Chapter 170: The Story of Suffering
Cui Chongyi came out of Jing'an Palace, wandered around the imperial garden a little bored, and finally felt that there was nowhere to go, so he came to Jiang Yu's Zichen Palace. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
When she came in, Jiang Yu was playing the piano, playing a very soft tune, but Cui Chongyi couldn't hear what the tune was.
Cui Chongyi said as she stepped in: "You have leisure." ”
Jiang Yu saw her come in, stopped the piano in his hand, smiled lightly, and said, "Chongyi is really a rare guest, and he is willing to go to my Zichen Palace today." ”
Cui Chongyi knew that she was satirizing her estrangement from her after coming out of the cold palace, and she was not angry at her sarcasm.
She let out a long sigh and said, "In Jing'an Palace, the emperor and the queen mother are conducting a 'three-hall trial' on Cui Mian, and I don't want to listen there, so I quit first." After coming out, I didn't want to go back to Ning'an Palace to stay alone, and after thinking about it, I found that only you, Zichen Palace, could come and sit down. ”
Because there were no outsiders, Cui Chongyi didn't bother to salute Jiang Yu, so she walked to the chair next to her and sat down, then dragged her chin with one hand to look at her, and asked, "What song did you just play, it's quite good." ”
Jiang Yu said: "Playing it casually." ”
Cui Chongyi raised her eyebrows and said: "It is said that the lady concubine of Jiaolan Palace is detached and has excellent piano skills. It's just that I've never heard that you can play the guzheng before, but I've heard that you can play the gonghou. ”
Jiang Yu squinted his eyes and said deliberately: "Because I'm low-key, I don't like to show off like Meng Xuanyu." ”
Cui Chongyi couldn't help but let out a "heh" when she looked at her, looking at her tail rising to the sky.
She held her chin and was silent for a while, and then asked, "The eldest princess of Xunyang is still in your palace?"
Jiang Yu pointed in the direction of the side hall and said, "There is a rest in the side hall, but it is estimated that I have already woken up, and I just don't want to come out." ”
Cui Chongyi stood up, clapped her hands, and said, "Then I'll go in and see her." ”
Jiang Yu said to her: "You'd better not go, she said that she doesn't want to see the surname Cui now." ”
Cui Chongyi nodded when she listened, but she could understand her mood, and she didn't force herself to go in, and then sat down on the chair again.
Jiang Yu stood up from the piano table, waved his hand to let the palace people put the piano away, and let them go down, then sat next to Cui Chongyi, and asked, "I heard that the Queen Mother invited the emperor to Jing'an Palace, it seems that there is a bit of a commotion in Jing'an Palace." ”
Cui Chongyi said: "One wants to make a big thing small, and the other wants to make trouble in a big direction, it's strange if it's not intense." ”
Jiang Yu asked again: "What about you, it seems that you are not in a good mood today." He added: "Speaking of which, Cui Mian is also your cousin, don't you help him plead with the emperor?"
Cui Chongyi frowned and said: "Cui Mian deserves no matter what the fate is, he has been arrogant all these years, and no one should pay attention to it, and he should also learn a lesson." As he spoke, his face darkened a little more, and he said, "I'm just a little worried about the fate of the Cui family." ”
Jiang Yu took a sip of tea, glanced at her and said, "Why do I think you say this like a joke." "She is the one who sided with Yu Wenhong to help deal with the Cui family, and now saying that she is worried about the fate of the Cui family makes people sound like a joke.
Cui Chongyi said: "Do you look down on me for betraying my family?"
Jiang Yu shook his head and said seriously: "No." "She's telling the truth.
Those who know the times are Junjie, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that Yu Wenhong can't tolerate the Empress Dowager Cui and the Cui family, between Yuwenhong and the Cui family of the Empress Dowager Cui, sooner or later, one day you will either die or I will live, if Cui Chongyi thinks that Yu Wenhong has a better chance of winning, in order to leave a way back for himself and his biological mother, it is not surprising to take refuge in Yuwenhong. And listening to what she has always said, the Cui family is not very good to her and her aunt.
Just like her, in the name of the daughter of the Jiang family, but if the Jiang family has an accident and is raided one day, she will definitely not be sad about it, she will only laugh three times and say that she deserves it. In this respect, she can be regarded as a betrayer of the family.
Cui Chongyi sighed deeply, and then said faintly: "Actually, I don't like the Cui family, the people of the Cui family are too cold-blooded and ruthless. As he spoke, he turned his head and asked Jiang Yu, "Have I told you about my aunt?"
Jiang Yu shook his head, seeing that her face was serious, he couldn't help but get serious, put down the tea bowl in his hand, and listened to her.
Cui Chongyi said: "My aunt was originally the daughter of a locksmith, my maternal grandfather originally opened a lock shop in Gyeonggi, specializing in making and selling locks for a living, and my maternal grandfather also took in an apprentice to pass on his craftsmanship. My aunt and her brother have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and they have a very good relationship, and they promise each other for life when they grow up. My grandfather loved this apprentice, so he was happy to see it come to fruition.
But later, my aunt followed my grandfather to Cui's house to unlock my mother-in-law's cage, which happened to make my father take a fancy to her. Then my father forced my aunt to be a concubine with him, my grandfather and aunt didn't want to, but how could an ordinary father and daughter be hard to beat the Cui family. The people of the Cui family didn't even plan to talk to my grandfather, so they threw down two hundred taels of silver, and then carried my aunt into the Cui family with a sedan chair, and my father forced my aunt to have sex with him that night.
My grandmother thought that my aunt deliberately seduced my father, so she forced my grandfather to sign my aunt's deed of sale. My grandfather pleaded everywhere for help, so he died of exhaustion. My aunt was heartbroken when she found out, and she failed to do so several times. Later, my aunt managed to contact her brother and wanted him to run away with her. They made an appointment to elope together, but that day my aunt's brother missed the appointment and did not come. The aunt didn't wait for him, thinking that he was afraid of the power of the Cui family and abandoned her, and stayed in the Cui family to commit to her father after being heartbroken. It wasn't until a few months later that the aunt learned that her senior brother was dead, dead on the day he wanted to take her away from the Cui family. He was cut off by his father's men and thrown into the river, leaving him dead. My aunt always told me that if she hadn't found out that she was pregnant with me, she would have gone with my grandfather and her brother. ”
Jiang Yu was silent for a while, and he didn't know what to say. Behind every hard-pressed woman, there is always a bitter past.
Cui Chongyi wanted to find someone to talk to today, and continued: "When my aunt first entered the door, my father really loved and pampered me for two years. But my father is a merry man, and there is always a new warbler Yanyan coming in the yard, and then replacing the old one, and it didn't take long for my aunt to fall out of favor. My aunt grew up in a simple and ordinary family, and she didn't have the means to compete for favors and invite pets, and she couldn't fight other aunts, so she was always bullied. My grandmother also hated her, and often tried to torture her.
When I was a child, I once went to greet my grandmother, and my grandmother thought that the tea she poured for her was too hot, so she punished my aunt for kneeling on the ground. At that time, all my aunts were there, and all my brothers and sisters were there, but my grandmother spat in my aunt's face in front of me, and then called my aunt '' in a disgusted and hateful tone, while the other aunts and my brothers and sisters saw it, but they echoed and flattered my aunt and made fun of my aunt. Concubine Niangniang, although you have not been loved by your father since you were a child, after all, you were born as a concubine and have a biological mother to protect you. No matter how disrespectful your aunt and sister are to you, you don't dare to act arbitrarily, you must not know how it feels. I could only stand by and watch my aunt being bullied and teased, but I couldn't do anything. I hated it very much at that time, hated all the people in the Cui family, including myself. Because he was afraid of offending his mother-in-law, he didn't dare to stand up and say a word for his aunt. ”
Jiang Yu looked at Cui Chongyi, whose eyes were moist and had been regretting for her once selfish and cold self, and couldn't help but sympathize. She didn't know what kind of life she had in the Cui family when she was a child, it was even worse than her in the Jiang family.
Jiang Yu reached out and shook her hand, comforting her: "Even if you pleaded at that time, it was useless, and I am afraid that it will make your aunt even more difficult for your aunt, so you can't be blamed for that incident." ”