The moon is dark and the wind is high at night, outside the Shili Pavilion of Yingtianfu, in a small courtyard of a farmhouse.

The flickering candle flame made the silhouettes of men and women in the window hideously distorted.

Inside the house.

A woman with her hands tied behind her back, her legs a little lame, her body too bloated, her face with frightening scars, and her temples already gray, looked young but very vicissitudes, and she fell to her knees with a puff.

Kneeling down to a noble middle-aged man with a long body and a jade body, a warm temperament, a handsome appearance, and a white beard, regardless of the injuries on his body, he kept grabbing the ground with his head and begging.

"Husband, I beg you, let Xue Rong go, Xue Rong is your daughter, my daughter, let her live! She's just ignorant, she's just ...... It's just that I've suffered too much over the years, and I complain about why we parents don't come to her, and she doesn't really want to kill you......"

The man pursed his thin lips, indifferently swept over the woman's old and graceful figure, and took a step back, as if he was worried that Liu Ruyue's blood would stain his brocade clothes.

The corners of his narrow eyes narrowed slightly, covered his nose and said in disgust, "I only have one daughter, Lu Xueling, her mother's family is famous, my mentor, and Shen Manshu, the daughter of Prime Minister Shen Cheng." ”

A hint of coldness and contempt flashed in his indifferent eyes, and he said something that digs people's hearts, "And you, just a village woman, the children you gave birth to, are all cheap seeds!" ”

The man's words shocked Liu Ruyue's figure, and she looked at the sky and the earth in her heart in disbelief, the little brother she trusted, worshipped, and understood everything since she was a child.

She knew that she was Lu Chengze's child daughter-in-law when she was a child, everything she did was to revolve around him, and everything she learned was how to serve him.

The friendship of childhood sweethearts, marrying him at the age of thirteen, she thought that Lang had a concubine intentionally It was a match made in heaven.

By the age of seventeen, she had already given birth to four children for him.

And now, in exchange for the other party's full of disgust.

Yes, she doesn't deserve him now.

She was disfigured, lame, and her fingers were deformed from rheumatism caused by years of washing in ice water.

After looking for the child for 12 years, she washed her face with tears every day, couldn't sleep at night, and was sad and white.

And he is more beautiful and high-spirited than before, and it seems that she is more like a rough woman beside him who is responsible for sprinkling and sweeping.

But, he doesn't look down on her, why should he scold her child!

"Xue Rong, Xue Hui, Xue Xi, and Yongqing are all good children, they are all surnamed Lu, they are all your own children, when they were born, you hugged them, how happy you were with their birth at that time, you happily named the children, you ...... How can you call them a lowly species? ”

Lu Chengze looked at Liu Ruyue's incomprehensible and injured questioning eyes, gritted his teeth and roared, "They don't help my father one by one, and they can't hope that my father will die, don't you know, what a good thing Xue Rong is?" She's a fireworks girl! O prostitute! ”

The more Lu Chengze spoke, the more excited he became, and even drew his sword and pointed at Lu Xuerong's neck, which was twisted by the guard's backhand, "You let me recognize her?" What do I recognize? ”

"My Ling'er is about to enter the palace as a crown princess, do you want my daughter to be ridiculed by the world for having a sister who is a prostitute? Are you trying to get me pulled down by my political enemies? You can't see my Lu family like this? ”

"I don't, I'm not, husband, how can you say that!"

Lu Chengze looked at Liu Ruyue who couldn't stop shaking her head with resentment, as if she was looking at a white-eyed wolf, "Don't you remember, if my mother hadn't picked you up back then, you would have been eaten by the wild wolves in the mountains, why are you so ungrateful?" ”

Liu Ruyue was speechless with sadness, what she remembered, she remembered the kindness of the Lu family to her.

Therefore, when she finally arrived in the capital after twelve years of hardship and hardship, she found that after her man married another man, she didn't think about going to the official to ask for justice for herself, even if Lu Chengze was the current Chen Shimei, she couldn't be the Qin Xianglian who reported to the official.

Her life was given by the Lu family, and she couldn't take revenge.

Besides, when the little uncle gambled and owed debts, he wanted to sell her children, when Lu Chengze was not at home when he went to Beijing to take the exam, no one could help her, she didn't agree to sell the children, and the little uncle Lu Chengkang scuffled together, and in the end, she was pushed into Wujiang by the little uncle.

Lu Chengze, who was far away in the capital, later thought that she was dead, and it was normal to marry another.

She has never resented Lu Chengze because of this.

She didn't blame him.

He didn't know.

Isn't there a saying that the ignorant are innocent? She doesn't complain, she's a reasonable person.

After she found out that he was now the crown prince and the emperor, and was a celebrity in front of the emperor, she never thought of returning to Lu Chengze to enjoy any glory and wealth and regain the status of his wife.

She was even afraid that her appearance would affect him, always avoiding him, and even secretly went to see him on the street, for fear of being discovered and ruining his future.

She just wants to find the children, and she wants to know where the children were sold by her uncle.

She was afraid that such a bad person as Uncle would hurt Lu Chengze, so she wanted to remind him that it was Xue Rong who stopped her at that time, saying that she would remind her father for her.

Xue Rong is also worried about Lu Chengze.

But why did this happen?

Why can't she understand the conversation between Lu Chengze and his eldest daughter?

Why did Lu Chengze say that the children wanted him to die?

This must be a misunderstanding!

If there is a misunderstanding, it would be good to solve it.

Liu Ruyue begged, "Husband, you misunderstood, I don't want to hurt you, how could the children want to hurt you?" You are studying abroad, you have been away from home for many years, the children miss your father very much, know that your father has done a good job in poetry, read your poems well, and respect and worship you very much, especially Xue Rong, who has learned your words at a young age......"

Hearing these words, Lu Chengze was so angry that he blew his beard, it turned out that the letter that caused him to almost go to prison was written by her in imitation of his notes, what a good daughter for him!

Lu Xuerong looked at her mother's ignorance, happy and self-blaming, happy that she had protected her mother for more than half a year.

blamed herself, for her mother to live a little more comfortably, in order not to make her mother's life more painful and guilty, after she found her mother, she controlled her, and didn't tell her mother anything, her mother has never enjoyed happiness in her life, she just wants to protect her mother in her own range, so that her mother can still have an expectation in her heart, and there is a hope, which is better than knowing the cruel truth.

But it's come to this, tonight, this scumbag doesn't seem to let go of their mother and daughter, she has learned his ruthlessness.

She had to let her mother know the truth before she died.

Lu Xuerong burst into tears at the corners of her eyes, and said sadly, "Mother, the matter has come to this, I won't hide it from you anymore, back then, it wasn't the second uncle who wanted to harm us, in fact, the second uncle saved our lives, if it weren't for the second uncle's greed for money, where would we have lived for twelve more years, hahahaha." ”

Lu Xuerong was escorted, talking like a duck pinched by the throat, she was injured because of the previous assassination, and the blood all over her body was like not wanting money.

"What do you mean?" Liu Ruyue looked at her eldest daughter who was laughing almost crazy.

Lu Xuerong grinned miserably, although she had messy hair and disheveled clothes, but because of her good appearance, white skin, and Qinglou's training over the years, her temperament was excellent, and such a smile was also charming, with a poignant beauty, which made the guards who escorted her look fascinated.

"I'm a good father, I was caught by Prime Minister Shen Cheng back then, but if he said that he already had a wife and daughter, would the Prime Minister marry his baby daughter to him, a poor boy with a second grade? What about the background of Jinshi, even Zhuangyuanlang, who has no connections, still can't be a big official, or he has to fill the vacancy and go to a small county thousands of miles away. ”

She pouted and looked at the man who was angry after being stabbed through the truth, "So, this man wrote to the second uncle and asked him to kill us who were in the way." ”

"My father~, I don't want to be the second Chen Shimei who was beheaded by his wife and daughter in the play, otherwise, do you think the second uncle dares to sell us? If it weren't for the fact that the second uncle lost the silver and owed debts, and wanted to sell us for silver to pay off the debts, my younger brothers and sisters and I would have been thrown into Wujiang together like my mother. Mother! You are lucky, the river god will not accept you, but you will still die for a lifetime. We may not be so lucky to survive. ”

The more Lu Xuerong spoke, the more sad and angry she became, and her eyes were like a sharp sword stabbing at her so-called father.

Lu Chengze waved his sleeves and shouted loudly, "So what, you rebel girl, my life is all given by me, I want to take it back, can I ask for your consent?" ”

"Don't you look at what kind of goods you are now, a cheap commodity that is pressed by thousands of people and ridden by 10,000 people, why don't you die early, think that although I am from a poor family, I am also a family of poets and books, you have also learned articles since you were a child, and the etiquette and honesty I taught you were eaten by dogs? After you were sold into a brothel by your second uncle, why didn't you kill yourself to keep your chastity and save the face of my Lu family? You greedy for life and afraid of death, you slut who lives in the world! I don't have a daughter like you, you want me to recognize you, in the next life! ”

Lu Xuerong laughed so hard that tears flowed down, "Hahahaha~ Dad, until now, are you still worried about the face and family style of the Lu family?" Aren't you the one who ruined all this? How can you like to set up a memorial arch for yourself more than me, a female cousin who rides thousands of pillows, you are really as my benefactors who are officials in the same dynasty as you say, you are an out-and-out hypocrite! Who wants to recognize you as a father, I don't want to recognize you as a father in the next life, I don't want you to be my grandson. ”

The two were arguing with each other, and Liu Ruyue was heartbroken when she listened to it.

Her eldest daughter, who loves to laugh and always helps her take care of her younger siblings, what hardships have she gone through over the years to become what she is today?

Lu Xuerong laughed enough and breathed a sigh of relief, "Do you think I don't want to kill myself?" The people in the brothel tied me up and didn't let me die, they had a thousand ways to make my life worse than death. ”

Even in the face of her father's sword, Lu Xuerong, who never showed a look of fear, recalled the days in the brothel at this moment, but her eyes were frightened and her face turned white.

"I gave in, yes, in the end I gave in, not because I was greedy for life and afraid of death, but because, I told myself, I can't die yet, I have to live, I want to find my brothers and sisters, I want to avenge my mother, I want to find you, I want to destroy you! ruined the inhuman Lu family.

You who are supposed to be elders have done us so badly.

What can we do after we are sold to people? You can only go with the flow, do the next ninth-rate work for a lifetime, serve people for a lifetime, and eternally be a lowly person without a future, we have no freedom, and we are deeply trapped in the lowly stinky mud, and you have jumped into the dragon gate, unattainable.

We don't have to pester you, please be your father, it's your Lu family who has done too much.

Mother Bustard is right, I have a face that God appreciates food, why should I seek death and life. I figured it out, I can use my beauty to charm men, use them to help me find my younger siblings, and I can use them to avenge me and ruin you for me! You don't deserve to be a father at all! You~ also deserve to be cut off! In the end, Lu Xuerong's gritted teeth revealed a hint of pride.

Lu Chengze's expression moved, he was unprecedentedly furious, and sent the sword forward Lu Xuerong's neck, and a trace of blood flowed down the sword, "You slut, my son was killed by you?" ”

Lu Xuerong raised her eyebrows, "Ha, do you mean your concubine named Lu Yongyao?" Yes, a little pervert, I came to visit a brothel at a young age~"

In the blink of her eyes, she said happily, "As for me, I gave him a little medicine to help him, and found him seventeen or eighteen girls to serve him for one night, that time I invited him, confiscated a penny from him, I am a good sister who cares about my brother's sexual well-being, but, I didn't expect him to be so useless, it's only one night, his evil root is wasted, hahaha, wasted, wasted, quack, quack!" ”

Liu Ruyue was really frightened by her daughter's cruel and crazy appearance, she didn't want to criticize her daughter, but, "Xue Rong, why should we hurt the innocent?" That kid doesn't know any of that. ”

Lu Xuerong didn't feel hurt by Liu Ruyue's words, she understood what her mother meant, restrained the smile of the mad demon, and said with a bitter smile, "Mother, my daughter knows that you have always been kind-hearted, gentle and restrained, because their Lu family has raised you like this since childhood, because what they want is your gentleness and frugality, you grow up to be what they want, you are like this, they can better enslave you and control you, and you have no regrets about being a cow and a horse for them."

So, even if you know that this man is married to another man, you don't hate him, you just want to find us, find a place to live a good life with us, yesterday, you were still excited because of the news that you found a little brother, but it is impossible, because, brother...... Yongqing him, he had a miserable life, he was resold several times, and finally ...... was sold into the palace and castrated as a eunuch. Lu Xuerong, who has always been strong, choked up at the moment and couldn't continue.

Liu Ruyue opened her mouth wide in disbelief, "What? Yongqing him, in the palace? He, how is he now? ”

Hearing this, Lu Chengze felt happy in his heart, he who had been irrefuted by Lu Xuerong, his tone was full of the pleasure of revenge, and he was finally able to win back a city.

Just as the person in his mouth was not his son, he said extremely happily, "He died, stole Princess Fu'an's desserts, and was killed with a rod." ”

On Liu Ruyue's bloodless face in an instant, Lu Chengze scolded word by word, "Look at what you are giving birth to?"

a shameless prostitute, a eunuch; A maid who was greedy for glory and wealth, and tried in vain to rely on the old man's bed to rely on her son, but the mother was left by the housemother, and the bamboo basket was empty, which harmed Qingqing's life; One of the beggars learned to be proficient in cheating and cheating, and her hands were cut off for stealing, and she died of blood loss on the street, and even the dogs did not want to look at her body. ”

It was the first time that Liu Ruyue knew the whereabouts of the children, but it was such an ending, like a thunderbolt on her on a sunny day, falling into endless hell, dizzy, and only a snowflake drifted in front of her.

After she got up from Wujiang, she has been looking for the children, looking for a full twelve years, she is just an ordinary woman from the countryside, she doesn't understand anything, she can find Xue Rong has gone through a lot of hardships, it is not easy.

Beitan is so big, thirty-eight states, each state has eighty or ninety counties, she has walked a lot of places, she feels that she can't find it at all, and when she gets to the back, she doesn't know where to look.

It was only a year ago that she was sold to the capital and met Xue Rong by chance.

A month ago, she learned that her husband was still alive and had become the princess of the dynasty.

Now she knows that her children are all dead, and they are still dying so miserably......

Before she knew it, her children were dead.

The children are all dead, and she hasn't found them!

How old are they, Xue Hui is only 18 this year, and Xue Xi Yongqing's twins are only 16.

"Poof"

Under the anger and urgency, the fishy breath surged, and a mouthful of blood spat out.

Liu Ruyue's persistence over the years can no longer hold her broken body, her children have long since died, but she doesn't know.

She's a mother, and she's too much of a failure.

"Mother, mother, what's wrong with you, mother, don't be afraid, I'll accompany you immediately, in the next life, I will still be your daughter, in the next life, I will definitely protect my younger brothers and sisters." Lu Xuerong wanted to run to Liu Ruyue's side to check on her situation, but she couldn't move at all because she was twisted.

Lu Chengze was very satisfied with the painful expressions of the two women at the moment, especially this stupid woman, she should have died a long time ago, why wasn't she accepted by Wu Jiang twelve years ago?

Now it seems that God is still on his side.

He admired Liu Ruyue's face like gold paper, and in her frightened gaze, a sword stabbed into the heart of the struggling Lu Xuerong, admiring her despair, in revenge for the distress her existence had brought him all these years.

"Dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, and the sons born of mice will make holes, what kind of mother is it, what kind of child is born, when my mother took pity on you to save you, I was tempted by you to marry you, it was a mistake, and it was a big mistake to let you live one after another.

Now, I'm going to uproot all of your mistakes one by one. ”

Lu Xuerong was hit by a sword in the chest and began to cough up blood.

Although she was dying, she was still smiling, smiling very brightly, laughing so much that Lu Chengze's heart trembled, and Liu Ruyue's heart was broken.

She couldn't accept this scumbag father to insult her mother so much, and she didn't forget to respond to this scumbag father until she died, "Dad~, you're right, the son born of a mouse will make holes, you gave birth to me, over the years, I have also learned to be as ruthless and dirty as you, you caused my brother to enter the palace as a eunuch, and I will also abolish your son, so that he will not be humane for the rest of his life!"

You hurt my sister's life, and your daughter, the princess, can't be ......, you hurt my mother, your wife, cough cough...... Hahaha~ You think you won?

In fact, this is my plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, I am also the leader of Qin Huai Shiyan, you should be fame and reputation, for nothing? Am I sleeping for nothing? …… The ministers under my skirt also have romantic characters who are willing to be ghosts under the pomegranate skirt...... They, have already been dispatched, your daughter, pampered, with fine skin and tender meat, and an arrogant personality that can arouse a man's desire to conquer, and it tastes good if she wants it, but I don't know if the prince will want her to be a broken flower, hahaha. ”

Lu Chengze was frightened by her words, "What do you mean?" ”

"Literally."

Lu Xuerong is like a thorny rose, always so unruly, her expression is still so unyielding, she sneered at the so-called father, held the blade of the sword with both hands, pulled it forward, and pulled out the sword body, and in an instant blood gushed out, spraying his gorgeous clothes.

She fell to the ground softly, turned her head to look at Liu Ruyue, who was also out of breath more than she was in, tears slipped from the corners of her eyes, "Mother, I'm sorry, I didn't tell you anything before, I hope you can have a little bit of happiness, you have suffered too much in order to find us, I'm sorry, I couldn't hide you and let you be found by him, I couldn't protect your life, and I couldn't avenge my younger brothers and sisters, I failed so much, that old thing is a step ahead, I miscalculated."

However, don't be sad, mother, although you and I will die soon, but the chess pieces I left behind can also have no worries at all, he will poke out this old thing, the old thing will not be happy for long, that is, we can't see with our own eyes how miserable his end is, it's a pity, vomit~"

Another mouthful of blood spit it out, and Lu Xuerong's face became more and more pale.

"Yes...... It's my mother who is sorry for you, my mother has no ability and failed to protect you! Mother is sorry for you, Xue Rong has done a good job, mother is stupid, she has lived a lifetime in vain......"

"Mother, it's not your fault, you don't know anything, my younger brothers and sisters and I, I have never blamed you, back then, we were stopped by our grandmother, and we couldn't do anything to watch the second uncle throw you into the river, we blamed ourselves, we all thought you were dead, and we made up our minds at that time to avenge you and kill the second uncle, ruining Lu Chengze, a hypocrite.

We're happy to see you alive,...... Xue Hui is not as unbearable as the old thing says, she, she just wants to be an aunt to have the ability to come out to find someone to take revenge, she is just a little girl, she is not free, she has no other way, she is really not a child who covets wealth and loves vanity. Afraid of her mother's misunderstanding, Lu Xuerong had to maintain the image of her younger brothers and sisters in her mother's heart until she died, and opened and closed her mouth with difficulty.

"Xi'er...... I've seen you, but she doesn't dare to talk to you, she has been making trouble for the old thing all these years, and she has been targeted by the old thing, or she passed your news to me and asked me to find you, the people of the beggar gang can't believe it, she can only ...... Ahem...... ...... vomit"

"Mother, I'm so cold......"

"Mother will add clothes to you, it's not cold, it's not cold......" Liu Ruyue had already cried silently, and she didn't know when the fire had ignited, which had already burned to her side, burning her clothes and breaking the rope.

She struggled to get up and pounced on Lu Xuerong, who was also on fire, and flapped the fire weakly, but the fire was too big to be extinguished, and the air inhaled into her throat was scorching hot, burning her throat and lungs.

Liu Ruyue gave up the useless act of extinguishing the fire, hugged Lu Xuerong in her arms, and hugged Xue Rong's body as weak as a piece of paper, this child has suffered too much.

The surrounding fire was set on fire by Lu Chengze after he left in a hurry, and asked his subordinates to pour tung oil and set it on fire.

He's going to wipe them all clean.

A fire can burn all the evidence and cover up the evidence with sin.

The small courtyard was burned to the ground, the beams collapsed, the fire rose fiercely, and the two mothers and daughters who were nestled together were reduced to ashes along with the small courtyard.