I remember that he couldn't help but ask his mother why she did this, and her mother was stunned for a moment, and told him with a smile that this was a small game to pass the time in her hometown of Heishui.

At that time, Helian Che was disdainful of the game that his mother said, and even thought that it made his mother look like she had fallen into madness, because when sorting the beans, he could clearly see his mother's straight gaze, as if he had fallen into an evil spirit.

He thought that his mother was only overly worried about his father, but he did not understand that his mother was suffering greatly in body and mind at that time.

Later, as he got older, he suddenly realized that when sorting beans, his mother's eyes were full of despair and desolation.

Later, the border suddenly reported back the bad news that his father had died in battle, and his mother's own brother killed his father with his own hands.

My father's cronies dragged their dying bodies and sent back only a blood-stained broken silk handkerchief, on which a pair of mandarin ducks had been split in half by a sword, and the handkerchief embroidered by her mother was now destroyed by her own brother along with her husband.

After that day, my mother fell completely.

A woman's tense heart finally collapsed the moment the bad news came.

At that moment, he really understood that all his mother's strange behavior originated from his father and the uncle he had never met.

From the time my father was ordered to go out as a general of Pingyuan, my mother knew that this was an inevitable war, and my father and uncle represented not only themselves but also the two mansions behind them, so there must be one person between the two of them who died, but no matter who died in the end, she lost her loved ones.

And in the eyes of outsiders, the mother is a foreigner, an unforgivable enemy, at that time, the Helian Mansion was coveted by the clan relatives, and was monitored by the royal family of the Western Dynasty, if the mother showed the slightest fear of war at that critical juncture, she would immediately be treated as a thief, and then not only the mother, but even the father who was fighting at the border pass, and even the entire Helian Mansion would be in trouble.

Mother understood very well, so she didn't ask, just silently endured the double torment that wanted to devour her in her heart.

And those seemingly absurd actions are actually what she used to confuse Xichao's eyeliner and hide her inner anxiety and panic.

Helian Che still remembers the day when the bad news came, and his uncle Helian Zhu seemed to come as promised, and he comforted his mother with a cheerful voice, telling her not to be too upset.

When his mother heard this, she only raised her eyelids and gave him a cold look, and then turned away her hateful uncle and the scheming clansmen who had rushed to hear the news.

Since then, she has been closed to no one, and she has been closing herself off day and night.

And his world seems to be covered with a layer of gray.

The father's funeral was organized by the relatives.

That day was really the liveliest day in Helian Province.

He stood lonely outside the hall in sackcloth and filial piety clothes, looking at the dark money flying in the sky with white veils and the endless stream of people coming to mourn from inside and out, and suddenly had an illusion, as if his father and mother were snuggling up to each other in the hall, and the two of them waved to him, looking extremely happy.

However, the reality is that half a year after the funeral, my uncle was pushed to the high position of the Western Dynasty by the Empress Dowager Liang, and according to the ancestral system, if my uncle wants to sit firmly in the high position, he must have family support, that is...... He must inherit his deceased brother's family in order to be supported by the family.

At the same time, he also announced to the mother and son that if they wanted to find a place of stability in this great earthly world, their mother must marry their uncle and follow him as her husband.

At that time, my mother had lost most of her sense of self due to excessive grief.

On the day of the wedding, she was dressed in a bright red wedding dress like a puppet on the stage, and slowly walked towards her uncle in the scorching sun and the red that pierced him.

Looking at the end of the main hall, his uncle's face was full of smugness, and there was suddenly a lot of bone-eroding hatred in his heart, but the hatred at that time was just the enemy who killed his father.

As for the uncle...... Although Helian Che felt that person was shameful and hateful, he knew that he would be a safe haven for his mother from now on, and even if it was for his mother, he could not and would never do anything to hurt him.

After all, at that time, he really hoped that his mother would be able to live a stable life from now on.

But the funny thing is that he is too naïve, a child is not as meticulous as an adult after all, and the first thing reality teaches him is not to easily trust a person with ulterior intentions.

Things didn't go the way Helian Che had hoped.

Just the day after the wedding, my mother died.

A pair of golden scissors were inserted into her heart, and the blood gushing out reddened her entire body below her pale face.

When Helian Che entered the door, she was sitting on the edge of the bed with a big red wedding tent facing the door, still wearing the wedding dress, her black temples were messy, her skinny hands were tightly grasping the scissors, and her eyes were full of resentment and looking at the direction of the door, as if she was cursing the person who pushed the door away at the last moment of her life.

Faced with the scene in front of him, Helian Che didn't know how to react.

Uncle patted him on the shoulder beside him, sighed to him and said, "Che'er, your mother can't forget your father after all, let him go, but you don't have to worry, after all, my mother and I have become relatives, and you will be my own son in the future, and my uncle will definitely treat you as his own." ”

Helian Che didn't make a fuss, didn't speak, just looked down at the ground, and a calmness beyond his years appeared to him for the first time.

As far as the eye could see, the dried blood stains on the upper of my uncle's shoes were extremely eye-catching.

At that moment, he realized that he was wrong and outrageously wrong, he once thought that his mother could live a stable life as long as she married a high-ranking uncle, but he didn't expect his mother to lose her life because of this.

It's all his fault, he's so stupid.

I should have thought that although it is commonplace to follow the ugly customs of the ancestral system of marrying a sister-in-law and a husband dying from a brother, it is not a glorious thing in the final analysis, but my uncle deliberately did a lot of it.

At that time, Helian Che still naively believed that this was his uncle's sincerity, but now after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly understood that the reason why his uncle treated their mother and son with all this solemnity was just to declare sovereignty, and he wanted to tell the world that the current master of the Helian clan and the most powerful person was Helian Note by marrying the mother of the Helian clan.

And Helian Che foolishly believed that this was sincere, is there a more ironic joke in the world?

In the face of Helian Zhu's "great sincerity", after a long time, Helian Che nodded, the light in his eyes cooled to the extreme, and he gritted his teeth and called without the slightest wave: "Father!" ”

Helian nodded in satisfaction, sighed at his mother, and patted Helian Che on the shoulder again, with no mistakes in his expression.

Memory...... And so it came to an abrupt end in the color of blood.

In the gazebo, the breeze swept the corners of Helian Che's crescent-colored robe, the eyes hidden behind the mask were extremely cold, and the slender fingers stopped on the tea table, gradually clenching ......

Helian bet that this old fox will sooner or later pay for everything he has done.

On the cobbled roads of Helian Province.

At this time, Ye Lingyi was leaning against the wall and boredly kicking a white pebble next to his feet, his black little face was full of displeasure, and he muttered in his mouth: "Danqing, this hateful stinky boy, obviously he asked someone to inform me, saying that he would take me to familiarize himself with the environment today, but when has this been and hasn't come yet!" ”

Ye Lingyi seemed to be angry with herself, and the white pebbles were kicked farther and farther away.

It wasn't until she smashed on the edge of a pair of black shoes that the girl suddenly raised her head.

"Danqing?"

Ye Lingyi subconsciously shouted, and her eyes stayed on the young man.

On the other side, the young man who had not yet healed from his injuries closed his thin red lips, did not explain his tardiness, looked at Ye Lingyi with a bruised and swollen face, and did not speak, just walked straight towards her and walked around her to the inner courtyard.

Ye Lingyi was stunned in place, feeling a little confused.

What does Danqing mean by this reaction? Didn't you say that you should be familiar with the environment? What do you think of how unhappy he looks?

Is it because of her trouble?

In this case, do you have to keep up with yourself and be bored?

After being entangled, Ye Lingyi raised her eyes and looked overhead, a bright sun was emitting a strong light, stabbing her eyes straight to the ground.

Along with her heart, a burst of amazement suddenly surged up for no reason.

Speaking of which, apart from the masked man and Danqing and the crazy old man Lao Qiu, she hadn't spoken more than two sentences to anyone else.

What the hell is this place?

After being here for several days, she was almost driven crazy by the low-pressure atmosphere in this house, but until this moment, she still couldn't figure out the situation.

What's even worse is that this housekeeper and the boy who is the master, the two of them are just teenagers standing in front of her, but every time she makes up her mind to ask them about the situation in this world, they all look at each other with a cold face and don't give her the slightest chance.

At that time, she would think that they were terrible in her heart, and then she couldn't ask all the things she was about to ask.

No matter how you say that you are a person who has been in the world for more than 20 years, is it too shameless to be afraid of a guy who is younger than you?

Ye Lingyi pouted.

When he was sighing, an impatient voice came from the inner courtyard: "Over there, are you still following?" ”

Ye Lingyi came back to her senses suddenly, quickly turned around and chased after her with a smile, and replied, "It's coming, it's coming......"

In the inner courtyard, Danqing pointed to some people who came and went in the courtyard with mahogany trays with an expressionless face: "When you are on an errand in Helian Mansion, you must remember that this is the inner courtyard in the backyard of Helian Mansion, where the masters sleep and sleep, and those who can enter here are all slaves who wear the slave brand, and what they have to do every day is to serve the master's diet and daily life, as for the slaves...... You can't come in without the permission of your master, otherwise it's a capital offense. ”

Ye Lingyi followed closely behind Danqing, nodding "oh" as if she didn't understand.

Danqing looked back and looked at Ye Lingyi fixedly, his eyes seemed to have a deep meaning.

Ye Lingyi didn't know why, and thought that something was stuck on his face, so he raised his hand and touched his cheek, and then asked very naturally: "I don't have anything on my face, what are you watching me do?" ”

Being asked like this, Danqing's gaze began to become unnatural, and his fair and slender fingers clenched slightly into fists against his lips and coughed lightly, and then walked out of the inner courtyard bypassing Ye Lingyi, who was puzzled.

Ye Lingyi was confused, looked at the busy subordinates and looked at the direction in which Danqing left, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and then he understood.

Danqing's words were full of warnings, I am afraid that she just wanted to tell her that she had been assigned to be a slave, so she couldn't easily enter this inner courtyard?

Ye Lingyi, who understood, recalled Danqing's warning again, and immediately smeared oil on the soles of his feet and chased after Danqing.

Coming out of the inner courtyard, the two walked for a while and came to the pavilion where she fell into the water that day.

"You're ......"

Ye Lingyi was puzzled.

Danqing, who was standing next to her, raised her head slightly, looked at the misty lake at the moment, and said in a low voice: "You will not come here in the future." ”