Gong Xingchen looked at the letter he handed over, raised his eyebrows and glanced at Gu Yingying with his eyes squinted.

Gu Yingying pinched the letter in her hand tightly and whispered: "When my sister had an accident, this letter was not discovered. When we moved our family, we only saw it when we packed the boxes. At that time, I wanted to send you off in the future. The boat was about to leave, and it was too late to send someone to you. I have been keeping it close to me over the years. This time I went back to the capital, I heard that you all moved the letters and brought them together."

Gong Xingchen's fingers behind him were tight and loose, loose and tight. Finally, he looked at the familiar pen and ink on the envelope, took the letter and stuffed it into his sleeve.

Gu Yingying was slightly stunned. She opened her mouth, "Brother Chen, don't you take a look?"

Gong Xingchen glanced at her and entered the mansion with her sleeves. "This letter was only five or six years away. Even if it was important, it had been so many years since the letter was written. It had happened long ago. It was not very important, but just expressing my feelings to me. I have to brew an atmosphere and experience it slowly by myself."

Gu Yingying was speechless, her fingers tightened, and a smile appeared on her face, "Brother Chen is right, it's all my fault. I'm afraid that I'll send the letter to the station and ask them to send it to you, and lose the letter. After all, this is the only thing my sister left in this world and gave it to Brother Chen."

Gong Xingchen was not in the mood to deal with Gu Yingying. He led Gu Yingying to the main courtyard, and Mrs. Gong was making clothes.

Mrs. Gong looked up and saw Gu Yingying swaying slightly, "Yanyan?"

Gu Yingying pursed her lips reservedly and smiled: "Aunt Gong, I am Yingying."

Mrs. Gong suddenly came back to her senses, and glanced at Gong Xingchen, who was leaning against the pillar and holding a jade pendant in her hand. "You sisters look too similar. When they were young, they were dressed in the same clothes. Your parents couldn't recognize them, but this brat recognized them." Putting down the needle and thread in her hand, Mrs. Gong stood up and pulled Gu Yingying to sit down, "Your parents didn't return to Beijing? Are they safe?"

"Aunt Lao's mother is concerned about them, everything is well." Gu Yingying was very dignified and polite, with all her expressions as if they had been measured, and her smile curves were the same as Gu Feiyan.

Mrs. Gong looked as if she was talking to Gu Feiyan, looking at her face slightly dazed, "I haven't seen each other for five or six years, and in the blink of an eye, you are so graceful. Now you are seventeen years old? Have you said you're kissing?"

Gu Yingying's cheeks were blushing, and she glanced at Gong Xingchen beside her at the end of her eyes, and said in a difficult voice: "My father and mother are thinking about the jokes of the two families, keeping me and never looking at each other."

Mrs. Gong was stunned. The two families were talking about getting married, but there was no explanation for whom to whom. Later, the children developed by themselves. Gong Xingchen fell in love with Gu Feiyan, and the two families were very happy. Unfortunately, Gu Feiyan was gone, and the Gu family was immersed in pain and did not mention this marriage again. She thought she could not count this.

Now the Gu family has kept Gu Yingying without saying goodbye. Their Gong Xingyu has already favored the girl, and only Gong Xingchen is left without any signs.

Gu Yingying's temperament is not as calm and pleasing as Gu Feiyan. Now, when he sees her, she has changed a lot. Gong Xingchen has always been reluctant to get married. Mrs. Gong doesn't know if Gong Xingchen is obsessed with Gu Feiyan or is not interested in it. No matter what the situation is, Gu Yingying seems to be the right person.

After all, it is a marriage that concerns a lifetime. Although the two families know the roots and have a verbal agreement, they have not seen each other for many years. Mrs. Gong did not immediately take up the conversation. She planned to first understand Gu Yingying's current temperament and then send someone to Anyang Prefecture City to inquire about the current situation of the Gu family.

"The eldest brother has already said he is kinship, but although the second brother has not said he is kinship, he has had an engagement with your sister back then, and if he enters you, he will be criticized. Xingchen is a man, but he doesn't care about these things. You are a girl, you must not care about your reputation. When your parents come to the capital another day, we will sit together and discuss it carefully." Mrs. Gong said this without any hesitation.

Gu Yingying's smile remained unchanged, "My aunt is right, marriage refers to fate, and more importantly, the combination of eyes and temperament. If the relationship is not harmonious, it is a bad fate, and the two families will not get married, but become enemies. My parents also mean this, so they sent me to the capital and get along with Brother Chen. If they really have no chance, they will not force it, and the agreement that year will be invalidated."

This statement was very consistent with Mrs. Gong's wish, and she felt that Gu Yingying was less arrogant and more calm than before.

Gu Yingying sat with Mrs. Gong and chatted. Whenever Mrs. Gong couldn't say anything, she raised another topic that Mrs. Gong was interested in, and was very concerned about Mrs. Gong's feelings. Seeing Mrs. Gong's eyebrows stretched and smiling on her lips, Gu Yingying took a sip of tea to moisten her throat, and her eyes fell into the needle and thread basket. She looked at it with a plain long skirt and couldn't help but make a suggestion.

"Auntie's skirt is made for young women? It's better to wear it with a waist than a woman. The plain patterns are embroidered on the waist, which is also the finishing touch?" Gu Yingying took the paper and pen and depicted the patterns. The fabric was moon white, and she was matched with magnolia.

Mrs. Gong took the drawings and thought carefully, and she felt that adding a magnolia flower was very clever.

"Yingying, you are as capable as your sister." Mrs. Gong praised sincerely.

A dark color flashed in Gu Yingying's eyes, and it was fleeting. She chose silk threads for embroidering magnolia flowers and threaded needles. She was very skillful in the movements. "Aunt, my needlework is average. If you don't dislike it, I will embroider the magnolia patterns for you."

Mrs. Gong waved her hand and put away the fabric. "You have troubled you. You have just arrived in the capital and are tired from the boat and the car are not bad, are you? Let Xingchen take you to the wing room to rest."

Gu Yingying was not persistent, so she put down her needle and thread and stood up obediently.

She showed this not because she really wanted to embroider Mrs. Gong, but because she revealed a message about the virtues and talents of women.

Mrs. Gong was about to recruit Gong Xingchen to take Gu Yingying to settle down. When she looked around, she saw where there was a figure?

Gu Yingying laughed and said, "Brother Chen and his sister have an appointment. When we came, we happened to meet them. I like their temperament very much."

"You are of the same age and can get along with each other. Why don't I ask Chang Le to send you over and you little girls to sit down." Mrs. Gong made a suggestion.

"Okay." Gu Yingying naturally had no reason to refuse.

Chang Le sent Gu Yingying to the Xue family.

Mrs. Gong ordered someone to go to Anyang Prefecture City to investigate the Gu family.

When Gu Yingying arrived at Xue's house, the group sat at a table to make changes and draw.

Gong Xingchen sat next to Shen Qiu, with the two people's shoulders close together. He drew very seriously and Shen Qiu looked very focused.

Gu Yingying's fingers tightened slightly, and she said, "Brother Chen, aunt asked you to settle in my residence, but you put me down alone and came to play with my sisters."

Shang Zhi heard Gu Yingying calling her sister and goose bumps appeared on her arms.

Gu Yingying sat beside Gong Xingchen and looked at the style of Gong Xingchen drawing clothes, "This style looks so good. Did you draw Brother Chen? I can make you a sample clothes."

"No need, there is an embroiderer." Gong Xingchen finished his pen, blew the ink dry, and asked Chen Qiu beside him, "What do you think?"

Chen Qiu looked at the skirt on the drawings, pursed his lips, and said nothing.

Gu Yingying's eyes fell on Shen Qiu's face, covered her lips and smiled: "I think this dress is very suitable for Miss Shen. She is tall and slender, and she is very beautiful in dressing."

"Of course, I don't look at who it is!" Gong Xingchen was proud.

Shang Zhi leaned on her chin and stared at Gu Yingying, and saw her expression naturally revealing. Although she sometimes seemed pretentious and gave people a very uncomfortable feeling, she did not show any dark thoughts. Whether Gong Xingchen refuted her face or left her alone, she could be content with her. This calmness shows her deep cunning.

Gong Xingchen drew the drawings and planned to take them to the embroidery shop. He hurriedly got up and left.

Gu Yingying looked at the ink traces on Gong Xingchen's sleeves, and naturally pulled his sleeves and wiped them with a veil. "Brother Chen is still as rash as before. The ink stained on the sleeves will not be stained dry, and other places will also be dyed." Then he sorted out his tilted belt for him for a moment. Gong Xingchen was stunned for a moment and was about to hide aside. Gu Yingying smiled and said, "When I was a child, my sister would tidy up Brother Chen's robes. There were several times when I pretended to be my sister, but you didn't notice it. I just recognized it when I saw that my tidying method was wrong. It was not the first time, so why should I be so unfamiliar with me?"

Gong Xingchen pulled his belt apart twice and left in a hurry.

Gu Yingying turned around, and Yu Guang glanced at the silk cloth handkerchief tightly in Chen Qiu's hand. Seeing that Shang Zhi was not in the house, the corner of his mouth raised slightly and said, "Miss Chen, Brother Chen is not particular about the details, and sometimes he is careless, so you can take care of it more carefully." Then he introduced himself: "My surname is Gu, Gu Yingying. Our two families are family friends and have made a marriage contract since childhood. Miss Chen often helps with Brother Chen. We will definitely have a lot of contact in the future, so we will get familiar with it first."

Chen Qiu nodded and went to the backyard to help Shangzhi choose vegetables together.

Gu Yingying looked at the ink traces on the embroidered handkerchief and turned back to Gong's mansion. She told Chang Le that Gong Xingchen had something to do and specially picked a yard close to Gong Xingchen's house.

Shang Zhi held the vegetable basket in his hand, looked at Chen Qiu's selection of vegetables silently, and asked, "Are everyone gone?"

"Yes." Chen Qiu nodded.

Shang Zhi put the green vegetables neatly in the basket and asked, "What do you think of my second brother?"

Chen Qiu thought for a while, "It's okay."

Shang Zhi smiled muffled, "Is it okay?"

Chen Qiu pursed the corners of his lips tightly and did not speak anymore.

Shang Zhi sighed lightly, and she felt that Chen Qiu was a little different to Gong Xingchen. She was not a person who talked a lot, nor was she the kind of person who was willing to help others. But Gong Xingchen told her that she would help. She even noticed that she would take the initiative to share the burden.

But this sudden appearance of Gu Yingying was extraordinary, obviously coming to Gong Xingchen.

She is the sister of Gong Xingchen's fiancée, and her status is extraordinary. It is easy to marry into the Gong Mansion naturally. After all, in ancient times, most of her sisters went there and her sister got married in as a house, not to mention that Gu Feiyan had not yet married Gong Xingchen.

Shang Zhi also smelled a little unusual. In ancient times, women had early marriages, and they started to talk to each other at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and they could get married after they were married. Gu Yingying was 16 or 17? She hadn't seen each other yet, so it was a bit abnormal. Even if she waited for Gong Xingchen and the two families were family friends, they should have come to discuss their marriages long ago. But when the Gong family moved to the capital and came to the capital, they would come to the door after being promoted, it would be a bit intriguing.

Chen Qiu is not stupid or stupid. Shang Zhi asked this question and there was nothing else except the relationship with Gong Xingchen.

“We are not suitable.”

It’s not right for the family.

Gong Xingchen also has a prospective fiancee who is waiting to be discussed.

Even more inappropriate.

Shang Zhi felt that everything would go with the flow, as long as Gu Yingying had no bad intentions.

After dinner, Shang Zhi went to the skin beauty restaurant.

Zhu Hui had already been waiting in the skin beauty restaurant, sitting behind the counter, instructing Mei Duo to serve her tea or water, or to serve two snacks, as if she didn't regard herself as an outsider.

When Mei Duo heard that Zhu Hui was Shang Zhi's cousin, she didn't dare to neglect her. She had complaints in her heart and didn't dare to say anything. When she saw Shang Zhi coming, she finally felt relieved.

When Zhu Hui saw Shang Zhi, she didn't stand up. She held the teacup and pointed at the snacks on the table, "The snacks here are pretty good. Cousin's wife, don't you try one?"

Shang Zhi almost couldn't help but sneer and said, "Don't be polite to entertain her on her territory!"

"My cousin, I came here early in the morning. I saw how Mei Duo received customers and how to apply for cards for them. I thought it was very simple and I could do it all. Even if I can't learn how to prepare skin beautification cream, I can still prepare some skin beautification restaurant for you." Zhu Hui finished a cup of tea and a piece of snack, and instructed Mei Duo to put it away.

Shang Zhi winked Mei Duo, and Mei Duo retreated.

Shang Zhi said to Zhu Hui: "When you come to this store, there is no dedicated person to manage it, and everyone has to do things. You can clean the leftover dishes you eat yourself."

Zhu Hui said in surprise: "My cousin, I'm here to learn. If you don't teach me, I'll help you with your work. Your hands will become rough and you will have to be able to get back. Your skin care products are too expensive and I can't afford them. We are a family, and I can use the skin care products in your store at will, right?"

"If you want to learn, do your own things well. If you can't even do your own things well, I'm sorry I won't be with you." Shang Zhi did not slander, and took off the skin beautification cream from Zhu Hui's hand with a cold face and put it in the cabinet. Zhu Hui is a person like him with thick skin and is not afraid of you saying it or not, even if you don't agree, she will go to the skin beautification restaurant to make trouble.

Zhu Hui's face turned red, he put away the refreshments and came to Shang Zhi, "Cousin-law, can we learn now? Do you want to take the medicine and make me a paste and make a paste?"

Shang Zhi had sarcasm in his eyes and his face was so big!

Shang Zhi took her to the backyard and opened one of the mixed rooms, which were filled with medicinal materials, and a strong smell of medicine was pungent.

Zhu Hui pinched her nose and frowned, "My cousin, what medicine should I choose?"

Shang Zhi picked some medicinal materials at will and handed them to Zhu Hui, "The first step is to learn to identify medicinal materials. After you learn to identify medicinal materials, you need to remember which medicines have the effects and you will make ointments."

Zhu Hui was reluctant and looked at the medicinal materials in her hand, "What kind of skin-beautifying formula are these medicinal materials used for?"

Shang Zhi said with a deep meaning: "When you recognize these medicinal materials, you will know which formulas are used to make."

Zhu Hui was reluctant and had to do what Shang Zhi said. On this day, I took the medicinal materials that Shang Zhi gave her to identify. I had to remember the name, not just one name, but also an alias. Some alias had more than a dozen titles, and Zhu Hui was very angry.

She threw the medicinal materials to the ground in anger and was about to get up and leave, but she heard two women sitting in the corner washing medicinal materials whispering. She thought about it and walked over lightly.

"Who is the girl who came today? How nervous is the boss to treat these skin-beautifying products? I have recognized a few medicinal materials for the girl. If I don't recognize them intact, it looks like a stingy face. After using it, the face will look like a peeled egg."

"Is it my own family? If I were an outsider, where would I take out the recipe?"

Zhu Hui thought about it. Did Shang Zhi give her the medicinal formula for treating pockmarked faces?
To be continued...