was rampant, robbed the official silver escorted by the government, and slaughtered four or five villages in a row, killing almost seven or eight hundred people, and the government sent troops to suppress it three or four times without success, and the entire border was in a helpless state.
I heard that the carriage that the doctor was sitting in in order to avoid the rogues, specially set off from Zhejiang, took the waterway, but it was July and August, it was rainy, the water in the rivers and seas rose and rose, and the wind and waves continued, and the merchant ship had not yet bumped to Guangxi, the doctor died on the ship in a daze because of seasickness.
After the doctor died, the number of illnesses in Yuli also increased again and again, and her mother donated a lot of sesame oil money for her brother, and she didn't know how many temples and Taoist temples she ran, but in the end, she still couldn't get her brother's life back.
She still vividly remembered that day, she had just had dinner at her sixth uncle's house in Pengpu Township, when the little maid outside handed over the news that her brother was dead. At that moment, she only felt grief-stricken, her whole body could barely stand, and she couldn't accept the news.
The mother who sent away the girl who was waiting in the house, I don't know how many times I cried alone, and even cried to the end, her eyes were dry, and she couldn't shed a single tear.
In this life, the only one who is related to her by blood is only three people, father, mother, and brother. Otherwise, she won't cry for anyone anymore.
Gu Yucheng looked at Gu Yutang with a heavy heart, as if he was thoughtful, and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled in his heart, could it be true that his sister was as those subordinates said, obsessed?
He patted her on the shoulder, interrupting her thoughts, "What's wrong?" Is my sister thinking about something? I was so fascinated by it. ”
Gu Yutang glanced at him, then smiled faintly, and said slowly: "It's nothing, my sister is just thinking, since my grandmother specially invited Imperial Doctor Zhang from the capital to come down for Yuli's illness, then the journey from the capital to Yunnan is long, and it has to pass through Sichuan, I wonder if my grandmother has sent someone to protect Imperial Doctor Zhang's safety along the way?"
Gu Yucheng saw that she smiled innocently and naturally, and her words were full of concern for Gu Yuli's condition, so he told Gu Yutang everything he knew.
"My sister guessed right, my grandmother knows that Sichuan Liukou has been rampant recently, and our family's carriage has to pass through Sichuan to come to Yunnan. Therefore, the eldest aunt specially invited Lord Yang of Lu Liangwei to bring a small team of people to Beijing immediately, and escorted Imperial Doctor Zhang to the south along the way. ”
"Lord Yang of Lu Liangwei? Is it my fourth uncle? Gu Yutang asked.
"Well, it's your fourth uncle. Because it was related to Yuli's condition, it was urgent, so Lord Yang promised the eldest aunt that he would escort Imperial Doctor Zhang back unscathed. Ten days ago, Lord Yang had already taken a small team of people to Beijing, and I believe that in a few days, Lord Yang would escort Imperial Doctor Zhang to Chengjiang. ”
Gu Yucheng saw that after Gu Yutang heard this, he showed a worried look, thinking that she might be worried about Gu Yuli's condition, so he comforted softly: "Don't worry about the third sister, the third sister is still young, just leave these things to the adults like my brother and aunt and grandmother." In a few days, you just have to accompany your grandmother and Brother Bai to the countryside for a few days, and I will watch it for you in the jade. ”
With Gu Yucheng's words, Gu Yutang was very relieved. It turned out that she still thought that if she accompanied the Lin family to the countryside, and her mother was not at home these days, Yuli's illness was always going back and forth, if there was no one to take care of her, how would it be good?
Unexpectedly, Gu Yucheng actually took the initiative to ask Ying to take care of Yuli, she was both grateful and at a loss in her heart, how to repay these favors in the future?
There are thousands of debts in the world, but human debts are the most difficult to repay.
In the last life, she owed Gu Yucheng a lot of favors, if it weren't for Gu Yucheng's help in the previous life, she and her mother would not have left the Gu family so easily.
The Gu family has never had any elders still alive, and the juniors fell apart because of the placement of the outer room, and it was her mother who set that precedent. So when they were separated, everyone pointed the finger at her mother, saying that if her mother hadn't been trying to seize the land and shops left by the eldest lady of the Gu family in the Great Changfang, she would rather have an unfilial reputation on her back, and she would have decided to separate from her father.
Once she is living this life again, she cannot let the tragedy happen again. She wants to entrust Gu Yuli to Gu Yucheng, and there is still a year before Gu Yucheng can say that she is married, and then her second aunt Liang County Lord will find two girls from the Fujian Lin family and the Sichuan Hai family for him, the girl of the Fujian Lin family and the Liang County Lord are related to each other, and the biological mother of the Lin family girl is a close friend of the Liang County Lord. In addition, the girl of the Lin family is known for her talent, and she was born with the appearance of a fairy, and the county lord of Liang likes it very much.
Gu Yutang thought that her eldest sister-in-law would be a girl from the Lin family in Fujian.
But after the bride got married, on the day of the confession, Gu Yutang saw that the bride surrounded by the crowd was not a girl from the Lin family in Fujian, but a girl from the Hai family in Sichuan who looked ordinary but was well-read. At the beginning, in order to match the marriage between Gu Yucheng and the Lin family girl, the county lord of Liang went to Fujian three times to see the Lin family girl.
Gu Yutang followed her to see it once, and felt that although the girl of the Lin family was born with a fairy beauty, such a fragile beauty like a flower was a good birth? And there are so many things in the Gu family, is this Lin family girl capable of dealing with it?
It's no wonder that the bride who finally marries will be the Hai family, although the Sichuan Hai family is not a rich and noble family, but there are also a few scholars in the family, and they are all Gu Yucheng's same department, which will help Gu Yucheng in his career in the future.
Although the Hai girl grew up in Zhuangzi in the township since she was a child, none of them are condescending to others, and the Hai girl is born with a strong physique, and she knows that she is a good student at a glance.
The population of the long house is simple, and the heirs are a little thin compared with the four rooms, and the four rooms have been trying to take the genealogy from the long room since a few scholars, Gu Yucheng married such a daughter-in-law who is easy to raise, and it is also a last resort, but fortunately, the harmony between the husband and wife has become a beautiful thing.
Gu Yutang first turned his head and glanced at Gu Yuli in the house, such a fragile person, if he didn't have intimate care, he was afraid that it would be difficult to survive. For today's plan, she had to entrust Gu Yuli to Gu Yucheng, Gu Yucheng is different from other Gu family members.
"Big brother, I know that you are very good to both of us brother and sister, but Yuli's condition is getting worse and worse, and I should reach the age of Ji Lu in another four years, I want to entrust Yuli to you, I know that only the eldest brother in this Gu Mansion is sincere to us. You promise Yutang, okay? Gu Yutang said, approached Gu Yucheng, and pleaded in a low voice.