Chapter 28 The Current Situation of Gu's Family
As for Aunt Liu, she quickened her pace all the way to the ancestral hall, the corners of her rosy lips slightly raised, she couldn't help but feel proud.
For so many days, Mrs. Gu always looked like she didn't care about anything. However, just now, no matter how well Mrs. Gu concealed it, when she saw the red marks on her neck, she still noticed the pain that flashed across her eyes.
Humph, sooner or later she will use Su Yue's hand to drag Gu down from her position. She should be the mistress!
"Yu'er? Are you there?" Aunt Liu called Su Yue and knocked on the door of the ancestral hall three times, but it was quiet inside and no one responded.
She wanted to go in and take a look but didn't dare to. After all, as a concubine, she was not qualified to enter the ancestral hall.
Not to mention that her name was not on the family tree, even if she dared to take a step forward, the old man would skin her alive if he found out.
Since ancient times, concubines are not worthy of seeing the ancestors. This is the rule.
After Aunt Liu knocked on the door, it was still quiet for a long time. She bit her lip, suppressed the unhappiness in her heart, and forced herself to smile: "Yuer, I just advised the Prime Minister that kneeling for three days is indeed too heavy. The Prime Minister said to change it to one day."
"I got it. Thank you, auntie." She leaned against the door and waited for a long time before she heard Su Yue's emotionless voice.
She curled her lips and secretly spat in her heart, thinking that she was really trying to please the cold butt.
But for the sake of her own cause, even if Su Yue's butt was very cold now, she had to force herself to stick her warm face to him.
It’s still one word: endure.
Aunt Liu looked at the tightly closed door of the ancestral hall and secretly swore in her heart that one day, she would become the mistress of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and her name, Liu Meir, would be written on the Su family's genealogy!
When I heard no more noise outside, I knew that Aunt Liu had left. Why would Aunt Liu be so kind as to ask my father to reduce her punishment? I guess this woman is planning something again.
If you are surrounded by such smiling but daggers, and you don't stay awake at all times, you will be eaten up in the next moment without leaving anything behind. My previous life was an example of this.
It was late at night, and she estimated the time. A day and a night was almost over, so she slowly got up, rubbed her stiff legs, and looked up to see the tablets of the Su family's ancestors neatly placed in front of her.
"Ancestors, I am sorry to bother you, Su Yue, today. Please don't find it annoying, because I will probably bother you often in the future." She said to herself jokingly.
On the way back to Pingyuexuan, she saw a sneaky dark shadow walking towards her.
"Xiao He, where are you going so late instead of resting?" Su Yue asked in confusion after seeing the black shadow clearly.
"Ah!" Xiao He was already nervous, and when she heard someone talking in the middle of the night, she was so scared that she dropped the things in her hands.
Su Yue glanced at the things exposed on the ground and found that they were some food.
"Second Miss, you're out? I was worried that you would be hungry for one meal a day, so I wanted to bring you some food while no one is around." Seeing that the person who spoke was the Second Miss, Xiao He's eyes turned red with excitement.
Su Yue felt warm in her heart, what a silly girl.
"Okay, pack up and go back. Don't do these things on your own in the future. If you don't follow the rules in this house, you may not even know how you died. By the way, how is mother?"
I was punished to kneel, and my mother must be very worried, but why haven't I seen her until now?
"My madam knelt at the Prime Minister's door for an entire afternoon to plead for you, but the Prime Minister did not see my madam. Instead... it was..." She did not dare to say the rest of the words, for fear that the Second Miss would be angry when she heard them.
"Is it Aunt Liu?" He thought of how Aunt Liu had come to the gate of the ancestral hall not long ago to tell him that it was because of her plea to the Prime Minister that he let her go.
"Yes, yes, but I only know that Aunt Liu met the Prime Minister and came out again. I am not very clear about what happened afterwards." Xiao He explained hurriedly, fearing that the Second Miss would wonder if she knew that the Second Miss was going to come out, and deliberately sent her food at the right time to show her loyalty.
"Okay, I get it. You pack up and go back. I'll go see mother." Thinking back to Aunt Liu's unconcealed smug tone, mother shouldn't be very happy.
When they arrived at Tingqin Pavilion, the servant saw the second young lady coming and hurried in to inform Mrs. Gu. Without waiting for the servant to come back, Su Yue walked to Gu's door by herself. Seeing that the door was open, she walked in.
"Mom, how are you?" She saw Gu sitting in front of the window, holding something in her hand, looking at it in a trance.
"Yuer, you're here. Mother is fine. I've been kneeling all day in this freezing cold weather. Can my knees bear it? Someone, bring two hot water bottles and wrap them with cloth to warm up the second young lady's knees."
When Gu saw Su Yue coming, she quickly put down the things in her hands and asked in a warm voice.
Only then did she see clearly that what her mother was holding was a letter.
"Mom, I'm fine. Who wrote this letter?" She was curious why someone wrote a letter to her mother when she and her mother had just returned a few days ago.
"It's your eldest aunt. They live in a remote old house outside the city now. They said they don't have enough money. Your grandparents are sick, and your third aunt is about to give birth. They had no choice but to write to me."
After saying that, Gu's frown never relaxed again. After hearing this, Su Yue suddenly thought of an important thing.
My grandfather had four children. My mother was the second child. She had an older brother and two younger brothers.
In the previous life, the emperor raided the Gu family because his grandfather was falsely accused of corruption.
However, the emperor took into consideration that my grandfather had served as an official for decades and had made some contributions to the court, so he specially allowed my grandfather and his family to move to the old house outside the city.
My grandfather was framed and was so angry that he fell ill and was bedridden, unable to take care of himself.
My third uncle insisted on going to the border to fight for a future, leaving my third aunt and her young daughter to live in my grandfather's shabby house outside the city.
My uncle is very young. If I remember correctly, he was only nine years old after the Chinese New Year.
This means that my grandfather and his family were all supported by my eldest uncle, my eldest aunt was a very stingy person, and my eldest uncle was afraid of his wife.
So my third aunt didn't have a good life. In fact, in her previous life, when she was about to give birth, my eldest aunt didn't even hire a midwife in order to save some money.
People say giving birth is like walking through the gates of hell, but my third aunt gave birth to her child at home.
In the end, because the delivery took too long, the child's face was blue when he was born, and he had already been suffocated to death. It was a baby boy. This is something that my third uncle has never been able to forgive himself for.
Now my mother said that my third aunt is about to give birth. Doesn’t this mean that if she doesn’t take action, my little cousin will soon die?
"Mother, we must go to grandpa as soon as possible!" Su Yue's face was serious and his tone did not allow for any discussion.
"But your father, he won't allow us..." Gu looked embarrassed. The prime minister was a man of opportunistic character. He knew better than anyone else that her mother's family was in trouble. Now that she wanted to go to her mother's family, he would definitely not allow it.
"Moreover, my mother's dowry is now managed by Aunt Liu, and I can't afford to support my mother's family with any money." Thinking of this, Gu sighed heavily again.
"Mother, I will take back your dowry tomorrow! As for father, if we don't tell him, he won't know where we are going."
It's such a joke that a wife's dowry was occupied by a concubine. The Prime Minister's Mansion looks glamorous on the outside but is filthy on the inside.
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