The capital in winter is so cold that it makes people shiver.

Gu Xi has lived in the capital for seven years, and has not been able to get used to the weather.

Especially every morning when I got up at Yin, I personally decocted the medicine and sent it to my wife.

But she was very calm in her heart.

Because she has a son now.

She was pregnant only in the sixth year of marriage with Pei Tong.

That year, Pei Tong and Shen Fang from the Shen family participated in Chunwei.

Shen Fang, who participated in Chunwei for the first time, passed the exam, but Pei Tong, who participated in Chunwei for the second time, failed.

Pei Tong didn't say anything, but his heart was very bitter. I went out during the day to congratulate those old Jiangnan who passed the exam, but when I returned home at night, I locked myself in the study and drank a few days of wine.

She couldn't understand Pei Tong like this very much, and felt unambitious.

How many people took the test five or six times in a row before they succeeded. Pei Tong was still so young, but his spirit seemed to collapse, too decadent.

Not to mention the men walking outside, they are the women in the house. If she was tortured by her stepmother and would admit her fate early, could she still have today?

She deliberately brought a bowl of sobering soup to Pei Tong's study that day.

Pei Tong was so grateful that her eyes were red at the time, and she took her hand and kept saying the big wife: "She must be very disappointed in me! She told me since I was a child that I should study hard... When I finish my studies, she will be happy ...The death of my father was a blow to her. I divided the clan, and she was very happy, so she took a sigh of relief, thinking that I could be named on the gold list, and exaggerated in front of the people in my hometown... Not only did I fail to make her proud, but also... "

He could not go on.

Gu Xi was not used to her mother-in-law.

what? There has never been a clear distinction between north and south!

Even her mother-in-law’s sister-in-law didn’t want to deal with her mother-in-law after seeing her a few times when she first came to Beijing. It was the Yang family. Apart from the news that Pei Tong had fallen off the rankings, Mrs. Yang came here once and comforted Mrs. A few days before stepping into their house.

She couldn't help but encourage Pei Tong at the time: "Look at my brother, I was preparing to take the Juren exam before taking a break before continuing. You were too anxious."

Pei Tong hasn't spoken for a long time.

Yin Mingyuan also asked him to wait for a few subjects, but his mother...so that Yin Mingyuan didn't tell him much anymore.

He didn't want to blame his mother who had stayed in the inner courtyard of the house for many years, but his mother's urgency was really a knife on his neck.

Pei Tong couldn't help but smiled bitterly, and said insincerely: "I still don't have the ability. Look at Achan and Apo."

Pei Chan and Pei Bo participated in the imperial examination three years ago, and they passed the exams on the field, and both of them passed the exams of Shu Jishi. Now that the six departments have finished, he heard from his second uncle Pei Xuan that Pei Chan stayed After the Imperial Procuratorate, Pei Bo stayed in the Ministry of Engineering.

This is also the result of the Pei family's struggle with Peng and Jiang in the past few years.

His third uncle was not a person to be ignored, whether he was in court or in the field.

Five years ago, his third uncle didn’t know why he started targeting the Peng family, and caused the Peng family to lose the resources of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Also tore a big hole.

The whereabouts of Pei Chan and Pei Bo are the fruit of the fruit.

Moreover, his second uncle, Pei Xuan, had just been promoted to the Ministry of Finance because of his good financial management.

Lin'an Pei's family, after many years, once again stood on the cusp of the storm and became one of the most prominent families in the dynasty.

What Pei Tong could think of, how could Gu Xi couldn't think of it.

When she saw Pei Tong who was so sad that she couldn't cry, she suddenly thought of the way that Yu Tang was holding Pei Yan in the branch of that year.

Gu Xi couldn't help but hugged Pei Tong, and said in a tone that she didn't even realize that Yu Tang comforted Pei Yan back then: "It's okay, it's almost Dragon Boat Festival. I'm going to give a festive gift to my second aunt, yours. I will tell my second aunt about the matter. They have always taken care of us.

Pei Tong's eyes filled with tears.

She gave birth to a son after the Chinese New Year.

Her son not only looks like Uncle Xiao, but also looks like her elder brother Gu Chang.

Thinking of his son who was still sleeping soundly in bed, Gu Xi felt warm in his heart, and the biting cold wind in Beijing became tolerable.

He Xiang married a housekeeper, but still worked as a servant in front of Gu Xi.

She is more low-key and understands Gu Xi better.

Seeing Gu Xi's appearance, Hexiang swiftly filled the steaming soup and medicine into the thermos, and smiled: "Should we go to Pei Mansion these two days? We can buy so much charcoal in our mansion this year, thanks to The second wife."

Those of them who followed from the Pei Mansion are still used to calling the Pei Mansion according to the order of the Pei Mansion. In this newly-built mansion, it can be regarded as a kind of flaunting qualifications.

Gu Xi never thought of breaking up with Pei Mansion.

This year it is said that there has been a riot in Shanxi. Not to mention the increase in the price of charcoal in Beijing, and the idlers can't buy it. If it weren't for her to hang around in front of the second wife, the second wife often missed them. Their family might be burning charcoal this winter. It's difficult.

"Definitely going." Gu Xi didn't think much about it, and said, "The second wife coughed a little when I went last time. When going this time, you remember to bring some of our own pear paste."

The second wife, like her, has been in the capital for so long and still can’t adapt to the climate of the capital. Some people in the Gu family used to be officials in the capital, leaving a prescription for nourishing lung qi. She followed suit and the effect was good. After that, she would send some to Pei's mansion every year.

It will not be delivered all at once, one after another, will be delivered one winter.

It's a strategy.

Lotus notes down.

The two of them were surrounded by the maids beside them, and walked along the porch and walked through the garden to a small three-room courtyard to the east where the big lady lived.

From a distance, they heard the cough of the older lady.

Gu Xi and He Xiang couldn't help but glance at each other.

Pei Tong failed the ranking for the second time. The eldest wife couldn't stand the blow. She cried all night and contracted a lung disease. After that, she coughed out of breath every winter, so she especially liked to scream when she had a bad cough. Pei Tong went to talk.

Although Gu Xi knows how to make pear paste, she doesn't want to honor her elder wife. So when she first gave pear paste to her eldest wife, she put a lot of Chuanbei. The eldest wife disliked the taste bad, so Gu Xi added rock sugar, and the elder wife ate it. With more rock candy, the cough will be even worse.

She simply stopped giving pear ointment to the eldest wife, and said to Pei Tong: "After all, this is just a health-preserving prescription. My mother-in-law is afraid of hurting the lungs, so it's better to take the medicine seriously."

Pei Tong felt that what she said was reasonable. Every year in the fall, she began to invite the doctor to come over to the eldest wife to get her pulse and prescribe medicine. As for Gu Xi, she will be sick throughout the winter, and after a few years, she will have her maiden sister-in-law. The Yin family helped to publicize that the Jiangnan people who were officials in the capital and the married couples basically knew about it, and Gu Xi also gained a reputation for being "good and filial."

The old lady vomited to death when she heard it, and it was even more unpleasant to watch Gu Xi.

Tossing Gu Xi had to get up every morning at Yin Shi to give her a decocting medicine.

Gu Xi had been discussing life under her stepmother since she was a child, and she was very knowledgeable about how to control the inner courtyard. What's more, the Pei family didn’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional and gave her all the money that the old lady Pei had allocated to them. Although she has a mother-in-law on top of her head, The money in the family is in her hands. If she wants to make the family so insufficient that she can't spread a word, she can't spread a word.

The old lady has a plan, she has a countermeasure.

When Pei Tong went back to the inner room to spend the night, she would be right. When Pei Tong was studying in the study, that would be hard to say.

After Pei Tong fell out of the rankings last time, Gu Chang found him. Uncle Lang closed the door of the study and said something for a long time. He also found a new teacher for Pei Tong. Pei Tong has been studying in the study most of the past two years, Mrs. Even if you want to file a complaint, Pei Tong must be willing to listen and have time to listen.

So when Gu Xi and He Xiang entered, the eldest wife couldn't help but began to yin and yang weirdly mocking the wife: "Why do you have time to come here today? You don't need to accompany the Xianggong to study?"

Gu Xi said something to her when he was in the mood for the defeated general. When he was not in the mood, she bowed her head and remained silent. She looked respectful and humble, which made the big lady angry.

She was in a good mood today. After asking Hexiang to pass the medicine to the maid serving by the lady, she uninvited to sit on the embroidered pier opposite the lady, and said warmly: "Yesterday Xianggong rested in the study. But today I If you want to go to Pei’s Mansion, you have to go out early.” And fortunately, “Fortunately, my mother-in-law’s medicine is early, otherwise I will have to rush over in a hurry in the afternoon.”

The old lady coughed violently on the spot.

This is also one of the places she is very dissatisfied with Gu Xi.

In the past few years, Gu Xi has been running to Pei's mansion whenever he has time, and he is more filial to the second wife than to her mother-in-law.

The maid serving next to her helped the eldest wife to get along.

After playing against each other for so many years, Gu Xi certainly knows what the eldest wife has.

She smiled slightly, very happy, and continued with the cough of the eldest wife: "I heard that Wu Guye will be off next year. I have to ask, and then I have to prepare something for the exam to send over. "

This is another knot of the big wife.

Some people are lucky for a lifetime.

At the time, Pei Dan was meek and shy, and she didn't shine at all among the sisters. Who knew she married the best.

However, in the past few years, Uncle Qin has kept going all the way, with talents and talents coming all the way, and this year the imperial examination will begin.

Master Qin's official prestige is also growing.

The Pei family's ability to tear up the Jiang family's Ministry of Industry has a lot to do with the attendant Qin.

Master Qin said nothing in the Ministry of Industry, and with the support of the Pei family, Jiang Hua was almost taken to the ground.

This was something no one had expected at the time.

Gu Xi still didn't want his wife to be surprised, otherwise Pei Tong would have to keep his filial piety for three years, and he would not be able to participate in the Spring Festival next year.

She stayed with the eldest wife for a while, then went back to her house, watched her son Yuan brother eat breakfast in person, and took him to Pei's mansion.

Pei Dan's eldest son is about the same age as Brother Yuan. Mrs. Qin regards him as a treasure and does not let go. The second wife rarely sees his grandson once, so he treats Brother Yuan very well.

Gu Xi holding her son in his arms is also one of the ways to please the second wife.

It's just that she didn't expect that when she arrived at Pei's mansion, the servant girl in the cross-yard to the west of Pei's mansion was like a weaving, and it seemed that she was cleaning the courtyard over there.

In recent years, the second wife and his family have lived in the east yard.

The yard to the west used to be where Yu Tang lived.

Gu Xi's heart suddenly throbbed, and she hurriedly pulled a familiar young man and asked: "What is this? Did Laba not arrive, so did you start to fight dust?"