Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

Minglan was tickled so hard that she laughed uncontrollably, and she shouted as she laughed, "Grandma! Spare me! It was Grandma Kong who said that! The day after she quarreled with you, she secretly gave me several packets of good tea and asked us to taste them ourselves. She also told me that she already knew our difficulties and kept praising me for being sensible!"

"Humph, you should let her teach you a lesson!"

"You've spoiled this naughty girl! Hahaha!... Ah! Grandma, spare me!" The old lady started to tickle her again.

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Gu Tingye hadn't seen Minglan for a long time since that day. He couldn't help asking Changbai, "Your sisters haven't come to school recently. Minglan looked flustered when she saw you that day. What's going on in your family?"

Changbai had almost forgotten what happened that day, but when he heard Gu Tingye's question, he remembered it again, and his face was helpless: "Several sisters did something wrong, and the family invited a nanny to teach them a lesson."

Gu Tingye smiled evilly: "What's wrong? Tell me about it and I'll be happy."

Changbai rolled his eyes at him, knowing that he was just talking nonsense and not really gloating. After repeatedly asking him to keep it a secret, he roughly recounted what happened on the day when Madam Wu came to visit.

Gu Tingye raised his eyebrows: "Isn't this your fourth sister's fault? Why are your fifth sister and Minglan also tied up?"

Changbai was helpless: "Father said he was afraid that they would be laughed at in school."

Gu Tingye squinted his eyes: "I think your father is partial to your fourth sister."

Changbai agreed with it from the bottom of his heart, but thinking about his father not going to Linqi Pavilion recently, he said, "It's hard to treat all children equally in a family with many children. Father...well, father has his own difficulties."

Gu Tingye: "You are the one who is favored, so you can understand. Unlike me, I lost my mother and was rejected by my father. People like me know the pain of not being favored by parents the most."

Changbai apologized slightly: "I have already said this, I didn't mean to bring up your sad memories. But I see that you and the old marquis have been getting along a lot recently, right?"

Gu Tingye: "Yes, as long as I accept the beating and punishment and bow my head in the mud, my father will be more pleasing to me. But I still envy my eldest brother. Although he is in poor health, he can get daily care from my father. Whatever he says or does, he will be praised by my father."

Changbai: "Don't be discouraged. As long as you persevere, you can always fix it slowly."

Gu Tingye shook his head: "It's difficult. I'm afraid I'll have to do something to make him angry again recently."

Changbai suddenly became nervous: "What are you going to do now? Things are just getting better, don't cause yourself any more trouble!"

Gu Tingye: "This is also a helpless move. My eldest brother always wants to find out about my affairs in your Sheng family, and he also instigated people to find Zhuang Xuejiu to tell me all my faults. Fortunately, Zhuang Xuejiu is a famous teacher and a great scholar, and he has sharp eyes and did not fall into the ditch. And my stepmother, Xiao Qin, is still trying to find ways to put more people in my room. The leading maid in my room took their money and helped them a lot. When Shitou found out, she cried and said that I was mean to them..."

Changbai: "That's not right. Didn't you always say that your stepmother treated you the most kindly and always gave in to you in everything?"

Gu Tingye laughed, "Yes, I really used to treat her like my own mother. But since... since I understood some things, I realized that she was flattering me. She wanted to flatter me to the point where I would be abandoned by my father and kicked out of the house, and no longer be able to inherit the family business."

Changbai suddenly realized: "In this way, if your elder brother's illness cannot be cured and you are kicked out of the house, his son will become the future Ningyuan Marquis!"

Gu Tingye looked at him tiredly.

Changbai patted his brother's shoulder with concern: "It's not easy for you. You have Zhuang Xuejiu to help you with the school affairs, and I will do my best to help you. But what are you going to do about the family affairs?"

Gu Tingye: "I have sent a letter to Yangzhou to ask my former wet nurse, Nanny Chang, to come to Beijing. I plan to let her be the housekeeper in my house."

"You haven't seen each other for many years. Is this Nanny Chang really reliable?" Changbai felt very worried.

Gu Tingye: "Do you remember the maid who stood up and fought fiercely with the eldest son of the Bai family when my grandfather was buried in the Bai family in Yangzhou? That was Nanny Chang."

"Oh! It turned out to be her! She scolded everyone in the Bai family for you at that time. She was very loyal and brave!" Changbai's eyes lit up.

Gu Tingye nodded: "Madame Chang has been serving my mother since she was a girl. She followed my mother to Beijing and married into the Gu family. Later, my mother's death was a huge blow to her, so she returned to Yangzhou in sadness. She was really kind to my mother and me."

Changbai: "Such a loyal old lady will naturally not be bribed by the Gu family."

Gu Tingye: "I mentioned this to my father half a month ago, but he was very unhappy when he heard it. I wanted to forget it. But in the past half month, my stepmother and eldest brother have become more and more restless. If this continues, I will really kill someone."

Changbai: "You didn't tell your father directly? I don't think the old marquis would be so partial and unwilling to help you at all, right?"

Gu Tingye: "At the beginning, my father personally came out to help me get everyone out of the house, but later, when I occasionally mentioned other things, he refused to come out and only listened to my eldest brother and stepmother. I don't know what they did in front of my father. Oh, it's also my fault. I was too troublesome in the past, so my father couldn't trust me."

Changbai clicked his tongue and shook his head: "The Marquis' Mansion has been passed down for several generations. This shouldn't be the case."

Gu Tingye: "My father is a loyal man, but he is also very rigid. Once he trusts someone, he will never look back."

Changbai sighed and didn't want to interfere with other people's father.

Gu Tingye: "I plan to buy a house outside and let Madam Chang live there first. If father really doesn't want Madam Chang to live in the mansion, I can just move to the house outside. It's better than living in the mansion and being on guard every day and unable to sleep every night."

"This... this is not good, right? Parents are still alive, and brothers are inseparable. If you move out for no reason, your father will be angry, right?"

"This is the worst-case scenario. If those people had stopped, I wouldn't have to do this. But you can see, when they saw that my father and I had made peace, they became even crazier. They really didn't leave me any chance to survive! If I want to break free from these constraints, the most important thing is to pass the imperial examination and get a position. Only in this way can I shut those people up."

Changbai thought about it and felt that this was the only way, so he said, "Then you should be more careful. If there is anything you want me to do, just tell me."

Gu Tingye put his arm around his shoulders and said, "How can I let you go? Give me the signature later and let me hang it in my new house!"

Changbai: "That's easy. Where are you going to buy the house?"

Gu Tingye: "I have asked for five days' leave from the scholar, and I will hurry to finish the house in the next few days. Nanny Chang will arrive in Bianliang in three days, and I will have to pick her up then."

Changbai: "Don't worry, I will take notes of your lessons over the past few days and send them to your house when the time comes."

"I'd better come and get it myself. If I send it to Gu's house, it might end up like my "On Loyalty and Love" and become ashes in the stove."