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A picture appeared in front of my eyes.

Her husband was young and handsome, and at the age of fifteen, he had become a High Scholar. He was in the prime of his life, and had come to propose marriage to the daughter of a lowly merchant. He had even lowered his status to the ground, bringing a group of craftsmen with him to her room. Who didn't love such an infatuated youth?

"Have you ever seen him before the engagement?"

Like Aunt Wang, he didn't want to call him a husband, and neither did I want to call him a father.

"In the past, I went with my father to the capital to do business. I met him at my family's jewelry store."

Even if they went to the teahouse and the wine shop, no one would listen to their old story. Even from ancient times until now, there were still many young girls who were willing to be trapped in the teahouse when they were in their prime.

Once upon a time, I thought I was one of those wonderful stories.

In the end, everything was just a wasted effort, and all that was left was dust!

He... Have you built any villas... and it created the same look?

Xue Lang and I lived in a small courtyard in the outskirts of Beijing that was exactly the same as her courtyard's decorations. It would be too much of a coincidence to say that it happened by chance!

There was a strange expression on her face, a mixture of joy, bitterness, regret, and sadness.

"When I married him, we never left the capital's inner city. We even went to the city's Fa Yuan Temple to burn incense. How could we even go to the outer courtyard of a manor?"

Instinctively, I felt the woman in front of me lie.

Although I couldn't find any clues in her words, if I really didn't know, then what was the explanation for the panic that slipped across her face when she heard my question?

If she truly did not know, then she would have been puzzled, astonished and even disdainful. However, it was definitely not like now, where she was avoiding looking at him with such a shocked expression.

"That is to say that ever since you married into the Lu family, you have never been to the outskirts of Beijing?"

"Yes!"

Her voice was fast, but she didn't want to meet my eyes.

Sighing, I poured the cold tea from the teacup into a large spittoon in copper enamel at my feet. "Why are you lying to me?"

Aunt Wang raised her head in surprise, but when she saw me looking at her closely, she immediately concealed her emotions.

Judgement is often made at that moment.

"Miss, I … "How can I lie to you …"

With that, the warm and harmonious atmosphere between mother and daughter that the two of us had tried so hard to maintain vanished.

"Auntie, have you ever seen refugees enter the inner city?"

Just as she was saying that she had never been to the outskirts of Beijing, I suddenly thought of my dead wet nurse. She said a lot of things to me the night before she died. Among them was a paragraph about how she entered the Lu Manor to serve. I still remember every single word of it clearly.

At one point, Aunt Wang's expression changed drastically. She stared blankly at me for a long time without being able to say anything.

"If you don't go out of the city, you'll never meet your wet nurse, will you?"

I smiled and filled my cup with new tea.

The color was light and the aftertaste was long. As expected, it was better to have Longjing before the dawn.

"I …"

Compared to my current self-satisfaction, Aunt Wang, who was sitting across from me, was even more embarrassed.

The twilight had come in all directions, and there was no one holding the lamp. The room had become increasingly gloomy, and only the sounds of breathing could be heard. The tense atmosphere in the room had become even more intense.

Through the window, she could see the faint light of the hanging Soul Lamps. Aunt Wang's eyes were sparkling like a cat's eye stone above her head.

"I …"

Aunt Wang covered her face as she sobbed. Her voice was broken and muffled, as if she couldn't make up her mind.

"Don't you want to know why the Lu family would rather abandon a daughter than bring you back? Is it really just because you're a merchant's daughter? Don't forget how much the Lu family's matriarch doted on this daughter of hers in the past. Was it for the sake of hiding something that caused her to throw her, a pure and innocent daughter, into such a desolate place? Furthermore … You are the foster daughter of Matriarch Qin. Why would the Lu family not want to bring you back even though they have a grudge with the Qin family? "

She knew that Aunt Wang was the adopted daughter of the Qin family's matriarch, and that she was chatting with Madame Jiang. She had once lamented with a smile that my aunt, who had died early, had caught the eyes of the Qin family's matriarch when she was the eldest young mistress of the Lu family. Aurora had personally brought along her eldest granddaughter, Princess Honghua.

These words seemed to break the last of the woman's resolve. She looked up at me with tears streaming down her face, so surprised that she could not wipe them from her cheeks.

I can't believe that she's never thought of these things in her life as a client, and the reason why she's been avoiding them is because of her natural cowardice.

Character determines fate. It was precisely because of Aunt Wang's weak character that she had allowed others to arrange her own fate without her knowing how to resist, which was why she had fallen step by step to this day. It's also because she is naturally kind-hearted and can't even protect her own safety that I have no way to ruthlessly blame her for not doing a good job as a mother in both her past and present lives. Mother and son were naturally born, and I could see from the tiny bits and pieces of our relationship that she loved me dearly as a mother.

There was no point in speaking softly to such a person. What they needed was an irresistible thunderbolt.

"I …" The voice that came out of her mouth had already started to shatter. She covered her face with her hands, her thin shoulders heaving up and down, like a lotus swaying in the wind, delicate yet tall.

"At that time, I just married him, so my playfulness was a bit heavy. When I heard that he was going to have a meal with a few friends, I begged him to bring me along. He begged him for a long time before he agreed to dress me up as his valet. He was all right, but there was one man who fell to the ground drunk, and I couldn't help but help him. He saw the holes in my ears and jumped away. Then he mistook me for... That person's sister came to ask for marriage. She didn't want to meet me in the study to give that person his things, so she pulled me along and spoke a lot of nonsense. Later on, he … Knowing that I am actually married, I asked … If he built one too... "Would I be willing to follow him …"

Like a clap of thunder, his spiritual altar became clear in an instant.

Those who had previously been baffled had an explanation.

I often suspect that although the Xue Family isn't a 100-year-old family, they can still be considered a clan of bell-chiming food. Why would they suddenly do something like this to end the engagement? Even if the Lu family was in the wrong team, and the Lu family's daughter still hadn't married off, those who hadn't left their home would still be punished by their family. If I were the head of the Xue family, I would absolutely not make such a big move at the heart of the matter. On the contrary, it would be more advantageous for the Xue Clan to wait and see. If the Lu family were to be convicted, it would just be marrying into the wrong family. Wouldn't it be easy to deal with a married woman who entered the family; if the Lu family gained the services of a dragon, they would be able to freely marry the Lu family's young miss. For a family like the Xue Clan, which produced three generations of storage scrolls, with many outstanding disciples in the clan like the stars, it would not be a family that could not calculate such an amount.

And since the Xue Clan had made such an unexpected move, it was most likely due to some leading reason that either forced the Xue Clan elders to do so, or pushed the matter according to the current situation.

Now it seemed that the reason was probably because the Xue Clan's uncle realized that the person he fancied was not his good friend's sister, but his beloved wife. Although this was against morality and etiquette, he still couldn't help but want to ask the girl in his heart if he was truly waiting for her to be willing to follow her to the ends of the earth. However, the girl that was as bright as the sun in his heart was not as free and at ease as he had thought. She only jumped away in fear and kept such a secret in the depths of her heart.

Do men love the one they can't get?

Master Xue and his mother went to Empress Qin's mother's second house after annulling their engagement. They were the current wives of the empress, the Third Young Miss.

I could still see the resemblance to the tearful woman sitting across from me under the lamp.

Maybe it's a family arrangement, but I think it's more like Master Xue's request.

And what's even funnier is that the experience I once had was because of something that happened to my mother. If it weren't for my face and Aunt Wang's face, perhaps I wouldn't have risked my life to escape the fate of being a concubine.

The men of the Xue family all seemed to have a bit of weakness and stubbornness in them, just like Xuelang and my former …

Then, it was obvious that the Lu Family's yard was first used before the Xue Family's yard was located in the outskirts of the capital. Now that I mention it, the courtyard originally belonged to Master Xue. How did it end up in the hands of Xue Lang, becoming a part of the world where he and I temporarily settled in?

This probably only the youth wearing a green lotus tattoo on the bridge who called me "Mo Mo" can help me!

Perhaps it was because the past was too embarrassing, or perhaps it was because it was too excessive speaking in front of me. Perhaps it was because the past was too embarrassing speaking in front of me, or perhaps it was because it was too excessive speaking in front of me.

I can't help but sigh...

Unfortunately, I didn't notice in my previous life how miserable this woman must have been.

I slowly took out a handkerchief from my sleeve and handed it over to Aunt Wang, sighing, "Don't blame me. It's not easy to walk around in this world. I just want to live things clearly."

"You are an intelligent child... Bi … "Stronger than me …"

Aunt Wang bit her lips with a face that was eye-catching with gentleness and gentleness.

Seeing that asking any further would only bring sadness and not any more useful information, I silently stood up and gave Aunt Wang a basin of water. After cleaning her face, I called my maidservants to come in and make the bed. Aunt Wang slept on the black lacquered bed inside while I slept on the Luohan bed outside.

There was a rustling in the darkness, and it was clear that I was with her.

"How were you when you were a kid?"

The thin figure lying on the bed inside was slightly stunned.

Her voice was soft and distant in the darkness.

"When I was young, my mother treated me very well. She would often hug me and make me some osmanthus candy, not giving them to my brother at all."

Her soft laughter drifted over along with the lily fragrance that was burning in the room. In the silence of the night, not only did it not add to her happiness, it even made her seem like she was sobbing quietly at night.

It was within my expectations that Aunt Wang would say this. Although I thought my grandmother's attitude towards her children was a little strange, I didn't expect to find anything special in it.

"Then did you have anything very strange when you were a child?"

"Strange?" Aunt Wang's rhetorical question seemed a bit sharp.

"Forget it, you should rest earlier!"

I've already tormented her quite a bit tonight, why must I make things difficult for her?

"Wait!" Aunt Wang's voice was urgent and urgent.

"Wait …" The thin figure on the bed suddenly sat up, and following the moonlight, I saw a pair of delicate hands raise the curtain, and a slightly frightened face appear behind it.

At that time, I often wanted to fall asleep so I stopped being hungry. But mother always said that it was me having nightmares, I know that it wasn't, it was all true, it was true, but no one was willing to believe me …

I was appalled, but I could not help but mourn the sight of the lost woman sitting helplessly on the edge of the bed.

She is already living in pain, is my biological daughter going to push her into the sea of suffering?

If everything was as I expected, then who would this lonely, helpless woman go to, and where would she go?

"I thought you had a nightmare. Grandmother adored you so much, how could I bear to hit you?" I smiled and comforted her a few times, until I heard the sound of steady breathing from inside and my heart sank back into my stomach.

If she had really been beaten and humiliated like she said, then that person wouldn't be a grandmother, let alone a child that was hungry enough to need sleep to fight against hunger. This wasn't the way to raise a child at all.

Since she had been beaten and scolded, it was very likely that at that time Aunt Wang had not become his grandmother's daughter. Seeing his grandmother's attitude towards Aunt Wang, he realized that although she loved him dearly and even doted on him, when it came to critical situations, she would still feel cold? Otherwise, why would there be people who would endure the hatred of their daughter's abandonment and still move about affectionately as though they were family? They even seemed to be wagging their tails, begging for mercy? Which mother would send her daughter to a village without food just because her wife didn't like it? But if this really was related to Aunt Wang's background, was it related to what happened afterwards?

Thinking about the appearance of my daughter and my daughter, could it be just a coincidence?

I was tossing and turning all night, and in a daze I was up until dawn.

As a result, on the second day, he looked completely dispirited. When he heard the manager's mother's reply, his eyes narrowed and he almost fell asleep.

In a moment, Lan Ling came back and whispered to me that the other mothers were discussing about me in private. I had only meddled with the matter for a few days, but I had already started to look exhausted. Right now, there was a sick mother in the house. There was also Aunt Mo, who fought with everyone not long after entering the door. It was still unclear who would win and who would lose, so it was better for both sides to go their separate ways.

"Do you want to punish them?"

Lan Li asked indignantly as she took off the butterfly pattern on my body and helped me get rid of the goosebumps. The strength in her hands had increased by a few points.

"Who's in the mood to care what they say. We still have the rights. Speaking of which, they were not wrong in their discussions. I really am somewhat powerless, and can only hope that the two of you can help my housekeeper out early so that I can have the free hand to do something else. "

The green robber and Lan Leng, who were helping me adjust the water temperature, kneeled together. Their attitude was as respectful and serious as usual.

In recent days, there had been a lot of things happening in the mansion. Even after sending Miss Wen out, he had not been able to sleep well, so there were still some dark bruises under his eyes. When he went out to listen to their affairs, he was afraid that those sharp-tongued old moms would notice something. If he woke up in the morning, he would have to be strict with his face in the mirror while looking at the flour.

I lay on the bed and yawned while covering myself with the blanket. I instructed the two maidservants, "I won't be eating lunch. I'll tell the kitchen that there's no need to prepare anything for me." You woke me up at the last minute, don't be late. "Tomorrow, Miss Jiang will be out of the pavilion as well. She's going to find the things I wanted from the library and choose a more elegant gift box to put away."

The two maidservants covered their mouths and laughed, "Earlier, you said you wanted to take it easy. Now you are going to start nagging again. Rest assured! We remember all your orders! "