Chapter 1: Rebirth
The spring rain is at the beginning of the day, and it is finely intertwined. The rain fell silently for a day like smoke.
At the end of the lavish Zhang Mansion is a simple hut, abruptly tucked away in the middle of nowhere. The whole hut is not as big as the place where Zhang's subordinates live, and it is covered by a few trees, and people who don't know really won't notice it.
Lin Zhiyu wrapped some quilts tightly, lay on the cold collapse with his eyes closed, and coughed incessantly.
Suddenly, the door was violently pushed open, and the wooden door was very difficult because it had not been repaired for many years, making a piercing "creaking" sound, and a cold wind blew in the already unwarm room.
"What bad luck! Just know to bully the newcomer. A maid angrily pushed open the door, holding some scraps of cold rice in one hand.
Living here is the wife of Zhang Ze, the lord of the Zhang Mansion, the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but even her little maid, who has been here for a few months, knows that this wife is in vain.
The old people in the house all thought that Lin Zhiyu was unlucky, he had eye diseases and couldn't give birth to children, and now he was coughing every day, as if he was going to die, so they all sent the new little maid to deliver food.
The little maid sent it in a regular manner at first, but later found that no one cared about it at all, and Zhang Ze's concubines and grandmothers asked her to "take good care" of Lin Zhiyu.
The maid began to become less and less attentive, waiting for herself to finish eating and then pick some random and send them over.
As soon as the maid entered the house, she saw Lin Zhiyu lying half-dead on the bed, coughing twice from time to time, and she also felt bad luck in her heart. Throwing the food on the table, he glanced at Lin Zhiyu, "It's time to eat." ”
After saying that, he didn't want to stay for a moment, clapped his hands in disgust, and left without looking back.
Soon, the door was gently pushed open again, and the cold wind was blocked out before it could get in. It was Lianhua who secretly went out to buy medicine and came back.
"Miss, the slave is back." Lianhua took out a small packet of medicine hidden in her underwear, "Drink the medicine quickly." ”
Lin Zhiyu was weak and weak, and slowly turned his head to look in the direction of Lianhua.
Lianhua came back from buying medicine, and couldn't help but have a sour nose when she saw her originally most intelligent and clever young lady become what she is now.
Miss is the most favored concubine of the Prime Minister's Mansion, although she has an eye disease, it does not hinder her beauty. It's hateful that the Xue family framed Miss to marry such a beast, and forbade herself and Miss to go out. The servants in the house also saw people serving dishes, and every time they withheld the lady's food and clothing, and they didn't even invite Lang Zhong when they were sick.
Lin Zhiyu's eyes were only hazy and half-blind, but unfortunately the residual poison in his body had not been cleared, and he had not been treated for too long, and in the end, he couldn't see it at all.
Lin Zhiyu's eyes were gloomy, her pale lips were dry and there were a few cracks, and she smiled and said to Lianhua, "When I leave, you don't care about anything." Ahem...... I have a purse under my mattress, which contains your deed of sale and a few silver tickets, and I took it. Ahem, ahem! …… Find yourself a good home. ”
When Lianhua heard Lin Zhiyu say this, she couldn't help but wet her eyes, she wiped away her tears with her hands vigorously, and said with a crying voice: "I don't! When Miss is gone, I'll go with Miss! ”
Lin Zhiyu sighed and shook his head slightly, and then coughed violently, but he couldn't say anything weakly.
Three days later, the Lin family in Zhang's mansion who never went out died.
Her personal maid threw herself into a well and died.
Zhang Ze, as the husband of the Lin family, married the Lin family nine years ago despite his eye disease, and when the Lin family could not have children, he did not abandon his wife, but only carried a few concubines to inherit the lineage.
Zhang Ze buried his wife in the scenery, which won praise from the world.
Lin Zhijiao, the world's first talented girl, wrote a memorial poem for her sister as a sister-in-law, which attracted the popularity of many talented scholars, and she was in the limelight.
And Lin Zhiyu's mother died of heart palpitations when she was grieving, and her father settled everything and promoted the concubine Xue to his wife in the overall situation.
Lin Zhiyu felt that he had never slept so deeply.
"Miss! It's time for Miss to get up! ”
Consciousness slowly returned, and the memories of nine years suddenly flooded into my mind.
In my memory, Lin Zhiyu married a man named Zhang Ze, who was found by his father's concubine Xue, in order to let herself marry and find a good husband for her daughter Lin Zhijiao.
Later, it seems that he was locked up in the inner courtyard and died.
"Miss, it's time for you to get up. We're going to go to Huguo Temple today to pray for blessings. The voice was a little crisper than I remembered.
Lin Zhiyu opened his eyes with some difficulty and looked at the delicate girl beside the bed. Lianhua is a maid that her parents found for themselves due to eye disease, and the two grew up together since childhood and have always been their own eyes.
Looking at the young face in front of him dimly, Lin Zhiyu didn't know if it was a dream now or just now. The first reaction was whether Lianhua had listened to her words and fled.
Lin Zhiyu has not seen it so clearly for many years, and in the past nine years, his eye disease has become more and more serious due to the lack of medicine, and he has not seen it at all in the last few years.
Lin Zhiyu looked around his boudoir dimly, outside the cyan gauze tent were familiar furnishings, everything returned to its original appearance, it was good.
After a while, Lin Zhiyu finally figured out the situation and knew that he had died once, but he was surprised but silent, and let the maid dress and wash himself.
When sitting in front of the bronze mirror and letting the maid dress up, Lin Zhiyu slowly recalled what happened.
She remembered that when she was locked up in the inner courtyard, she asked someone to find a lot of books, one of which was a wild history of an unknown country. It is recorded that an ordinary literati woke up one night and said that he had received the grace of the Lord of Yama and was reborn.
At that time, she still thought it was interesting, and deliberately asked Lianhua to read it a few more times.
Although Lin Zhiyu can't be said to have never forgotten it, he also remembers the books he has heard.
In the past nine years, she has relied on Lianhua reading to pass the time, if it is just a dream, then where does the content of those books in her mind come from.
"Miss, get dressed." The maid's voice interrupted Lin Zhiyu's contemplation.
Lin Zhiyu came back to his senses and looked at the bronze mirror.
In the mirror, a pair of phoenix eyes are looking forward to the beautiful eyes, and the soft green silk is pulled into a hanging cinnamon bun. There is not too much headdress, only a hosta embellishment, looking really a lady with bright teeth and bright eyes.
Although Lin Zhiyu couldn't see the face in the mirror clearly, he also knew that it must be much better than the face that had been stumbling for nine years.
Lin Zhiyu touched his smooth and white face, which was completely different from the rough touch in his memory.
Have you received the grace of Lord Hades?
What's the use of thinking about that? Now that she has been reborn, she will not let the things of her previous life happen again.
The prime minister's wife believes in Buddhism, and the prime minister loves his wife the most, so he arranges for the eldest lady to go to Huguo Temple to pray for blessings in early spring every year. In addition to the old lady with bad legs and feet and Lin Zhiyu's brother Lin Zhixian, the concubine Xue and the concubine Lin Zhijiao also went with them.
Lin Zhiyu was the first to clean up, and Lianhua helped her to the chair in the outer hall to drink tea and wait.
In their previous lives, Zhang Ze and the Xue family were afraid that the prime minister and his wife would be angry when they saw their daughter's situation, so they kept keeping Lin Zhiyu and the maid in law to prevent them from having the opportunity to come back and complain.
Lin Zhiyu has not seen his parents and brother for nine years after he got married.
So today for the prime minister and his wife, they haven't seen each other overnight, but for Lin Zhiyu, it has been nine years.
After half a cup of tea, a middle-aged man dressed as an elegant literati accompanied a dignified and noble lady to come out.
Lin Zhiyu looked at his parents and still remembered them, and choked out, "Dad, mother." He couldn't help but cry in the arms of the eldest lady.
The eldest lady saw her favorite daughter crying in her arms regardless of the rules, and suddenly panicked, "Oh, what's wrong." Yu'er doesn't cry, doesn't cry. ”
The elegant man was suddenly confused, and he was also anxious on the side, "But someone bullied you, tell your father, and your father will avenge you." ”
Lin Zhiyu felt even more aggrieved when he heard his mother's gentle comfort, but he burst out laughing after hearing his father's words.
Who in the world is not the most fair and serious prime minister of the dynasty, but he is so unreasonable in front of his daughter.
Lin Zhiyu was a little embarrassed about his gaffe, came out of the arms of the eldest lady, and wiped away his tears, "No one bullied Yu'er, but I was caught in a nightmare last night, and I was a little afraid." ”
The eldest lady couldn't help but feel a little funny when she heard Lin Zhiyu's words, just now she was surprised that she hadn't seen her for a night, and her temperament seemed to have been precipitated for many years, and it turned out that she was scared by a nightmare.
Lin Zhiyu has been quiet since she was a child because of eye disease, and she can be regarded as a little girlish like now.
"However, in the future, we still have to pay attention to the lack of tears." The prime minister knew that he had just lost his temper, coughed, and pretended to be serious and told Lin Zhiyu.
"Which pot is not opened, which pot is mentioned." The eldest lady glanced at her husband, and everyone was worried about this eye disease, but now the family atmosphere is just about to be mentioned.
The eldest lady was about to count a few more words from the prime minister, but was interrupted by a coquettish voice, "What's the matter, so happy." ”
It was the concubine Xue who took Lin Zhijiao late, Lin Zhijiao was wearing a light orange jacket and a hot pink lower skirt, showing a bit of bright color that did not match her age.
And the Xue family is even worse, wearing a headdress on his head, shaking three times in one step, not like going to a temple but like visiting a restaurant.
"I've seen the prime minister, the eldest lady, the eldest lady."
"I've seen my father, my mother, my sister."
The eldest lady looked at the two of them who were still dressed up so brightly and coquettishly now, frowned, and became angry in her heart, "What are you doing to Huguo Temple." Dressed so ...... Unseemly! ”
This Xue family is a wealthy businessman, and she has been taught since she was a child that she must marry into a family of eunuchs by any means.
When Father Lin was only the son of the old prime minister, he spent the night in a rich merchant in a heavy rain during a trip, but was designed by a wealthy merchant to be in the same house with the Xue family.
Father Lin slept all night and woke up to know that he was living in Xue's ear room, and although he didn't do anything, he had to carry Xue as a concubine.
And this eldest lady is the queen of the dynasty's maiden family, and her mother and the queen's mother are the same mother and sister.
Since childhood, he has received the teachings of the grandmother in the palace, and his temperament and demeanor are naturally not comparable to the Xue family.
Good upbringing makes the eldest lady unable to say too mean words, she can only say that the two are not decent.
The prime minister was also full of disapproval, and seeing that the eldest lady was angry, he hurriedly asked the two to go back and change their clothes.
Lin Zhijiao secretly glared at Lin Zhiyu, very disdainful in her heart. It's not that someone is dead in the house, dressed so plainly. What to pretend, not a waste blind man!
Xue Shi was driven back by the prime minister to change clothes, his face stiffened, and he smiled a little sweeter, "The concubine listens to the princess." ”
The eldest lady disdained to be familiar with the concubine from a wealthy merchant, so she didn't even raise her eyes, picked up the tea cup on the table and took a sip.
Xue's face sank instantly the moment he turned around.
Big lady? Hmph, let's see who gets the last laugh.
Today, I'm going to give the blind man a great gift.