Chapter 16: Gray Memories (Part II)

The night of the desert is always so dark, so quiet, as if Xuan Ming's state of mind at this time is falling into a bottomless pool of water, no matter how big the stone is, it can't stir up too many ripples, and those who exist are so submerged by the gray pool water, and then submerge until it becomes one with the dim pool water and is deeply hidden in it.

In fact, Xuan Ming didn't know that Shangguan Hong had true feelings for his mother, but this kind of feelings could not survive in the sun. His mother was just a gift from the emperor to Shangguan Hong, and it had nothing to do with fame, so even if Xuan Ming was Shangguan Hong's son, his mother would hardly have a foothold in the family. Moreover, when Shangguan Hong had passed the year of his establishment, there was naturally a wife in the house, and the emperor gave a woman to her husband had made Shangguan Hong's wife very angry, and this woman also gave birth to a son, if it was for the emperor's face if he didn't attack before, then when he heard the people in the family talking about what the master said to the second lady, could the lady of the main room still listen quietly and sit idly by?

A woman's jealousy is a very terrible thing, it can kill people invisibly, but often the person who is envious does not know it.

In Xuan Ming's memory, Shangguan Hong's main lady didn't seem to appear a few times, and every time she appeared, she appeared in a hurry and went back in a hurry. But Xuan Ming remembered the way she looked at her mother, who seemed to be generous and generous, and after entering the door, her sister was long and her sister was short, although the corners of her mouth kept a warm smile, but the resentment in her eyes towards her mother was indeed so obvious.

So, she thinks that her mother has robbed the person she loves. That's why she hates her mother so much who can get so much love from Shangguan Hong. so much so that he hated it to the bone marrow until he forced his mother to death.

Xuan Ming can't remember how she forced her mother, but she remembers that Shangguan Hong was not at home during that time. Everything in the family is only decided by Shangguan Hong's wife. According to the etiquette, Xuan Ming should also call Guan Hong's wife a big mother, but Xuan Ming never called her.

In Xuan Ming's impression, Shangguan Hong's wife is a very ugly woman, she always coils her hair high, revealing her wide forehead, her skin is not white, so she tried her best to powder her face, smeared her light eyebrows with Qing Dai, swept the strong rouge on her cheeks, and matched it with bright red lips, making her eyes more and more small. She should be an extremely vain woman, otherwise she would not have put so many ornaments on her head and stuffed it all over her head.

That should be the appearance of Shangguan Hong's wife when Xuan Ming last saw his mother.

That evening, the playful Xuan Ming didn't hear his mother calling for him to eat, he thought it was very strange, and vaguely he thought something would happen, so he hurried back. When he ran into the courtyard where he and his mother lived, the sight in front of him would probably not be forgotten for the rest of his life.

On the cold stone slab in the courtyard, the mother knelt there, looking at the ground with a faint face, silently holding back tears. Shangguan Hong's wife was standing in front of her mother, the makeup on her face was still so disgusting, she was proudly showing a triumphant smile at this time, she raised her head high, a piece of skin on her neck was exposed to the sun, yellow, and even had a few horizontal lines because of obesity. The crimson collar on her body was so glaring at some point, as if it was about to burn people's eyes. Xuan Ming suddenly understood at this moment that she was bullying her mother and made her mother cry. I don't know why, he was so angry, he rushed forward directly, beat this disgusting woman hard, and shouted in his mouth:

"You are not allowed to bully my mother!" Something like that. His actions caught Shangguan Hong's wife off guard, and she shouted for a few subordinates around her to pull Xuan Ming away. And as Xuan Ming was pulled aside by several big men and forced them to kneel on the ground, he tried to raise his head to look at the woman who was furious, and the woman was sorting out her clothes, pointing at Xuan Ming with one hand, and shouted at the big man next to Xuan Ming in an almost gnashing tone:

"What kind of mother is it, what kind of child is born. You guys teach me a good lesson to this wild boy! ”

Before those big men could be rough with themselves, Xuan Ming's mother suddenly pounced, hugged Xuan Ming tightly in her arms, and Xuan Ming heard his mother begging for mercy from the woman:

"Madam, if you have any resentment against me, don't hurt Xuan'er, don't hurt my son. You can beat or scold you, ma'am. ”

The mother's voice of "Madame" pierced Xuan Ming's young heart like a needle. He looked through his mother's somewhat messy hair and saw the ugly woman's face, twisted. Xuan Ming: I think that face will completely rot at this moment. Then he heard the woman's voice:

"You know I'm Madame. Then do you know that you will never steal a husband with me! The lord is attracted to you, and he only cares about your beauty, if you don't have beauty, the lord will never look at you! ”

Xuan Ming felt her mother's tears flow all over her face, even wetting her clothes. The mother nodded vigorously and cried:

"I don't dare to be with my wife's husband, my lord is a lady's all his life, and any woman doesn't leave, it's just his wife's!" Xuan Ming felt deep heartache, at that time he didn't understand why his mother said that, but he didn't dare to disobey his mother's intentions, he was afraid that if he opened his mouth, his mother would be hurt even more. But I didn't think that the woman's next words really sent her mother to a dead end.

"Oh? Can't anyone take it away? So do you count? Everyone knows that the lord is very affectionate to you, how do you think I should get my husband back? The woman smiled, but it was like a sharp poisonous knife, and the knife stabbed her mother in the vital point. The mother slowly raised her head to look at her, there were still tears in the corners of her eyes, but her eyes were indescribably empty:

"What does Madame want me to do?" The mother asked lightly, without even the slightest emotion in her tone. The woman looked down at her mother with her chin held high, and there was hatred in her eyes that could not be hidden, and she said coldly:

"Unless you're dead!" A few people were squeezed out of the woman's teeth, and everyone who heard this sentence was shocked, except for her mother, who still looked indifferent, she seemed to have expected such an ending. While everyone was stunned, the woman continued:

"Unless you're dead! As long as you die, the lord will come back to love me, and as long as you die, the lord's warmth will only be given to me. ”

Hearing this, the mother closed her eyes, and after a while, she opened them again, and she took a breath:

"Good. I can die. But I would like to ask my wife to promise me one condition. The woman's eyes suddenly widened when she heard her mother's words, she didn't expect Xuan Ming's mother to say this, but she still pretended to be very stunned:

"What's the matter?" The mother raised her head and fixed her eyes on the woman, and said almost word for word:

"It's okay for me to die, please don't embarrass my child again."

As soon as these words came out, Xuan Ming suddenly jumped up, his eyes were filled with tears, and he almost shouted to his mother hoarsely:

"No!" As soon as the words came out, his heart seemed to be trampled by thousands of horses, tears rushed out at this moment, his hand was pulled by the big man behind him, he was forced back to the ground, he kept sobbing, and continued to plead with his mother almost in a pleading tone:

"Mother, please, don't! Xuan'er promises you that Xuan'er will never make you angry again! Mother, please, don't! ”

Xuan Ming's mother heard his cry as if she was in endless pain, and her thin shoulders shrugged, but she still held back her tears and didn't let them flow.