Wei An suddenly woke up from her dream. The night was dark and the stars were shining brightly. The summer breeze blew in through the window and into the dilapidated door, making her feel a little cold. She sat there in a daze for a while. She still didn't understand why she didn't see her parents, brothers and sisters as expected even though she had already held her daughter's hand, but instead found herself here in the blink of an eye.
The moon is bright and the stars are sparse. The early summer evening breeze is still a little cool, just right, neither too cold nor too hot.
But she just wanted to sigh. She thought she had seen Peng Caichen and his family die, but it turned out to be another dream. She was awake less and less, and most of the time she was shuttling back and forth in different dreams.
But I have never seen the real faces of my father and mother, nor the real faces of my younger brother and sister-in-law.
She doesn't deserve it.
In his previous life, Peng Caichen was the one who slashed at their family with a knife, but she was the knife in Peng Caichen's hand. She was selfish and cold, suspicious, thoughtful, sensitive and inferior, and she was never close to her parents.
Most of the so-called evidence that Peng Caichen later presented to the new emperor was obtained from her, and then deliberately exaggerated, and finally became a stepping stone for him to climb up.
She is not a good person. According to the monk in the temple, her parents and relatives have already been reincarnated.
She once wanted to go to the ends of the earth to find her parents and relatives, to tell them that she knew she was wrong, to tell them that she was blinded by greed and had become a knife in the hands of others just because of jealousy.
But she never thought about it again after that. She was going to go to the eighteenth level of hell and would definitely be reborn as an animal in the next life, while her relatives would have to enter the cycle of reincarnation and never meet her, the unlucky star and debt collector, again.
Her throat was dry and itchy, so she coughed a few times, slowly turned her head, and waited for someone else to appear.
In every dream there were people coming to collect debts from her. Most of those people didn’t say a word, but just looked at her with their miserable descriptions before death, which made her feel so guilty and heartbroken.
She couldn't touch them and got no response from their calls, so she finally gave up. It was good to be able to look at them once or twice more.
The door was pushed open with a creak, and dust fell all over the floor. Nanny Wang came in, brushing the dust off her body and mumbling something. When she saw Wei An, she immediately laughed.
Wei An also laughed, but after she finished laughing, tears as big as beans rolled out of her eyes unexpectedly. She had dreamed of her parents, but had never dreamed of Nanny Wang.
This was her first wet nurse, who had been with her since she was a child, growing up with her, giving her all her love, working hard for her without any precautions, but in the end, she died because she did not help her.
She always knew that Nanny Wang hated her so much that she never appeared in her dreams.
Perhaps because she was about to die, Nanny Wang finally became like her daughter and was willing to come and see her off.
As she thought so, even though she knew she couldn't hold her, she still couldn't help but throw herself towards Nanny Wang.
Nanny Wang stretched out her hands and hugged her tightly. Her voice couldn't be softer. She wiped her tears on her skirt again and again before wiping them away: "Don't cry like this. You'll hurt your eyes! If it's not us, then it's not us. Who dares to wrongly accuse us..."
Wei An didn't hear a word. She let go of Nanny Wang's waist, put her hands in front of her eyes in surprise, and looked at Nanny Wang again - she could touch it, she could actually touch it...
She finally realized that something was wrong. In her previous dreams, except for her daughter, she could only see the people in her dreams appearing in a dying state, and she could never touch them and no one responded to her calls. But now, she hugged Aunt Wang tightly. Aunt Wang's eyes were bright, her face was round, and she was full of vitality. She definitely didn't look like a hanged ghost hanging from the beam with her tongue hanging out and her eyes rolled up.
She opened her eyes wide, not understanding what was going on, when the door was banged open. A breeze wrapped in large pieces of fallen petals blew in through the hall and hit her face. Wei An finally realized where she was.
This was in the Vinaya Courtyard of Puci Temple. The windows on all four sides were broken and drafty everywhere. Because she had never suffered such hardships before, and then she suffered such hardships again and again, she was particularly familiar with the Vinaya Courtyard of Puci Temple. She was confused at first, but now she recognized it immediately.
Nanny Wang waved her hand in front of her eyes, and while waving, she did not forget to turn around and ask the two maids who had just pushed the door open: "How is it, has the verdict been reached over there? The girl is the daughter of a marquis, how could she steal something like this? Is the Second Madam confused? How can she point at her own family and call them thieves?!"
Nanny Wang became angrier and angrier as she spoke, and she had already started to criticize her master. The two maids were silent as a cicada, looking at Wei An, then at Nanny Wang, and hiding their heads like quails, pretending not to hear anything.
The word "steal" was so sensitive that Wei An felt as if she was pricked by a needle. She subconsciously tensed her back, like a hedgehog with all the thorns standing up. She finally knew what time it was.
If you think about it carefully, all her misfortunes and darkness originated from Puci Temple.
From a high-ranking and spotless daughter of a marquis to a lunatic with dirty hands and feet and a problem brain, her reputation began to fall apart at Puci Temple.
But originally she should not have been associated with the word "steal". Her father was the fifth son of Marquis Dingbei. After his meritorious service, he passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi. He was given an official position as a county magistrate, and climbed up the ranks to the position of prefect, which was considered promising. Her mother was a famous beauty in the capital, Princess Changning, the only daughter of the late Prince Zhennan.
No matter how you look at it, she shouldn't be associated with the word "thief".
If her parents were here.
"It's a pity that her parents are not here!" Second Madam Qin was so distressed that her ears turned red. She was so embarrassed that she wanted to find a hole to crawl into: "If... If her parents were here, if she was willing to listen to others..." As she spoke, she was so anxious that she choked up at Fang, the wife of the Left Censor-in-Chief, who was still smiling and smiling: "Tingrong, you'd better not tell anyone... If our old lady knew, she would be very angry..."
The Second Madam felt extremely unlucky. She finally went out and took the children to Puci Temple to burn incense and listen to sutras. She went out happily, but something happened before she had stayed for a day. Fang, who also came to listen to the sutras, lived in an adjacent courtyard. The children visited each other and talked to each other. Originally, nothing happened and the girls from the two families had a lot of fun. But who knew that something happened in the evening. The jade ruyi given by the Empress to Fang's youngest daughter, which was intended to be donated to Puci Temple, disappeared.
If it was gone, it was gone. Although they lived close to each other and the children of the two families often walked around, no one would suspect the girl from the Marquis's Mansion, right? They all thought that the little girls or the little nuns were dishonest, but who knew that Yu Ruyi was found on the couch in her niece's room.
This was truly a rare sight in a century. Even though Second Madam Qin and Fang were close friends, she was too embarrassed to face anyone. However, Wei An insisted that it was not her who took it and that the Fang family was slandering her. Even a kind-hearted person like Second Madam could not help but feel dizzy with anger. In a rage, she had Wei An locked up in the disciplinary courtyard at the back.