Chapter 1: Banquet (1)
The summer of the 33rd year of Taiyuan.
General Gu Fuguo's Mansion.
After years of development, Xie Yuanniang will go to the small lake in Yusongju's backyard to cool off every day. She married into the Gu Mansion at the age of fifteen. She is now thirty-three years old and has never changed her habit for eighteen years.
Today, when I walked to the rockery, I heard a voice coming from behind the rockery, "... The Gu family has a century-old family, attaching importance to reputation. If she hadn't planned on me and rumors of private acceptance came out, how could I marry her?"
"Even if she married into the mansion, she would serve her mother every day, and would learn the rules and etiquette again, she would not erase the fact that she planned to marry into the Gu Mansion."
"It is a routine to go to her yard on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. When she went to her yard a few nights ago, she kept people in front of the children. She couldn't be treated as children's faces. After all, the rules of the Gu family were still there, and she didn't touch her at night. You shouldn't be able to eat this jealousy, right?"
"Marry her and enter the house, I will carry you into the house the next day. For more than ten years, your stomach has not moved. I just hope that you will get pregnant with our child as soon as possible. I will recognize you as your own child."
The woman who had been silent said softly, "What about her? Where is her two children? The eldest young master and young man were so enamored with Tanhua. How can you not like it?"
It turned out that the person who spoke behind the rockery was Gu Tingzhi, who had just been promoted to General of the Supplementary State, and his concubine Min.
"Let her give birth to the eldest son and the second son is just a hundred years of rules of the Gu clan. Do you think I have taught those two children wholeheartedly? It is also the result of my uncle unwilling to destroy the virtues passed down by Gu's century-old family and bringing the two children to their side to teach."
The handkerchief in Xie Yuanniang's hand was slowly clenched from behind the rockery. She knew that she had snatched Gu Tingzhi from her sister, so she got this marriage. Gu Tingzhi looked down on her and finally accepted her fate. She had never even had anything to do with Gu Tingzhi, and she had never spoken loudly with dignified and virtuously.
But today when Xie Yuanniang heard such words, her head was filled with fire.
Gu Tingzhi looked like a man, but he was a little man full of feces running around.
He obviously wanted to stay in the main courtyard to rest, but turned around and pushed her. Is she like a woman like a wolf or a tiger? Even if Xie Yuanniang is such a person, he is a dignified general of the State and could not defeat her a woman in the inner house?
This is secondly. Let’s talk about staying in her wife’s yard for many years, Gu Tingzhi seemed to be a thief. It was difficult to tell the outside world about the matter in the room. Xie Yuanniang held back her anger and wanted to keep the servants in the yard tightened her mouth.
Besides, Gu Tingzhi is now, and he stayed like a young man who had never met a woman before. He hurriedly hugged her and went to bed until dawn before he could stop. He had to pretend to be vegetarian in front of her, the wife.
If Xie Yuanniang wasted her time until now, her final dignity would be the matter. At this time, Gu Tingzhi turned the black and white upside down.
Too much bullying!
The anger burst out at this moment made Xie Yuanniang abandon the self-cultivation that she had learned with her mother-in-law for many years. After a few steps to the rockery, she pointed and scolded, "Fuck it, it's nonsense! Gu Tingzhi, you are the one who makes money to buy a coffin and pretends to be your grandfather."
This is not the popular young lady in Jinling City who is gentle and timid. It can be seen that the arrogant and willful Xie Er came back to life.
"Madam." Min seemed to be frightened, and her body was soft in Gu Tingzhi's arms.
Gu Tingzhi's handsome face was closed, and his usual coldness and nobleness disappeared without a trace, with shock... a hint of panic.
After Xie Yuanniang used all her strength to shout, she didn't want to watch the nauseating couple more, so she turned around and ran back.
She moved too fast, and everything was just a matter of moment.
While running, her mind was particularly clear. She remembered her arrogant look when she was a girl. After marrying Gu Ting, her guilt towards her family for Gu Tingzhi made her constantly change herself and ask everyone for forgiveness.
She was wrong, she had been wrong for too long, but fortunately she was not too late to wake up.
When she stopped, she realized that she had already run to the shore of the small lake without realizing it. The breeze blew, and it turned out to be a relaxation she had never experienced in the years of marriage to the Gu family.
Suddenly, a ray of gravity came from behind her. She had only had time to let out a low voice, and her whole body fell into the lake. The lake water surged up. She struggled hard, and through the lake water, she could still see the blue sky.
The sky was blue, and she didn't know how long it had been since she saw the sky.
She had just had the courage to face her new life and could not die here. Her struggle became stronger and stronger, but her body fell faster and faster, and her chest was suffocating until the lake water poured in from her mouth and nose. Her struggled movement slowed down, and finally stopped and let her body fall.
There was a low cry in his ears, and there was a gravity hammer in his chest. Xie Yuanniang forced to open her eyes. When she saw Gu Tingzhi's hysterical grief and her panic look of fear of loss, she couldn't help but sneer.
How could Gu Tingzhi be sad for her? It must be because she read it wrong.
She used all her strength and said, "I want to get married with you."
Finally she said it, her lips slightly raised her eyes.
She was bullied for eighteen years and finally turned around today. This is her style of Xie Er!
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In the fifteenth year of Taiyuan, spring.
Ten miles long dikes, willows pile up with smoke.
Spring has entered Jinling City in February. Outside a gate of the Shouchun County Prince's Mansion, there are carriages filled with carriages. The carriage in front is helped out with a beautifully dressed girl, and the carriages are driven away, and the carriages lined up behind continue to move forward.
This day was the host of Nanrong County, the county prince’s mansion.
The Prince's Mansion is extremely prominent in the capital city, with generations of accumulation, and the house passed down from ancestors has a century-old apricot flower forest, so no one knows the entire Jinling City. Being able to attend the banquet held by the Prince's Mansion is a symbol of identity.
In the carriage behind, Xie Yuanniang was still a little dull until the girl next to her called out a few times, raised her head, and her eyes were still confused.
"Girl, we are coming soon." The girl felt a little uncomfortable when she went out and took a nap in the carriage for a while. She woke up at this time and was still not very energetic, which made Mei a little worried. "Just just now, Mama Xu came over and said that the eldest girl was feeling uncomfortable and had returned home. Today, only the girl attended the banquet. When she met the county lord, she asked the girl to explain it.
"Lingmei, what time is the first time today?" Xie Yuanniang said her first sentence after waking up.
Her voice was a little hoarse, but it couldn't prevent her already gentle and nice voice.
"What's wrong with the girl? It's the Shangsi Festival on February 2nd (I changed it one month in advance, haha). The Lord of Nanrong County invited everyone to enjoy the apricot blossoms at the banquet in the mansion." Mei was surprised, but she still answered in a regular manner.
"Sister is sick?" Xie Yuanniang asked again.
Ling Mei replied, "It was said that it was a sudden headache that could not bear it. The person had already returned home."
Xie Yuanniang lowered her eyes and said nothing. After a long time, she didn't know what she thought of. She showed an unknown smile on her face, and she raised the corners of her lips, "So it's Daughter's Day, it's very good."
She Xie Er is back.
Yes, no matter what the reason, after falling into the water, she actually returned to the age of fifteen, which is very good.
Ling Mei smiled and said, "No, the county lord made a temporary banquet. I heard that most noble ladies in Jinling City were invited."
Xie Yuanniang smiled faintly.
The two beautiful girls in the Xie family have a very famous reputation. The sister is beautiful and beautiful, the sister is bright and charming, and the sister is talented. Xie Yuanniang always felt that it was normal to attend Princess Nanrong’s banquet. It was not until later that she realized that it was her arrogant and covered her eyes. Xie’s father was just a clan minister with a false position. In this capital city, there were powerful ministers everywhere. The Xie family could not even be ranked as a noble family. It was ridiculous that she had always been arrogant, but she didn’t know that she had always been a joke in the eyes of noble girls of the aristocratic family.
The curtain moved slightly, and the old lady lifted it up from outside, "Girl, here."
Xie Yuanniang helped Ling Mei's hand out of the carriage, and quietly introduced it to the inner courtyard from the prince's mansion. Xie Yuanniang did not look at it along the way, and raised her fingers with a generous and decent look. She was originally bright and charming. The second girl of the Xie family, who always did not value rules and etiquette, could make people see everyone's demeanor from her, so how could she not attract people's attention?
It was during the last life that the sisters of the Xie family realized that something happened to Xie’s father. Xie’s father was demoted from the third rank to the fifth rank, and the noble daughter became a daughter of a small family. No matter how talented she was, she was just a small family. The sisters of the Xie family were always pressing on the noble daughters in the capital. They all said that the wall was falling and everyone pushed them. They were ridiculed and ridiculed at the banquet.
Xie Yuanniang is also domineering. She started arguing with others in her previous life and turned against her. Sister Ren didn't stop her. Her behavior fell into the eyes of those noble families, so she was naturally too petty and her reputation plummeted.
Later, because he stole the marriage that he had given to his sister, his reputation was completely broken.
The woman who led the way directly led the person into the back garden of the Prince's Mansion. She said that the garden was not as good as a hill. Before she could enter the garden, she smelled the fragrance of flowers. When she walked past the arch, she looked like a sea of white flowers.
Xie Yuanniang was in a complicated mood. The phoenix that fell to the ground in her previous life was not as good as a chicken. This started from here, or in the eyes of others, she was always just a sparrow.
The apricot blossom forest is very big, especially when walking in it. The bluestone path under me is divided into forks from time to time. People are a little dazzled and don’t know which road leads to where it is. It seems that it is all the same, making people illusion that they have been spinning around in the same place.
Chapter completed!