Chapter 59: Stratus Clouds Gradually Disappear (2)
"You know, I lived with my mother in Wanhua House. My mother is an ordinary palace maid, because my father was fortunate overnight, endured humiliation and hard work to conceal the birth of me, so he was named a small permanent presence. Therefore, he was not favored, nor was he liked by the concubines. Coupled with Concubine Hui's connivance with the people below, my life with my mother in the palace was not easy. β
"But even so, I'm not intolerable. Mother goes deep and does not like to interact with outsiders, and Wanhua lives in a remote area, we do not fight or grab, but we live a clean and comfortable life. Even the more senior grandmothers and eunuchs will bully us, and the meals sent in the past are leftovers, and we can bear it. β
"We are not afraid of anything, the only thing we are afraid of is getting sick. This is a world where people who climb high and look low to look at money and speak, and their status is like a humble person, and they are not even allowed to enter the door of the Tai Hospital. β
"I don't know if you remember that when my father asked all his children to present what he thought was the most precious thing in the world? Concubine Hui knew that I intended to help her out of the siege that time, and more or less understood my thoughts, and ordered the palace people not to slack off, and since then, those minions have really been obedient a lot. β
"I am grateful for her gifts, but also with my own dignity, and it was just a transaction that we knew each other and did not owe each other. If it weren't for my mother's serious illness, I wouldn't have spoken to her again. After hitting a wall many times in the Tai Hospital, I went to ask Concubine Hui, and she pointed someone to take me to the Tai Doctor, but the Tai Doctor arrived at Wanhuaju and found that it was Xiao Chang who was sick, so he prescribed a few patches of medicine at random, and then refused to come again. β
"But at that time, I was too naΓ―ve, helpless, so I had to go to Concubine Hui again, but I was driven back by the grandmother beside her without even entering the palace gate, she made me a little self-aware, a useless, and unfavored princess who has no status at all, why did she get the protection of others? Concubine Hui helped once or twice, but it does not mean that I have any capital, and I bother her with everything. β
Hearing this, Luan Ge's heart twitched, she knew the pain here, the feeling of not being treated, even if she still couldn't forget it.
It's just fortunate that she is the eldest daughter, although the queen mother is deceased, and although the grandfather is miserable, those former colleagues still have some affection in the end, hindering the maintenance of their court, no matter how unfavored they are, but the most basic needs are always short, but it is inevitable that there will be some times, but she, Xiaoyi and Luo Tian, no matter how bad their lives are, they are more than a hundred times stronger than Qi Mingxiang.
"My mother's illness became more and more serious, and just when I was desperate, some people said that she could help me treat my mother's illness first, and even help her cure her old illness for many years. But as long as I promise to do one thing for her. At that time, as long as I could save my mother, I was willing to do anything, so I agreed. β
"Under her treatment, after a few days, my mother's condition improved significantly, and she also gave me instructions for the first step," Qi Mingxiang turned his head and glanced at Luan Ge, with a little apology on his face, "Let me get close to you and Luo Tian." β
Luan Ge suddenly remembered that time when he was fishing in the Taiye Pond, he suddenly heard the sound of heavy objects falling, followed by the woman's cry for help, everyone was resting at noon, there were only them nearby, Luo Tian went into the water to rescue the person, and the person who rescued him was Qi Mingxiang in front of him.
Since then, she has helped her and Luo Tian do some things from time to time on the grounds of repaying the grace of saving her life, which made Luan Ge embarrassed, thinking that she was as pitiful and unloved as herself, so she took her with her.
At that time, there were only two boys Luo Tian and Xiaoyi who were good friends with Luan Ge, and suddenly a sister came as a companion, naturally they were very happy, and often took her to play together, and they couldn't forget her if they had anything, and the two of them often sat together and said some words about their daughter's family, which seemed much closer than those two boys.
But who knew that the sisterhood he cherished was deliberately done under the conspiracy.
Over the years, she has always wondered what went wrong, and she has also considered that Xiang'er came too suddenly, but she just doesn't want to face it, she doesn't want to speculate, whether it's her or Xiaoyi, although she has some doubts, she hopes that this is not true in her heart.
Now listening to her say it herself, I still feel very uncomfortable. Of course, she didn't have a choice, but when she thought that the beginning of her friendship was to exchange truth for falsehood, the feeling of being deceived filled her heart again.
Luan Ge didn't speak, Xiang'er understood that she had a knot in her heart, so naturally she wouldn't forgive herself like this, and even when she recalled it, she felt inexplicably congested, not to mention that she was a victim?
"That fall into the water was also deliberate, and you all know what happened after Brother Luo saved me. I don't need to say more. Xiang'er paused, "I'm really glad to be able to get to know you, him, and Xiaoyi, the months I spent with you were the happiest time of my life." I didn't want to deceive you, but I didn't have a choice, and at that time, the man just asked me to have a good relationship with you, so he didn't give much instructions. β
"At that time, I even naively thought that she had been sent by God to rescue our mother and daughter: she had pity for my mother's low status and sickness, so she kindly treated her and saved her from her illness, and she had pity for me to be deceived and lonely, so she asked me to come close to you, so that I would not be lonely and helpless. But then I realized that there is no such thing as a pie in the world, and all the qiΔ must be exchanged for the same or even greater price. β
"So you know why the man asked you to approach us?" Luan Ge asked.
Xiang'er nodded and said, "Two days before you got married, do you remember? That morning, we were still picking bead flowers together, and then the palace people around my mother came to me and said that there was something to ask me to go back." β
"Yes. Luan Ge spoke, how could she not remember, after that, she had never seen Xiang'er again, because her memory after that was completely blank, except for the sharp and dazzling dagger and the pain that pierced into her heart, when she regained her cognition, she was already on Yunyang Mountain.
"That was the last time I saw you. When I returned to Wanhuaju, I didn't see my mother, there was only the person in the room, and my mother was nowhere to be found. She told me that my mother had been taken away by her, and that if I wanted her to live, I had to promise her the happiness of the rest of my life. At that time, I didn't understand what she meant, as long as I didn't hurt my mother, let alone the happiness of the second half of my life, I was willing to change this life. β
Seeing that I readily agreed, she gave me a pill for me to take, but after taking it, I lost consciousness. Xiang'er said slowly, and the handkerchief in her hand was twisted:
"When I woke up, it was two days later. β
"So, you don't know what happened in those two days?" Luan Ge said in surprise, originally thought that Xiang'er could solve her doubts, but who knows, she doesn't know at all.
She didn't feel a little depressed, her body was weak, and she leaned on the cushion behind her, but who knew that Qi Mingxiang shook her head and said, "It's not that I don't know anything about it." β
Hearing this, she suddenly became energetic: "What do you say?!"
"I woke up that day, I only felt that I had slept for a long time, there were many people around me in the mist, helping me to take care of the washing, and when I woke up, I found that I was in the new house where you were to be married, I didn't know why for a while, I only felt a little tense on my face, as if it was coated with a thick layer of mud, and those palace people called me the eldest princess. β
"I sensed something was wrong, and as they groomed me, I looked in the mirror and couldn't believe my eyes. Qi Mingxiang's throat moved, looked at Luan Ge and said, "What appears in there is my current face...... It's you...... of the face. β
Luan Ge's face was full of shock, a flashing light appeared in front of her, and there was an incomprehensible pain, she restrained herself and listened to Qi Mingxiang's next words:
"I don't know what to do, I drove everyone out of the house in a panic and wanted to be quiet, can you feel it? It's like having a terrible dream, and when you wake up, you don't have zΓ i, but you become someone else. β
Luan Ge said in his heart how not to understand this feeling, as if you never belonged to yourself, nor did you belong to this world, the qiΔ you had experienced was like an illusion, in her dream she was the eldest princess of Qi Qi Mingluo, the most unfavored, but she lived freely and freely.
However, after waking up from the dream, I don't know where to go, I don't know whether my existence is true or not, and the kind of fluttering without a sense of belonging makes me feel like a bubble, as if the wind is about to disperse.
"I touched the face in the mirror, but I couldn't see anything wrong, it was like a living face but it wasn't without flaws, and it wasn't long before I touched a tiny scar behind my ear, and I was about to take a closer look, but I saw the figure of the man in the mirror. β