The night shrouded the small courtyard of the Gu family, and a low cry came from the murmur of autumn insects.

The Cao family and Gu Hai sat on the left and right, guarding Gu Bainiang.

Jiankang's letter, a letter written by the patriarch himself, reprimanded the Cao family fiercely, blaming her for being exiled with a weak girl and young son, not returning home, and saddening Gu Hai's studies, in a word, let them return to Jiankang immediately.

"....since.. Why didn't you see the person who picked us up? A letter alone? Gu Hai asked in a low voice, looking at Gu Banniang carefully.

The little girl curled up under the tree with her knees folded and sobbed.

Cao's tears fell.

"The patriarch is no longer good... The person who brought the letter said that he would be buried in these days....." She covered her mouth and cried in a low voice, "... So the delay ....."

How could it be impossible not to inform them of such a big event? Not to mention the delay in the arrival of the letter and the people! Gu Hai moved his mouth, and then laughed at himself again.

In the past, if there was anything going on in Jiankang, no one came to pick them up, so they just asked someone to send a message, but this time it was rare to get a letter written by the patriarch himself.

"He's dead, he's dead, why do you have to go back!" Gu Bainiang, who had been crying, suddenly spoke, her voice was a little hoarse, "It's enough to cry him, why do you have to sell the house?" Why not come back? Why do you have to go to Jiankang's place of the .....?"

Before she finished her words, Cao raised his hand and slapped her.

The crisp slap suddenly sounded in the courtyard, making the three of them stunned.

"You unfilial daughter! How to speak! Cao Shi only felt a faint pain in his hand, and his heart also hurt, and he looked at Gu Bainiang angrily and sadly, "That's your grandfather... That's your elder... That's a matter of life and death....how can you speak in that tone? You... You... You ......"

Cao Shi trembled for a long time and finally couldn't say that sentence, the more she thought about it, the more sad and discouraged she became, she didn't understand what happened to her originally well-behaved and gentle daughter.

can be so tyrannical, can be said to kill people at will, and can be so indifferent to the life and death of relatives and elders......

It's that she's useless.. She didn't teach her daughter well...

"Shiro..."Cao sobbed, hid his face and stumbled into the house.

Gu Hai, who was in front of Gu Bainiang, who was afraid that his mother would fight again, was stunned at this time, looked at his sister, tears flowed on his pale little face, and the faint light through the window reflected the faint red marks of his palm, and he looked at the room again, and Cao's suppressed cries kept coming.

"Eighteen Niang..."Gu Hai sighed, "It's you who are wrong this time...."

Gu Banniang bit her lower lip and tears rained down.

"The patriarch's grandfather is the best for us..... he just looks a little fierce....Dad said that his old man hates his father and is not angry... The more I hope we will get better, the more we will be....In fact, he helps us a lot in private....." Gu Hai said in a low voice, "You... You.."

He and you for a long time, and finally sighed, "Why are you so unwilling to go back to Jiankang?" ”

Gu Bainiang cried silently.

"It's going to die," she muttered.

If you go, you will die, your mother will die, your brother will die, and she will die......

"What?" Gu Hai didn't hear clearly, lowered his head and asked again.

Gu Banniang raised her head and looked at him, "Brother, I said that if I go back to Jiankang, my mother will die, and you will die too, do you believe it or not?" ”

Gu Hai was stunned.

"Eighteen mothers. I know you don't like it there...."He smiled bitterly and reached out to stroke his sister's head, "I'm afraid this is the last words of the patriarch's grandfather, and it's his funeral, so my mother will only ..... if she stays here and doesn't go to Jiankang."

He couldn't say that word.

Gu Banniang closed her eyes, and a line of tears mixed into the tears on her face.

Yes, if this is the case, with Cao's character, it is absolutely impossible, if she really can't go, she will also blame herself and die of regret and depression.....

"I had a dream, a nightmare....I dreamed that we went back to Jiankang, and then my mother died, and my brother also died...."Kneeling in the room, Gu Banniang looked at Cao Shi who was sitting on the bed with tears in her eyes, ".. You're all dead... I'm the only one left....later... I'm dead too...."

Hearing this, Cao Shi and Gu Hai glanced at each other, obviously more worried than surprised.

“.. It's you..."Gu Hai suddenly, seeing Cao Shi signaling him to pull his sister up, he hurriedly stretched out his hand, ".. I always can't sleep well, so it's this nightmare..."

He giggled and patted his sister on the back, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, nightmares are also dreams, besides, dreams are the opposite, we are all dead in the dream, then we must all live a long life..... this is a good dream, a good dream...."

He laughed, Gu Bainiang hid her face and cried loudly.

She knew that no one would believe it, who would believe such a strange thing, many times, even she didn't believe in the memories that had happened, and she would think that maybe it was just a dream, a nightmare....

"Xiang'er.." Cao Shi said.

Gu Bainiang couldn't help but be stunned, no one had called her by this name for a long time, and many people didn't know her name.

This is her big name, the name that her father gave her after flipping through the books for a few nights, Gu Xiang.

"I know that you have suffered a lot of grievances there, so I am afraid and don't like it there," Cao sat up straight and looked at his daughter and son solemnly, "That's because we are poor, we have no ability, no matter where we are, we will inevitably be looked down upon and bullied, it's not that we hide and it's okay." ”

"Don't forget that your surname is Gu, no matter where you hide, you are a member of the Gu family..."

"We are poor and we have no ability, but this is not a shameful fact, people's lives are predestined, and wealth and glory also have their own fate....."

"But we can't even look down on ourselves...."

“.. Hai'er, Xiang'er, if this time the patriarch's major event, we don't go because we are afraid of being ridiculed and looked down upon, it is disloyalty, injustice and filial piety, this really deserves to be looked down upon, and I will also look down on myself....."

Gu Banniang looked at her mother in a daze, and suddenly remembered something.

"No," she muttered, "the patriarch didn't die at this time......

She remembered that although the patriarch of that life was not in good health, he died only after she got married.

Why did she get so many years ahead of her when she was reborn?

Raising his head, he saw that the Cao family was looking at her with a blank face, and Gu Hai seemed to smile helplessly.

"Eighteen Niang, my mother won't hide it from you..."Cao's expression softened slightly, with sadness and joy, "The patriarch mentioned in the letter that he gave us a property and a shop..."

"What?" Gu Bainiang and Gu Hai were both taken aback and couldn't believe it.

How is this possible? Although he occasionally secretly asked people to stuff them with silver taels, he basically saw that they were all old patriarchs who didn't look at them, and would give them such a generous gift?

Cao's face was obviously very excited, with real estate and assets, their lives would be guaranteed, which she didn't expect, thinking that this cold-faced and kind-hearted old man was about to die, or had already passed away, her heart was as sad as a knife.

Although she reprimanded the children in her mouth, in fact, she was not disgusted with Hui Jiankang in her daily life, and in the past, she avoided this old patriarch if she could.....

I didn't expect him to do this to them....

"In order to let Hai'er study hard...."Cao Shi hid his face and cried, "After we go back, we will kowtow to Grandpa Tai ....."

Houses, shops, and ethnography, this is a temptation that is difficult to refuse and unreasonable to refuse....

And serious illness, death, and funeral are morally unavoidable loyalty and filial piety.....

This time, they had no other way but to go back to Jiankang.

Gu Bainiang sat on the ground in a daze, as if she heard a roaring laugh from the god of fate.

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It's on the shelves tomorrow, there's nothing to say, and I don't dare to promise it so early, I know my own faults, I can only do my best to learn from the mistakes of the past, whether it's good or bad, and then talk about it.

Thank you all for being with you all the way!