Antecedents
Antecedents
The mountains are full of green, and the peach blossoms all over the mountains are blooming very vigorously, clear and intense, unfolding like a picture scroll.
In the forest, the palace chief Jue ran desperately towards the mountain with the corner of her skirt, and on the mountainside, a large number of royal forest soldiers were coming in her direction.
Gong Changjue tripped over a dead branch under her feet, and the peony on her clothes had already soaked in blood, which was extremely bewitching and magnificent.
She struggled to get up, but her hand was crushed by the trunk of the dead tree.
Gong Changjue jerked her hand out from under the trunk of the tree, her hands were already stained with blood, and she looked at the blood on her hands, as if she was still in a dark prison.
In prison, her parents were hung up and tortured, leaving them covered in devastation and bleeding.
In front of her, her sister-in-law was abused by the jailers, and the palace chief screamed frantically and banged on the door desperately, but to no avail, she watched her sister lose her innocence.
The next moment, Gong Changjue was picked up by the jailers, thrown into the water again and again, suffocated and dying countless times, she struggled, was scooped up and put down, and finally, the jailers stopped moving.
Gong Changjue leaned on the water tank with his back, breathing weakly, and a handsome woman in palace clothes looked at her coldly, raising her chin proudly,
"Gong Changjue, this is the end of your seduction of Chu Shizi, do you think that the power of the palace family is indestructible? This palace tells you that it has not been a day or two since my father wanted to get rid of the palace family, so even if such a big crime falls on the palace family, my father will directly convict the palace family without investigation. β
The woman pinched Gong Changjue's chin with one hand, and her voice was gentle and fierce,
"It's a pity that Chu Shizi couldn't see your pitiful appearance, otherwise he would definitely feel distressed."
"Everyone in the Gong family is already on the execution ground, but I am afraid that this moment is the time when the Gong family is destroyed. Up and down the palace family, you are the only one still alive. β
"What happened to your sister just now, you must have seen it clearly. The reason why I left you and didn't let you go to the execution ground is that you want to taste all the tastes of your sister, let Chu Shizi see the corpse with traces of your love, and completely die to you. β
The woman laughed, and a big man entered the prison, his eyes showing lewdness, and he looked the palace chief up and down.
The woman in the palace costume motioned for the big man to do it, and the big man fished the palace chief out of the water tank and pressed it to the ground.
Gong Changjue wanted to resist, but he lost all his strength because he had been waterboarded.
Suddenly, the prison door was broken, and a man stabbed his sword into the big man's body.
The man picked up the palace chief's trick, and ran out with a little footsteps, and when he got out of the prison gate, countless soldiers surrounded them,
Gong Changjue slipped off Zuo Jin's back and fell to the ground, Zuo Jin was busy helping her, Gong Changjue shook his head,
"Cousin, you go, I'll hurt you."
Zuo Jin picked up the palace chief, put it on the horse, stabbed the horse with a sword, and the horse raised its hooves and ran violently.
"Long Jue, hold on to the reins, don't come back!"
The horse has broken out of the encirclement, the palace chief turned back, and Zuo Jin raised his sword to fight in the midst of the encirclement.
Her eyes widened,
"Cousin!"
Zuo Jin shouted,
"Let's go!"
The horse galloped into the distance, and Zuo Jin's figure became smaller and smaller until he was out of sight.
The horse fell into the river and died, and the palace chief struggled to get up from the rushing river, and she crawled to the green hills on the side.
The pursuers came again, and on the hill she was pressed by the trunk of the tree to hold her hands, and she jerked them out, but their hands were already dripping with blood, and the blood dripped from her hands, and fell on the peony stamens on her clothes, which was extremely enchanting.
Gong Changjue looked behind him, got up suddenly, and headed towards the top of the mountain, until he reached the top of the cliff.
Gong Changjue looked at Gao Ya Wanren, and then looked at his bloody hands.
Her hands trembled.
She had nowhere to go.
Now that the Gong family is dead and the family is gone, what is the point of her living in this world?
Instead of being a coward who is greedy for life and afraid of death, it is better to die and go.
Gong Changjue took a step back, and a man flew over from the peach blossom forest.
"Don't!"
The peach blossoms of deep and near bloomed all over the field, falling one after another, stacking on the palace chief's blood-colored clothes.
Gong Changjue looked back at Chu Ranxuan.
He stood in the midst of the peach, his eyebrows and eyes were picturesque, like a jade tree in the wind, but his eyebrows were frowning, for fear that she would fall into the boundless abyss in the next second.
The palace chief smiled, but her smile was so pale and painful.
"Chu Shizi, you and I meet in Pingshui, it doesn't matter to you whether I live or die, and it shouldn't matter."
"Even if I am the head of the palace, the disasters of the palace family are all caused by you. I don't blame you, my palace chief knows that the person who harmed the palace family is Princess Wengyu, the emperor, and has nothing to do with the prince. β
Chu Ran stood in the wind, looking at her eyes,
"The Gong family still has a chance to be rehabilitated, and you still have a chance to live, so why bother to kill yourself."
The long wind on the cliff blew her red dress violently and bloomed, and she was like a butterfly, as if she was about to be blown off by the wind in the next second and fall into the abyss.
Gong Changjue's tears fell down her cheeks,
"One hundred and twenty-one members of the Gong family have died, and even if I can live, all this is meaningless to me."
"Chu Shizi, see you in the next life."
Her shallow voice still sounded in her ears, and in the next second, Gong Changjue pulled out the hairpin and pierced her neck fiercely, and blood sprayed, like the remnant sun on the horizon, dazzling, and she slowly fell backwards.
Chu Ranxuan stepped forward and wanted to grab Gong Changjue's hand,
"Don't-"
In the dark green mountain stream, a touch of bright red fell like broken jade.
Gong Changjue opened his eyes suddenly, and he saw the overlapping smoky blue curtains, which were slowly fluttering with the wind blowing in from the screen window.
She sat up slowly, looked at everything in front of her, raised her hand and lifted the curtain, she walked between the curtains, every step was as vain and dreamy as stepping on the clouds.
Where is this? Isn't she dead?
She lifted the curtain with her bare hands, and with her footsteps, layers of curtains fell.
The smoky blue curtain slid softly across her fingertips like a cloud of smoke.
Walking out of the heavy curtain tent, there was a strange smoke willow, and the palace chief was very familiar with this, which was planted in the yard by her father when she was thirteen years old.
There is also the wisteria tree in the courtyard, the wisteria vine is born on the roof of the gimbal, and a scorching vine falls, the purple flowers on the vine are in full bloom, around the gimbal, making the gimbals like a fairyland, a few cases in the gimbal, and a piano is placed on several cases.
It was her jade broken qin, which was given to her by her mother Zuo that year.
It's a pity that after the palace house was copied, she never saw these again.
Perhaps, it is precisely because she is dead that she can see these things in her heart.
A little maid stepped forward with a tray and said happily,
"Miss, you're awake."
Gong Changjue turned around and saw the little maid's smile, and couldn't help but laugh too.
Comb, a personal maid who served her for several years.
When the palace family was raided, the soldiers who raided the house wanted to knock down the ancestral tablet enshrined in the ancestral hall, the palace chief refused to obey, the soldiers drew their swords and faced each other, it was comb who blocked her in front of her and was stabbed for her, and died on the spot.
The palace chief smiled, but tears fell, and he raised his hand to touch the face of the comb, it's so good, I can still see her here.
Comb Yan was a little inexplicable, and when she saw the palace chief crying, she said,
"Miss, don't be sad, the Meng family's ungrateful people are not worth being sad at all, Miss is beautiful, those who come to propose marriage will definitely break through the threshold, and some are good men who are willing to marry you."
Gong Changjue's hand paused, and slowly put it down,
"What did you say?"
Comb said with a smile,
"Miss, don't be unhappy, just the talented and virtuous sister-in-law of the Meng family, who is rare, if you really break the marriage contract this time, it will be a good thing for Miss, Miss, don't be sad."
Gong Changjue frowned, looking at the things around him, the red pavilion Huamo, the blue bricks and green tiles, every inch was incredible, and every detail was clear and unfake.
Gong Changjue walked in the courtyard, and he could vaguely hear the crying sound of the courtyard next door,
"I told you to go to the old lady every day to say goodbye, and you were lazy, and you were caught by your pigtails, maybe you will have more things in the future."
"Mother, I was wrong, don't fight."
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It was Aunt Wan who was teaching her sister-in-law, blaming her sister-in-law for not understanding the rules and giving people a handle.
Gong Changjue stroked the green bricks with his hand, and the touch of the green bricks was very real.
Combi looked at Gong Changjue worriedly,
"Miss, what's wrong with you?"
The palace chief muttered,
"It's so real, it's like it's really back to the way it used to be."
Comb's expression was puzzled,
"What are you talking about, Miss?"
A servant girl hurried into the courtyard,
"Miss, no! The people of the Meng family came to make trouble again. β
Comb said,
"What! Then the shameless ones are here again? β
Comb stepped forward,
"Miss, the Meng family is coming to withdraw from the marriage again, why don't you go out and have a look, you can't be unilaterally divorced."
Gong Changjue turned around, when she was dismissed by the Meng family, almost the whole Chang'an laughed out of her big teeth, in this dynasty, it is a great insult for a woman to be divorced, which proves that a woman has no talent and no virtue.
And after she was divorced, the nobles who didn't like her used this incident to ridicule and belittle her, and rumors spread for a while, she looked like no salt, and her reputation for bad virtue also spread.
After that, she was even more closed, but within a month, she heard that Meng Huawen, the son of the Meng family, married the eldest daughter of the Zhu family, the richest man in Chang'an.
On the day of the wedding, Chang'an was a sensation.
The Zhu family is wealthy, and there is only one daughter, so the dowry is carried by a hundred hundred, and the head of the dowry team is in the south of the city, and the tail of the team is still in the north of the city.
It was enviable for a while.
But only eight months later, the eldest daughter of the Zhu family gave birth to a baby boy, who was said to be born prematurely.
But Gong Changjue connected with what happened before and the strange attitude of the Meng family, and she finally understood that this child was not born prematurely.
And she was dismissed not because she was not good, but because Meng Huawen had already had a head and tail with the eldest daughter of the Zhu family, and the pearl fetus was secretly knotted, and the Meng family had to withdraw from the marriage and let Meng Huawen marry the concubine.
As a result, Gong Changjue became the one who sacrificed.
Gong Changjue clenched his fists, and in order to cover up the scandal, the Meng family forcibly withdrew from the marriage, so that she was on the cusp of the storm, bearing all the consequences, and becoming the woman who was forcibly withdrawn from the marriage by her fiancΓ©'s family because of her virtue.
But the Meng family, as the culprit, has not been shaken at all, and it is still the family of Fengchang who has been hairpins for that generation, enjoying the admiration of the people.
If it was just like this, but later, there were rumors that her fornication with someone was broken by Meng Huawen, and Meng Huawen couldn't bear to withdraw from the marriage.
The eldest lady of the palace family, no virtue and no talent, if there is no salt, no matchmaker, everyone in Chang'an knows.
Under the pressure of this rumor, Gong Changjue did not dare to go out, and hid at home every day, becoming more and more withdrawn.
She never married until she was nineteen years old, and the rumors in her memory that made her painful are still fresh in her memory.
Later, the eldest daughter of the Zhu family avoided everyone at the banquet, flaunted her power in front of her, and told all the facts.
Only then did she know that those unbearable rumors were all controlled by the Meng family and the Zhu family, in order to clear the Meng family and the Zhu family, and make the palace chief become the complete fault party, only in this way can the Meng family and the Zhu family become victims, let everyone have pity, and make everyone feel clean and clean.