The ancestral home of the Gu family.

Back house.

Compared with the lively scene of gongs and drums beating in the ancestral hall in the front yard, the back house is much cleaner, and even the servants of the mansion can't see one.

Jiang Li followed Gu Qian's side and looked around curiously.

"Isn't Auntie's tablet enshrined in the family ancestral hall?"

"Nope."

Gu Qian shook his head slightly, took Jiang Li's hand and explained: "My mother's tombstone stands in the courtyard of the back house, which used to be my father's yard, and then my father was seriously ill and recuperated in the hospital, and the back house was slowly deserted. ”

It is said to be a wasteland.

But Jiang Li looked at some of the flowers and plants planted around her, and she still had regular pruning and maintenance.

The two walked together.

After a short time, I came to the back house of the ancestral house, and went all the way to the innermost part of the back house.

It's a magnificent house.

There is a stout loquat tree in the courtyard, because it is winter, the branches and leaves of the loquat tree have fallen clean, and the bare branches are pressed with a thick layer of white snow.

There is a tombstone next to the loquat tree.

A young man in a white plain dress sat quietly in front of the tombstone, slowly sweeping away the falling snow next to the tombstone.

"Your brother?"

Jiang Li asked in a low voice.

She had seen Gu Yao at the Gu family's "reception banquet", and she was still a little familiar with this younger brother who had competed with Gu Qian for the "heir of the family".

Gu Qian nodded slightly, took Jiang Li's hand and walked forward, his voice was flat: "When did you come?" ”

"Just arrived."

"Hmm."

The two brothers didn't seem to have any more words.

Gu Qian just hummed, slowly squatted and began to clean up the snow on the other side of the tombstone.

In the past, it was snowing heavily at the end of the year.

As the head of the family, my father needs to preside over the year-end festival, and it is difficult to spare time all day, so the matter of clearing the snow for my mother fell on the two brothers Gu Qian and Gu Yao.

Every year.

The relationship between the two is average.

However, every year-end festival will come over tacitly, which can be regarded as a tacit understanding between the two brothers.

"You're not going to preside over the year-end festival?"

Gu Yao asked casually.

He knew that he had lost the battle for the "heir", and the eldest brother, who was the victor, became the heir to the head of the family, so he naturally also needed to take on the responsibility of starting the family.

Presiding over the year-end festival is one of the responsibilities.

"No, no."

Gu Qian said casually, and cleaned up the snow on the tombstone little by little.

Gu Yao looked puzzled.

Gu Qian had no intention of explaining, and said in a calm tone: "I will eat out for this year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. ”

"Huh?"

"If you don't want to give up, you can take the opportunity to hook up with the branches again, and those forces that are about to move can be tried."

“……”

Gu Yao didn't answer.

The clan branch forces he had colluded with before were cleaned up in just a few months after the eldest brother returned to the family.

Now no one in the entire family dares to go against Gu Qian anymore.

The position of the heir of the family has been decided, and naturally no one is willing to continue to risk supporting their Jedi counterattack.

Seeing that the younger brother did not answer.

Gu Qian said in a calm tone: "The Qin family has canceled the marriage contract with you, so let's reconsider your marriage by yourself." ”

Qin Yi and Gu Yao of the Qin family originally had a marriage contract.

But with Gu Yao's failure to compete for the heir of the family, the Qin family also resolutely chose to give up the marriage contract between the two.

Gu Yao didn't say a word, and his heart was extraordinarily calm.

He had long known that the person Qin Yi liked was the eldest brother, and he didn't have any feelings for Qin Yi, the arrogant and strong woman of the Qin family.

The snow on one side is cleared.

Gu Yao patted his hand that was red from the cold, slapped all the snow on it, got up and said in a flat tone: "I'm not interested in the eldest lady of the capital family. ”

After speaking.

Gu Yao added: "The position of the heir is not contested with you, and the family should not worry about the marriage." ”

Gu Qian also got up, and patted his frozen red hand with the same movements, but the difference was ......

Jiang Li stepped forward first, took the initiative to help Gu Qian clean up the snow on his hands, put it in his palm and sighed: "I don't know how to wear a glove?" ”

"It's okay, it's not cold."

Gu Qian smiled softly in his voice, looked at Gu Yao and said, "The family will not interfere in your marriage in the future, but if you can't marry a daughter-in-law in the future......"

There was a pause.

Gu Qian added softly: "You can ask your sister-in-law to help you introduce it." ”

Enashi: ???

Gu Yao: ......

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

Gu Yao said thank you in a dry tone, his face was expressionless, and he turned around and left the courtyard of the back house.

Jiang Li looked at Gu Qian speechlessly, and her tone was a little complaining: "What did you just say?" ”

"I'm telling the truth."

"Cut, your brother is also the second young master of the Gu family, can you find a daughter-in-law in the future?"

Jiang Li couldn't help but say a word of disdain, and silently suppressed a sentence by the way: [The appearance is also the same as you don't want to go up and down, it's more than enough to mix in the entertainment industry. 】

Gu Qian smiled lightly, as if he saw what Jiang Li was thinking in his mind, and said: "He is different from me, although he has 80% of my appearance in appearance, but he is too stupid, and he doesn't know how to speak." ”

"Huh."

Jiang Li smiled.

——

The tombstones have been swept clean.

The two stood in front of the tombstone.

Gu Qian took Jiang Li's hand, and his voice was gentle: "Mom, I brought your daughter-in-law over to see you, the bracelet has been given for you, it is very suitable." ”

“……”

“……”

A few words were briefly spoken.

Jiang Li took Gu Qian's hand, wanting to comfort her, but found that the other party's face was extraordinarily calm: "You...... You okay? ”

"It's fine."

"I thought you'd cry here."

“……”

Gu Qian shook his head shallowly and explained: "I have never cried in front of my mother's tombstone, it used to be because I always came with Gu Yao, I felt a little embarrassed to be the first brother to cry, and he didn't cry when he saw that I didn't cry." ”

"Then I got used to it."

Jiang Li was suddenly a little speechless: "You guys are used to it...... Quite chic. ”

Gu Qian led Jiang Li to sit down on the stone bench in the courtyard, and asked unhurriedly, "Is it cold?" ”

"It's not cold."

"Then stay here with me for a while."

"Uh-huh."

Jiang Li put Gu Qian's cold red hand in his palm to warm it, and said in a gentle and relieved tone: "You have a successful career now, and Auntie Quanxia will already feel very relieved." ”

"She should be more pleased that I married such a beautiful daughter-in-law than I have a successful career."

“……”

Jiang Li's face flushed, and she swallowed back the words she had prepared to comfort the other party in an instant, not knowing what to say for a while.

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Gu Qian smiled, he heard the little girl comforting himself, and gave a gentle smile in return.

"I'll go straight back later."

"The end of the year...... You really don't have to preside over it as the heir to the head of the family? ”

"No, you don't."