"I hate being coerced the most, and you are the first. That's it, go back with this picture of Chi Lu, you don't have to come here again, you will regret what you did for Pingyang Hou today. ”

"Madam, I know that you have always been intimate with me. If it weren't for you, I would still be in the prison, where there is always a musty smell that keeps me awake at night. In the future, I will definitely treat you well. ”

"When you were twenty and eight, I was allowed to marry back, and I was already guilty enough. Now I just want to marry a concubine, and if you don't allow it, I will simply divorce you, it seems that who will dare to ask you in the future. ”

"No, no, you said you want to treat me well, you can't divorce me, you say ......" Xia Ruan felt so painful in his heart, and he couldn't wait to faint. She wanted to grab Tang Jingxuan in front of her, but she found that she couldn't move, and she could only vaguely see Tang Jingxuan's face sneering. He...... How could he do this to her?

Pain.

When I opened my eyes, all I could hear around me was the low chirping of autumn cicadas. Her eyes gradually cleared, and she was covered in cold sweat.

Where is she now? It's like a dream.

Xia Ruan stayed awake all night.

She was thinking about Tang Jingxuan and Xiao Shaocheng all night.

Tang Jingxuan is his husband, she dreamed of Tang Jingxuan because she was unwilling, and what was she dreaming of Xiao Shaocheng for?

She was a little confused, a little confused.

If it was a memory, she should have woken up a long time ago, and now no matter how many times she closed her eyes, she still woke up to see the pine furniture in the room.

"God, if this is really a fantasy, don't let me go back." Xia Ruan clenched his fists, for fear that the nightmare that hurt into the bone marrow would happen again.

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The autumn rain has been falling for a while.

In the past three days, Li Shi was worried about her body, and she begged God and Buddha everywhere, and the house was turned upside down, if she wasn't about to die, it is estimated that even the Taoist priests in this temple would be invited to the house.

She is now living again, and those obsessions have disappeared on the night she died.

"Girl? Why did you get up, it's cold weather, and you have to put on a dress. ”

Hearing this, Xia Ruan turned her head to look at the door that had been pushed open, and her mother Li was walking in with a decoction, with a worried look on her face.

After seeing his mother, Xia Ruan immediately got up and prepared to go down to get the decoction in his mother's hand. This God is not kind to her, let her live a new life, she must cherish the family affection she lost before. Besides, she wasn't too sick, just a little wind chill. Where do you need to spend so much thought on your mother.

Li Shi was a little anxious, she hurriedly put the medicine bowl on the pine table, hurriedly walked to Xia Ruan's side, helped her back to the couch, and then put the quilt on her: "The doctor said, your body is a little weak these days, don't stay and walk easily." ”

After speaking, he put on the ivory-white cotton coat that was put aside for Xia Ruan, and his face eased slightly.

"Cousin, this is a peach blossom cake sent by my aunt, I'll bring it to you to taste."

A soft and glutinous voice came, and a white and chubby little girl walked in from outside the door, with a pair of bright eyes and a rouge-colored cotton clothes, which looked even more delicate and lovely.

Xia Ruan squinted her eyes slightly and looked at the little girl, she told herself in her heart that this was no longer her previous life, and many things had to be done slowly and not too abruptly. She has been saying in her heart: patience, patience, avoidance, and after a long time, her mother will be able to understand Xia Wen's thoughts.

After a while, he said slowly, "Put it on the table." ”

Xia Wen nodded, showing a satisfied expression, and then obediently walked to Li's side: "Mother, you can taste it too, it's delicious." ”

Mother?

Xia Wen actually had the face to shout.

Xia Wen is a scheming person, after knowing that the eldest aunt of the Dao is unreliable. She pretended to be sick and hugged Li and shouted: "Mother, don't leave Wen'er, Wen'er is afraid." "It's nothing more than knowing that my mother is a soft-hearted person and won't push her away. Sure enough, when Xia Wen proposed to call her mother her mother instead of her second aunt. When her mother saw that Xia Ruan was young and young, and now her tearful and pitiful appearance, she couldn't bear to respond. Afterwards, the mother's meaning was nothing more than that she adopted Xia Wen.

"This child is filial piety." After hearing Xia Wen call her mother, Li didn't notice Xia Ruan's pale face, but just said to Xia Ruan with a sigh: "Your third uncle went early, and there is only such a child left." I don't think you have a companion either, so it's good to have her with you. ”

Xia Ruan didn't answer, just gathered the coat on his body, and his heart was already active.

The ancestors of the Xia family were not very wealthy.

It was only after Xia Ruan's grandfather Xia Yantang that he began to have a little family business, because Xia Yantang married the eldest lady of the Ji family, Ji.

The ancestor of the Ji family was once the ambassador of Bapinyan, and he was once a famous family.

Ji has a virtuous temperament and knows etiquette. After getting started, Ji and Xia Ruan's grandfather Xia Yantang Qin Se and Ming, and later because Xia Yantang moved his mind to do business, he used all his dowry as capital and sang with Xia Yantang. Over time, he bought three shops and fifty acres of land.

It's just that after the Ji family gave birth to their third son, Xia Fumin, they fell into some illnesses in the confinement, and the three sons were less than three years old when they died.

Xia Ruan's grandfather Xia Yantang missed Ji's family, and after his eldest son Xia Fugui got married, his health has not been very good, so he divided the family to his three sons early, and Xia Ruan's father is Xia Fucheng, the second son of Xia Yantang.

Xia Ruan's third uncle and third aunt died in the hands of Liukou, and the only one alive at that time was Xia Wen who was left at home.

"Come and drink this medicine, it's not bitter." Seeing that Xia Ruan didn't speak, Li picked up the soup bowl on the table and sent it to Xia Ruan's hand.

Seeing Xia Wen's docile appearance, Xia Ruan smiled at her mother: "Mother, let's let Wen Yatou call you second aunt in the future, people in this family know that this girl relies on you to call you your mother, although it is okay, but outsiders know that Lu Dao is the eldest aunt who adopted Wen Yatou, and now she calls you mother, doesn't this make the eldest aunt lose face?" Besides, my father ......"

Xia Ruan thought about it, her father should be on Flower Street, her father died in Sister Hua's ** in winter. She still remembered her mother at that time, as if her heart had been hollowed out.

What she says now is nothing more than a reminder to her mother to take care of her reputation, which is terrifying.

As long as she thought that her father was gone, and the child in her mother's womb was buried in the river with her mother before she was born, she felt panic in her heart. At that time, as long as she counted the time, she knew that the child in her mother's womb belonged to her father, but I didn't know what Lu Dao was for, but after reaching the most, it was rumored that her mother was actually stealing......

Xia Ruan wanted to explain at that time, but he couldn't argue, and no one would listen to the explanation of a person who was said to be a disaster star.

She later realized that these were actually calculated by that person, from her mother's death to her reputation, to the adoption of her, step by step to bury the pit for them to jump down, at that time she was young and did not understand this, and now she does not want her mother to be eaten by that group of jackals, tigers and leopards.

Li hesitated for a moment: "But the girl Wen ......"

Mother is soft-hearted, this is what Xia Ruan has guessed a long time ago, she said to Xia Wen who was on the side: "Miss Wen, you are a polite person, your cousin said this, you must not mind, right?" ”

Xia Wen's originally ruddy face at this time had a look of panic, and this look appeared on a little girl's face, which was really a bit weird.

After a pause, Xia Wen replied: "What my cousin said is that I was abrupt, second aunt, don't take it to heart, my cousin is for my good." ”

At this time, Xia Wen's words were extremely aggrieved.

But it was just such a sentence that made Xia Ruan understand that this Xia Wen couldn't stay by her side for too long, she was deceived by this kind of face at the beginning, and now Xia Wen still wants to use her previous moves to continue to deceive her, so if she is fooled again, she will really be stupid.

Sure enough, Xia Wen's move made Li a little embarrassed, she wanted to speak but was interrupted by Xia Ruan: "Mother, you let Wen girl go out to play, after all, I am sick, if I give her after illness, it is not me who is a cousin." Since this aunt has sent some peach blossom cakes, I see that the aunt must like Wen girl, and I will send Wen girl to live at my aunt's house for a few days later. ”

She will never take Xia Wen back.

Xia Wen's face was a little pale, and she looked at Xia Ruan in a panic: "Cousin." ”

"My cousin also cares about your body, if you are sick with your cousin now, won't your mother be tired?" Xia Ruan still had a smile on her face, but she yawned and pretended to be sleepy.

Li didn't say much anymore, just glanced at Xia Wen, and said after half a sound: "Wen girl, what your cousin said is right, my sister-in-law has been saying hello these days, I see that she likes you very much, you go to your uncle's house to live for a few days, and when your cousin is well, the second aunt will pick you up again, okay?" ”

When Xia Wen heard Li say this, although she was unwilling, she could only bow her head and reply: "Hmm." ”