12dz Chapter 253 High Loveliness
Chapter 253 High Loveliness
My mother's name is Gao Keai.
Look, in this cold day, my mother is asking my father to help her build a snowman in the snow again.
Ama was naturally very dependent on my mother, and he was even willing to take off his clothes to put on my mother's little snowman.
"Gao Keai, you can't be so naughty, what if you get cold and freeze."
Did you hear me? This is what my father told my mother, not me, even though my mother is as strong as a deer running in the snow at this moment.
I slipped and fell, and now I can't get up.
"Xiao Nuan Nuan, get up by yourself. Don't lie down and compete for your mother's favor."
"Gao Keai, I told you long ago that having a child would only compete with me for your affection."
Forget it, forget it, just lie down.
Father and mother are true love, I was just an accident.
"Oh my, you are asking for trouble, Gao Keai, how could you leave Nuan Nuan on the ground?"
"Gao Keai doesn't care, so you don't care either?"
I raised my head slowly. The beautiful woman who scolded the two men was none other than my dear grandmother.
My grandmother and I are the best in the world, my father is third, and my mother is second.
"Oh, ma'am, you're afraid of the cold, don't go over there. Just ask the little girl to go over there."
My grandfather and I are the fourth best friends in the world.
Everyone knows that the son-in-law who married into the Gao family loves Mr. Gao's daughter to the core, but no one knows that Mr. Gao loves his wife to the core.
"Oh, then, let the servant go. I will listen to whatever the master says."
Grandma, if you are like this, your little Nuannuan will probably be the second best to you.
"Forget it, I'd better go ahead a little bit."
Dear grandmother, I am still the best and the most sincere person in the world.
Finally, after lying in the snow for a while, I was fished out by the servants, and my shameless father and mother could finally see me.
The two of them came up to me arm in arm.
Holding hands, it is really the daughter who influences the love between father and mother.
"Father, mother, why did you give birth to me?"
I finally asked the question I had always wanted to ask.
Ama held my mother's hand tightly and looked at my grandfather.
"Hey, it was an accident."
"Of course it's because I like Xiao Nuan Nuan."
I looked at my grandfather angrily.
"Grandfather, you are lying to me. What Ama said is the truth."
My grandfather laughed awkwardly and pulled my grandmother's hand and muttered to me.
"I'll tell you the truth. This girl is as smart as Gao Keai."
Grandma pulled grandpa hard.
Grandfather chuckled again embarrassedly.
"Isn't this Madam's teaching? Xiao Nuannuan is much smarter than Gao Keai. Have you ever seen Gao Keai doubt this matter over the years?"
"Father, even if you and mother fool me, you can't do it behind my back?"
Now my grandfather has not only offended me, but also my mother.
Grandfather scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Oh, Madam, I haven't looked at today's account books yet. Madam, you know that I must be accompanied by you when I look at the account books. Otherwise, I can't even look at these account books."
"Yes. Yes. Yes. I will go with my husband right away."
My grandparents just got away with it.
The servant handed me back to my father and mother who looked confused.
Ama carried me on his shoulders.
Of course, Ama doesn't feel sorry for me. He is just worried that his little wife will be tired. So cute.
Look. Even behind my father's back, he still secretly held Gao's cute little hand.
"Madam, the Gao family is sending another selection of beautiful girls to the palace this year.
This year we sent two beautiful girls, I don’t know how many will be able to enter the palace, your husband has already asked someone to prepare the longevity lamp, Madam can light it when the time comes.”
My father and mother were talking about the emperor's talent show today.
The current emperor is nearly sixty years old. Beside him is the empress, Ulanara, although the two seem to have been at odds for many years.
But why would an old man who is nearly fifty years old choose a teenage girl to enter the palace?
Mother sighed softly.
"Thank you, my husband. As a woman, I sympathize with the daughters of wealthy families. I will leave Nuan Nuan to your care. I will pray for the two women who entered the palace for three days in the Buddhist temple."
This was a rare time when my mother was not so happy. Every time the emperor selected a concubine, my mother would go to the Buddhist temple for a few days to chant scriptures and pray for the other daughter of the Gao family.
The Gao family that my mother prayed for was not the Gao family I belonged to, but the Gao family in the capital. We are now in Dali. But my grandfather also said that the Gao family was probably related to our Gao family by blood.
I heard from my grandfather that my mother looked somewhat similar to Consort Huixian Gao, who passed away in the palace many years ago.
My grandfather was a big businessman in Jiangnan, and he had to do business with some people in the palace occasionally. It was also an uncle who had been a guest in Gao's mansion in the capital who met my mother by chance and mentioned this matter.
"My brother's youngest daughter is really young, and looks very similar to the Imperial Noble Consort Huixian who passed away in the palace. Even their ages are very similar.
After the death of Imperial Noble Consort Huixian, my brother got his beloved daughter. It was really a coincidence. If she could enter the palace when she was older, it would be a great fortune. "
"I don't think you know that Gao is now looking for a woman to enter the palace, hoping to regain the favor she once received."
These words were told to my grandfather by an old friend in the capital who had done business with him in the past, the year my mother came of age.
Within a month, my grandfather sold his house in Jiangnan, moved out of his original place overnight, and cut off contact with that old friend.
"Don't even think about me, Gao Keai, entering the palace to be someone's concubine."
"Even if my Gao Keai gets married, I won't let her go. I will definitely find a good son-in-law in the future who will love my Gao Keai all his life."
My grandfather kept his word and soon brought many men to meet my mother.
"How shameful! How shameful! Even if the Gao family is rich, they shouldn't treat people like this. How can they ask a bunch of grown men like us to line up here and watch over the Gao family's girls?
It’s really outrageous.”
It is said that the scene when my grandfather chose a husband for my mother caused quite a stir.
My grandmother was afraid that everyone's eagerness to see their husbands would tire my mother out, so she simply asked them to stand there like an emperor selecting concubines so that my mother could see them to her heart's content.
"If you don't want to, just take the gold and leave. Next one."
My grandfather was really rich, and he used a gold ingot to silence the unwilling person.
So more and more people came to Gao’s house to wait for an audience.
If he is favored, he will be the son-in-law of the Gao family. If he is not favored, he will at least get a gold ingot. There will never be such a good thing again.
"Father, how come Mother chose you after dating so many people? You, you..."
I looked at my father all over, but I really couldn't see anything about him that was worthy of my mother's liking.
Ama smiled mysteriously, as if he couldn't hear what I said.
He naturally couldn't tell his daughter. Gao Keai's choice of a husband was actually a carefully prepared scheme for him.
Gao Keai was probably too excited on her wedding night and let the cat out of the bag.
"I'm finally marrying you."
Gao Keai said these words on her wedding night, which naturally scared her husband a lot.
After being glanced at by her husband, Gao Keai couldn't resist and told everything.
"Actually, actually, I have liked you for a long time. After I moved to Dali a year ago, I went to the mountains with my father to pick tea. I saw you and fell in love with you at first sight.
You, you are beautiful. Fair and clean.
So I deliberately chose these many people just to wait for you."
Gao Keai's words truly shocked her husband.
"You, how could you marry me hastily just because I'm pretty? What if I'm a bad person who covets your family's money?"
"Good boy, how dare you bully my daughter."
After Gao Keai's husband said this, Mr. Gao, who was hiding in the corner and eavesdropping, almost wanted to climb in through the window to argue with his son-in-law. Fortunately, Mrs. Gao held Mr. Gao back and asked him to listen to the end.
When Gao Keai heard what her husband said, she threw away the fan in her hand and lifted her veil by herself.
"It's easy. If you don't like me anymore and you've lied to me, then we can just get divorced.
You are the son-in-law. If you don't like me anymore and I don't like you anymore, we can both separate. There is no need to be together and resent each other.
If you really have the ability to deceive me for my whole life, I, Gao Keai, will be convinced."
Gao Keai's speech made Master Gao give a thumbs up from outside the window. He just said that his daughter was really domineering. Then he left with peace of mind.
Gao Keai's husband was shocked by her words and actions, but he also felt that what Gao Keai said made sense.
"You, you are right. Very right. But, but..."
Gao Keai's husband wanted to say something was wrong, but he couldn't think of what was wrong.
But when he was completely unprepared, he was pushed down by Gao Keai.
Gao Keai thought to herself: This little skill is still not rusty.
On the second day of marriage, Gao Keai's husband could hardly get out of bed. Gao Keai was really amazing. Men never thought being a man could be so good.
The next day, we were supposed to offer tea to our father-in-law and mother-in-law. Gao Keai was the only one who went to see his parents. With a red face, she took a plate of cakes from their small table. She said to them:
"My husband is exhausted, so he didn't get up to greet his parents. But Daddy, a man can't be good-looking. After a few days, Daddy, remember to find a doctor to take good care of him."
After Gao Keai said this, he ran back like the wind.
Three days later, the couple came out of the house.
Mr. Gao had asked the doctor to be ready at the door.
At that time, Madam Gao was still spitting at him in secret.
"Your daughter is really just like you."
Old Madam Gao's cheeks were red, and she still remembered that when she was newly married, she had not left the bed for three days.
Master Gao was not surprised and said:
"It's because the son-in-law has to be liked by his daughter. Just like the wife has to be liked by her husband after so many years."
Madam Gao waved her hands in shame, and the spirit of Master Gao last night unconsciously emerged in her mind. Her daughter is already in her thirties, how could she still be as energetic as when she got married?
Gao Keai's husband naturally couldn't tell Xiao Nuannuan these words, so he just coaxed her to sleep, and then quietly came to the side hall of the Buddhist temple where Gao Keai was going to chant scriptures and pray for blessings.
After getting married, they had a tacit understanding that as long as Gao Keai was chanting in the Buddhist temple, her husband would stay with her outside for three days.
Coincidentally, the year they got married, Gao Keai's husband recited scriptures three days after he had been in love with him. After being tormented for three days, Gao Keai's husband came out of the boudoir only to see his father-in-law, who was smiling and pushing the doctor to check his pulse.
I didn’t see Gao Keai.
He felt like he had been played by Gao Keai for nothing.
Especially since he hadn't seen Gao Keai for three days, he was more determined to do so. But he was too embarrassed to say it. He just sat there woodenly, drinking bowl after bowl of the medicine handed to him by the doctor.
Mr. Gao was frightened and asked:
"Could it be that I have been overworked these past few days and am no longer useful? Why is this happening?"
The old doctor rolled his eyes.
"What's wrong with him? I think he's very useful. Except for not eating much in the past three days, everything else is fine."
The old doctor was envious, the boy was in good health.
When Mr. Gao heard that his son-in-law was fine after three days of hard work, he felt a sense of pride in his heart. Everyone in our Gao family is not bad.
Fortunately, Gao Keai finally came out three days later.
After Gao Keai came out, she remembered that she had forgotten to tell her husband what she had been doing.
I quickly apologized:
"I am always haunted by nightmares, and every year on the day of the palace selection, I have to bathe, fast and pray for three days.
I forgot to tell you this time, but my rule is that once I go in, I won’t come out easily.”
When Gao Keai's husband heard that Gao Keai had this disease, he didn't care about being abandoned for a moment and felt really sorry for Gao Keai.
"I'm glad you're okay. I'm fine too."
Gao Keai's husband soon regretted what he said. When he finished saying that he had nothing to do, Gao Keai pulled him away.
This journey lasted another three days.
Mr. Gao was not worried at all this time. After all, the doctor said that they had been holding it in for more than 20 years, and once they vented it, they could still suffer for a few days.
In the Buddhist temple, Gao Keai saw the lights on in the corridor next door and knew that her husband was with her. This was a habit that Gao Keai's husband had developed spontaneously in the second year of their marriage, and it had been many years in a blink of an eye.
Gao Keai calmly lit the longevity lamp in front of her.
Gao Keai was named by her father, but Gao Keai always felt that she had another name.
Gao Xiyue.
She was the former Imperial Noble Consort Huixian. She did not fake her death, nor was she reborn, she was just reincarnated once.
This time, she was born into a family without family feuds, with a harmonious father and mother, and she chose a husband she liked. She even had a daughter who was already in her early teens.
Gao Keai is already in her early thirties this year.
The only thing Gao Keai did not lose was that memory.
After Gao Keai was reincarnated, she never thought of revenge on the emperor or anyone in the palace. She would just light a longevity lamp every time someone she knew passed away and the Gao family sent a daughter to the palace.
Gao Keai remembered who the lamp belonged to at first, the Queen, Concubine Jia, or Bai Ruiji, but later, she forgot everything and just kept lighting the lamp.
Then wait and choose a day every year to chant sutras and pray for three days.
Gao Keai has the opportunity to have a happy life again. Gao Keai hopes that her sisters and the palace maids who died unjustly will have the opportunity to live a good life again.
Maybe I can have a wonderful life like her.
Three days passed quickly. Gao Keai came out of the Buddhist temple, and her husband held her in his arms.
"It's cold in winter, Madam, please take care of yourself."
Gao Keai smiled slightly.
"You forgot that your wife is a little stove. Even our daughter Gao Nuannuan is a little stove, she is very hot."
"I don't know who thought I had a fever on our first wedding night."
Gao Keai's husband blushed when he heard that. Indeed. That night they tossed and turned for a long time, and he thought Gao Keai was sick because of all the tossing and turning.
Before Gao Keai's husband could react, Gao Keai pulled him over, with a burning look in her eyes.
"Husband, I haven't seen you for three days. You must have missed me."
As she spoke, Gao Keai had already started to untie his cloak.