On the second day, after Lin Su sent away Si Yue who went to the morning court, he asked the little maid to send hot water into the ear room, and then asked someone to call Qiu Yan, and left her to serve alone.

Since Qiu Yan stayed by Lin Su's side, except for the first month or two, which depended on her temperament, and she had stayed by Lin Su's side to serve for a period of time, she was sent to the kitchen by Lin Su most of the time, and rarely served people by herself.

In addition, at this time, she didn't sleep well at all the night before because she remembered what happened back then. Therefore, at this time, I wiped Lin Su's back, and I didn't know how heavy it was.

Fortunately, Lin Su didn't care much about this, and when Qiu Yan was strong, she frowned and opened her mouth to remind her.

The entire ear room was filled with water vapor and the faint cold fragrance of plum blossoms, Lin Su soaked in the newly replaced hot water, sighed comfortably, and then softly called Qiu Yan who was standing aside.

"You've been with me for eight years, haven't you?"

"Two months and eleven days to turn eight years away, master." Qiu Yan replied in a low voice, looked up at Lin Su and quickly lowered his head. She has never been good at words, nor is she good at management like Chunyan, nor is she good at dancing like Xia Yan, even if it is a matter of the kitchen, she will do what Lin Su tells her to do, and never do superfluous things.

thought that the other party had forgotten what Lin Su promised her, but in a blink of an eye, this opportunity was placed in front of her, and even the emperor personally said that he knew it.

"Master, is there something you want to ask me? What about the death of the Nine Emperor Princes? Although Qiu Yan is not good at communicating, she is not a fool, and she knows very well the reason why Lin Su called her over early in the morning. Seeing that Lin Su didn't speak, she could only take the initiative to ask.

Lin Su opened his eyes at this time, looked at Qiu Yan with dark eyes filled with water vapor, and then said slowly: "Back then, you were only seven or eight years old, right?" Even if you remember the events at that time, you can't understand the meaning behind those things. ”

Lin Su raised his eyebrows and looked at Qiu Yan with a hint of temptation, "Qiu Yan, do you understand the importance of this matter?" ”

Qiu Yan nodded at Lin Su's gaze, "Master, Qiu Yan has kept this matter in his heart since he was a child. I didn't understand what it meant. And when I gradually understood what that meant, I didn't dare to forget everything my father and mother said to me that day. ”

"Whoa——!

With the crisp sound of water, Lin Su suddenly stood up from the bathtub. Qiu Yan hesitated for a moment, and then took the bath towel on the side to help Lin Su wrap his body, and said, "Master, be careful of catching a cold." After serving Lin Su to dry herself, Qiu Yan changed the prepared clothes for Lin Su, wiped most of the water off the tips of her hair, and waited for Lin Su to return to the inner hall and sit down, then called the little maid to go into the ear room to clean up her things.

"What happened back then, in my memory, was actually just that my father didn't come home for a long time, and after he came back, he was worried. In my father's room, the oil lamp was on all night, and when I woke up in the middle of the night from nightmares, I would hear my father and mother whispering, and occasionally sighing. Qiu Yan began to gently wipe Lin Su's hair, and whispered what happened in her memory as she wiped it.

Qiu Yan, who was young at a young age, was carefree most of the time except for learning medicine from her father, although her parents' emotions affected her, but she was protected so well that except for occasional worries, she didn't notice whether her father hadn't come back for a few days in a row.

Until that night, disaster struck suddenly.

Those officers and soldiers who seemed to be the god of death descended from the sky, and in an instant they controlled the servants and maidservants in the house, and she was also woken up from her sleep by her mother, and was pushed and shoved into the courtyard before she could put on her middle coat.

The whole courtyard was brightly lit and illuminated as if it were daytime. Qiu Yan saw her nurse, as well as the two little maids who were waiting by her side, as well as some maid sisters who were responsible for cleaning the study, and many people she was not very familiar with.

Although she was naïve, she was also aware of the danger.

"Mother, what's wrong?" Qiu Yan looked up and looked at her mother, who was pale but bit her lower lip and didn't say a word.

Her mother hugged her, pulled her into her arms, and said in a low voice, "Good Shude, don't speak." ”

One night, the family was ruined, and Qiu Yan was put in a cell with her mother. She never had good food and clothing in novels, but she had never had to worry about food and clothing, and she tasted pain and despair for the first time.

The next day, she saw her father, and watched him die in her mother's arms.

And this is just the beginning of all the suffering.

Waiting for the final judgment in that dark and sour prison, tortured again and again, even if she was only a young girl, she was not spared, and finally, after making sure that they really didn't know anything, she and her mother were sent to the workshop.

Her mother was in charge of washing clothes and other things, and she was healed of her injuries and began to learn singing and dancing and other things to entertain others. It wasn't until midnight that the mother and daughter had their own time, and Chen's mother secretly asked Qiu Yan to continue learning the medical skills handed down by the Chen family.

This situation lasted for more than a year, and one night, when Qiu Yan went to look for his mother, he found that some women around him were not sleeping, but were mocking something in groups in low voices.

Qiu Yan felt uneasy in her heart, and when she entered the house, she found her mother lying on the bed, her face still seemed to be wounded, and her eyes were empty and desperate looking ahead.

"Mother's ......" Qiu Yan took a step forward, climbed onto the bed, called Chen's mother in a low voice, and reached out to shake her gently.

"Shude ......" Hearing her daughter's voice, Chen's mother came back to her senses, stretched out her hand to hold Qiu Yan in her arms, and whispered vague words in Qiu Yan's ear. Finally, she asked, "Do you understand?" ”

"Understood, mother." Qiu Yan looked up at his mother, "But, why ......?"

"Now that you understand it, keep it firmly in your heart, and remember it and never forget it." Mother Chen looked at Qiu Yan with cold eyes, "Remember, no matter what, you have to live strongly, your father, and me, all hope that you are in you." ”

The atmosphere at that time made Qiu Yan unable to refuse. She nodded earnestly, remembering what her mother had said before, making sure she remembered it clearly.

That night, she didn't learn anything new, she just talked with her mother, and as for the sour words of "your mother is still climbing the high branch......" when she left, Qiu Yan didn't hear it.

At that time, she didn't realize at all what her mother's strange behavior and those women's words meant.

I never thought that I would lose my mother at that time.