The figures in the courtyard are longing, and there seems to be a lot of noise.

The hookah eased his mind, raised his eyes to look outside the door, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and he was greeted by a tall woman.

She squinted her apricot eyes and stared at the man for a long time, as if she had seen a god, and carefully traced the person in front of her in her heart, her slightly frowning eyebrows gradually relaxed, and there was a hint of elusiveness in her eyes.

The person who came was a slender old woman, dressed in brown clothes, with a faint fragrance, which was the favorite gardenia fragrance of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Li.

The hookah hooked her lips and smiled, she was not shocked, as if she had guessed something, but now she was relieved, she knew that the person in front of her was Mother Li next to her mother-in-law, the right-hand man of the Zhao family.

She opened her mouth and was about to say something, when her son hosta came in with a curtain and glanced into the room worriedly.

"San Lang should be here now, you go to the front yard and wait, I'll catch up with my mother." Xu has not spoken for a long time, and the hookah has a dry and hoarse throat, and some are lacking in qi.

The hosta somewhat understood what she meant, and hurriedly responded, her eyes fell on Mother Li for a while, and finally gave up her mind and went out.

Hearing that the courtyard door was really closed, Mother Li blessed her, and greeted her with a shallow smile: "Please be safe from the third grandmother." ”

The hookah tugged at the corners of his mouth, nodded in return, and then slowly opened his mouth: "The affairs in the house are busy, and it's hard for my mother-in-law to still miss me." ”

"The third grandmother, in the past, when the third brother went out without a courtyard, you and the eldest lady were the most compatible, and now the evil disease dragged people, and the eldest lady was also worried about your tightness, so she specially ordered the old slave to take a look." Mother Li smiled at the banquet.

I have never looked at her so closely, and I saw that the corners of Li's mother's eyes have climbed into obvious fine lines, even if the last time I saw her was a year ago, she has never been to Zhao's room again, and now her spirit has not changed at all.

"The eldest lady has a message?" Shisha didn't want to listen to her selling Guanzi, but changed the conversation first and got to the point.

"Oh, the third grandmother has a small birth, the eldest lady is worried about your body, thinking that you are also for the Zhao family to spread branches and leaves to fall like this, yesterday a special person went into the palace to call the imperial doctor to prescribe some prescriptions for you, all of which are to supplement the body, and look at the third grandmother Don't brush the eldest lady's mind, and don't practice yourself." Mother Li's smile froze, and she said in a salty tone.

After a moment's delay, she leaned into the hookah's ear and said: "The capital is the water spilled by the married girl, although you are from the Shen family, but the Shen concubine has played several bends with you, and now the third grandmother is a nostalgic person, but she still doesn't forget her, and her heart is still going over there." ”

Listening to Mother Li's words, there was an extraneous sound, the hookah was not inaudible, she only hid the coolness in her eyes, lowered her eyes and smiled, staring at the plum blossoms embroidered vividly on the cuffs.

Mother Li saw that her face was pale, and she couldn't guess her expression, so she only thought about the words in her mind, suddenly stood up straight, and said with a smile: "What kind of person is our eldest lady, I think you also know it, since you married in, only in front of you is your own daughter-in-law, the benefits to you are all unique, and the daughter-in-law next to you is not." ”

After that, he only paused, and then said: "Even the animal who guards the door, and if you give a few bites of food, you will also know how to take care of the home, not to mention you, a living person, I think you also understand this idea." ”

"Heh... Since I got married, I have always been a famous housewife, San Lang is unkind, even a little concubine has to climb on my head, if her eldest lady is not good to settle me, then it shouldn't be, and say that this unique benefit to you can want? ”

At this moment, he didn't care about anything, the hookah endured the light of the water under his eyes, his slender fingers pressed against a few pieces on the side of the kang, the knuckles were forced, and the armor was white and bloodless.

"The third brother is a complete person, although he is pampered by that Feng Xiaoniang, it can be said fairly, he respects you like a guest, and besides, who the third brother is willing to hold, our eldest lady can't control it, just blame you for not being blessed, and you can't like it."

Is it the old man of the Zhao family, and he has been deceived by the house for many years, this Mother Li spoke unhurriedly, still with a smile on her face, but her tone was particularly sharp.

It seems that he can swallow the person in front of him alive.

"If it weren't for the Shen family begging my family, they would have stuffed you in, and according to our third brother's background, even a noble girl wouldn't be able to marry? Don't get cheap and behave, the Shen family is unstable these days, and I don't know what kind of conspiracy is behind the scenes. ”

The hookah was stunned in his heart, his emotions were a little uncontrollable, he only clenched the corners of the quilt, and said fiercely: "Don't talk about people's innocence, I want to see San Lang and listen to him tell me in person." ”

When Mother Li heard this, she smacked contemptuously, and said without saltiness: "Look at my memory, I forgot to tell you, San Lang will not come, the eldest lady specially ordered the old slave to solve this matter." ”

After a moment of silence, the hookah really understood. The Shen family was originally climbing the in-law relationship of the Zhao family, and only then did they gain a firm foothold in the imperial court step by step, because of the Zhao family's appearance, the case of repairing the river was hastily concluded, and now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, he is bound to make some merits, and he is also suspicious of this case.

The Shen family can't help it, and they will definitely retreat from the Zhao family in order to protect themselves, and now they are just waiting for a good opportunity.

And this good opportunity is to break the communication between the two families, and the link of communication is Shen Shisha.

But how could the Zhao family not guess? There is no room for two tigers in one mountain in the court, and the Zhao family knows that the Shen family crosses the river and demolishes the bridge, and they must not be able to rub sand in their eyes, so they are one step ahead of the Shen family, and they will make a move.

It's just that now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, Shen Guifei has long been a concubine above 10,000 people. It is precisely because of this relationship that the Zhao family did not do things absolutely, but only planned secretly.

Although the new emperor was put on the throne by Concubine Shen, he was tired of the shackles of the Shen family and tired of living like a puppet, and this was the breakthrough.

The left and right are just suffering, and the Shen family is in the dark, and wants her to wade into this troubled water.

Thinking about it, the hookah smiled like a self-deprecating smile, and now she is entertaining outside the Zhao family, but she still can't withstand a secret battle in the court.

"You married the Zhao family, so it has nothing to do with the Shen family, and now you should think about everything for your husband's family, and you have already made a good choice." Mama Shen lowered her head and leaned towards the hookah's ear, as if to wake her up.

With that, he threw her a piece of letterhead.

The hookah had already anticipated the contents, and with trembling hands, he picked up the paper and flipped through it.

Sure enough, it was a retirement.

"My mother taught me the truth that everything is lost, and I didn't understand it at the time, but now I really use it for myself." The hookah's face was unwavering, his eyelashes trembled slightly, but tears had already appeared in the corners of his eyes.

Mother Li's expression was slightly stunned, she lowered her eyes, and seemed to move: "The third grandmother still remembers, it's this reason, it's right, so the third grandmother is relieved, and the rest of her life is also good for you,"

Mother Li sighed lightly, a little embarrassed: "Not for the side, so that you can go with relief." ”

It seemed that she expected that the hookah would be sacrificed for the Zhao family, and the words in her heart passed in her mind for a moment, and then she suddenly spoke: "The eldest lady knows that you have been wronged and suffered, and she specially ordered someone to check the matter of the day you gave birth.

Sure enough, it was planned by Feng Xiaoniang, she allowed the hosta to go home, and asked the hosta to go to the shop in the south of the city to buy some things, and painstakingly set aside the two of them, so that you are pregnant with a brother in your belly......"

She touched the handkerchief on the kang and covered her mouth, but unexpectedly her throat and eyes were fishy, and when she opened it again, a red plum blossom had bloomed on the handkerchief.

Thinking about it like this, it is no wonder that Feng Xiaoniang invited the imperial doctor to take her pulse again and again before, and also diligently sent some prescriptions for "protecting the fetus and calming the nerves", because she would let down her guard if she was sure of it, so that she could calculate the day of childbirth and make a hindrance.

blamed her for being stupid, she only knew that Feng Xiaoniang loved Zhao Huailin wholeheartedly, and did not hesitate to be a concubine for him, but she never had the slightest bad intentions......

Ironically, she still wants to fulfill them......

But what made her heart ache and the most unexpected was that Feng Xiaoniang single-handedly planned this conspiracy to harm her former good third sister.

She should have guessed it a long time ago, and now that it has been confirmed, she doesn't know how to face it.

She hated it so much, hated the injustice of God, hated the indifference of the Zhao family, and her own weakness and incompetence, so that her child went early before she could see the side of this world.

She was so soft that she was on the kang, pain and anger surged into her heart, and a chill hit her back, making her throat feel like she was stuffed with cotton, and she was close to losing her voice.

Mother Li was silent for a moment before she slowly spoke: "As long as you respond to this matter, the eldest lady will not ignore it, then Su Xiaoniang will not be able to stay." ”

After that, he took out a vial of mutton fat jade from the prescription prescribed by the imperial doctor and put it beside the hookah: "It's also for your face, I can't watch you being implicated, don't you seem to accompany the Shen family?" The third grandmother is like this, and she can't stand the blow to the outside world, so she just takes her own life, and as for the future, you should think about it yourself. ”

The mother didn't wait for her to speak, she was half-blessed and asked to leave, and took care of herself and lifted the curtain to go out.

With such an understatement, it was the fate of others, the hookah's eyes fell on the jade bottle for a while, endured the pain like a pinprick in the chest, touched it with his white hands, moved his lips slightly, and opened the lid without thinking and drank it all.

The jade bottle slid down the fingertips, making a crisp sound.

It's ridiculous for half a lifetime, but there's nothing to worry about.

only smiled bitterly, blaming the Shen family for being unkind, and she was selfish for a while.

She looked out the window with a calm expression, now that the snow had stopped, the sun had already set, and the sunset rustled with the breeze on the tassels by the window.

She knew that the night of fear was coming.

The cramping pain in the chest was bursting, and the abdomen was like a mountain and a sea, and gradually the fishy sweetness invaded the lips, teeth and tongue......

She closed her eyes gently, half dizzy and half dreaming, and in the noisy crowd she vaguely recognized the cry of the hosta and the hosta.

……

In this life, she is the eldest lady of the Earl of Yongping's mansion, and her life comes down to the West Courtyard that has imprisoned her all her life, and she can't go anymore.

If there is an afterlife, she will be the innocent third girl of the Shen family, and she will not repeat the mistakes of the past and follow the situation of the concubine.