Child Bride’s Peaches and Plums Are All Over the World

The Zhongyonghou Mansion has fallen, and Gu Huaijin does not have much prestige in the honorary circle, and is ridiculed in the literati circle, so very few people came to express their condolences.

Most of them asked the stewards of the family to deliver the funeral, and those who valued more sent their nephews to come.

On the contrary, everyone who had a good time with Gu Lezhuang came. As for Gu Lekang, none of his former classmates and friends came.

Gu Lezhuang glanced at him worriedly at first, but he was relieved when he saw his calm and indifferent expression.

Gu Lekang burned the paper money in the brazier, and bowed down to thank those who came to express their condolences. Why would he care about anyone else?

If they come, he will remember their friendship, if they don't come, he doesn't have to worry about it anymore. It also shows how failed he was back then, he was not good, he couldn't make true friends, and he was lame and blind.

However, he doesn't need to be sad and angry, because even his parents may be fake, let alone his friends and classmates? So you can't look at people with your eyes, you have to look at them with your heart.

He can even accept his parents becoming like this, so why can't he accept the ruthlessness of a few classmates and friends?

Seeing the calm look on the third cousin's face, Gu Lezhuang couldn't help but glance at the second cousin, and both sighed slightly.

"Master, there are people coming from Lingsheng Street." A steward walked quickly to report.

The one who was offering incense was Wansan, the eldest son of Dingguo's mansion, who was a concubine. Hearing this, he immediately inserted the incense, waved to Gu Lezhuang, and said, "Whoever is with you, let's go."

Gu Lezhuang hurriedly saluted before turning around and going out to pick up the person. Gu Lekang also got up and saluted Wan San, and then looked at the door.

Seeing that Gu Jingyun's family had come, he sighed slightly, and took a step forward to salute him.

His wife, Gu Sushi, dragged her son and came forward to salute in a daze.

Gu Jingyun returned the salute before looking at the mourning hall.

The mourning hall was well decorated, Gu Huaijin's memorial tablet was placed in the middle, and there was a line of small characters in the lower left corner that said the person who stood up the memorial tablet. Gu Jingyun was in a complicated state of mind at this time, so he watched the mourning hall and did not move.

Gu Lekang lit a handful of incense and handed it to him. Seeing that he was staring at the coffin in a daze, he turned and handed it to Li Baolu.

Li Baolu took it and distributed the incense to the three children behind him before touching Gu Jingyun and handing the incense to him.

Gu Jingyun took it, and after three salutes, put the incense on it. When it was the turn of the next three children, Gu Jingyun said, "Kneel down."

The servants of the Hou's mansion immediately took the three futons up and put them away cleverly, and then An An took the two younger brothers to kneel down and salute.

Gu Su looked at them in surprise, not knowing who they were, they seemed to have a close relationship with their family, but just now they only said that they were from Lingsheng Street, and did not report their family number.

The three children inserted the incense before turning around and saluting to their nominal second uncle.

They never knew that they had a second uncle before, and it was only last night that their mother mentioned it to them. It turned out that their real grandfather had just passed away, and they thought he was already dead.

Otherwise, how could grandma marry grandpa?

The three children raised their heads and glanced at Gu Lekang curiously, thinking that he was not as good-looking as their father. After looking at it for a while, they turned their eyes away without interest, and then saw a little kid standing next to the second uncle. Without thinking about it, Lele grinned at him with a big smile, and even secretly made a face.

The child was so frightened that he hid behind his mother, and couldn't help poking out his head to look secretly. Gu Lekang happened to look down and saw it. He reached out and touched his son's head, and said to him, "This is my cousin."

The child called out in a low voice, "Brother."

"This kid is a bit shy," Gu Lekang asked hesitantly, "Brother, do you want to sit a little longer?"

Gu Jingyun frowned and thought about it, and when he was about to nod, he saw a commotion coming from the back hall, an old woman pushed away the girl and came out, she suddenly saw Gu Jingyun standing in the hall, she couldn't help being startled, and stopped in her tracks.

Later, the old woman came up to support her, and comforted her in a low voice: "Third Madam, it's time for you to take your medicine, go back with your servant."

Fang looked at Gu Jingyun blankly, turned a deaf ear to what the mother-in-law said, stared at Gu Jingyun for a while, then turned her head to look at Li Baolu, glanced at the crowd, she sneered and said, "Why, isn't Qin Wenyin here?"

Gu Jingyun looked away, flicked his sleeves and said, "I won't sit down anymore, so let's make peace with your condolences."

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand to hold Baolu's hand and walked out.

Fang took two steps forward and was about to chase after her. Gu Lekang had already held her hand one step ahead of her. He looked at her warningly and said, "Mother, you are sick, it's time to take medicine."

Fang was stunned, staring blankly at Gu Lekang without speaking.

Gu Lezhuang had already led Gu Jingyun out, and he was also afraid that the third aunt would have a conflict with Gu Jingyun at this time, and the Hou Mansion would make people laugh at him again.

After so many years, the scandal of that year finally subsided, and he didn't want to be brought up again.

Gu Su didn't know what happened, but followed her husband's footsteps, stepped forward to support her mother-in-law and said, "Mother, my daughter-in-law will take you home."

Gu Lekang was afraid that something would happen to his mother's illness, so he and Gu Sushi helped her back home.

The expression on Fang's face was blank. She turned around the back hall, walked through the courtyard and entered the garden before she came back to her senses. She broke away from Gu Su's hand and asked with a strange expression, "Qin Wenyin didn't come, did she not come?"

Gu Lekang suppressed his anger, waved his hands to make the servants retreat, then grabbed her arm tightly and said in a low voice: "Mother, she has nothing to do with our family, and she is not the third brother, why did she come?"

"No, she didn't come..." Fang couldn't help laughing out loud, she laughed while she was crying, "He wants to go back to the capital to see her again, but she won't come to see him even after he dies, what's the use of his death, what's the use of his death?"

"Mother!" Gu Lekang couldn't help shouting: "Mrs. Bai is not in the capital, she went to visit the mountains and rivers with her husband, the past has become a cloud, let it go if it should go, why do you bother?"

Fang's tears flowed down the corner of her eyes, she staggered, leaned on her son and said in a daze, "I want it to go away too, but your father doesn't agree, it's because he keeps remembering and hanging on, it's because he won't let me go."

Gu Lekang's face was ugly, obviously you two couldn't let it go, couldn't see it! Thinking of his father's death, he couldn't help but close his eyes and said: "Mother, now that father is dead, if he can't let go, you can let it go, and the son is begging you, okay?"

Fang's lips trembled and did not speak.

Gu Lekang lifted up his robe and knelt on the ground, looked up at her seriously and said: "Mother, no matter what happened to my son before, those things have passed, and even the third brother is unwilling to mention it again, so why should you think about it? You still have a son and a grandson. From now on, you can forget about the past and help your son and daughter-in-law take care of the grandson, go to the theater and raise flowers in your spare time, okay?"

Gu Su hurriedly knelt beside her husband, nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, mother, there are many things my daughter-in-law doesn't understand, and I need you to point me out."

Fang stared blankly at the front, turned her eyeballs to look down at them after a while, and finally fixed her eyes on Gu Lekang's face, she reached out to touch him, and asked in a low voice, "Can you let it go?"

Gu Lekang nodded affirmatively, "Of course!"

"Even if I killed your father, are you willing to let go?"

Gu Su felt a chill in her heart, and her fingers trembled with fright. She only heard her husband say in a firm and gentle voice: "Mother, you are overthinking. You didn't kill father. Father died of a serious illness. It has nothing to do with you."

Fang slowly rolled his eyes, "Is it okay with me?"

"Yes, it has nothing to do with you." Gu Lekang suppressed the tears in his eyes and said affirmatively.

However, Gu Su felt cold all over, and the puzzlement that had been suppressed before resurfaced again. The relationship between her parents-in-law has always been bad, and even her father-in-law is a little crazy. Although they live under the same roof, they rarely see each other.

The in-laws' yard has always been managed by the husband himself, and he is also filial. He spends morning and evening every day, even if it is late at night when he returns home, he has to visit his in-laws to feel at ease.

And the servants in the mansion did not dare to be negligent. At that time, it was the summer flood season, and the husband was going to patrol the counties under his jurisdiction to ensure the safety of the river embankment.

It will take more than 20 days to go, and half a month after he left, people in the parents-in-law's yard suddenly reported that the father-in-law didn't want to eat.

At first, she thought it was due to the bitter summer and the unpalatable food, so she hired a doctor and specially asked the cook to cook him his favorite food in a different way.

But her father-in-law just refused to eat, and the doctors invited were helpless, so she could only write to her husband.

When the husband came home, the father-in-law had lost a lot of weight, and his whole body was covered with leather.

Seeing her husband, the father-in-law asked to go back to the capital, otherwise he would not eat. The husband agreed and fed him medicine and porridge himself.

Things started to improve for the father-in-law.

But when the autumn harvest was busy, the husband went on a business trip for a few days from time to time, and the father-in-law started fasting again. No matter how she promised to send him back to the capital when he recovered from his illness, it didn't work. He seemed to be sure that they were lying to him.

After the husband rushed back, he coaxed him and asked for a doctor, but it was useless. This time, the father-in-law was determined and refused to eat.

The husband had no choice but to have his luggage packed and planned to send him back to Beijing, but the doctor said that his body would not last a few days even if he was well maintained, let alone traveling.

In the end, the father-in-law was sick and hungry and tortured himself to death. She was always puzzled why the father-in-law wanted to go back to Beijing so much. He had been doing well before, although he cried, laughed, cursed, and went crazy from time to time, but he never did self-harm.

How determined is a person's will to starve himself like that? Gu Su looked at her mother-in-law with cold hands and feet, and couldn't even stand up for a while.

Gu Lekang stretched out his hand to help her up, patted her hand and said: "You go to the mourning hall first, and I will take mother back."

Gu Sushi nodded blankly.