Chapter 37: The younger brother I have never met
"You just said that you followed Lord Rui to come in, could it be that he also entered the harem? Still not telling the truth? The prince was not allowed to enter the palace without being summoned. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
"He really entered the palace, but I followed him to the front hall and found that he didn't go to see you, so I didn't follow up, and then I saw that there were many trees here, and it was more suitable for concealment to find this side." After saying that, Hanako smiled innocently like a child.
"You mean that Prince Rui entered the Chongzheng Hall alone?"
"Yes, his attendants are outside the temple."
"And when did you come in? Honestly, how many times have you been here secretly before? Su Mo'er asked pretending to be serious.
"No, no, this is the first time I've come in, and you just came out on the tree, and you haven't seen what your house looks like yet?"
"My ......? My hometown is far, far away. Su Mo'er remembered her modern hometown in the south of the Yangtze River, her parents had missed her, maybe the family still surrounded her younger brother who she had never met.
Counting, that younger brother should be eighteen years old now, Su Mo'er only remembered that he was a full ten years younger than herself, she had been in the Qing Dynasty for two years, and she was twenty-eight years old according to the modern age.
Eighteen years ago, her younger brother was secretly born outside of his parents' family planning, in order to hide people's eyes and ears has been fostered in distant relatives' homes, just learned to speak the year, she remembers that when he was one and a half years old, because he was too thin, he was sent to the hospital but was diagnosed with urethral malformation, at that time their family life was very difficult, and they could not afford the cost of surgery.
At this time, a middle-aged couple from the United States came to Nanjing for medical exchange and discussion, and learned that their family had such a baby, and the couple had not been out for many years, so they had long wanted to adopt a few children and raise them as their own children, so they took pity on them and took the children back to the United States for treatment and life, and since then their family has cut off all contact with this younger brother.
The American couple agreed with them that when the child was 18 years old and an adult, they would take him back to China to see his biological parents, and now that the agreed deadline has arrived, it is time for them to be reunited.
When I was a child, my father blamed my mother more than once for agreeing to send my brother away, and my mother often remorsefully wiped her tears, they missed her brother far more than they loved her, her childhood was not too colorful, no different from a poor family, and when she grew up, her father went to the sea to do business to earn a little money.
The inferiority complex in her bones is also affected by this family environment, so when she grows up, she will be so afraid of loss and rejection, and would rather choose to be lonely, so that she doesn't have to worry about losing one day.
"Hey, what are you thinking? Isn't this your home? ā
Hua Ziqi stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Su Mo'er, and in an instant, Su Mo'er's thoughts were brought back again.
"Well, no, how can this be my home? Here......"
The later "There is no one worthy of my concern" was swallowed into Su Mo'er's stomach before she could say it, because she immediately realized that she had to be especially cautious when speaking in the deep palace, and she had to be careful that the wall had ears, so she stopped in time.
"Isn't that easy? If you take leave from the inner court, won't you be able to go back to your hometown to visit your relatives? ā
Su Mo'er shook her head, "It's not as simple as you think, in short, you won't understand the hardships of people living in the deep palace, it's not as free as you think, everything has to be done according to the rules." ā
"Why did you come in in the first place?"
Yes, if it's so bitter, why did you beg to come in in the first place, and what about coming in? If it was just to seek the questions that Helan Xin had set for herself, then hadn't she found the answer now? What are you left for?
It's a pity that she only knows how to wear it, but she doesn't know how to wear it back.
"Being a slave is involuntarily."
A seemingly simple sentence, from Su Mo'er's mouth lightly, but it seemed even more sad, the cold wind of winter wind stirred the green silk behind her ears, her side face was beautiful under the moonlight, Hanako looked forward to it for a long time, and then suddenly changed the topic.
"Tomorrow is your birthday, how do you want to spend it?"
"I never planned to have a birthday."
"Then accompany me for my birthday, I'll take you to a place tomorrow, you must come."
After saying that, Su Mo'er only felt a black shadow flashing in front of her, a whirlwind blew, and then she was left standing alone in the courtyard, her sentence "I may not be able to go out tomorrow" was not spoken, and the flower period had already disappeared without a trace, and the cold wind was cold, Su Mo'er tightened her robe, and reluctantly turned around and entered the dormitory.