Chapter Seventy-One: Chess Moves
The words have been spoken, the house is happy for a while, there is no need to guard against each other, even if there are thousands of difficulties and dangers in the future, Lieyun can only go all the way forward to overcome obstacles, and there are these people behind him to guard.
It's just that Hongmei Zilan is still embarrassed after all.
Hongmei's mother was originally a big lady, and she was in the middle of the family and met someone unladylike. The world is difficult, especially for women. In order to support herself and her daughter, Hongmei Niang had to work in an embroidery workshop to earn a living.
Later, Hongmei was a little older, and she even practiced a good embroidery, and saw that her mother worked hard day and night, so she also wanted to do embroidery work for people to subsidize the family. But Hongmei Niang held her daughter's hands full of needles, and refused to agree whether she was alive or dead.
I have been an embroiderer for half my life, and my eyes are staring day and night at the little needlepoint on the brocade cloth, and I am almost blind, how can I let this only bone and blood fall like myself!
Since then, Hongmei Niang has been like crazy, desperately taking on more embroidery work, just hoping to save more dowry for Hongmei before she goes, and to find a sincere and honest person to take good care of Hongmei for a lifetime.
Hongmei didn't want to disobey her mother, but after seeing her mother's unbearable tiredness and vomiting a mouthful of blood on the brocade cloth, the next day, Hongmei went to find someone and sold herself.
Hongmei Niang was sad and angry, but Hongmei said a word, mother, I know you want me to live better, but, since I was born, our mother and mother depend on each other, if there is no mother in this world, what is the use of the girl sitting on the gold and silver mountains!
Zilanbi Hongmei, but she has both parents, but she is the eldest in the family, and there are two younger sisters and a younger brother below.
The heavenly family loves the eldest son, and the people love the eldest son. But in Zilan's family, the love that the four children receive from their parents is exactly the same, and they are not favored because the younger brother is the heir.
Zilan's father often said that the daughters are all father's little padded jackets, so they have to be held in the palm of their hands, and their sons are rough men sooner or later, so they have to grow up with falls.
It's just that life has never been the icing on the cake, and it's common to make things worse.
Originally, a family of six could barely survive by relying on Zilan's father to go out to work as a carpenter every day, but when Zilan was fourteen years old, a large family in Jiangnan was about to move to the capital and wanted to make some furniture, so they found the owner of the timber shop where Zilan's father worked.
The boss knew that Zilan's family was a little poor on weekdays, and although Zilan's father didn't talk much, he worked quickly and well, so seeing that although there was a lot of work, the wages were extraordinarily generous, so he specially asked Zilan's father and a few skilled workers to do work for that family.
Who would have thought that on the last day of completion, Zilan's father was crushed under the collapsed wooden cabinet, and people were not good at that time.
The boss of the timber shop was kind-hearted, and not only paid off the wages due to Zilan's father to Zilanniang, but also gave a lot of extra silver, so that the five mothers could use Zilan's father for funerals.
But the sky of this house has fallen, and the days to come will be long, and the silver will run out.
Looking at the mother of the six gods and the panicked and frightened younger siblings, Zilan, like Hongmei, sold herself ruthlessly.
Both of them were born in the market, and they have tasted the ups and downs of life since they were children, and no matter how many unbearable things they can see, they can't imagine that there will be people in this world who are so vicious that they want to kill their relatives!
"County Lord, since the poison in your body has been resolved, and you also remember what happened back then, what are we going to do next?"
Hongmei has a strong temperament, and at this time, she can't wait for her to have the same martial arts as Cuizhu and Moju, so she just waits for Lieyun's order, and goes out to kill him.
"There's no hurry." Lieyun patted Hongmei's arm, "I want to figure out one thing first, and make this first move." ”
Halfway through the unitary hour, Hanlu, as usual, came to the purple courtyard on time with medicinal herbs.
Cuizhu knelt down to greet him in the cold dew, reached out and took the tray, but frowned.
"Sister Hanlu, why does this herb bag seem to be a little heavier than usual today?"
In front of the cold dew, Cuizhu picked up the medicinal herb bag on the plate and gently checked it.
Han Lu pursed her lips and smiled, "Sister Cuizhu is really a careful person. Madame saw that the county lord was depressed in the morning because he missed his mother, Princess Zhaohua, and was really anxious and distressed, so she ordered me to boil more medicine for the county lord tonight, to see if I could help the county lord meet his mother in deep sleep, so as to relieve the county lord's worries. ”
"That's really thanks to my aunt's love for me," Lieyun's eyes swept over the medicine bag and fixed on Hanlu, "Cuizhu quickly take Hanlu to the small kitchen, it's cold, I'll finish drinking the medicine so that Hanlu can go back and rest early." ”
Han Lu only felt that Lieyun's eyes staring at him today were so strange, but he didn't dare to look up, so he had to bend his knees to thank Lieyun for his concern, picked up the medicine bag and walked out with Cuizhu, feeling a little uneasy in his heart.
Two quarters of an hour later, Hanlu came back with the boiled medicine, and the bitter smell filled the room for a moment.
Putting the medicine bowl on the table in front of Lie Yun, Han Lu said, "The medicine has been boiled, please use it for the county lord" and stood aside with his hands down and waited.
But after waiting for a long time, I didn't see the pair of white jade-like hands picking up the medicine bowl and drinking it all as usual, but gently knocked on the table.
After waiting for another quarter of an hour, seeing that the medicinal soup was getting colder, Han Lu finally couldn't help but raise his head, "The county lord, please drink the medicine quickly......"
The unfinished words came to an abrupt end in Lieyun's smiling and indifferent eyes.
"County Lord......" looked at the scorching clouds, and Hanlu muttered.
"Hanlu, who are some of the people in your family?"
"Back to the county lord, the slave maid's house, the family is full of ordinary ordinary people, I am afraid to say it, dirty, dirty ears of the county lord." Hanlu didn't want to ask about his family as soon as Lieyun opened his mouth, and he stammered in his answer.
"Heh," Lieyun chuckled, "you are self-aware, and you know that those people are doing all kinds of things that are not on the table, so you can't say it." ”
"County Lord!" Hanlu looked up in astonishment.
"Your father, drunk and gambling, often beats and scolds your mother when he is drunk, and even makes you sister and brother angry."
"Your mother, patriarchal, if there is anything good, the first thing that comes to mind is your brother, then your father, and finally your turn."
"Your brother," Lie Yun sighed softly in his heart as he saw that Han Lu's face had become whiter and whiter as he spoke, and there was despair in his eyes, but when he heard his brother, there was a faint firelight.
"Your brother is probably the only warmth in your life. Although he is young and loved by his mother, he has not developed a domineering temperament of eating alone, but will secretly give you a share of the good things your mother gave him, and even dare to "