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

Gu Lekang helped his mother back to the house, stayed with her for a long time, and returned to the mourning hall after comforting her.

It stands to reason that when his father passed away, his mother should also stay in the mourning hall, but she has also become a little crazy in recent years.

Gu Lekang knew that his father's dead mother was responsible. Although the servants didn't hear everything she said to his father, he knew how she seduced him based on those few words and what his father said.

But he couldn't say anything to blame her. They couldn't tell who was right and who was wrong. Father made many mistakes. Could it be that mother was innocent?

The mother was cruel, but how could the father ever be kind?

Now that he can't tell right from wrong, he can only be confused, and only fulfill his filial piety and responsibility.

Nothing is perfect, it's just deceiving yourself and others, and it's a good thing to be able to deceive yourself and others.

Gu Lekang came out of the mourning hall, and simply took a bowl of porridge with side dishes, and then put down the bowls and chopsticks with no appetite for the servants to clean up.

Gu Lekang opened the Buddhist scriptures and copied them word by word, his heart slowly calmed down. Gu Su took off his coat, glanced at him, and couldn't help comforting him: "Master, let's rest early, we have to keep watch tomorrow."

Gu Lekang finished copying this page of scriptures, then put down his pen and said: "Go to sleep first, I will go to the mourning hall to have a look later."

Gu Su couldn't help thinking of the doubts that arose during the day, so he pursed his lips and didn't speak.

Gu Lekang saw that his wife was silent for a while, so he couldn't help but look up at her. Seeing her troubled face, he couldn't help asking with a smile, "What's the matter?"

Gu Su opened his mouth, and said with a smile: "I'm just a little curious, who is the adult who came up to the mourning hall today, but he is quite sincere, and brought his wife and children along."

Gu Jingyun was the only one who brought his wife and children to mourn today.

Gu Lekang gradually put away the smile on his face, and rubbed the paper on the table with his fingers, "He is my brother."

"ah?"

Gu Lekang smiled, and said with distant eyes: "When we got married, I said that I am the second son in the family, and he is my eldest brother."

Gu Su opened his mouth wide and said after a while, "But, I thought he had passed away."

Gu Lekang raised his eyebrows and looked at her, "Why do you think so?"

Gu Su bowed his head and said: "My parents sent people to Beijing to inquire about you, and grandfather said that you were the only heir of the third house, and the third house of the Gu family will be inherited by you, so we all thought..." We thought that the eldest son was dead, otherwise why would grandfather say that?

Back then, Gu Lekang went to the barren land in the southwest to be the county magistrate, and got married there. The Su family is considered good in the county, several generations have been scholars, but the most capable one passed the Juren examination, and it was her grandfather.

The Su family is barely considered a famous family in the local area, but it is nothing but that county. They had only heard of the name of the Hou's Mansion. Back then, Gu Lekang's visit to propose marriage had shocked their family, thinking that the county magistrate wanted to take her as a concubine or something.

But Gu Lekang explained her origin very clearly, and gave them time to investigate, and sent two servants to lead her second uncle to the Marquis's mansion, so that the elders could engage in face-to-face engagement. Because Gu Lekang said he was the second son, they thought he was a bastard, otherwise how could he marry them? But it was only when he arrived in the capital that he realized that he was not only the legitimate son, but also the only surviving child of Sanfang.

So both the family and she felt hit by the pie.

Moreover, Old Hou Ye personally exchanged Geng Tie with them, which can be regarded as the finalization of this marriage.

At that time, they all thought that the eldest son of the third room was dead, and it was not good to mention it in front of Gu Lekang, so as not to make him sad. However, these years, because their parents-in-law is not healthy and mentally weak, they have been living alone in the same yard.

Except for the first and fifteenth day of each month, she rarely saw them, and the servants who went with the Hou Mansion never mentioned it.

Gu Su looked at him blankly.

Seeing her like this, Gu Lekang realized that he had been negligent. He couldn't help but said, "It's my fault too, I forgot to tell you this."

Because he never thought of bringing his family back to the capital again, he never told his wife about this, just wanting to separate his life from the previous one.

But I didn't expect him to come back now. Since he came back, he had to explain clearly to his wife, so as not to embarrass her.

Gu Lekang got up and took her hand and walked towards the bed, "Forget it, I won't go to the mourning hall tonight, let's rest, and I will tell you about our family."

"He is my eldest brother, but he is no longer from the Marquis Mansion, but lives in a separate clan. You should have heard about him. He is the emperor's teacher, Gu Jingyun who was named the grand master." Gu Lekang asked with a smile, "Isn't he very powerful?"

Gu Su clicked his tongue, "The emperor is so young?"

"That's right, I inherited my education from my father, but he inherited it from his maternal ancestor's family. The people of the Qin family have always been good at reading, and they are even older than him today, but when they were princes, they always came to listen to them."

Only then did Gu Su realize something was wrong, she asked in a low voice: "Didn't he come from your mother?"

"Of course not, his mother is from the Runing Qin family."

"Ah," Gu Su's whispered, "I remembered, what my father said, said that the uncle of the current Taifu was Qin Ge Lao, and also said that Qin Ge was old and had no children, so he adopted a child from Gu Taifu."

Gu Lekang nodded, "When the Qin family was in trouble, my father and Mrs. Qin parted ways, so my elder brother went out to live separately not long after he came back."

He didn't want to say more about his parents' rights and wrongs, but he didn't hide what should be pointed out. He said in a low voice: "Brother doesn't have a good impression of the Hou's Mansion, and he doesn't want to be involved with the Hou's Mansion. From now on, it's fine to see them salute and say hello from a distance. There is no need to go forward."

Combining the stories that Gu Su had heard from his father and grandfather, Gu Su didn't understand something in his heart. He was afraid that the Hou Mansion did something wrong to the mother and child.

She was both surprised and a little bit distressed in her heart, surprised that the characters in those legendary stories were related to her; distressed by the burden on her husband.

Gu Su couldn't help reaching out to hold his hand.

Gu Lekang patted her hand, and said softly: "Go to sleep, and ask me if you don't understand anything in the future."

Gu Sushi hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't help asking in a low voice: "What mother said today..."

Gu Lekang sighed faintly, suppressed the choking in his throat and said: "Father did something wrong back then, and later he regretted it, but the old man refused to forgive him, and he couldn't get out of it, so he fell into a demon. I didn't let you see him all these years because he was mentally ill and couldn't tell the past from the present and the future, thinking that he was still living before everything happened."

"But this is to erase the existence of my mother and me. I don't care, but my mother can't accept it, so..." So she often stimulated him. When Gu Huaijin was immersed in the hallucinations of the past, he was no different from a normal person. But once he was stimulated by Zhao Shi and woke up, he couldn't help being agitated, and refused to admit the current self and the current situation.

Instead, his madness got worse.

Gu Lekang suppressed the tears in his eyes and said: "Actually, they shouldn't live together in such a situation, but my mother has only one son, and she's in a bad situation in the Hou Mansion, and she was abandoned by her husband. If I also abandon her, how sad will she be?"

"Father can't stay in the capital. That will not only cause trouble for the Hou Mansion, but also disturb others. Send him back to his hometown to be taken care of by servants..."

Gu Lekang sent it back, but when he went back after a while, he found that his father had been neglected by his servants to the extent that he hadn't bathed for half a month, and his food was leftovers. How dare he let him stay there?

Except for his son, his grandfather rejected him, and it was impossible for the two uncles to take care of him when he had a son, so Gu Lekang could only take him to the post.

At that time, he had to deal with political affairs, take care of his parents, and manage the inner house, and he was going crazy.

It started to get better after marrying Mrs. Su, she can take care of the family affairs very well, he handles the political affairs well every day, and when he comes back, he will visit his parents to make sure that the servants have not neglected and abused them.

In my spare time, I can play piano and chess with my wife, or tease my children, or take my parents out to relax.

He knew that his mother would sometimes deliberately say something to irritate his father, so he intentionally separated them, divided a yard into two, let the servants watch them, and tried not to let them meet.

It was okay when he came home every day, maybe because he was afraid that he was harboring a grudge, his mother would never provoke his father at that time, but when he was on a business trip occasionally, his mother would not be able to help but look for his father, and the servants couldn't stand him at all.

So every time he came back from a business trip, his father fell into madness.

Gu Lekang also mentioned it to his mother many times, but every time she agreed sincerely, she still committed the crime afterwards, and Gu Lekang had a headache.

But after so many years, he has been under control. His mother never stimulated him too much. I don't know what happened recently. Her mother was so angry that she directly lured him to go on a hunger strike to seek death...

"My mother is responsible for this matter, but my father is not innocent. He really wants to die, otherwise he wouldn't starve himself like that."

Gu Huaijin's health was originally not good, and in addition to the ups and downs these years, he went crazy, and his physical condition declined sharply.

If he didn't want to die, he might still live for several years without going on a hunger strike, but since he went on a hunger strike, he lost the will to survive, and his body functions were rapidly depleted, so naturally he couldn't live for a few days.

Gu Lekang also knew a little bit about medical knowledge, and the doctor made it clear that Gu Huaijin's illness was mainly caused by himself.

So he couldn't hate his mother, so he could only cover up the matter and not let his grandfather know, otherwise it would be difficult for his mother to live because of his grandfather's dissatisfaction with his mother.

Gu Lekang patted his wife on the shoulder and said: "My mother has never been very happy in her life. Now that my father is gone, I only hope that she will have a better life in the future."

Gu Su understood that although her husband didn't go into details, he could guess based on what he knew. The father-in-law has been thinking about Mrs. Qin, so it's no wonder the mother-in-law feels better.

Gu Su said in a low voice: "Don't worry, Xianggong. I will bring more children to accompany her in the future. Mother will always be happier seeing her grandson, right?"

Gu Lekang smiled and nodded.

"By the way, will Grand Tutor Gu come at the sunrise funeral?" Gu Sushi asked cautiously.

Gu Lekang said with a complex expression: "Should come, even if blood relationship is removed, he is still a branch of the Gu family."

Gu Su held his hand and said: "I think my sister-in-law seems to be easy to talk to. When the time comes, will I stay by her side?"

Gu Lekang's face suddenly turned weird, "Is she easy to talk to?"

He chuckled lightly, shook his head, but nodded slightly after a while and said: "That's not wrong, most of the time she is really easy to talk to."