Chapter 9: Sisters Recognize Each Other
The two sisters did not avoid the women, but walked very casually, as if they were unconsciously away from others, at least they did not speak so that outsiders would listen.
As for the maid and mother-in-law, she had already been stopped outside the plum forest by the county lord, and at this moment, there were only a few precious green calyx plums around the two of them?
Su Su looked at a few flower bones on the branches that were about to bloom, and smiled lightly: "Seventh sister, I haven't seen you for a long time."
Obviously, I have seen it in King Ke's Mansion, but Ruan Qiniang understands the meaning of this sentence. The people who met in the palace were the second young lady of Annanbo's Mansion and the little maid of Shun'anbo's Mansion, and the ones who met today were the Ruan sisters.
With just this sentence, Ruan Qiniang almost burst into tears! "Thirteen mothers."
Su Su hurriedly took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to her, "Good sister, they are all mothers, why are they about to drop gold beads at every turn!" β
Ruan Qiniang also knew that her emotions were too exposed, and she was seen for a while, but she didn't know how to explain it, so she wiped her tears with a handkerchief and said with a forced smile: "Thirteen Niang has also grown up!"
Su Su laughed out loud when she heard this, "The seventh sister is married and has become a mother, do I still have to follow my sister to ask for candy!" β
Thinking of the sisters when they were young, Ruan Qiniang also showed a nostalgic smile, and then said: "Thirteen Niang has wronged you!"
Su Su Yaotou, "Seventh sister, I am not aggrieved, although I am a maid in the Song Mansion, the old lady treats me like a granddaughter." Then he was bought by Zhao's mother, and because of the kindness of his aunt, Zhao's mother risked killing her and changed her identity and sold it to the Song family. and then how the old lady of the Song family told her sister one by one.
Since Ruan Qiniang dared to recognize her sister in private, she also sincerely recognized this sister, and naturally she didn't want her to always carry a burden on her back.
But Ruan Qiniang was not surprised at all when she heard this, she seemed to have an understanding of Su Su's life, and when she saw Su Su looking at her suspiciously, she sighed: "Silly sister, that Mother Zhao is naturally a good one, but now the saint hates our family, just because he is a tooth woman, how can he have the ability to change your identity without a little flaw, it is the third aunt who clears her tail, or how to say that good people have good rewards!" Even her mother said that Aunt Su is a big-eyed woman, but it's a pity that as a woman, she has such a look! β
Seeing that Su Su was still in the clouds, anyway, she wanted to make it clear to her sister today, Ruan Qiniang told Su Su about Aunt Su's good relationship because she saw through the reason for the infertility of the third lady of the Zhenguo Mansion back then.
Su Su's eyes widened, she didn't expect that the aunt who was soft and weak and beautiful in her memory without a little fireworks was so capable. Su Su flipped through his memory again, not to mention, there were really some medical incense recipes, which were placed in the corners of his memory, waiting for the master to look at them.
Su Su didn't receive all the memories of the original owner at that time, she was used to these triggered memories, and she was not in a hurry to watch it at this time, she had more important things to ask Ruan Qiniang.
"Seventh sister, how is your mother? Is the sixth brother good? Thinking of Ruan Liulang, who was exiled to the northwest at a young age, Su Su's heart was like falling into a bitter water tank, and it was astringent.
Ruan Qiniang knows this feeling, the Zhenguo Mansion is her own foreign home, but not her own maiden home, although because of the Zhenguo Mansion and the third uncle, no one dares to underestimate her, but in private, no one said something sour. It is said that she is the daughter of a criminal minister and marries the second young master of Annanbo's mansion is Gao Pan!
Ruan Qiniang felt uncomfortable, but she could only endure it until the day the Ruan family came back.
"Mother is very good, now she has a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses under her knees, and she is five years old!" Speaking of her mother, Ruan Qiniang's expression was complicated, although she knew that her mother and father did not have much affection, and she was only alone in the Liguo Mansion most of the time, she was also very distressed.
But the mother remarried and had children, and when a daughter has a complicated heart, this is not the same as having brothers and sisters, and the mother who belongs to her is taken away by others. Especially when I get married, pregnant, give birth, and are confined, because my younger siblings over there are still young, and my mother can't do without them, this feeling is even more peaking!
Thinking about it, since her mother kept filial piety for her father for a year, she remarried to the northwest with the support of her third uncle, and she hadn't seen her mother for six years, because this Ruan Qiniang even resented her mother and uncle, but in the end, she also became a parent, and she was a mother, and she had some understanding in her heart, so she was entangled and didn't want to mention it.
Ruan Qiniang also knew that Su Su was more concerned about Ruan Liulang, and comforted: "Don't worry, the sixth brother and several other brothers and nephews are fine, although the northwest is a little hard, but the saint doesn't dare to do too much, and his mother secretly takes care of him, he doesn't suffer much, and he doesn't have to worry about eating and drinking."
Ruan Qiniang was afraid that Su Su would be sad, so she didn't tell the truth. Where can the army not suffer when it goes to the northwest, no matter what the mother says, she will remarry, how can she take care of her ex-husband's concubines and grandchildren with great fanfare.
The letters from the sixth brother are all sandwiched in the private letters exchanged between himself and his mother, and he always reports good news and not bad news, it would be good to be able to save his life under the suppression of the emperor, no need to guess, Ruan Qiniang can imagine the hardships.
The only thing Ruan Liulang showed his emotions in the letter was about Thirteen Niang, but how could Ruan Qiniang dare to write these headless things in the letter!
How disgusted the Holy Lord is with the Ruan family today, just look at the sons and daughters who are still suppressing the Ruan family! In case this letter is discovered by someone with a heart at the post station, what awaits the Ruan family is the crime of killing the head of the king!
Ruan could only tell his younger brother that everything was fine with Thirteen Niang. One letter a year, Rokuro asked three times, and then stopped asking. Although Ruan Qiniang is sad, as long as everyone is alive, there is hope!
Although Thirteen Niang is dead on the surface, Su Su is alive, and how many of the Ruan family's daughters are still there today?
The hatred in Ruan Qiniang's heart is like a fire, there is no pause, bear with it, see who survives whom!
"Thirteen Niang, as long as people live, there is hope. The next thing I said is that you have to keep it in your heart. The expression on Ruan Qiniang's face was serious and even a little terrifying, seeing Su Su nodding and smiling like a flower, she stepped forward and took Su Su's hand, but the words she said were not at all relaxed on the surface.
"The founding of the four dukes, six marquis and eight uncles is the hereditary repudiation of the founding Shengwu Emperor who will not wait for the lord, the Shengwu Emperor Chrysostom Yuyan, once said that as long as these provinces do not rebel, and the heirs inherit the title, then they can enjoy the national glory with the Great Chu Dynasty, and the emperors of later generations should also remember the merits of the meritorious heroes to assist the country and rejuvenate the country."
When Su Su heard Ruan Qiniang say this, he was stunned, Li Guogong only participated in the seizure of the throne, this is not a rebellion, isn't it also robbed of the title!
Perhaps the look on Su Su's face was too obvious, Ruan Qiniang sneered a few times and explained: "It's just a political game, plus our father has indeed offended the current saint miserably, so our family was pushed out, and when the saint ascended the throne, the chicken that killed the chicken and set an example for the monkey!" He killed our father and brother for the crime of rebellion, and the underage men were all exiled to the northwest, suppressed in every way, and all the female dependents were used as official slaves, not allowed to be ransomed, and they were cheaply killed. The world only thinks that the Liguo Mansion does not exist, but the other seventeen founding nobles in the capital know that the title of the Liguo Mansion is still there. As long as the new emperor ascends the throne, the first thing is to restore the Ruan family, otherwise the other seventeen families will never agree to set this kind of precedent, who knows which will be the turn of the next time? β
"Today, I am suppressing in every possible way, but I don't dare to toss to death, and the rest of the Ruan family is because he is afraid of causing public anger! You must know that the eighteen founding nobles of the capital, generations of marriages, in a Liguo mansion, how many other girls and daughters-in-law of other families? Except for my mother, this time it's all lost! These words, Ruan Qiniang can be said to have squeezed out from between her teeth, and her hateful fingers trembled.
Su Su held her hand and said worriedly, "Seventh sister!"
Ruan Qiniang let out a sigh, "I'm fine!" I held these words in my heart, and I didn't even dare to say them to your brother-in-law, they didn't know to me, but I didn't know that my mother told me everything she knew the night before she remarried, telling me to live well, and we would always wait until the Ruan family rose again. β
Su Su had a doubt in his heart for seven or eight years, "Seventh sister, why would the Liguo Mansion participate in the thankless task of taking the heir, after all, our family is already the founding of the country, and there is no seal." It won't be because my aunt is Princess Liang, right? β
Ruan Qiniang sighed and said, "Although the son does not say anything about the father, you should always know something." Then Su Su listened to a very bloody story.
As I said earlier, the eighteen founding families of the capital have been married for generations, and they are all relatives!
Today's Queen Mother and the old lady of the Xianli Guofu are two aunts and cousins, and now the Queen Mother raised the second prince with a low biological mother because she was still a concubine because she had no children, and she really loved her heart! When the second prince entered school at the age of three, he had to choose a companion to study, and Concubine Shu wanted to choose a tall one for him, which would also be a help in the future. chose to choose, and chose the son of his cousin - the eldest grandson of the Liguo Mansion at that time, that is, the father of Ruan Qiniang's sisters, and later the Liguo Gong.
King Rong and Li Guogong grew up together since childhood, and they are relatives, and the relationship is very close, but when the two grew up, they fell out because of an incident.
Because of what, Ruan Qiniang squeaked and whined and couldn't say it in detail, but Su Su also understood, but it was just a hero who was sad about the beauty. The two fell in love with a woman at the same time, but Li Guogong used a disgraceful method to marry the woman who loved King Rong, who was the original wife of Li Guogong!
In fact, this is a love triangle, it would be good if it stopped, but unfortunately there is a but.
Li Guogong may also feel that he can't stand his brother, so he matched his sister and the second prince, and Concubine Shu is also very optimistic about this pair. Who knew that this aunt was arrogant and arrogant, and she couldn't look down on the second prince who was from a low background but called her cousin because she was raised by her cousin, but she had a hot fight with the eldest prince from the precious concubine, and the eldest prince had been named King Liang at that time, and there was a concubine, but for this aunt, she forced the concubine to retreat to the temple, not to mention, and it was soon gone.
The precious concubine begged the saint to give her a decree to marry, this aunt was supposed to be the second prince's concubine, but she became the eldest prince's step-concubine, and she also fantasized about the eldest prince's accession to the throne, her mother is the world! But I didn't know that the second prince looked benevolent, but his heart was not big, and he hated the Liguo Mansion in his heart, and even Concubine Shu was much colder to the Liguo Mansion.
After that, the second prince also became the king and took a noble girl as the concubine, who is now the biological mother of King Ke.
Now that the grievances between the Holy Lord and the Princes of the Kingdom are here, it would be naΓ―ve for you to think that it is over. It turns out that there is no such thing as the most bloody dog, only more bloody dogs!
Li Guogong was still the prince at the time, and Mrs. Shizi and Princess Rong were pregnant one after another, one was seven months, one was five months, and they attended the palace banquet in the New Year.
The prince of Liguo and King Rong, who got the letter, arrived at the same time, and it would be nothing if they were to go their separate daughters-in-law, but who knew that the two people who were panicked were actually running the same person, and let King Rong take the lead.
In front of everyone's eyes, everyone was stunned, King Rong was holding the prince and wife of Liguo, and his princess was still on the ground.
Although the prince of Liguo snatched his daughter-in-law in the next moment, and the big eunuch beside King Rong also shouted "The prince is in a hurry and didn't see clearly", but everyone has eyes and is not blind! Princess Rong is not at all similar to Mrs. Liguo Gongshizi, but her clothes are different.
Although this farce ended before the first emperor arrived, the follow-up story is still happening.
Both pregnant women were born prematurely, and Mrs. Liguo Gongshizi gave birth to a baby boy and her own blood collapsed; Although Princess Rong survived, she had a miscarriage, and a male fetus with both hands and feet was gone, not to mention, she also injured her body, and it took four or five years to give birth to a son-in-law, that is, King Ke. She was sick for a few years and then gone.
And from that day on, the prince of Liguo has been separated from the current saint and gone farther and farther away. The Liguo Mansion also completely took refuge in King Liang, ruining several things in the current sainthood, and even endangering his life once.
It is not surprising that he will be strict in handling the government when he ascends the throne. It's just a pity that so many female dependents and young sons are implicated.
After listening to these many secrets, he also solved the doubts in Su Su's heart.
"Thirteen Niang, I saw you today and told you these things, just to tell you to live well. Even if there is great suffering, live well! I still have a way to think about the tenth sister, but you, the seventh sister can't recognize you openly, even if our family restores the title in the future, I can't recognize you, do you understand? Ruan Qiniang looked at Su Sudao without blinking.
Su Su nodded, "I didn't understand it at first, but then I also understood, Ruan Sanniang had died of illness seven years ago, and now there is only Su Su!" In order to save herself, Mother Zhao sold the eleventh and twelfth mothers of the Ruan family, who knew Su Su, far away, and deliberately found a few children from poor families in the suburbs of Beijing, plus the sweep of the third lady of the Zhenguo Mansion, before she completely took herself out, and she could only be Soho in this life, not Ruan Weidan.
Even if the Ruan family is restored in the future, all the glory and wealth have nothing to do with Su Su, this is the price of freedom!
"Seventh sister, Mrs. Song has given me a deed of sale and eliminated my slave status, and now I am not only a commoner, but also have 200 acres of fertile land under my name! In the future, the old lady will also find a good family for me to marry, please rest assured! If you have the opportunity...... Please tell the sixth brother that Su Su is very good! Su Su remembered that she couldn't recognize her brother in the future, and she felt sad in her heart, remembering that when she first wore this world, it was the little boy who gave her the courage and warmth to face the strange world!
Ruan Qiniang exhaled lightly in her heart, the reason why she took the risk to see Su Su today was that her grandmother already knew Su Su's identity; The second is that Ruan Qiniang is also afraid that Su Su is young and doesn't know the severity, and this is a leak in the capital; The third is that Shi Niang told her about the Thirteen Niang giving her money.
It can be seen that Thirteen Niang has also been secretly inquiring about the sisters, and she came prepared in King Ke's Mansion that day, and she did it well!
My grandmother said that Su Su was a smart and affectionate person, so it was better to tell Su Su the truth of the matter, lest Su Su be worried about her sister in the capital and her brother in the northwest, so that people with a heart would find a flaw, and then it would be troublesome!
Although the old lady of Zhenguo is not her own grandmother, her mother has been raised under her grandmother's knees since she was a child, and she is the same as her own child, and now her mother and third uncle are not in the capital, if it is not for the support of her grandmother, how can the position of the second young lady of Annanbo Mansion be so stable, Ruan Qiniang naturally believes what her grandmother said, so there is today's meeting!
Su Su naturally didn't know that because of his special eyes and appearance, there were at least two noble nobles in the capital who had guessed his true identity, but for various reasons, not only did they suppress this secret in their minds, but they gave Su Su a lot of help!
"Seventh sister, Sister Long of the second brother's family is in Shun'an Bo Mansion, I don't know what happened to me, and I became a cheap actor! After all, what my mother said at that time also carried a lot of weight! Ruan Susu thought of the little girl who had the same eyes as herself, her life may not be as good as Ruan Qiniang, but it was much better than most of the Ruan Mansion women!
Ruan Qiniang didn't expect to know the whereabouts of a relative. Sister Long is the daughter of the second young master of the Ruan family's third room, and she is also the grandmother's favorite great-granddaughter back then!
Although the official slave cannot be redeemed, the wives and young ladies of the Ruan family are all from famous families, except for the aunts and concubines, the four aunts were all bought by their relatives, even if they still bear the names of the official slaves, in fact, they are still brocade clothes and jade food.
The second sister-in-law is the niece and granddaughter of her grandmother, who was born in the Rongguo Mansion, one of the four major mansions. Although the Rongguo Mansion has been declining since the death of their grandmother's brother, who is their uncle and grandfather, no matter how much the camel is bigger than the horse, how can Sister Long fall into the lowly status and become a drama.
You must know that although official slaves are slaves, they are also stronger than lowly slaves. Could it be that Sister Long has also been changed?
Su Su saw Ruan Qiniang's doubts, and sighed: "Sister Long didn't change her identity, I recognized her, so I found out her identity, the house remembered that she was an official slave, and she was bought into the troupe at the age of five, and Sister Long has very little memory of the second sister-in-law!" β
Ruan Qiniang and Su Su didn't know what happened to their second sister-in-law, but this did not prevent them from thinking of bringing Sister Long out of the Song Mansion.
Every official slave has a clear record, the age and physical characteristics of birth, although the emperor always remembers to block the Ruan family, but seven years ago Sister Long was less than two years old, the emperor could not pay attention to her, the best way is Ruan Qiniang to go directly to the door and explain the situation to the old lady Song, anyway, everyone in the world knows that the second young lady of Annan Bofu is the daughter of the former Liguo Mansion, and now that she knows the whereabouts of her niece, it is definitely impossible to make her suffer again, she must make proper arrangements, presumably the old lady will still give this affection!
The two sisters opened their words, felt a lot more open-minded, and were about to go back, when they saw the three girls from Annanbo's Mansion, the five girls from the Rongxian Marquis Mansion and the five girls from the Song family coming over!
These three are not only concubines, but they are also of average age. People often say that the same sex repels each other, these three people not only did not repel each other, but also had the feeling of familiarity at first sight, just heard that there are a few precious green calyx plum here, so they looked for it.
I didn't expect to see Ruan Qingniang and Su Su talking and laughing, as if they had known each other for a long time......