However, the more I thought about it, the more difficult it became to calm down, thinking that the red hibiscus had already rested after a busy day, she got up and got out of bed and poured a bowl of tea by herself, and Fang lay down on the bed gently. After a while, I only heard the "squeak" of the door, and a person came in, and when I got up, I saw that it was Aunt Lin.

"Why don't you sleep yet?" Aunt Lin asked

"I couldn't sleep, I was thirsty, I got up and had a cup of tea." Wanying understood that Aunt Lin had slept lightly these days, and she must have woken her up by drinking tea just now.

"Mother can't sleep, come and see you." Aunt Lin was dressed in water-colored bedclothes, her long hair was simply tied behind her, and she blew out the candlestick after placing the candlestick in her hand on the shelf at the head of the bed. Closed the bed tent and lay down with Wanying.

Wan Ying turned around, took Aunt Lin's arm with both hands, and snuggled up to her. Aunt Lin also turned around and faced Wanying. Although it was night, Wanying and Aunt Lin could see each other's faces. Aunt Lin didn't speak for a long time, and Wanying knew that she didn't take today's events to heart.

"Mother, why does Aunt Gao always bite Wanying?"

Aunt Lin originally wanted to say something but swallowed it again, and said for a long time:

"It's nothing, it's just her own heart disease."

"It's a nervous disorder, she can't see us well."

"Qing'er can't talk nonsense." Aunt Lin didn't want the right and wrong of a woman in the mansion door, which only increased Wanying's sadness.

"Does my mother have any holiday with her?" Wanying really wants to know the reason for this.

"Actually, there was no holiday." After a pause, he said again: "It's okay to tell you. Aunt Lin lay flat on the bed, let go of the hand holding Wanying, thinking that she beat Wanying in a hurry a few days ago, she was also very distressed and guilty, always hiding from the children, okay? Or is it bad? After all, Aunt Lin herself can't say clearly, her daughter has grown up, and she will marry into someone else's house in the future, these rights and wrongs are completely unknown, and it may not be a good thing. Thinking of this, rubbing the cheeks that fell from the slap a few days ago, I said distressedly:

"Does it still hurt? It's not good for my mother, I beat Qing'er, forgive my mother, okay? ”

Wanying's grievances finally disappeared, and she said with tears: "As long as my mother can be happy, Qing'er doesn't feel pain." ”

Aunt Lin's strong eye sockets poured out a lot of distressed tears, hugged Wanying, and leisurely talked about her past with Aunt Gao: "My mother and she are almost the same aunt one after the other. Aunt Lin hugged Wanying, brushed the bangs on Wanying's forehead, smiled slightly, and continued: "I was your grandmother's maid, just because my wife couldn't even support her three children back then, and Aunt Zhao couldn't give birth. Your father will be in the age of standing, and there will be nothing to come out of. The old lady was very anxious, and when she saw that I looked quite good and was cautious in doing things, she pointed out to your father to be a three-room little wife. In order to feel sorry for his son, it is also good to spread the branches. Aunt Lin sighed softly, these things that had been pressed in her heart for more than 20 years were said to her, especially to her daughter, and her heart felt like she was being pinched fiercely. wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and continued:

"Who knew that it didn't take long for your father to lead her to meet the old lady and his wife, I was also taken aback, your father never mentioned her, and that day she said that she was pregnant, and the old lady agreed to enter the house and became the fourth aunt."

Wanying had never heard her mother say such a thing, and she stared at her mother by the dim moonlight, and watched her mother speak calmly. "Actually, when she first entered the house, we were still pretty good, and we got along with my sister and sister for a while. Your father told me privately that her mother's brother was originally a seven-grade official in Shuntian Mansion, and he wanted to climb up, and while your father was drunk, he let her follow your father in a daze, and then entered our house. So...... Of your father's aunts, she is the least favored. Aunt Lin looked at the sleeping tent above, and said these things in her mouth, as if it was a long, long time ago, and as if it was a long, long time later......

Wanying was silent for a while and suddenly realized that something was wrong, so she asked her mother: "No, my brother is still four years older than Sister Wanyun?" ”

Aunt Lin paused, exhaled and said, "That child fell out when he was five months old. ”

"Why did it fall off?" Wanying asked.

"On August 15 of that year, she fell into the moon when it was dark." The mother sighed and continued to say regretfully: "The old lady didn't take much fancy to her, and it was the brother who had become a type who fell, because of this, even she Xiaoyue didn't care about it, let the subordinates slap their mouths twenty, and knelt in front of the ancestral hall for a day and a night. ”

"It's the old lady who is difficult for her, why does she settle the account on her mother?"

"Things in the world are so impermanent, my mother has not been pregnant with your father for nearly a year, but she just had a miscarriage a few days, the doctor broke off the happy pulse, the family, especially the old lady, cherishes the abnormal, do not think you also know the situation at that time, she miscarried and was humiliated, and the mother was newly conceived. Later, I heard that she complained to others, saying that it was her mother's child who killed her child. At that time, my mother was afraid that she would think too much about hurting her body after having a miscarriage, and she wanted to explain to her in private, but the old lady said that she had just given birth and her body was unclean, and she was not allowed to wander around, and I was not allowed to go to her. In this way, the two of them went farther and farther away, and they reached the point where they are today. ”

"How many years have passed, and she hasn't forgotten it, so it can be seen that she is an unblessed person." Wan Ying said it in her mouth.

"She is also pitiful, she is not very favored, in the past few years, your father has added two new aunts, and he has thrown her aside, if it weren't for Wanyun Wanfen's face, she would have a worse life, pity her life to be strong, but not strong to die."

"She deserves it, she deserves it." Wanying remembered that Aunt Gao always bullied her mother, and she was angry.

"The event of your father's birthday a few days ago, I'm afraid it's not over." Aunt Lin mentioned the events of that day, and dark clouds covered her tone again.

"With her, isn't it possible to go with his wife?" Wanying wanted to widen Aunt Lin's heart a little.

"My mother is not afraid of her, she has been here for more than ten years, and my mother is worried about you." Aunt Lin turned around again and faced Wanying, and the two were speechless for a while.

"Mother-Concubine Dong'an has recognized Qing'er as a righteous daughter, and with this identity, Aunt Gao will not be embarrassed for me. However, it is a good thing to get to know Concubine Dong'an, why is my mother depressed that day? Wanying thought that she had been recognized as a righteous daughter by Concubine Dong'an, and with this identity, Aunt Gao didn't dare to make a mistake easily. I just remembered that on my birthday, my mother stopped me three or four times, and I was sullen all the time since, and I muttered a little in my heart.

"It's a good thing to get to know the powerful, but my mother wants you to live honestly and peacefully." Aunt Lin was originally a little resistant to this matter, and said coldly: "As the saying goes, Houmen is as deep as the sea, and it is not up to anyone at all. My mother doesn't expect you to climb the dragon and the phoenix, I just ask you to have a wishful husband, and you will be safe and stable for a lifetime. ”

"Mother, didn't you tell the child, everyone in the world worships high and low, if Qing'er really gets ahead, won't my mother's life in the house be better?" Aunt Lin was very moved when she heard Wanying say this, and couldn't help but take Wanying's hand and say:

"Silly boy, with your words, my mother is enough."

"It's easy to have a thousand taels of gold, it's hard to find one, Qing'er doesn't want to find any wishful thinking, Qing'er just wants to find someone who can protect me and prevent me from being hurt, it's enough to guard him for the rest of my life. Just like a mother, isn't it good to have your father to protect you? When Aunt Lin heard Wanying say this, she knew that the mother and daughter were people with a heart all the way, and she unconsciously showed a look of joy.

"My son is not a person who strives for fame and fortune, and my mother is very pleased, but with the matter of Concubine Dong'an, I am afraid that we will not be able to do it in the future?"

"Why?" Wanying didn't understand what her mother meant.

"Mother thought to herself, that day the concubine of Dong'an came to our house for a banquet, not necessarily because of accompanying the king of Dong'an, if so, wouldn't it be more polite for the princess of Dong'an to come, and why bother to work for the concubine Niangniang to condescend to the noble?"

Wanying was silent, and listened to Aunt Lin continue, "If it's a whim, it's fine, if it's really entrusted, the person who can move the concubine must be the queen mother in the palace." ”

"No wonder the dress for my father's birthday this year is more expensive than in previous years, and the ornaments are also more expensive. Wan Ying sorted out a little bit of a clue.

"In previous years, the girls were not allowed to attend the banquet in the house, and my mother also went to a few houses with your father, and the ladies never attended." Aunt Lin said.

"Sister Wanfen and Sister Wanyun were dressed up with extraordinary brilliance that day." At this point, Wan Ying fully understood. Aunt Gao helped her wife take care of her father's birthday this time, and she already knew the reason for the concubine's birthday, and she wanted to get ahead wholeheartedly, but Sister Wanfen was only an eleven-year-old child, so she couldn't help but use her mind too much.

"If it is really entrusted by the Queen Mother, it won't be long before the will will come to the palace, whether it is auspicious or evil, and it can only be resigned to fate." When Aunt Lin said this, her voice was full of amazement, and it was estimated that this was what she was most worried about.

"Mother, are you afraid of Qing'er entering the palace?" Wanying directly said the doubts in her heart.

"It is common sense that the daughter of a mansion like ours should be edicted to enter the palace to be elected, but the palace is not as good as the family, and from now on, I am afraid that it will be more difficult than ascending to the sky, and the disputes between the inner palace of all dynasties are endless, my son is pure by nature, and I am afraid that he will suffer." Aunt Lin's thoughts and sorrows these days are probably for this matter. Wanying didn't want to worry about her mother anymore, so she wanted to change the topic:

"Mother, Princess Beiping is the princess of the county, and Mrs. Wu'anhou is just Mrs. Congyipin. Why was Mrs. Wu'anhou on the throne that day, but the princess of Beiping was sitting down?"