The husband who forced her to marry her couldn't keep her warm, and she didn't want him to

She cried bitterly in front of Aunt Cuihuayuan, and just now she cried again with Sister Yan.

Li Xianglian looked at her red and swollen eyes in the makeup mirror and instructed Qiu Wen beside her:

"No need to put on makeup, just tie your hair with a ribbon and take out the dress from the bottom of the box."

She held a lantern in her hand and waited at the hanging flower gate leading back to the inner courtyard from the outer courtyard.

The night wind was a little cold, and when she felt her hands were about to freeze, Gu Huanian's figure finally appeared.

"I thought Master had forgotten..." She bowed her head and saluted him, her voice low, "I'm ready here, Master, please come with me..."

The fire in the charcoal basin reflected on the two people's faces, and the night wind blew over, and the fire burned more and more vigorously.

Burning paper gold ingots flew out of the brazier from time to time, and the air was filled with the smell of burning.

Gu Huanian watched the flames get smaller and smaller until they disappeared, and said, "Don't do this again next year. Pay more attention to Sister Yan."

"I don't want to see her lose her moral character again. If it happens again, you should stop teaching her yourself, lest when she gets married in the future, her in-laws will say that we, the Gu family, didn't teach our daughter well."

Li Xianglian shed tears gently, and did not respond to his rebuke, but kept talking to herself:

"We have to let him know that someone is thinking about him. Every year on this day, I will say to myself, if you don't mind, come to the Gu family again. This time, no one will give up on him..."

Gu Huanian looked up at Li Xianglian. Her gentle and beautiful face no longer had the childishness of the past. It seemed as if he saw her sadness and despair at that time again.

She quietly stayed in the backyard, serving her mother wholeheartedly and never asked for anything more from him.

I couldn't help but hold her hand, "Sister Yan is young, you should teach her well and maintain a good relationship with Sister Chu, which will be helpful to her in the future."

Li Xianglian snuggled into his arms, feeling completely dependent on him:

"Sister Yan already knew she was wrong, and she didn't complain at all when she returned the things to Miss Three."

"It's just that I feel sorry for you, Master. I haven't given you any children in all these years since I got married. I am also wrong. I can't do anything right..."

In this situation, when Li Xianglian mentioned the child, Gu Huanian looked at her with a face full of reminiscence.

The expressionless face gradually became warm, and Li Xianglian took the opportunity to say:

"Master, you are tired all day, I made you some soup, let me serve you some supper and then you can rest."

Gu Huanian held her somewhat cold palm and hugged her gently, "The only thing that has not changed over the years is Sister Xianglian's skill in making soup."

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The osmanthus flowers in Moxiangju have bloomed a long time ago, and their rich yet gentle fragrance can be smelled from afar.

After Zheng handed over the housekeeping power, she had a lot of free time.

When her daughter came to see her, she became interested and asked Mother Tong to take out the small frame so that she could see her daughter's embroidery skills with her own eyes.

Looking at the lifelike embroidery in Chu Jie'er's hands, she looked very satisfied and proud:

"You are worthy of being my daughter, Zheng Mudan. Your grandmother once said that I had a photographic memory when I was young. If I were a boy, I would definitely be a remarkable person."

"Chu Jie'er has such good embroidery skills, why don't you show it off normally?"

Gu Jinchu smiled. She was not smart at all. It was just that her mother looked at her through a filter.

Her current embroidery skills were acquired after she got engaged to Jiang Nansheng in her previous life. In order not to be looked down upon in her husband's family, she began to practice diligently and she continued to practice and learn even after her marriage.

Not to mention her almost lost double-sided embroidery technique, even the most skilled embroiderer in the Treasure Pavilion cannot surpass her.

But I still found an excuse for myself, "I just wanted to give my father a surprise, so that he would not always compare me with my fourth sister, and I didn't want to make my mother sad and embarrassed."

My grandmother and Aunt Lian always felt that they were superior to my mother, but it was just because of their scholarly pedantry, which was ultimately a protective color for their inferiority complex.

Upon hearing this, Zheng smiled bitterly and said, "The daughters of the Zheng family are slow to learn embroidery. At that time, I met your father and I once thought that he liked peonies the most."

"He said that the peony is a symbol of wealth, good fortune and prosperity. I thought he loved the peony because he liked me. After I learned embroidery, I would always embroider this pattern on his things."

There was a faint smile on the corners of the mother's lips when she said this, but Gu Jinchu could not see any happiness in his mother's eyes.

She seldom heard her mother mention the past and would listen quietly without interrupting her.

"Later, I discovered that it was true that he liked peonies, wealth, prosperity, and Zheng Mudan, who brought him all of these things. But it had nothing to do with me..."

Zheng looked up at the waning moon outside the window and said, "People always have to pay the price for their choices. Sixteen years ago today, the moon was just as bright as this. I wonder if your father regrets giving up that child now..."

Gu Jinchu: "..."

Isn’t she her father’s eldest daughter?

child?

What child?

She is not yet of age, and her mother and father have not been married for sixteen years, so what happened sixteen years ago?

I have never heard anyone mention the Gu family and the Zheng family. No one has ever talked about them.

Gu Jinchu looked up at her mother and saw her smiling and shaking her head, "Chu Jie'er, have you prepared everything for your grandmother's house?"

Gu Jinchu knew that her mother didn't want to continue the previous topic. Even if her mother didn't say it, she would always find a way.

I'll go back to my grandmother's house in a few days. If she knows, she will definitely tell her.

Gu Jinchu flicked the wick on the kang table, making the room brighter.

"I asked Tao Xuelin to prepare these things. Six batches of brocade with solemn colors, all of which are the highest quality in Zhenbao Pavilion, ten boxes of Xixiangzhai's most popular candied fruits and snack boxes, and three sets of Duan inkstones and four treasures of the study..."

The cloth was prepared for the grandparents, and the pens, ink, paper, inkstone and some small items were prepared for the cousin's eldest son and two younger cousins.

After hearing this, Zheng nodded and expressed her satisfaction. "This is a good opportunity to test Tao Xuelin. If he can do things reliably, I will give you the indenture of their family."

Gu Jinchu just smiled and said nothing. Her mother asked her to test Tao Xuelin, which was also an opportunity for her to grow.

In the previous life, when she married into the Jiang family, she had her mother-in-law, the wife of the Duke, and the wife of the Crown Prince who was in charge of the household expenses, not to mention the other members of the Jiang family who were good at judging people and trying to please everyone.

In the end, she was able to survive in the cracks, so she was able to prepare gifts for her grandparents' house with ease.

"Mother, are you really not going to go back to your maternal grandparents' home with your daughter?"

Zheng put the cloak on her daughter and replied with a faint smile:

"Your grandmother must have heard that you were wronged, so she asked Tao Xuelin to bring a letter saying that the cherries on the farm have turned red."

"Mother is still ill, so you can go back by yourself."