Back To My Husband’s Youth - Chapter 108
When Gu Wuyou walked to the main courtyard, in addition to her grandmother, the second sister was also there, sitting on the chair behind her grandmother, and seeing her coming in, Gu Yu lifted his eyes and showed her gentleness with a little comfort. Smile.
Seeing this smile, Gu Wuyou’s heart felt a little more settled.
She finished the salute to the two of them, and then knelt in the main hall without speaking, just kneeling like this.
Mrs. Gu was holding a string of Buddhist beads in her hand, and seeing her kneeling on the ground, she did not let anyone get up. She pinched the beads like this and waited for a round of pinching. Then she lowered her eyes and asked people indifferently, “Why are you kneeling? ?”
Gu Wuyou lowered his head and replied softly: “The granddaughter is at fault.”
Mrs. Gu’s expression remained unchanged, and her tone was still flat, “What’s wrong?”
Gu Wuyou continued to answer: “The granddaughter shouldn’t say something like that in full view of the public and cause others to talk about the family.”
“Oh?” Mrs. Gu looked at her and asked her, “So you think, as long as you are not in the public, there is nothing wrong with saying this?”
This question was strangely sharp. Gu Wuyou didn’t dare to take the liberty to answer for a moment. He secretly raised his eyes and glanced at her grandmother. After hesitating for a while, he still asked in a low voice: “Grandma, can I tell the truth?”
Hearing this, Mrs. Gu paused in her hand movement, and her tone fluctuated a little, “Why, you still wanted to tell me a lie?”
“It’s not…”
Gu Wuyou seemed to have been exposed, with a blushing face, his usual tone, with a little bit of tenderness, “I’m just afraid you are upset.” She glanced again and saw that her grandmother’s expression did not change. Then he said in a low voice, “I like him, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with liking someone.”
“It’s just that this time it happened suddenly, and I didn’t think about the consequences of doing this. Although the third brother helped me round the matter, I did something wrong.”
After speaking, Gu Wuyou didn’t hear her grandmother’s words either. He only heard the clear sound of the beads in the hands of people under the corresponding collisions. She was nervous, and it took a long time to hear someone ask, “What did you plan to do?”
“I originally wanted to…” She pursed her lips, and finally spit out what was in her heart. “When the time is right, I will talk to home.”
Although Gu Wuyou had never discussed this matter with Li Qinyuan in private, the two of them had very clear meanings. After Li Qinyuan made some achievements, she would slowly test her father’s tone.
Dad left and right also admired Li Qinyuan very much in the past.
When the time is long, Daddy can always let go, then at that time, no matter how open they are together, there will be no other people talking about it.
Mrs. Gu won’t even turn the Buddha beads this time, she just looked at her, and didn’t know how long it took before she asked, “What do you mean, do you have to marry him?”
Gu Wuyou deserved to be very decisive this time: “Yes.”
The room was quiet again. Except that Mrs. Gu raised a starling voice outside, no one was talking. After a long silence, Mrs. Gu finally put the string of Buddhist beads in her hand on her wrist. Looking at the person, he said indifferently: “You liked Zhao Chengyou at the beginning, but your father didn’t agree. You had a fight with people for a few days and finally got the agreement. Later, I had a divorce with him. I never talked about these things.”
Gu Wuyou’s face paled when people talked about these past events.
She raised her head to look at the old lady, her lips were closed and her voice was pale, “Grandma…”
Before she finished speaking, she saw someone raise her hand. Mrs. Gu stopped Gu Wuyou’s words, but continued to say to her in her own words, “I said this not to criticize you, but to think Tell you, in life, every result is traceable.”
“Regardless of the big or small things, before making a decision, you must first think clearly and think clearly.”
“Now that you are still young, you have your family’s blessings, even if you have broken the sky, your father will protect you, but when you become a family in the future, you will be a daughter-in-law for someone else. Then, what will you do?”
“Do you still want your father to take care of your husband’s affairs?”
Gu Wuyou did not speak, and she could not tell. She remembered the things she had experienced in her previous life. In the final analysis, she had tossed it out by herself. If she obeyed her father’s words from the beginning and was not so self-willed, then she would later Nor will it come to that point.
But where can you really see everything in this world?
Mrs. Gu also knew that, so she just sighed when she looked at her granddaughter’s appearance, and continued to say, “This time, you are better than the previous one. After all, you didn’t force your dad. accepted.”
This is a joke.
But she is used to being calm and serious, and even making jokes very stereotyped, but Gu Wuyou is clever, and now she is used to getting along with her grandmother, and when she hears her words are softer than before, she becomes popular. Turned his face, said softly: “I used to be ignorant, but now I’m a little bit older.”
“I don’t think you are more sensible now than before.”
Mrs. Gu spit out a few words lightly and choked the person for a while, and then she didn’t hold on to this topic and kept talking about the person. As soon as the conversation turned around, she said, “Your father sent someone to deliver the letter earlier, and I talked about his arrangements. Now that you father and daughter have both decided, I won’t say anything about this matter.”
“Whether you can be with the Li family’s child will depend on him in a year’s time.”
This matter was settled yesterday, Gu Wuyou had no opinion, and nodded, yes.
Mrs. Gu said again: “This time you said something like this in the Imperial Front, and no matter what your reason is, I can’t help but punish you.”
Long before coming, Gu Wuyou had already thought about it. Now, when someone talks about this, she naturally has no argument. Her knees are still close to the ground, her back is straight, and her bright and beautiful face is very serious. “The granddaughter is at fault, please punish it.”
She did something wrong and she deserved to be punished.
But Mrs. Gu didn’t punish her right away. Instead, she said to Mother Xie who was next to her, “Go and call me the two people outside.”
Gu Wuyou was taken aback, those two people outside?
Who is that?
Just when she was shocked, the curtain was picked up and down, followed by a series of footsteps. Gu Wuyou looked back and saw Gu Jiifei and Gu Yu walking in with Mother Xie. She didn’t seem to have yet. After recovering from the shock, Nane asked: “Why are you here?”
Gu Jiufei glanced at her and saw that she was fine, so he knelt beside her.
The same is true for Gu Yu.
When the three juniors knelt in a row, Mrs. Gu said, “Since you are here, it’s just time to hear my plan.” She continued to turn the Buddhist beads in her hand, with the expression on her face like a Buddha in the temple. Standing high, calm and unwavering, “Leping almost compromised our family’s reputation this time. I plan to punish her to kneel in the ancestral ancestral hall for three nights in order to emulate her.”
She made this decision, and Gu Wuyou hadn’t responded yet.
Gu Jiufi and Gu Yu curled their eyebrows. Gu Yu was impatient, and even said nothing. “Grandma, this is still in the first month of the year, and the ancestral hall is so cold. You let Gu Wuyou kneel for three nights, isn’t it? Want her life?”
Gu Jiufi also said, “Grandma, your punishment is too serious. The fifth sister is weak and she can’t stand it.”
Mrs. Gu’s thin eyelids drooped slightly, and she glanced at the two indifferently, and finally set her gaze on Gu Wuyou, and asked, “Do you have something to say?”
Gu Wuyou didn’t expect her grandmother to punish her to kneel in the ancestral hall.
She has never been punished like this in two lifetimes, and she is most afraid of these places in her life. If she wants to kneel there for three nights alone, she might as well be given a whip. It will be fine if she has suffered pain… But this time , It was she who did the wrong thing, and she said “dispose of it with others.”
She pursed her lips, hesitated for a while, still gritted her teeth: “Granddaughter… let her grandmother handle it.”
Gu Yu squeezed her voice and shouted, “Gu Wuyou!”
Gu Jiufi glanced at her and pressed his thin lips lightly, but he didn’t say anything, only when he turned his gaze back to his grandmother, he said, “Grandma, I didn’t take care of the fifth sister this time. I am willing to accompany him. Sister knelt at the ancestral hall together.”
“I am willing too!”
Gu Yu followed, “Grandma wants to punish, so we should be punished together.”
Gu Wuyou frowned. Kneeling at the ancestral hall is nothing fun. In such a cold day, wouldn’t it mean that everyone would get sick when he turned his head back? Even though she was scared, she didn’t want them to accompany her to endure hardships. As soon as she was about to speak, she listened to the person in the seat first to say, “Do you really think so?”
“Yes.”
The two deserved no hesitation.
Mrs. Gu looked at them and said, “You know what she did this time, but if one fails to deal with it, not only her reputation will be ruined, but even you, and even the reputation of our entire Gu family will have to be destroyed by her. Implicated.”
She looked at Gu Yu first, “You have passed the hustle and bustle, and you will soon choose your husband’s house. If there is a sister who has a private affair with a foreigner, what do you think others will think of you?”
Seeing the person’s face pale, Mrs. Gu looked at Gu Jiufi again, “You are about to enter Luming College. In the future, whether you are taking the road of imperial examinations or shutting down into official positions, you will have to interact with people outside. When others know that you have such a sister, how do you think others will talk about you?”
“Can you really endure having such a bad sister?”
Gu Wuyou was extremely ashamed, and her pale little face was now a bit paler. She used to think about herself, but forgot about her family. She couldn’t help but bow her body and bow her head to admit her mistake, “Grandma, I wrong.”
She has said this sentence no less than three times today, but this time, the tone is the most complicated.
Mrs. Gu did not respond to her words. Instead, she looked at Gu Yu and Gu Jiufei and asked, “Now, do you still want to kneel with her in the ancestral hall?”
The starlings outside were still screaming carefree, unaware of their troubles.
After another period of silence in the room, two sounds were heard at the same time, “Belong!”
Gu Jiufi looked at the gaze coming from Gu Wuyou, with shock and disbelief mixed in it. Just like when he saw her in the alley that day, he turned his head, and his slightly pink lips lifted a very shallow touch. With a sharp arc, his youthful face, clear eyes, looked at Mrs. Gu and said loudly: “Grandma, as long as you are a human, it is impossible to do nothing wrong in your life.”
“But as long as the mistake is known and can be corrected, it is worthy of being forgiven.”
“My relationship with Sister A has been at odds since I was young. When I was young, I didn’t think about tossing Sister A. I knew that she had a bad temper, so I deliberately annoyed her and made her elders dislike her.” The dark things he hid in his heart had never been told to anyone.
So that when he talked about this, his slender fingers were clenched into fists, and he even didn’t dare to look into Wuyou’s eyes, for fear that she would hate him.
But it was the first time that he was so happy. He took all the gloom and all the bad things out, and when he faced Gu Wuyou in the future, he would no longer be entangled in the past. He missed it, but now he is willing change.
The boy knelt on the ground with his back straight, but the expression on his face was so calm for the first time, “Even not long ago, when she was going to the academy, when others were talking about her, I still wondered if she was really lost. It would be great to have her reputation and make everyone hate her.”
“But now I—”
Gu Jiufi’s words paused slightly, and when he spoke again, he said sincerely, “I only want her to be good, and I only wish her to be good.”
After he finished speaking, Gu Yu also spoke, “Grandma, I am almost the same as the ninth brother. You must be wrong. I have done a lot of wrong things before. I know that Gu Wuyou is my sister. I know that after going out, We are one, but because I don’t like her, I deliberately ignored her and let others insult her.”
Sideways glanced at Gu Wuyou beside him.
Gu Yu took a deep breath before continuing. This time there was a smile on his face, “We have both hated each other, and hated that we have done so many irreversible things to each other, but it is because we are Family, so now we can still stand together.”
“If in the future someone really doesn’t want to marry me for these reasons, then I don’t bother to marry someone like this!”
In the last sentence, she said very loudly, “People must have the ability to argue between right and wrong, and just listen to others’ arguments. What is worthy of me to marry such a person?”
Gu Wuyou looked at the two people around her, thinking of what they said, her eyes were red long ago, and now she looks at them, her red lips bite, tears rushing in her eyes. Can’t say a word.
When they were talking, Mrs. Gu didn’t say a word. Now that they have finished speaking, she turned the Buddhist beads in her hand and opened her mouth, “I’m all done?” After she answered “Yes”, she continued. Said: “I am very happy to hear you say these things today.”
“I hope you will always remember that we are a family.”
“It’s not terrible to do wrong things, and the rumors outside are not terrible. As long as our hearts are aligned, then no matter what we say outside, it doesn’t matter. But if our hearts are not aligned, we just blindly do something wrong. If we shirk responsibility or blame each other, then no matter where we are, one day, this family will also disperse.”
“I said this, do you all understand?”
The three of them glanced at each other, and said together: “Understood!”
“Ok.”
Mrs. Gu nodded, “Go down.”
The three siblings were taken aback, but Gu Wuyou hesitated and spoke first, “Grandma, shall I go to the ancestral hall now?”
As soon as the voice fell, Mrs. Gu raised her eyes and glanced at her indifferently. She didn’t say anything. Gu Yu came over with a smile and helped all three of them up. Then she smiled with her: “Silly, silly, you are Grandma really wants to punish you?”
“My grandmother said this, just to let you know the truth that all things are prosperous, and all things are lost, so that you won’t have complaints in your hearts in the future.”
Mrs. Gu lazily answered, “The ancestral hall does not need to kneel, and the house rules still have to be copied.”
This was already the lightest punishment. Gu Wuyou hurriedly bent his eyes to thank his grandmother, but there was nothing else to say, Gu continued to accompany Mrs. Gu to worship Buddha, leaving three juniors who had just opened their hearts.
Gu Wuyou looked at Gu Jiufei, and then at Gu Yu.
When I helped her just now, I was very righteous, decisive and determined. Now I feel a little embarrassed about one or two of them. Seeing her look over, I just averted my gaze. Gu Wuyou was funny in his heart. Li was full of tenderness, holding one hand in hand, and said: “Let’s go, go to my place for dinner.”
Gu Yu still didn’t look at her, but let her hold her hand, “…oh.”
It was the first time that Gu Jiufei was held by her hand. It was soft, like cotton dumplings. He didn’t react for a while. He stared at the hand blankly, and waited for someone to call him again. Then he softly responded. Said: “Yeah.”