ALL NOVEL Chapter 258
Chapter 258: Zhongxie (Two More)
Chapter 258 Zhongxie (two more)
“Yo.” Gu Yanfei’s face was full of surprise, and he whispered softly, “Interesting.”
She just muttered to herself, her voice not loud.
But Gu Yuan’s ears were sharp, he heard it clearly, and asked, “What’s interesting?”
Gu Yanfei smiled but did not answer, bursting out a pair of shallow pear vortices, picked a bright yellow jasmine flower, and turned it casually between her fingers.
Gu Yuan just asked casually, not bothered about it, and immediately said to himself: “Sister, after the second room moves out, this house will be empty, I plan to lock half of the courtyard…”
The mansion they live in now was given by Emperor Taizu when he was awarded a title, and it is in accordance with the regulations of the marquis.
The emperor did not take back the mansion because of the seizure of the title. It was a gift for them to continue to live here, but they also had to make some attitudes.
Gu Yanfei knew that the eldest brother was just chatting with her, so he replied casually.
The two brothers and sisters talked together, talking about his plan to transfer Wutong’s father back to the mansion, and talking about Mammy Zhuang’s injury is almost healed, and he also planned to let her come to the mansion to help Gu Yanfei, Speaking of his plans to renovate Chenghui Garden a little…
The two walked all the way, talking all the way, until they came to the door of ceremony.
Gu Yuan has been busy with errands recently. Today, he took a half-day leave for the family separation. Now that everything is over, he plans to go back quickly.
I don’t want to, in addition to his beloved horse, a black lacquered flat-headed carriage was parked at the ceremonial gate.
Gu Yuan recognized at a glance that this was his sister’s carriage, and when he saw that she was going out, he smiled and said, “Sister, I’ll give you a ride.”
“Okay.” Gu Yanfei was not polite to his eldest brother at all, “Jiao Niang and I made an appointment to go to Shuijinglou to watch a play, and it happened to be on the way.”
Gu Yanfei and Wei Jiao Niang agreed that they would never go to Tianyin Pavilion again, so Wei Jiao Niang found a new theater, and the two made an appointment to go to the theater today.
Gu Yuan also knew Shuijinglou and said with a smile, “Shuijinglou sings well.”
Gu Yuan felt that a girl of her younger sister’s age should go out for a walk more often, instead of staying in Yuheng Garden every day, less fond of going out than her cat.
I don’t want to, as soon as the brother and sister’s carriage went out, they met Wei Jiaoniang’s personal maid.
“Magpie?” Gu Yanfei lifted a corner of the carriage curtain.
The magpie saluted Gu Yan flying in the carriage, and said a little embarrassedly: “Second girl Gu, the ninth girl in my family caught a cold last night, and was detained by Mrs. Shizi in the house, and she was not allowed to go out.”
“The girl asked the servant to come and talk to the second girl Gu, saying that I will invite you to play another day.”
Gu Yanfei was okay, so he said, “Then I’ll go see her.”
Gu Yuan gave his sister a ride, and the magpies followed behind in the carriage of the imperial government.
Although Gu Yanfei visited without notice, everyone in the palace knew that she was on good terms with her ninth girls, and the concierge greeted people respectfully.
The maid in green first led Gu Yanfei to the main courtyard to greet Mrs. Wei Guogong, and all the way led people to the quiet and elegant Zuoji room.
“Yan Fei, you really have a heart.” Mrs. Wei Guogong’s heroic face showed a hearty smile. When she smiled, a few wrinkles appeared at the corners of her eyes, softening her slightly tough outline.
She had already listened to the maid and knew that Gu Yanfei had come to visit Wei Jiaoniang on purpose.
Gu Yanfei smiled generously and said calmly, “I’ll come to see Jiao Niang, and I’ll also come to greet you.”
Not only Madam Wei was alone in the room, but there were also others.
Sitting at the bottom is a beautiful woman in her thirties, with a goose egg face, crescent eyebrows, willow leaf eyes, and a graceful appearance.
The beautiful woman wore a begonia red 10-patterned brocade robe, which was a frosted white hanging silk top with a stand-up collar, and a white long skirt with a pick-up line. A pair of dragonfly dotted lotus shoes were exposed below the skirt, and the whole person was elegant and noble.
In addition to the beautiful woman, there are also two children, a boy and a girl, both of whom are six or seven years old. Both children are fair-skinned, pink and jade-cut, very beautiful, but their personalities are very different. The boy is arrogant and the girl is quiet. .
“Yan Fei, this is Jiao Niang’s twelve aunts, you haven’t seen it yet…” Mrs. Wei Guogong smiled and introduced the two parties.
Only then did Gu Yanfei know that this extravagant and beautiful woman was the youngest sister of Duke Wei, Mrs. Wei Wan of Ji’an Hou.
And this pair of children is a pair of twins under Mrs. Hou’s knees, named Xu Luo and Xu Yao.
After Gu Yanfei greeted Wei Wan, the pair of dragon and phoenix also stepped forward, shoulder to shoulder, and gave Gu Yanfei a salute.
The beautiful dragon and phoenix fetuses are about four or five similar. They are dressed in aqua blue clothes.
Gu Yanfei smiled and put a purse with golden melon seeds as a greeting gift for the twins. The girl said “Thank you, sister”, and took it obediently. The boy pursed his lips and silently reached out to take the purse.
From his wide cuffs, Gu Yanfei could see the blood-red scars on his fair wrists, like whip marks and imprints like iron chains, which disappeared deep into the cuffs.
Gu Yanfei glanced at Xu Luo twice, her delicate eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and she quickly looked away as if nothing had happened.
Mrs. Wei Guogong liked Gu Yanfei very much, took her hand with a smile and said: “Yan Fei, don’t worry, Jiao Niang is fine, it’s just the wind blowing last night and contracting the cold.”
“Tell me about her later, it’s only the first month of the month, and she doesn’t close the window when she sleeps at night.”
Mrs. Wei Guogong teased her granddaughter a few times, and left Gu Yanfei to talk for a while before ordering the maid to take Gu Yanfei to Wei Jiaoniang in person.
After Gu Yan flew away, Wei Wan asked Mrs. Wei Guogong a little excitedly and said, “Sister-in-law, I heard that my eldest brother vomited blood in Tianyin Pavilion last time, and this second girl was also saved by Gu Er girl, right?”
Her eyes were exceptionally bright, and she had also heard about Gu Yanfei saving the eldest princess at Chengtianmen, but she didn’t expect that this second girl was so young, and she wasn’t up to the age of 笄, so she couldn’t believe it for a while.
“Yeah.” Mrs. Wei Guogong nodded and said with admiration, “Yan Fei is a good person, and she has an open mind. She deserves to be the daughter of a general.”
Wei Wan thought about it, looked at the boy who was sitting next to him and played Jiu Lianhuan, and asked in a low voice, “Sister-in-law, do you want me to ask Second Lady Gu to show Brother Luo?”
Xu Luo played Jiu Lianhuan with her head down, Xu Yao leaned beside her brother to watch him play, and asked him flatteringly, “Brother, do you want candied fruit?”
Xu Luo, as if he had never heard of it, played with his Jiulianhuan by himself.
Mrs. Wei Guogong frowned, stared at Xu Luo for a while, but also lowered her voice, leaned into Wei Wan’s ear and said, “Is brother Luo okay?”
“It’s not good.” Wei Wan shook her head frowningly, the corners of her eyes were slightly red, “And it’s even worse, I look like I’ve hit an evil… I can’t sleep for several nights.”
Wei Wan frowned more and more the more she spoke, and rubbed the handkerchief unconsciously with both hands.
“You said it earlier, you just asked Yan Fei to help Brother Luo take a look.” Mrs. Wei Guogong also showed a worried look.
This little sister-in-law has been married to the Marquis of Ji’an for many years, and she has only this pair of children under her knees. Naturally, she regards this only son-in-law as a treasure.
“…” Wei Wan looked outside hesitantly, feeling a little remorse in her heart.
Mrs. Wei Guogong clapped her hand for fear of her, and said softly, “In a moment, let’s go to Jiao Niang’s place together.”
“However, Yan Fei is a guest. If Yan Fei is unhappy, don’t force it. Next time, I and Jiao Niang will accompany you to visit the house in person.”
Wei Wan was grown up by Mrs. Wei Guogong, who said she was an aunt, but in fact she has a bit of a mother-in-law’s affection. She was always convinced by what the eldest sister said, and answered repeatedly: “Don’t worry, sister-in-law, I know. .”
Mrs. Wei Guogong instructed Mammy to hurry up and prepare some refreshments that the girls loved to eat.
When the refreshment came, the sister-in-law and sister-in-law took the food box and the twins, and went to Wei Jiao Niang’s yard surrounded by the servants and maids.
The maid hurriedly ran to report, there was laughter and laughter in the inner room, and the two congenial girls gathered together, and there were endless things to say.
As Mrs. Wei Guogong said, Wei Jiao Niang just suffered a little cold at night, and she was in good spirits. She kept talking like a sparrow:
“…This book is so wonderful. I wanted to sleep after watching it for an hour longer, but I accidentally saw the time when the **** crowing.”
“Yan Fei, do you want to watch it? You can take it back and watch it slowly.”
“I still have a shelf full of books here, you can choose and take whatever you want.”
Wei Jiaoniang said boldly, she just wished Gu Yanfei would remove all these scriptures, thinking that next time they could chat about these scriptures she liked.
At this moment, the maid came in with a curtain and told that Mrs. Wei Guogong and the others were coming.
Wei Jiao Niang was slightly taken aback, a little surprised how the grandmother and the twelve aunts came.
Mrs. Wei Guogong let the maid serve the refreshments she prepared.
Knowing that a distinguished guest came to the kitchen, I chose a petal-shaped plate, and each “petal” was filled with the same delicate desserts, tuckahoe cake, jujube cake, nest sugar, dragon beard cake, iced rice cake, flower cake, sweet-scented osmanthus Cake and so on, put a full table.
Wei Jiao Niang greeted Gu Yanfei for the dessert, telling her which is crispy, which is sweet, which is soft and waxy, which is salty…
After Gu Yanfei had eaten some snacks, Mrs. Wei Guogong asked Xu Yao to be carried to the next room to play, and this was the meaning:
“Yan Fei, my sister-in-law has this pair of direct-born sons and daughters under her knees, and treats them like treasures. Recently, brother Luo has also been caught up in something, seems to have fallen into evil, I would like to ask you to help me take a look…”
Mrs. Wei Guo only said this, and then she motioned Wei Wan with her eyes to speak.
Wei Wan’s brows were twisted into knots, and she said solemnly: “He doesn’t know where he got the ‘dirty stuff’, and his back… hey!”
“Brother Luo, come here.” She simply called her eldest son, Xu Luo, and ordered the nurse to help him undress.
The nurse carefully loosened his outer robe a little, and pulled down the robe and middle shirt, revealing his thin back.
The boy’s fair back was covered with a large blood-red scar, shaped like a grimacing, twisted face, occupying most of his back.
The scar was as red as blood, as if the skin had fallen off in large swaths, revealing the flesh and blood underneath. When the boy breathed, his back rose and fell, and the blue blood vessels under the skin were faintly bulging…
(end of this chapter)