Aunt Liu listened to such royal secrets, her eyes were full of excitement, she only knew that it was not the queen of the main palace today, she was a concubine born to a concubine, so she tried her best to improve the treatment of the concubine after succeeding to the throne. There was also a concubine who didn't have to mourn for his mother-in-law before, but now he has to serve a year's mourning, and the concubine's funeral, which was supposed to be for the main room for a year, has now been reduced to three months.

Previously, the law clearly stipulated that the concubine was not allowed to be a wife, even in the royal family, thinking that the filial piety concubine's own son became the emperor Guangzong, but when he was alive, he was always just a concubine, and when he died, he was posthumously named the queen mother, and he still couldn't enter the temple. But when it came to today's biological mother, the Empress Dowager Sun, she quarreled with the courtiers for three years and was promoted from the concubine to the queen mother.

I didn't expect such a powerful woman to not even have a concubine at the beginning, she was still raised outside! Such an outer room can be supported into the queen mother in the end, then she, a good concubine, can't say that one day she can also be a wife in the main room, if she can be a lady of the uncle, it will be even more beautiful!

So Aunt Liu hurriedly asked: "If the upper head really lifts the outer room like this, could it be that this title is really given to the wild seed that crawled out of nowhere?" ”

"This—" The fourth old man groaned for a moment, "It's hard to say, anyway, I still have to continue to fight, and the fifth brother has to prevent him from making some demon moths to fight with me." Anyway, I still have to find someone to do it, but this dotted silver ......."

Aunt Liu hurriedly wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and shed two tears, "Seeing that the master is so anxious, the slave family really hates that she is not the daughter of a rich family, and she can't bring the master a rich dowry, if the slave family can have a dowry of ten thousand gold, the slaves must all use it to pay the master, and they don't frown, but they hate the slave family for having no money." Ming'er's slave family went to his wife and knelt down to beg her, begging her to take out her dowry for the sake of the future of the master and the future of the family, and give the master the money first. ”

Seeing that his concubine was so concerned about him and anxious about what he was anxious about, the fourth old man was greatly moved, and hugged her in his arms, "Ming'er, I'll go and ask for it, you go, I'm afraid that she will take the opportunity to make things difficult for you again and make you feel wronged." ”

The husband and concubine were planning affectionately in the bed, but they only felt sorry for the wife of the main room who was alone in the empty room every night, and at this time she didn't know that her little dowry was being targeted again, and she was still pitying her second sister-in-law. She is very envious of her second sister-in-law and fifth brother and sister, just because although the second uncle also has a few concubines, he is the most decent for his wife, unlike the fourth master, who only has a concubine in his eyes.

Which Cheng thought, such a man who respects his wife will actually raise an outer room outside, which really disappointed her, and now it seems that there is only one fifth brother and sister in the concubine, and there is not even a concubine and aunt in the fifth master's room, so he only guards the fifth wife, which is a rare good fortune.

And Mrs. Lu, who was pitiful and sympathetic, only anger was left in her heart at this time.

In the afternoon, when she heard the woman say that it was her husband's outer room, she only thought that this was a mad woman from somewhere talking nonsense, but when she saw the appearance of the two children, she was stunned for a moment.

The son and daughter actually looked very similar to her husband who had just died, and the woman also took out a letter, which was written by her good uncle to recognize the identity of their mother and son, and at the end of it, she actually asked her to treat their mother and son well......

When did he have such an outer room, and she didn't even know about it? In the past ten years, he has been guarding Haiphong for many years, leaving her alone to take charge of this big uncle's mansion inside and out, filial piety to his mother-in-law, and teaching his daughter, but he has children with another woman, so he has to let her send her aunt over again, not because she is sympathetic to her hard work in managing the family alone, but because people have long had a good idea.

The most painful thing for her is that the boy named Zhao Yiquan (Qin) was actually born when her Qin brother died, and her Qin brother died, and her husband was not by her side at that time, but gave birth to another "Cheng" brother with another woman......

What kind of heartache it was, which made her faint all at once, the last time she fainted because she learned the bad news that her husband had died of illness, but this time, it was for his illegitimate son who fainted again.

Mrs. Lu really wanted to just close her eyes and never open them again, but the cry of her daughter in her ears gradually became closer and closer, this was her only remaining flesh and blood, the only child.

Mrs. Lu finally opened her eyes.

Yi Hui saw that her mother finally woke up, but she cried even harder, "Mother, mother, you finally woke up, I'm so scared, really scared, my daughter has no father, I can't live without my mother anymore......"

Lu Shi stretched out his trembling hand, touched his daughter's head, and said with a reluctant smile: "Hui'er, don't worry, my mother will be fine, my mother just can't think about it for a while, in the future, I won't, my mother will never think about it again......"

"Mother-!" Yi Hui felt that her mother who woke up seemed to be different from before, but she couldn't say what was different.

"Xia He, you go and get a charcoal basin and come in." Lu Shi instructed her eldest maid, and said to her daughter: "Good boy, go and bring the letter in the second drawer of the mother's makeup box that is tied in a bunch of red satin to the mother." ”

When Yihui took the letter, Lu Shi had already sat up by herself, took the bundle of letters, and did not untie the ribbon, but just held it in her hand and looked at it in a daze, and after a long time, she said: "Hui'er, do you know why my mother fainted again?" ”

Yi Hui snorted: "Daughter, daughter just listened to what the girls said......"

Lu Shi nodded, "That's good, I don't have to bother to talk to you again." Regardless of whether those two children have a name in the future or not, you are the only one of my children. ”

Seeing that Xia He brought the charcoal basin, Lu Shi stopped talking, and threw the bundle of letters in his hand into the charcoal basin as soon as he raised his hand.

Frightened, Yi Hui let out an exclamation, she knew that these letters were written by her father to her mother, and her mother had always treasured them very much, and kept them in her dressing box, but now she actually-

She had not spent much time with her father since she was a child, and her mother, who was naturally with her day and night, became closer to her, and she couldn't help but ask in horror and worry: "Mother, you-"

Lu Shi watched the bundle of letters gradually turn into ashes in the fire, and said softly: "Don't worry, my mother is fine, and my mother's illness will get better soon, just for you, my mother will live a long life." ”

yes, how could she die? In vain, she was still so hurt by the loss of her husband before? It is really not worth it to die of grief for such a husband who is unruly and forgetful.

What's more, if she dies, what will happen to her only daughter Yihui, does she want her daughter to be helpless like the little girl in the Zhou family, who is under the fence, and is bullied and calculated?

There was a faint sound of snorting outside the window, and Lu Shi hugged her daughter tightly in her arms, although tears still fell from her eyes, but it was no longer for her dead husband, but for herself and her poor daughter.

It wasn't until after the third watch that Yizhi came back with a tired face, and Zhou Caiwei hurriedly took a few steps, "Sister is back." ”

Yizhi saw that she hadn't rested because she was waiting for her while, and she was slightly apologetic, "I'm really sorry for my sister, I don't want you to wait so late." It's really ...... today, let's wash up first, and then lie down in bed and talk. ”

After washing for a while, the two of them finished washing, changed their bedclothes, and lay down on the Nanmu Babu bed in the north room where Yizhi lived. Yizhi said first: "It's late tonight, Sister Lao and I will squeeze in one night first, and when Ming'er I ask them to clean up the Nanjijian, my sister will live there first, and our sisters and sons will have one room." The east wing on the opposite side has been used as a warehouse by my grandmother since more than ten years ago, and it is uninhabitable. ”

"Sister Lao has bothered for me, and I want to thank my sister today, if it weren't for my sister inviting me to live with me, I wouldn't know—" Although she is no longer as crying as she was when she first lived in this mansion, she still has sour eyes and a sour heart when she thinks of the scene in the room in the afternoon.

Yizhi sighed faintly, "I'm just a thing, how much better can I be than you!" ”

Cai Wei was a little puzzled when she heard this, "Why did my sister say this, I have no parents and brothers now, although my sister's biological mother went early, but in the end, there is still a father, grandmother, your stepmother and your aunt, and your grandmother loves you again." ”

But I heard Yizhi say in a low voice: "Don't look at my parents now, but there is only one old grandmother who can rely on me." Although her stepmother treats her well, she is not her own mother, and she is cowardly, but she always needs her to be careful to protect her. Although my grandmother loves her, I am afraid that my grandmother will not be able to be the master of some things. As for her own father, she didn't count on it for a long time.

Zhou Caiwei carefully recalled the situation between Yizhi and her parents when she lived in this mansion before, and vaguely understood in her heart, so she heard Yizhi say again: "There is one more thing, didn't we see three people wearing Qi decay mourning clothes when we went back to the West Wing before, that woman turned out to be the outer room of the second uncle, and the son and daughter were the children she gave to the second uncle." The reason why I didn't come back until so late from serving my grandmother was because of this incident. ”

"Huh?!" Zhou Caiwei was really surprised, her uncles outside the family, her father admired her second uncle the most, and when he took her back to his ancestral hometown of Quanzhou, Fujian, he also specially brought her to meet this uncle, saying that he was benevolent and quite talented, guarding the coastal defense, resisting the Japanese invaders, and making meritorious contributions to the country.

Zhou Caiwei calmed down and asked in a low voice, "Didn't grandmother tell my sister not to say it first?" ”

Yizhi let out an "um".

"Could it be that my grandmother is going to recognize the three of them?" Otherwise, I will do my best not to let the news spread.

"What if you don't recognize it? The second uncle is the grandmother's most beloved son, can she bear to see his blood flowing out? What's more, that woman is a scheming person, and today she ordered a pair of her children to fall and cry in front of the gate, I don't know how many pairs of eyes have seen it, but I am afraid that I will not recognize it, but I will also admit it, but I will suffer the second aunt. ”

"When we were eating, Sister Yihui hurried away, is there anything wrong with the second aunt?"

"The second aunt was angry and fainted again, her previous illness has not healed!"

In addition to a long sigh, Zhou Caiwei didn't know what to say, but Yizhi said: "Go to bed early, you are also tired for a day." ”

Zhou Caiwei responded, although she was tired from the journey, she couldn't sleep at this time, her eyes were wide open in the dark, she just thought about it, thinking of her second aunt for a while, Yizhi for a while, and finally for herself.

When her father was dying, he said to her: "Although there are some unsatisfactory things in the Nabo Mansion, but with your second uncle and second aunt here, and they will not treat you badly as an orphan girl if they take you to Fujian to entrust your second uncle to the New Year." ”

The second uncle, who didn't want to be considered lonely by his father now, died of a sudden illness, and the second aunt was too busy to take care of herself. The eldest elder in the family, my grandmother, didn't seem to like her very much, but the last time she came to the Uncle's Mansion, everyone loved her and spoiled her, and treated her very well, and my grandmother still treated her lightly. As for the fifth aunt, how affectionate she was before, but now she is polite and a little distant......

When she came to live here when she was seven years old, although she was sent by her father to Kyoto, where she was unfamiliar, because she lost her brother and mother one after another, these relatives treated her very well at that time, and besides, she still had a father to rely on.

But now? This Uncle Anyuan Mansion has lost the backbone of the second uncle, and it is in chaos, but she, an orphan girl, is coming at this time, helpless, under the fence, without any reliance. She only felt that there was no light except for the darkness. Since her father knew that there were unsatisfactory things in this house, and she didn't have nowhere else to go, why did she want to come to her uncle's house?