Spring Girl's Notes

Chapter 406 Love

Mother's guess is a bit out of thin air.

Gu Jinzhi couldn't speak directly, so he said, "Mother, you didn't ask Brother Xuan, how do you know he's bothered by this? What if there are other things? Or, I'll ask you again?"

Mother has many reasons.

She told Gu Jinzhi one by one: "...you went to Luzhou, brother Xiu is in Songshan Academy, brother Xuan has no friends in Beijing, and he was only ten years old when he met Li Huai. I didn't want to restrict him too much. Li Huai is the most clever, playing in different ways. The Li family is not like our family, which has a shallow foundation and insists on making children work hard. The children of the Li family will have a future if they don't cause trouble.

Brother Xuan envied Li Huai, and he also listened to Li Huai's words, and he had to compare everything with him.

Since Li Huai took a concubine last year, he mentioned that he has been unhappy.

Yesterday, knowing that you and the lord were supposed to be at home when you returned to Beijing, he still went to Li's house for a banquet.Others dare not say that he still has your sister in his eyes.He regards the banquet of the Li family more than you, isn't he trying to show his face outside?

Friends outside all marry wives and take concubines. Our family is strictly controlled. He doesn't even have a roommate. He must have been laughed at.Brother Xuan is like your father, with a thin skin, and he can't stand being teased by others.I thought, his marriage should be settled sooner rather than later..."

Gu Jinzhi listened to his mother's analysis of such a lot, which was well-founded, and knew that his mother believed it.

Although Gu Jinzhi feels that these things may be the mother's assumptions, it is not enough to explain Brother Xuan's problem.

On the contrary, Gu Jinzhi knew better why Brother Xuan ran out yesterday.

She didn't point out or refute her mother.He just said: "Mother is in charge of everything at home. You can figure it out. It's just that you have to work hard..."

"What's so hard about marrying a wife?" Song Pan'er laughed.

She is very happy.

Gu Jinzhi didn't say anything anymore.

There is a visitor at home in the morning.

Mother also has many relatives and friends who did not go.

Gu Jinzhi then said: "Go and do your work. I also want to visit Jiang Xin in the morning. If it's still early, I also want to pay New Year's greetings to my first aunt and second aunt..."

Mother has also met many people in Beijing over the years.

Friendships vary in depth, but every family has a banquet during the Chinese New Year, so it's time to pay New Year's greetings.Forget it on weekdays, but you can't postpone it during the Chinese New Year.

"...I'll be back early in the afternoon, you're all here to eat." Mother thought for a while.After exhorting Gu Jinzhi a few words, he finally went out.

Gu Jinzhi agreed, and personally sent his mother to the door of Chuihua.

As soon as his mother left, Gu Jinzhi went to the outer courtyard without turning back.

She found Brother Xuan in the small study in Brother Xuan's yard.

The maids came out to welcome them.He whispered, "Master Ninth is in the study..."

Gu Jinzhi waved her hand to tell the maids not to follow, she walked in softly, Brother Xuan was writing.

Brother Xuan sat upright, writing elegantly and eloquently.There is a touch of radiance in the side face, which is very handsome.He grew up as a young lady back then.It seems like an instant to grow into the handsome young man he is today.

When Brother Xuan was not in the mood to study, he spent his time practicing calligraphy. This was Gu Jinzhi's habit back then.

Gu Jinzhi stepped slightly heavier.

Brother Xuan didn't turn his head back, and said, "No need to change the tea, let's go out." He only regarded him as a serving maid.

The maids had to refill his tea every quarter of an hour.

Gu Jinzhi laughed out loud.

Brother Xuan heard that the laughter was not right, so he turned his head to look.I saw that it was Gu Jinzhi.One word in his hand was broken.He hurriedly put down his pen, and greeted him, "Seventh Sister, why are you here?"

"You hide from my sister, but my sister misses my brother." Gu Jinzhi smiled, "I can't get enough of you without seeing you for so many years. You ran away after breakfast, obviously you didn't want to talk to me anymore, I just have to follow..."

Brother Xuan hastily defended: "Seventh Sister, I am wronged by these words. I just thought that my husband will be back after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. I haven't finished a lot of homework, so I am not avoiding Seventh Sister."

"...I'm in Beijing, so I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for the Lantern Festival." Gu Jinzhi interrupted him, "You don't want to talk to me? I don't know when I will return to Beijing next time." Well. Maybe another seven years..."

Brother Xuan's heart hurts, and his eyes are full of guilt.He missed Seventh Sister very much.If it wasn't for saying something wrong yesterday and running away in embarrassment, my sister wouldn't have felt left out.

Brother Xuan is very sorry.

He fell silent, not knowing how to apologize.

The servant girls came in with tea, breaking the silence in the room.

Gu Jinzhi took the tea with a smile and asked the maids' names.

Brother Xuan hurriedly introduced them to her one by one.

That embarrassment was so invisible.

Afterwards, the siblings sat on the master chair in the study and drank tea.

Gu Jinzhi smelled the light Longjing fragrance, put the teacup on his lips and dipped it, and put down the teacup again before drinking half a drop of water.

She didn't drink tea, she just made a show.

Brother Xuan didn't notice her little movement, he just drank his tea.

Even if he noticed, he probably didn't know the reason.

Gu Jinzhi inadvertently put his hand on his lower abdomen, then picked up the teacup, pretended again, and touched the edge of the teacup to his lips.

"You ran away before finishing what you said yesterday afternoon." Gu Jinzhi put down the teacup, and asked brother Xuan with a smile, "Which girl do you like? Tell Seventh Sister, and Seventh Sister will help you tell Mother."

Brother Xuan hates communicating with his parents the most.

Gu Jinzhi remembered that when Rongnan was so old, he was also very silent, and he would not say anything when asked.There was a gap of two or three years between the two of them.During that period, boys began to pretend to be girls in their hearts, and their behavior became abnormal.

Everyone behaves differently.

Brother Xuan's performance is very similar to that of Rongnan back then, Gu Jinzhi knows how he feels.

It's not cowardly or reticent, it's just a stage of growing up.

Not every boy has this stage.

As it happens, Rongnan has it.Brother Xuan also has it.

"I don't want to make your mother angry..." Brother Xuan paused after hearing Gu Jinzhi's words, holding the tea cup, and then muttered after a while, "Let's talk about it later."

Mother has been bothering brother Xiu.

Brother Xiu's grades in Chunwei are uncertain, and his mother's mood is also uncertain. Brother Xuan dare not say anything.

"After a while, it will be too late." Gu Jinzhi said with a smile, "Mother told me that after the first month, I will invite someone to go to the Zou family to protect the matchmaker."

Brother Xuan was astonished.

He stared blankly at Gu Jinzhi: "Why...how so fast?"

He was talking about his mother before.The mother wanted to wait for the results of the starling Chunwei before making an engagement for herself.

Gu Jinzhi taught Brother Xuan word by word what his mother had told her just now: "...Mother mistook you for wanting a wife, so you behaved abnormally. Parents love you very much. It's heartbreaking. They guessed that you want a wife, so I'll tell you right away. You should tell your mother yourself about your business. Or do you want me to help you?"

Brother Xuan was stunned there.

He was confused by Gu Jinzhi's words.

But think about it, my mother has always been quick-tempered and decisive.

Maybe today's mother went out to beg someone to be a matchmaker for her.

Brother Xuan sorted out his panic, and looked at Seventh Sister sitting in front of him.Thinking that there was no way out, she gritted her teeth and said, "Seventh Sister, you... you can help me tell my mother..."

"Okay, I'll tell." Gu Jinzhi said, "But you can't lie to me. If what you say is not true, Mother will think that we have joined forces to lie to her in the future, and she will feel cold about me, so I won't listen. Tell me exactly what happened to you."

Brother Xuan nodded.

He rubbed his nose in embarrassment.It was difficult to say: "Seventh sister, is the third sister-in-law's cousin..."

In Gu Jin's heart.Inexplicably had the worst plan.

As soon as brother Xuan mentioned the third sister-in-law's cousin, Gu Jinzhi quickly went through the affairs of the third sister-in-law's family in his heart.

She asked Brother Xuan: "What cousin, aunt cousin, aunt cousin or uncle cousin?"

The third sister-in-law, Xia Shi, is the granddaughter of Xia Shoufu.

Sanchuan has an aunt who married into the Tan family.

Except for the Tan family, other Gu Jinzhi could accept it.

She was afraid that brother Xuan would say that she was the third sister-in-law's aunt, and that aunt happened to belong to the Tan family.

Gu Jinzhi looked at Brother Xuan urgently.

Brother Xuan was embarrassed by her, and said like a gnat: "The cousin of the third sister-in-law's aunt's family."

Gu Jinzhi heaved a sigh of relief and smiled.

The third sister-in-law did not have an aunt to marry into the Tan family.

that's enough.

Her smile also encouraged Brother Xuan.

Brother Xuan's voice gradually gained some confidence: "...I met her before my uncle moved. It was the third sister-in-law's second child's full moon ceremony. She and her mother came here. She has heard of you I asked me specifically about Qijie, are you a genius doctor? She talked to me a lot, and I promised to give her a few medicine books. Later, when I grew up, I didn’t meet every year. After two or three years, I could I saw it once at the third brother's side."

Gu Jin smiled.

The uncle moved in Shuntian ten years ago.

Brother Xuan was only eleven or twelve years old at that time, and the third sister-in-law's cousin was probably not even ten years old.

The children are young, and they don't know how to hide when the family is busy.

Gu Jinzhi's third sister-in-law, Xia Shi, gave birth to another baby boy when she was in Shuntian for ten years.

Brother Xuan went into the inner house to see the child, and met his ideal person.

"Did you give her the medicine book?" Gu Jinzhi asked.

"Yes." Brother Xuan said, "Mother was also there when she asked. After returning home, Mother said that a man should keep his word. There are several medicine books in my grandfather's study, and Mother asked me to choose two. She asked someone to send it to her house."

Gu Jinzhi laughed again.

Medicine books are very precious.

"Sister-in-law's aunt?" Gu Jinzhi thought for a while, but still had no memory, "Which one is it?"

"Their family name is Cai, and his grandfather was also a general of Fengguo, the third generation of hereditary. When it comes to her father's generation, there is nothing left." Brother Xuan said.After finishing speaking, he seemed to be afraid that Gu Jinzhi would dislike him, and said, "Speaking of it, their family is also famous."

Gu Jin smiled.

Most of the families in Beijing are more prestigious than the Gu family.

In the eyes of the old nobles, the Gu family is an upstart.

"What's her name?" Gu Jinzhi asked again.

"My name is Cai Yan, and my nickname is Miss Su." Brother Xuan said.

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