The year passed quickly, Shi'an had a few days of play, relatives and friends traveled together, there were Qiong buy fast, Doujiu flop, dance stick kickball, singing and commenting and other activities, father and his colleagues, Zhan Shifu Shao Zhan Shimu, Xingtaifu Shaoqing Zhou went out to play. The female dependents went to the relatives who knew each other, and the Gu family was in Sili Hutong, close to the Song family and Yongyang Bo's family, which were the son of the country's priest and the Song family.

The mother was friendly with Mrs. Uncle Yongyang, and Mrs. Uncle also came to see her mother. Her mother was seriously ill and couldn't go out, so Aunt Song took Gu Jinchao and Gu Lan to Dingguo Gongfan's house in Luoxian Hutong, and the Fan family was the maiden home of her father's biological mother and aunt, and she often took care of her father, and the two families were very close.

On the eighth day of the first month, it is time to look back on the ancestral family.

This time I went back, my father wanted to bring Jin Chao and the other four people back, and told the four of them in advance to prepare for a good life, and instructed the steward to prepare a set of golden beans, pearls and jade hairpins, pastries and fruits, cured sauce goose and other things to reward the child.

When Jin Chao came to greet his father, he saw this set of clothes, so he said to him: "The color of the eggplant does not match the pattern, and my grandmother likes to worship the Buddha, so it is better to use agarwood pigment satin, which also looks more solemn." In addition, add two strings of Qi Nan wood Buddha beads, please go to the Great Country Temple to consecrate. ”

His father's gaze was strange when he looked at Jin Chao, and even he didn't know that his grandmother was worshipping the Buddha.

Jin Chao said, "...... The last time I went, I saw my grandmother with Buddhist beads in her hands, hidden under her sleeves. ”

Her father nodded and praised her, "...... The last time you went you were only twelve years old, and it's hard to remember. "Tell the steward to do what the Jin Dynasty says.

Jin Chao naturally wouldn't tell her father that she had too much contact with her grandmother in her previous life. At that time, she married into the Chen family, it was infinitely beautiful, the Gu family's ancestral family was all coming to tie up, and her grandmother gave her a lot of things.

Aunt Song was also watching, so she smiled and said, "I didn't know that our sister Chao'er was so delicate!" ”

Jin Chao didn't speak, and his father said: "She is also smart, just like her mother." ”

Aunt Song stopped talking, and Jin Chao retreated with a smile.

When she arrived at Xiexiao Garden, her mother asked her what she had prepared, and Jin Chao naturally didn't need to prepare. She is a junior, and at most she is going to give her younger brothers and sisters gold beans and silver nudes, and she has to accept gifts from others! Mother couldn't rest assured, she made a gold silk bun for Jin Chao for Gu Lan to take, after thinking about it, she asked Xu's mother to open the warehouse to find a box, and found her a baby play lotus pattern golden hairpin inlaid with red sapphire, a phoenix cloud pattern golden hairpin inlaid with yellow tourmaline, a gilt butterfly love flower silver step shake, and a pair of black black jade bracelets, and found a girl Mo Xue to accompany her.

Jin Chao looked at the eighteen ruby sapphires inlaid on the golden hairpin and couldn't laugh a little, she finally knew why she had so many extravagant gold jewelry, and her mother was also deeply influenced by her grandmother, and she couldn't wait to give her the most expensive and best things. But she wouldn't go out wearing these, it was too ostentatious.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Jin Chao wore a water-blue thread-picking skirt with a crescent moon and a white silk satin jacket, which felt too plain, and added an apricot yellow belt, and the sachet was stone blue. I felt that it was almost the same, so I took Qingpu and Mo Xue to the carriage covered by the green curtains.

After his father separated from the Gu family, he settled in Shi'an, and the ancestral family of the Gu family was with them in Shuntianfu, but not in Shi'an, but in Daxing County at the foot of the Son of Heaven. The carriage covered with green curtains drove on the road for an hour, and it was not too far, which was also the road that my father had passed through in his early dynasty.

Jin Chao opened the curtain and looked, it was all official roads, all industries were prosperous along the way, there were many shops and restaurants, it was the time of the bustle, and the flow of people could be seen in the downtown area, and the people on the street were shouting with noise, which seemed very festive.

After the downtown area, you will arrive at Taohuawu, if you don't turn and go straight, it will be the palace......

Jin Chao lowered the curtain.

The carriage stopped when it arrived at the hanging flower gate of the ancestral house, and there were already several mothers-in-law waiting for them with the small oil cart with green curtains used for walking in the inner courtyard. The mother-in-law at the head saluted her father: "Fourth master, please follow the slave and maid to this side, Mrs. Tai is waiting for you." ”

The father bowed his head, and asked the steward who followed him to give each mother-in-law a small bag of silver nudes.

Jin Chao changed to a small oil cart and began to recall the affairs of his ancestral family again. 's father is ranked sixth, but there are only two brothers-in-law and one brother-in-law, so he is called the fourth master, but she remembers that the Gu family uncle and the third master both died early, and now the Gu family should be the second master of the Gu family, who was the right governor of the imperial history.

The Gu family has been scholarly for generations, and there are basically Jinshi from generation to generation, so it has been glorified for hundreds of years. There is only one house in the entire Taohuawu, and the Gu family, whose father went out alone, is far inferior to the ancestral family.

The carriage stopped, and Jin Chao was helped down by Qingpu. Raise your eyes, the pink walls on both sides are high, and at the end of the blue brick path is a small courtyard. The lintel is blocked by the branches of the begonia, but the word 'Yan embroidery' can still be seen, and the rockery is arranged next to it, and the layers of snow are covered above, but there are koi swimming in the pool below, and there is a hot spring underground......

The mother-in-law led them into the door, and beside the door stood four girls in emerald green twinked skirts to salute them, and after passing through the hall, they arrived at the banquet place. Before entering the door, I heard a crisp laugh, and the sound was like a yellow warbler coming out of the valley.

"Grandmother, you said you wanted to give me this box of bone-in abalone snails, but you have to count ......"

The mother-in-law stood outside the door and said, "Mrs. Tai, the third master is here." ”

After a while, the old woman's steady voice came from inside: "Please come in." ”

Stepping over the white jade screen of the hundred birds in the spring of the hundred birds, the Jin Dynasty saw a pile of lacquered nuts and arhat beds in the clinic, and an old woman about sixty years old was sitting on it wearing a dark red Baji pattern leather silk gown, and she was also wearing a lotus Buddha golden hairpin on her head, looking kind and kind, and smiling.

Jin Chao recognized it, this was her grandmother Feng. The Jin Dynasty first asked Feng for peace, and Feng took the meeting gift and distributed it to the four of them.

All the people sitting around her were women, and there was a girl of fourteen or fifteen who was holding her hand and being coquettish.

When my father saw this, he was not happy.

Feng Shi said: "Duanxiu, first lead the fourth master's young lady and aunt and others to sit in the east room and eat some pastries to rest." ”

Leaving his father alone, it seems that he wants to talk to him privately. Jin Chao glanced at the gift box held by the steward, and thought that there should be no problem.

Ying promised a lady with a peony bun, wearing a red Ruyi pattern woven flower gown, with slender phoenix eyes and delicate complexion, she was the second lady Gu. She took them to the east room to rest, and then took Aunt Song's hand and said, "I haven't seen my sister, it should be the concubine of Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, right?" ”

didn't say that she was an aunt, it looks like she was a human spirit.

Aunt Song smiled and said: "Exactly, if I guess correctly, you are the second lady, you are really beautiful and dignified." I would also like to introduce to you, this is the eldest daughter of our fourth master, Sister Chao. Hearing her talk about herself, Jin Chao saluted the second lady.

The second lady looked at her in surprise, but quickly regained her smile and gave her a brocade box.

Aunt Song said again: "This is the second daughter, Sister Lan." The second lady looked at Sister Lan very kindly, praised a few words and gave a gift.

Gu Lan was pleasing in front of his elders, and Jin Chao secretly thought to himself, this kung fu could not be learned by others.

introduced Gu Xi and Gu Yi, and the second lady also introduced their eldest daughter Gu Jinhua to them. She has been married for a few years, and she is back to save her relatives. According to the rules of the Gu family, the names of the eldest daughters are all in the same line, because the names have the word 'brocade', Gu Jinhua looked at Gu Jinchao kinder than Sister Lan, pulled her to talk, and affectionately gave her a pair of earrings with white jade cloud patterns.

The one who was holding Feng's hand just now was Gu Lian, the second daughter of the second lady, who was fourteen years old and gave birth to a delicate and pretty little beauty, but she was spoiled by everyone, so she just hummed and continued to pull the little girl next to her to joke.

Aunt Song would definitely not say that Gu Lian had no rules, but only praised her with a smile: "Sister Pian has a smart and lively temperament, unlike Sister Lan, who is very restrained by me." ”

Gu Lan also said: "I think Sister Pian also likes it very much!" ”

The second lady had a smile on her eyebrows and eyes, and she liked Gu Lan even more. He also introduced them to Gu Wuye's two concubines, as well as Gu Jinhua's sister-in-law's sister-in-law, and the Jin Dynasty gave them a bag of golden beans.

"The fifth lady is on the other side of the stage, wait for us to go to the play, and then introduce her to you." The second lady said to Aunt Song.

The fifth master of the Gu family was born with Jinshi, but because of the relationship between the five wives, he also served as the commander of Wei. Aunt Song seemed to have heard the name of the fifth lady, so she said softly: "Is it the daughter of the Changxing Hou family......

The second lady nodded.

Aunt Song's appearance became cautious. Generally speaking, when a woman marries into her husband's family, her husband's family is expensive, but Changxinghou's concubine is the opposite, Gu Wuye is just a concubine, and he took Changxinghou's concubine, but her husband relied on his wife to get a four-grade errand!

Changxinghou has been on the emperor's eastern and western expeditions for many years, quelling many rebellions, and his military achievements are outstanding. The emperor favored him, and even his wife was given the edict of the second grade, the Gu family's ancestral family and Changxing Hou were far inferior, Gu Erye's golden palace face was saintly, at most he just showed his face, but Changxing Hou could go straight into the palace and play with the emperor. Among the military ministers, Changxing Hou is faintly headed, and the scenery is infinite.