Although Gu Mang followed in Murong Lian's footsteps, he was confused and surprised that Murong Lian wanted to see him.
Although he had few memories of Murong Lian left, he knew very well that Murong Lian had never treated him nicely, let alone bought a box of dim sum to apologize to him.
Children's love and hatred are not so complicated. If you push me today, I will remember the hatred, but if you give me a bunch of candied haws tomorrow, the previous hatred will disappear. Therefore, Gu Mang firmly believed that he had never received the box of cakes from Murong Lian - if he did receive it, the relationship between him and Murong Lian would not have been as gloomy and bleak as afterward.
With such doubts in mind, he followed Murong Lian all the way, and finally came to the outside of Aunt Lin's hut.
A peach blossom was planted outside Auntie Lin's house. It was blooming at this time, and it was blooming beautifully. Murong Lian stood still under the flower tree, straightened her clothes, coughed lightly, making sure that she had placed enough of the young master's stand before raising her hand to knock on the door.
But before his knuckles touched the door, he heard the voice of two women talking.
"Why did it fall like this." The woman who spoke first had a dignified voice, full of oppression. It was the voice of Murong Lian's mother, Mrs. Zhao, "I asked you to take care of the child, so that's how you brought it?"
When Murong Lian heard her mother's voice, a look of awe and surprise appeared on her face, and she put down the small fist that was about to knock on the door.
Then, Aunt Lin's timid voice came from behind the door: "... I'm sorry, I was negligent."
"I don't think you're careless, you're out of your mind. Aunt Lin, during the years you've been in Wangshu Mansion, how has Zhao Susu ever bullied you? This child has suffered such a serious injury, why didn't you come and report to me in time? Do you think I won't help you?"
Aunt Lin hurriedly said: "No, it's not. I didn't… "
Mrs. Zhao snorted coldly: "Why explain. I know you always hate me, and Quan Chonghua thinks I'm a jealous woman. Are you the exception?"
"Mrs..."
"No need to say any more." Mrs. Zhao said sternly, "I'll take the child. Do your own work and don't dangle under my nose."
Aunt Lin didn't make a sound, but there were rustling footsteps behind the door panel.
After a while, Mrs. Zhao's high-pitched voice pierced through the wood and came out—
"What are you doing here?"
Aunt Lin mourned in a low voice: "Madam, I beg you, just leave him to me. Don't look at A Mang's usual troubles. He is actually very afraid of life. There is no way for him to rest well with you..."
"Am I a stranger?!"
"no… "
"Then why is he afraid of me? Will I eat him or poison him?"
"I didn't mean it that way..."
"Then you don't let go! What are you worried about, even if I don't want to see him again, am I going to harm him?"
"… "
"Aunt Lin, you are sober, I am the head of Wangshu's house, and he is the seed of Wangshu's house!"
Dead silence.
There was a muffled buzzing sound in Gu Mang's head, which almost exploded. He could hardly believe his ears.
What
Who are the children of Wangshu's family
Mrs. Zhao... She, what does she mean... What is she talking about? ? !
With the roar of blood, the door of the hut creaked open.
But it was not only Gu Mang in the fantasy world who was equally astonished, but also Murong Lian.
Murong Lian seemed to want to run away, but as if his body was filled with mercury, he couldn't move, and stood stupidly at the door.
Just like this, I bumped into Mrs. Zhao.
"Ah, auntie..."
Mrs. Zhao came out of the unconscious little Gu Mang. When she saw Murong Lian, the blood on her face quickly disappeared.
"Why are you here?!"
Murong Lian raised a small face pale and stammered at her mother: "I...I..."
But Mrs. Zhao didn't let Murong Lian answer after she finished her question. She suddenly realized something, raised her hand, and stopped Murong Lian's voice. Then he closed the door immediately, blocking Auntie Lin's sight.
Aunt Lin: "Madam..."
"Don't come out!"
"Madam... A Mang is really timid... He's always afraid of disturbing others..." Even though Aunt Lin knew that she was annoying her, she was still timid but stubborn, "You... you've seen him sick, so don't Let him stay with you again... I will definitely... "
"Shut up for me!" Mrs. Zhao slammed the door shut.
bang.
Mrs. Zhao didn't seem to want Aunt Lin to know that Murong Lian was standing outside. She lowered her eyebrows and whispered, "Come here."
Murong Lian stood still.
"Come here for me!"
Murong Lian still couldn't return to her senses, and looked up at her mother in shock and fear.
"… "
Madam Zhao cursed inwardly, and simply grabbed the front of his clothes, holding Gu Mang in her left hand and Murong Lian in her right hand, and returned to her room without turning her head.
As soon as she entered the room, Mrs. Zhao screened off all the servants, threw Gu Mang onto the bed, and said to Murong Lian, "How much have you heard?"
Murong Lian was so young at that time, how did she go through this battle, she was so frightened that she couldn't speak, she just widened her eyes, filled with tears of fear.
"What about you. A manly man, crying in two sentences, what does it look like!"
"I, I..." Murong Lian was still holding the snack box in her hand. She was forced by her mother to be anxious, and burst into tears with a wow. "Didn't my mother give birth to me? Did I pick it up?"
Mrs. Zhao was stunned for a while.
Murong Lian felt a little out of control when she cried. He looked at Madam Zhao for a while, and Gu Mang who was unconscious on the bed for a while, and finally he felt like he was about to gasp for breath.
Mrs. Zhao thought about it for a while, and finally came to her senses. She first supported her forehead, and then patted the table: "... Murong Lian! What are you thinking about? How could someone as beautiful as me give birth to such an ugly stinky boy? ?"
Murong Lian's narcissism and Mrs. Zhao are in the same line. Based on this alone, it can be concluded that Murong Lian is definitely Mrs. Zhao's biological child.
Murong Lian raised a small hand to wipe away her tears, and choked up, "Then you said just now... you said he was... yes..."
Mrs. Zhao narrowed her eyes.
Murong Lian felt the pressure from her mother, her voice weakened, but she still finished in a low voice: "He is from our family..."
This time, Mrs. Zhao did not speak immediately.
She walked up to Murong Lian, took the snack box he was struggling to hold, and placed it on the table covered with golden silk embroidered white bird satin. Then I poured a pot of flower and fruit tea and drank it slowly.
Shi Ran turned the Ru porcelain cup with her finger with Danzhu cardamom, Madam Zhao raised her eyes, but did not look at Murong Lian. Her eyes fell on Gu Mang, and after a while, she said, "Murong Lian, come here."
Murong Lian walked towards her hesitantly.
Mrs. Zhao put down the teacup, thought for a while, and finally held his shoulder and said to him: "...you should know about this sooner or later, I wanted to tell you when you are older, but Since you've heard it now, it doesn't make sense for me to keep it a secret. But this secret must be buried in your own heart, no one can tell it, no one is allowed to tell it, do you understand?"
Murong Lian nodded ignorantly.
But how could such a young child learn to keep secrets
Mrs. Zhao also had this consideration, so she pulled Murong Lian's palm, her fingertips focused on the light, and drew a curse mark in his palm. It was obviously not a good curse mark, and Murong Lian suddenly called out, "Auntie, it hurts!"
"It's just the pain of the seal." Mrs. Zhao said, "When this seal falls, before you become the master of Wangshu Mansion, the secrets you heard today will not be able to be released. Once you say something wrong, there will be Much more pain than this pain keeps you tight-lipped."
She said, letting go of his palm.
"Don't blame A-Niang for being too cruel. You were born in the Murong family. If you show any weakness or do something wrong, you may lose your own life."
After all this was done, Mrs. Zhao let Murong Lian sit down.
She looked at Murong Lian who was covering the back of her hand with tears on her eyelashes for a while, and then she decided to open her mouth, trying her best to tell the past story that she had concealed in a way that a child could understand. come out.
"Your father... his relationship with me..."
She pondered, and finally said firmly: "Actually, it has never been as good as you think."
Murong Lian: "..."
Gu Mang had heard Mo Xi talk about this before, the old Wang Shujun and Murong Xuan did not like Mrs. Zhao, but preferred a girl from Lin'an. However, due to the obstruction of the elites, Murong Xuan finally did not marry her, but married the Zhao family who was of the right family.
But this kind of thing, after all, other people only know one thing and don't know the other two, only what the person involved said is the most real.
With Mrs. Zhao's narration, the truth of this past event finally gradually surfaced.
It turned out that although Mrs. Zhao was of noble birth, she did not live in the capital before. Her father was an important official stationed at the border of the eastern border. The family lived in the fief all year round. pay homage.
Zhao Susu met Murong Xuan, who was playing the qin and composing music for Jun Shang, at an annual banquet when she was in her nutmeg years, and she fell in love with this young and promising nobleman ever since.
It was just that she was arrogant, and others saw her thoughts. She was embarrassed, so she tried her best to deny it, and even deliberately looked down on Murong Xuan with her nostrils turned upside down, so that Murong Xuan did not have a good impression of her. Never had any love for her. Mrs. Zhao is also a woman who feels very good about herself. She firmly believes that even if she gives people two big eyes every time they meet, Murong Xuan will still find her beauty and bow down under her pomegranate skirt.
The result was, of course, dismal.
Murong Xuan didn't take a fancy to her, but in a certain year, he met a girl who had escaped from Lin'an while he was hunting.
The girl didn't know what was going on. She probably broke her brain before and couldn't remember many things. She only knew her surname Chu, and if she asked anything else, she couldn't remember anything.
But other than that, everything she has is beautiful, not to mention being gentle and moving, and her temperament is also very soft, after going back and forth, Murong Xuan actually developed a feeling of affection with her.
In fact, if you calm down and think about it carefully, this is a love that can be seen without a way out at a glance. Miss Chu's origins are unknown, her background is low... Everything reflects the incompatibility with Murong Xuan.
But Murong Xuan was too young at that time, and he thought about everything very optimistically, so he went to the king at that time - his brother to confess his thoughts, and asked the king to give him and Miss Chu a marriage .
It wasn't absolutely impossible. However, unfortunately, the king just agreed to Zhao Gonghou's marriage proposal, promising to marry his daughter Zhao Susu to Murong Xuan as his wife.
Most of the marriages of these pure-blooded nobles were decided by the sovereign. The sovereign did not expect that Murong Xuan would already have the person he liked. Jun Wu jokingly said, for the sake of the royal family's face, he naturally rejected Murong Xuan's plea, and demanded that Murong Xuan and the Chu family make a clean break.
But Murong Xuan was in love with Miss Chu at that time, how could he be willing? He was always gentle and elegant, but he actually had a dispute with his brother Wang in court. His Majesty was annoyed by him, but he didn't want his brother to be too embarrassed. In the end, he suppressed his anger and said reluctantly, if Murong Xuan really couldn't let go of the Chu family, then After he married Zhao Susu and gave birth to a son and a half daughters, he could make an exception to elevate the status of Miss Chu and allow her to marry Murong Xuan as a concubine.
Lao Jun Shang originally thought that he had already made a big move, but unexpectedly, his younger brother, who has always been interested, was very stubborn this time, and insisted on not giving in half a point.
In the end, Thunder was furious.
At this time, Lin'an Feng Wang Yue Juntian even participated in a performance, saying that he went to check the identity of the Chu family, and there was no Chu girl with a surname in Lin'an, and such women with unknown origins were either spies or evildoers.
Under the anger of the emperor, he imprisoned the girl Chu in the Shushutai for the crime of bewitching and put her to trial.
When things got to this point, Murong Xuan could only promise to fulfill the marriage contract and marry Zhao as his wife, so that he could let the Chu family out.
In fact, according to Your Majesty's intention, he did not think that the Chu family was a secret agent at first. He knew that Yue Juntian took the opportunity to accuse him of his personal grudge, so what he originally thought was to threaten Murong Xuan with the Chu family. , as long as Murong Xuan obediently became a relative and satisfied the demands of the important officials of the Zhao clan, then Miss Chu could naturally be spared.
But Zhao Gonghou's family didn't think so.
Except for the extremely narcissistic Zhao Susu, who didn't take the rumors seriously, and didn't think her husband and that Chu girl were anything special at all. The rest of the Zhao family felt that the Chu family was a thorn in the eye that had to be removed, a thorn in the flesh. Coupled with Yue Juntian fanning the flames, the Zhao family couldn't sit still.
After several calculations, they bypassed the monks who had bought the Shushutai from the emperor, and asked them to release a fake Chu girl, leaving the real Chu family to continue to be regarded as a trial body that could die at any time on the Shushutai.
I thought that this would level the stumbling block on the road for my daughter, but there are no impervious walls in the world, and the conspiracy of the Zhao family soon reached the ears of Murong Xuan, who was on the front line at the time. Murong Xuan had been in a slump in those days, but when he heard such news, he was so upset that he was severely injured by the enemy in the decisive battle, and eventually died of illness on the way back to the city, dying on the banks of the Mallard River.
The Zhao family did not expect that this self-defeating, not only did not help their daughter, but also caused Mrs. Zhao to be a widow. When the bad news came, Mrs. Zhao had been pregnant for seven months, and she gave birth to a premature baby in grief, and gave birth to a baby boy in pain, that was Murong Lian.
After giving birth, Mrs. Zhao was unhappy and immersed in the pain of losing her husband. She had no idea that Murong Xuan was actually tricked into drinking acacia wine on the wedding day. In fact, he had no feelings for her.
It wasn't until she recovered a little and went to the deceased husband's study to pick up the relics in tears, and found a stack of letters between her husband and the Chu family during his lifetime.
When the lingering thoughts and the murmur of warm words flowed out from the words, Mrs. Zhao finally realized that she had always been too conceited. In fact, those rumors were true, her husband liked the fundamental It's not her, it's that despicable fugitive.
How could Mrs. Zhao not be so arrogant and arrogant
She quarreled with the elders of the family who hid the truth from her and only wanted her to marry the Murong clan. .
She has become a laughing stock unknowingly, and all this is thanks to her Zhao family who treats her as a pawn, and that bitch surnamed Chu!
After Mrs. Zhao finished making trouble with the Zhao family, how could she let the Chu family go? After several inquiries, I finally found out that Miss Chu was now detained in the Shura Room of the Shushutai. So she went to the shrine with resentment. At that time, the Chu family was being brought up to do a potion trial by the monk who received the benefits.
The "fascinating bitch" she saw at the Jujutai was a body frozen by a spell, with an unrecognizable face, a scrawny body, and...
A distinctly bulging belly.
"It has been several months, but she has been frozen in the ice of Xuanming, and staying in it for a year is only equivalent to spending three or two days outside." The monk explained to her, "Lord Ling Zun was originally a I wanted to kill her directly, but it was too obvious to do so, so I would freeze it first for fear of causing suspicion from your lord."
"Madam, do you want to kill her now?"
Mrs. Zhao: "..."
She was a little dazed.
She looked first at the love letter her husband wrote to this woman, and she was jealous.
But at this moment, across Xuan Bing, she looked at the woman who was the same age as her.
Just because you don't have a good background, you can't be married to someone you love. His face was also ruined, his life was hanging in the balance, and he couldn't even save his children, all thanks to his own family.
She is like her, in the final analysis, they are all pieces on the chessboard, two victims.
Mrs. Zhao's heart is full of mixed feelings, and then look at the belly that is pregnant with life - she is not a merciful person, but after all, she has just given birth, and her heart is softer than before. After hesitating for a long time, she finally couldn't bear it, so she rescued Miss Chu.
Zhao Susu hid Miss Chu in the dark room of Wangshu's mansion without telling everyone, and asked a strict woman to take care of her until the child was born safely.
In order to hide from the public, she also changed the surname of the Chu family, and only took half of them, and the surname was Lin.
From now on, there will be no more Chu girl in the world, and there will be an ugly woman in Wangshu Mansion.
That was Gu Mang's mud aunt.