Chapter 953 The Grand Wedding
Gu Xiaobao couldn't understand the relationship between his nephew and niece, but when Gu Jiao mentioned his uncle, he finally understood. He knew how to do it.
"Am I your uncle?" he asked.
“Yes,” Gu Jiao said.
He thought about it seriously for a while longer: "Okay."
He's a year older now, and he no longer pats his chest with his fingers spread out and waves his little hands like he used to.
For him, that's something a baby would do.
Gu Jiao was surprised by his change; children really do change every day.
Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun went to school, leaving only Yao Shi and a few maids at home.
Madam Yao brought a plate of homemade pastries to the east room. Knowing that her daughter didn't like overly sweet things, she only added a little sugar to the pastries.
"You've been busy since early this morning, you must be hungry, have something to eat." Madam Yao handed some snacks to Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao took a piece of almond cake, took a bite, and it still tasted the same as before, quite delicious.
Mrs. Yao placed the plate of snacks on the stool and turned to look at the two little ones.
It was hot today, so Gu Jiao unwrapped the babies. Xiao Cong was still a quiet and handsome little boy, while Xiao Yan looked around curiously, stretching occasionally. She was incredibly cute.
Both children are healthy, but Xiao Yan is a little chubby.
Looking at them, Madam Yao couldn't help but think of Gu Yan and Gu Jiao from the past. The fact that her biological daughter didn't grow up by her side was a lifelong regret for her.
The pain of missing out on precious time with her could not be made up for after they recognized each other; there would always be an unfillable void in her heart.
However, the appearance of Xiao Cong and Xiao Yan began to gradually fill the void in her life.
She loved the two children dearly and was deeply grateful to them.
"Mom, my nephew and niece are so young." Gu Xiaobao expressed his opinion again.
“You were this small when you were little,” Yao said, then looked at him in surprise. “You even know your nephew and niece?”
“My sister said so,” Gu Xiaobao said. “I’m the uncle.”
Madam Yao smiled and patted his little head: "Little Bao is so smart."
The uncle wanted to be a good elder, but his forty-day-old nephew and niece did nothing but eat and sleep and couldn't play with him at all.
He sat on the bed for a while, then got bored and went out to find his friends in the alley.
Lord Gu arrived at his doorstep at the same time as Xiao Heng. Xiao Heng had just finished his shift, and coincidentally, so had he.
Both of them were still wearing their official robes.
In the Zhao Kingdom, only officials of the third rank or above were entitled to wear purple. Lord Gu was a fourth-rank official, serving as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works, and his official robe was vermilion.
Looking at Xiao Heng, who was younger and of a lower generation than him but was already dressed in a purple robe, he suddenly felt very uncomfortable.
The father-in-law looked at his son-in-law and became increasingly angry.
He truly never expected that the poor boy he had always looked down upon was actually the young Marquis of Zhaodu who had been living among the common people!
No wonder he was able to become the top scholar in the imperial examination.
No matter how much he disliked the boy, he had to admit that the young Marquis of Zhaodu's knowledge was genuine.
Well, being the young marquis's father-in-law isn't so bad.
A thought flashed through his mind, and he cleared his throat, adopting the airs of a father-in-law, saying, "You've come all this way, and you don't even know to call me father-in-law?"
Xiao Heng dusted off his wide sleeves and said casually, "I married the daughter of the Duke of Anguo of Great Yan. The Duke of Anguo is my father-in-law."
Lord Gu was slapped so hard he was embarrassed, his lips twitched, and he stormed in!
What a brat! What kind of husband did she pick up? He doesn't know any manners at all!
When he sees that girl in a little while, he'll definitely give her a good scolding!
He strode across the threshold, tripped, and fell flat on his face with a cry of pain!
Gu Jiao, who had just come out of the east room, looked at him with a bewildered expression. After a while, she raised an eyebrow and said, "Oh, rise."
Lord Gu: "???"
...
Despite his bruised and swollen face, Lord Gu went to complain to Madam Yao. As soon as he entered the room, before he could even speak, he saw the twins lying side by side on the bed.
His steps faltered.
Twins are rare, and boy-girl twins are even rarer. The last time he saw such small boy-girl twins was when Gu Yan and Gu Jinyu were children.
He still remembers the two of them lying in swaddling clothes. The difference was that Gu Yan suffered from a heart disease and did not want to lie with Gu Jinyu, so he always cried and made a fuss, and the scene was not beautiful.
The two little ones in front of me were lying separately, but I could still feel the connection between them through blood.
A thought flashed through Lord Gu's mind: so this is what real twins are like.
"My Lord." Madam Yao was in a good mood today, and unusually, she gave Lord Gu a pleasant look.
Lord Gu walked over and stared at the two of them in a daze: "Them..."
Yao ignored the injuries on his face and looked at the twins with doting eyes: "Aheng and Jiaojiao's twins, Cong'er and Yan'er."
Lord Gu opened his mouth.
That girl gave birth to her...
Yao smiled and said, "Isn't it cute?"
Lord Gu wanted to refute, but he couldn't find any points to refute.
The two little ones are really quite cute.
He couldn't help but think of Gu Jinyu, who had married into the Changping Marquis's family. Jinyu and that girl got married on the same day, and that girl was pregnant with twins. Jinyu must be pregnant too, right?
...
Fengcheng is the easternmost city in the Zhao Kingdom. The Changping Marquis's Mansion is located on the most prosperous street in Fengcheng, surrounded by local gentry and nobles.
Compared to the Changping Marquis's mansion, which occupied such a favorable location, the courtyard that Gu Jinyu was allocated in the mansion was not so satisfactory.
Luoshui Courtyard is a courtyard that was temporarily set up.
Gu Jinyu has been married into the Changping Marquis's household for more than half a year, but she is still a virgin.
At first, she found it difficult to talk about this, but later, when Lady Changping urged her to give birth to a legitimate son for Third Master Quan as soon as possible, she told her mother-in-law the truth.
The mother-in-law intervened in their marital relationship, and it had an effect. Since then, the Third Master has come to her room on the first and fifteenth of every month.
Even when they were lying on the same bed, Third Master didn't touch her at all!
She once wondered if she wasn't attractive enough to Third Master, or if she had unintentionally done something that disgusted him. Until one day, she washed her hands and cooked a bowl of lotus seed porridge, which took her an entire afternoon to make and send to Third Master.
As soon as she entered the study, she heard a shameful sound.
She thought some maid was seducing the Third Master in broad daylight, so she impulsively pushed open the door and entered, only to witness a scene she would never forget for the rest of her life.
Third Master was lying face down on the desk, being... by a man—
She was completely stunned, as if struck by lightning.
Enraged, Third Master kicked her out. She was furious and argued with him for a while, saying some hurtful things that made the situation very unpleasant.
Finally, she moved out of the Third Master's courtyard and moved into the secluded Luoshui Courtyard with Chunliu and several maids.
This was the perfect marriage she was willing to break with Yao Shi rather than give up; this was the eldest son of the Marquis's family whom she was determined to marry.
How ironic.
Did Old Madam Gu know about this? She deliberately sent her into a pit of fire, only wanting to win over the Marquis of Changping's family, without caring whether she lived or died!
Her dear grandmother, she really cares about her grandson.
But all of this was just wishful thinking on the part of Madam Gu. Why would the Gu family, with its 100,000-strong army, need to win over the Quan family?
A short-sighted old woman from the inner quarters sold her out just like that!
"Miss."
Chunliu brought a bowl of cooked congee to the window and carefully handed it to Gu Jinyu, saying, "It's getting cold, drink it while it's hot."
Gu Jinyu, feeling the cold wind, said, "I have no appetite."
Chunliu said with concern, "You haven't eaten anything for several days."
Gu Jinyu still didn't want to eat.
Since arriving here, she had severed all ties with the capital, but for some reason today, she asked, almost as if possessed, "Is there any news from the capital?"
Chunliu pursed her lips and lowered her head.
Gu Jinyu glanced at her and said calmly, "Just say it."
Chunliu bit her lip and whispered, "I heard that the eldest young lady gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, for the young marquis."
"Less than a year after the wedding, she has already given birth to twins for the Xiao family... a boy and a girl... hahaha... hahaha..." Gu Jinyu clutched her chest, which felt like it was being cut by a knife, and laughed self-deprecatingly, tears streaming down her face. "Good, good, really good!"
...
The capital city.
Gu Changqing and Yuan Baolin's wedding was originally scheduled for the twelfth lunar month, but due to Yuan's sudden illness, the wedding was postponed repeatedly. In March, Yuan's health improved, and in April of the lunar calendar, the two finally celebrated their wedding.
In order to attend Gu Changqing's wedding, Gu Jiao postponed her trip to Dark Night Island for a while.
Xuanyuan Qi and Liao Chen had already led the Black Wind Cavalry and the Shadow Tribe back to the Yan Kingdom.
Liao Chen remains the third Shadow Lord, and Gu Jiao is still the junior commander of the Black Wind Cavalry. Although she is no longer in Yan Kingdom, her legend is everywhere in Yan Kingdom.
As for the training of troops, it will be temporarily handled by Grand Marshal Xuanyuan Qi.
On April 12th, at Chenshi (7-9 AM), Gu Changqing's wedding procession set off from the Ding'an Marquis's residence in a grand procession.
(End of this chapter)
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