Chapter 031: The Past
Ruosheng's eyes shimmered.
How could it be Lu Lizhan's daughter?
Da Yin was facing the right prime minister Lu Lizhan, and he only had a son and a daughter under his knees, all of which were born by his wife who had long since died. However, he was in a high position, spoke quite loudly in the court, and he was very talented, and he had always been very respected by Emperor Jialong, and he was only thirty years old when he was widowed.
But Lu Lizhan has never married a wife until now.
Everyone said that his love for his deceased wife was as deep as the sea, and even if Siren had passed away, he couldn't let go of his heart, so he couldn't continue to be with others.
But even after seven or eight years, there are still endless people looking forward to marrying Lu Xiang. In addition, Lu Xiang's son and daughter are getting older, and the eldest daughter Lu Youyun is even more of an age in a blink of an eye, and there are not a few people who have the idea of having children and daughters.
The Lu family and the Lian family should be regarded as upstarts in Beijing, and their foundation is far less stable than that of the Duan family and the Su family, so it stands to reason that they should be closer.
But Ruosheng has no intersection with Lu Youyun in his previous life or in this life, and the relationship between the Lu family and the Lian family seems to be just a nodding acquaintance, and he has never had a deep friendship.
After thinking about it, she heard Lu Youyun then laugh and said, "Didn't Ah Jiumo see his father?" β
"Sister Yun said with a smile," Ruosheng shook his head and curled his eyebrows, "How can I have a chance to see Uncle Lu." β
She learned from Lu Youyun's kindness, and changed her original title of "Lu Xiang" to "Uncle Lu" with a smile, but the hand hidden in her sleeve couldn't help but clench into a fist, and her nails were embedded in the flesh of the palm, which seemed to be painful and spicy.
Once upon a time, she thought that if she had the opportunity to meet these people again in the future, she would be able to face them calmly.
But at this time, it was all empty.
In her heart, she asked herself again and again.
How could it be her? How could it be the daughter of Lu Lizhan?
Yuyin, how did he get together with Lu Xiang's daughter?!
Thoughts are chaotic and come in a stream.
In the twenty-first year of Xuanming, Lian's family declined, and her father left her, and since then heaven and man have been separated. She, her stepmother Zhu and her younger brother Ruoling were driven out of the ancestral house in Pingkangfang by the fourth uncle and lived in the market, tossing and turning. She grew up overnight and never looked back again. Her face under the dusk brass mirror is still young and delicate, but she is only sixteen years old, and she has already been born early.
She still remembers the tears that flowed down her stepmother when she first saw her silver and white hair mixed with green silk.
But what about stepmothers?
She was not yet twenty-five years old in the past, but in just a few days, she looked like an old woman, and her temples were already stars. Rao is Ruoling, and he seems to have grown up.
At that time, she stood in the corner of the dilapidated courtyard and thought that things would never go any further. She will take the place of her father to raise Ruoling, take care of the Zhu family, and become a filial child and an amiable eldest sister as he expected in the past.
The green banana was still alive and well at that time.
Be loyal, follow them, and never leave them.
Ruoling likes her very much, and always pesters and calls Sister Lujiao, how can Ren Lujiao say that you are the master, you can't call the slave maid a sister, he just doesn't listen.
If you hear it twice, you will be happy in your heart, and at this time, where do you need to pay attention to what master and servant? She pondered that it would be better for the Zhu family to recognize the green banana as a righteous daughter...... However, at this time, the fourth uncle sent someone to look for her.
He drove them out of Pingkangfang with his front foot, and came back to her with his back foot.
What to do when you go back?
The person who came grinned, and the fourth master found a good family affair, and specially instructed the little one to come and invite the third girl back.
Good family?
Dress up and send it to someone to be a concubine! It's really a great family!
Lu Jiao was extremely angry, such a good-tempered person, he spat the man on the spot, blocked in front of her and scolded: "What kind of family is it to be a concubine with someone?" Bah! He's shameless, but the girl still wants it! β
But the voice was still hanging there, and a sword pierced through the heart of the green banana.
Zhu screamed, covering Ruoling's eyes and trembling.
Ruosheng's ears were "buzzing", and he couldn't hear anything from the side.
She rushed forward, trying to hold on to the green banana, but the green banana fell to the ground before her.
The blood, dripping.
Ruosheng had never seen so much blood, no matter how she covered it, she couldn't cover it, and it was desperately dripping out along her fingers, piping hot, as if her hand was about to press her on the heart of the green banana was burned. The green banana's body became colder and colder, and finally it became a piece of ice.
The wind is hot in the middle of summer.
The green banana can never be warmed back.
She still remembers that the person sent by the fourth uncle that day was holding a blood-stained long sword, squinting his eyes and smiling obscenely and shamelessly.
That man, his name is Lao Wu.
He is not tall, has small eyes, and has sharp-beaked monkey gills that resemble rats in the gutter.
But she obviously hated it, but she still couldn't remember his specific appearance.
But Ruosheng knew that one day, she would kill him with the sword that killed him and killed him!
However, at that time, people were swordsmen, and I was fish and meat, they could kill the green banana, and they could also kill the Zhu family and Ruoling. It's not a pity that she died, but her stepmother is still so young, and her brother is still so young, how can she die here because of these things?
She knew that according to the fourth uncle's temperament, even if she was satisfied with her consent now, it would not be long before she would regret her murderous intentions again and poison the Zhu family mother and son.
But she still had to say yes first.
Only in this way can we be with the fourth uncle and the snake, and can we get a glimmer of life for the Zhu family and son.
She let go of the already cold body of the green banana, blocked in front of her stepmother and weak brother, held the sword pointed directly at the Zhu clan with her sticky bloodstained hand, nodded and said, "Go back and tell Fourth Uncle SΓΉ, I promise, but give me three days." β
Zhu was standing behind her, shocked when she heard this, she even forgot that she was afraid, and hurriedly stepped forward to prevent her from agreeing.
Tears ran down her cheeks and down her lips, salty and astringent.
Ruosheng grabbed his stepmother's hand in time with his free other hand and held it tightly.
Zhu knew what she meant, and his face turned pale and tears fell like beads.
The skinny-skinned monkey-like old Wu was carrying a sword, but he only frowned and was dissatisfied, "The fourth master said that the third girl would definitely bargain, and it was really true." I'm sorry girl, the fourth master said, at most one day, not more than half an hour! β
Ruosheng had expected this, and continued to nod expressionlessly: "Then one day." β
Old Wu smiled with his teeth and turned his head away.
Outside the small courtyard, there must still be people watching.
They didn't have any silver on them, they couldn't go far, and it didn't take long for the fourth uncle to find them.
At this point, we can't help but prepare for the worst.
Zhu cried and refused to let her go, only saying that there was still one day, let's escape.
But this day is used to let their mother and son want to escape, if she also follows, she will definitely not be able to escape. Ruosheng knew that she was unwilling to abandon herself, so he had to say something ugly to provoke her to leave.
Zhu raised his hand and slapped her.
Ruoling sat on the cold kang and was so frightened that he cried.
Zhu shivered and cried, saying stupid girl, even if we die together, we can't ask you to be a concubine!
The three of them wept and cried and hugged each other.
But she shouldn't, what should her brother do? It's her father's last bit of blood, and she always has to keep some incense.
She melted her biological mother's relics, found an old craftsman to make a small golden lock for Ruoling with rough craftsmanship, and hurriedly buried the green banana, and the day passed too quickly. She tried her best to calculate the thoughts of the fourth uncle, and tried her best to let her stepmother leave with her young brother, as far as she went, and never come back.
As for who the fourth uncle was going to give her to, she didn't care at all.
The trees fell and scattered, and as soon as the family fell, the people who had been stammering in the past changed their faces and began to fall into the well.
There are too many people that the fourth uncle wants to stammer.
She got into a small sedan chair and was carried out. One step at a time, she read softly, plucking a silver hairpin from her hair. hollow, filled with arsenic. The old silversmith's craftsmanship is too rough, but the things are tightly packed in the end.
It seems to have turned a corner.
She raised her hand to take it, but the sedan chair suddenly stopped. As soon as the curtain was lifted, a few people rushed in, and they dragged her out in three or two clicks, and the silver hairpin in her hand "jingled" to the ground.
There was a sharp pain in the back of his neck, and his eyes were black. By the time she opened her eyes, she had arrived in a completely unfamiliar place.
She heard a strange female voice calling out to her, "Ah Jiu." β
She struggled to raise her head, and saw the man standing condescendingly, but his face was covered with a veil, and he couldn't see clearly. But through the veil, she could also feel the blazing eyes behind it.
In the past half a year, she has been able to see such a look almost every few days.
But she had never seen that face.
So she only remembers the voice.
However, to this day, she knows that the voice that has become familiar from strange, and carved into her bones from familiarity, is from the mouth of Lu Youyun in front of her.
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