At this time, Gu Yu had already arrived at Yixin Hall, but seeing that Old Madam Gu was still solemn and leaning on a bat-patterned pillow in front of the collapse, Concubine Zhou beside her also had a tense face, and her attitude was respectful, as if she didn't dare to look at her, she lowered her head and avoided her gaze.

Judging from the look on Concubine Zhou's face, this old servant must have just been reprimanded by her grandmother, and her grandmother called her now, so she shouldn't have come to find fault with her and discipline her like before.

Gu Yu still saluted and said, "Grandmother." ”

Old Madam Gu snorted, and suddenly said solemnly: "The eighty-first chapter of Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", you can listen to it by memorization?" ”

Gu Yu was slightly stunned, knowing that her grandmother's question was not to study her knowledge, it seemed that her guess was not wrong, her grandmother must have been suspicious of what she wrote, but why did she want her to memorize Chapter 81? What kind of considerations will she have in her heart?

After a moment of thought, Gu Yu replied: "Faith is not beautiful, beautiful words are not believed." The good do not argue, and the debater is not good. Those who know do not fight, and those who brow do not know. The saint does not accumulate, but since he thinks that he is a man, he has more; and with others, the more you are. The way of heaven is beneficial but not harmful. The way of the saint is indisputable. ”

Old Madam Gu's eyes lit up, and she asked again, "What's the explanation?" ”

Gu Yu paused for a moment and replied, "The real words may not be good, and the words that are heard in the middle may not be true." A good person will not be able to argue, and a person who can argue may not be kind. Smart people don't flaunt their knowledge, and those who flaunt erudition aren't necessarily smart. The right way of heaven is to be beneficial to others and not harmful, and the right way of a saint is not to fight with others.

This sentence also tells us that we must be based on 'faith, beauty, kindness, and knowledge', and do not do things that harm others and benefit ourselves. ”

When he said the last sentence, Gu Yu specially accentuated the tone of the words "harming others and benefiting oneself".

Old Madam Gu didn't realize it at first, but after listening to it, she nodded again and again with great satisfaction, and when she reacted, her face also sank quickly, and after being silent for a while, she "snapped" and threw a stack of Saeki paper on the desk.

"Then tell me, who wrote this?" She shouted.

Gu Yu lowered his eyes and glanced at it, thoughtfully, and pondered for a moment before replying, "This is written by my granddaughter." ”

Old Madam Gu didn't realize that the corners of her lips curved, and she said with a straight face: "Who did you learn the words from, and whose words did you learn?" ”

Gu Yu pondered for a while, and replied: "My granddaughter has admired Wang Yishao's calligraphy since she was a child, and she has learned his calligraphy, but her granddaughter's calligraphy is still clumsy. ”

At this time, Gu Yu didn't want to hide it, and there was no need to hide it anymore, now that she was about to reach the age of Lu, if she didn't have any strengths, she would definitely be abandoned by the family, just like in the previous life, just place a crime to expel her from the family name.

But she also knows that as a concubine of the Gu family, even if she is talented and beautiful, her final destination is only to be given as a gift to the children of a certain family as concubines, and the best is Shi Niang in her previous life, and it is a great luck to be able to marry the concubine of the Langya Wang family as his wife.

However, these are not what she wants, relive a life, everything in this world, she has seen too clearly, she also knows that as a woman, how difficult it is to survive in this troubled world, even if she climbs to the highest point like in her previous life, she still has to be constrained and used by those men with ill intentions, she can't keep her husband, and she can't save her son.

Then in this life, she will have to live in another way, since this world is respected by "scholars", then she must enter the world like a man and become a famous celebrity in the world, so that it is possible to get rid of the fate of being a woman in this era, and it is possible to protect her relatives.

And in this era when fame determines the future, reputation is still important, and she will never be able to live without regard for fame as before.

Seeing that Gu Yu was silent, Old Madam Gu sneered again: "Eleven Niang, I've never heard of your handwriting well?" ”

Sure enough, she expected that Mrs. Gu would ask such a question, and she was waiting for her to ask this question, so she replied: "Grandmother, granddaughter doesn't think that her handwriting is good, everyone used to say that granddaughter's handwriting is too sloppy and clumsy, and granddaughter has been practicing diligently, I don't know who grandmother listened to say granddaughter's handwriting...... Well written? ”

Old Madam Gu's face sank, as if she understood something in her heart, and after a moment of silence, Fang said, "Okay, you go back!" ”

Gu Yu said yes, and when she was about to leave, Old Madam Gu called her again: "Wait-"

Gu Yu paused, and then heard her ask: "Ah Yu, have you heard the servants mention the matter of your biological mother Aunt Shen?" ”

Gu Yu was stunned for a moment, a slight hint of sharpness flashed in his eyes, and he paused for a moment before replying: "I've heard of it, everyone said that Aunt Shen was grounded and locked up because she committed an unforgivable serious crime. ”

Old Madam Gu sighed faintly, and said as if she was guilty: "Ah Yu, grandmother is not afraid to tell you the truth, your biological mother Shen is a criminal minister, after giving birth to you, she learned the news of her mother's extinction, and she was mentally frustrated for a while, so she went crazy...... The Mulan Courtyard on Wutong Mountain in the West Courtyard is where she is imprisoned, and it is a last resort for grandmother not to let you visit, Shen's madness is really terrifying, and your father almost lost her life back then......"

After that, he actually showed a kind look, and said seriously: "You are the girl of my Gu family, and your grandmother restricts you, it is for your good, you just borrowed Shen's belly to support your life, for your reputation and future, you can only respect Yu's mother, and you can only treat her as your mother." ”

Gu Yu's eyes were slightly red when she heard this, not because she was moved, she really didn't expect Gu Lu's to play the tender card with her, if she wasn't still useful to the Gu family, where would Gu Lu's mind be so kind to her.

Could it be that they still want to know the whereabouts of the box from her?

And grandmother's temptation was undoubtedly suspicious of whether she had been to Mulan Courtyard last night.

Pursed his lips secretly, and after a moment of silence, Gu Yu said: "Yes, grandmother's teachings, Ah Yu will remember them." ”

Old Madam Gu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, you go back and have a good rest!" From tomorrow, I will study with my sister-in-law in the house, not only to learn words, piano music, poetry and poetry, but also the way of chess, you must also study diligently! ”

After Gu Yu listened, his heart was full of excitement, and even if he understood the intention of Mrs. Gu, the family is big, because of the difference between the concubines, a concubine like her is not qualified to study with the concubine, so even if she is taught the skills of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she just wants to send them out as ordinary concubines when the family can use them in the future, but if she is cultivated with the same heart as the concubines, then her value will be different.

Could it be that grandmother is trying to ......

Thinking of this, Gu Yu's heart was as bright as a mirror, she answered again, and after saluting Mrs. Gu, she was about to leave, but as soon as she turned around, Mrs. Gu called her again, and said, "By the way, grandmother saw that you were dressed quite plainly, but there was a lack of clothes, silk, jewelry and manpower in the Dusk Smoke Pavilion?" ”

Saying that, without waiting for Gu Yu to answer, he instructed Zhou Yu, "Go and pick some decent jewelry from my cage for the Eleventh Lady, and send two more maids from my side to the Dusk Smoke Pavilion to serve the Eleventh Lady well, the girl of my Gu family can't dress up like that low-level scholar girl every day, which makes people see jokes." ”

Zhou Yu hurriedly replied yes, glanced at Gu Yu, and immediately went to the old lady's bedroom.

Gu Yu was silent, she didn't care about her grandmother planting people next to her, anyway, there were already many eyes and ears around her, but she laughed secretly in her heart: she is a concubine, but she just wrote a poem, which made Mrs. Gu pay attention to it so much?

After a while, Zhou Yu took a brocade box, led two young maids out, and walked in front of Gu Yu.

"All the things in this are given to the eleventh lady by Mrs. Tai!" Zhou Yu specially increased the word reward, and said, "A little emerald plum hairpin, a gold-inlaid jade step, five burnt blue flowers and a set of thunder-patterned red gold armbands, a Dan pigment Aya Huasheng, and I hope the lady will put it away!" ”

Gu Yu nodded yes, and Concubine Zhou handed the brocade box into the hands of one of the maids behind her.

After the maid respectfully took the brocade box, she walked up to Gu Yu with another maid and said in unison: "Nu Shiqin/Poetry and Painting, I've seen Eleven Niangzi!" ”

Gu Yu glanced at it, the two maids were slightly older than her, about sixteen or seventeen years old, both wearing double flat buns, wearing embroidered shirts and skirts, and they looked very calm and polite, and they didn't feel aggrieved because they were demoted to serve her as a concubine, and they were still carefully trained by the people around their grandmother.

I often hear people say that looking at the family education and cultivation of a family can be seen from the servants and maids in their families, because these people have followed the master since childhood, and they have developed a kind of nobility that ordinary people do not have.

And these two handmaidens looked very unusual.

"Shiqin? Poetry and painting? Gu Yu called.

The two maidens bowed their heads and replied, "Yes!" ”

"Okay, I remember!" Gu Yu spoke, and then thanked Mrs. Gu and saluted, "Thank you grandmother for the reward, granddaughter will take them back!" ”

Old Madam Gu nodded with satisfaction, her eyes swept towards the two handmaidens intentionally or unintentionally, and after Gu Yu took the two handmaidens away, her face slowly sank again, and suddenly ordered Zhou Yu in a cold voice: "Go, call me Zhang!" ”

Zhou Yu replied yes and went, and after about a cup of tea, Zhang walked into Yixin Hall.

"Auntie, are you looking for me?"

Before Zhang's words were finished, Mrs. Gu threw a stack of Saebur paper on the desk to Zhang's face, and shouted: "Look, see for yourself!" ”

Zhang's face was stunned and dazed, and he hurriedly picked up the Saeki paper that fell on the ground, and after sweeping it at a glance and ten lines, he still didn't understand what Mrs. Gu meant, and said: "This is Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", which was copied by Eleven Niang?" Auntie, this ...... What does this mean? As she spoke, she thought in her heart, didn't Mrs. Gu think that she punished Eleven Niang for copying the "Tao Te Ching", and said, "Eleven Niang was punished by the Yu family to kneel in the hall to copy the scriptures, and the son-in-law only learned about it later, and she didn't know what happened?" Auntie, please make it clear? ”

Old Madam Gu looked at Zhang's family, and she was even more disappointed and stunned, and said: "Zhang's family, you are also a noble girl from a family, you have been literate and literate since you were a child, and you have seen many celebrities Mobao, don't you even recognize Wang Yishao's calligraphy?" ”

Zhang was even more surprised, and once again set his eyes on the Saeki paper, glanced at the lines, looked at it several times, and turned over each piece of paper before he said: "Yes, the daughter-in-law is clumsy, and the aunt is wise, this is indeed somewhat similar to Yi Shaogong's calligraphy, but this is really ......."

"I thought that Eleven Niang was really as rumored in this mansion, with a rough temperament, no ink on her chest, and no good for nothing, but I didn't expect that it was you people who were acting as demons and blinded me, Zhang, you can't tolerate other sisters-in-law in this mansion like this, okay?"

As soon as Mrs. Gu said this, Zhang's eyes immediately turned red, and she said both aggrieved and innocent: "Auntie, the son-in-law is wronged, no matter how bad the son-in-law is, she will not be narrow-minded enough to have a reputation as a cheap girl, if she is not good, what good will it do me?" ”