Chapter 587: Yu Young Lady is reborn [Deep thanks! Another deep thanks! Owed chapters]

Changbai looked at Xu Zaijing who walked into the study, nodded slightly, and said to Zaizhang behind him: "Brother-in-law."

Zaizhang responded with a smile.

Xu Zaijing looked at the stack of homework on the table in front of Changbai and raised an eyebrow.

Taking off his cloak and cape, Xu Zaijing and his brother sat down at their respective desks.

The maids and servants of the two lit the candles on the desks and sat on the wooden platform behind.

Xu Zaijing closed his eyes in his seat, took a deep breath to organize his mood, and then began to read.

After a while,

the cotton curtain at the entrance of the study was lifted again, and the coolness of the early morning poured into the study.

Xu Zaijing thought it was Gu Tingye, but when he looked up, he found it was Qi Heng.

Moreover, when Qi Heng walked into the study, his first glance wasn't at Changbai, Xu Zaijing, and others with lit candles, but at Minglan's corner seat.

Seeing that Minglan's seat was empty, there was a slightly disappointed look in Qi Heng's eyes.

Noticing Xu Zaijing's gaze, a smile appeared on Qi Heng's face, and he nodded to Xu Zaijing: "Jingge, did you go straight home after you came down from the Xuande Tower last night?"

"Yes."

"No wonder I didn't see you when I left the palace!"

After speaking, Qi Heng cupped his hands to greet Changbai and Zaizhang, walked toward his desk, and while walking, took off his cloak and handed it to Buwei beside him.

Soon,

Gu Tingye and Changfeng arrived at the study one after another.

After Gu Tingye sat down, Qi Heng turned his head to look at Gu Tingye and said: "Second Uncle, are you okay last night?"

Gu Tingye waved his hand: "Just a few punks who needed a beating, what could happen to me?"

Xu Zaijing looked at the two talking suspiciously, the look of "what happened" almost overflowing from his eyes.

Qi Heng looked at Xu Zaijing's appearance and hurriedly said: "Jingge, you went home early, you don't know, Second Uncle had a fight with someone outside the palace last night."

Sheng Changfeng, sitting behind Qi Heng, asked with curiosity in his eyes: "Little Marquis, why did Second Brother Gu fight with someone?"

As he spoke, Changfeng also looked at Gu Tingye, who was yawning.

Before Qi Heng could speak, Gu Tingye said: "Pfft, that kid was blind, he kept hanging around me, chatting with the Hai family young lady without a word to say! The young lady didn't want to pay attention to him, but he kept babbling on and on!"

"I kindly advised him, but he spoke evil words, so I had to give him a lesson."

After listening, Changfeng nodded and said: "Oh, so that's it! There's a rule that you can't take concubines casually if you marry a Hai family young lady, I wouldn't dare to think about it."

Gu Tingye turned his head to look at Changfeng and said: "Changfeng, you say that as if I have any ideas; I acted out of justice, I don't have any other thoughts."

After speaking, Gu Tingye looked at Qi Heng and continued: "However, Yuanruo, you... were chatting quite happily with the Yu family's eldest young lady last night."

Qi Heng, who was organizing his brush and ink on the desk, was stunned, turned his head to look at Gu Tingye, nodded, and smiled: "Second Uncle is right, the Yu family's eldest young lady and Sheng..."

Qi Heng paused, "After she chatted with me in a gentle voice, I found out that the Yu family's eldest young lady's maternal grandfather, the Fan family, actually has some kinship with my aunt's maternal family."

Gu Tingye nodded several times while looking at Qi Heng, his eyes turning, as if he was thinking about what his aunt's maternal family's surname was.

Afterward, Gu Tingye asked: "Yuanruo, you chatted with the Yu eldest young lady for so long, aren't you afraid of others misunderstanding? If the Princess knew, would she go to the Yu family to discuss marriage?"

"Discuss... discuss marriage!? How could..."

Qi Heng was somewhat dumbfounded, asking Gu Tingye in a tone of disbelief.

While asking, Qi Heng also looked at Xu Zaijing behind Gu Tingye, with a look of seeking Xu Zaijing's opinion in his eyes.

Xu Zaijing nodded lightly and affirmed: "Yuanruo, yesterday was the Lantern Festival, it is a festival for unmarried men and women to see each other, what Second Uncle said is reasonable."

"This..." Qi Heng had an anxious look in his eyes, and the thought of "then what are you and my cousin and Young Lady Feiyan" flashed through his mind.

Changfeng, sitting behind Qi Heng, holding a brush, also nodded and said: "The Yu family's Old Grand Tutor is powerful and influential, and has many students and former officials! Looking at it this way, it's also a good marriage for the Little Marquis to enter officialdom in the future."

Seeing Qi Heng's anxious appearance, Gu Tingye suppressed the corners of his mouth and asked with some joy: "Yuanruo, looking at your appearance, it seems... you don't want to marry the Yu family?"

Qi Heng nodded repeatedly: "I was just chatting with the Yu eldest young lady, I don't have any other thoughts!"

Gu Tingye tried his best to suppress the corners of his mouth and said: "Then you should tell the Princess, so as to avoid any misunderstandings."

"Yes, yes, Second Uncle is right! Buwei, go back quickly!"

Qi Heng turned his head and said.

Buwei, who was sitting in the back, hurriedly stood up, responded with a "yes," and walked out.

After a while, the sound of young ladies talking came from outside the study.

Hearing the movement, Qi Heng, who was restless, hurriedly looked at the door.

Soon, the three Lans entered the room with their maids.

Seeing Mo Lan, who was walking in the front, looked at Qi Heng's eyes, felt a little shy, nodded to Qi Heng, and walked to the desk.

Rulan and Minglan entered the room behind Seeing Mo Lan; seeing Qi Heng look over, both bowed their heads and hurried to their seats.

"Brother Yuanruo, I heard you went to..." Seeing Mo Lan just said one sentence.

"Cough."

Changbai, who was in the front, coughed lightly.

Seeing Mo Lan looked at the others who were bowing their heads and studying except for Qi Heng, and didn't continue.

"Cough!"

Another cough sounded, but it came from outside the room.

Zhuang Xuejiu lifted the door curtain, looked at everyone in the study, and nodded with satisfaction.

Sitting on the Arhat chair behind the table, Zhuang Xuejiu placed the folding fan in his hand on the desk and said: "Everyone, hand in your homework!"

On the partition walls on both sides of the study, there were bright, wind-proof window papers pasted.

When Zhuang Xuejiu arrived, the sky reflected on the window paper was still dark.

And as Zhuang Xuejiu began to comment on everyone's homework, the sky reflected on the window paper gradually brightened, and the candles on everyone's desks were blown out one after another.

The sky was bright.

Xingguo Lane, Qi Guo Gong Prefecture.

Princess Pingning sat in the hall, looked at Buwei standing at the door bowing, and said: "Hengge asked you to come back just for this?"

Buwei bowed: "Yes, Princess, the Little Marquis was afraid of ruining the reputation of the Yu family's eldest young lady!"

Princess Pingning pondered for a moment and said: "Marriage is a major event, emphasizing the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers! You tell Hengge to study with peace of mind! He doesn't need to worry about these things! Go."

"Yes, Princess!"

Buwei bowed and replied.

Looking at Buwei who took a few steps back and turned to leave, Princess Pingning sat on the chair and was speechless for a long time.

The green smoke on the incense burner drifted for a while; looking at Princess Pingning who didn't speak, the personal nanny to the side asked carefully: "Princess, since this is the case, should we still go to the Yu family to inquire?"

Princess Pingning took a deep breath, looked at the expensive carpet not far away, and said: "After Hengge said this, I thought about it again..."

The personal nanny looked like she was listening carefully.

"Although the Yu Old Grand Tutor loves the Yu eldest young lady, the Yu eldest young lady's biological mother died early, and she had a stepmother early on, and this stepmother had children! The maternal Fan family is not a high-ranking family either."

"With a stepmother, there is a stepfather! Looking at the Yu family's connections, they are mostly inherited by the Yu adults; with that stepmother's stingy and greedy nature, the Yu family probably can't give Heng'er any help."

"Forget it!"

Listening to Princess Pingning's words, the personal nanny nodded repeatedly and said: "Princess, actually you are overthinking! It's a blessing for the Yu eldest young lady to be able to enter our Qi family's door! After the marriage, the Yu Old Grand Tutor's connections will naturally come over!"

Princess Pingning took a deep breath, straightened her chest, raised her chin, shook her head, and said:

"Forget it! As the saying goes, this daughter-in-law is the stepmother, if she is stuck by that Gu Daniangzi and her children, our family doesn't know how much we will be laughed at!"

"Princess is right! In Bianjing City, there are only a few noble ladies who can match the Little Marquis! Speaking of which, the Chai family is still the Old Madam's maternal family, and Young Lady Zhengzheng is also at the age of marriage..."

Princess Pingning waved her hand: "Zhengzheng, our family won't think about it."

"Princess, the head of the Hai family had great merit in the north before, and Young Lady Chaoyun is not young anymore..."

"Their family has too many rules, and the Hai family has five scholars in one family, forget it."

Afterward, Princess Pingning continued to talk to the personal nanny about the young ladies of various families in the capital.

After the twentieth day of the first lunar month, the lanterns inside and outside Bianjing had all been collected.

Not only did the streets and alleys return to their usual appearance, but Xu Zaijing also returned to the rhythm of studying from the Xu family to the Sheng family before the year.

Time passed,

and it was February,

the weather was getting warmer, and there were many commoners in the capital going out of the city to explore spring.

Inside and outside Bianjing,

the gardens of the royal clan and high-ranking families were mostly open for commoners to visit and watch.

Of course, some charged money and some didn't, all depending on the owner's words.

Quyuanjie,

In the racetrack of Marquis Yongyi's Mansion, the dragon horse that was pregnant last year now had a smaller belly, and a divine little horse was following by its side.

By the racetrack,

Pingmei led her son Gu Shixing and Gu Tingyi to stand by the wooden railing, looking at the little horse in the field.

Not far from them, there were also White Madam holding her granddaughter Yan Jie'er, Sun Shi, and two daughters-in-law.

Gu Shixing looked up at Pingmei beside him and said: "Mother, is this little horse the one Little Uncle gave me?"

Pingmei nodded with a smile.

"Then Xu Xingdai, does he have one?"

"Dai Ge'er doesn't have one."

Gu Tingyi helped Pingmei say on the side.

"Oh!"

Gu Shixing nodded happily.

Pingmei glanced at her son and said: "Xing'er, in the future, your Little Uncle's horse will have more little horses."

"But this little horse of mine is the older brother!" Gu Shixing said with a smile.

Hearing this, everyone around laughed.

White Madam looked at the divine little horse in the field, turned her head to Sun Shi and said: "Sister, Jingge is really willing; if it were me, I couldn't bear to give away such a good-looking little horse!"

Sun Shi, who was slightly pregnant, looked at White Madam with a smile, her eyes gentle, with many unspeakable meanings.

White Madam looked at Sun Shi who didn't speak, first was suspicious, and then the tacit understanding of many years of friendship made her quickly understand the meaning in Sun Shi's eyes.

It was probably: "You can even give away the Marquis title of the founding auxiliary transport, what kind of treasure horse, it can't compare to this!"

That year, White Madam chose to expose the Qin family's conspiracy, making Gu Tingyu grow up very healthily and marry the Xu family's eldest daughter, which meant that Gu Tingye's qualification to inherit the Ningyuan Hou Fu was gone!

Seeing White Madam understand her meaning, Sun Shi smiled and held White Madam's hand.

White Madam only felt warm in her heart and said with a sour nose: "I am a stepmother to others, I can't plot against the children's things!"

Hearing this, Xie Shi and Hualan beside Sun Shi looked at White Madam with admiration.

What exactly happened to Ningyuan Marquis Heir Gu Tingyu,

for so many years, although the Gu family didn't say it clearly, Bianjing was not short of smart people; just looking at the changes in the relationship between the Qin family and the Gu family over the years, one could guess it was about the same.

Before, Xie Shi and Hualan, the sisters-in-law, had heard their mother-in-law mention it several times!

The sisters-in-law had discussed that if they encountered the same situation as White Madam, whether they would choose the same as White Madam, both had to put a question mark in their hearts.

After all, one was born by herself, and the other was not.

Sun Shi looked at her grandson who was happy not far away, and then looked back at White Madam, whom she had known for many years.

In her heart, she couldn't help but flash the news that Pingmei had revealed to her when she was talking about intimate things, which was about some plans of her son-in-law Gu Tingyu.

"Mother, before, the official wrote to me..."

Thinking of Pingmei's words, Sun Shi smiled and said: "When do you plan to set the marriage of Yi Jie'er with the Shoushan Earl's family?"

White Madam took a deep breath, adjusted her mood, and smiled: "It has to be after Ye'er's marriage is finished!"

Sun Shi nodded: "Then, which noble lady do you plan to hire?"

White Madam whispered: "I asked about the eldest young lady Yanran of the Yu Old Grand Tutor's family, and Yi'er praised her a lot!"

Sun Shi and the two daughters-in-law exchanged a look and said: "Sister, the Ningyuan Hou Fu has produced a scholar like Yu Ge'er, which is considered to have taken off the name of a soldier; Ye Ge'er is also well-read, which is considered a good young man in the capital!"

"That pair of parents of the Yu eldest young lady are really... it's also a pitiful young lady!"

White Madam nodded and said: "That Little Yu Adult couple is a bit greedy for money! But now my family has Yu Ge'er, and the Daniangzi is a noble lady from the Hou Fu like Pingmei! If Yi'er marries into another family, and Ye'er finds another powerful noble military general's Daniangzi, I'm afraid..."

Hearing this,

Sun Shi pondered for a moment, nodded in agreement, and said: "Sister, what you think is very reasonable, so I won't say much."

White Madam nodded with a smile and said: "As the saying goes, this daughter marrying is like being reborn! Sister, I also heard from the servant Zhique beside Ye'er, saying..."

Xie Shi and Hualan, who were standing beside Sun Shi, looked at each other in surprise after hearing White Madam's words.

After White Madam finished speaking,

Sun Shi smiled and said: "Sister, after you said this, I was really talkative! Ye Ge'er likes it, the mother-in-law likes it! According to your words, this Yu eldest young lady marrying into your house is also considered to have been reborn into a good womb..."

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