Outside the He'an Courtyard are planted cosmos. It is said that before the old lady got married, she and her elder sister, the late queen, lived in Jiangnan for a long time. What they liked most were the large fields of cosmos, which were colorful and they felt happy at the sight of such a profusion of flowers.
However, the old lady of the Dingbei Marquis's Mansion had not been happy for many years. Madam Wei San led her daughter around the large area of cosmos flowers that attracted countless bees and butterflies, and saw Feicui coming out of the corridor. She stopped involuntarily.
Feicui is a close friend of Mrs. Wei. She was only mentioned five years ago. Now she is already seventeen years old, but the old lady still has no intention of mentioning a new person. The third wife is more respectful to the cats and dogs around the old lady than to other people. When she saw Feicui, she smiled and asked, "Is the old lady asleep?"
After the death of the late Empress Ming, bad things happened one after another around the old lady. Within four years, even her eldest son and eldest grandson died. From then on, her health deteriorated day by day, and she slept more hours than she was awake every day.
But still no one dared to neglect her - although the Ming family was finished and the old master was gone, the current emperor treated his sister-in-law with special kindness and rewarded her during festivals. The Third Madam knew that the old lady was now disheartened and unwilling to be in charge, and she also knew that Wei Qi was hated.
But the Third Lady knows the difference between close and distant relatives. After all, Wei An's father was born from the old lady's belly, and what about Wei Yuyou? After all, he was born from a concubine. If the old lady really said something in anger, even if Wei Yuyou was ruined from now on, don't expect the old lady to care about the reputation of other girls in the Wei family. Now the old lady is living like a living dead. I'm afraid she doesn't care about these other things anymore, and only cares about her own happiness.
Feicui didn't know that the Third Lady had thought so much in just a moment. She knelt down and saluted the Third Lady, and pursed her lips to reveal a restrained smile: "I woke up not long after falling asleep. Miss Seven is with me inside. I was just asking someone to look for you and Miss Five. What a coincidence..."
This one sentence has revealed countless information. Although the Third Madam's expression remained unchanged, her heart was already tense.
Although Wei Qi is the only person in the mansion who has a blood relationship with the old lady, the two of them have never been close. In terms of affection, they are not as close to the old lady as the girls born to the second and third masters' illegitimate sons. But now, the old lady is willing to let Wei Qi accompany her? !
Old Mrs. Wei was somewhat reluctant. She knelt on the mat, lowered her head and picked up the Buddha beans one by one. Her face was covered with wrinkles, and she looked much older than the other well-maintained old lady.
Wei An was kneeling one step behind her, without a cushion and with his head lowered, accompanying her to pick up the trash very patiently.
In the past, Wei An felt that everyone in this world was bad. Princess Changning shattered her thoughts of love for her, Wei Yulong took away all her love, and Old Madam Wei was just a spectator from beginning to end, as if Wei Yangqing was not her son.
After living her life over again and experiencing all kinds of life, she can now understand the old lady's difficulties.
She lost her sister in middle age and her family went through drastic changes. She finally recovered, but her husband, son and eldest grandson were all killed on the battlefield. The family title was vacant and her youngest son was an official far away. No matter how well she lived, she could not hide the pain in her heart. How could she have the mind to care about other things
In the past, she only cared about herself, and always felt that she was the most miserable person in the world. But when she thought about it carefully, she was so much luckier than others - she was born in a wealthy family, she used the best, ate the best, and enjoyed the best things. But just for the sake of that little obsession in her heart, she lived like a joke. She had an unhappy life in her last life, and most of the responsibility actually lay on herself.
After learning her lesson and suffering a lot, she freed herself from her paranoid heart and realized that there were so many people in this world who had a worse life than her. Now, she was full of kindness towards everyone in the Wei family and only saw the good in others.
She remembered Wei Yuyou's scheming and sarcasm, but she also remembered that when she was having a hard time in Yuzhang, the married Wei Yuyou asked her in front of Princess Changning why she was partial to one person over the other.
And when she returned to the capital in the future and had a hard time in the Jing'an Marquis's Mansion, it was Wei Yuyou who publicly rescued her and sneered at the arrogant Peng Lingwei.
She used to be a person who only held grudges, but given the chance to live again, she didn't want to live such a tiring life.
In her previous life, Princess Anhe loved watching plays, and her favorite was Dream of the Butterfly.
The betrayed Yao Wenxiu finally said goodbye to Chang Youde. Wei An still remembers the lyrics. Yao Wenxiu rowed the boat with a broken heart, but still smiled in a chic manner in the end: Every pain has its own healing process. The mountains are still green, the waters are flowing, I only remember the fate and not the grudge.
She used to think Yao Wenxiu was stupid, but now she wants to learn from her.
Old Mrs. Wei finally moved, and turned her head slightly to glance in Wei An's direction. From where she was, she could only see Wei An's profile. His nose was handsome and straight, his cheeks were chubby, and there were tears in his eyes. He did not have an unlucky face.
She looked from Wei An's face to his hands, and saw Wei An put down the Buddha beans, put his hands together, and began to make a wish towards the Buddha statue on the seat with utmost piety.
Such a young child had always been unruly in the past, so how could he be willing to stay in the temple for a moment? But today, after returning from Puci Temple, Wei An had already stayed in this small temple for most of the afternoon.
Something seemed to be wrong. Old Madam Wei frowned and looked at her for a while. When she finally put down her hand and opened her eyes, she asked her, "What are you begging for?"
Wei An didn't ask for anything. In her previous life, she never worshipped Buddha, and even when the situation was difficult, she never thought of asking gods or Buddhas for anything.
It is the same now. She is thanking all the gods and Buddhas in the sky for giving her the opportunity to start over.
No matter how annoying she was in the past, she would be more likable from now on. She was too dirty and bad in her last life, so she broke herself down bit by bit and reassembled herself, eliminating all the annoying flaws in her bones, and then sewed up her chest bit by bit.
She smiled at Old Madam Wei, took a step forward and naturally extended her hand to support her: "May the Buddha bless you with good health and your parents with good things."
She had done this thousands of times before - to cause trouble for people like Princess Anhe and Peng Lingwei. She had put a lot of effort into the old lady of the Marquis of Jing'an's mansion. No one knew better than her how to serve an old person and how to please an old lady.