Chapter 833: My cousin is reborn and wants to snatch my marriage (End)
Another Spring Festival has just passed. Gu Shichu and Mingxun, as the married daughter and son-in-law of the Duke of Anguo, have to go back to visit their relatives. She is already six months pregnant at this time, but she exercises enough every day, so only her belly is bulging, her limbs are still slender and her body is flexible.
The other married ladies in the Duke of Anguo's mansion also returned with their husbands and children, and the mansion became very lively for a while.
Since they were all family, they did not sit separately. The whole family sat down at two or three tables.
"Third sister, can you still eat fish when you're pregnant? I heard that pregnant women can't stand the smell of fish..." Gu Shiyao's sarcastic voice sounded. Gu Shichu looked at her and felt that she had become very thin. Her eyes were cruel and she seemed sarcastic.
"Who told you that, big sister? You've never been pregnant." Gu Shichu said to her with a wry smile. Gu Shiyao is getting more and more crazy now, and she wants to go against Gu Shichu in everything she does.
When Gu Shiyao heard her words, her face suddenly changed: "You! What do you mean? Are you mocking me for not being able to have children?"
"Can you give birth? Then why don't you give birth yet?" Gu Shichu looked at her with innocent eyes and asked in a very angry tone.
Gu Shiyao was so angry that her face turned blue. She had been married to Tang Buqing for more than five years, but she still had not gotten pregnant. Tang's mother was even more dissatisfied with her because of this. She had made things difficult for her countless times. Even her biological mother, Zhou, was worried about her and often urged her to see a doctor and take medicine to regulate her body so that she could have a baby as soon as possible.
But she and Tang Buqing had a bad relationship and they hardly slept together, so how could she get pregnant? She knew it was best for her to give birth to the child as soon as possible, and she tried hard to please Tang Buqing, but Tang Buqing rarely disliked her and didn't want to pay any attention to her. No matter how hard she tried, it was useless, and the child would not be born out of thin air.
But her mortal enemy Gu Shichu was pregnant. Gu Shichu was married in the same year as her. She had seen Gu Shichu married for several years but still not pregnant, and she had gloated over his misfortune. But she never expected that Gu Shichu would suddenly become pregnant. How could she not be jealous? Why are some people so lucky?
"I just want to ask third sister if you have any secret recipe. After all, you haven't been pregnant for five years..." Gu Shiyao had to force a smile. She was having a hard time in the Tang family now and finally learned to swallow her anger. She knew that she couldn't win by directly arguing with Gu Shichu, so she planned to take a roundabout approach.
"Before, I felt that I was too young to have a child. Now I'm 20 years old. It's the right time so it's natural for me to get pregnant. As for the secret recipe? It's probably just eating well, having fun, and being in a good mood." Gu Shichu Chao Gu Shiyao said with a meaningful smile.
"Third sister, if you don't want to say it, then forget it. Why bother to fool me with these words?" Gu Shiyao made it clear that she didn't believe Gu Shichu's words and said with a fake smile.
"I'm not being perfunctory with you. If you don't believe me, ask Mingxun." Gu Shichu said.
Mingxun was picking fish bones for her. When he heard his name, he asked quickly, "What do you want to ask me?"
"I'm asking you if you didn't want to have a child so early." Gu Shichu said to him with a smile.
Ming Xun moved the plate of white fish meat with bones removed in front of her, and said to Gu Shiyao, "Yes, I really didn't want to have a child too early. On the one hand, I like to eat, drink and have fun, and I haven't thought about how to be a good father. On the other hand, Chuchu's body is not yet grown up enough to be a mother."
When Gu Shiyao heard his words, she felt mixed emotions. She turned to look at her husband beside her, but saw that Tang Buqing seemed to have no interest in their topic at all. He just lowered his head and counted the rice grains in the bowl with chopsticks, as if he couldn't wait to finish the meal so that he could leave.
She was immediately furious. Now they were in the Duke of Anguo's Mansion, her parents' home. Couldn't Tang Buqing just pretend to maintain some superficial harmony and intimacy with her?
Didn't you see Mingxun picking fish bones for Gu Shichu himself? Could it be that the Anguo Mansion couldn't find a maid to pick fish bones for people? No, Mingxun did it himself, which showed his importance and love for his wife.
Gu Shiyao just felt like a joke. She was the happiest one before she got married. But now, whether it was Gu Shichu or her other half sisters or cousins, they all lived better than her. They brought their children back one by one, and they were all lively and happy. Only she and Tang Buqing had cold faces, as if they owed each other millions of money. Anyone could see that there was discord between them.
Zhou had reminded them several times, but Tang Buqing didn't want to cooperate, so they were left in such an awkward situation.
Although Mingxun was still not an official with real power, no one would look down on him. Even Gu Taoxing treated him much more warmly than before. Tang Buqing couldn't help envying Mingxun when he saw that Gu Taoxing treated him with great kindness.
He didn't have to work hard to climb up the ladder, but he already had both fame and fortune, and could leave his name in history. What a great fortune! Moreover, he had both parents, a brother who was friendly to his younger brother, and a harmonious relationship with his wife. It seemed that all the good luck in the world was concentrated on him. Tang Buqing couldn't help but feel jealous. If he was such a dandy, he would also want to be...
Ming Xun had no idea that Tang Buqing envied him. At this moment, he only wanted to return to Gu Shichu as soon as possible and put an end to the nonsense between him and Gu Taoxing.
Gu Taoxing noticed Mingxun's absent-mindedness and had to let him go. However, Tang Buqing was not so lucky. As Gu Taoxing's biological son-in-law, he was soon reprimanded by Gu Taoxing, who simply asked him to reconcile with Gu Shiyao and have a child as soon as possible.
Because of the bad relationship between them, Gu Taoxing was very dissatisfied with him, and he could not help but reveal it in the officialdom. As a result, Tang Buqing, who was already having a hard time because of Gu Shiyao's grudges and enmity with the women of his colleagues and superiors, became even more miserable.
The biggest reason why Tang Buqing's career was blocked was Gu Shiyao. He should have tried to please her, even if he hated her, he had to reconcile with her for his future. However, Gu Taoxing's coercion and Gu Shiyao's dragging behavior made him rebellious, and he gritted his teeth and refused to compromise.
As the stalemate continued, the couple could no longer maintain their original harmony and their relationship fell out.
Gu Shiyao watched the Qi Yang Duke's Mansion prosper. Gu Shichu and Mingxun both had a son and a daughter, and the family lived in harmony. However, her life with Tang Buqing was as stagnant as a pool of water, and they hated each other.
Ten years after the marriage, Gu Shiyao still couldn't give birth to a child. Tang's mother couldn't bear it anymore, so she brought her niece from her hometown and asked Tang Buqing to take her as a concubine.
Gu Shiyao went back to the mansion of Duke Anguo and cried, but Duke Anguo was in the wrong, because it was his daughter who couldn't have children, so he acquiesced to Tang Buqing's behavior of taking a concubine.
After Gu Shiyao, he put all his energy into the struggle in the harem, making Tang Buqing's backyard a mess and becoming a joke in the capital. How could others believe that he could manage the affairs of the court when he couldn't even manage his own family? So Tang Buqing gradually became a marginal official who was frustrated and had no hope of becoming a prime minister in this life.
(End of this chapter)
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