Although he had known Madam Xue and Duke Chengen for a long time, and the couple often came to the Gu family's house for meals when they were in Kuncheng, they were people the Gu family knew quite well.
However, after hearing Gu Nian talk about what had happened in the past two days since she got married, Grandma Gu and Cai Xiaolian felt even more at ease.
That couple really entrusted everything to the young couple.
In other families, people might think that once a woman marries into her in-laws, they just go off to have fun and ignore her, which is irresponsible. However, this is not the case in the Gu family.
Grandma Gu had three daughters-in-law. When Zhang Shi first entered the family, she wanted to separate the family and raise the children to adulthood before sending them away. However, Grandpa Gu stopped her. He couldn't bear to see the children suffer and also preferred a large, lively family.
Grandma Gu believes that after marriage, the parents-in-law should maintain a certain distance from their son and daughter-in-law, and she has always done so.
Cai Xiaolian and Gu Nian, coming from the modern era, do not have the idea that their in-laws must be their servants after marriage. Cai Xiaolian is quite envious of Chengen Gong and Madam Xue's trip to the West.
She also hoped that after her three sons got married, she could still travel around with Gu Shouxin. However, that would be more than ten years later. If her sons all came of age before she considered marriage, she would have to wait until she was over fifty. Given the living conditions in ancient times, even if she was in good health, she probably wouldn't want to travel around anymore.
She still envied Madam Xue, who was able to put down her family responsibilities at just over forty years old.
Gu Nian was more accepting than Cai Xiaolian.
Despite having studied for so many years and being a top student, she's not the type to just study all the time; she has quite a few friends.
She had heard about her friend's experiences with her in-laws after getting married and having children.
She remembered that she had a primary school classmate. When she was in primary school, her brother was just a civil servant in a county town. That classmate only went to high school. After graduation, her family gave her money to open a small clothing store in the county town. She got married at the age of twenty.
When she got married, Gu Nian even went back to the county town to be a bridesmaid, and then she got pregnant and gave birth.
Her classmate's husband's family was somewhat patriarchal. When she was pregnant, her mother-in-law thought it was definitely a grandson, so she made her close the clothing store and stay home to focus on her pregnancy.
At that time, her mother-in-law treated her extremely well, until she gave birth to a daughter, at which point her mother-in-law's expression suddenly turned ugly.
Her mother took care of her during her postpartum period.
She gave birth to her first daughter, and less than six months later she became pregnant with her second. Her mother-in-law used her connections to get a pregnancy test done, and it turned out to be another girl. So she forced her to have an abortion.
Originally, her family was quite well-off, but her parents got into trouble and were arrested. All of their assets were frozen, and her relatives stopped associating with her.
She felt like an outsider in her husband's family, isolated and helpless, and could only cry while holding her daughter.
When she was pregnant with her third child, she gained 50 pounds, and her husband started to complain. Because the first two were daughters, her mother-in-law was cold to her this time. However, after the checkup revealed that it was a son, her mother-in-law became nice to her again.
However, when her child was six months old, she discovered that her husband was having an affair. She was devastated and, holding her child, grabbed a kitchen knife, ready to fight her husband to the death.
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