Chapter 40: Remembering the Past
"The most reassuring thing before I left was Yufei, all the days when I repeatedly asked you and me to care more about her. You're the person I trust the most, and in my heart you'll never hurt her, but now? How can you make me recognize you as a friend! The more Ye Yu spoke, the more annoyed he became, and he slammed his fist on Meng Yu's desk.
"I really thought of her as a sister when you left, but after she lost her memory, I fell in love with her..."
"What is this?" Ye Yu picked up a painting on Meng Yu's desk.
"I'm ......" Meng Yu's face turned red.
"You bastard!" Ye Yu punched Meng Yu in the face, "The thief's heart is not dead, isn't it!" Fei'er loves Yunting, don't you know? ”
"Ahem! Well played! People like me deserve to be killed. ”
"I want to kill you! But what should I do if I kill you? Yes! Although Ye Yu was extremely angry, he was still worried about Yufei.
"What's the point of being dead? Yufei doesn't want to see me now, I haven't seen her since she returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion. All the supplements I sent were returned untouched. My father asked me to think about it behind closed doors, but I was concerned about her. Meng Yu wept bitterly.
Ye Yu was furious and tore the painting in his hand to pieces.
Meng Yu saw that Ye Yu had torn up the Yufei he had painted, and his heart suddenly panicked.
He knelt on the ground desperately, carefully picked up the broken painting and held it in the palm of his hand, and placed it closest to his heart, holding it in tears.
"You shouldn't have hurt her." Ye Yu saw Meng Yu, who had always been strong, this man who once had the world in mind and wanted to be the emperor of Dayang in the future, crying like a child for Yufei, and for a moment he seemed to see his former self.
"Brother!" Fortunately, he met Wanning's carriage on the way, Yufei looked at the embarrassed Meng Yu, and couldn't hold back anymore: "Brother, it's not what you heard, I came by myself that day." It's none of Brother Yu's business, that night was actually ......"
"Yufei! I have already told my father what happened that night, and you don't need to defend me. The prince interrupted Yu Fei's words, looking at Yu Fei, she lost a lot of weight.
Yufei looked at Meng Yu, and always felt that there seemed to be something behind those eyes that she couldn't see, and her heart was a little astringent.
"Yufei, you have been wronged these days." Meng Yu said with pity.
"Yu Fei is not aggrieved, Yu Fei begged His Highness not to blame my brother, he came after being provoked." Yu Fei looked at Meng Yu's red and swollen deep salute.
"It's me who is to blame, and I won't blame Brother Ye Yu. If I were him, I would do the same. Meng Yu walked up to Ye Yu and said solemnly, "Brother Ye Yu, I will be good to Yufei." Never drink again. “
Yufei handed Meng Yu a silk handkerchief, said goodbye to Meng Yu, and left the palace with Ye Yu.
The prime minister's wife and the prime minister in the prime minister's mansion were anxiously waiting for Yu Fei, but they didn't expect Yu Fei to come back with Ye Yu.
"Fei'er, where did you go, it's windy outside, you're still weak, are you uncomfortable?" Mrs. Ye came over and took Yufei's hand.
"Greetings to father and mother!" Ye Yu gave a salute.
"Well, come back, come with me, I have a few words to say to you" The prime minister has always been unsmiling, especially when he saw Ye Yu, his face sank a little.
"Yu'er! Now that you're back, go with your father!" Mrs. Ye said to her son in hindsight.
Dare to love that this son is not biological, and he rushed back from afar, without a word of concern, for the two of them, it was simply one heaven and one underground.
"Fei'er," Madame walked towards the Warm Heart Pavilion while holding Yufei, "Can you still remember your eldest brother?" “
"I don't remember, but Fei'er already knows that he loves Yufei very much." Yu Fei looked at the back of Ye Yu leaving.
"Yes! Your three brothers love you very much, but they all fell out with your father and went to the border because of the girl in Xilu. “
"Who's Xilu?" Yu Fei asked curiously.
"She used to be my maid, and your eldest brother, second brother, third brother, and her fought with me on the battlefield. She knows a little bit of martial arts, so I named her one to join the army. I never thought that she would hide from me that I had an affair with your eldest brother, although I love Xilu, but after all, she is a lowly born slave, and your eldest brother cannot marry her as the eldest son. If according to military regulations, Xilu should be put to death, I only beat her with thirty lashes, but your eldest brother actually confronted me for her. I underestimated Xilu, thinking that it would be good to give her some pestering and let her leave, but she hid in the tent with your second and third brothers, and drank and slept with them. It wasn't until she became pregnant and secretly ran away from the barracks to the Prime Minister's Mansion that I learned about it from your father's letters. I wanted to wait for me to return and deal with her, but when I came back from the battlefield, my old illness relapsed, and your father felt sorry for me, so he quietly dealt with the matter without me. As he spoke, he had come to the Warm Heart Pavilion, and the lady sat down on the soft couch.
"How so? And what did the father do?" Yu Fei was more curious than surprised.
"Your father didn't take her life, he just killed the fetus in her womb and sold it." Madame's hand trembled slightly, apparently the past had stirred her emotions.
Yu Fei couldn't help but shudder when she heard this, "Why did you want to kill her child?" ”
"How can I keep a child who is unknown! Moreover, she also said wildly that even if she knew whose it was, it would be impossible for him to be born for the sake of the reputation of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Xiling seduced her master, she deserved death, and your father just sold her, which is already merciful. A tear welled up in the corner of Madame's eye.
"And then?" Yufei asked softly.
"Later? It became the first Oiran of Tianxiang Building. Your brothers have gone to garrison the border, in addition to the grudge in their hearts, they can also think about it! The lady leaned back on the couch and said no more, as if she were asleep.
The events of that year must have been deeper than what Madame said! Looking at the tired appearance of the lady, it seems that she has experienced another past. Let her take a break, Yufei sent someone to bring a thin blanket and gently put it on Mrs. Niang, she herself sat in front of the bronze mirror, the person in the mirror had a peerless face, took off the hosta, the green silk splashed down like ink, she picked up a jade comb, combed gently, her mind was full of that Xilu, idle and nothing, she might as well disguise herself as a man and go to Tianxianglou to see, what that Xilu looks like. So she dismissed the maid and quietly slipped out of the mansion.
Outside Tianxiang Building, it was very lively, and a few women came to solicit business as soon as Yufei stood still. Yufei was pushed into the Tianxiang Building, the building was fragrant with powder, the ribbons were fluttering, the gauze tent was hanging, and the frolicking of men and women could be faintly heard, but there was no one to see.
Yu Fei suddenly felt creepy.
"Yo! Come and let my mother see, isn't this the daughter of the Prime Minister's house? If you are free today, you will come to Tianxianglou as a guest again?" A gaudy-dressed, chubby old bustard walked out of the gauze tent with a handkerchief.