"Girl, there is someone in the palace, saying that they are coming to make a statement by the order of the empress. The lady and the wife are greeted in the front hall and let you pass quickly."

Xiaocui hurried in from outside, sweating out.

Gu Jiu put down the book in his hand and asked, "Are the master and uncle not in the house?"

"The two masters have both gone out as guests. Did you forget the girl? There is still a banquet in the Chen family tonight. I have invited the master and the master."

The Chen family is the grandfather's family of Master Gu, that is, the family of Gu Jiu's grandmother.

In Gu Jiu's generation, the two families didn't have much contact with each other. Gu Jiu didn't even recognize Chen's cousins.

However, Mr. Gu's generation has a good relationship with the Chen family's cousins, and they will keep in touch with each other frequently.

If the two parties have any banquet, they will post to each other.

Today, the Chen Family's banquet collided with the banquet of the Hou Mansion.

Master Gu and Master Gu Zhiming finished their lunch at the Hou Mansion, and drove over in a carriage.

Neither Xie's nor his wife Zhang's went.

Neither the girls nor the boys went.

Anyway, now that the two brothers of Master Gu are still thinking about the relatives of the Chen family, the two brothers also went to the general banquet.

The rest of Gu's house can't go if they don't.

Master Gu and Master Gu did not reluctantly. The Chen family has no objection either.

Even Old Man Gu has not been to his brother-in-law's house for more than ten years. Although both families live in the capital, they are not far away.

The Chen family never said a word of gossip.

It is estimated that the Chen family is anxious to care about the old man not going to the door, so as not to drink crazy in front of the guests.

The two masters were not there, and there were people in the palace, and only two wives came forward to greet them.

Gu Jiu changed his clothes and rushed to the front hall with the maid.

She thought that there were only two wives to greet the people in the palace. She did not expect that the eldest brother Gu Ban, the second brother Gu Ju, and the brother Gu Yu, the sixth brother Gu Yu, all arrived in the front hall, and everyone greeted the people from the palace. Housekeeper.

Gu Jiu took a deep breath, walked into the front hall, and bowed to the attendant first.

The waiter was very strange. The first time saw him, he didn't need a white face. He was about forty years old. His surname was Xia, and he was called Xia Gonggong.

"I have seen Grandpa Xia."

Xia Gonggong's eyes were like picking goods, picking Gu Jiu from top to bottom.

"This is Miss Gu, she is so handsome."

"Father-in-law is absurdly praised."

Gu Jiu said calmly.

Xia Gonggong said: "Our family is decree of the Queen's Empress, and Miss Gu Jiu, the General Mansion of the Xuanzhen Army, will enter the palace three times tomorrow."

"The ministers follow the order." Gu Jiu bowed and received the order.

Xia Gonggong laughed, "Miss Gu, remember to bring a few more clothes. Your mother may keep you in the palace for a few days."

Gu Jiu was surprised, his heart thumped, and suddenly felt bad.

She looked at Xia Gonggong, "Is the empress really want to stay in the palace?"

Xia Gonggong was like a smiling Buddha. He smiled before saying a word, "Miss Gu is preparing, it's always right. Our family has to go to the next house to deliver the decree, let's say goodbye."

"Father-in-law walk slowly."

Gu Ban got up, sent Xia Gonggong out of Gu's mansion personally, and offered a big reward.

After a while, Gu Ban returned to the front hall.

Everyone is still there, no one is leaving.

The eldest wife Zhang frowned and looked at Gu Jiu worriedly, "What is the purpose of the empress empress calling Xiao Jiu and the others into the palace?"

Xie said with a smile, "Who knows. Er girl, go down and prepare first. Tomorrow morning, someone will send you to the gate of the palace. In the next few days, when you live in the palace, you have to be careful about everything. Look more, don't cause trouble to the family."

Gu Jiu ignored Xie's.

Gu Jue yelled, "Sister, if you don't want to go, just call it sick."

Gu Jiu shook his head, "It's late! Grandpa Xia saw me and knew that I was in good health. I was sick at this moment, and the palace must be dissatisfied."

"San Lang, don't make bad ideas, do you want to harm the whole family?"

Xie was extremely dissatisfied and sternly scolded Gu Jue.

Gu Jue snorted, "I'm worried about the second sister."

Xie was furious, "Er girl is important alone, or is the life of the whole family more important?"

Gu Jue was speechless.

Gu Jiu frowned, did Xie take gunpowder today?

The eldest wife Zhang said, "Brother and sister, speak in front of the junior, so please pay attention. Xiao Jiu has said that Saburo’s method will not work. Tomorrow she must go to the palace on time. You keep comparing Xiao Jiu with the lives of the whole family. Isn't it Zhu Xin?"

Xie snorted coldly, "I will discipline our children in the second room, but it is not your turn to accuse my sister-in-law."

Zhang rolled his eyes.

Gu Jiu said: "My wife, don't worry about it. The third brother is just talking. The wife can't be so angry. When the first month is over, the third brother will follow the uncle to the military camp to experience. Go clean."

Gu Jue followed: "When I go to the barracks, I won't come back if there's nothing wrong. Don't call me back if something happens. Unless my sister sends someone to call me."

Gu Jiu help, brother, you are adding fuel to the fire! Didn't you see Xie's face turned blue?

"Have you all reversed one by one?"

Xie's is very irritable.

Gu Jiu secretly kicked Gu Jue and let him go first.

Gu Jue stared, how could he be so unrighteous and leave his sister here first.

Gu Jiu looked at the sky speechlessly, brother, don't you know you are holding back?

Nothing, nothing more, let's go with her brother.

Gu Jiu said, "If there is nothing else for my wife, my brother and I will retire first."

Xie’s stared at Gu Jiu, "Second girl, do you think you can be accused of marriage to the prince, so you don’t need to put me in your eyes? I tell you, no matter who you marry, I am your mother in name. ."

Gu Jiu looked at Xie with a faint smile, "My wife is right. We are a mother and daughter in name. So we also ask the wife to show up as an aunt and don’t be like me. I will rush back for tomorrow. Prepare for entering the palace. Or does the wife have a way to make the queen mother change her mind and prevent me from entering the palace?"

Xie's was blocked and speechless.

Zhang gave Gu Jiu a wink and told Gu Jiu to leave it alone and leave as soon as possible.

Gu Jiu smiled, especially grateful to Zhang. She and Gu Jun left the front hall first.

Zhang said to his two sons: "You all go down, too. Send someone to Chen's house and talk to your father."

"Son got it."

Gu Ban and Gu Ju two brothers left the front hall together.

Gu Yan was still sitting on the chair, frowning all the time.

He didn't avoid the Zhang family, and said directly: "Mother, the second sister has already pointed out the marriage to the son Zhao, you will give the second sister a little dignity anyway."

"I give her decentness, who will give me decentness." Xie Shi was annoyed.

The biological son, but to Gu Jiu, this is digging her heart.

Gu Teng said: "The second sister is also in the Gu family. Even if she marries the son Zhao, she is also the grandmother of the Gu family, and is my sister. From now on, every New Year and New Year's Day, she will talk to each other. Mother will offend everyone, if it is the second sister's heart Resentment accumulates on the head, I'm afraid it's not beautiful."

"I'm afraid she won't succeed. I don't believe it. She has the courage to do it to me? Unless she wants to bear her reputation for filial piety and be spurned by the whole world."

Relying on the status of the elders, Xie is very confident.

Gu Yu frowned tightly when he heard the words.

He looked at Xie, "The second sister did not dare to move her mother, but if she deliberately dealt with me, she would not have any scruples. If the mother is not afraid to delay the future of her son, then you will continue to be willful and offend the second sister to a low level. Let her hate you forever."

Xie's anger fell backwards, pointing at Gu Yu, with a shocked expression, "You actually threatened your mother for the second girl? Why did I give birth to you such an unfilial son and turned your elbow out. Do you still have a conscience? "

Gu Teng's face was pale and embarrassed.

The eldest wife Zhang was very dissatisfied, and sternly reprimanded: "Sister, are you having enough trouble? Are you deliberately trying to push all the children out one by one, so that the children will be separated from you?"

Xie's stunned.

Zhang snorted coldly, "Look at you, which is like being an elder. I think what Gu Yu said makes sense.

After all, Gu Jiu is also a girl from Erfang. She is decent, which means you Erfang is decent.

If you keep picking up the pricks, besides having a quick headache, what are the benefits?

Everyone has been offended by you, and all the children stay away from you. Is this the result you want? "

Xie's face turned blue, clenching his teeth.

Seeing that it was not good, Chunhe hurriedly brought tea, "My wife calms down her anger, first drink a sip of tea to calm her breath."

Xie picked up the teacup, unexpectedly, she directly smashed the teacup to the ground.

The tea splashed everywhere, causing Chunhe to be splashed all over.

Xie's gaze swept across Zhang's, Gu Yu gave a cold snort, got up and left.

Gu Yu frowned and called, "Mother?"

Xie didn't look back, just as if he hadn't heard.

Gu Teng watched Xie's departure, but he could only sigh helplessly.

Zhang persuaded: "Liu Lang, don't be too disappointed. Too many things have happened today, and your mother will still be angry. When she is relieved, you will find a chance to talk to her again. I believe she can still talk to her. Listen to you."

"Thank you, auntie. These days, auntie has caused a lot of trouble. Auntie doesn't care, we are all grateful."

"It's all a family, don't be so polite."

...

Gu Jiu instructed Gu Jue not to provoke the Xie family.

Gu Jue's mouth is dumb, where is Xie's opponent. A few words of effort will be pinched by Xie's.

Gu Jue chuckled, "It's not because I have a younger sister. I'm out of my head. If my younger sister isn't around, I will avoid her."

Gu Jiu gave him a blank look, "Don't worry about the inner house in the future. You are a man, and the man is in the same direction. Leave the inner house to me. Anyway, I can't get out of the house. I have a fight with my wife, just to pass the time."

Gu Jue laughed, "I listen to my sister."

The siblings were separated in the second door, and Gu Jiu returned to Zhilan Academy.

The maids of Qingmei were too anxious.

"Girl, what should I do if I am going to the palace tomorrow morning?"

Gu Jiu looked calm and pointed at several maids, "I didn't panic, you panicked. It's not just entering the palace, not going to the sword and the fire."

"The imperial palace is more terrifying than going up to the sword and down to the sea of ​​fire." Qingmei said.

Gu Jiu smiled and squeezed Qingmei’s cheek, "Okay, the sky is falling and there is still a tall man standing on it. Even if the queen empress has any plans, she will not directly act on us girls who have already pointed the marriage to the prince. Yet?

We are married by your majesty, which also represents your majesty's face. The queen empress is such a shrewd person, she will not directly slap her majesty in the face. "

To fight is to fight in the dark, and never to fight explicitly.

The empress is going to fight her death, and plan for the next year, or even the next five years, for her Royal Highness.

Five years later, the Queen Empress could not do anything. You can only do everything you need to do to your destiny.

If the prince can survive the emperor, then the prince will succeed.

If the prince fails to survive the emperor in the end, he can only say that his fate should be so.

Gu Jiu pondered that the Queen's Empress wanted to plan for the future of the prince, and must be deployed in the three aspects of the court, the military camp, and the royal family.

Gu Jiu didn't understand the internal situation of the layout, and he didn't even know the names of officials, so naturally he didn't know.

However, she can see the basic general trend clearly.

The queen mother called them into the palace at this time, maybe she used them as a bargaining chip?

Or maybe, the empress wants to choose a few people among them as nails to bury them in the palaces?

Maybe there are other intentions, Gu Jiu couldn't figure it out for a while.

Qingmei packed up a big baggage and came out, which contained Gu Jiu's toiletries, changes of clothes, and all kinds of emergency supplies.

Immediately afterwards, the eldest wife Zhang sent the big girl Shaoyao by her side.

"Sister Shaoyao, please sit down."

Gu Jiu's eyebrows were crooked, and he greeted Shaoyao to sit down and drink tea.

Shaoyao smiled and said: "The servant girl will not sit anymore, and the servant girl will have to return to life. The servant girl is at my wife's order to come and give the second girl money. Tomorrow the second girl enters the palace and everything needs money. The older lady pays from the accountant. It took a thousand taels, and the slaves and maids were brought over."

With that, Shaoyao took out a wooden box, which contained a thousand taels of scattered silver notes, the smallest denomination was one tael, and the largest was one hundred tael.

Gu Jiu gratefully said: "I still feel sorry for my eldest aunt. Please Sister Shaoyao to thank my eldest mother for me. Last time I entered the palace, it was also thanks to the silver that my eldest mother prepared for me played a big role. gratitude."

Shaoyao smiled and said: "The second girl is polite. The medicinal recipe that the second girl sent last time is very useful. After my wife used it, she didn't feel any pain every month and her complexion improved a lot. The others were all covered, and the prescription was used to really support others."

Gu Jiu pursed her lips and smiled, "Auntie Shaoyao trusts me and is willing to use the recipe I gave. I should thank the auntie. If Sister Shaoyao is in trouble in the future, if I can help, Sister Shaoyao just come to me."

"The words of the second girl are better than anything else. The slave and maid will leave now."

"Qingmei, send sister Shaoyao for me."

Qingmei took the lead and sent peony out.

Shaoyao was interested in making friends with Zhilan Academy and was kind to Zhilan Academy.

Thinking that the second girl will marry in the palace in the future, this is an extremely decent thing. There is no harm in making friends.

Gu Jiu took the one thousand taels of silver bills, sincerely grateful to the eldest mother Zhang.

Xie's elders carry on the shelf all day long, but he has never fulfilled his elders' duties.

think she will enter the palace tomorrow, and her net worth is only a few dozen taels.

Last time, this time, Xie had never sent anyone to give money.

On the contrary, it was the eldest aunt in the next room, thinking about her everywhere, for fear that she would be inconvenient in the palace, so she prepared money for her early in the morning.

Of course, Gu Jiu never expected the Xie family to send someone to give her money.

She just despised Xie's style. Not to mention comparing with others, just comparing with the eldest aunt Zhang, Zhang has left the Xie family more than a hundred blocks away.

The Hou Mansion also sent someone over to care about Gu Jiu.

The old lady Wei is very worried. It can be seen that the old lady Wei is deeply jealous of the empress.

Gu Jiu guessed whether the old lady had suffered under the hands of the empress.

"Thank you for the old lady's concern. I'm okay. I'm all ready to enter the palace tomorrow. Please mothers thank the old lady for her kindness, and I will greet the old lady tomorrow."

Madam Yu smiled and said: "Girl Xiao Jiu has filial piety. In addition, this is the old lady's intention. She is worried that your hands are tense, so she specially asked the slave to send it to you."

Mother Yu took out two jade jewels, which were small but exquisite, and the jade was of high quality.

Such two small pieces of jade are worth a few hundred taels.

Gu Jiu hurriedly waved his hand, "The big aunt has already spent a thousand taels for me from the accountant. I can't ask for the old lady's things anymore. Please take me home with you."

"That's not okay. There is no reason to take back the things that the old lady gave out. Besides, the elder dared not say anything, Miss Xiao Jiu should accept it as soon as possible. As long as you don't disappoint the old lady's intentions."

"How embarrassing it is."

Gu Jiu accepted two pieces of jade, and remembered this intention in his heart.I think that if there is an opportunity in the future, it must be rewarded.