Su Qi wore a pink jacket and a matching horse-faced skirt. She also wore a long, lake-green cotton jacket. Her hair was tied up in a traditional bun, still topped with a wooden hairpin.
However, on one side of her bun, she wore a velvet flower of the same style as the one on her clothes.
Dress neatly before going out.
Xiang He, who was waiting outside, was startled. "Madam, why don't you let this servant go in and serve you?"
"I've been doing this all by myself, so why would I need someone to wait on me? This won't form a reaction."
Xiang He's nose felt sore and she couldn't help muttering:
"It's all the fault of that indifferent dog emperor. He's causing Madam all this suffering. The master left the house, saying that Meng Lizheng had sent someone to call him over early in the morning. Wuya Wuji, Huang Xiaoshan, and Huang Dashan accompanied Dabao and Erbao into the village to play.
I took the initiative to put some malt sugar in the small purses they carried with them." Xiang He rambled on and on about what she had seen and heard that morning to Su Qi.
The Gu family on the north side of the stream had a fight yesterday.
The second and first branches of the Gu family fell out completely. Gu Wushen, from the first branch, decided to split up the family, taking his illegitimate son and concubine to live separately. He refused to live with Gu Beihan. Zhang Yunyu, reluctant to leave her son behind, decided to live in Gu Beihan's house.
The couple completely fell apart.
Su Qi raised her eyebrows, "Why don't you live with Gu Beihan? Isn't it the legitimate son and grandson who will bring honor to the family?"
"Don't mention it. I heard that the master has become a completely different person. He looks gloomy and doesn't say anything, just staring at people with his eyes. It's gloomy and scary to walk past him." Xiang He loved to ask about things in the Gu Mansion.
If you ask her about any gossip about the Gu family, she will definitely know.
She asked about it herself, but kept her mouth shut.
Others cannot pry any information out of her unless she is instructed to say something on purpose.
Xiang He curled her lips and snorted disdainfully, "The legitimate grandson is indeed diligent and willing to learn, but the legitimate son originally bought his position with money. What can he do to bring honor to his ancestors? When Xiao Liuzi was in the official office, he heard that the emperor had long wanted to clean up the Gu family.
It's just that our master is fighting in the northwest, so we've put it on hold. If the eldest master and the second wife had known what they did, they would have been in big trouble."
Su Qi raised an eyebrow and chuckled. After all, they were two families. They would have nothing to do with each other from now on. But people had to pay attention to Gu Jingru's movements.
After Su Qi finished breakfast, she left the yard.
Bai Zhi followed her, and the two of them first went to the north side of the stream. Su Qi wanted to go over and see Gu Xiaoyue and Gu Xiuming's mother and the others. They were kind people, so it would be nice to have them work with her in the future.
Far away.
I saw a few thatched huts on the north side of the stream.
Gu Xiuming and his friends were chopping bamboo in the open space, while many other families were busy at work. The only thatched hut still standing was probably Gu Beihan's.
Gu Beihan sat by the door, basking in the sun, his eyes fixed on the people working. His face was expressionless, leaving no one to guess what he was thinking. His occasional twitch of the corner of his mouth sent a chill down one's spine.
Su Qi didn't see Gu Wushen and Zhang Yunyu, nor did she see Fang Xiaoya and Gu Jingru. Only Gu Jingfeng was sitting on a rock not far away, reading a book intently.
It was as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.
Su Qi remembered that during the entire exile, Gu Jingfeng was reading books and didn't care about anything else.
"Hey, Qiqi. Come over here and sit down." Gu Xiuming's mother saw Su Qi first, and quickly wiped the stool with her sleeve and called Su Qi over.
"Xiu Ming, wash the dates you picked from the ravine this morning and bring them over for Qiqi to taste."
"Mom, I'll go wash the dates now." Gu Xiuming's wife was very straightforward. She took the dates in the basket to the stream to wash them.
Bai Zhi smiled and greeted Gu Xiuming's mother, then ran over to wash the dates.
Su Qi sat down and chuckled:
"Aunt. What are your plans next?"
"Hey, what plans can we make? How about I take you for a walk in the village?" Gu Xiuming's mother always felt that Su Qi was a person with great potential, and she liked her more.
Doctors are treated better than others wherever they go.
"Okay. Let's go now."
"The dates are still being washed, and you haven't tasted them yet?"
"It's okay. You can eat it when you come back."
Gu Xiuming's mother had already gone around the village early in the morning and, using her gossipy tongue, had already gotten a complete picture of the situation there.
Another ten days or so.
You can even tell which daughter-in-law and mother-in-law are not getting along, or how many eggs a hen laid in the morning.
Along the way, Su Qi listened to Gu Xiuming's mother introducing the situation in the village.
Mengjiazhuang was much poorer than Su Qi had seen.
"Qiqi, I'm going to shamelessly ask for a favor from you. How about letting Xiuming and Xiuting work for your family? Let's just go by the wages here. These two children have been sensible since they were young.
He's an honest and hardworking man. Now that he has a wife and children, he has to find a way to support his family, right? " Gu Xiuming's mother's face, full of traces of time, was filled with sorrow. She was really scared when she saw the kind of life the villagers were living.
These people are not lazy.
There is nothing you can do if God doesn't support you.
"Auntie, I was just about to tell you about this. Let them go find Manager Ying. My two sisters-in-law are also working for me. I have plenty of work to do in the future, so I'm not afraid of being bored."
Su Qi likes this family from the bottom of her heart.
His character and personality are impeccable, and what is even more commendable is that the whole family is united.
"Well, the old woman shamelessly agreed."
"How is Xiaoyue?" Su Qi asked casually.
Gu Xiuming's mother sighed and told Su Qi that Xiaoyue might not be a good child. Her uncle and aunt planned to sell her for money, saying that Xiaoyue was not a clean woman anyway, so it would be better for her to go to the brothel to make money. This would prevent her from being a bad influence on their daughter.
"You don't know how rude her aunt is. It was the old couple who pushed her out in the first place, and now she says that Xiaoyue was not disciplined enough and that's why the thieves noticed her." Because of this sentence, Gu Xiuming's mother jumped up and had a fight with Gu Xiaoyue's aunt.
That woman was no match for her and was now lying in the thatched hut complaining about back pain.
Thinking of the rascal lying in a mess, I couldn't help but feel happy.
Like a victorious fighting cock.
"Yes. When Xiaoyue comes back later, you can quietly tell her that I will find a way to buy her over. Let her know what's going on."
"Oh, that's great, Xiaoyue can be saved."
Su Qi and Gu Xiuming's mother were walking in the village.
The streets were quiet, with only occasional people looking out the window.
There were a few monkeys wrapped in straw raincoats, barefoot, following Su Qi and the others. Everyone looked at Su Qi as if he was seeing something strange. One of the brave ones asked Su Qi:
"Are you a god from heaven?"
Gu Xiuming's mother laughed, "How do you know she is a fairy?"
The other children all laughed and said:
"Only gods can be so beautiful."
These children had no chance to go down the mountain to the town, so they had never seen how rich people dressed.
Nowadays, people think that someone is a fairy just by seeing someone wearing fine cotton clothes. Naturally, Su Qi's appearance is still very good.
Su Qi chuckled and called over the boy walking in front, pulling out a few candies from her purse. "Divide them among you. What are your names?"
"Is it for us?" asked the dark-skinned boy, about six or seven years old, with a mouthful of white teeth when he smiled, and the straw raincoat he wore was rather large.
The part that was dragged on the ground had been trampled to pieces.
"Yes. For you."
"Aunt Fairy, my name is Erniu. These are Goudan, Gousheng, Niudan, and Tudiu." Erniu introduced his friends to Su Qi one by one.
“Ah, ah~”
A woman's heart-wrenching screams were heard not far away.
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