The boudoir is indeed very beautiful, the first floor is the mother's bedroom, the second floor is Ai'er's, everywhere is exquisite and rich, each step of the stairs is carefully laid with a felt blanket, the mother said that this felt blanket is not hairy, will not affect Ai'er's breathing, paved can prevent noise, to let Ai'er rest at ease.

Mother does take good care of Ai'er, Ai'er just feels sad, she needs to be carefully protected like this, even if she sees outsiders, her mother is unwilling, she just wants her to be raised quietly and peacefully until she is eighteen years old, and then marry, there is no need to have anything to do with anyone here.

Ai'er asked her mother: Mother, I haven't been out for a long time, when the guests come, I hide upstairs, okay?

The mother may also be really happy, so she has no objection, she combs her hair for Ai'er in the mirror, Ai'er has not seen her mother so gentle for a long time, just like going back to the past: as long as my daughter is happy.

Ai'er looked at herself in the mirror, she didn't know herself like this for a long time, the corners of her eyes were always raised, her eyebrows were thick and long, and her mouth was always willfully pursed, and she was gone.

After a while, someone walked in and said something in the mother's ear, the mother frowned, changed her appearance in a moment, and said to the man: You help Miss Fu to go back to the courtyard to rest - jewelry, there are too many guests today, it is too noisy for you, you go back first.

Ai'er said unhappily: But just now, it was clear that-

The mother turned around and went downstairs and said: No, the body is important.

Two more girls came up, Ai'er left without any resistance, when she walked out of the new attic, she looked back, the pavilion in the center of the attic was covered with a red cloth, I don't know what kind of building name was hidden in it, and then she turned her head and faintly saw two familiar figures - aunt and mother bear?

She didn't have time to look more, and was hurriedly taken away from the place—that was the last time she saw the eldest lady—

It took her a long time to remember the eldest lady of that day, she was wearing a very gorgeous robe, her head was covered with golden hairpins, her hair was very disheveled, and her makeup - the makeup was not clear, but she felt very scary -

Since then, she has not heard any news from the eldest mother.

One day, my mother brought Mama Xiong over and instructed her to take care of Ai'er's diet more in the future.

Ai'er stared at them strangely, and Mama Bear just lowered her head obediently, and I saw that her eyes were red and swollen, and her expression was haggard—didn't she follow the eldest mother all the time? Why are you serving your mother now?

After that, for many days, Mama Xiong kept delivering food and medicine to Ai'er, and her eyes were always red and swollen, and they never went away.

Ai'er weakly opened the circle and asked Mama Xiong: Is there an accident?

Mother Xiong trembled and said, "It's okay, Miss can recuperate with peace of mind."

Although she is sick, she is not stupid, she asked: My mother said that the eldest mother is crazy, even if she is really crazy, someone has to serve her, you come to serve me and my mother, so who will serve the eldest mother?

Mother Xiong's tears have fallen, Ai'er feels a little sad, although they have been getting along in a hostile posture, but they have also been growing up from childhood to adulthood, and they have long been accustomed to her always following behind the eldest mother, and now she suddenly sees her crying, and she is just a woman, which makes people feel pity.

Ai'er pressed her heart hard and asked: Is there something wrong with the eldest mother?

Mother Bear wiped the tears that kept falling: Madame, she's gone.

Ai'er was so shocked that she couldn't speak.

The eldest mother is gone, this day happens to be her first seventh, so Mama Xiong couldn't hold back her emotions, she is the eldest mother's dowry girl, just like Nuan Nuan and Ai'er, in Nuan Nuan's eyes, Ai'er must also be a willful and difficult master, but she is still loyal and obedient to her, so no matter what, Mama Xiong will be by her side, unless, the eldest mother is dead.

Why didn't the aunt have it?

Mother Bear looked around in horror: just a few days ago, Madame wanted to enter the room, but accidentally tripped and fell, and her head just hit the stone threshold, and she passed out without even having time to scream, and it was freezing cold, no one noticed her, and she quickly stiffened. The doctor said that it was too cold and there was not much blood, not because of excessive blood loss, but because he was frozen to death......

Frozen to death?

Ai'er wrapped her trembling body: how could no one find out? The edge of the eldest mother's courtyard is so lively-

Mother Bear shook her head slowly, glaring: no—she didn't fall at the door of her room, but—but—

As she spoke, Mama Bear slowly turned her head to the back and stared at the door of Ai'er's bedroom—

Ai'er's whole body was cold, and the muscles on her face instantly stiffened: Auntie - my door?

Mother Xiong gritted her teeth: The second lady was afraid that this matter would affect your recuperation, so no one in the house was allowed to mention this matter, and said that the lady died abnormally, and the white matter was not much to do, but she was hastily put into the coffin and buried at night.

Ai'er also stared closely at the door where Mother Bear was looking, and the eldest mother died outside that door?

When did she fall?

Who found out?

How long did you lie down before you died?

She- why did she come to her room? Don't bring your mother bear yet?

What was she doing in her room when she fell out of the door?

Did she die with her eyes open, or closed?

The more Ai'er thought about it, the more terrifying she became, and suddenly she felt sick to her stomach and vomited out all the medicine she had just drunk, and Mama Bear was frightened, her eyes were bloodshot surrounded by dark circles, and she stared at her in horror-

For more than a month after that, Ai'er had the same nightmare every day, in which the eldest lady lay outside her room with angry eyes, blood flowing from the back of her head and the melting snow, wetting the entire back of her head. And she kept squinting at the closed door, hoping that someone would come out of it and save her—

Sometimes Ai'er will also bring herself into that dream, she dreamed that when she opened the door, the eldest lady with a stiff face suddenly turned her head, stared at her and laughed coldly, opened her mouth wide, but her voice was very weak, floating in the wind like a rag torn by the wind: I want to tell you a secret, about your background......

The longest dream is only there, Ai'er will wake up on the edge of a nightmare every time, the eldest mother retreats from Mama Xiong to come to her room alone, does she want to tell her a secret, about her life experience? What could it be?

This became Ai'er's heart disease, and her illness began to worsen again, and the vicious gaze of the dream never left her for a moment, and it cursed everything here deeply, even if it died, it made people sleepless.

Niang is no longer the mother of the past, Ai'er's mother, the second lady in the house, was just a concubine with no status and no temper, she is very gentle, very tolerant, she always sews a towel for Ai'er by herself, always whispers to her subordinates and does not call much, always cries softly in the middle of the night, always wipes her tears and pretends to be nothing, she is so weak, but she will always tremble when the eldest mother is angry and protect Ai'er behind her, her hands are always so cold, but she can hold Ai'er's hand very tightly and tightly, Ai'er will always say, Mother, Your hands are so cold, I'll protect you. The mother always shook her head lightly, stroked Ai'er and said: No matter how weak the mother is, she will protect Ai'er.

An accident and everything changed.

The mother is very busy, her eyes are becoming more and more determined and indifferent, and the words are getting less and less, after the death of the mother, she became the only lady in the house, all traces of the mother have been erased, the servants in the house except for the bear mother and the circle, the others have been changed, the newcomers do not know that there was once a lady here, and they do not know that there is a sad soul of the mother living here, she is dead, but everywhere curses their lives, the mother's eyes and mother's movements, more and more like her, except for the harsh and severe, she is much more sensitive than the mother, and the mother's emotions will be written on the face, and the mother's thoughts, no one knows.

The reason why Niang kept Mama Xiong was because she still wanted someone to verify her changes.

Ai'er began to be afraid to see her mother, to see the pair of indifferent eyes on her stiff face.

Sixteen years old spring, Ai'er lived in the new boudoir, the new boudoir named "kiss jade pavilion", it seems that dad really likes jade, but the name of this pavilion, what can it represent, it looks so incongruous, the card is too big, the word is very sloppy, this word, like Dad's handwriting.

As soon as she entered the boudoir, Ai'er couldn't wait to open the window to see the scenery outside, and then she fell back to the chair in frustration, the building was high, the courtyard wall was also high, she couldn't see the green plain in the distance, only the blue sky, and the clouds floated eternally.

After Ai'er lived in the new building, the downstairs floor was supposed to be a bedroom for the mother, and the mother never came to live in it once, and the mother demolished the yard of the eldest mother and built a more luxurious one on the original site. Dad didn't object, as if the eldest mother was just a dispensable person for him, if it was really so dispensable, why would he marry her into the door?

In order to prevent Ai'er's heart from being disturbed, the mother also grounded the circle, and the circle said that after she came to the house, she had never been outside once, and the mother was afraid that she would talk about the outside world in front of Ai'er, and she was afraid that Ai'er would not be able to recuperate alone.

Ai'er smiled bitterly, her mother was really well-intentioned.

Changed.

Things are not, and people are not.

Where is the third brother now? Will he hate her? Did he throw the zodiac pebbles he found into the yard because he couldn't wait for her? Did the stone be kicked to the corner of the courtyard in ignorance and then buried under the new building with the relocation?

One year, two years, three years, four years, five years, six years, Ai'er passes the time with this every day.

Originally scheduled to marry at the age of eighteen, it was delayed for two years because of Ai'er's health, and no one was in a hurry to mention the marriage.

Finally waited for this year, Uncle Shi's family mentioned this matter, sent an appointment sticker, and Dad went north to get married to Uncle Shi, and said: Miss, you are finally going to get married, I thought you couldn't get married.

Ai'er sighed, and her emotions of crying and laughing had already been numbed by the circle.