The room with the burning kang was warm as spring, and the incense was swaying, but Gu Yunzhen felt cold hands and feet, his fingertips were slightly numb, and his nose was lingering with the dull, depressing and unpleasant smell that he had smelled in Mrs. Murong's house today.

It can't be lingered in this spacious and bright room.

"Grandma," Gu Yunzhen met Mrs. Gu's majestic eyes and said calmly, "Granddaughter listens to grandmother's arrangements."

It’s just marriage. Every woman has to experience such a life and she can live a good life.

In other words, there is no love in the storybook.

This is not the whole of life. Mother can do it, grandmother can do it, and of course she can do it.

Although she made a decision, she couldn't help feeling a little sad, and the odor at the tip of her nose became stronger, and she sighed: But, she was going to make her sister worry about her again.

After hearing Gu Yunzhen's response, Mrs. Gu's face suddenly turned from gloomy to sunny, and a kind smile appeared on her graceful face.

The atmosphere in the room also became clear in an instant.

Mrs. Gu asked Madam Li with satisfaction, "Hurry up, let's invite the third wife."

Madam Li responded quickly and quickly went out to send someone to pass the message.

Mrs. Gu called in again the eldest maid Bai Lu, and in front of Gu Yunzhen, asked Bai Lu to open the warehouse and get a box of jewelry from her private warehouse. She also ordered another nanny to take the dowry list from her former aunt when she got married.

If the marriage is scheduled before the New Year, it means that the dowry will be sent tomorrow.

Cihe's hall suddenly became busy, and the nannies and mothers rushed back and forth.

After Gu Yunzhen finished saying that, he began to remain silent again, as if his soul had been pulled out of his body.

Mrs. Gu was in a good mood and kept talking: "Sister, you won't be wronged at home. Your dowry will be handled by your second aunt, so you must do it properly."

"Grandmother will add makeup to you. In addition to this box of jewelry, she will add 10,000 taels of silver and land."

"Grandma still has a lot of good materials here, which is just right for you to make wedding dresses and let the sewing room work day and night."

“…”

Gu Yunzhen pursed her lips, remained silent for a long time, and was wandering outside.

Mrs. Gu's voice was clearly right in her ears, but it seemed so far away, as if it came from thousands of miles away.

However, in Mrs. Gu's eyes, Gu Yun was really silent and became obedient.

When people were in a happy mood, Mrs. Gu’s wrinkles on the corners of her lips and eyes smiled into a flower, and she discussed some details of the wedding with Wang in high spirits.

Wang quietly winked at her nanny's manager and signaled her to find someone to inform the Marquis of the Good News.

Wang smiled and said with a smile: "Mother, my elder brother-in-law is less than twenty years old, and he is already a fifth-rank thousand household in Shenji Camp. His future is right. If you don't have to be filial, you can go straight to the sky without a few years and wear a fourth-rank robe."

In the Dajing Court, the fifth rank and below are wearing green robes, and the fourth rank and above are wearing red robes.

This big red robe is in full swing, which itself is a symbol of status and future.

Mrs. Gu agreed deeply and nodded repeatedly, and was overjoyed.

The words "Shenjiying's fifth-grade Thousand Households" seem to have several pointed needles pierced into Gu Yunzhen's ears.

Her originally stagnant expression had a slight ups and downs for the first time, and the long eyelashes of the crow trembled rapidly.

She slowly turned to Mrs. Gu, her eyes were like a cold black pool, and she asked word by word: "Shenjiying is a fifth-rank thousand households?"

"Yes." Mrs. Gu said with a smile, "There is a hurdle between the fifth and fourth ranks. After passing this hurdle, my eldest son-in-law will have a bright future in the future..."

Mrs. Gu originally wanted to speak well with Gu Yunzhen, but was interrupted by Gu Yunzhen: "Grandmother, the fifth-rank 1,000 households in Shenji Camp, isn't this the elder brother's job?"

Previously, Gu Yuan was transferred to the Shenji Camp and promoted to Qianhuo before receiving the transfer order from the Ministry of War. Everyone in the mansion knew about Gu Yunzhen, and of course he also knew about it.

But this is my elder brother’s job, why did it become Murong Yong’s?!

What should I do with the elder brother?

In order to follow my uncle's pace, my elder brother worked hard for so many years, and gradually gained a foothold in the army at the cost of blood and sweat. He finally got to where he is today...

The relaxed and cheerful atmosphere just now suddenly became stagnant and became a little subtle and awkward.

Mrs. Gu looked at Wang from each other, her face slightly stiff, and she realized the problem.

During these days, Gu Yunzhen followed Yan to his grandfather's house and returned yesterday. I was afraid that Murong Yong finally got the job of the Thousand Houses of Shenjiying.

Gu Yunzhen's dark eyes were bottomless, and her eyes were staring at Mrs. Gu's old and graceful face without a moment, as if she was about to penetrate the hypocritical shell and capture the subtle changes in her face in a moment.

It seemed as if a bucket of cold water was poured on his head, and Gu Yunzhen was covered in bone-thickness from head to toe, soaking into his bone marrow.

Gu Yunzhen's always gentle eyes were shining with an almost sharp light at this moment, cold and clear, and slowly said: "He... snatched the elder brother's errand?"

She was asking, but she looked very confident, and seemed to have a clear answer in her heart.

She thought that their surname was Gu and that the whole family wanted to support each other, and that grandmother and second uncle would definitely help their elder brother Gu Yuan.

It turns out that she is too naive.

Her hope was nothing more than a self-righteous luxury, just like the seemingly gorgeous soap bubbles in the sun. When the wind blows, the bubbles will burst.

In the East Room, the scene was frozen and the atmosphere became colder.

Mrs. Gu frowned unhappily and said in a low voice: "How can this be called 'robbing'?"

The big girl has indeed learned bad things from Gu Yanfei and can't even speak!

Mrs. Gu said with confidence: "Brother Yuan was transferred to Luanyiwei. The position of the Thousand Households of the Shenji Camp was given by Brother Yuan on his own initiative."

How can this be called robbery?

After all, without Gu Yuan, no matter how much money the Hou Mansion spent, it would not be possible to create an errand from the Shenji Camp for Murong Yong out of thin air.

The more Mrs. Gu thought about it, the more she became more and more righteous she said, "Sister, the Murong family will not treat you badly. The errand was given by your elder brother, and you were happy for his old lady. The Murong family owe you from now on, and will look up to you in the future. In this life, your status is stable and no one can surpass you."

"All this is done by grandmother and your second uncle."

Wang nodded frequently. The biggest beneficiary of this incident was Gu Yunzhen.

"It's for Gu Yun'er!" Gu Yunzhen pointed out Mrs. Gu's thoughts incisively, and a suffocating feeling filled his heart.

"What my brother wants is to fight on the battlefield, just like my uncle, rather than live a stable life in Beijing."

"And for Gu Yun'an, you helped Murong Yong steal the elder brother's errands and cut off his future!"

Gu Yun's voice could not hide his disappointment and sadness, his cherry lips were pale and his pupils were as deep as the night.

The heart and mouth seem to have a string tighten little by little, and then tighten again.

She could accept that her grandmother arranged a marriage for her family and gave up the pursuit of the two loves advocated by Emperor Taizu;

She can celebrate her future husband's family;

She can be like all women like her mother, respect her parents-in-law, serve her husband, handle housework, manage concubines, and educate her children.

However, she also has a bottom line.

"Zheng!"

Gu Yunzhen could vaguely hear the sound of the string breaking in his ears, and his heart trembled suddenly.

She stood up without warning, and this abrupt action attracted the frowns of Mrs. Gu and Wang.

When he looked at the room, he was surprised or dissatisfied, Gu Yun's voice could no longer hear the gentleness he used to, and he firmly uttered three words:

"I won't marry!"

These three words are neither light nor heavy, but they are like thunder.

Everyone was stunned and could not believe their ears.

The room was silent.

...

"Girl, I just heard that the eldest girl is not married."

At dusk, the reason why Gu Yunzhen refused to marry was heard by Juan Bizhi's mouth.

Gu Yanfei gently tweaked the pointer on the compass, and the pointer turned drippingly...

The pointer is fast first and then slow, and gradually stops.

The slanted sunlight shot in through the window and sprinkled on the small compass. The surface of the pointer and the compass were filled with a pearl-like stream of light.

Juan Bi knew that the girl was telling fortunes, staring at the compass with breath... until the pointer stopped, she took a breath and asked curiously: "Miss, have you calculated?"

"The hexagram has changed." Gu Yanfei looked at the hexagram displayed on the compass and happily picked up the tail of his eyes.

Then what? Juan Bi stared at Gu Yanfei burntly, waiting for her to continue talking.

Gu Yanfei held his cheek with one hand, looked at the compass with his eyes down, and the knuckles of his right hand gently knocked on the table, thinking about something.

Before today, she had several hexagrams for Gu Yunzhen's marriage.

The results of the hexagram have always shown that "the fate of heaven is irreversible".

Therefore, Gu Yanfei did not dare to intervene rudely. She herself was a person from Tianqi. If she forcibly intervened in the cause and effect of "Tian Ding Fate", it would harm Gu Yunzhen.

But in this hexagram now, the hexagram shows a turning point—

"Breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly." Gu Yanfei murmured to himself.

Juan Bi didn't know what Gu Yanfei meant, but he could probably guess the result of the hexagram from the four words "breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly".

"Girl," Juan Bi was happy at first, then she was a little worried, and said, "Will that lady make things difficult for the eldest lady? And will the Murong family..."

Who in the whole house knows the character of the grandma? The grandma has always been arrogant and cannot tolerate anyone in the house questioning her decision. Perhaps only the Marquis and Gu Yunhao can speak well in front of the grandma.

The Murong family is Gu Yunzhen's future husband's family. Gu Yunzhen refuses to fight for joy, which is equivalent to offending the Murong family. So will the Murong family give up?!

Compared to Juan Bi's worry, Gu Yanfei seemed casual.

Breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly, this "cocoon" is self-bound.

If external forces break through the cocoon, it will only be destruction. Gu Yunzhen must tear the things tied to her by himself before breaking out of the cocoon and having the beauty of the moment when he transforms into a butterfly.

From this hexagram-

A crack appeared in the "cocoon" on Gu Yunzhen's body, and her fate was no longer "irreversible".
Chapter completed!