The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 55 The Outsider
"So...you are actually suspicious of Chang'an?"

Zhang Tingyu crossed his hands and fingers together, looked at Gu Huaixiu in front of him, walked up and down and talked for a long time.

She didn't stop until everything was almost finished, and when she heard Zhang Tingyu's question, she sneered: "You don't believe it?"

Zhang Tingyu sneered: "Why don't I believe it? Compared with you, others are outsiders, why don't I believe you? I'm just worried..."

I am worried that everyone believes in Chang'an, but not in their second wife.

After all, the position of the second bedroom is too embarrassing here.

Gu Huaixiu just sat in the room for a while, and became a little worried when he heard that Mrs. Wu had gone to the big house.

It's not that she wants to intervene in this matter, she has always been on the sidelines in this mansion, if it's not because Chang'an belongs to the old lady, Gu Huaishu probably wouldn't be full and have nothing to do, so she would just keep an eye on it. she.

Originally, Chen's body could not be saved, it was a dead game, and Gu Huaishu didn't think about it.

However, today it happened that Aunt Feng was pregnant.

It's like a lake that was originally calm, but a stone is thrown into it suddenly, and it still looks calm now.But Gu Huaishu is the person standing by the lake after all, if there are waves in the center of the lake, when will the waves reach her?
How this matter develops now, Gu Huaishu is not very clear.

"If everything is as you imagined, even if she can't become the main wife, she still harmed the sister-in-law, then this little concubine...maybe the problem..."

Zhang Tingyu suddenly couldn't tell for sure, it was hard to guess what a woman was thinking.

Gu Huaishu also suspected that Chen's accidental miscarriage was at that time. Because of his weak body, he has been recuperating. This must be no problem.But why didn't the doctor get out the happy pulse?According to the doctor, the pulse condition of the elder and younger grandmother was very disordered and relatively weak, and this was ignored when paying attention to her disease.

What the doctors say makes sense, Zhang Tingzan too?I suspect that a quack doctor was invited, and no one will think that this is also designed by others.

But in fact, if the doctor didn't put the happy pulse in front, everything behind would not happen.

Whether Gu Huaixiu's guess is correct or not is impossible to know, and it is impossible for her to investigate blatantly.

Besides, what about Dafang and Gu Huaishu?At most, there is only one connection in Chang'an.

What did she use to check?
Now telling Zhang Tingyu the matter is nothing more than she feels that this matter may be beyond her expectations and may lose control.In addition, it is simply not convenient to intervene.

If you want to get rid of Chang'an and cut off an arm of the old lady, the timing is really perfect.

But the person who does it must not be Gu Huaishu.

She is still counting on living in this mansion for a period of time, and now the old lady hates it, but at least it's not to the point of death.

If Mrs. Wu knew that her daughter-in-law was plotting against her confidants behind her back, why would she want to tear Gu Huaixiu apart.

In this matter, Gu Huaixiu must be clean and beautiful, and staying out of it is the most perfect.

At the same time, to stay out of the matter on the surface, and to solve Chang'an, he had to borrow a knife to kill someone.

Where did the knife come from?

Isn't Gu Huaishu just borrowing a knife?
Zhang Tingyu couldn't figure out what other people were thinking, but when Gu Huaishu came to him and said the first sentence in his study, he understood it.

Gently knocking on the table, Zhang Tingyu said: "Brother is not in the mansion now, if it is as you think, even though the matter is serious, Chang'an would not dare to do too much, right? After all, it is under the eyes of the old lady... It’s useless to be anxious, I’ll simply send a letter to someone to explain the whole story, and let the rest go.”

The most simple and crude solution.

Therefore, Zhang Tingzan can become a good knife for Gu Huaixiu.

But besides looking for Zhang Tingzan, there is no other good way at all.

She is very proud of her sleeves, how could she plot against the servant girl beside the old lady who works hard for the house?
Gu Huaishu tapped his fingers lightly, finally sat down, picked up the purple sand teapot Zhang Tingyu put on the table, poured himself a cup of tea, squinted his eyes and took a sip: "Second Master Zhang is really a ?? An intelligent man who can keep himself out of the way."

Zhang Tingyu sneered: "Second Young Mistress, is this a compliment to me, or to yourself?"

"Husband and wife are one body, what are you and me divided?"

She smiled shamelessly, leaned forward and stabbed Zhang Tingyu's elbow, "Why don't you go out to study?"

"I'm not in a hurry, but you are getting anxious..."

Zhang Tingyu sighed, walked to the table, picked up a pen and briefly wrote down what Gu Huaixu said just now, the words were quite cryptic, Zhang Tingzan should be able to see his cleverness.

"Brother is afraid that he is still in Zhan Shi's mansion and won't be able to come out until noon. I just hope that nothing will happen in this period of time. After all... Even if a aunt is pregnant, it is still the blood of my brother."

Not to mention, the Chen family may not be able to bear children.

Zhang Tingyu lowered his eyes, dried the paper on which the letter was written, stuffed it into an envelope, added wax, and asked Ade to wait outside the palace gate in the name of leaving the palace.

He didn't see that Gu Huaixiu's face darkened slightly when he said this.

The Chen family is in such a predicament now because they are unable to have children. Even if Gu Huaishu feels that he is an outsider, it is inevitable that he will feel sorry for him.

This matter could have been directly notified to Zhang Tingzan without Zhang Tingyu's hands, but after all...

There is only one eldest brother in the entire mansion, and it seems that he can still get along with Zhang Tingyu.

After all, she still cared about Zhang Tingyu's thoughts.

Zhang Tingzan said that he and Chen's husband and wife are deeply in love, but there are already so many rifts between the two of them, even if Chen's body is well-raised, he may not be able to return to the so-called "original".

She put down her teacup and yawned: "I'm sleepy."

Zhang Tingyu still needs to read and write. He was very happy to see her come to his study, but now that she is tired, it is not good to keep her here.

Originally, this kind of place should not be from my daughter's house. If my husband saw it, I would have to say a few more words later.

Zhang Tingyu glanced at her, only felt that her face was a little strange, thinking that she was tired: "Our second room doesn't care about other people's affairs, if you have these difficult things in the future, you can just tell me, I have my own way to deal with it. Don't think about it Sleep a little, eat, drink and sleep, and that's it."

"Eat, drink, drink and sleep, do you think you are raising pigs?"

If you raise a pig, you have to let the pig come out and run around twice. If you raise her, you are not allowed to use her brain?
Gu Huaixiu wanted to laugh, she drank the tea in the cup and stretched her waist: "I'll go back directly, Er Ye is busy."

After finishing speaking, Gu Huaishu waved to Zhang Tingyu and stepped out of the room.

The family school is at the southeast corner of the whole yard, very close to their yard, only Gu Huaishu came out, passed the corner, and was about to go down the steps when he saw Zhang Tinglu.

This one is my uncle, Gu Huaishu hurriedly stopped and greeted him with a salute: "Third brother."

Zhang Tinglu didn't expect to see Gu Huaishu at the homeschool. He was three feet away from Gu Huaishu, quietly looked at her, then lowered his head, and said, "Tinglu has seen the second sister-in-law."

Ever since Gu Huaishu entered Zhang's house, he hadn't appeared much, except for the few big incidents that happened, he didn't know what he was doing on weekdays.

Zhang Tinglu counted on her fingers, and only saw her twice, and this time was the third time.

Gu Huaishu didn't know that there was a quarrel between the two brothers, Zhang Er and Zhang San. Her attitude was very natural, she smiled slightly, and said politely: "You don't need to be so polite, third brother. I'm here to talk to your second brother. Right now Just go, don't tell the mister, lest your second brother be punished."

Zhang Tinglu lowered her eyes, put her hands by her sides, and clenched them quietly.

He still looks like a teenager, but recently he has calmed down a lot, and he has lost a lot of youthfulness.

Zhang Tinglu joked nonchalantly: "Second sister-in-law loves second brother very much, Ting Lu remembers, if second brother is punished later, second sister-in-law can just come to me."

"You have said that, how can I have the face to come to you? If your second brother is punished, he must have done it himself."

Gu Huaixiu smiled, guessing that he passed by here, he must not be very free, and said: "Seeing that you have something to do, you shouldn't make so many jokes in the family education. Third brother, go and take care of your own affairs. I'm back home too."

"Congratulations to the second sister-in-law."

Zhang Tinglu hugged her hands, then watched Gu Huaishou Shi Shiran return the gift, and walked out of the yard.

Turning around the three or five clusters of red plums on the two corners, the shadow has disappeared.

Zhang Tinglu didn't know what was spreading in her heart, bitterness?It doesn't seem to be...

Once the five-flavor bottle is overturned, who knows what it is?
A friend's wife can't be bullied, let alone a brother's?
He turned around, turned his hands away, and just took two steps when he saw Zhang Tingyu standing in front of the window, holding a copy of "Four Books Collected Notes" in his hand, looking at him with a smile.

Zhang Tinglu's heart froze for some reason, but she lowered her head and said, "Second brother."

Zhang Tingyu bent his lips slightly, and said: "Go on with your work, why should you be so polite?"

"Yes."

Zhang Tinglu didn't say much, and walked through the front corridor.

It started snowing outside again, and when Gu Huaishu returned to the house, some snowflakes fell from his hair.

The New Year's Eve is approaching, and the maids inside and outside the house are all starting to discuss about the New Year's Eve.

Gu Huaishu walked in, Duofu Duoxi brushed the snow off her body, Duohuan handed the stove up, Qingdai spread a brocade mat for her beside the couch.

She said: "Light up the stove, I'll go to Second Master's study to find some books to read."

Originally, the matter was still related to him, but since he started to "borrow" the knife, Gu Huaishu suddenly entered the state of watching a show.If Zhang Tingzan is sincere to his wife, and looking at the usual relationship between Zhang Tingzan and the Wu family, respect is respectful, and hunger is just on the surface.Inside, Wu Shi seemed to be a little afraid of her eldest son.

If you want to live well in this mansion, Zhang Tingzan is actually very important to the second room.

After all, there is only one Zhang Tingzan in this mansion...

While thinking about it, she rummaged through Zhang Tingyu's study for a while.

The few rows of bookshelves over there are full of travel notes and the like, famous mountains and rivers, historical classics, Gu Huaishu is not very interested.

She looked at the bookshelf in front of her again. Fortunately, Zhang Tingyu didn't tell her to read the Book of Women's Precepts, but...there are actually not many books that can be read here.

Gu Huaishu felt dazzled as his gaze moved from the countless handwriting on the spine of the book.

Zhang Tingyu read too many books.

She took out a book at random, looked at the edge of the page, there were some hairy marks, and it looked like it had been turned over countless times.

I changed another one, and it was still the same. I opened it casually, and there was a small comment in the middle of each line of printing, which could be divided into several types according to the depth of the ink.

There must be more than one annotation in a book.

Gu Huaixiu thought about it, and put the book back again.

These are all things that give her a headache when she looks at them, she likes things that are lighter...

Sliding his finger over the bookshelf, he suddenly saw a book randomly placed in the corner.

The location of this book is very remote, it seems that it was stuffed by someone casually.

Gu Huaishu also took out a copy of "Rong Zhai's Essays", she did not expect Zhang Tingyu to have it here.There are many parts of this book, but Zhang Tingyu seems to be incomplete here.There are many surviving books, which were written by Hong Mai in the Song Dynasty for 18 years.Essays, continuation, rewriting, four strokes, five strokes... This essay was originally meant to be written in sixteen volumes, but Hong Mai passed away after ten volumes were written, so a total of ten volumes have been handed down, but I don’t know how many copies there are.

She remembered that there seemed to be more than 300 copies of the whole book, but these 300 copies have not been handed down completely.

Gu Huaishu has seen it before, but there are some things that can be seen in this era, but not necessarily seen in that era.

As soon as she opened it, she saw a piece of ashes flying up from her fingernails.

Gu Huaishu paused, she saw that there seemed to be many traces of paper dust in the cracks between the pages of the book.

With a finger lightly on the nail cover, the ashes melted at her fingertips and turned into powder.

Perhaps when something was burned, the ashes fell into the book?

Gu Huaishu thought about this for a while, but he flicked it with his hand, and blew away the ashes in the gaps between the pages of the book. He didn't look at the words on it until the two pages were clean.

She sat where Zhang Tingyu usually sat, reading a book.

Qing Dai came over and put the stove on her lap to keep her warm.

Gu Huaishu said: "You go and ask someone to investigate and see when Ade will come back, the uncle should be back soon."

She has always had her own reasons for doing things, Qing Dai got used to her style, so she went to guard without asking too many questions.

There was no news from Dafang, and Chang'an seemed to have calmed down.

Gu Huaishu flipped through the book, reading notes one by one, just to pass the time.

Fang turned fifteen pages, and Qingdai came in outside: "Second Young Mistress, Ah De is back."

Gu Huaishu was just about to turn to the next page, but his fingers froze, and he had already turned half of the page.She didn't notice the half-burnt paper with scorch marks in the crack of the next page. When Qing Dai came in to speak, she closed the book without hesitation, and then went to the corner of the bookshelf behind her. Li Yishou asked at the same time, "Where is the uncle?"

"Ade said he's on his way back."

Gu Huaishu clapped his hands with the hand stove in his arms. Just as he walked to the door, he suddenly thought that Zhang Tingzan had no reason to do it so soon. Now he was just suspicious and didn't even have any evidence, so he was not in a hurry.

She walked back again, this time she didn't go back to the study, she just said: "Recently, I've pricked up my ears, don't go to the big room if you have nothing to do, I will be the first to deal with whoever causes trouble."

Everyone thought that Gu Huaishu was afraid of offending the aunt in the big room, and they all nodded in agreement.

(End of this chapter)