A sigh suddenly came from the end of the corridor, waking up the two people who were talking.

Chen Ying looked back at the voice, and saw Xue Zhisu standing quietly in the wind, with two lines of tears on her face, and she didn't know how long she stood and how much she heard.

"Yo, why did the girl come out?" Liu's mother was a little sneering, wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, got up and went over to help her, and persuaded her in a low voice: "It's very windy outside, the girl's body is not good for wind, so it's important to go back to the house and rest." ”

Xue Zhi patted her hand lightly, as if she wanted to laugh, but the tears slipped down first, washing away the smile that would not gather.

"Mom, let's go on, and I'll listen to it too." She said, her voice trembling, and her tears flowed non-stop, but her expression was calm, even a little numb.

She threw her gaze away, looked at Chen Ying, and bent down apologetically: "Teach Principal Chen to smile, I listened to you here for a while." ”

She took a deep breath, as if she wanted to gather the strength to speak, and after a moment, Fang smiled astringently: "I heard these words once before. After that time, I didn't have the strength to listen a second time. Today, my mother has started her head, and I think, I don't always shrink my head. There are some things that I have to hear clearly and think clearly, so that I can teach me how to go forward on the way forward. ”

After finishing speaking, she coughed lightly, helped Liu's mother's hand and walked over, sat on Chen Ying's side, her pale face, without a trace of blood, and raised her head to salute: "Please Principal Chen, don't blame the little girl for being presumptuous." ”

"It doesn't matter." Chen Ying said.

At this moment, apart from these three words, she really didn't know what to say.

Xue Zhi turned to Mother Liu, nodded slightly to her, and motioned for her to continue.

Mother Liu sighed in response, stood beside her, and continued to tell: "When Brother Jiu'er knelt down, the slave and maid were guarding the entrance of the cave, and with the help of the torches outside, the people and things in the cave could be seen clearly. ”

She whispered, with a little pity in her expression: "Brother Jiu'er cried and begged again, and the slave maid saw that the face of the third girl was gray little by little. She stared at Brother Jiu'er for a while, then turned around and walked out. The third girl's grandmother had been pulling her, but this time she took off her hand, and the grandmother was also anxious, kneeling down and kowtowing desperately to the ninth brother and Mrs. Xian. ”

Speaking of this, her eyes turned red again, and she pressed a handkerchief to the corner of her eye, and said: "That old lady is a stupid mouth, the more anxious she is, the more speechless she becomes, she just kneels there and kowtows to her wife, and she can hear her kowtow in the cave." ”

She seemed to go back to that night again, and her voice was low, as if it could be blown away by the wind: "At that time, the third girl was walking to the entrance of the cave, and the slave maid greeted the light, and saw that her face was as white as paper, and her lips were bitten, so she only turned around and said, 'I don't care about anything else, my grandmother will ask my wife to take care of it in the future', and when she finished speaking, she went out without looking back." ”

Xue Zhi listened with a white face, tears slid down her cheeks, and she didn't wipe it, just stared into the distance, as if she was stupid.

Mother Liu glanced at her.

In that eye, there was pity and sadness.

She took a few steps forward and gently hugged Xue Zhi, but her eyes looked at Chen Ying, with a bit of begging: "The principal forgives the sin, the slave maid wants to say something from the heart, this matter is really no wonder to our girl." Our girl had fainted and didn't know that. ”

She gently held Xue Zhi's shoulder, and tears slipped from her eyes: "Mrs. Xian was ...... at that time It's also anxious. Who can be a parent in this world and watch their flesh and blood suffer? That's all Mrs. Xian could do at that time, and Mrs. Xian had no choice but to do it, she ......"

"Mom is making me happy." Xue Zhi suddenly spoke, interrupting these words.

Her pale lips trembled, and tears continued to flow: "Mom knows me...... What do I think? ”

She trembled, and her breathing became rapid again, as if she was about to fall into a spasm in the next second: "Every day, every hour, every moment, I think that if my mother had not come to save me, I would have died and would have been clean." ”

She suddenly hid her face, tears quickly oozed out of her fingers, and she whimpered: "In order to save me, my mother forced the third sister to replace me, what happened?" Aren't the big sister and the ninth brother still dead? Although her mother survived and received her fate, when did she not wash her face with tears? Then the mother also went, and before the hundred days had passed, the lady entered the door. ”

She gasped a few times, lowered her hand, and her eyes were empty and cold, as if she was looking elsewhere through the vast campus and the long peaks.

"With my life, I actually filled in a few lives and the life of my third sister. Mom, you say, isn't that reasonable? Her voice trembled violently, she breathed heavily, her chest heaving violently, and a sharp whistling sound burst out of her throat again.

Liu's mother also had tears in her eyes, and while calming her down, she took out a sachet from her sleeve and sniffed it for her, and said sadly: "Don't say that, girl." You are the only flesh and blood in this world, you must want to open some, smell this medicine bag quickly, and take a breath before talking. ”

Xue Zhi took the sachet and sniffed it vigorously a few times, the flushing on her face faded slightly, and her breathing gradually calmed down.

"Second Miss Xue is better to talk less." Chen Ying persuaded in a low voice.

Xue Zhi is indeed innocent, and her feelings are pitiful and pitiful.

She is carrying a lot of things that she shouldn't be carrying, and if she were an ordinary person, I'm afraid she would have collapsed long ago.

But she didn't.

Not only that, but she even has the courage and a way to go to the girls' school in person and deliver the news to Xue Rui. This alone shows the strength of his mind.

At this time, Xue Zhi had already put down the sachet, raised her eyes to look at Chen Ying, and smiled a little bitterly: "That's it, I didn't say these words, and I smiled at Principal Chen." ”

"Don't say that, I don't think it's ridiculous." Chen Ying said, a voice as clean as water, without any emotion.

The most hateful thing in this whole thing may be Brother Jiu'er.

However, when I think about it, why is he not pitiful?

How easy is it to make a living under my mother-in-law? Even if she is a fair and strict mother-in-law like Mrs. Xu, Chen Shao and Chen Li, who are the two concubines, will not live a cautious life?

Brother Jiu'er must be even more so.

He and Mrs. Xue are at both ends of the chain of interests, and many times, they are actually antagonistic, even hostile. Even though Brother Jiu'er is the only male in the mansion and is deeply favored by Lord Xue, his mother is still an unshakable existence for him.

At the end of the day, it's not the individual who is at fault, it's the times.

The land that breeds the distorted ethical relationship of "difference between the descendants and the concubines" is the biggest source of this tragedy.