"Mom, are you hungry?"
"Mom, are you tired? Can you still walk? Do you need to rest?"
"mother……"
Madam Gu was both amused and exasperated, and said with a laugh, "Why is such a young lady so long-winded!"
Gu Yaoniang felt a little embarrassed. Then she remembered Gu Pingsheng, who was still engrossed in his studies, and said, "Mother, let's go see Pingsheng!"
Madam Gu smiled and pulled her back, saying, "No, let's just sit in the garden for a while, mother and daughter."
The two sat down in the garden pavilion, and Gu Yaoniang instructed someone to bring several soft cushions and place them behind Madam Gu.
Madam Gu watched Gu Yaoniang bustling about with a smile, her eyes filled with a sense of satisfaction.
Gu Yaoniang asked softly, "Mother, does Uncle Wang know Aunt?"
The little girl's face was bright and sparkling with gossip. Madam Gu, however, felt a jolt in her heart and asked, "Why would you ask that?"
Gu Yaoniang sat there, her hands unconsciously twisting together: "We were both in prison before, and it was Uncle Wang who came to the prison to pick me up and go to the Emperor to plead our case. It was also Uncle Wang and the Princess who pleaded for the Gu family that allowed the Emperor to allow us to move back into the Gu family mansion."
Without him, my second uncle probably wouldn't have received timely treatment and might have died in prison.
I asked him, and Lord Wang said that he and our family were old friends.
As she continued speaking, she couldn't help but feel sad again.
Her second uncle, a man of great talent and charisma throughout his life, was gone just like that. And the playful thoughts she had just had out of curiosity about the past between her aunt and Wang Chengxian, she now felt a vague sense of regret and a touch of self-loathing.
How can I laugh when my second uncle has just passed away?
Hearing this, Madam Gu breathed a sigh of relief. She smiled and said, "I hadn't married into the Gu family yet, so I don't know the details. But I vaguely heard that before Lord Wang's children came of age, they would travel around. Lord Wang himself came to Qingyun County and stayed at our house."
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