Wanfu, the Reborn Empress

Chapter 263
I thought that the matter of Gu Yanling was settled like this, but I didn't expect that after another three days, an unexpected guest came to Muran Villa.

Looking at Aunt Xiang who came to Muran Villa in a soft sedan, Gu Yanxi was also shocked. She believed that everyone in the villa would never spread the rumors about Gu Yanling in the villa casually, but since it wasn't hers People spread the word, why is Aunt Xiang appearing here now, with such an anxious expression?

After three days of recuperation, Gu Yanxi's body has almost recovered. She looks very good wearing a brocade dress of flowers and butterflies. She wears a cloud-footed pearl tendril hairpin between her satin-black temple hair. Perhaps she has grown a little in recent days. The reason is that even though she is standing there silently at this moment, she still gives off the stunning beauty of a big girl, and the immaturity between her eyebrows and eyes has obviously faded a lot.

Therefore, when Aunt Xiang saw the exquisite and rich third girl standing in front of her, even as a woman, she couldn't help but stare at her, and she didn't respond until the maid beside her reminded her. Come over and salute Gu Yanxi: "I have seen the third girl before."

Gu Yanxi had a good impression of Aunt Xiang whether it was in her previous life or in this life. Even if something like Gu Yanling happened, in her heart, she didn't feel displeased with this honest aunt in front of her.

So, watching Aunt Xiang greet him, Gu Yanxi immediately asked Xiaokui to help her up, led her to the table, served fragrant tea, and said, "Why did Aunt come out of Beijing to my Muran Villa at this time? ? But the mother in the house misses me and asked my aunt to run errands instead of her?"

Before things were figured out, Gu Yanxi naturally pretended to be stupid, even if he understood the anxiety and worry in Aunt Xiang's eyes, she still pretended not to understand.

Aunt Xiang looked at the generous third girl in front of her, and when she thought about the foolish things her daughter had done, she couldn't sit still any longer, she knelt down in front of Gu Yanxi with a 'plop', and said with tears: "Third girl, what did Linger do?" I know that she has committed a capital crime for doing such a foolish thing, but the third girl, I only have a child like Linger in this life, I really can't just stand by and watch her suffer."

Gu Yanxi looked at Aunt Xiang who was kneeling in front of him and crying, and quickly stood up to help her up: "Auntie, what are you doing? If you have anything to say, let's stand up and talk slowly."

"No! I can't stand up. As Ling'er's biological mother, I didn't educate her well, so I should just kneel down and make atonement to the third girl."

Although Gu Yanxi said she was kind-hearted, she was not really ignorant.

Looking at Aunt Xiang's attitude now, one can tell that she really came here to intercede for Gu Yanling. If so, let her continue to kneel. Anyway, she won't get up if she is asked to get up at this time.

Gu Yanxi was supported by Luo Mei and sat aside, looked at the crying aunt who was kneeling in front of her, wiped her mouth gently with a handkerchief, and asked casually: "Auntie, you don't go out of the back house without leaving the door. Girl, how did you know that the second sister got into trouble?"

Aunt Xiang has a timid character, plus she is a genuinely honest person, so when faced with Gu Yanxi's question, she naturally knows everything without saying anything.

"Don't dare to hide the third girl, in fact, the concubine's identity is half based on guesswork, and half based on evidence, so I found it to meet the third girl."

With that said, Aunt Xiang told Gu Yanxi everything that happened in Gu's residence during this period.

It turned out that after Gu Yanchao received Feng Yichen's letter that day, he sent someone to approach the servants in Ziting Xiaolou. Today's Hengguang Courtyard is taken care of by Aunt Xiang, a weak-looking woman But in fact, she is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, very careful. After Gu Yanchao sent someone, she heard the news from the servants, and then wondered if her daughter had done something wrong.

Gu Yanling has been raised in Hengguangyuan for so many years. Although the relationship with Aunt Xiang is not very close, Aunt Xiang is very concerned about her only daughter; therefore, she noticed that Gu Yanling was yearning for her early in the morning. It's just that this child has always been a person who doesn't like to tell her her secrets in detail, so it's not easy for her to ask.

However, in private, she also quietly sent someone to investigate, and vaguely guessed that the man who could make her daughter's heart beat is probably in the mansion.

Aunt Xiang is a woman who knows her identity very well, and she also knows that the daughter of a concubine will not marry well in the future, so after knowing that her daughter may fall in love with someone in the house, she is relieved.

In Aunt Xiang's opinion, the greatest happiness in life is for a woman to marry well or not. She is originally a scholar's daughter. If she hadn't met Gu Shen in this life, she might be married to an ordinary scholar by her father. She lived a more peaceful life, but she was also the only wife, not a concubine who was treated as a plaything.

Over the years, as Gu Yanling grew up, Aunt Xiang has been very worried that her only daughter will follow in her footsteps in the future. If she marries a wealthy person, she can only be a concubine because of her concubine. Wouldn't it be a lifetime? I can't even lift my head; so in Aunt Xiang's heart, the greatest wish is to hope that her child can marry in a dignified manner and be a wife to the one she loves, instead of being carried to the rich home through a small door in a soft sedan chair. , become a second self.

Therefore, after Aunt Xiang thought that the person her daughter admired might be someone from the mansion, Aunt Xiang always thought of a promising nursing home or a steward who would hand over the account to Zhuangzi. In terms of development, she found that she was thinking too naively.

Because she realized that the man her Ling'er fell in love with was not the steward of the nursing home, but Mr. Feng who lived in the east courtyard and was always treated as a distinguished guest by the Gu family.

I don't have any impression of the Feng Gongzi, Aunt Xiang, but I know that he is a person with inconvenient legs, but he is such a person, and there are guards around him, even if the old man sees him, he will greet him with a smile; this makes Aunt Xiang It immediately occurred to me that this person was definitely not an ordinary character.

Who is not good for my daughter, but someone who even the Gu family dare not easily offend? The girl's pox may also be related to her own daughter, otherwise, how could the master of the big house send someone to approach the servants served by Ziting Xiaolou?He also specifically asked about every detail of the third girl's contact with Ling'er before and after she got the pox epidemic?
Although Aunt Xiang is timid, she is definitely careful. She has always known that her daughter is not as content with the status quo as she appears on the surface. In the heart of this child, there lives a beast that she doesn't even know. This ferocious beast has been locked in a cage and slept on weekdays, but if someone touches the cage and wakes up the ferocious beast inside, this child will definitely do something unexpected.

And obviously, before Aunt Xiang didn't notice, the child might have gone down a wrong path.

After knowing that Gu Yanxi's pox might be related to her daughter, Aunt Xiang almost had trouble sleeping and eating all day long, but at this time her daughter came to Muran Villa without authorization, and after arriving at Zhuangzi, no news came back.

This made Aunt Xiang even more uneasy, and finally came to Zhuangzi after some encouragement.

However, when she came to Zhuangzi and saw the attitude of other servants in Zhuangzi towards her, she guessed something, especially when she saw that there was no daughter among the people who greeted her, she knew what her daughter did. I'm afraid something has happened.

After realizing this, Aunt Xiang only wanted to save her child, even if she was willing to exchange her own life for her child's survival.

Hearing Aunt Xiang crying and saying these things, Gu Yanxi naturally understood what Aunt Xiang was trying to express.

It's just that Gu Yanling's harm to her was too deep, so if she let her go like this, based on her current understanding of Gu Yanling, she might not be able to appreciate it.

Therefore, Gu Yanxi no longer covered up for Gu Yanling, and said directly: "Jiaojiao probably already knows what Auntie wants to say, but Auntie, do you know why the servants in the village treat you so coldly? It's not them Knowing that my illness was caused by the second sister, it was the second sister who did something even worse to me after she came to Muran Villa."

"What? That child, she, she..." Aunt Xiang was so frightened that tears were about to flow out. She covered her mouth with the veil in her hand, as if trying to force the tears back, but she was always timid. She was already trembling with fright at this moment, how could she control herself not to cry?

Gu Yanxi said: "Second sister almost drowned me three days ago under the pretext of soaking in a medicinal spring. If the girl beside me hadn't appeared in time, I'm afraid my aunt would have seen my body in the mourning hall at this time. "

"How is it possible?..." Aunt Xiang was so frightened that her legs went limp, she knelt down on the ground, her wide-open eyes were full of panic and tears that were about to overflow.

Looking at Aunt Xiang like this, Gu Yanxi couldn't help feeling sympathetic, but she sympathized with those who hurt her, who would sympathize with her, the victim?

"Auntie, I know you don't believe it, but this is the truth; plus this time, two times before and after, the second sister wanted to kill me, facing such a person who repeatedly wanted to kill me My man, tell me, can I really choose to let go of the past and completely forgive her?"

All the words of begging for mercy were stuck in Aunt Xiang's throat at this moment, making her really speechless to say another word of pleading.

At this moment, she really regretted to the extreme, why didn't she take good care of that child and let her make such a big mistake.

(End of this chapter)