"You think you are still the eldest lady of the right minister's family! Now your father is only a sixth-rank official, and is even implicated by the deposed prince. What kind of life is our family living now? I am worried. I am afraid that it will pass. Today there is no tomorrow! At this time, you can still tolerate such willful and reckless behavior?! Have you ever thought that if you resist the decree today, tomorrow our family will be tied to the vegetable market, and the loss of our heads is due to the blessings of previous lives. Maybe when the king is angry, the car will be smashed!"
Duan Rulan was overwhelmed by Mrs. Duan's momentum. Immediately, he straddled his body, grinned his mouth, and started crying again.
"Lan'er. There's nothing you can do about it," Madam Duan's voice softened again, and she patted her daughter's shoulder lightly. Helpless and tired. "Lan'er, I know I've wronged you, but so what? Concubine Wan Gui is proud of herself. I'm afraid it won't be long. Lord Long Live will appoint Concubine Wan Gui's prince as the crown prince. Naturally, we have to be cautious. , especially at this time. Are you really digging your own grave?"
"But mother..." Duan Rulan was desperate and sad, and fell into Mrs. Duan's arms crying.
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Coax Duan Rulan to sleep. It was too late, Mrs. Duan went back to her room with red eyes, and Duan Chenghong was still awake. He was sitting on the edge of the bed with his clothes on in a daze. Hearing the sound of the door being pushed, he came back to his senses. Seeing Mrs. Duan's appearance, he couldn't help sighing: "The girl has figured it out?"
Mrs. Duan wiped her tears and nodded, and walked over to sit down next to Duan Chenghong. The noble lady who had been well cared for in the past few months had already shown her old age. She wiped away her tears, paused, and choked up He said to Duan Chenghong: "I've really wronged Lan'er..."
"Whether wronged or not, since ancient times, there is nothing to say about success and defeat." Rao said so, Duan Chenghong's eyes were full of regret.
Two years ago, the concubine of the abandoned prince, Ding, died of illness. In order to hug the abandoned prince's thick legs, he ran back and forth with great effort to get his then fourteen-year-old daughter to make a marriage agreement with the abandoned prince. , as long as his daughter is an adult, he can be the concubine. With this marriage contract, the Duan clan can gain a firm foothold in the court. In recent years, he has been proud of this marriage contract. Who would have thought that All of a sudden, this mess happened.
It was like a bolt from the blue.
"The day after tomorrow will be the day when my daughter will leave Beijing," Madam Duan sighed, "We used to prepare a lot of dowry for her, but now our family is like this... I'm afraid we can't even get a decent wedding dress. He doesn't even have a dowry girl, that child has been pampered since he was a child, and has a high temper, how will he live in the future... "
After a long silence, Duan Chenghong said in a deep voice: "Let that girl named Ah Chou be the dowry girl and follow Lan'er to Ninggu Pagoda."
"But...she..." Mrs. Duan looked surprised, and lowered her voice in a hurry, "but isn't that girl from Concubine Zhao? I don't worry about letting her follow Lan'er. Maybe that girl will harm Lan'er."
"These days I've looked coldly at that girl, she's not a vicious person, at most she's just giving Zhao Guifei a tip-off." Duan Chenghong said.
"Is that okay?" Mrs. Duan said anxiously, "There is an ear god following her every day, so won't Lan'er's every move be heard by Concubine Zhao? Isn't Lan'er's life even more difficult?"