Chapter 16: The Turmoil in the Hou Mansion III
Yu Yaoxue had a miscarriage, and the Chiyang Hou Mansion was in chaos. But that's just the surface. After the incident, Aunt Zhao's mother and daughter staged a mother-daughter love and remorse drama in front of Chiyang Hou. One of Yu Yaoxue's children was only punished by Yulan Xue for a slap and kneeling in the ancestral hall for three months.
Perfunctory.
"Madame, you are discouraged." Who is the master, haven't you seen it clearly all these years? For Aunt Zhao, there are still few bad things to do over the years.
Zhao Xue handed a cup of soothing tea to Mrs. Yu and stood obediently.
Madam Yu also relieved, indeed, people who have already recognized clearly, what else can be expected.
"Yue'er just came to report that Miss has woken up, Madame wants to go and see?" Yu Yaoxue's body was already weak because of the miscarriage, and when she heard that the child was gone, she fainted in anger.
Madam Yu nodded comfortably, got up and went to the White Snow Pavilion.
At the door, I met a maid with a tonic, and Mrs. Yu stretched out her hand to take it and walked in, and then ordered: "Go down." β
"Yes." Zhao Xue thoughtfully closed the door.
"Mother." Yu Yaoxue's tears flowed down instantly. With a pale face, it looks so pitiful.
"Let's drink the medicine first." Mrs. Yu took a pillow and put it behind Yu Yaoxue, and fed her the medicine one by one. After that, he handed a hawthorn over. Seeing Yu Yaoxue eat it, she smiled, and her face was nostalgic: "Xue'er liked to eat sour things the most when she was a child, especially hawthorn, and she refused to give up every time her teeth were sour." β
Yu Yaoxue's palms tightened outside, and she looked at Madam Yu in surprise, as if she wanted to see something from her face.
Mrs. Yu stretched out her hand to caress Yu Yaoxue's pale face, and opened her mouth with difficulty: "Xue'er...... Is it still there? β
The tears in Yu Yaoxue's eyes fell again, but this time she didn't pretend to be weak, but stubbornly refused to shed another drop at the beginning.
"Since Madame has guessed, why bother asking." If so, why didn't she come back?
Madame Yu withdrew her hand in frustration, and the whole person seemed to be more than ten years old, and her face was like ashes.
Yu Yaoxue saw that Mrs. Yu retracted her eyes like this and straightened her mood, and only then did she speak when she had organized her language: "I met Xue'er in Yilan Courtyard, and most of them were girls from poor families, only Xue'er was white and tender like a snow doll. We were locked up in a big courtyard, and every day someone came to teach us things, and if we learned well, we could eat a hot meal, and if we learned poorly, we would go hungry. Xue'er is very smart, she doesn't cry or make trouble when she is caught, and often stares at the sky alone at night. I asked her what she was looking at that night, and she pointed to the candle flame in the distance that was lit and flickered in the wind and said that she recognized it, that it was the tallest tower in Hejing, and that she was still very close to her home, and that she was going to escape. asked me if I wanted to be together, and said that when I escaped, I would take me to see my mother, and I would not be alone after that. This butterfly hairpin flower was given to me by Cher at that time. β
Madame Yu trembled and took the pink butterfly hairpin in Yu Yaoxue's hand and rubbed it carefully. The butterfly hairpin is a pair, it is a New Year's gift that Chiyang Hou bought for Yu Yaoxue in the New Year, Yu Yaoxue likes it very much, and takes it every day, and when she meets people, she says it is a gift from her father, and asks if it is very good-looking.
"We started to pay attention to the environment around us and the timing of the change of guard of the patrollers. I remember very clearly, it was a very good moonlit night, we successfully avoided those people to the side door, someone guarded it was not good to get out, we squatted there and waited for two hours, in the second half of the night only took advantage of the lazy gap of the gatekeeper to escape, Xue'er deliberately looked at the words on the lanterns on both sides of the door, Xue'er was repeating the three words of Yilan Courtyard. I didn't run far and crashed into the carriage of Yilan Courtyard, and I was found in this way. Normally, it's not a big deal to run a few girls in this kind of place, but that night even the officers and soldiers appeared, and Xue'er may have known something at the time, so she gave me the rag and told me to see my mother and hand it over to her. Then ......"
God knows how she felt when she was six years old and saw a pool of blood on the street where she was restored to quiet. The girl who is the same as the snow doll is sensible and distressing.
"Cher...... Xue'er is always so sensible......" The expression on Mrs. Yu's face was very strange, as if she was relieved and nostalgic, and the original lifelessness was gone.
"I escaped and moved to Zhengyulou, and I have been secretly tracking down the affairs of Yilan Courtyard all these years, but I found that the women cultivated by Yilan Courtyard over the years will enter the mansions of officials in the court and China by chance, or as concubines and singers, knowing that the matter is very involved and dare not disclose it, even if the six princes often go to Zhengyulou, even if they are ...... But I didn't dare to say more, after all, I was soft-spoken and had no evidence, and I wouldn't believe it when I said it. Yu Yao Xue's cold hand grabbed Mrs. Yu, with a look of hope: "But Mrs. is different, you are Xue'er's biological mother, and you will definitely not sit idly by, Xue'er wrote down the name of Yilan Courtyard that night, thinking that it was also to escape and save those children who were trapped here, even if it was not for anything else, for Xue'er, you shouldn't watch Yilan Courtyard open again." Let alone...... What's more, there may be the culprit who harms Xue'er! β
What Yu Yaoxue said to Mrs. Yu understood, she suppressed the grief and indignation in her heart and let Yu Yaoxue hold her hand, looked at Yu Yaoxue's eyes and said word by word: "You were only six years old at that time, why didn't you come to the Hou Mansion to find me?" "It's a question and a question.
Yu Yaoxue sneered and let go of her hand, suppressing the sadness in her eyes and said, "Didn't go?" I went to the Hou Mansion to beg for a long time, the guards were stunned and did not let in, I stayed in the Hou Mansion for three days and three nights, and the hungry fainted and did not see you, if it were not for the kind people to pick me up and go home, I am afraid that there will be no more Shang Xue in this world. β
Mrs. Yu stiffened her fingers after hearing this, and only after a long time did she stretch out her hand and pull the quilt up, "Let's rest." β
Yu Yaoxue's hand clenched tightly and tightly.
Xue'er, wait, wait, I'll take my mother to see you.
"Madame......" Seeing that Madame Yu walked out of the White Snow Pavilion in a trance, Zhao Xue screamed worriedly.
Madame Yu blinked and came back to her senses, and asked calmly what was going on.
"The man sent has returned." The meaning of obedience seems to be very fruitful.
"Take people to the side halls." Madam Yu clenched her fists, now is indeed not the time to be sad, Xue'er's matter has long been hopeless, what can she do if she strikes once? She has hatred in her heart at the moment, even if she wants to be decadent and self-pitying, she has to wait for Zhao'er and Xue'er to get revenge!
"Yes."
"Madam, the slave found out that Zhao Xingfang secretly seems to be running a garden, and now I only know that most of the children who are locked up there are bought or abducted, and those with a bad foundation are sold, and the good ones are kept and I don't know what to do." The subordinates reported everything that was found out that day and night.
Madame Yu's hand clutched on the chair, "What is that garden called?" β
"Yilan Courtyard." Seeing that his wife was in a daze, the person who came continued to report, "The person sent by the slave to Dr. Lu's house reported that he had found Dr. Lu's son, and after reporting his name, he took out a letter written by Dr. Lu before his death, which was specified to be handed over to Mrs. The man took out a letter from his bosom and handed it over.
Zhao Xue took it and handed it to Mrs. Yu, who opened it with trembling hands, and after reading it, her eyes rolled and she almost fainted.
"Madame!"
Zhao Xue hurriedly held on, and Madam Yu waved her hand weakly to indicate that she was okay, and her eyes sparkled with cold light. "Go to the Six Princes' Mansion and invite the Six Princes, he is now Xue'er's fiancΓ©, and he should be present for the affairs of the Yu family."
"Yes." Someone came to retreat and went to the Six Princes' Mansion to invite the Six Princes.
"Someone, master, Aunt Zhao...... The masters of the Chiyang Marquis Mansion were all invited to the lobby, and none of them were allowed to fall. β
"Slave and maid, go now."
"Zhaoxue, help me go back to the room and change my clothes." Mrs. Yu took out the butterfly hairpin flower from her sleeve, called another maid and asked her to send it to Yu Yaoxue, and instructed: "Tell Miss, let her wear this." β
Mrs. Yu returned to the room with the support of Zhao Xue, and the dappled sunlight fell, which made the corridor extremely cold.
This is all forced by you, the face of the Chiyang Marquis Mansion, your face, as early as when you insisted on accepting Zhao Rongfang, after today, between you and me, except for that marriage book, there is really nothing left.
There were no sons, no daughters, and she had nothing but hatred.