…… It was also such a summer day, the young Jiang Jingheng stood behind the door in a daze, watching his biological mother Cao and a group of aunts being escorted to kneel in the courtyard.

For as long as he can remember, he has never seen such a humble posture and panicked look of his biological mother - the one who has always smiled and looked good in front of his father Jiang Yadan; In front of her mother-in-law Xiao Tao, she was arrogant and domineering, as if she was the biological mother of the owner of the backyard, after listening to Chang's mother's indifferent announcement, she was paralyzed to the ground in an instant, and the look on her face at that time was like this to Princess Jingjun!

And then—

And then what it was, Jiang Jingheng couldn't remember anyway.

He only remembered that when he was woken up by the nurse sobbing, his pants were already soaked, Cao and the others were gone, and the courtyard that had always been lively was so cold that it was frightening.

The nurse took him from the swaddling clothes, in the end, there was some affection, although the Cao family died, she did not leave him alone, and took care of the groggy Jiang Jingheng very carefully.

Thanks to the carefree foundation of brocade clothes and jade food since childhood, a few days later, he finally came back to his senses and wanted to ask what happened, but after opening his mouth, he was horrified to find that he couldn't make any sound!

This frightened the nurse too, and hurriedly looked for someone to try to find a doctor for him.

However, at that time, Xiao Tao's had already died in childbirth, Chu Yitong had not yet passed the door, and the backyard was leaderless - the most important thing was that she was still the crown princess of Mrs. Zhuang at the time, and she did not go to Northern Xinjiang in Beijing, knowing that she hated concubines and didn't like concubines, which steward would dare to do this? !

Even after Jiang Jinghu's accidental death, Jiang Jingheng was already Jiang Yadan's de facto eldest son, but he was even more afraid of angering the housekeepers of the four housekeepers, so they found various reasons and rejected the nurse's pleading and pleading again and again!

The nurse could only put her hopes on Jiang Yadan.

But when I heard that my mother had executed Jiang Yadan, who had many concubines in her backyard, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to please her, so I had to lie outside the house for a few days before I cautiously went home to find out...... finally looked forward to him returning to the yard, but the nurse's request to see was blocked by the steward, on the grounds that Jiang Yadan had been ordered by his mother, and he had to cultivate himself in the past few days, so the people in the backyard should not be disturbed!

Actually—

On a summer morning several years later, when Jiang Jingheng was walking alone through the grassy garden, he heard two subordinates muttering his lost voice behind the dense flowers: "The forest steward is really bold!" How can the tenth grandson be the son of the eighth son, even if it is a concubine, in the end, it is the blood of the Jiang family! can't talk about such a big thing, and he dares to stop him from telling the eighth prince - if it was reported to the eighth prince in time, how could the eighth prince not send someone to ask for a doctor, so that if something happens, maybe the tenth grandson will not be dumb? ”

"Hey! What do you know?! After the ninth grandson goes, the tenth grandson is the actual eldest son! The first eight young ladies have suffered all their lives, and in the end they left a sister-in-law, according to the rules of our family, the fourteenth grandson will be the head of the eighth prince in the future! ”

"What does this have to do with the Ten Grandchildren? The fourteenth grandson was raised under the knees of the nineteenth son, and the nineteenth young lady was so fierce, could it be that the tenth grandson could speak, and dared to run to her to find trouble with the fourteenth grandson?! ”

"Do you think that the fourteenth grandson is the only son-in-law under the knee of the eighth prince, or the son-in-law of the yuan, but he is not the longest! And because of his fate, he can't be raised in front of our son! If you haven't seen each other for a long time, even if you are a father and son, how much relationship can you have? Aunt Cao is still there, the tenth grandson is the most liked by the eighth son, and the tenth grandson is more than ten years older than the fourteenth grandson, and the tenth grandson will grow up in the future and can be on his own, and the fourteenth grandson is still a child - in case the tenth grandson is a capable person again, do you say that you will not threaten the fourteenth grandson in the future?! ”

"How is that possible?! Our family is the most different! And the old lady loved the fourteenth grandson so much, and the lady personally executed Aunt Cao and them...... Now the nineteen sons and nineteen young ladies who are raising the fourteenth grandson, are they easy to provoke?! Didn't you make a fuss about the makeup of the first eight young ladies before?! Where do the fourteenth grandchildren need to be afraid of the tenth grandchildren? However, the tenth grandson needs to worry that when the fourteenth grandson grows up, he knows the grievances suffered by the first eight young ladies and turns to him to settle accounts, right? ”

"What you're saying is really insightful! The old lady is so old, how many years can she hurt her fourteenth grandson? Besides, if you don't want to say a good thing, when the first eight young ladies were there, didn't the old lady hurt her? But who called the old lady a step-family, and our eighth son is not as close to the old lady as the nineteenth prince - the old lady's hand can reach out to us? Besides, Mrs., in order to prevent the old man from taking concubines, Mrs. is still with the north of Xinjiang at such an old age, and the whip is beyond the reach of the whip! Even if the nineteenth prince and the nineteenth young lady are the younger brother and sister-in-law of the eighth son, not the elder brother and sister-in-law, no matter how partial the fourteenth grandson is, it is impossible to be too obvious, right? What's more, the ten grandsons are not the same, they are the bloodlines of the eighth sons! ”

"That'...... Steward Lin? ”

"Silly? Steward Lin's cousin is the female official Lin in front of the Queen Mother, who doesn't know that the Queen Mother loves the nineteenth son, and the fourteenth grandson is also a good fate, and he is loved by the house! ”

"In this way, the tenth grandson is pitiful, and he is hated?"

"What's the solution? Who told him to have a bad life, born in his aunt's womb? But speaking of which, he is not completely wronged - if it weren't for the fact that when his biological mother Aunt Cao was alive, she bullied the Eighth Young Lady in front of her too much, and even didn't let go of the Eighth Young Lady's marriage, how could she make the lady so angry that she didn't remember their contribution to the continuation of the Jiang family's heirs, and directly gave the order to kill all of them?! deceived his wife with a concubine, changed to a serious family, and was dragged out and killed a long time ago, and he could still live until his wife returned to Beijing and then be cleaned up? ! ”

"That's right...... However, Aunt Cao is unruly, and the ten grandchildren are a little innocent, so what does the ten grandchildren know? Didn't Aunt Cao teach it? ”

"Don't worry about these old sesame seeds and rotten grains, no matter how innocent we are, it can't be our turn. Besides, after the Lin family made a fool and harmed the Lin female official, the Lin steward was also involved, which was equivalent to retribution...... Today's young lady is young and beautiful, but she can't speak at all in the backyard compared to the young lady in front of her...... It is said that the young lady likes to drink flower dew, and it is rare that the maid in front of her is lazy, so she will leave this messenger to us. Hurry up and collect it and send it over, maybe you can reward us with something? ”

The subordinates went away while collecting the flower dew, leaving only Jiang Jingheng standing behind the flowers for a long time - in a trance, I remembered that after the nurse asked to see Jiang Yadan several times to no avail, she took out the body that the Cao family had given her in the past, and wanted to invite a doctor from outside the mansion, but it seemed that she was also blocked, because without the permission of the master, how could the dignified Guogong Mansion let people in in a mess?

The nurse wanted to carry him out of the house for medical treatment, but of course she was also refused: no matter how you say it, it is the blood of the Guogong Mansion, how can a subordinate say that he will go out of the house? !

In the end, the nurse had nothing to do, so she knelt in front of the Lin steward and begged bitterly: "No matter how you say it, it's the blood of the eighth prince...... If you can't speak in the future, how will we explain?! ”

"Aunt Cao just died, she was born, how can she not be a little unwilling?" Steward Lin's eyes were playful, and he said high-sounding words unhurriedly, "In that case, the tenth grandson is too unconscionable, isn't it?!" In my opinion, isn't it good for the tenth grandson? I can eat, drink and sleep, but it's quieter than before, it's quiet! It's quiet and it's easy for you to bring it - don't forget that Aunt Cao always instigated the tenth grandson to deliberately go to the young lady to make noise, if it weren't for doing too many things like this, this time I could make the lady angry like this?! In the final analysis, it was also Aunt Cao's own sin, and now the tenth grandson is quiet, and he is also paying off his biological mother's debts, lest Aunt Cao Qian'er will not be able to cast a human fetus for 800 years, right? ! ”

"You...... How can you say such a thing?! When Aunt Cao was here, she never shortened your benefits! The nurse was so angry that her whole body trembled, "Do you have a conscience?!" Aunt Cao no longer respects the young lady who is gone, the childish is innocent, if the young lady is here, she will never approve of dealing with the ten grandchildren like this! ”

"What you said is really ridiculous, although Aunt Cao didn't give me any benefits, but when did I not help her? I didn't take her for nothing! But many of the benefits she gave me were taken from the young lady for nothing, right? Young lady, she is too soft-hearted, so she is always bullied by minions like you! Steward Lin leaned down slowly, looked at the nurse who was in Shaohua, and said with bad intentions, "Since you say that I have no conscience, then I will have a conscience once - according to the rules when Aunt Cao was still there, you can ask for a doctor for the tenth grandson, but what benefits do you give me?!" ”

The nurse subconsciously took out the package behind her: "The ...... Aunt Cao left me before"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Steward Lin: "I didn't take it away when Chang's mother led the team to search the house before, such a tattered to send me!?" ”

The nurse hesitated: "I still have some savings outside the house...... but when she said this, she exclaimed - Steward Lin pinched her chin lightly, squinted and said: "Savings? I'm not unusual! ”

…… In the end, the nurse turned pale, turned her head and shouted to Jiang Jingheng, who was lying on the threshold at a loss: "Ten grandchildren, you go back to the house first!" Slaves...... The slave and the forest steward went to talk! ”

After the nurse said a few "words" to Steward Lin, Jiang Jingheng finally got the doctor's diagnosis, but at this time it was too late......

Maybe it's still too late, after all, the doctor was invited by Steward Lin, who knows if what he said is true or not?

In short, after inviting that doctor, everyone knows that the tenth grandson can no longer speak!

Jiang Yadan finally knew the news, I didn't know whether it was guilt or embarrassment, called him to him, Wen Yan comforted him for a while, and rewarded a bunch of things - but such a warm time is not long, the newly held Oiran of "Drinking Spring Building" posted a post, and he quickly left his son and left.

After one beauty after another, Jiang Yadan quickly forgot about the Cao family, and even more forgot the son left by the Cao family.

Jiang Jingheng, who is speechless, grows lonely, like the grass and trees in the corner of the garden that no one cares about, no one knows about the withering and the glory.

He is also accustomed to such neglect, growing up step by step, getting married step by step, if he hadn't been involved in the turmoil this time, he should have had children step by step, and like all mediocre and unvalued noble children, he spent a life without worrying about food and clothing.

But at this moment-

The scene of Princess Jingjun falling to the ground with splashes of blood made countless familiar scenes slash in front of his eyes like lightning and flint:

Memories of that summer afternoon;

the tragedy that caused him to go from being favored to being ignored;

The nurse asked for healing again and again, and after he was refused, he went back to the room and cried helplessly;

The sentence that he couldn't hear when he was a child and suddenly became an adult, "The ten grandsons are good, and the slave and maid will come back after a few words to Steward Lin" is full of love, loyalty and bitterness and humiliation;

The doctor said, "Please forgive me for being shallow in my studies", and the nursing mother collapsed to the ground;

After the flowers, it floated over with such an understatement, "The fourteenth grandson is loved by the house and the black, and the tenth grandson is ......";

It was as if a seed had broken out of its shell, as if an invisible shackle had been shattered—Jiang Jingheng felt that the blood in his whole body was burning into a raging fire in an instant!

This flame is called, hatred!

Wrapped in such flames, his eyes that had always been blank turned red, but his mind was surprisingly clear!

When everyone surrounded Princess Jingjun and urged the imperial doctor to come forward to check quickly, no one noticed that he quietly bypassed behind his mother-in-law, and from the side, silently and quickly stepped on the Danqi!

After all, in the years that have flowed year after year since the loss of his voice, everyone has become accustomed to ignoring him, one can even say ignoring!

Although she was still on the top, the crown princess, who was also frowning and paying attention to the situation of Princess Jingjun, noticed that when someone was approaching her, Jiang Jingheng was already close at hand - the crown princess had been in northern Xinjiang with the prince for a long time, although she had not experienced the battlefield in person, she was also vigilant, just looking at the distorted expression of this concubine, she knew that it was not good, she quickly got up and retreated, and shouted angrily: "Evil obstacles! What do you want to do?! ”

It's just that although the crown princess has been with her husband in northern Xinjiang for many years and is used to seeing soldiers, she is still a real lady in the boudoir, and now the eldest grandson is when it is time to have children, and her legs and feet are far less flexible than when she was young; Especially before, Chang's mother had been instructed by her to go down to Danqi to check on Princess Jingjun, and at this moment, her surroundings were empty!

That's why they only ran two steps, and everyone under the Danqi turned their heads when they heard the sound, and they had already seen a scene that made them terrified-