Chapter 38 The Second Room (Addition)
This is Mao's third visit to Chang'an.
As soon as she entered the city gate, she opened the curtain and looked at the bustling Chang'an Street Market without blinking, looking at the lively shops along the street, and the girls and gentlemen walking in fashionable dresses.
Her eyes were full of surprise and envy, and she turned around and glanced at Gu Erlang Gu Yuan, who was eating wine with a wine gourd in the carriage.
"I told you to come to Chang'an earlier, you should accept it, and only then will you have the courage to bring me!"
She is now full of complaints, complaining that she was blind and married such a wretched person.
At the beginning, she heard from the iceman that Gu Erlang also had a big brother who was a hussar general, and he was also a princess, and if he got married, he could go to Chang'an to live in the general's mansion as a second lady.
Thinking that she is just a daughter from Qipin County, she can marry into the general's mansion as a wife, it is simply a high incense burned in several lifetimes, where is there anyone who refuses.
Her mother's family was afraid that she would not be able to climb up to this family business, and she was not even willing to ask for a bride price, so she hurriedly married her.
It wasn't until she became a kiss that she realized that it wasn't like that at all.
Gu Yuan's eldest brother is indeed a hussar general, and he is still the eldest princess of Xuanyang, but they don't allow Gu Yuan to go to Chang'an at all, let alone go to live in the general's mansion.
Gu Yuan is also an unsuccessful person, he doesn't do his job all day long, he only knows how to eat and drink and gamble, and he almost gets some money by being a pawn in the family's shop, but he will lose all his money in the blink of an eye.
Mao didn't expect that it would be such a day when he got married, not only did he not treat him as the wife of the general's mansion, but also asked her to use the dowry to supplement the family, and she was so angry that she made a lot of trouble.
After all, Mrs. Gu, who was far away in Chang'an, was thinking about the second room, and every once in a while, she asked people to quietly send some money for herself, and the Mao family was willing to give up.
But even if you have money to be at ease in Qingzhou, how can you be more decent than being a lady in Chang'an.
This time, the Mao family ruthlessly sold his belongings in Qingzhou, and followed Gu Yuan to Chang'an, just bent on being a wife in the Hussar General's Mansion.
That's the life she's supposed to live, isn't it?
When she arrived at the gate of the Hussar General's Mansion, the old lady Gu, who had received the news, ignored Luo's persuasion, and had already been waiting at the door with the handmaid's hand in anticipation.
As soon as the carriage stopped, Gu Yuan staggered out of the car with a drunken body, and when he saw Old Madam Gu, he couldn't help grinning, and stepped forward and said vaguely: "A-Niang......"
Old Madam Gu smiled when she saw him, and the wrinkles on her face were relaxed.
"Is this a drink? After eating cold wine carefully, my body can't stand it, and I don't have a caring person to serve by my side, otherwise where would I be so careless. As she spoke, Old Madam Gu glanced back at the Mao family who was standing behind her and looked around.
It's just that the Mao family has always been a fierce person, and even Gu Yuan bowed down to her in Qingzhou, where could she stand Mrs. Gu's weird words.
She stepped forward and sneered: "What the Ah family said is that where do we have someone to serve in Qingzhou, it's just to make a living, where is there someone to serve, it's not as good as the Ah family and the sister-in-law, there are people in Chang'an Mansion who serve and enjoy Qingfu." ”
With a gun and a stick in her words, the old lady was so angry that her face turned pale, and she was about to reprimand her a few words, but she was in front of the mansion, and she also knew that Mao had always been a shameless person, and her face was not good-looking.
She snorted, took the handmaid's hand and walked to the house, and didn't forget to call Gu Yuan: "Erlang, go in and talk, and let someone bring you a bowl of hot tea and soup to relieve your hangover." ”
Not to be outdone, Mao was busy and followed him into the house.
Roche didn't speak all the time, and followed in with a proper smile on his face.
It's just that when she looked at Gu Yuan and his wife, a touch of disgust flashed in her eyes, she didn't expect that Old Madam Gu would really dare to carry Gu Qing behind her back and bring this insatiable couple who didn't know what to do.
She remembered the last time she looked back on the virtues of Yuan and Mao, which was really disdainful.
It's just that now that Gu Qing is not in the house, Mrs. Gu is thinking about Gu Yuan coming to Chang'an, although she is at home, she is not good at talking, so she has to respond.
Old Madam Gu was rarely happy, chatting with Gu Yuanxu, asking about him in Qingzhou, and at the same time, she repeatedly instructed the maid to invite Gu Mingyue and Gu Mingyu to come over and give their second uncle a gift.
Speaking of Gu Mingzhu, Old Madam Gu couldn't help but pause, frowned and said, "Send a message to Dongfu as well." ”
She didn't care if Gu Mingzhu would come over, she just informed her as usual.
Gu Mingyue and Gu Mingyu came soon, they had already been instructed by the Luo family, and obediently saluted Gu Yuan and the Mao family, and stepped aside.
Gu Yuan nodded carelessly, and just looked at the furnishings in the flower hall, thinking in his heart that if these objects could be exchanged for money, I was afraid that it would be enough for him to spend a few days.
After all, Mao's family is a lady from an official family, and her mother's family is a rich gentleman with some family wealth in Qingzhou.
She also knew that she should give Gu Mingyue and Gu Mingyu a meeting gift at this time, but she didn't prepare at all, in her opinion, the Luo family and the Gu family were raised by the rich and noble, and it was unreasonable for them to let her get the meeting gift if they didn't help her.
It's just that she still has to do it on her face, she frowned and looked for her body: "Oh, I was negligent, I actually forgot to prepare a meeting gift for the second lady and the third lady, look at my memory...... I'll find something good later, and then I'll have someone send it to the girls......"
Luo Zhi looked coldly at her touching her body and didn't take anything out, retracted his gaze and smiled: "No need, the second brother and sister are too polite." ”
Mao waited for her to say this, and said with a smile: "I think that the ladies don't look down on my crude things."
Old Madam Gu didn't even look at the Mao family, but Yin Yin was talking to Gu Yuan, in her opinion, if it wasn't for the fact that the Mao family was the official lady, and she didn't ask for a dowry, where would she want the Mao family to enter the door.
Just this look of picking and searching, where should it be lifted. Old Madam Gu thought so, but she didn't think that she was not far from Mao.
Just when there was a scene of harmony between mother and son, the maidservant girl came in and said, "The eldest lady is here." ”
Gu Mingzhu actually came.