pampering wife

Chapter 38

Thinking about it further, when Mrs. Gu brought her into the mansion, couldn't she have imagined the current situation?She is in charge of the affairs of the mansion, doesn't she know about these groundless speculations?But Mrs. Gu didn't say a word about it, she didn't mention her past marriage contract, she didn't mention her future plans, she just said that she wanted to do her duty as an aunt and take good care of her.Who believes this kind of rhetoric?
Qingmei picks at the bamboo tube of the brush, sneering imperceptibly.

Her aunt is really interesting.But this aunt was the closest person to my mother during her lifetime. Although Qingmei had a grudge against her, she still wanted to be closer in her heart. At this time, her feelings were inevitably complicated.

After a drowsy lecture, Mr. Zhang tapped the ruler and asked the two to copy the content of today's explanation twice, so that they could figure it out thoroughly, and then went out with the help of crutches. Naturally, someone would take him back to his residence.

On the other side, Qingmei rubbed her drowsy temples, and let Luzhu pick up her pen and ink.She and Gu Hanying left the Xinghua Pavilion together, and the cold wind came in outside, which refreshed her spirit a little.

It is cold in winter, and the water in the small moon-shaped lake next to the Xinghua Pavilion is cold and icy. On the opposite side of the lake is a bright red plum grove.Gu Hanying pointed to Meilin and said: "The Ruixue Pavilion that will be used tomorrow is just behind that piece of Meilin, and the scenery is very nice."

Qingmei looked at Hongmei in the distance, thinking that if there was a poetry meeting tomorrow, it would be ugly for her to escape temporarily, so it would be better to tell Gu Ronghua in advance so that she would not make things difficult.What's more, Gu Ronghua should arrange the drinks for the girls' banquet tomorrow, and whether the fruit wine can be revealed depends on her arrangement.

After thinking about it, she went out of the small round gate of the Lianli tree, Gu Hanying went to her residence by herself, and Qingmei took the green pearl to the Liuli courtyard.When passing through an arch of hanging flowers, one walks onto another curved corridor. Walking along this curved corridor, one can reach Jinxiu Pavilion where Gu Ronghua lives after passing through several water pavilions.

There is a large flower garden outside the Jinxiu Pavilion. At this time, there are only dead branches and leaves in the flower garden, covered by snow.Next to the flower garden is a rockery built with strange rocks, and next to it are several tall cedar trees, whose lush branches and leaves are piled up like a green tower, lining the rockery with white snow.

Because Gu Ronghua didn't like to be disturbed by others, idle servants rarely came here, so the outside of Jinxiu Pavilion was extremely clean and no one was around.

Qingmei and Lvzhu walked slowly along the cobblestone path cleared of snow. When they passed the rockery, they saw the strange rocks and the winding cave, which was very interesting.

She was about to stop and take a closer look, but heard a low voice: "Is the second brother planning to have a divorce with mother?" The tone was urgent and quite resentful, but it was Gu Ronghua's voice.

Qingmei was taken aback when she heard the words, and then heard Gu Changqing's cold voice: "It's her treachery first, how can I blame me." Then Gu Ronghua replied angrily: "It was because of her family's sudden change. How can I let you marry the daughter of a criminal minister? It's really unreasonable for you to quarrel with your mother because of this!"

The voices of the two brothers and sisters arguing were getting closer and closer, as if they were coming from the other side of the rockery.Qingmei overheard the conversation, she couldn't help being a little embarrassed, she looked at Luzhu behind her, she was looking down at her toes as if she hadn't heard it, Qingmei was embarrassed, and didn't know whether to advance or retreat.

After Qingmei hesitated for a moment, Gu Changqing's brother and sister had already reached the corner. Gu Changqing's voice was quite severe: "General Qu is an unjust case, you know this! Not only can we not help him clear up his grievances, but we actually..." The voice stopped abruptly, He looked at Qingmei standing not far away, and was stunned.

Gu Ronghua who came after him didn't expect Qingmei to come here, he was taken aback for a moment, and then gave Qingmei a look, obviously resentful towards her.

Qingmei felt embarrassed in her heart, and now she finally understood where Gu Ronghua's neglect of her came from - Gu Changqing's mother and son had a rift because of her, how could Gu Ronghua not complain to her?
She looked at Luzhu who was silently pretending not to exist behind her, put away the green silk umbrella, gritted her teeth and smiled slightly: "Big sister, I was just looking for you." Then she saluted Gu Changqing and said: "Second brother."

Gu Changqing said "um", with a somewhat unnatural expression on his face, he finally didn't say anything more when he saw Qingmei's smile, and only said to Gu Ronghua: "Since you have something to say, I'll go ahead." After finishing speaking, he nodded at Qingmei Nodding his head, he strode away.

Qingmei, who was left behind, knew that Gu Ronghua was very resentful towards her at this time, but she still had to bite the bullet and walked up and said, "Big sister."

Gu Ronghua stood still, but his eyes fell on Qingmei, with a complicated expression on his face.

A breeze blew through the rockery, and the snow on the pine branches floated over. It was a little cold when it fell on the cheeks. The two sisters stood in the snow, a white brocade cloak and a silver red cloak, relatively speechless.

After being quiet for a while, Qingmei regretted rushing to Jinxiu Pavilion today, and was thinking about what to say, when she saw a figure turning from behind the rockery, it was Yan'er, the little maid beside Gu Ronghua.She handed a hand stove wrapped in a emerald blue satin crabapple bag to Gu Ronghua's hand, and said, "Why are you standing in the snow, girl, be careful of catching a cold."

Gu Ronghua took the hand stove, and said casually: "Why are you so slow to ask you to get a hand stove?" He walked towards Qingmei, "What do you want from me, tell me." When passing by Qingmei, he didn't stop walking, and walked straight forward.

Seeing that her attitude remained indifferent, Qingmei had no choice but to ask Luzhu to follow her with an umbrella.

(End of this chapter)