Past Lives (7)
The next day, Mrs. Cao ordered someone to rush to the Song Mansion in a car, Wei Mengying very reluctantly took her in to sit, the mother and daughter sat down, and the maid withdrew after making tea, she asked impatiently: "What are you doing again?" I'll tell you, I've been busy these two days! β
"You just laugh at a child under your knees, and you don't even have a concubine, what's there to be busy with?" Old Madam Cao said deliberately, "Could it be that your mother-in-law has shown you a face again?" β
Wei Mengying's face was gloomy and said, "What? A mother-in-law quarreled with me yesterday, and now my mother is going to quarrel with me?! β
"What you said, I am your mother-in-law, not your mother-in-law, what are you arguing about? Isn't that worrying you? Mrs. Cao said, "Don't you think...... How many times has your mother-in-law come to trouble you lately? β
Wei Mengying sneered and said, "That old immortal doesn't like me, it's not a day or two!" It's a pity that her husband didn't pay attention to her at all! If it weren't for the fact that she is her husband's biological mother, I would have kicked her out a long time ago! Now let her go free for a few days, and one day I will let her die a bad death!! β
When Mrs. Cao heard this, she frowned secretly, although she was not good to her two biological daughters, but now when she saw Wei Mengying's ruthless appearance, she also felt very displeased, and said secretly: "Such a daughter is too vicious, if it goes on like this, even if I keep coaxing and holding her, I can't say that one day I will be unhappy, it will be bad for my Wei family!" Fortunately, someone paid for her this time, otherwise, I would have to find a way to suppress her, what is the use of asking for money if my life is gone? β
But her face was silent, and she said gently: "My son-in-law loves you, who doesn't know inside and out?" Although your mother-in-law couldn't see you before you passed the door, she has been here for so many years, and I have never seen her oppose you so often before. Now that the sky is suddenly staring at you, have you ever thought about it...... What's going on here? β
Wei Mengying was having a headache about this during this time, and couldn't help but be alert when she heard this: "What does my mother want to say?" Or do you know something? β
"Yesterday, someone came to the door and peddled a message with me, asking for the benefit of three hundred taels of silver!" Old Madam Cao's eyes flickered and said, "That person seems to have something to do with the Gu family!" β
"Gu family?" Wei Mengying couldn't help frowning, since she entered the door, although Mrs. Pang couldn't wait to mention Gu Xinxin eighteen times a day, emphasizing that Wei Mengying's background was humble and not on the stage, but Wei Mengying was angry with Gu Xinxin, but she didn't care very much: after all, the Gu family had never troubled her, even when Song Ying died, the Gu family came to the Song Mansion to offer condolences, and Gu Xinxin, who was not married at that time, was also among them, and she was also polite, whether it was words and deeds, or the eyes that met in private, she did not express any dissatisfaction and hatred for Wei Mengying.
The Gu family behaved as if Song Gu had agreed to get married, something that had never happened before.
Wei Mengying didn't know if it was because Gu Xinxin didn't worry about getting married, and she didn't have the intention of marrying Song Yuan, or because of the self-respecting identity of the Gu family in Hongzhou, she disdained to talk to her low-born grandmother of the Song family.
However, although she was very disgusted with Gu Xinxin in her heart, she wished to hear the news of Gu Xinxin's bad luck, but she was also relieved to see this situation - Mrs. Pang's targeting had already made her a little exhausted, if there was a Gu family stumbling behind her back, then she really felt that she couldn't live this day!
At this moment, listening to Mrs. Cao talk about the Gu family, Wei Mengying was surprised and also suspicious, "Didn't that Gu Xinxin marry to the south a long time ago?" Although I haven't been able to give birth to a son until now, I still have a smile. My husband is all thinking about me, is Gu Xinxin not having a good time now, and he wants to come back and rob me? ! β
Old Madam Cao sneered and said: "That's Gu Gong's pearl, don't say that she is doing well now, but she is not doing well, she has Gu Gong to take care of her, and she still needs to ask the Song family?" β
She lowered her voice, "However, my son, you cut off other people's marriages back then, although this matter did not make a fuss, but in the eyes of the Gu family's insiders, you were slapped in the face after all!" If you are from a noble background and don't let that Gu Xinxin pay it back, but the lintel of our house is so low, how can you say that the Gu family can swallow this breath? β
"But in the end, the Gu family is a family with a head and a face, it was because of you that they passed the door, they didn't do anything, lest you have three long and two short, even if there is no evidence, those who know will suspect that it is their revenge, they are just not afraid that you and your son-in-law will fight back, and they also have to consider whether it will make a big fuss and let people know that their daughter didn't rob you!"
"But now Gu Xinxin has been out of the cabinet for several years, and it is rumored that several children have been born. At this time, the Gu family will do it again, do you say that even if it is a son-in-law, will you doubt them? β
Wei Mengying's face turned blue and said, "This is really funny!" I am now followed by a group of people in and out, everyone is watching, even if the Gu family is aggrieved for Gu Xinxin, what can they do with me? Besides, Gu Xinxin had already agreed to marry her husband before, and then her husband met me and didn't want her, it can be seen that she and her husband had no fate, and she didn't have the ability to envelop her fiancΓ©, so she could rely on me? It's ridiculous! β
"My son, you are so clever and foolish!" Old Madam Cao sneered, "If you have children and grandchildren around your knees, you can still say that you are not afraid of what the Gu family will do!" As for now, what do you think about your mother-in-law's argument that has always been reasonable? Childless! The Gu family didn't want to deal with you directly at all, what kind of lintel did they, how could they do such a face-tearing thing - they had already found a group of women from Jiangnan who looked like they were watery and beautiful, and they were discussing with your mother-in-law when to send their son-in-law to warm the bed! β
"They want to be beautiful!" Wei Mengying gritted her teeth and said, "How can my husband be the one who is so confused by beauty?!" β
"That's childish talk." Old Madam Cao reasoned slowly, "Of course the son-in-law is towards you, otherwise how could you fight with your mother-in-law until now?" The problem is, the son-in-law is also a serious messenger, so it is impossible to say that he stays in the house all day long like you, right? Even if it's you, you have to go out and socialize once in a while, don't you? You can keep an eye on him at home, and when he goes out, can you follow him and keep an eye on him again and again? How many years has the old lady of the Gu family been friends with your late father-in-law, even if he is not in the imperial capital now, the connections left behind should not be underestimated! β
They agreed that when the son-in-law was out, they would ask their colleagues to invite him to dinner, and when he was drunk, he would find a separate hospital to close the son-in-law, put some medicine, and let the handsome women who had prepared him go in to serve - and then give birth quietly after those people were pregnant. When the time comes, I will hug the door again, and the blood will confirm the bloodline of the Song family, and the son-in-law will hurt you again, and you will still be able to fall your own flesh and blood to death? ! β
"What's more, your mother-in-law is still here, how can she not help herself. Bear. Son in the door?! So why has she been getting into trouble with you more and more lately? It's because she's already found a way to deal with you! β
Speaking of this, seeing Wei Mengying's pale face, Old Madam Cao chuckled again and continued, "You and your son-in-law have been laughing at a girl for so many years, although the son-in-law loves to smile, but men, how can they not care about blood inheritance?" Especially a family like the Song family. When the time comes, you can watch it, even if your son-in-law still loves you, you have to be attentive to your son! β
"If you haven't been able to look down on his son, you are still young and beautiful in the past two years, and your son-in-law may be able to spoil you!"
"But if it goes on like this, how can a son-in-law not be annoyed?"
"What's more, after this kind of son is accepted into the Song family, it must be raised by your mother-in-law herself!"
"You said that your mother-in-law hates you so much, how will she raise this child? must teach him to oppose you everywhere - you also said that your son-in-law loves you again, but because your mother-in-law is his mother-in-law, he can't really do anything to his mother-in-law for you! In the same way, what will he do with his own son for your sake? β
"After a long time, three generations of people love each other, and everything bad is yours - what do you say if you fall into that situation?!"
Wei Mengying's face turned pale in an instant!
"The three hundred taels of silver ......" When Mrs. Cao left, she didn't forget to mention it deliberately.
Wei Mengying called the maid in, and took out a silver ticket of five hundred taels of silver to her: "You go back first!" I have to think about it. β
Although she said this, Old Madam Cao already knew in her heart - Wei Mengying was really panicked!
It's just that after Mrs. Cao went home happily, but after three months, she really waited for the news that Wei Mengying was going to reconcile with Song Yuan - but the Wei family's plan to make a fortune still fell through: because after Wei Mengying reconciled and left, she did return to her parents' house with the dowry and the subsidy given by the Song family, but she was not downcast at all when she returned to her parents' home!
"In two days, the Hengshan Mansion is going to come to propose, and my mother will find someone to clean up the house, so as to give me some faΓ§ade!" Seeing Wei Mengying enter the door with her head held high as always, Old Madam Cao's mother and son had not had time to take revenge, and when they heard her words, they were all stunned: "Hengshan Palace? Are you a concubine? β
"A bunch of unambitious stuff!" Wei Mengying, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, sat down on her own, and her contemptuous gaze swept over the family of a godmother, "What about when I am as useless as you?" The prince of Hengshan died early because he wanted to marry me as a step-princess! β
Speaking of this, he sneered and looked at Mrs. Cao, "By the way, the five hundred taels of silver tickets, as well as the three thousand taels of silver tickets that were given to you before, take them out and use them to buy some new clothes and jewelry for the people around me!" It's a royal mansion anyway, and my dowry is too thin, isn't it shameless on my face? ! β
Mrs. Cao suddenly realized that the person who gave her three thousand taels of silver before co-authoring and asked her to go to separate her daughter and son-in-law came from Hengshan Palace!
In this way, the prince of Hengshan didn't know where he took a fancy to Wei Mengying and deliberately plotted to rob Song Yuan's wife?
Mrs. Cao never expected that she was calculated, not only did she not have a way to retaliate against her daughter, but she was caught by her daughter, and she said that she would not continue to be humiliated by her daughter in the future - she had always felt that Wei Mengying was too vicious and jealous, but at this moment this jealousy has turned into fear: after all, with Wei Mengying's background, it can be said that it is good luck to catch a Song Yuan.
But now that she is no longer a teenager, she has been married for ten years, and she has given birth to a daughter, in this case, she can still be favored by the prince and marry as a stepconcubine, which is definitely not something that can be done with a face, it can be seen that Wei Mengying is very interested in hooking. There is something unique about attracting men.
So if one day she can't stay here in Hengshan Palace, or she is tired of Hengshan Palace, wouldn't she be able to marry a third time? Such a daughter, where is the Wei family's family easy to offend!
Even Mrs. Cao suspected that the whole thing was a trap set by her daughter herself, in order to watch her mother's family go from full of hope to despair, and enjoy the fun of torturing them!
After that, Mrs. Cao didn't dare to play with her daughter anymore.
In fact, Wei Mengying knew in her heart that she had never met King Hengshan before she left, let alone in private.
After all, she was forced to almost breathe by Mrs. Pang because of the matter of her heirs-how could she have the energy to go to the red apricot out of the wall? Even if a man took the initiative to show her affection, according to the fierce battle she had with Mrs. Pang at that time, she would definitely suspect that it was a trap set by her mother-in-law.
And after marrying into the Hengshan Palace, the King of Hengshan said to her that he happened to see Song Yuan traveling with her, and fell in love with her at first sight, and heard that she was not doing well in the Song family.
Later, because Mrs. Cao took the money but never replied, he was worried about what would happen in the middle, so he deliberately contacted Wei Mengying quietly, made all kinds of promises, tried every means to gain her trust, and waited for her to leave.
Wei Mengying was puzzled by such a result and believed it, because didn't Song Yuan also fall in love with her at first sight? It can be seen that she does have attractive qualities - although she herself compares herself to those beautiful women of her age, and she can't see how she is better than those people?
However, there is a way that everyone has their own advantages, anyway, she really felt powerless to support herself in the Song family at that time, and it is also a good thing to have the opportunity of Hengshan Palace.
But why bother to dig deeper, if the truth is not so good, she can't get off the stage, and she can't keep such wealth, but where will she go?
Yes, Wei Mengying knocked on her mother's house, and she didn't think about it anymore.
She was very unwilling when she left the Song family, firstly, because she thought that she had lost to Mrs. Pang; secondly, Song Yuan is both talented and considerate to her, such a husband will not be hers in the future, and she is naturally reluctant in her heart; The third is her daughter Song Yixiao.
Eight years have passed, although Wei Mengying has not thought of this daughter in the middle, but still recalling, she still remembers that at that time, she packed up her things and called her daughter to her, and when she told her for the last time, the seven-year-old girl lay on her lap and cried at a loss, shouting one after another: "Mother don't leave me!" β
At that time, she was also in tears, and there was no moment of weakness in her heart, thinking that her daughter was only so big, and she had a lot of trouble with Mrs. Pang, so she left, even if Song Yuan would protect her daughter in the future, Mrs. Pang would definitely take out her granddaughter's anger, and Song Yuan's steproom entered the door, and she had to learn about the original concubine - but this idea was only for a moment, she finally pushed Song Yixiao away and wiped her tears away.
At that time, she comforted herself and thought: The Song family's lintel is much higher than the Wei family, and it is impossible to deliberately give her daughter to an elderly old thing as a concubine like the Wei family, at most, she will be wronged every day!
As for being wronged, no one loves anyone in this world, and there are more people who have to struggle by themselves, isn't Wei Mengying's own experience in her mother's house an example?
In contrast, Song Yixiao has lived six years of love from her father and mother?
What's more, Song Yixiao's grandmother and stepmother are unlikely to be good to her, and the brothers born to her stepmother will definitely not support her much in the future. After a little hard life, I know how to look at my face and how to be low, and I will be out of the cabinet in the future, and after I go to my husband's house, I can quickly get used to the days of being a daughter-in-law.
"I've been in such a situation back then, my daughter may not be worse than me, she will definitely be able to." Wei Mengying thought like this, and naturally ignored the heart-rending cry of her daughter behind her, and stepped out of the gate of the Song Mansion without looking back!
But she didn't expect that eight years later, what she heard was not the news of her daughter's marriage, but the news of her daughter's death.
"This kid is so unlucky!" Wei Mengying finally sat down on the soft couch, raised her sleeves to cover her face, and whimpered, "Why can't she be like me, why is she so stupid...... Why can't you be smarter...... Why did you die like this......"
Bo's mother was really sad to see her, so she didn't dare to persuade her again, but after looking at the copper leak in the corner of the house, she had to bite the bullet and speak: "Niangniang, count the time, the prince will come in a while." If you know that you are sad for the eldest lady......"
Song Yixiao is not the biological daughter of King Hengshan after all, as a stephusband, who would be happy to see his wife grief for her ex-husband's daughter?
Wei Mengying sobbed briefly for a moment, and when she raised her head, she had already regained her composure: "Call someone to fetch water and come in and serve!" Let them clean up here again - those who dare to talk more will all be sold with their tongues twisted! β
Seeing her return to normal, Bo's mother breathed a sigh of relief: "Yes!" β
"Xiaoxiao, don't worry, my mother will definitely avenge you!" Wei Mengying got up and went into the inner room to change her clothes, she was preparing to welcome the King of Hengshan, and while she was dressing up, she said silently in her heart, "The Song family, the Liu family, don't even think about escaping - especially the two children of Song Yuan and the Liu family, my mother will definitely let them die well, so that all of them can taste the grievances and humiliations you have suffered!!! β