Chapter 11

After looking around, Chen saw Gu Qingzhu and Gu Qingxue sitting together. He smiled with relief and asked:

"What are you playing together?"

As he spoke, he stretched out a hand to Gu Qingzhu. Gu Qingzhu got up and helped her, and replied with a smile: "Senior brother is playing with the Nine Rings. He said that the eldest brother can untie four rings, which is the most amazing. I feel a little itchy, so I took it over to understand. Grandma, look, I have untie all the nine rings."

Gu Qingzhu's tone was very proud, like a thirteen-year-old girl should have. She was beautiful, and her smile made people feel even sweet and pretty. Chen looked at her eldest granddaughter and was happy and nodded repeatedly: "It's not bad, we Wanwan are smart."

Wanwan is Gu Qingzhu's nickname. Usually only Shen and Chen will call her like this. Shen is no longer there. Chen's shouting like this makes Gu Qingzhu feel that it is precious and becomes more and more cute. She hugged Chen's arm and shouted like a coquettish: "Grandma."

Chen was happy. Their uncle's family was sorry for the Shen family. After Shen married into the house, she had not had a good life. She was helpless and gave birth to a confused and pedantic son. She felt that the Shen family had no talent and knowledge. Shen was just a show of being a fictional in her heart. Instead, she thought that Qin, who was in a poor family, was a well-educated and talented woman.

After Shen died, the two of them planned to send Qingzhu to the farm. Qingzhu lost her mother at that time and was struggling in the mansion all day long. If she continued to stay in the mansion, it would only make her father even more hated. It would be a solution to send her to the farm to calm down.

Now it seems that it is right to send her out to live in the village for a while, at least she has grown up a little and no longer be as nonsense as before. As long as she doesn't make a fuss, Chen will have a way to support her.

Qin could not bear to behave like Gu Qingzhu in front of the old lady and asked the maids to serve the food. Wenwan smiled and said, "It's time to serve the food, the old lady should take her seat."

Chen patted Gu Qingzhu's back of his hand, and Gu Zhiyuan helped him sit on the head of the host's seat. Gu Zhiyuan sat down on her left hand. Qin gave a wink at Gu Hengzhi, and Gu Hengzhi came to Chen's right hand. Just as he was about to sit down, Chen shouted: "Scholar, come and sit here."

Gu Qingxue was stunned. Gu Hengzhi, who had just lifted the corner of his robe to sit down, was also stunned. He looked at Qin at a loss. Qin stood behind Gu Zhiyuan and gently pulled Gu Zhiyuan's clothes. Gu Zhiyuan smiled at Chen and said, "Mom, you are not the eldest grandson who has always been sitting next to you. Hengzhi..."

Before Gu Zhiyuan finished speaking, Chen spoke, with a strong and powerful voice: "Hengzhi is a concubine, and the junior brother is the legitimate son. My uncle's mansion only recognizes the wife who carried back from the eighth sedan chair. Those who came in from the small door and the side door of the side door, no matter how much they lifted, they would be a concubine. Do not mess with the rules."

Qin's face was pale, and Gu Zhiyuan's face was not very good-looking, but he was filial and would not argue with Chen in person. When it comes to his correcting Qin, his mother Chen was not very happy. If she was quarreling with her in person for this, I was afraid that her mother would be even more angry. Her mother's birthday was tomorrow, and she would always be happy today.

Even if Qin pulled his clothes behind him, Gu Zhiyuan pretended that he didn't feel anything. He looked at Gu Qingxue, who was incompetent: "Come and sit down."

Gu Qingxue then lowered his head and went over. When Shen was there, the position on the right side of Chen was Shen's. After Shen passed away, the Gu family had not sat together so well for dinner. This was the first time today.

After Gu Qingxue sat down, Gu Hengzhi naturally had to sit next to each other. Unexpectedly, Chen slapped the table again: "That was Wanwan sitting."

The smile on Gu Hengzhi's face was almost gone, so he forced himself to retreat one more time. Qin Shi's face turned pale and couldn't help pinching Gu Zhiyuan's back. Gu Zhiyuan frowned and turned to glar at her. Qin Shi turned around and took a dish from the maid's hand, took a deep breath, and quickly regained her smile:

"It's rare to reunite the family today, and I have to respect the elderly lady later."

After suffering a loss, Gu Zhiyuan was very satisfied with his recovery skills. He felt that this was a woman who had studied. She was polite and generous, and was much better than Shen, who loved to make a little girl. When Qin had arranged to sit next to him, Gu Zhiyuan took the initiative to pick up two dishes for her and drank a glass of wine with her alone, which was considered comfort.

Gu Qingzhu was eating silently, but she recalled her previous life. Two years after Qin was promoted, she actually asked Gu Zhiyuan to carry her sedan chair with the etiquette of a wife. At that time, she didn't understand why Qin did this, but now she understood that the less she had, the more she cared about.

She came in from a small door of the Bo Mansion in a sedan chair, without a wedding hall, and there was no wedding night. It was only fifteen days after entering the door that Gu Zhiyuan was allowed to come to her room. This concubine had been working as a fifteen years. In these fifteen years, she must have heard of this "insult" countless times, which made her feel that even if she was properly promoted, she would still be inferior after all.

Qin took Shen's dowry and managed the whole family of Bo's mansion in an orderly manner, so that Gu Zhiyuan could rely on her and rely on her again. Even though the request made was a bit inappropriate, it finally met her, which was considered a commendation for Qin's mansion to manage Bo's mansion.

After Gu Qingzhu took Shen's dowry back, the turnover of the uncle's mansion was not so exciting. She had heard Gu Zhiyuan get angry with Qin more than once. Why are you going back more and more? What about your ability? Look at what the Bo's mansion has become now...

Without Shen's dowry, all the expenses in the Bo Mansion had to be taken from the Bo Mansion's account. The Bo Mansion had some family property, but in front of Shen's dowry, it was just a icing on the cake. However, Qin was used to using it with big hands and feet. Everything in the mansion was excellent, and he couldn't stop it for a while and he was unable to make up for it every month. The shopkeepers of the Gu family often came to the mansion to cry and said that if they didn't make up for the money, the shop would collapse.

During those years, Qin's life was not easy. People who forced her to commit suicide every day, almost forcing her to hang herself. Gu Zhiyuan had no choice but to open a private warehouse to fill in the vacancy for her. After that, Qin became much more low-key.

Gu Qingzhu thought she was honest now, and she was busy with the affairs of the Marquis of Wu'an, so she didn't go to kill everyone. Who would have thought that Qin did not learn his lesson at all, but changed from open to darkness to Fang'er to get people around Qi Xuan. Qi Xuan was already out of control with Gu Qingzhu. Seeing that her stepmother wanted to embarrass Gu Qingzhu, she took the trick and refused to refuse everyone. One by one, one by one, and eighty percent of them were Qin's hands.

After entering the door, it is one thing for Qi Xuan to ask for those concubines, and it is another thing for Gu Qingzhu to feel uncomfortable or not.

At first, Gu Qingzhu didn't know that those concubines were found by Qin, and thought that Qi Xuan had searched them outside and disgusted her. Until Qi Xuan had an accident, those concubines who were not even broken cried to her, and did not want to waste their innocent bodies on a person with no future. They all proposed to leave. Only then did they cry out one by one to let Gu Qingzhu know.

At that time, she had already died of Qi Xuan and had no desire to revenge against Qin. Thinking about the time when she and Qi Xuan were separated from Jing, I was afraid that the person who was happiest was Qin.

Gu Qingzhu always felt that she was a smart person, but what she did in her previous life was just smart on the surface, but in fact she was still messy. After all, she was too worried and Qi Xuan had the weakness. Even if others didn't do anything, she could only let Qi Xuan take action, and she would be hit by pieces, let alone anything else.

Fortunately, in this life, she will no longer have to be led by Qi Xuan. No one can hurt her again.

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Chen is the second-rank imperial wife and the old lady of Zhongping Bo Mansion. She has a unique position in Bo Mansion. Because of the death of his mistress Shen, Bo Mansion has not held any wedding events for more than a year. This is the first banquet for Bo Mansion to open the door to welcome guests. Naturally, all aspects are not allowed to be casual. Gu Zhiyuan had already ordered it to be lively and beautiful.

So from a few days ago, the uncle's mansion was decorated with lights and colorful outside the mansion, which was festive and lively. Early in the morning, Gu Zhiyuan went to pay tribute to Chen, and the children in the mansion also sent their own gifts to celebrate Chen's birthday before the guests came to the mansion.

Gu Hengzhi gave Chen a "Hundred Years of Life" that he wrote. Today, Gu Qingxue was wearing a dark blue background with dark auspicious cloud patterns. He still looked low-key but not very good, but his clothes were very textured. It made people know that it was a good material at a glance. A piece of warm mutton fat jade hung around his waist. Gu Qingxue, who had been dressed up, looked less energetic than usual. He first called the people in the mansion and looked at him with admiration.

The clothes and accessories were all taken to Anchangyuan after dinner last night. Gu Qingzhu ordered Hongqu to take them to Anchangyuan. Without anything else, Hongqu put down the clothes and left. Gu Qingxue didn't want to accept Gu Qingzhu's kindness. He was the most unpromising person in the mansion. No matter how well he was dressed, he could not change this fact. When he tossed and turned, he took out the nine untied rings from under the pillow and looked at them again. After getting up in the morning, the servant took two sets of ordinary clothes for him to choose. He subconsciously glanced at the set that Gu Qingzhu gave him.

In addition to clothes, Gu Qingzhu also gave him a very large brocade box. The brocade box is made of wood and is layered in it, very delicate. The box contains some pastries, not for him. There is a piece of paper on it, which says: Gifts to the old lady, sixteen authentic Yangzhou dim sum.

Gu Qingxue originally sent someone to inquire about what Gu Hengzhi gave him. He couldn't write the Centennial Picture, and his handwriting was not as good as Gu Hengzhi's. He couldn't imitate it, so he could only give something casually. Unexpectedly, his elder sister actually asked him to give him snacks, and he was not so smart.

This was Gu Qingxue's psychological activity before giving snacks. But when he opened the lid of the brocade box and told Chen that it was Yangzhou snacks, Chen was particularly surprised. Among the many gifts, only people brought his share to see.

After reading it, I still commented: "It's not bad, it's all very authentic."

Everyone surrounded him and followed Chen to praise him, especially Gu Zhiyuan. Seeing that his mother was happy, he rarely smiled at Gu Qingxue and patted Gu Qingxue on the shoulder with encouragement.
Chapter completed!