The husband who forced her to marry her couldn't keep her warm, and she didn't want him to

"Grandma, I'm here to admit my mistake!"

As soon as Gu Jinchu said this, everyone in the room looked at her with different expressions.

After Zhou started to be the housekeeper, nothing that happened in the Gu family escaped her eyes.

Gu Jinchu brought the guards to Tingyuxuan to fight. She knew that Gu Jinchu's temper would not let his two younger sisters go, but she didn't know how her sister Yu would be treated.

When she came to the lady's courtyard, she was in a state of panic and had already thought of an excuse: it was not her sister Yu who stabbed her sisters in the back.

Besides, the Gu family cannot offend Zheng now. Without her, the family will not be able to survive!

Zhao from the third house and Gu Shan were the last to arrive, and they had no idea what was going on.

The moment the lady entered the room, Gu Yan wanted to hug her grandmother and cry, but Li Xianglian held her back.

Gu Jinchu used the rules as an excuse in Tingyuxuan. Yan Jie'er, as a concubine's daughter, stepped over Gu Jinchu, the legitimate daughter, in front of so many people, which gave her another reason to get angry.

So Gu Jinchu's words caught everyone off guard.

The expression on the lady's face paused, and she raised her hand and instructed Mrs. Guan beside her:

"Go and help Chu Jie'er up quickly. This child has just recovered from a serious illness. If she has anything to say, sit there and talk to her grandmother."

Having said that, he didn't give Gu Jinchu a chance to speak and looked around the room.

"Why don't you see Mudan? She is the grandmother of the family. As the madam, I am the most open-minded. If there is anything, you can't bypass her."

Gu Jinchu lowered her head so that no one could see her expression.

How come she didn't realize in her previous life that her grandmother usually called her mother "the second wife" and only called her "Peony" affectionately when she needed a favor from her mother.

I guess it was because my aunt saw the deficit in the Gu family's account book. My grandmother never thought that her luxurious life as an old lady was all because of her daughter-in-law, whom she looked down upon, who was supporting the whole family with her dowry behind her back.

Mother Tong came over and bowed to Li, "Madam, our wife fell ill last night."

Li couldn't help but exchange a glance with Zhou, who was sitting below him. Zhou then asked:

"Didn't my sister-in-law go to the Treasure Pavilion when she came back yesterday? How come..."

Mother Tong placed her hands on her belly, stood straight, lowered her eyes to look at the ground, and replied:

"Some time ago, the third young lady had a recurring high fever. The second lady was worried and kept watching over her day and night, but there was no one around to help share the burden."

"Yesterday at the Song family...after returning, the Second Madam wrote letters to several other ladies she was close to overnight. She fainted because of the strain."

"Doctor Lu said that Madam is ill from overwork and anger, and needs to rest in bed for a while."

Li, who was sitting at the top, said: "..."

She made the excuse of not feeling well every other day, so Aunt Lian, under the guise of serving her, rarely went to Moxiangju to pay her respects, let alone set rules in front of Zheng.

Gu Huanian's eldest daughter fell ill, and his wife was exhausted from taking care of her daughter, but she, as a concubine, had never shown any regard for him.

If this were known by the people in the Censorate, it would be evidence that Gu Huanian favored his wife and destroyed her.

Li was cautious all his life, especially in the careers of his younger generations.

"My dear, I didn't get enough rest last night. Please go and see your brother and sister-in-law on my behalf."

She wanted to know if Zheng was pretending to be sick, but she didn't want to make it too obvious, so she reminded him:

"Ask her if Moxiangju has enough staff. I heard Chujie will be going back to Baodi in a few days. Mudan is not in good health, so she should not travel by car."

Zhou stood up and said with a smile, "Mother, I'll go now."

Gu Jinchu looked up at his grandmother and aunt's behavior and couldn't help but laugh in his heart.

He raised his voice and said, "Grandma, just now in Tingyuxuan, Sister Yan was not convinced and asked me to accompany her and Aunt Lian to come to you to seek justice."

Everyone now turned their attention to Li Xianglian and Gu Yan, and only then did they see the scar on one side of Aunt Lian's face.

The five red and swollen finger marks on her face, coupled with her tearful expression, would make people who didn't know her think she had suffered a great injustice.

Seeing the lady's reproachful eyes sweeping towards her, Li Xianglian lowered her head and knelt on the ground:

"It's all my fault. I made Third Miss unhappy. I dare not complain about Third Miss's punishment."

Gu Jinyu was scolded by her mother yesterday, and her father also punished her to copy the female training. She blamed all this on Gu Jinchu.

She muttered quietly, "It's not the first time that Third Sister has beaten someone. Aunt Lian is lucky that she didn't get whipped."

When Gu Yan heard this, she knelt beside Li Xianglian and tears welled up in her eyes:

"Grandmother, Gu Jinchu brought people to Tingyuxuan early in the morning to fight and kill. Mother is my father's concubine after all. She did this without taking you and my father into consideration at all..."

As he said this, he lowered his head and began to cry.

Gu Jinchu looked at the lady's changing expressions and controlled himself not to laugh.

Li Xianglian and Gu Yan are not actually that smart. It is their innocent faces that always act pretentiously to confuse people.

Gu Jinchu showed an expression of shame and grief on her face, "Grandma, this is why your granddaughter came to apologize to you."

"As my father's eldest daughter, I failed to persuade my younger sister, causing her to lose her moral integrity and behave in an unruly manner. This is my fault as the eldest sister. This is the first reason."

Gu Jinchu used to be domineering and rarely spoke in such a calm and organized manner at home.

Everyone looked at her and realized that she was dressed very simply today, without any jewelry on, which was quite appropriate for what she had just said about coming to apologize.

Gu Jinchu looked at Gu Li, who was sitting at the top, with a face full of admiration.

"My grandmother raised my father, his brothers and sisters in her late teens. It was under her care that the Gu family has become what it is today."

"If my father is promoted to the fifth rank, I can make him a county lady. To be honest, I can ask my relatives to kneel down and bow to me when they come to our Gu Mansion next time!"

Sure enough, she saw joy and longing on her grandmother's face, and she completely forgot about her niece and granddaughter kneeling on the ground.

"When your father came to Cuihua Court to pay his respects, he said that the position of Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple was vacant." He then looked at Zhou.

"If Huanian can be promoted to the fifth rank, Brother Hui will have someone to rely on in the court in the future, and Sister Qiu will also have more confidence in the Yongping Marquis's mansion."

"The three...these four unmarried girls in the family can also take a look at it when they are looking for a husband."

Gu Li was completely immersed in her own imagination. If her brother Hui passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi, with the mediation of her uncle and the dowry money from Zheng, it would be possible for her to marry a princess in the future.

A thin and old face, smiling like a flower.

Zhou swallowed with some difficulty and looked at Gu Jinchu with inquiring eyes.

Gu Jinchu walked to Gu Li's bedside, took her hand, lowered his eyes and continued:

"Grandmother, you don't know that my fourth and fifth sisters were at the Song family yesterday... The wife of the Minister of Personnel was there at the time. I'm afraid my father will have no hope of promotion. If things go wrong, there will be rumors that the daughter of the Gu family has lost her moral character..."