Chapter 66: A Talk of the Past
The faint moonlight outside the window, accompanied by the faint light of a candlestick in front of the bed, faintly illuminated the mother and daughter who were snuggling up to each other on the bed. Please go to mobile phone download
"Your father and I are both members of the Shi family of the previous dynasty, your grandfather and your grandfather are classmates and friends, my mother married your father at the age of sixteen, and when I was pregnant with your eldest brother, your grandfather took refuge in the Li family. Only then the first emperor raised troops in Chang'an, and in the end they won, and the dynasty was changed all at once, and the current emperor was made the crown prince, at that time"
Yi Yu listened to Lu gradually begin to go off topic and talk about the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, and did not interrupt her memories. She also knew that in this "mutated" Tang Dynasty, the current emperor Li Shimin was not the King of Qin in the Tang Dynasty that she originally knew, but the eldest son of the former emperor Li Yuan, and was directly made the crown prince.
"My mother was still young at that time, and she had your two elder brothers, and she felt that she was inheriting the family for their family, so she didn't allow your father to admit new people into the door, and your grandmother was very tired of my kind of style, so she didn't like me very much."
Speaking of this, Lu's eyes darkened, although Yu Yu couldn't see it, but she also felt her pause, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are related everywhere, it is not uncommon, but since her mother used the words "very disliked", I think that she must have been troubled by her mother-in-law at that time.
"After your grandfather died, your father, who had always been neutral in the government and politics, suddenly began to take refuge in King An's Jiancheng," Lu's eyes were confused, "My mother didn't know why your father did that at the time, just because your grandfather was a die-hard party member of the prince's party, naturally the two families fell out, and since my mother was married to a wife, she must be on your father's sideββ"
Yi Yu was stunned and interjected: "Mother, since he took refuge in King An at that time, he didn't embarrass him after the emperor succeeded to the throne?" "I didn't expect her father to become an Wang Party, and Li Shimin didn't do him after he succeeded to the throne? The woman she met in Qinbaozhai that day was clearly a rich and noble look.
Lu Shi said with a strange face, "I don't know, King An's rebellion and his mother fled with your brothers, but your father is very good now." β
Yi Yu nodded suspiciously, Li Shimin in history was generous and regardless of previous suspicions, probably this is the same here.
Seeing that she didn't ask any more questions, Lu Shi continued to speak: "At that time, after your grandfather reprimanded your father fiercely, the two families stopped contacting, and even my daughter, your grandfather no longer saw each other. β
Yu Yu suddenly realized, no wonder the Lu family did not mention her mother's family except for her grandmother, it turned out that they had already cut off contact.
"Your father has always been very good to me at that time, although he also had the idea of taking a concubine a few times, but when he saw that I didn't want to, he didn't force me to think that I would live like this. Even if my mother-in-law gives me another face. I'm happy too. Untilβ" Lu's soft voice suddenly trembled.
"Until I was four months pregnant with you. I found out that your father actually raised two women outside. What's even more unexpected is that those two women are pregnant, but they are all before and after the mother is pregnant with you" Lu Shi finished these two sentences with some difficulty. It was followed by a long silence.
Yi Yu leaned on Lu's shoulder and rubbed her little head gently, wanting to give her some comfort, even in the ancient times of three wives and four concubines, a woman couldn't bear to have her husband hugging her the night before. The next moment, he ran to other women to devour incense and jade.
"My mother was sad and angry at the time. If your father is clear, tell me that he wants to take a concubine. Even if I don't agree. He is coming back in the open. I wouldn't be so angry, but he secretly raised him outside, and when he was pregnant with a child, he was exposed to me by others! Your mother-in-law is naturally happy. Immediately, the two women were taken to the house. β
Lu Shi smiled bitterly. At that time, my mother was pregnant and had to take care of the housework. Your mother-in-law only cares about taking care of those two women, and someone takes this opportunity to arrange those two women in front of your eldest brother, your eldest brother has always been precocious. Before and after them, they put on a look of extreme disgust with them. This can be regarded as a bane. β
Yi Yu leaned motionlessly into Lu's arms, listening to her reminisce little by little about the most painful period of her life.
Since the two women entered the house, Lu's husband had never been to her room, and had been in the courtyard of one of the women named Liniang all day, and Lu had seen the two of them walking in the garden several times, and had heard the sound of her husband's piano in the courtyard late at night, and had met several times when people had secretly described how her husband doted on that woman.
Because of the loss of her mother's help, and her mother-in-law did not pretend to her, the Lu family had long been unable to hold up the scene in the house, and there was still her husband's love, but with the arrival of that woman, even the subordinates in the house began to disobey the Lu family.
Lu Shi held up her bigger and bigger belly, watching how her husband, who had knotted her hair, doted on another pregnant woman in every way, and under the torment of body and mind, her spirit deteriorated little by little.
Lu's voice gradually deepened, "Just three months after they entered the door, the first emperor suddenly passed the news that King Zhao'an had returned to Beijing to build a mansion, and your father notified me in advance to prepare a banquet at home, but I never thought that it was at this banquet that your eldest brother was almost killed by your father himself." β
Hearing this, Yi Yu got up from Lu's bed and asked nervously, "Mother, what's the matter?" β
Lu's eyes were very blurry under the light of the candle flame, "Those men were drinking in the front yard, and the two women also participated in the banquet with your father's permission, although my mother didn't like them, but she still took them to accompany the ladies brought by the guests to enjoy the moon by the lotus pond in the back garden, it was sixteen that day, and the moonlight was really beautiful."
Just when Lu was admiring the moon and entertaining the ladies at the same time, suddenly a scream sounded in a burst of laughter, and Lu turned around and saw that under the red lanterns in the garden, Liniang's delicate face was filled with endless horror, and then she shouted in a lost voice: "Yun Niang has fallen into the water!" Come on! Help me! β
Yun Niang, the woman who entered the mansion with Li Niang, was also one of the women who robbed Lu's husband, but she was like an invisible person from the day she entered the mansion, staying in her yard and rarely going in and out.
Lu Shi listened to Li Niang's screams, and saw the hand of his five-year-old son Lu Zhi that had not yet been withdrawn by the lotus pond, and the figure in the pool beside him who was constantly struggling.
The ladies in the garden suddenly panicked, some shouted for help, some screamed, but the Lu family sitting in the middle of them did not move as if they were people outside their bodies, until the guests in the front yard heard the sound, and King An quickly walked into the back garden under the escort of the guards, followed by a large group of guests.
Lu Shi watched in a daze as Yun Niang, who had already stopped struggling in the pool, was fished up, listening to King An's entourage announce that Yun Niang and the fetus in her womb had died, and saw her husband carefully hugging Li Niang, who was crying with pear blossoms and rain, and softly comforting her, and listening to Li Niang intermittently tell how she saw Lu Zhi pushing Yun Niang into the water.
It wasn't until the man pulled out the sword that King An's guard carried next to him that Lu Shi woke up from a dream, she shouted "don't", and pounced on her son, who had already been frightened, and the blade of the sword stopped at her ear, cutting off half of her hair, and the pearls fell to the ground.
"Your eldest brother was only such an old child at the time, his little hands tightly grasped his mother's clothes and cried that it wasn't him, but they all thought it was your eldest brother who pushed Yun Niang down, and they didn't want to think that he was a five-year-old child, Can you have such a ruthless heart, even your father angrily scolded your eldest brother for being a son, and called for people to pull me away, my mother was pregnant with you in her stomach at that time, and she was dragged away by someone, and she couldn't protect your eldest brother at all, and watched your father knock your eldest brother unconscious with a palmββ"
Lu Shi could no longer suppress his emotions, half leaned on the bed and sobbed on his side, Yi Yu had already understood most of it when he heard this, listening to Lu's whimper, thinking of her pain and helplessness at that time, thinking of her struggle and fear at that time, his eyes were moist unconsciously.
Yi Yu leaned his little head over again, put his little hand on Lu's slightly trembling body, and choked up, "Mother, don't talk about it, don't cry if I don't listen, I feel uncomfortable."
Although she had already guessed some things, but when she really heard the story of Lu Shi, who had experienced that nightmare firsthand, Yu Yu was distressed, and inevitably felt a sense of hatred, this was her mother, the mother who loved her so much since she inexplicably came to this world, and she was one of the few people in this world who was wholeheartedly good to her - but she had been hurt so badly!
It seems that tears are also contagious, Lu Shi was originally whimpering quietly, and after the cry of Yu Yu was also mixed in, the two mothers and daughters hugged each other and cried bitterly.
Lu Shi cried the pain that had been suppressed for 12 years, and Yu Yu cried completely with a painful and numb heart.
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Thank you natnayisi, wind scales, book friend 090702125018058, malt milk candy, Xuelou Shuwei's pink ticket, thank you for the reward of looking for shadows in the fog, because I went out in the morning, I may have missed which pro, tomorrow the system brushes the fruit and then check it well, thank you! The first update arrived, because I found a logical problem to modify, so the second update is probably after 12 o'clock, sorry.
In addition, it should be noted that in the New Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin was not the king of Qin like in the Tang Dynasty in the official history, but the eldest son and the crown prince of Li Yuanchu, on the contrary, the prince Li Jiancheng in the official history became the "King An" who held great power, and the identities of the two were slightly reversed.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, I wish all you good things and a full moon reunion!