Gu Hui handed Bao’er over to the maid on one side, freeing her hand to assist her towards the house, “It should be a girl from the Song family, she saved my little brother that time when he accidentally fell into the water.”
“Huh?”
Gu Wen had never heard of this, “Then how is little brother, is he alright?”
Gu Hui smiled, “Naturally, he’s fine.”
Gu Wen responded and also laughed, “I was confused, I didn’t see my little brother when I came on August 15th, so I didn’t think about it for a while.”
Gu Hui’s footsteps gave a slight pause, “You didn’t see your little brother?”
“Yes, father and mother said that little brother had gone to the capital.”
Something darted across Gu Hui’s eyes.
“Big sister, second sister!”
Gu Yi ran over happily.
Both of them subconsciously reached out to help.
“Slow down!”
Gu Yi stood in front of the two men, beaming with joy, “I’m going to be betrothed to the little girl.”
“Congratulations little brother.”
Gu Hui looked as if she could not see any difference in colour, as if what she had done to Song Wan Yue on her last visit did not exist.
Gu Wen lamented, “Our little brother has grown up in the blink of an eye, and is all set to get engaged.”
Gu Yi smiled and extended his hand towards the two, “Bring it.”
The two of them were each confused, “What?”
“A meet and greet gift for the little girl.”
Gu Hui and Gu Wen, ……
Gu Wen wanted to say something, Gu Hui had already taken two brocade boxes from the hands of the maid beside her and put them into Gu Yi’s hands respectively, “Here.”
“Thank you big sister, second sister.”
Gu Wen wanted to say something again, but Gu Hui squeezed her hand without moving, and Gu Wen’s words swallowed back.
Gu Yi held the two brocade boxes in her hand and extended her hand towards Bao’er, “Bao’er, have you missed uncle yet.”
Bao’er was one and a half years old and could not yet speak well, stretching her arms out for Gu Yi to hold, her mouth slurred in reply, “Yes.”
Gu Yi carried him over and turned towards his yard, “I knew you would miss uncle, uncle has prepared a lot of delicious food for you.”
When Gu Yi walked away, Gu Wen said gratefully, “Thanks to big sister’s thoughtfulness, I didn’t even think about it.”
She was very surprised to receive the news that Gu Yi was going to be engaged, and rushed here in a hurry, not even thinking about preparing things.
“I also saw that little brother would be very good with that little Song girl when I was home last time, and thought that before long dad and mom might betroth him, so I prepared in advance.”
“How much silver, I’ll give it to big sister.”
“You don’t know what the Song girl is like, do you? I have seen her once.”
“Tell me about it.”
……
When the two went to the main courtyard, they met Master Gu and Madam Gu and took their seats.
Gu Wen smiled and complimented, “Eldest sister has already told me, the Song girl is indeed good, she has saved my little brother’s life and is good to him, although it is said that she is slightly younger, but my little brother is not too big, the two are just right.”
Master Gu stroked his beard and looked at Gu Hui who was always smiling, “The young girl from the Song family is indeed good, otherwise father and mother would not have agreed to their betrothal, from now on you two sisters should take good care of them and don’t have any other unpleasant thoughts.”
……
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you are getting into.
The Song grandmother sat on the bed, sighing unhappily, while the Song old man sat on a stool barring his smoking pouch.
In that room, Song Lin held Xu’s hand and looked at her reddened eyes, “If you can’t let go, we’ll go and talk to Yue’er.”
Xu shook her head gently, “It’s just that when I think of Yue’er getting engaged tomorrow, it’s a little hard on my heart.”
Song Lin was also upset, “If only I hadn’t been injured then.”
If I hadn’t been injured, Yue’er wouldn’t have pawned the bracelet, and if I hadn’t, the bracelet wouldn’t have been broken, and Yue wouldn’t have been engaged to Gu Yi so early.
Song Wan Yue naturally noticed the different atmosphere in the house and came out of her house, standing in the courtyard and calling out to Song San Xiao, “Third Uncle, come out!”
Song Sanxiao didn’t bother to pay any attention to her.
She didn’t even help out when it mattered, so she would never talk to her again, and she wouldn’t help her carry the pot again.
“Not coming out, right? Good! Grandpa, I saw Third Uncle sneak into your house the other day ……”
Bam!
The door to Song Sanxiao’s house was violently opened, and Song Sanxiao quickly stepped out, fire bubbling in his tone, “What is it?”
“You clean up the yard and the outside.”
“Who am I to do that?”
Song Sanxiao was already lazy, and after so many days of recuperating from his injuries, he became even lazier. If he could lie down, he wouldn’t sit down, and if he could sit down, he would never stand up.
“If I tell you to clean up, then clean up, so much nonsense there.”
Grandma Song came out of the house.
Song Sanxiao shrank in fear, limped over and picked up the broom by the wall, reluctantly muttering, “So many people are at home, so I’m the only one who can work.”
“What did Third Uncle say, I didn’t hear him clearly, speak louder.”
Song Sanxiao dared not raise his voice and swept the broom left and right.
Song Shu came out of the house and took the broom over with a rather disgusted hand, “Go aside.”
Liu Cui Lan also followed, scooped up water and sprinkled it on the ground.
Song Si and Song Shen also came out and tacitly went to clean outside the main door.
Song Lin also took the opportunity to come out of the house and gave Song Wan Yue a wink.
Song Wan Yue understood and walked inside, seeing Xu’s red eyes, and sat beside her, sighing deeply, “Alas! It’s all my father’s fault! If he hadn’t felt sorry for you, Mother, and had two more children, Mother wouldn’t have had to give up just because I was betrothed.”
Xu, ……
The hard feelings were gone for a moment, and she couldn’t help but blush, “You child, what are you talking about?”
Song Wan Yue hugged her, “The betrothal is only, mother need not be upset, my daughter gives you a promise, will never get married before the age of twenty.”
The following day, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the hour had just passed.
Two brand new and gorgeous carriages were in front, followed by ten beautiful maids carrying various boxes, followed by twenty young and strong boys, two of them carrying each other, and slowly entered the Song family village.
The village headman stood at the entrance of the Song family with several other dignitaries to greet them, and was almost dumbfounded at the sight of this show, so much so that when Master Gu and Madam Gu got down from a carriage in front of them, they were a bit overwhelmed and forgot to go forward to greet them.
It was only when Gu Yi steadily got down from the carriage at the back and coughed that the crowd came back to their senses and hurriedly greeted them, part of them clustering around Master Gu and Madam Gu, and part of them clustering around Gu Yi as they entered the courtyard.
Ten beautiful maids followed them in, lined up in a row and moved in unison to open the box in their hands.
There were huffing and puffing sounds from both inside and outside the courtyard.
And then twenty boys entered the courtyard, pulling down the red cloth that covered the fabric at the place.
The fabric glowed colourfully in the sunlight, drawing countless more gasps of relief.
Not to mention the village chief and the onlookers, even the Song family were dumbfounded, they did not expect that the Gu family had given so many betrothal gifts.
Looking at the dumbfounded looks of the people, Gu Yi was satisfied.
He was just about to go to Song Wan Yue’s house with the brocade box in his hand when a commotion came from the doorway, followed by several magistrates walking in, sweeping their eyes over the people one by one and finally landing on Master Gu, “May I ask if this is Master Gu Qian Gu?”
Master Gu narrowed his eyes, “Yes.”
“Miss Yuan’s family is dead, they are suing the officials saying that you did it, please come with us.”
