A month ago.
Jiangnan Mucheng, Baili Mountain Villa.
Just after the winter, the willow trees by the lake sucked tender green sprouts early, swallows shuttled between them, and the spring flowers also bloomed in bright colors, set off against the turquoise lake water, and full of spring.
Taking off the heavy winter clothes, Gu Qingman felt that the whole person was a lot easier. Recently, Zhuangli is very lively because young owner Du Yihong is coming back.
Originally, this was not a big deal. People who practiced martial arts often walked on the rivers and lakes. It was commonplace not to return home for a month or two, but this time was different. The big gangs of the head and face went to gather together, nominally for a feast, but when the people gathered together, it was inevitable that they would learn skills and compete for their strengths, which would also make them famous. It is a pity that after the Spring Festival, the owner Du Yunsheng was infected with the cold and has not improved. After receiving the invitation, thinking again and again, he decided to let Du Yihong attend his father.
Du Yunsheng knows his own baby son very well, and he is a leader in the family. He is regarded as a leader among the family’s sons. He represents Baili Mountain Villa and will not bury the reputation of Baili Mountain Villa.
As expected, Du Yihong did not return to Zhuang, and then the news came back that he was among the peers in the fortress, who was the best at martial arts, and was the best in a time.
Therefore, two days before Du Yihong returned to Zhuang, Zhuang Zhong began to prepare.
Du Yunsheng is even more pleased with his mouth closed, and the spirit of happy events is refreshing, and the wind and cold will naturally heal without cure.
Of course, Gu Qingman was also happy. She didn’t care what remarkable achievement Du Yihong had made outside. She was just happy for his return.
Before the sky was dark, Gu Qingman wanted to go to the garden to see what other flowers were blooming. He could pick them up and put them in a vase. When Du Yihong came back, he could see.
Just past the door of the flower hall, Gu Qingman glanced and saw that Ding Xuewei in the hall was accompanying her baby nephew Ding Wan picking clothes, while picking and discussing embroidery patterns with the embroidered mother in Zhuangli.
Gu Qingman didn’t take it seriously, the two aunts and nephews had always been like this. Anyway, such things as cutting new clothes will never have her share. .
Just wanting to bypass the flower hall and go back to the garden, Ding Xuewei found her and shouted: “Qingman, you come.”
Gu Qingman heard the words and stepped into the flower hall obediently, standing sideways obediently: “Aunt Ding, what are you doing to me?”
Today, she is in a good mood, no matter what she says, she is not an accountant.
Ding Xuewei lazily put the material on the table, took the white chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea served by the maid, and sat on the carved wooden chair. The white hands gently lifted the tea cup lid. She is only about 40 years old this year. The rich and superior life makes her still look young, her skin is delicate and white, but her eyebrows are sharp and sharp, and she is a smart and calculated face. She lowered her eyebrows, blew the chrysanthemum floating on the tea surface, and took a sip, then slowly said: “Qingman, you also pick a piece of material, let the master make a spring shirt for you?”
Gu Qingman was stunned. Ding Wanru, who had been comparing the suits, did not say anything, but kept his head down to continue picking.
Ding Xuewei smiled, and looked at the blue-grey dress on Gu Qingman’s body: “Girls’ family, taking advantage of the good old age, should wear some bright clothes, otherwise would it not disappoint the youth? I ’m coming back, this time with good news, you ’re wearing such a gray-faced face, and then I will blame me again. ”
As it turned out, Gu Qingman tickled the corner of his lips disdainfully. It turned out that he would kindly invite her to make new clothes together because she was afraid of her son’s blame.
Ding Wan, who had been silent for a while, said like seeing her aunt, and could not help raising her head, pointing at the few pieces of satin she had picked on the table, and spoke angrily: “Can you choose the same material as me, well, that The pieces on the side are ready to be rewarded to Green Lake. Let you pick them first, and then pick the remaining ones and reward them.
Gu Qingman glanced at the corners of the pieces of fabric that were no longer fashionable, all of which were left over from last year. She smiled at Ding Xuewei and blessed her body gently: “Aunt Ding, I don’t need new Yi, brother Yihong is accustomed to my appearance. I ’m afraid I do n’t like it.
“What are you talking about?” Ding Xuewei’s face changed: “It seems that we have been abusing you all these years, but you talk about it. What’s wrong with what you eat in these years? We But it’s all when you are being supported by the young lady, not to mention that one Hongping day always gives you this and that. After so many years in Zhuangli, what have you missed and what you lacked? “
“Auntie Ding, where do you want to go?” Gu Qingman smiled with curly eyes: “In these years, your kindness to me, Qing Man is remembered in my heart, Qing Man has been entrusted to you and Duber since the age of seven. Take care of it, rebuild it, how dare you still feel dissatisfied? It ’s just that I do n’t need new clothes because I do n’t lack anything. I ’ve got your heart, but I really do n’t need to make new clothes. “
Ding Xuewei looked at Gu Qingman’s smiling smile, and knew that she wasn’t telling the truth, but let these few words go back. It was inevitable that the tea cup was heavily placed on the table.
“Auntie Ding, if you have nothing else to do, I will say goodbye first.” Gu Qingman’s eyebrows were bent, and all thoughts of ringworm were covered up very well: “I’m going down.”
Ding Xuewei watched Gu Qingman straighten his back, turned around and walked out, his face covered with clouds, the good mood just now swept away.
“This girl has such a flattering personality. She wants to be my daughter-in-law in the future. She is also worthy.”
From ancient times to the present, which daughter-in-law is not respectful to her mother-in-law, but she is partial to her. Although she smiles while speaking, there is always a touch of indifference.
“Aunt.” Ding Wanru quietly rubbed over and stood next to Ding Xuewei, hammering her shoulders in favor of her: “You wouldn’t really let her come in to be your daughter-in-law?”
“Of course I don’t want to, otherwise why have you brought you up with you since childhood?” Ding Xuewei sighed: “But your stubborn uncle can’t make sense. You have to keep the marriage contract that year. After more than ten years of death, what count can the marriage contract count? She thought she was the old lady of the year? “
Ding Wanru heard, and secretly rejoiced in her heart, she gently pulled the aunt’s sleeve, like a pleading: “Aunt, I don’t want to marry in to be a concubine, let this cheap girl step on top of me.”
“You thought, but Yihong had to be willing to marry you!” Ding Xuewei blurted out, not long ago, she and her son blew out the air and said that she wanted to marry his cousin to be a flat wife and sit down with Gu Qingman Who knew that her son with one rib had rejected it at the time, and he said that it was not a flat wife, even a concubine, and he could not succeed. He would only marry a wife of Gu Qingman in his life, and persuaded her to dispel this idea earlier, So as not to delay the life-long happiness.
Ding Wanru heard it, her face was pale, and her beautiful apricot eyes were covered with a layer of water mist: “Aunt? Does he look like my cousin? Is he not good enough?”
Looking at Ding Wanru like this, Ding Xuewei was uncomfortable. Although her niece, her martial arts were not outstanding, but she had won her favor since she was a child. She wanted to let her amiable person be her daughter-in-law , Ding Wanru is the most suitable candidate. In Baili Mountain Villa, although she was the only hostess, her son was more than one. Before Du Yunsheng married her, there was a lover who had been in love for many years. Because of her humble status, she was interfered by her elders and she eventually complied. The parents ordered to marry themselves as a wife. Originally thinking about welcoming the outside man a few years after marriage, she was also very blessed. Not long after Yihong was born, she was also on the day of birth. He suffered a difficult night after a rainy night, struggling to give birth to a son one night after another, and Du Yunsheng was heartbroken. He named his youngest son Du Nianhuang and hugged him into the house. It is a wild and unruly character. For most of the year, he is not in the village, wandering around, and even Du Yunsheng can’t take him.
And this matter has become a thorn in Ding Xuewei’s heart. Fortunately, his son is struggling, and he is the eldest son. The position of the young owner is stable, but for her status in the house, these years She continued to attract the power of her family to help Baili Mountain Villa and her son establish a reputation on the rivers and lakes, and everything made her very satisfied, but her son’s family matter had been in her heart for many years.
In any case, she was not willing to let Gu Qingman’s declining family, no one wanted to be her daughter-in-law.
Gu Qingman left the flower hall and went to the back garden alone.
The original good mood, I don’t know why, shrouded a light haze.
She knows that she is not treated very much in Zhuang, especially Ding Xuewei, who is kind on the surface, but that kind of politeness is always uncomfortable, and most people are selected by Ding Xuewei, naturally What she looked at was the face of the hostess, and she was just a superficial kung fu for her “miss” who was not a real name.
Gu Qingman never cares about his servants, but for Ding Xuewei, his future mother-in-law, she always saves three points of indifference, which makes the relationship between the two people more alienated.
Only Dubo, who would be free to ask about her diet and daily life, would always guide and urge her to practice martial arts. Even if she didn’t have time, she would tell Zhuangli’s disciples to teach her. However, although Du Bo treated her well, after all, he was the master of a village, and sometimes, he was always powerless.
Gu Qingman saw that the flowers in the garden were still full of flowers, and slowly walked into an apricot forest. At this time, it was the time when the apricot blossoms were blooming. The white and pink flowers were competing to open, like floating between the branches. The soft clouds, the flowers and shadows among the clusters, and the dark fragrance floating, make this little Xinglin a white world like a dream.
