Chapter 486: Inside the Secret Room (2)
Bi Shangyun sneered on his face: "Prince Cheng is romantic, but he has never neglected my mother."
So much so that he willingly gave birth to me with my mother, and kept us in the market.
"Prince Cheng is shrewd and domineering, he wants to hide from her and often come out, how can the house do it without leaking a little rumor?
"Besides, my aunt is not an easy one to deal with.
So, he took advantage of the difficulties of Concubine Liu's mother's family and promised her some benefits, so that she could hide it for him in the palace.
"I remember that in the Watou Hutong in the west of the city, that is, the alley behind the Taoist temple you found, I saw the so-called Helian nobles other than Prince Cheng at close range for the first time, that is, when Prince Cheng went out of Beijing to accompany him to inspect the road, Concubine Liu came to the door in private. ”
He smiled and lowered his head to sip his tea, which looked very elegant.
Then he took the cup in his hand and turned it playfully: "This noble side concubine, let me kneel underground for two hours when I saw the first meeting.
"I'm only a four-year-old child, and my house is made of fine marble tiles, and you don't know how uncomfortable it feels to be on the ground.
"But my aunt is usually very delicate in front of the subordinates, but she doesn't even dare to come out in front of her, and I don't dare to move.
It took two hours for her to remember that I was still kneeling beside her, and called me up, but I could not stand up straight, and knelt at her feet again. She smiled and said: It seems that she is really a cheap species, if you want to kneel, then kneel.
I had no choice but to kneel again.
"I can't remember when I knelt until I knelt, but I remember waking up with a hot knee that hurt so much that I couldn't even touch my fingers.
"Even now, my old leg still hurts from time to time. If you hadn't taken medicine all year round, you might have been the same as ordinary old age. ”
As his voice fell, the cup in his hand rang slightly but clearly on the table.
He looked at it faintly: "Miss Zhang, you say, are people really born with a distinction between high and low?"
Shen Xi was stunned.
Under this question, she was a little speechless.
She doesn't think that some people are born extraordinarily noble, and some people are inherently inferior.
In her two lives, she saved a weak woman like Wen Chan who was oppressed by impure blood, and Yan Sui, who was not used to impure blood, was beaten badly, and did not treat Shen Liang, who was a concubine, as an outsider who deserved to rely on her snort.
I didn't feel that the Han family, who had a high status but acted completely contrary to the four characters of benevolence, righteousness and morality, was so respected.
But she still can't deny that along the way she grew up, she still numbly ignored the treatment of foreigners with her good background.
She is not a bodhisattva with only good thoughts in her heart.
At a time when everyone thought that the bright red blood flowing from the body of the Helian nobles was superior to others, she also reflected on the contradictions mentioned by her grandfather, but on the other hand, she also enjoyed these honors, and had a sense of superiority that even she herself could not detect.
And the seemingly good thoughts she has may not be worth mentioning at all in terms of the harm her status has brought to others.
Bi Shangyun didn't wait for her answer: "Since that time, I have been stimulated to have the most primitive reaction to the word noble and cheap.
"I began to know that even if I had the same eyes and nose as the nobles of Helian, even if we were not short of money to spend, and even if my maternal grandfather was also in a small official position, the word "birth" limited the upper limit of what I could achieve in this life.
"I began to understand that with the identity of impure blood, or because my mother clan is a Tuoba person, I will not be able to live as noble as Concubine Liu in my life, let alone surpass you. ”
Shen Xi was silent.
She could actually feel his feelings.
Just like when she first came to the Shen family, she also felt depressed everywhere.
If the space given to a person in this world is deep and wide enough, then no one will feel suppressed and angry.
But there are levels in the world, and there are very few people who can not be bound by this rule, even Bi Shangyun in front of him, he can live to such a point, and in the end he still hasn't broken this rule-
He was still fighting to change the rules of the hierarchy.
So he is no different from the Helian nobles back then, they are nothing more than the ones who are only willing to step on people, and do not want to be trampled on.
"So, you guys actually entered the mansion because of Concubine Liu's idea?" she asked.
"Definitely. He nodded: "Only if I recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors, the children of the concubines in the palace will not have to be reduced to the person who marries the 'inferior people' in their eyes, and at the same time, they will be able to give an account to the emperor, and all of them can continue to maintain their noble bloodline." ”
Speaking of this, he chuckled again, "Concubine Liu took me back to the palace for herself and her children. So you helped me out in front of Princess Cheng, which is also ridiculous in my opinion.
"You, like Concubine Liu, are just using good thoughts as an excuse to put another layer of beautiful gold dust on your already noble enough status.
"It's just that the difference is that she is using me to solve the problem, and you are using me to decorate your identity.
"A good word can make you more dazzling and more eye-catching, if you have a conflict of interest with me, when things may affect you and the Zhang family, can you still help me speak without hesitation?"
"You won't. I believe that everyone is selfish.
"So, for you nobles who are high up, where is it because I really need to reach out?
"Who would be willing to be used?
"If it weren't for the edict of marriage issued by Zhang Xie Xuan, I would still be able to live in Xicheng and live a comfortable life.
"You say, does the Zhang family's ending deserve it?"
He spoke at a steady pace, and his fingers even tapped rhythmically on the table when he came to the conclusion.
Although Shen Xi was surprised by his extremism, he still couldn't help but admire his composure when talking about the past events in the palace.
Wen Chan is really nothing compared to him.
"The old gentleman's thinking about the problem is really beyond the reach of me and others. She smiled. "I wonder how things turned out?"
Bi Shangyun smiled playfully, and then said: "After Concubine Liu called once, after three years, when I was seven years old, it was the third month after the edict was issued, and she instigated Prince Cheng to take me back to the palace to recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors on the grounds that the emperor advocated peace among the three clans.
"However, after I entered the palace, Princess Cheng resolutely opposed me on the grounds that I was an adulterous child and should not be included in the genealogy.
"I have to say that Concubine Liu still has some means, before I entered the mansion, Princess Cheng didn't know that there was our mother and son.
"It was a stalemate, but anyway, we stayed for the time being. ”
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