After two teas, there was footsteps in the courtyard outside, Xiang Che whispered Yuehua's words, Mama Wei poked her head into the room to take a look, and saw that Yuehua was leaning on the bed and closing her eyes to recuperate, so she walked in on tiptoe.

"Xiangche girl said that you are not very comfortable, are you tired for the past two days?"

Yuehua's thick eyelashes trembled, like the wings of a green crow, opening out and bursting out with a cool gaze.

"Where have you been?"

Yuehua and Mama Wei depend on each other, and have always respected her as an elder, and it is the first time that she has been so straight to the point, and she asked unceremoniously.

Mama Wei dusted her cuffs with a smile and groaned, as if she hadn't noticed: "Your bed has been put on satin for dog days, and I saw that it was about to get a little bad, so I begged for a scoop of white noodles and washed it again." ”

She was so considerate and thoughtful, Yuehua's anger involuntarily subsided by three points, and she sat up half a body: "I have something to ask you?" ”

Mama Wei seemed to notice Yuehua's cold tone, and raised her head: "What's the matter?" ”

Yuehua took a deep breath: "The Empress Dowager likes Zilong Lying Snow, you already knew it, didn't you?" ”

"Did the Empress Dowager ask?" Mama Wei's eyes suddenly lit up, and she asked Yuehua happily.

"Question? You've got me in trouble! Yuehua said angrily, and her nose couldn't help but be a little sour.

Mama Wei was stunned, turned around and covered the door, and then walked up to her and asked with concern: "Could it be that the Empress Dowager is what her old man is to blame?" ”

"It's good if you blame a few words, even if it's a punishment, I admit it, today the Queen Mother called me into the house alone for questioning, and the meaning of the words is to call me into the palace!"

"Huh?" A trace of joy flashed between Mama Wei's eyebrows, jumping and fleeting, and converging into her eyes: "How did Miss come back?" ”

Yuehua saw that her expression was obviously intentional, and she became more and more annoyed: "How can I get back?" Naturally, it was refused! Don't you know my thoughts? Is it possible to kill me if you want to kill me like this? ”

Mama Wei knelt straight on the couch at Yuehua's feet with a "plop", startled Yuehua, and hurriedly bent down to help.

"What are you doing here? That's all there is to it. ”

Mama Wei stubbornly refused to get up: "Miss, you are my mother-in-law and I watched grow up, we have depended on each other for many years, to put it mildly, it is the love of mother and daughter." The hardships you have suffered, the pickled anger of your aunts, grandmothers and cousins, and your mother-in-law have all seen them in your eyes and engraved them in your heart, like a knife and a drill.

Today, the mother-in-law asked you to go to the front yard to serve tea in person, and she really buried other thoughts. You are now past the years of jasper, the eldest uncle and grandmother are still holding on tightly, the uncle and the old man are not silent, seeing that the third lady who is younger than you and Lu will marry out in the future, but you and Miss Ling Xi have missed a good marriage, do you know what the eldest uncle and grandmother are thinking? ”

Yuehua's heart was full of bitterness, just like eating Coptis chinensis, her lips and tongue were astringent: "The eldest aunt hates Ling Xi's mother in her heart, and coupled with Ling Xi's madness last time, she naturally won't point her to a good family, so she is happy to delay, and finally sends her a broken house." I said it to my uncle in person, and I was willing to keep filial piety for my father and mother for a few more years. ”

"Oh, miss, don't continue to make a fool of yourself. Who doesn't know that the Lian family keeps you, because they are afraid that you will ask her for the property left to you by the original master! As long as you are in the Hou Mansion for one day, there is no excuse to ask for it. Back then, she took advantage of your young age, and took advantage of all of them, and she also got cheap and good, and counted how to treat you well in front of outsiders every day, and how much savings she spent on her Hou Mansion, which was a clear plan to embezzle.

But in fact, if you hadn't learned a good craft of embroidery since childhood, and you could secretly exchange a melon and two dates to help, we wouldn't be so sad about the leftovers of cold rice in this Hou Ye's Mansion. And in the past two years, you have helped her take care of the affairs of the mansion, so that she can only hold on to the money bag and save most of her thoughts, otherwise I am afraid that she would have been driven out of the Hou Ye Mansion for a long time.

I don't have any selfish intentions, old slave, I just thought that if you can enter the eyes of the empress dowager and show you a good family, you will get out of this Hou Ye's mansion, and you will have a hope for the future. The most unfortunate, the Empress Dowager, her old man, asked a word and a half, Lian's she can't go too far, right? ”

As Mama Wei spoke, she felt wronged for her own young lady in her heart, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

She was sobbing and crying, Yuehua couldn't bear it in her heart, and quickly helped her up from her footbed.

"It's me who was angry for a while, and I wronged my mother. In fact, today's words of the Empress Dowager are like a thunderbolt in the blue sky and white sun, which makes my heart full of confusion, and I can't help but choose what to say. Do you know that now our situation is going to be more and more difficult, then the Lian family wants to send Ling Yan into the palace, I ruined her good deeds, can we have good melons to eat? I must have regarded me as a thorn in my eye, like a thorn in my flesh. ”

Mama Wei stood up with Yuehua's hand, and hurriedly helped Yuehua to sit down on the bed again: "In this case, why shouldn't Miss go down to the Empress Dowager, that is a blessing from the sky, is it extremely Tailai, the supreme glory, then does the Lian family dare to despise us?" ”

"Blessings, misfortunes, all the uncles want to send their daughters to the palace to seek glory and wealth, in fact, their hearts are as translucent as window paper, this position is crumbling, and falling down is shattered."

"Seeking wealth and danger is indeed such a reason."

Yuehua shook her head: "Mama, I only know one thing, I don't know the other." To say a big thing, the first emperor died early, and the empress dowager relied on the power of the Chang family, controlled most of the government, and assisted the current young emperor, which is a credit. But she is an old man, and I am afraid that I don't know how many arrogant and domineering things the Chang family has done with the help of her protection. Moreover, above the court, forming a party for personal gain, and fighting against each other are all taboos!

The young emperor may be grateful, or he may be jealous, and tolerate everywhere, but once the empress dowager is gone, do you think the emperor will let the Chang family be so presumptuous? I'm afraid that the first one to be used for surgery is the daughter of the Chang family who sent it to his pillow! ”

"Huh?" Mama Wei looked frightened, and became incredulous: "The Chang family is now in addition to the Hou Ye, the other masters are all in important positions in the court, the wind and water are rising, the second uncle has a heavy army, and the hard work is high, our second master is under one person, the right minister above 10,000 people, the protégé is everywhere, the Chang family is being valued by the emperor, and the young lady is worried." ”

Yuehua looked out of the window, Xiang Che was holding a thin pole in his hand and repeatedly beating the futon, the dust on the futon rose up, and then fell, making a dull sound of "poof", as if it was beating in the flesh, which was not unfamiliar.

"Mama Wei, do you know why I willingly listened to my eldest aunt's command and tried my best to help her run the chores of the Hou Mansion?"

Mama Wei didn't understand why Yuehua suddenly changed her tone, but there was two more respects in her eyes: "In this way, you can also get a place in the Hou Mansion and not be despised by others." Looking at the attitude of the people in our house towards Miss now, you can know that your original decision was right. ”

Yuehua shook her head categorically, and sighed leisurely, as cold as a long night.

"You're wrong, Mama Wei. I just don't want to be a bird with closed ears and eyes, locked up in this remote corner, and the fate of my whole life is at the mercy of Lian's will, and I can't do anything because I am lonely and unheard. In this way, I can finally have a knowledge, and I have a wide range of knowledge, even if I can't change my fate, I can be open-minded and can withstand the ups and downs of fate. will not be like A-Niang, there is only one person in her eyes for the rest of her life, a piece of sky, the sky falls, you don't want to live anymore, you end yourself with a sharp blade, and seek relief.

For as long as I can remember, my father has been fighting all year round, gathering less and leaving more, and my mother and I have been in the cold night, and the only pastime is to sit in front of the candlestick and delicately derive a pair of gorgeous embroidery from the needle and thread in our hands. In my ignorant sleep, there are silk threads in Ah Niang's hands that seem to never end, longer than longing, denser than bonds. and in the flickering candle shadow, A-Niang occasionally looked at the moonlight outside the window, and sighed coldly,

She named me Yuehua, she said that it was 'at this time to see each other and not hear each other, willing to follow the moon by month', she entrusted herself to Daddy, lived for him for a lifetime, thought about it for a lifetime, and finally Daddy left, she really followed without hesitation. Mama Wei, I don't want to live like A-Niang, I don't want to be the moonlight that follows the waves for thousands of miles, what I want to do is to follow the moon and the blue sky, never enter the palace gate, and bury a lifetime of glory for a thin man! ”

Mama Wei looked at her young lady in a daze, and suddenly felt a little strange, Yuehua has always been ashamed to talk to herself about future marriage events, and she kept silent when she mentioned it, she only said that her daughter's family was shy, but she was tossing and turning at night, worrying about her and sleepless. Who would have thought that this weak little daughter would have such arrogant ambition and unwilling energy? At this point, he is more like his own uncle, the iron-clad protector general!

Did you really do something wrong?

"That's why doesn't Miss want to give it a go? The Chang family is now in full swing in the court, with the help of the Chang family, and the queen mother in the palace is planning, and when the position is stable, who can do anything? You see that several uncles are all staring at each other, they judge the situation, are they not as good as us women? ”

Yuehua was still a little sentimental, and couldn't help but choke a little when she spoke, so she held back her tears and lowered her voice: "I can often walk around in the front yard and listen to others talk about state affairs, so, Mama Wei, I know that things must be reversed, and the Chang family is dying." Today's young emperor is wise and decisive, wise and wise, and uses Shao Ziqing, the minister in white clothes, without sticking to one pattern, and now he is gradually encroaching on the power of the Chang family and unifying the government.

The Empress Dowager was powerless, so she would think of repeating her old tricks and letting the daughter of the Chang family enter the palace and make the last dying struggle! And a few uncles, what they thought in their hearts was to preserve their power, who would really care about the joy and peace of their daughter's life? My grandfather had a foresight for a long time, so when he was dying, he passed the title of the marquis to the most cowardly and incompetent uncle, I am afraid that it is a way out. ”

Mama Wei's heart tightened, as if she had been punched hard by someone, and suddenly trembled and shook: "In this way, didn't I hurt Miss?" But how is it good? Mother-in-law is confused! ”

Yuehua confided all the words in her heart, and the whole person seemed to be hollowed out, floating and helpless, leaning softly on the bedpost, reaching out and pressing the jade plate between her sleeves, and smiling bitterly: "What should I do?" What can I do? If the emperor really came down with a decree, I wouldn't have to send a sedan chair in it and bury myself. ”