Reborn I want to be a giant

Chapter 11 Who Did It?

Xufu
Xu Ye entered the door covered in mud, and bumped into the eldest aunt Pang and second aunt Tian who were about to go out. He suddenly felt his scalp tingle and wanted to avoid it.

The uncle of the Xu family died young, and the second uncle took two houses on his shoulders at the request of his elders, and married two wives at the same time, one as the eldest house and the other as the second house.Because the two wives have been torn apart for many years, the Xu family is calm on the surface, but it can be said that the surface is full of holes.Both the third uncle and the fourth uncle were descendants of concubines, and after they got married, they separated.Xu is a widower. His wife has passed away for eleven years, and he has only one son, Xu Ye.The first room and the second room gave him a lot of advice, but he firmly rejected them all.Can't hold back on Xu Ze's side, and the two of them came up with the idea of ​​Xu Ye's marriage again, both wanting to profit from their natal family.This is also the main reason why Xu Ye is not happy to see them.

"What's wrong with the sixth master?" Although the uncle Pang is not surprised by Xu Ye's various strange behaviors, she still needs to be concerned on the surface, who makes Xu Ye a promising son.

"Xicheng cuju." Xu Ye replied with words like gold.

The second aunt Tian covered her mouth with a handkerchief, as if the smell of mud on Xu Ye's body made her feel uncomfortable, "Hurry up and go back to wash up, and have dinner in the second room at night, and you and your cousins ​​will come to play, you have to help the second aunt Entertain, entertain." This directly helped him decide.

"Second Aunt, forgive me, my nephew still has something to discuss with my father, I'm afraid I won't be able to spare the time." If he went to the second room today, he would go to the first room tomorrow, and he would be the one who will be miserable in the long run.

Besides, it is uncle's family business that the first and second house compete with each other. Although the fifth house lives in Xu's house together, there is no separation on the surface, and Xu Ze also takes the initiative to bear half of the public expenses. The various contracts and account books of Wufang are in the hands of their father and son. Because of this, Xu Ye thinks that the eldest aunt and second aunt should pay a little bit of attention, and don't try to draw Wufang into his camp for everything.

Xu Ze came back home, changed his clothes, and went to the study to deal with business. Seeing Xu Ye squatting down and playing chess, he couldn't help teasing: "Hey, Xie Yuangong is back. I heard that Xicheng Cuju competition today, Xie Yuangong Trying to turn the tide, oops, being a father in the imperial study was a great experience." The younger generation of nobles in the capital like cuju and horse racing, and they often become the topic of conversation in the streets and alleys, and the emperor is no exception.

"Mistake." Xu Ye still stared at the chessboard.

"You can hold it back, and someday you will turn yourself into a turtle." My son is always afraid of being noticed, and he doesn't know how to grow up like this.

"Hey, was I born to you?"

"Let's go, eat mutton." Xu Ze still decided to temporarily put down the pending affairs and take the beautiful boy out for a while.

Xu Ye turned to look at him puzzled.

"Three cousins ​​came from your second uncle's family." He asked you if you were afraid.

Xu Ye reflexively let out a "hum" in his head, and he didn't care about playing chess. He jumped off the floor and pushed Xu Ze, "Let's go, let's go." Burning his ass.

Fortunately, they slipped away quickly, as soon as the father and son left the mansion, Mrs. Tian came to the fifth room in person, but the steward said that the fifth master and the sixth young master had just left for a temporary business, and they might not be back until very late.Tian stomped her feet angrily, but there was nothing she could do.

It doesn't matter if Xu Ye's one and a half-year-old children don't buy it, after all, the parents ordered the matchmaker's words, but Xu Ze especially doted on his only son. benefit.But it is absolutely impossible to make her give up.Xu is the youngest minister of Dali Temple in this dynasty. I heard that the emperor attaches great importance to it, and it is inevitable to continue to climb up, let alone Xu Ye. The youngest Xie Yuangong in this dynasty, 13-year-old Xie Yuan, It has been scarce in all dynasties.The father and son both had good looks, and such in-laws could not be found even with a lantern.

Tian insisted so much and didn't want the long house to take advantage of it. She thought that even if her natal family couldn't win it, the long house wouldn't even think about it.So despite the constant tossing and being rejected, she still persisted, as if it had become a habit.

Xu Ze, Xu Ye and his son often go to restaurants on weekdays. On the one hand, they hide from the big room and the second room; The dishes of Wufang are often very strangely matched. In short, there is no one day's meal that suits your appetite. If you order by yourself, the two sides of the kitchen either don't cook, or cook a lot.After jumping around several times, the father and son ate at home less and less.

"Why are the superiors still investigating that accident?" Xu Ye looked at the food on the table and became a little picky.

In fact, both father and son are not particular about food, three or two small dishes, one bowl of rice per person can handle a meal.Xu Ye doesn't eat much, sometimes he only eats one meal a day.Those two days at Weng Qimin Zhuangzi were a special case.

"I suspect his injury is not that serious." Xu Ze didn't see anything unusual about his son.

"Is he pretending?" Xu Ye was surprised.

"This is just a suspicion from above."

"On a day when the Chou family doesn't show up, it's an expedient measure for him to do this." Xu Ye quickly sorted out his thoughts, and then took out the paper from his purse and handed it to Xu Ze. "His staff, Shen Jingduo, has checked on Lao Qi's side." It was a list, and the people on it have disappeared now. "Father, do you think Lao Qi did it?"

Xu Ze didn't express his opinion. After writing down the list on the paper, he threw it into the charcoal basin in the wing room, watching it turn into ashes before turning his eyes away.

"You don't have to intervene anymore, you will report it to your superiors for your father. You will go out of the city and return to the academy tomorrow, and you don't have to come back during the New Year's Eve." It is really easy to have a son to help, but there are some things he hopes Xu Ye will not know for the rest of his life .

"No hurry." Xu Ye took two mouthfuls of rice.

"Last time you said you didn't know the truth, and I believed your nonsense." When Xu Ye was 13 years old, Xu Ze was tired of his son's blind self-confidence, and he swaggered in front of him every day like something, so he suddenly became a father. On a whim, he decided to give his son a good setback education, so he rushed Xu Ye to take the provincial examination.As a result, the setback education failed, and Xu Ye came back to understand Yuan.

Xu Ze later resigned to his fate, but Xu Ye said that he didn't plan to take the exam so early, and his level was not good enough.Xu Ze thought of his son's age, and he could indeed wait for a few years, so he didn't say anything. He is not the kind of father who expects too much from his child.

"Think about it, what if my son gets three yuan and is listed as a son-in-law by someone else?" Xu Ye said seriously.

Xu Ze was about to be laughed angrily by him, "Big words, do you think the examination of the number one scholar is the same as your examination of the Juren?" He scolded his son, but he still felt a little proud in his heart.Xu Ye said that if he could get a good score in the test, then there must be little deviation.

"Wait, it's because of this??" Only then did you realize the point of Xu Ye's words.

"A little bit." He didn't want to tell his father that once he finished the exam, even if he was young, he would have to be an official no matter what, and it would be impossible for him to be as free as he is now.

The purpose of the poor family's merit test is to change the fate of himself, the whole family, and even the whole clan. He seems to have nothing to achieve in the test of merit.He has no lofty ambitions, nor does he have a sense of mission to plead for the people and save the common people.Even assisting Dali Temple in handling the case was only because he couldn't bear his father's hard work.

"It's up to you, but you still have to go back to the academy tomorrow." A tone that could not resist.

Xu Ye knew that his father was protecting him. Although he didn't take it seriously in his heart, it's not bad to go to the academy. It's better than staying in Xu's mansion and being forced to get involved in the dispute between the first room and the second room.

"Why didn't you think of sending me to the Imperial College?"

Xu Ze didn't raise his head, and replied lazily: "The Guozijian is too small to be wild enough for you." My son knew it himself. The scrupulous life of the children of the aristocratic family.His son Xu Ze, why did he do that?Xu Ze's son should live as he pleases.

Xu Ye didn't like to hear these words anymore, and wanted to justify that he had always been honest, but when his eyes drifted past the street scene outside the window, he was attracted by a figure.

"What are you looking at?" Xu Ze glanced under the window, but didn't see anything special.

"Look at the woman." Xu Ye picked up the tea in hand and took a sip.

Xu Ze raised his eyebrows, rubbed his chin, and looked at the young man in front of him ambiguously, "Yes, this year is fifteen or sixteen, oh, have you grown up, do you want to arrange some maids for your father?" The fifth room is the boundary with the fewest women in the Xu family, and the only few are also unremarkable dull gourds.

"I don't even remember how old I am, is it my real father?" Xu Ye was helpless.

Gu Changyan borrowed a suit of clothes that Gu Yanqing hadn't worn, dressed as a boy, and went to the shop to check on the progress.Not to mention, no one recognized her when she left the mansion.It gets dark early in this season, and all households in Dongshi City have already turned on the lamps at this time, and all the workers who built the building have gone back. Only one old man is on duty at night to watch over the timber.Gu Changyan walked around the perimeter, but didn't go in, so as not to cause trouble for others.But this is enough. From the foundation and the erected frame, it can be seen that after it is built, it should not be much different from what I originally imagined.

Just as he was about to board the carriage and return home, Cheng Fei who was beside Gu Yanqing came over and hurriedly said: "Miss San, the old lady is here."

Gu Changyan had doubts, but he also knew that now was not the time to ask, so he hurriedly got into the carriage.Fortunately, Dongshi is not far from the Duke's Mansion, and there are not many horses and carriages on the streets of the capital at this time, and within half an hour, the carriages entered the mansion.

"Didn't it say that the twelfth lunar month is here?" asked while changing clothes.

"It is said that Young Master An's Biao caught a cold and had a fever and diarrhea. I saw a few doctors along the way but did not see any improvement, so the old lady ordered people to hurry back." Xi'er simply told the ins and outs of the situation, "It is An's Biao who came. The young master An Shengmao, the cousin An Mingzhu, and the Duan family cousin Duan Shiyi."

Gu Yanqing was already waiting in the yard.

"Let's go." Gu Changyan exchanged glances with his brother.

An Shengmao looked about thirteen or fourteen years old, and inherited the good appearance of the An family, but because of the fatigue of traveling and traveling, and illness, his complexion was extremely bad.After greeting the masters and masters of the Gu family, the old lady ordered someone to send her to have a rest.Gu Zheng also sent someone to take the post to invite the imperial physician to treat him.

Then came the cousin, An Mingzhu, who was a few months younger than the younger siblings, and the cousin, Duan Shiyi, who was a year younger.Both of them looked well-behaved and polite, but the former had a little more wit in his eyes, while the latter was a little reserved.When meeting for the first time, it is natural to be polite, and toss good words without money.

Only Gu Changxi was very alienated from the two cousins, as arrogant as he was, which was in stark contrast to Gu Changyu who had been holding the hands of the two cousins ​​and kept asking about their health.

An Shengmao's age is not suitable for living in the inner courtyard, so Aunt Tang arranged for him to live in the outer courtyard, next to Gu Yanyun's courtyard.An Mingzhu and Duan Shiyi temporarily lived in the Liushuang courtyard next to the small garden behind the old lady's Xiangning courtyard.I don't know if I read it wrong, just now when the two girls lived together, An Mingzhu seemed unhappy.

The weather was cold, and the whole family came in at night. They were all exhausted, and there was a sick person, so Gu Zheng decided that everyone should go back separately, and hold a family dinner after the old lady and a few cousins ​​had a good rest.

The little brothers and sisters were not allowed to get too close to the old lady since they were young, so after Gu Zheng spoke, he was not as gracious as Gu Changyu was to stay in the Xiangning courtyard to help the old lady fall asleep.After saluting obediently, they left together.Aunt Tang and Gu Yanya walked behind them, but they were not as eager as they were.

"It seems that he was sent here to seek a future." He was sent to the capital at such a young age, but no one would believe that he was visiting relatives.

Gu Yanya is not very old, but he has heard some practices of the rich and powerful.There are many relatives and children in the Duke's Mansion, and troubles will inevitably follow.Besides, he had heard for a long time that whether it was the An family or the Duan family, there were endless disputes because of the many heirs.These three little ones probably won't go back to their hometown again.

Thinking of this, he frowned unconsciously, inevitably worried about Aunt Tang's situation.There are more and more masters and mistresses in the family, but the position of mistress is still vacant. Gu Zheng is at the peak of his age, and he will be reunited soon.At that time, Aunt Tang, who is in charge of Zhongfu, will definitely not have a good time.

"It's also normal. Aristocratic families raise relatives' children out of true feelings. Our family didn't care about it in the past. Now that you are all old, your sister is going out of the cabinet, and your brother is going to start a family. The old lady is for the country. I'm afraid the government won't only worry about this one time." There should be more children living here in the future.

Gu Yanya quietly listened to her mother's chatter, and said after a long time: "Auntie, since the old lady is back, it's better to hand it over."

"Why...why?" Aunt Tang was startled.

Gu Yanya sighed, "Father is still young, and grandma won't leave the back house without an owner." I'm afraid that apart from remarrying, there will be a new aunt coming in.

Aunt Tang was a little reluctant, but she was not a fool, "I will mention it after the family dinner."

"It's good for you to be sensible. The old lady may not want to bother you. What we want is the old lady's initiative." In this way, if someone provokes this matter in the future, they will not be helpless to fight back.

Back at Hibiscus Yard, Gu Changyan did not feel sleepy, and began to calculate how much money he had left, and then checked the construction booklet to calculate how much it would cost to build a yard.She always has bad premonitions, so she becomes more and more obsessed with money.

"Where did this come from?" Why did my brother go to do homework for others again?

"I made money from gambling." Gu Yanqing never wanted to be a decent person, as long as he could make his sister live a good life, he would do anything.But such thoughts are absolutely not dared to reveal to his sister.

Hearing this, Gu Changyan opened his eyes wide and put away his previous anger, "What is a gambling problem?"

There is a Xianming Building in Nanshi, where children from aristocratic families start from time to time. Unlike ordinary gambling houses, Xianming Building gambles on examination questions, government affairs, official marriages and so on.A few days ago, Gu Yanqing heard from a few dudes in the ethnology that some relatives of the royal family gambled on the Guozijian routine exam questions at the beginning, so he bet on the daily expenses given by his sister, and it turned out that he really won five bets. question.Ten taels of silver doubled twelve times.

Hearing that it's not a gambling house, but a pastime for the rich kids, Gu Changyan didn't care about it, and only told him not to get involved in it, and those serious gambling houses are absolutely not to go.Gu Yanqing knows better than her how harmful gambling is, and how could it be against her.

"Do we have enough money to build a yard?" Gu Yanqing wondered.

With the savings on hand, they can buy a ready-made small yard in a remote place in the capital, but if they spend it, they will have no money to stock up and turn around the shop.

After thinking about it, Gu Changyan still told his brother his plan.

According to her original idea, first spend money to ask idle farmers with little land in the outer cities to help, and reclaim all the land, but this involves many aspects, and it is necessary to have reliable supervisors, and she cannot do it every time. Ri Bing showed her face to discuss these matters, so she finally decided to let Tian Dudian out.After the new year, write a post to Weng Qimin, find an excuse to go out of the city to live for a while, and get these things done as soon as possible.The money saved in this way should be enough to build a yard on Zhuangzi.

Gu Yanqing looked at the drawings on his sister's desk, the structure of the yard was very ordinary, but the cellars were too many and too big.Immediately, I felt weird, and always felt that my sister seemed to be planning for a rainy day.

Needless to say, the methods of the imperial physician, An Shengmao took a few doses of medicine and then had to be taken care of by the family, and on the third day he was already well.Seeing that the old lady was happy, Gu Zheng invited Aunt Tang to Zhang Luo's family banquet.

"Father, now that we are a big family, how can Aunt Tang manage to do it alone? Why don't Aunt An help her?" Gu Changxi said to Gu Zheng.

Aunt An was both surprised and delighted, she felt uneasy, she knew that Gu Changyu and Gu Changxi didn't deal with her very well recently because of her anxious marriage.She hadn't wandered around Gu Changxi for a few days, and when it was mentioned suddenly, she didn't know if the other party was really doing her best or planning something bad.

Gu Changyu also had the same idea, but she was used to not being a leader since she was a child, so she stood obediently aside from the beginning to the end, waiting for Gu Zheng and the old lady's reply.

Aunt Tang knew that the old lady didn't like Aunt An very much. There were reasons why Aunt An was born as a concubine, and there was also a reason why Aunt An entered the Duke's mansion as a concubine for obvious reasons.However, she remembered what her son said to her that day, so she stood up, "Master, what the eldest lady said is that the concubine occasionally gets confused, if there is sister An to help, it will save a lot of worry."

Seeing the sincerity on her face, Gu Zheng turned to seek the old lady's meaning. The old lady's complexion was not good, and her stern eyes glanced at Gu Changxi and the two aunts, and she didn't see anything wrong, so she wanted to nod. Before, he said with a smile: "Old lady, our house has not been lively for many years. Since it is always a banquet, why not invite the relatives in Beijing to come over."

The old lady first wondered why Nanny Wei had been with her for so many years, why she didn't understand that she had stopped interacting with her clansmen long ago, but following Wei Nanny's eyes that seemed to have nothing, she saw that the people sitting in the row next to her The girls immediately understood what Mammy wanted to express.That's right, Gu Changxi's marriage is gone, Gu Changyu has also reached the age of marriage, Gu Yanyun is in Jinchengguan, but he is not young, Gu Yanya and Gu Changxi are the same age, An Shengmao, An Mingzhu, Duan Shiyi are not very old, but in the future they will be Those who want to earn face for the Duke's Mansion...

"Hold an elegant party, who do you want to invite, report the list to me first."

When the old lady spoke, Gu Changxi and Gu Changyu couldn't sit still, and the names of many people flashed through their minds.The joy on the faces of An Shengmao and An Mingzhu was more obvious. They didn't expect to get to know the son of a powerful family just after they came to Beijing, while Duan Shiyi lowered her head, making it impossible to see whether she was happy or worried.

Compared with the long list of Gu Changxi and Gu Changyu, the list of Gu Changyan and Gu Yanqing is much weaker. There are only five of them together. Xu Ye, and then there are the two Gu family children who played better in Gu Yanqing's family school.The old lady especially looked down on the relatives of the Gu family. Nowadays, there are very few relatives in the family who are officials. The two friends of Gu Yanqing's family are all focused on business.Of course, what made her most angry was Gu Changyan. Since he had a royal engagement, he didn't even want to invite the fourth prince. With such a dull temper, even if he became a prince and concubine in the future, he would still be at the mercy of others.

(End of this chapter)