Chapter 1 Provocation
The snow was falling, and the snowflakes were fluttering down in large flowers, falling all over the eight-year-old Xiao Jiang Wanmu. She looked up and quickly circled around her front and back, left and right, and glanced at the young man who was stepping on the car bench in front of her, with his back to her to get into the car. Taking advantage of no one's attention, she shook her little body briskly a few times, letting the snowflakes on her body slide to the ground.
She glanced at the driver sitting in the front of the car, and saw that his face was looking ahead, and his hands with thick joints were desperately rubbing each other to keep warm. Jiang Wanmu quickly retracted her gaze, she raised her little face that was frozen crimson, and looked at the handsome young man of about thirteen years old who had stepped on the frame. The young man's unique and elegant demeanor made her eyes a little amazing. The young man in the pink cotton robe, after boarding the car, looked down at the look in the eyes of the girl under the car.
There was a smug look in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth were slightly opened. The young man smiled with a pleasant smile on his face and persuaded the mediocre-looking little girl: "Wanmu, it's cold." You go in. After Jiang Wanmu heard this, she lowered her head slightly with some embarrassment, and whispered, "I'll see Brother Lian go in after he leaves." After hearing this, the young man smiled at the top of Jiang Wanmu's black head, stretched out his hand to pull the car door, and after going in and sitting down, he directly ordered out: "Let's go." β
The carriage drove rapidly, and the snowflakes and muddy water brought up under the wheels splashed directly on the body of the little girl who was close to the car. Jiang Wanmu jumped out quickly, but she was still inevitably splashed with snowflakes and muddy water. She bent down and quickly slapped her clothes with her hand, and a short figure rushed up to help her pat. She shouted in a small voice: "Miss, why didn't Gongzi Lian tell you to flash first before ordering to drive?" Look at the young lady's new clothes are dirty, if this is seen by others, you have to say that the young lady's is not. β
Jiang Wanmu heard the worry in Ji's tone, and she looked down at her clothes. Take a look at the auspicious words that took out a clean handkerchief and tried to wipe the muddy water off your clothes. She stretched out her hand to stop her vain efforts, and whispered: "Ji Yan, it snows so heavily today, the people in the mansion should not go to the courtyard to play." After we went in for a while, we walked away from people. Don't wipe it, when you go back in a while, the place is dirty, just wipe it clean with water. β
Ji Yan lowered her hand when she heard Jiang Wanmu's words, and looked up at the indifference in Jiang Wanmu's eyes, and her eyes darkened slightly. She looked down at the gray mud watermark on her new pink dress. A little uneasy whispered: "Miss, I'm afraid that the marks on this dress will not be clean." Ji Yan is too small to help Miss. Jiang Wanmu heard her words, and her eyes were slightly moved. But then I thought that she was the person sent by her mother-in-law, and her eyes returned to a calm expression.
Jiang Wanmu didn't look at Ji Yan again, she turned around and walked towards the side door. Ji Yan hurriedly trotted forward to follow. Jiang Wanmu passed by the open side door, and the middle-aged servant who was guarding the door heard the movement, and looked at her. After a cold look, he turned his head and entered the guard's hut. Ji Yan walked behind, stretched out his hand and closed the side door hard, 'squeak, squeak, dumb' The thick side door, after breathing for a while, finally closed slowly. Ji Yan turned her head and saw that Jiang Wanmu had already walked a long way, so she hurriedly trotted to follow.
Jiang Wanmu heard the sound of the side door closing with difficulty, and heard the footsteps of the person running behind her. I heard the sound of Ji Yan running two steps fast and sliding back one step on the snow. She sighed softly, quite helpless about her thoughtful little girl. She glanced at the pavilion aisle in front of her, and took a few quick steps forward into the covered aisle. After Jiang Wanmu entered, she stood there. Quietly looking at the scenery in the courtyard. Under the snow, only the branches of the trees drooped down in the courtyard.
She looked up and into the distance, in the snow, inside the pavilion in the distance. Standing stood a pale woman in cotton clothes, followed by a woman of the same age dressed in coarse cloth. The woman was opening her mouth to talk to her, and the eyes of both of them were all fixed on Jiang Wanmu at this time. No matter how far away it is, Jiang Wanmu doesn't have to step forward to get closer, she knows that the woman in cotton clothes has tears of sadness in her eyes.
Ji Yan entered the pavilion, looked at Jiang Wanmu, who was silent, and followed her gaze to see the two women. She was slightly stunned, looked around, and said softly, "Miss, do you want to go over there and take a look?" When Jiang Wanmu heard Ji Yan's words, her face was still blank. She smiled bitterly in her heart, the woman would not let herself near her.
She slowly withdrew her gaze, turned around and walked along the pavilion road, slowly moving forward. She could feel that the two of them had been staring at her, Ji Yan followed behind her, and then glanced at the people in the pavilion over there, facing Jiang Wanmu's back, she finally didn't open her mouth to say more, she lowered her head slightly and followed forward.
Jiang Wanmu walked a few steps forward and heard the voice of a woman at the turn in front of her. She lowered her brows slightly, turned her head to look at the two people in the pavilion in the distance, and saw that the two people were walking out of the pavilion in a panic, and their steps were slightly chaotic and walked farther away. When Ji Yan heard the voice, her expression was obviously a little flustered, and she said in a small voice: "Miss, it's the second young lady who is coming." β
Jiang Wanmu continued to walk forward, she knew that with that woman's temperament, she couldn't hide. Sure enough, a few steps further, Jiang Wanxian, the second lady of the Jiang family in a big red flower brocade dress, accompanied a woman in a pink brocade dress of the same age, and came hand in hand opposite her. Jiang Wanxian saw Jiang Wan bathing, and after she whispered to the woman in cotton clothes, the woman looked up at Jiang Wanmu, and the woman had curiosity and surprise in her eyes.
Jiang Wanxian looked at Jiang Wanmu, who was quietly saluting her, and said to the woman with a smile: "Miss Cui, don't mind that my third sister can't greet people, she has had problems since she was a child, as long as she sees people, she can't speak." She turned her head to look at Jiang Wanmu's clothes, and said with a smile on her face: "Yo, the third lady sent her lover out today, how could she turn around with a mud watermark." Hahaha, I'll just say, how could the fourth young master of the Lian family, who is so talented, come to see you willingly, and I want to listen to my mother-in-law's words, and reluctantly come to see you. β
If the entire Jiang family is indifferent to Jiang Wanmu, they wish that there was no such person in the Jiang family. So in the Jiang family, there is only one exception, that is, Jiang Wanxian likes the existence of Jiang Wanmu in the Jiang family, and she can just use Jiang Wanmu, who is mediocre and stupid, to bring out her beauty. Jiang Wanxian's biological mother is a dramatist, it turned out to be a man's scene, who knew that the pearl fetus was secretly knotted. The Jiang family will not let their flesh and blood go out, only Xu Jiang Wanxian's biological mother and concubine.
The biological mother, who has never been pampered, has not affected Jiang Wanxian's status. She is the eldest daughter, and her mother is a well-known virtuous woman in the Jiang family, and she can be regarded as growing up with brocade clothes and jade food since she was a child. And Jiang Wanxian is more flexible and flexible, and her grandmother likes her straightforwardness and scheming, and often takes her with her, and specially allows her to follow her to study in the royal school.
Jiang Wanxian may not understand it when she was young, but the older she gets, the more she understands that only Jiang Wanyi, the concubines of the Jiang family, are the daughters of the Jiang family, and she is just a piece of grass that her mother can use. She has such a biological mother, and the person she is destined to marry in the future will not be too high. At a young age, she understood the slackness in the eyes of people. She treats her mother-in-law and sister-in-law even more favorably, and vaguely understands who the thorn in her mother's heart is.
Jiang Wanxian waited for a while, and when she saw Jiang Wanmu approaching the pavilion, she still had a blank face. She couldn't suppress the dark fire in her heart, and raised her eyes to see the mediocre-looking person in front of her, but under the plot of her biological mother, she already had a fiancΓ© who was famous in Beijing. She is just better than her own reincarnation, and her biological mother is the daughter of a famous family. In such a depressed situation, he can still rely on his girlfriend's affection to seek a good family for his daughter.
Jiang Wanxian realized that her appearance was more beautiful than Jiang Wanmu, her talent was higher than that of her illiterate, and her conversation was not to mention, and she was hundreds of times stronger than Jiang Wanmu, who couldn't speak. But why, my future lover will be inferior to her? Jiang Wanxian thought of Jiang Wanmu's good relatives, and she had to crush several teeth.
When she first heard that Jiang Wanmu had made an oral marriage contract, she was very disapproving. She knew that her mother-in-law was virtuous and wise, and she would actually not let Jiang Wanmu have a good life. Later, when she inquired about the benefits behind the marriage contract, and learned that her grandmother could not refuse because of this, she could only acquiesce, she thought of this girl in private, and she secretly hated it in her heart.
Jiang Wanxian has inquired about Jiang Wanmu's lover since the day she got the news. knows that it is the fourth young master of the Lian family who is a side branch, and he is the eldest son of the Lian family. The Lian family is such a high-ranking family, it is the royal recognition of the family of the opposite sex, and it has a deep friendship with the royal people from generation to generation. And the Lian family of this side branch is the eldest brother of the prince of the family, and he has a deep brotherhood since he was a child, which is different from other side branches.
Jiang Wanxian looked at Jiang Wanmu, who was like a wooden man, and looked at her with a calm look in her eyes, and there was no anger in her eyes and on her face. Her hands clenched hard, moved, and was pressed by the sharp-eyed big girl behind her, and listened to her soft voice remind: "Miss, you can't be in Miss Three's plan, she deliberately provoked you like this, just to ruin your good reputation." I think your reputation is worse than hers. The girl's voice was not too low, Jiang Wanmu heard this, she raised her eyes slightly to look at the girl, and then she opened her eyes faintly.
After Jiang Wanxian heard this, she laughed instead, she looked at the little figure behind Jiang Wanmu, who had been trembling, and asked, "Ji Yan, how are the clothes on your young lady's body dirty?" Did the fourth young master of the Lian family smash her snowflakes and get dirty? Or did the fourth young master of the Lian family push her to the ground, dirty?" Ji Yan glanced up at Jiang Wanmu, and then at Jiang Wanxian, who was staring at her with sharp eyes, she shook her small body, lowered her head, and still didn't speak.