Chapter 423: Past Events One
"Wan Ying, you don't look at your identity, you follow Mr. Gong every day, it's really shameless!"
"Eh~ Isn't this the one surnamed Wan? What's the matter, you're looking for Mr. Gong again? ”
"Have you heard... It's her, the woman who always pesters the national teacher..."
"She looks so ordinary, how can the national teacher take a fancy to her? Sure enough, she was wrapped around her dead skin..."
"I heard that she is an orphan, she has no parents since she was a child, and the good people of the Liu family saw her pitiful and picked her up. As a result, she seduced someone's daughter's fiancé, the white-eyed wolf..."
Wan Ying stood beside the turbulent Yong'an River, and all that echoed in her mind were those evil words. Some of them were said to her face, and more were whispered in front of her and overheard by her.
She originally had a very happy family, and her father was a small sesame official in the capital. The family life is rich and happy, her two brothers are also very fond of her, Wan Ying once thought that she was the happiest girl in the world.
But when she was thirteen years old, a shocking change occurred in her family.
The father, who was on the wrong side of the court at the court, was pushed out as a scapegoat and beheaded on the spot, and Wanjia was raided because of this.
Because her mother couldn't stand the huge blow, she hung a white silk on the beam at the entrance of Wanfu that was sealed, and hanged herself; The two brothers were sent to serve in the army on the distant frontier, and I am afraid that they will never see each other again in their lives. As for her, she was crowned a slave, from an official lady to a slave who had no freedom.
Wan Ying suffered a series of great changes, and she was desperate but did not choose to give up her life like her mother.
As long as she is alive, she will have the opportunity to see her two brothers who love her again. They can't come back on the frontier, so she goes looking for them.
As long as she is alive, then there is hope for everything.
The person who bought her was a business family, and in the eyes of outsiders, the head of the family was a kind and delicate person, but she found that that person was an out-and-out pervert.
He has a strong desire for sadism, and on the first day of entering the house, Wan Ying saw a maid who was hanged up and beaten to death by him because he accidentally broke one of his teacups, and threw him into an abandoned dry well in the backyard.
Not only that, but the man loved to torture innocent young children.
He would take the children who were begging on the street home, feed them for a few days, and torture them to death.
Because they are all street children, no one cares about the whereabouts of these people, this old man has countless lives on his hands but has never been crusaded, and he still lives a very nourishing life.
Wan Ying spent a month in the house tremblingly, because she had never done rough work before, and she was beaten and scolded by her grandmothers.
She endured being bullied and humiliated, but one day she suddenly found that there was something wrong with the way the old man looked at her.
That's the way he looks at his prey.
Wan Ying knew she couldn't stay here any longer, so she was very well prepared and escaped from the backyard one night when no one noticed her.
She was discovered.
At that time, the fate of fugitive slaves was very miserable, and once caught, they would face a fate that was worse than death. Wan Ying chased several nurses behind her, and she was almost desperately trying to escape.
The streets of the capital are very prosperous, and the streets are full of traders and people, and she is very difficult to navigate through the crowd.
The fierce guards chased after her, causing the people on the street to panic and turn to the sides to get out of the way.
Let the people on the side look at her, with pity, ridicule, and curiosity, all kinds of eyes mixed with her, but no one will help her.
Because she was just a fugitive slave, a living person who could only be compared to livestock.
She was certainly no match for those nurseries, and she was soon caught by them and pressed to the ground.
The old man appeared with a look of horror on his face.
"You should know what happened to the fugitive slaves, right?" There was still a smile on his face when he said this, but the distorted light in his eyes made Wan Ying despair in her heart.
She was really going to die this time, and it was going to be very painful, very miserable.
"Take it back." The old man instructed the nurses.
When Wan Ying heard this, she was ruthless and was about to bite her tongue and commit suicide, but before she could open her mouth, she heard a somewhat familiar voice behind her.
"Wait!"
Everyone looked at the source of the sound, and saw an official who was very popular with the people in the capital at that time came over.
That is Lord Liu of the Ministry of Rites, but the people like to call him Liu Dashan because he is very kind.
Liu Shanren and Wan Ying's father were also acquaintances, and he recognized at a glance that this emaciated and embarrassed girl who was being held was the youngest daughter of the Wan family.
He frowned, and then opened his mouth to say a few words to the old man, and the other party quickly handed over her deed of sale to Liu Shanren with a slightly flattering smile.
Liu Shanren actually bought her back directly from the merchant's hand.
He took her home, called someone to take her to clean her up, and invited her to the only full meal in so long time, and then Liu Shanren threw the deed of sale in front of her in the lamp on the side.
She was free again.
Liu Shanren said that he had a good conversation with her father, and he also knew that Wanjia had suffered an unjustified disaster because of the raid, but he had no way to save it.
But he could have saved her.
Liu Shanren also said that the Liu family will be her home in the future, and let her stay for a good time.
From that day on, Wan Ying thought that she was finally out of the sea of suffering.
Liu Shanren's daughter was the same age as her, and the two soon became very good friends, and they went in and out as a pair, and everyone in the capital knew that the two of them were almost inseparable. They all said that Liu Shanren had a good heart and took care of her as a righteous daughter.
During that time, Wan Ying lived very happily.
But this life still didn't last long.
At that time, there was a very prestigious national teacher in the imperial court, and Wan Ying had heard of him when she was still an official lady. Legend has it that the national teacher is very young and very handsome. He was a personal disciple of the previous national teacher, and he took over the master's position at a young age, and was deeply trusted by the emperor.
He is the object of admiration of almost half of the ladies in the capital, and Miss Liu is naturally no exception.
Then there was a sudden rainstorm, and everywhere was very flooded, and everyone was living in dire straits.
At that time, the people in the capital had a very difficult time, but I heard that the young national teacher was not idle, but ran everywhere to check the adventure.
It was in this context that she met him.