It was the middle of winter, and there had only been a heavy snowfall.

Jin Chao sat on the big kang near the window, through the window lattice, looking at the bluestone path in the courtyard with a blank expression, and the plum trees on both sides of the path stretched their branches arbitrarily, and the garden was full of red. The blue bricks and tiles in the distance were all covered with snow, and the sun shone on the snow, and the clammy and cold breath penetrated into the house, which was very deserted.

The clothes on Jin Chao's body are still the old style of previous years, maybe they have been washed many times, and even the begonia flowers embroidered on them have a lot of legs, she leaned her head against the window, and the orange sun sprinkled on her cheeks, as if with a faint halo, but her cheeks were thin, and her eye sockets were also a little sunken, obviously not in good spirits.

At that time, the concubine of the Gu family was suitable for An, and her appearance was suitable for peace. It's just that now that he is seriously ill, people are getting older and older, coupled with long-term depression and unhappiness, he can no longer see the former style.

Shiye walked in with a basin of hot water, and saw Jin Chao looking out the window. She walked over and bent over, and said in a low voice, "Madam, don't be tired, you are weak, you have to take care of yourself." Did the slave close the window for you? ”

"Ma'am?" Seeing that she didn't make a sound, Shiye hesitated to ask again, and she also looked up at the window.

Outside the window is a plum plant, the leaves have fallen, and the pale green and yellowish bones are dotted with branches, and there is not much blooming. Farther away are the willow trees, the banyan trees, which have just snowed, and everything looks white. After all, there is nothing to see, but the third lady looks at it so seriously.

Jin Chao looked out the window in disappointment, spring has not yet come, I'm afraid she can't wait.

Picking up the leaves felt in his heart, the plum tree was planted by the eldest young master many years ago.

Her nose was sour: "Madame, but I'm looking forward to the Seventh Young Master...... Don't think about it, the seventh young master accompanied the thirteenth young master to entertain guests in the front hall. ”

Jin Chao lowered his eyes and whispered, "I am his mother in name, and I have to mention this again...... Moreover, I did not wait for him. ”

Shiye has never known the importance of speaking, and it is not as meticulous as Wansu. But she was faithful to her, or she would have left when she had just been seized power.

Shiye lowered his head and choked up a little: "Yes, madam." She finished wiping Jinchao's body and went out with a copper basin.

The curtain was lowered, and the sandalwood was deep in the room.

Jin Dynasty used to like incense the most. Of course, it is not the sandalwood of the Buddha, but the fragrance of various flower dew. The girl is bright and dark, and she naturally thinks that the person will like her. After thinking about it for so many years, I can't get depressed, and now I'm seriously ill......

It turns out that she has not forgotten it for so many years......

Jin Chao sighed lightly, looked up at the sun, and suddenly remembered the scene when she saw Chen Xuanqing for the first time many years ago.

It was still in her third uncle's study, he was dressed in a soft green robe with dark bamboo leaf patterns, tall and handsome, sitting quietly on the circle chair, holding the scroll with slender and powerful fingers, looking at her lightly, and said calmly: "If the girl of the Gu family thinks that she is a disciple below, just shout out." Gu Jinchao was so ashamed and annoyed that he actually bit his hand and ran away.

She bit hard at the time, and Chen Xuanqing's left hand was left with a shallow scar since then. He was afraid that the people next to him would come over to see when they heard the sound, and he didn't even dare to shout in pain. Gu Jinchao only remembered his slightly frowning brows and his warm and powerful hands.

It was the age when she was in love for the first time, and she was attracted to him because of this first encounter. He was bored with her, and he was arrogant and domineering to the foreign lady Gu and didn't know the etiquette.

She dragged on until nineteen and was not married, but he married a woman from a good family who he had already set a good marriage.

At this point, Jin Chao should have repented, but she never forgot the scar on his hand. Later, Chen Xuanqing's father died of her original partner, and she became his father's successor against her grandmother's wishes, just to see him every day and see him.

The arrogant and domineering, but stupid Gu family's concubine at the beginning, was particularly ridiculous because of her absurdity.

After she got married, every time she saw the intimacy between Chen Xuanqing and Yu Wanxue, her heart was in severe pain. She can't see the intimacy between Chen Xuanqing and Yu Wanxue, she can't see the appearance of him holding her hand and bowing his head gently in the sunset, and she can't see the brightness, when he paints, he paints her eyebrows with a gentle smile.

Because of jealousy, she treated Yu Wanxue harshly, Gu Jinchao is a serious mother-in-law, and at the instructions of her mother-in-law, Yu Wanxue can't resist.

Yu Wanxue was punished by the Jin Dynasty for a small mistake, and knelt in the cold ancestral hall in the winter to copy Buddhist scriptures. Jin Chao defended in front of Mrs. Tai, saying that he didn't know that she was pregnant, and Yu Wanxue was at fault first, and she should be punished if she made a mistake. Mrs. Tai didn't blame much, but only told Yu Wanxue to take care of her body and not think about it.

Chen Xuanqing seems to have treated her differently from that time on.

At that time, the Jin Dynasty had already presided over the Chen family, and his mind was far from being comparable to Gu Jinchao a few years ago. But she still can't escape a love word, but whenever Chen Xuanqing shows a little concern, she can't help but be moved.

Gu Jinchao was raised by her grandmother since she was a child, she was more daring than the woman next to her, and she was less bound by etiquette. But this kind of thing betrays the ethics of the norm, and she will never dare to really do it. Besides, she also understood at that time, how could Chen Xuanqing be sincere to her?

But her heart was like a cat scratching and tickling, and she was reluctant to give up on Chen Xuanqing. So he wrote a letter and politely rejected Chen Xuanqing.

The letter later fell into the hands of Mrs. Tai, but the content of the letter had been completely changed, the handwriting was hers, the envelope was hers, and even the incense on the letter was the lily incense she used.

Although the content of the letter is vague, it all hints at her affection for Chen Xuanqing, Jin Chao looked at the content of the letter and his face turned pale, these words and sentences, only slightly changed, the meaning is completely different.

From that time on, Gu Jinchao was deprived of the power in charge of his hands and thrown into the side courtyard by the Chen family, at that time, his father no longer paid attention to her, and his younger brother was extremely indifferent to Gu Jinchao. No one in the entire Gu family was willing to help her, disliking her and losing face to the Gu family, I just hope that she will die outside!

According to the words of his father's newly raised aunt, if Gu Jinchao was a person who knew shame, he should hang himself on the roof beam with a white silk, and beg for nothing to live!

Later, Gu Jinchao's life was extremely embarrassing. She was disheartened, but in such an environment, she slowly honed her mood and patience, and gradually understood some things that she had never understood before. The love and hatred in my heart for many years have also faded, what kind of love, but that's what it is. She's not stupid, she just can't see through it.

Half a year later, Gu Jinchao's grandmother died. When she heard the news, she was pruning the holly in the yard, and with a stroke of scissors, she almost cut off a bunch of red fruits.

On the day of his grandmother's death, Gu Jinchao wept and fell in front of the spirit, and since then he has lost his vitality and quickly lost weight.

Later, because of a serious illness, and after all, she was the biological mother of the Thirteenth Young Master, and her situation was always better than before. Chen Xuanqing actually moved her out of the damp small mansion and lived according to the etiquette of Mrs. Chen.

Jin Chao looked at her fingers, she just felt that there was nothing to be attached to, everything she liked was destroyed, people had no hope, and there was no spirit to live. In fact, if you count carefully, she is only thirty-seven this year.

However, Chen Xuanqing is still in his prime, and he looks more calm as he gets older. He was at the best of men, but she was already old.

In the early spring of February last year, Chen Xuanqing took a concubine, and Jin Chao sat and waited for his concubine to say goodbye, she looked at Yu Wanxue, and saw the concubine who was kneeling as tender as an onion.

Her heart is as calm as a mirror.

After so many years of entanglement, she has already seen through Chen Xuanqing. So he just smiled and nodded, took off the bracelet on his wrist, and personally put it on his concubine, and the jade man's wrist was like frost. He seemed afraid that she would be unfavorable to his beloved concubine, so he suddenly took a step forward, but stopped again.

Jin Chao frowned when he saw him, and there was a deep disgust. She smiled and withdrew her hand, she just sighed that the streamer threw people away, she used to be so good-looking, but now her face is haggard, and there is no half color left.

There is no need to be nervous, there is no hatred without love, Jin Chao has long been not too strong in his emotions.

Shiye came in again, it was too cold in the house, she warmed the charcoal basin and brought it in. Jin Chao heard the babbling opera and asked her, "What's going on in the house, why is it so lively?" ”

Shiye said: "The thirteenth young master married a wife, and she is the daughter of the Baodi Liu family. The Seventh Young Master dotes on his younger brother, and the pomp is big. ”

Lin'er was about to marry a wife, and Jin Chao was in a trance.

Chen Xuanlin is the child she gave birth to in the second year of coming to the Chen family, and she is sixteen this year. He had not stepped through her door since he was six years old, and she had only seen him from afar during the New Year's holidays, and the child was very good-looking, a little like his uncle. 's own child was born so much, and he simply regarded her as an enemy.

The person who raised him must have taught him not to be close to his mother from an early age. When Lin'er was young, the Jin Dynasty was busy with family affairs and handed him over to Mrs. Tai to raise, so he naturally became even less intimate.

The charcoal basin was warm, but Jin Chao suddenly felt cold, the bedding was warm, and she was chilling from her bones. Jin Chao slowly closed her eyes, she didn't think about who to blame, what to blame Chen Xuanqing, blame him for being ruthless? Complaining about his deep scheming? It's always a bit delusional to say, she just blames herself for not being able to see through it.

It's just that now, what's the matter, and go to sleep, slowly, she is gone.

The lively singing kept ringing, and gradually, the singing reached her dream, and it became a dream scene.

There is no chaos in the spring, and there are resentments in the ground.

It is my birth of Xiao Chanjuan, an example of choosing a famous family, and a case of immortals

Very good fate, throw youth away. Who will see me when I sleep

then ask for shyness. Whoever wants to dream about it, and ** dark flow

Delay, where is this heartfelt

Drowning and frying, splashing the remnants of life and asking the sky.

============= new book, how supportive! The words are taken from "The Peony Pavilion"

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