Wei An is full of ideas, but he is always timid.
She has always been afraid of ghosts. The reason for her fear of ghosts was her childhood in the Dingbei Marquis Mansion. Her cousin Wei Kun was an extremely good storyteller. In order to help her cousins deal with this annoying troublemaker, he once told her a ghost story.
Wei An himself couldn’t remember what ghost story it was, but he still remembered the creepy and frightening feeling as if he was there. When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, he often felt a gust of cold wind outside. He would huddle in the quilt all night long, and even when he felt suffocated, he dared not stick his head out to breathe, for fear that he would see a ghost as soon as he opened his eyes.
She still remembered that when she was a child, she felt particularly unbearable every night. She never dared to sleep without Nanny Wang's company. Later, when Nanny Wang died, she became even more afraid of ghosts. After arriving in Yuzhang, she saw that Wei Yulong was afraid of thunder, so her mother would go to accompany Wei Yulong every time it thundered and rained. She also had the wild idea of asking her mother to accompany her, and she begged her mother to come and see her in an extremely humbly but hopeful manner.
She still remembers Princess Changning's expression when she refused, which was cold and disdainful, sarcastic and mocking.
That look was like a string of sharp arrows shot from a bow, piercing her body with wounds, making her feel embarrassed and sad.
This wound has gone through past and present lives, but it still hasn't scabbed over.
She knew that the Wei family didn't owe her anything, and it was she who let the Wei family down and harmed her father and mother. However, she wanted to know why these subtle wounds from her previous life, which pushed her into the abyss bit by bit and caused her no return, were small but never healed.
Nanny Wang propped herself up in surprise. Through the moonlight, she could see Wei An's sparkling eyes. Although this little girl was very stubborn and refused to admit that she was disliked and ignored by her parents, she actually cared about them in her heart... She suddenly felt her eyes getting hot. She held Wei An's cold hand through the curtain and shook her head gently: "Mammy, you don't know..."
Nanny Wang couldn't sleep, so she got up and poured Wei An a cup of tea. She sat on the footstool and looked at Wei An holding the cup of tea. She gently rubbed Wei An's hair: "When Nanny came to serve you..." She gestured: "You were only this small, only about eight months old. No matter who held you, you were always smiling and never shy."
She thought of Wei An's appearance when he was a child, and her heart softened: "You have been obedient since you were young. You had a high fever at such a young age and didn't even have the strength to cry. But when the fever subsided, you still smiled at me with those beautiful eyes..."
She looked at Wei An, tears streaming down her cheeks: "I don't know why the princess doesn't like you... Our An An is such a good child... Why doesn't the princess like you..."
She felt a little sore in her throat and quickly held back her tears. Seeing Wei An lowering his head, she hurriedly said, "It's all in the past... The princess was still young at that time and didn't know how to comfort a child... It will be better in the future..."
Wei An didn’t know that her mother didn’t like her since she was a child, she was just tricking Nanny Wang.
She felt a sharp pain somewhere in her heart. She pursed her lips in grievance, hugged her knees with both hands, buried her head in her arms, and suddenly felt very discouraged.
If my mother disliked me in my previous life because of my bad reputation, how do I explain what happened in my childhood
What could an eight-month-old child do wrong? How annoying could an eight-month-old child be when he was being taken care of by a wet nurse
She tried so hard to be a better person, to shave off the bones and flesh of her past self that displeased her mother, and to be reborn again bit by bit, but was it all in vain
But Wei An dealt with all these sorrows in just a moment.
She had already learned how to control her emotions, and she curled her lips towards Nanny Wang: "Mammy, you're right. I've become a better person, and mother will like me..."
Nanny Wang saw that her eyes were shining like a child craving for candy, and she felt even more jealous, but she still agreed with her words on the surface: "Yes, the princess will definitely like you... Even the old lady looks at you differently, the princess will definitely like you..."
Wei An lay down again, face inward, but his eyes were not closed.
She knew why Old Lady Wei looked at her differently - it was all because of her cousin from the Ming family who married Prince Zheng and became his consort. In her previous life, she had heard maids say about her more than once behind her back: "You took advantage of a face that looked like your cousin's."
Wei An didn't know the deep meaning of this, but it didn't stop her from using it to please Old Madam Wei. In her previous life, it was because of this that Old Madam Wei tolerated her again and again.
In this life, she no longer wants to use this face simply to take advantage of others, she wants to use this face to do something serious.
She wanted to please Mrs. Wei and be nicer to her.
The saddest thing for Wei Yangqing until his death was that he was not close to his mother and did not see Old Madam Wei for the last time. The same was true for Princess Changning.
She still remembered how Mrs. Wei died.
Old Lady Wei was leaning on the cane given by Emperor Longqing and died by hitting her head against the pillar at the entrance of Wenhua Hall.
She died because she was forced into a corner.
There was a lot of talk in the court that she was a remnant of the Ming family. After Emperor Longqing died, Prince Chu succeeded to the throne. The new Prince of Chu was not as kind to his sister-in-law as Emperor Longqing was to her, and he let the rumors in the court run wild.
He did nothing, but in the eyes of the world, he did everything.
The Wei family was forced to retreat step by step, with no way to retreat. Wei Yumin was treated harshly by the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion. Her eldest daughter died of illness, her eldest son fell off a horse and became disabled, and the third master lost his job... ...
These things happened so suddenly and quickly. The old lady was already so old that she could not bear it. Finally, after the first lady could not bear it and committed suicide, she could not bear it anymore. She borrowed the crutches given by Emperor Longqing to enter the palace, and died in the Wenhua Hall to prove her innocence.
From then on, the rumors in the court were completely extinguished, and the Wei family was finally saved, but the vacant title of the Wei family was taken back. The imperial censors said that the old lady Wei's action was a great injustice to the emperor, and the people of the world would think that the emperor was unkind and forced the old lord to death... ...
Wei Yangqing was later slandered for rebellion. The newly ascended King of Chu convicted Wei Yangqing without even asking any questions. He ignored his defense and kept it in his pocket without publishing it. This was also because of the death of Old Lady Wei in the accident.
Wei An sighed. The road ahead was long and seemed to have no end.
But she wanted to walk slowly. She knew that the saddest thing for both her father and mother in their previous life was to watch Old Madam Wei die tragically without being able to do anything. She wanted to be nicer to Old Madam Wei and win her favor. In this way, perhaps her father and mother would treat her closer because of her piety.
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