"Why are you stopping me!" Fairy Bi Yao's tears rolled down, and she pushed Shen Xiulan hard, "She killed my whole family and killed my father... Can't I make her ugly? Shen Xiulan, are you considered a man? ”

Finally lasted until the end of the banquet and returned to Shen Xiulan's mansion, Bi Yao finally broke out hysterically.

Shen Xiulan was unexpectedly pushed coldly, he reacted immediately, pinched her wrist, and his eyes were very gloomy: "Bi Yao, do you know that if I hadn't stopped you, you would have died at her hands!" Do you think she's still the same as when you first came to Fuyu! ”

"So what!" Bi Yao cried, "No, she doesn't dare!" In front of Brother Yin Si, she didn't dare to touch me! She's going to pretend to be a good person—"

"You see the way she counts you down, like a good person?" Shen Xiulan also felt that Bi Yao was a little unreasonable, "I'm telling you, she let you go just because of you, and she couldn't threaten her and Yin Si at all, otherwise, you would have died under her means!" I let you go, just because I didn't have to kill you. She can still be a favor in front of Yin Si! Wake up, you can't touch her at all now! ”

"That's not right!" Bi Yao's chest rose and fell violently, and her face was very haggard, "She just can't kill me!" In other words, if someone else wants to kill her, and kill the child in her womb... She's not going to give up! She killed my father but left me... It must be Brother Yin Si who still has me in his heart... He didn't allow her to harm me..."She burst into tears, but Shen Xiulan was furious.

"Yin Si Yin Si, you know Yin Si!" Shen Xiulan couldn't bear it anymore, pinched her chin, and forced her to look directly at herself, "You are now my Shen Xiulan's woman-"

"You?" Bi Yao smiled sadly, this smile looked particularly absurd on her tearful face, "By you? You can't even help Gong Chen, right? Shen Xiulan, you are two hundred years older than her, why do you still bend down and salute her? I was bullied like this by her, what about you? You don't even dare to say a word! If I want to marry, I will marry the most heroic man in the world, not a straw bag like you, who even a woman dare not resist! ”

"Smack!"

Bi Yao covered her face in disbelief: "You hit me? How dare you hit me? …”

Shen Xiulan in the back didn't hear clearly, because he raised his palms in disbelief.

He... Actually beat Yao'er? Yao'er, whom he has always loved?

Shen Xiulan felt a little pain in her head.

Bi Yao's sentence "Even a woman doesn't dare to resist" perfectly stepped on his sore spot.

In an instant, his reason was completely swept away, and the furious Shen Xiulan slapped him up. The Bi Yao in front of her is no longer Bi Yao, but a cheap-mouthed woman.

He will never forget that day when the snow was falling, he and his mother knelt at the foot of the stairs, and the tightly closed Zhu Gate in front of him.

The so-called father and emperor ignored them, and the palace people passing by around whispered: "That's the Third Highness?" It's pathetic..."

"Pathetic? He is not pitiful, maybe he will not even be able to do it when the time comes..."

"What? No, the eldest prince died early, and His Royal Highness was sick in bed all year round... Your Majesty won't give up the three princes, right? ”

"Not necessarily! The third highness is a golden branch and jade leaf, and his mother concubine is the same as us, but she is a subordinate... How can the son of a subordinate inherit the throne? Fortunately, the concubine is a princess, and if it is a prince, the third prince will not be able to stay..."

"And what are they kneeling here?"

"You don't know Xiaoyun yet?"

Xiaoyun is the name of Shen Xiulan's mother.

"Xiaoyun is so smart and awake, isn't this begging the concubine Niangniang to raise the third prince under her knees, first, to seek protection, and second, the third highness can also have a good future..."

"What? Isn't this a sheep in the mouth of a tiger? ”

"You know what. I've been hiding and sooner or later I won't be able to hide, so it's better to let the concubine know that she has no malice and ambition... This is to make peace..."

The two old eunuchs slowly walked away.

The young Shen Xiulan looked at her mother, who was shivering in the cold wind with only a single dress, and tugged at the corner of her clothes: "Mother concubine... Why is Lan'er kneeling here? Did Lan'er do something wrong? ”

Xiaoyun slapped his little hand with tears: "What mother, your mother's concubine is here!" I'm just a humble body, where am I worthy of being the prince's mother! You wait, your mother should be a concubine-"

The Zhu Gate slowly opened.

A eunuch with a proud expression stood in the door: "Third Highness, the noble concubine is invited." ”

Glancing at Xiaoyun again: "Concubine Yun, let's send it here." The concubine at the back will arrange it. ”

Shen Xiulan stood up in a daze, but was pulled by Xiaoyun and held in her arms, and the eunuch did not stop her. The eunuch looked like a framed paper figure.

"Lan'er... Forget about my mother," Xiaoyun's face was pale from the cold, his snot was slowly dripping down, tears were pouring out, and his originally beautiful face was a mess at this time, "You remember, the most important thing is to live... Forget about your mother, you have to live well... In the future, my mother will not be able to take care of you... Live well..."

Shen Xiulan was a little scared.

But he didn't have time to cry, so he was pulled away from Xiaoyun's arms by the eunuch: "Concubine Yun, Concubine Niangniang is waiting for His Royal Highness." The minions won't send you back. ”

"Father-in-law..."Xiao Yun bowed to him with tears in his eyes, "Please, you must protect this child..."

The eunuch sighed and said, "Why do you bother? We will do what we have to do. Rest assured. ”

After speaking, he dragged Shen Xiulan to the door, squatted down and told him: "Your Royal Highness, the slave tells you that the lady inside must not anger her." You're going to have to pretend to be a good guy. There is only so much to say about the minion, and the rest depends on your own creation. ”

After speaking, he stood up, the expression on his face returned to arrogance, and led Shen Xiulan inside. During this period, Shen Xiulan always wanted to look back at his mother, but the eunuch turned his head again and again, and led him forward forcefully: "Your Royal Highness, if you go on this road, don't look back..."

Seeing that Shen Xiulan was taken away by the eunuch, and her figure gradually became invisible, Xiaoyun slowly stood up, her calves already soaked with melting snow. She was just a mortal, she was devastated by the severe cold and sent Shen Xiulan away, and she didn't even have the strength to cry.

He returned to his place of residence and died violently within two months.

Only Shen Xiulan knew that the night before Xiaoyun's death, he shouted "Lan'er" with his neck straight all night.

The paper-like eunuch actually secretly led him out of the Zhumen and stood far away near the small pavilion where Xiao Yun lived. I could hear the long groan of "Lan'er".

The eunuch's voice is neither male nor female, yin and yang: "This is a return to the light, and after a while, even this voice will be gone." Your Royal Highness, you are now under the knees of the noble concubine, but you should not forget your biological mother. You have to understand that Xiaoyun is trading his life for your life. You can't tell anyone else when a slave says this. Otherwise, you and I will die. It's done, let's go back after listening to it, or we're both going to be in trouble. ”

Shen Xiulan seemed to be wandering out of the world, as if she couldn't hear the eunuch's words at all.

Lan'er, it's cold, you have to dress yourself...

Lan'er, you have to eat well and grow your body...

Lan'er, you have to take care of yourself...

Lan'er, my mother won't see you again... You must grow up in peace!

Lan'er!

Her voice became more and more poignant, and she could only hear "Lan'er" and the pain of tearing.

"Your Highness, let's go back." The eunuch sighed and wanted to pull Shen Xiulan, but Shen Xiulan was motionless there.

The eunuch sighed and picked him up: "It's time to go back." ”

"Father-in-law Xia..."Shen Xiulan said softly, "My mother is very uncomfortable... I'll have to get her a doctor... We can't see her, can we find a doctor? ”

The eunuch was silent for a second and said, "Your Highness, you have to forget her." You... You can't mention Concubine Yun. Otherwise..."

"Otherwise we're all going to die." Shen Xiulan answered crisply.

The eunuch nodded: "You are precocious, so you naturally understand." Wow, you don't have to be sad either... For Xiaoyun, you are already the best gift that God has given her... Because of you, her life is no longer barren and boring, at least she has children... Unlike those of us who can't dream of our son..."

The young Shen Xiulan listened in a daze. He didn't understand what Grandpa Xia meant, and he didn't understand that his mother was about to die.

He hadn't seen his mother since he said goodbye.

Later, in the mouth of the kitchen servant, he learned that his mother was thrown into a mass grave by a roll of mats, and there was no proper etiquette.

He was originally the product of his father's drunken disorder during the concubine's pregnancy, and the concubine was jealous, where would he tolerate their mother and son?

Xiaoyun may not be sick to the point of dying, but there is no medical treatment, and the people dare not approach, so they can only watch her fire of life be extinguished little by little.

Legend has it that she did not die of disease, but of thirst.

Finally, she was wrapped in a straw mat and thrown to the outskirts of the city, where her body was bitten by wild dogs.

On that day, when Zhumen said goodbye, it turned out to be their mother and son farewell.

That day, Shen Xiulan and the concubine's poodle were playing and laughing as usual, but he accidentally fell down the steps and hit his knee.

Shen Xiulan clutched her knees and cried silently.

He was four years old that year.

Shen Xiulan is sophisticated and sleek, often coquettish when she was young, and when she becomes an adult, she can please the concubine. can not only take care of the princess born to the concubine, but also win the appreciation of the concubine's father and brother, which can be said to be very prosperous.

It's just that there are some secret rumors, which seem to say that Shen Xiulan does not abide by the way of the monarch and the minister's father and son, and has some unexplained palace secrets with the noble concubine.

Maybe he should forget the calf prints on the snow that day, forget his father's silence and neglect, forget his mother's wail before she died... Forget the venerable woman who whispered beneath him?

No, no, he can't.

Every time the winter day cools down, his knee will be extremely painful a few days in advance, as if there are countless steel needles piercing...

How could he forget?