Chapter 001: Old Things
When the sky dawned, Lu Jinyi avoided everyone and hurriedly went out. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Along the way, the wind and snow were howling, and the soles of the feet were like crumbs, and it was a cloak wrapped in thick brocade and silver rat skin, and it was still cold and biting.
Walking to a remote courtyard at the northernmost end of the Lu Mansion, she stopped, stared at the plaque in front of the courtyard that was so old that it had lost its paint, hesitated for a long time, and finally stepped in.
The grass and bricks here have long been covered in snow, but she can still clearly recognize them in their original appearance.
There is no reason for her, but because she is the master of this place......
But in fact, she is no longer the master here.
As early as more than two years ago, she had died, died of a serious illness, in fact, she was not seriously ill, but exhausted her mind, and the lamp ran out.
Du Shiyong, the former famous household secretary in the capital, her father, was crowned with the title of a corrupt official and a great minister overnight, and was hanged before the Mid-Autumn Festival, which shows that the crime is extremely evil.
There were more than 100 people in the Du Mansion, beheaded and exiled, except for her, none of them were spared.
The century-old reputation of the Du family was ruined, and it became a traitorous family spurned by thousands of people in the court and accused by thousands of people.
And her husband Lu Tang, who is the only person she can ask for, is precisely the prison beheader.
No one knows how she came over the nights when you could see the pictures of her mother's blood flowing with her eyes closed.
The Lu family was also afraid that her status as the daughter of a criminal minister would hinder Lu Tang's good future, not only did they insult her in words, but also locked her up in this remote courtyard to fend for herself......
Before she died, there was only one maid by her side, and after her death, she came to mourn only Fu Shaotang, who she couldn't think of, and was hurriedly buried after the coffin was stopped for less than three days.
Because she has no children under her knees, and she has long been inseparable from Lu Tang, coupled with the body of a criminal courtier, she can't even enter the Lu family ancestral hall.
As long as she thought of these old things, she couldn't help but have a dull pain in her chest, and even breathing became difficult......
Fortunately, now she is standing here alive, even if she has changed her identity and appearance, God still pities her after all.
She came today mainly to find out where the place that had imprisoned her soul for decades was.
She calmed down and tried to push the door into the boudoir, but she faintly heard a woman's sobbing, and through the half-open door, she saw the weeping man.
It is a small jacket embroidered all over the lake green, combed in a round bun, and a thin woman, to be precise, a mother and son.
On the ground beside her, there was also a child wrapped in a mink rat, and he couldn't see his facial features, and judging from his length, he was estimated to be two or three years old.
After searching for memories in my head for a long time, I couldn't find anyone who would bring the children here to see her, and I couldn't know their identities.
The woman knelt in front of the bed with the unicorn pattern of Nanmu and cried for a while, before she took out a bag of oiled paper wrapped in oil paper from her sleeve and spread it on the ground, "Today is your birthday, I brought you your favorite chestnut cake, which was bought by the slave maid at the house where you are used to eating." ”
"In the past, I always wondered why there was a cook in the house, and you had to send slaves and maids to travel nearly ten miles to buy them. Now the slave and maid understand...... Miss is a long-term lover, once she likes something, she will continue to like it for the rest of her life. ”
called herself a slave maid and bought her chestnut cakes...... It turned out to be her maidservant forsythia.
Forsythia was not her maid in marriage, but was summoned to her from the old lady of the Lu Mansion, and the old lady Lu was afraid that she would rely on her identity as the daughter of a powerful minister to be powerful in the mansion, so she sent Forsythia to monitor her.
She knows this very well, and naturally she doesn't trust Forsythia, and she is only sent to do some errands.
Later, her mother's family had an accident, and this girl was tired by her and had a very difficult time.
It wasn't until later that she accidentally became pregnant with Lu Tang's child......
Forsythia cried silently, "It's like ...... It's like you've never hated a slave or a maid, and even if you're about to die, you're still thinking about it. I left something close to my brother to save his life......"
When she left, she gave all the valuable things in the room to her subordinates, and Forsythia also took her share, but she didn't expect to save her child's life...... Lu Tang was in high spirits at that time, and it was bound to be difficult to give birth to a maid who had no name to get pregnant.
The child woke up when she heard the cry, and called her in a daze, Forsythia went over and picked up the child, and made him kneel on the ground and kowtow, but the child felt the ground cold, and cried loudly.
The cry was particularly loud in the silent courtyard, and Forsythia had sneaked over, and she was a little panicked, patting the child's back to soothe her while looking around to see if anyone had noticed.
Lu Jinyi heard the child's cry and wanted to leave, so she took a step back, but accidentally stepped on the dead branch, and the dead branch made a crisp sound, startling the forsythia inside shouted, "Who! ”
She hurried out to investigate, but found that the porch was empty, but even so, she did not dare to stay long, went back to the room, took a large coat and put it on the child, and hurried away.
When the figures of the forsythia mother and son disappeared into the wind and snow, Lu Jinyi came out from behind the pillars, paced inside, stared at the chestnut cake on the ground, and suddenly felt sad.
The old people and old things are the same, and she is no longer her.
I didn't want to think about it anymore, I looked around, and wanted to rummage in the room, but there was a voice outside, and this time I heard two male voices.
The sound was so familiar that she felt suffocated, and when she walked to the window, she saw a tall man in an embroidered peacock robe and a dark silver rat cloak, walking towards here with a small servant.
It is Lu Tang, her husband in the previous life, the fifth uncle in this life, and he is his guard Qingshan by his side.
How did these two end up here at this hour?
Lu Jinyi was puzzled, but no matter why, she didn't want to see this person at all, let alone let him know that she had been here.
She looked around, and without hesitation, jumped off the lattice on the other side, which led to the backyard, where there was a small door to exit.
It's just that she was dressed heavily, and she was inconvenient to move, and when she jumped out of the window, she accidentally rubbed off the hairpin on the top of her head, and she didn't notice it, so she left in a hurry.
Lu Tang walked to the bottom of the corridor, but suddenly stopped.
The accompanying little guy almost bumped into him, and when he stabilized his pace, he asked him suspiciously: "Fifth Master, what's wrong?" ”
Why didn't you leave again? Could it be that you have changed your mind?
The old lady has always disliked him coming here, and felt that the people who used to live here were unlucky, and if he had something to do with her, he could be criticized for a long time.
But the old lady didn't expect that this place itself was the courtyard of the fifth lady, and even if the master avoided suspicion, he couldn't avoid it.
Lu Tang shook his head, but his eyes sank a little, and his pace was much faster than before, and it could almost be said that he was running.
Qingshan was very surprised, and looked along the place where he had just looked, but saw a few rows of footprints leading straight into the lady's room.