The pond water ripples, shattering into ripples in the moonlight. On the road from the gate of the main mansion to the backyard, the subordinate lit the lamp and looked at the man who entered the door silently.

"Sir, you're back." Dong Qing called his subordinates to change a few dishes, whispered some words, and the maid took the order. The gentle woman raised her head and saw Gu Qingyuan stepping out of the door. She raised a gentle smile, greeted him, and took the official uniform from his hand.

Seeing Dong Qing, Fang Cai's brows were immediately smoothed out. Gu Qingyuan glanced at her with a smile, his eyes fell on the table, and he was slightly surprised: "What day is today, you actually let people prepare so many dishes?" He glanced at the people in the room and asked, "Why haven't Changge and Xiaodie come over yet?" ”

"Xiaodie is a little uncomfortable, so she won't eat with us today." Dong Qing said with a smile.

Gu Qingyuan frowned when he heard this, and looked at her: "What's wrong with Xiaodie?" I've ever asked for a doctor. ”

"It's okay," Dong Qing gently comforted him, "Wu Niang fell into the water today, which scared Xiaodie, and she has asked a doctor, and it is fine." She paused, looked at Gu Qingyuan, who didn't react, and said softly, "Master, don't you remember?" Mrs. and Siniang are back today. ”

As soon as these words came out, Gu Qingyuan's brows suddenly wrinkled together. He slapped the tea in his hand on the table with a "bang", and there was obvious irritability on his face, but it was not for Gu Liyi's falling into the water: "As soon as I come back, I won't be able to live in peace!" ”

"Master, madam, she-" Dong Qing hurriedly raised his hand to cover the back of his hand and spoke softly.

"Father, we're late." Without waiting for Dong Qing to finish speaking, Gu Changge's voice came from outside the door, with a soft smile.

The servant stepped aside, revealing the two men behind her. Gu Changge took An Li's hand and entered the door with a smile, her eyes fell on Gu Qingyuan, and she saw that the other party softened her eyebrows slightly: "Father." ”

"Hmm." Gu Qingyuan smiled slightly, his eyes turned to An Li on the side, his smile faded a little, and his tone was also light, "It's good to come back." Let's sit down and eat. ”

An Li's posture is obedient, and his hands are folded on his abdomen. seems to be indifferent, but the hand that twists her fingers slightly in front of her abdomen completely reveals her mood. When she saw Gu Qingyuan, An Li unconsciously slowed down, with a smile of surprise on her face, and then walked to the table, hearing a faint word, her footsteps stopped for a moment, and her indescribable heart was a little empty.

"Mother, sit down." Gu Changge helped An Li to sit down, and pulled her thoughts back softly.

After Gu Changge took a seat, Dong Qing glanced behind the two of them, turned his head to look at An Li, and asked her with a smile, "What about Siniang?" Why didn't Siniang come together. ”

"The fourth sister is not too hungry yet, I think she is tired for a day, and she has no appetite." Gu Changge replied.

The maid turned in from outside with a plate, looked up and glanced at the four people on the table, as if she had never found the person she was looking for, so she couldn't help but stop in place and look at Dong Qing hesitantly.

Dong Qing smiled, a little helpless: "Siniang's health is not good, I'm afraid that she won't be used to eating in the house, so I thought I would make some medicinal food for her..." ”

The maid nodded, took the plate and quietly retreated.

Gu Qingyuan was picking up vegetables, glanced at An Li on the side, frowned and said, "What rules!" When I entered the door, I didn't know that I should come to see my father first, and I should come to meet someone if I wasn't hungry. ”

An Li smiled a little reluctantly: "Xiu'er, she is not in good health, she can only eat when she is hungry, and she has always eaten ......."

"You're used to her." Gu Qingyuan interrupted An Li's words and looked at her disapprovingly, "Since you have returned to the Gu Mansion, you have to learn the rules of the Mansion, what it looks like to be so ignorant." ”

"Father." Gu Changge called softly, with a little coquettishness, "The fourth sister only came back today, and the fourth sister is still young, so my father doesn't have to blame her." ”

"Siniang is not in good health, we need to be considerate." Dong Qing smiled and reassured, "Besides, Siniang has lived outside for so long after all, she is a little afraid of life when she thinks about it, and it will be fine after a while." ”

"Afraid of life? I'm her father, and I'm afraid of anything. Gu Qingyuan's tone became more impatient, and he threw the chopsticks on the table, "Tomorrow, I will ask Mr. Siniang to teach her the rules of this house!" ”

With that, the man snorted coldly, got up and brushed his clothes away.

An Li sat at the table, she hadn't moved the chopsticks much, and as soon as Gu Qingyuan left, the chopsticks in her hand shook slightly, and her hand was on the table without words.

"Mother, father is probably too tired in the court, don't think about it." Gu Changge sandwiched a chopstick dish for An Li, put his hand on An Li's hand, and said softly.

"Let's eat." An Li smiled faintly and didn't say anything more.

Eat at the end of a meal, each with his own thoughts.

……….

But after a while, Gu Mingxiu, who was guarding Gu Liyi's courtyard, waited for the agarwood.

Agarwood walked behind Gu Mingxiu and said in a low voice: "Master Gu went to see Miss Six first, and then went to Aunt Qing's yard." ”

The corners of his lips are slightly raised, and a casual smile is outlined. Gu Mingxiu took a sip of tea, put down the porcelain cup slowly, and rubbed the pattern of the porcelain cup with his fingertips: "Look at my father, even if I just came back with my mother today, he won't be more kind." ”

Agarwood didn't reply, and Gu Mingxiu didn't say it to her originally.

Ling Qiao entered from outside the door, carried the teapot and said softly: "The tea is cold, and the slave maid will change the pot of hot tea for the fourth lady." ”

She raised her hand to replace the teapot on the table, and even the teacup that Gu Mingxiu had just drunk was also replaced. Ling Qian lowered her eyes and was about to turn around and leave, when Gu Mingxiu's voice fluttered in her ears: "If you have something to say, don't hesitate." ”

Ling Qiao's hand shook and almost dropped the teapot. After a moment of silence, Ling Qiao turned around and knelt on the ground, placed the teapot on the ground, kowtowed, and said, "Please ask the fourth lady to save the fifth girl." She raised her head, a little choked, "The fifth girl is too young to believe in the slave. There must be something strange about falling into the water—"

"How could there be any surprises?" Gu Mingxiu said lightly, with a soft smile in his voice.

Ling Qian was in a hurry, raised her head and was about to explain, but saw Gu Mingxiu's eyes indifferent, and a casual smile on her lips: "It must have been done by Gu Changge and Gu Xiaodie." ”

Her tone was so determined that the two people in the room were stunned.

Ling Qiao thought that she didn't believe in herself, and hurriedly said, "Fourth Miss, you must believe in the slave." The slave maid is not sowing discord, the second miss and the sixth miss are friends with the fifth girl on the surface, but they are not really for the fifth girl. ”

"I didn't doubt you." Gu Mingxiu smiled slightly.

She really didn't suspect Ling Buckwheat. Gu Liyi in the previous life didn't like her in every way, and even went-for-tat with her, almost all of them were the sisters Gu Changge and Gu Xiaodie who provoked behind their backs. Ling Qiao is Gu Liyi's personal maid, in the end, she is an outsider, and she sees it much more clearly than Gu Liyi.

Ling Qiao persuaded Gu Liyi many times to no avail, but Gu Liyi suspected that she was a fine work arranged by Gu Mingxiu by her side, and in a fit of anger, Ling Qiao beat her and drove her out of Gu's mansion.

Even before driving out of the Gu Mansion, all Ling Qiao was thinking about was hoping that the fourth miss would not worry about the fifth miss and take care of her.

Gu Mingxiu looked at Ling Qiao and said softly: "Yiyi is still young, I will let her know what kind of people Gu Changge and Gu Xiaodie are." ”

Ling Qiao breathed a sigh of relief, she paused, and hesitated: "Fourth Miss, today....The fifth girl muttered a few words before she fainted, and I heard it very clearly when I was holding the girl. She said softly, "What has the fifth girl been saying, 'Gu Changge, you have lied to me for so many years, killed my mother, harmed my sister, and now you are going to drive us to a dead end'....."

As soon as the words came out, I saw Gu Mingxiu's eyes sank, and her sharp gaze was firmly fixed on her.

Ling Qiao was taken aback, and quickly closed her mouth and lowered her head and didn't dare to say more.

Gu Mingxiu's scrutinizing gaze stared at Ling Qiao uncomfortably, and only after a moment did she hear her speak faintly, with a little coldness: "You must not mention this matter to others again." ”

"Yes." Ling Qian replied, then got up and stepped back.

When Ling Qian retreated, Gu Mingxiu's gaze fell on the person who was still asleep on the bed, and it was a little complicated and incredible, and he was still a little confused.

Many things in this life are different from the previous life.

She never returned to the house, but first established a reputation in Yangzhou, and then was taken back to the house with the approval of Mrs. Gu.

But there are also things that haven't changed.

Whether she goes or not, Gu Qingyuan doesn't like her.

and Gu Liyi's overboard.

This sister made Gu Mingxiu love and hate in her previous life, and she was still devoted to Gu Changge and Gu Xiaodie, and even ran to her for them to speak ill of her, but she was worried because she was being bullied.

An Li seems that Gu Liyi has completely broken with her, and in her eyes he is just a child who can't grow up. On the night after the abolition, she watched Gu Liyi being dragged up by two big men, and the horror in her eyes made her feel very distressed.

If....if Gu Liyi is also reborn, then does she not have to work so hard in this life to try to make this sister turn back? Gu Mingxiu walked slowly to the bedside, looking at Gu Liyi's immature sleeping face, and couldn't explain the complicated emotions in her heart for a while.

An Li is still alive, Gu Liyi is still looking at Gu Changge and Gu Xiaodie in his heart at this moment, and he must not be able to say anything cruel. If she shouted that An Li was dead, and shouted that she was killed by Gu Changge and them, if it wasn't for such a coincidence that she happened to have such a nightmare, then there was only this one possibility.

Gu Mingxiu's eyes were gloomy, staring at her without moving.

She didn't believe in any nightmares, the dream in the previous life was too tragic, whether it was her, An Li, or Gu Liyi, she should wake up.

Those people should be made to pay the price they deserve.

Fingers stroked Gu Liyi's cheek, Gu Mingxiu said softly: "Yiyi, is it you?" ”