Dou Zhao was in a complicated mood.

If this woman who suddenly appeared is a stepmother, and the mother wants to make a fuss about her identity, I am afraid that she will be disappointed.

Her stepmother's surname is Wang, and her maiden name is Yingxue, and she is the daughter of Wang Xingyi.

Wang Xingyi, the word is also provincial, and he is a native of Nanwa Township, Lingshou County, Beizhili. Thirty-six years of virtue, he has been ugly and has been a scholar. At first, he served as the director of the Ministry of Officials, and later was promoted to the Wailang of the Ministry of Vehicles. During this period, the Mongol Altan Khan led troops to invade the northern border several times, and the chief military officer of Datong at that time, Xinghou Shi Duanlan, asked Kaima City to make peace. Wang Xingyi wrote the book "Please Strike the Horse Market", and strongly said that Shi Duanlan "ten must not be fallacious". The eunuch Chen Dong sheltered Shi Duanlan, and Wang Xingyi impeached Chen Dong for "Five Rape and Fifteen Sins". In the fourth year of Yongming, Wang Xingyi was thrown into death row with a hundred court rods. He was famous for refusing to write the 11th chapter of his stepmother's book in prison. Chen Dong died of illness, and was rescued by his teacher, Zeng Yifen, a cabinet scholar and secretary of the ministry, and others, and in the sixth year of Yongming, Wang Xingyi changed the sentence to exile to Xiningwei.

In the years that followed, the Mongols continued to harass the border and the horse market was destroyed.

In the fourth year of Chengping, that is, the third year of his stepmother's marriage, under the recommendation of Zeng Yifen, Wang Xingzu was employed.

He was first transferred to the order of Xintai County, Shandong, and then reappointed as the director of the Criminal Department, a member of the Ministry of Rites, and a member of the Ministry of War, and moved to four positions in a row within half a year.

Ten years had passed since his exile, and two dynasties had passed.

Later, Wang Xingyi made steady progress all the way, and when Dou Zhao was sick, he was tired of being a scholar of Dongge University, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and a very popular minister.

The Wang family was originally a small surname in Nanwa, and they have been cultivating and reading for generations. After Wang Xingyi's accident, Wang's wife Xu sold out the family property in order to save her husband. After Wang Xingyi's sentence was commuted to exile, Wang Zhizhi, the son of the royal family, served his father who was sick and unable to walk and went to Xiningwei, and Wang's wife took his eldest daughter-in-law Gao, who had just been married for less than a month, and his second son Wang Zhibi, and daughter Yingxue to live. Because the family had no permanent property, the Gao family took the initiative to sell the dowry and obtained three hundred taels of silver, of which thirty taels were used to buy four acres of fertile land to live, and the rest were used to relieve Wang Xing's stepmother Yi and Wang Zhizhi, who were far away in Xiningwei, and their lives were very difficult.

There are people like the Gao family who understand righteousness, and there are also people like Wang Yingxue's husband, the Lei family, who are mercenary.

In the eighth year of Yongming, Lei saw that Zeng Yifen was forced to give office, Wang Xingyi had no possibility of recovery, and the fourteen-year-old Wang Yingxue was dismissed.

Wang Yingxue gritted her teeth and simply sold the Lei family's dowry, and one of Gao's companions came forward to start the purchase and sale of cotton, which could support the bottomless pit of Xiningwei, and Wang Xingyi could live until he was recovered.

So when the third aunt told her mother that her father had sent someone to take the woman to Zhending, and after discussing with the eldest aunt, she decided to meet the woman in the Zhuangzi where the eldest aunt was married, Dou Zhao cried and grabbed his mother's skirt and didn't let go.

Her mother coaxed her with her anger.

The third aunt looked at the inspiration and said with a smile: "That's fine." If others ask, they just say that they brought Shougu to the sister-in-law's Zhuangzi to play naughty. ”

The mother gave up and absentmindedly followed the third aunt to the eldest aunt's Zhuangzi.

The eldest aunt had been waiting at the second gate for a long time.

She took her mother's hand and looked her mother up and down, nodded and praised: "I'm afraid you won't be able to deal with it, but now it seems that I am too careful." ”

The mother wore a large red treasure vase persimmon pattern on behalf of the main room, the black green silk combed a fallen horse bun, only next to the hairpin was a peony bead inlaid with pearls the size of lotus seeds, and the turquoise jade bracelet was as bright and bright as a spring water between the mother's wrists and red cuffs, dignified and elegant.

The third aunt also praised: "The seventh brother and sister have always been good at fighting, and today is especially beautiful. ”

A wry smile appeared at the corner of the mother's mouth, and it quickly disappeared.

She bowed her knees to the eldest aunt and the third aunt: "Today's matter, please ask the two sisters-in-law to help me." ”

"It's nature." The eldest aunt and the third aunt pushed their mother in unison, looking at their mother's eyes as loving as a mother, "We won't let the seventh uncle come here." ”

Mother's expression was slightly calm.

The eldest aunt smiled and hugged Dou Zhao: "Aunt Shou, the camellia behind the eldest aunt's house is blooming, can you wait until you get a maid to help the eldest aunt cut a few branches to insert the bottle?" But her eyes fell directly on the mother and vanilla who followed her.

Dou Zhao hugged the eldest aunt's neck tightly: "I want, mother, want, aunt, want, third aunt......" cried loudly, startling the eldest aunt.

The mother hurriedly took Dou Zhao, blushed with shame and annoyance, and said: "This child doesn't know what's wrong, he has always followed me every inch in the past few days, and as soon as I walked away, I cried so much that people couldn't live in peace......"

The eldest aunt sighed when she heard this, and stroked Dou Zhao's hair: "People of the older generation often say that mother and daughter are connected. This child is a wise one, and she knows that you are bitter in your heart, and she is afraid! ”

The words made her mother's tears ripple, but the hand holding Dou Zhao was much tighter.

"Just let her follow you!" The third aunt sighed, "Anyway, she's still young." ”

Mother said "um".

The group turned around the hall and went to the flower hall in the backyard.

The snow is falling, and the plum blossoms on the branches are blooming brightly.

A beautiful woman wore a small rose-colored jacket and stood straight by the window, reflecting the cold plum outside the window.

Dou Zhao's heart tightened.

It's a stepmother!

This figure, she will never forget jì!

When her grandfather and grandmother died one after another, and her third uncle sent her to Kyoto to reunite with her father, she used to stand by the window like this, looking at herself sharply; On the night when the Marquis of Jining officially hired the Dou family, she stood by the window like this, staring at herself with a sinking face; After the maid she sent over asked Wei Tingyu to take over the house, and then asked Wei Tingyu to give her away, when she returned to her parents' house to pay New Year's greetings during the Spring Festival, she once stood by the window like this, clasping her hands and looking at herself silently; When she wanted to marry Zeng Yifen's granddaughter for her younger brother Dou Xiao and was refused, she called herself back to her parents' house, and once stood by the window with a hideous face......

Dou Zhao stared intently at the figure.

From sincere fear to laughter, she walked barefoot in purgatory.

Who has ever pitied his pain and wailing?

Mother's pace slowed.

The rain is like poplar flowers.

The figure turned.

The smooth forehead, the high nose bridge, the clear eyes, the mountains and rivers are beautiful.

The mother jumped up like a cat with its tail stepped on: "How are you?" Wang Yingxue, why are you! ”

She was shaky, holding Dou Zhao's arm weakly falling down, and Dou Zhao hugged his mother's waist so that he was not fallen.

The eldest aunt and the third aunt looked at each other, and the third aunt shrewdly took Dou Zhao in her arms.

Wang Yingxue walked out calmly.

She stood at the foot of the porch and bowed her knees to her mother, calling out softly, "Sister."

"We only have one daughter in the Zhao family, I don't know when I will have another sister?" The mother sneered, although she tried her best to maintain the calm and elegance just now, she couldn't hide the wolf between her eyebrows, "Did you recognize the wrong person!" ”

Wang Yingxue lowered her eyelids and knelt on the cold bluestone bricks under the corridor, her expression was humble and humble, just like the respect she showed in front of the Dou family: "Sister, our two families live next to each other, I have no sisters, and my sister has only one brother, who grew up together like siblings, and my temper sister knows best." Although my family is down, I am not the faceless one. Gao Jiaming knew that my family was in trouble, and he married his daughter. My sister-in-law and my brother have been married for less than a month, but they offered to let my brother serve my father and go to Xiningwei. Now that his nephew Brother Nan is seriously ill, even if he sells the four acres of fertile land that his family depends on for a living, he can't make up the money for medical treatment. I thought that as long as someone was willing, I would admit it as a slave and a slave, but I never thought about it, but I met my brother-in-law. As she spoke, she kowtowed to her mother three times, "The big mistake has been made, and I have nothing to say." I can only ask my son, if my sister agrees to let me enter the door, I will forget the front edge and serve my sister wholeheartedly. Sister ......" the eyes flashed in the corners of her eyes, "It's only the creation that makes people to blame," she kowtowed again, "I will serve my sister well in the future!" ”

"Hah!" The mother sneered, looked at Wang Yingxue with blazing eyes, raised her eyebrows, and said, "What if I don't agree?" ”

Wang Yingxue was slightly stunned, then smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "Then ask my sister to reward me with a white silk." ”

The mother didn't say a word, pulled off the big red sweat towel around her waist and threw it on the ground, and asked Wang Yingxue with a smile: "Is it long enough!" ”

Wang Yingxue looked at her mother steadily, slowly stood up, walked in front of her mother with a smile on the corner of her mouth, bent her knees to pick up the red sweat towel, said lightly, "Thank you, sister", and turned around and walked towards the flower hall.

The snow fell between her black hair and quickly disappeared.

This is the Zhuangzi who was married by the eldest aunt, and if there is a murder case, her reputation will be completely ruined.

The eldest aunt was scared and hurriedly said, "Seventh brother and sister, who is the woman?" How do I get to know you? ”

The mother looked at the flower hall with the door closed with a "pop", and cried out in despair: "She is the daughter of Wang Yousheng and lives in Nanwa...... My father and I used to be classmates, and our two families corresponded from time to time...... She was two years younger than me...... When I got married, she also gave me two hand-embroidered handkerchiefs with lotus flowers...... I didn't expect ...... I never dreamed of it...... No wonder Wan Yuan refused to say who it was...... They did a trap to trick me into falling for it......"

The eldest aunt and the third aunt were taken aback: "Wang Youxing, is it the Wang Yixing who was exiled because he offended Chen Dong?" ”

The mother nodded lightly and shed two lines of tears.

"Why is Uncle Seven so confused? Her father is a Jinshi in his own ugly years, and he is in the same family as your fifth uncle. The eldest aunt was so anxious that she said, "No, I have to go and talk to the uncle...... and then instructed the third aunt, "Stop Miss Wang quickly, I'll call someone!" ”

Because it is not a glorious thing for a young man to take a concubine, the servant women who serve inside and outside this flower hall have long been dismissed by the eldest aunt.

The third aunt also realized the severity of the situation.

The Dou family is not afraid of offending the powerful, but they are afraid of being charged with forcing their daughter to death in the same year.

She said yes, picked up her skirt and ran towards the flower hall.

Mother stood quietly on the bluestone bridge, letting the snowflakes flutter on her body and turn into a snowman.

Only the little Dou Zhao accompanied her.

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