When the two maids left and only Gu Zhihua and Shuhua were left in the room, Gu Zhihua gently stroked Shuhua's face and said softly to Shuhua: "It's all my fault that you have been wronged..."
Shuhua smiled empathetically, "Don't say that. You have done your best for our mother and son. It's our mother and son's bad fate. No wonder you..."
Gu Zhihua frowned, "I originally thought it would be easy to marry a country girl, but I didn't expect that she turned out to be a shrew. Now I really shot myself in the foot."
Shuhua shook her head gently: "It's my fault. I made it difficult for you. If I had cut off my hair and went to the temple to be a sister-in-law, I wouldn't have these troubles to distract you. However, I can't convince myself Heart, I am selfish, even if I am a slave like Xiaohong, Xiaoqing and others, I will be happy, because then I can accompany you and serve you. Once I go to the temple, I will never be able to see you again..."
"Cousin, please stop talking. How can your heart not be my heart?" Gu Zhihua couldn't bear it anymore and held Shuhua tightly in his arms.
"Don't worry, cousin, I will definitely be able to find a way. I will definitely accept you in and give you, our son, a birthright!"
Shuhua also hugged Gu Zhihua tightly, "Divorce your wife, you can only say it out of anger, you can't divorce it seriously. It will be bad for your reputation. If your aunt and uncle know that you divorce your wife because of me, they will definitely be angry with me. , I won’t have a hard time even if I enter the house in the future.”
There are some things that Shuhua understands in her heart.
If her aunt and uncle liked her 100% from the beginning, they would definitely consummate her marriage with her cousin.
But they didn't. Instead, they found a similar family for themselves and got married.
They didn't accept her when she was a young girl, and now she is a widow with a child (even though the child is Gu Zhihua's). But after all, this kind of thing is not honorable and cannot be brought to the table, so she can't sit still. The position of head wife.
I'm going to be a shameless concubine.
Therefore, the cousin definitely cannot divorce his wife. The only thing he can do is to let Huahua relax.
Only when the head wife relents can she enter, and her aunt and uncle can't say anything.
"Zhihua, Huahua is your wife. You have to beg her for this matter after all. I will beg her again tomorrow. Don't stay with me tonight. Go back to be with her as soon as possible. Let her calm down..."
Gu Zhihua felt distressed and hugged Shuhua tightly again: "It's my inability to make you suffer. No matter what happens tonight, I have to stay and take care of you. I'll give her a break first so that she can understand her mistake!"
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At night, Ping'er slept very uneasily and had a dream. In the dream, Huahua sat on the ground crying with blood on her head and face.
When Ping'er woke up, it was already dawn. She quickly got up, got dressed, washed up, and sat quietly waiting for Yang Ruoqing from the next door room to come and call.
Soon, Yang Ruoqing came and invited Ping'er to have breakfast together and go downstairs. She left Luo Fengtang and Yang Huazhou to deal with the affairs of the restaurant, hired a boy from the restaurant to drive the carriage, and went straight to Cuiwei Academy.
"The address written on the paper should be in the alley ahead."
The carriage stopped on the side of the road. Yang Ruoqing walked back from a vendor setting up a stall in front and said to Ping'er.
Ping'er nodded, raised her hands to straighten her clothes, and then raised her hands to tuck her hair, trying her best to look energetic and not lose her face.
Yang Ruoqing gave instructions to the boy to wait outside, and then took Ping'er into the alley.
"Huahua told me when she returned to the village to pay New Year's greetings last time. This time she and Gu Zhihua came to Qing'an County to study. They brought two maids and a book boy with them to serve them. They rented a small courtyard house, which is enough to live in."
Walking on the bluestone pavement in the alley, Ping'er and Yang Ruoqing softly introduced the situation.
Yang Ruoqing nodded, thinking that no matter in which era, "accompanying students" were popular in families with slightly better conditions.
However, nowadays, it is usually the grandparents or mothers who accompany the children to study, cooking, washing, and providing logistics for the children.
But in ancient times, the accompanying students were even bigger, and they were wives and maids. How could a young and energetic person calm down and study?
When Da'an studied from the town to Qing'an County, he took care of everything by himself, and he still won the first prize.
"These courtyards all look similar, and Huahua didn't go into details. They are really hard to find..."
After walking in the alley for a long time, Ping'er became confused.
Yang Ruoqing also stopped, looked around, and saw a middle-aged woman drying clothes in the yard over there, so she asked Ping'er to wait there while she went over to ask the middle-aged woman about Gu who came from Wanghai County. Where do the family members of the surnamed student live?
Ping'er pulled Yang Ruoqing: "Huahua and the others have been here less than half a month, and the alley is so long. Maybe the sister-in-law doesn't know the situation..."
Yang Ruoqing patted Ping'er's hand: "You have to have confidence in her."
Usually, where there are women, there must be news. This is the experience gained from the fourth aunt Liu.
Sure enough, the middle-aged woman did not disappoint Yang Ruoqing.
Not only did she show Yang Ruoqing the door to the courtyard, but she also said to Yang Ruoqing: "Are you relatives of the Gu family? Their family had such a quarrel last night that everyone in the alley heard it, but this morning the young couple happily sat in the carriage We went shopping, tsk tsk, this is really in line with the saying: a couple fighting at the end of the bed and at the end of the bed..."
Yang Ruoqing gave the middle-aged woman a handful of copper coins as a thank you gift. She had no time to chat with her, so she turned back to Ping'er and told Ping'er the situation.
Ping'er was shocked when she heard this.
"We had a fight last night, and we went shopping together again today? If it's true, then our Huahua really doesn't have any wealth at all!" Ping'er said worriedly.
Yang Ruoqing consoled her: "Young people live their lives in their own way. Besides, maybe it was beating and scolding the maid. Others misheard, or maybe it was a quarrel in another house. Let's go knock on the door first and see if they are shopping. did not return!"
After knocking twice, someone came over and opened the door a crack.
"Who are you looking for?"
"Is the Gu family living here?" Ping'er asked.
The maid blinked and looked at Ping'er: "Who are you?"
"I'm just asking you if this is the Gu family?" Ping'er asked again in a more serious tone.
"No, you found the wrong one!"
The little maid retracted her head and tried to close the door.
A hand slipped through the crack of the door and held it against the door.
"Why are you so anxious before I finish speaking?"
The speaker was Yang Ruoqing.
The little maid closed the door hard and shouted while closing the door: "Who are you? Let go!"
"Snapped!"
With a slap on the head of the maid, the maid fell to the ground, and the door creaked as Yang Ruoqing pushed it open.
