Chapter 68: Confession
There was no light in the room, it was supposed to be daytime. Hui Lan covered her face with her hands, and lay on the bed with her eyes half-closed and pretended to be dead. The amount of information is too large, and Huilan's old CPU has burned out.
The eldest lady saved face for Huilan and asked the house doctor to examine her. Hearing that the house doctor said that she was overly frightened, she lost consciousness for a while, and there was no major problem, so she breathed a sigh of relief. Confessed to the government doctor to prescribe medicine and told him not to talk nonsense, so he was sent out. The house doctor is his own person who is raised by the family, and the eldest lady just takes care of today's big things in the family, so she explained a little more.
Then the eldest lady sent the maids and mothers in the house again, and then poured a cup of hot water and walked to the side of the bed and sat down.
"Alright, we're all left in the house, sit up and have a glass of water." The eldest lady said softly.
After a while, Hui Lan slowly lowered her arm, touched her fingers and couldn't help but inhale in pain. A face with a red slap print on each side was revealed.
It's rare that Huilan didn't cry or rub, and she sat up by herself without the help of the eldest lady, and was careful not to touch her feet. She lowered her head, silently took the cup from the eldest lady's hand, and poured it all down with a tilt of her neck. She vomited out her stomach before she passed out, and then she sweated a lot and had a dry mouth.
The eldest lady was deaf and clear-sighted, and she didn't need to speak, so she directly took the kettle and refilled it for her. Huilan drank three or four cups before panting and saying that she would not drink, and the eldest lady put the kettle and cup on the high table next to the bed. Then he sat upright, looked at Huilan fixedly, and waited for her to speak.
Huilan half-hung her head and didn't move for a while. The source of life is down, and the consciousness is finally all back. She knew that the eldest lady was waiting for her to explain, but she didn't know how to say it. What can she say to a noble girl in a feudal society, democracy, freedom, women's rights? Can be pulled down, the eldest lady will probably think that she has fallen into the evil spirit, and called the Taoist monk to recite the scriptures and pour talisman water for her.
"What time is it?" Hui Lan asked, her voice a little hoarse.
"It's almost time, the family is busy, and my grandmother and mother should wake up from their lunch break. The second aunt is working hard today, so she must not have time to take a lunch break, and she is still preparing for a dinner party. The family was full of guests, and all the guests said goodbye and went back, and the younger siblings had no classes in the afternoon, so they should all be in their own rooms. The eldest lady was very patient, not only answered her questions, but also talked about it.
Hui Lan sighed secretly, and after all the procedures of the ceremony, she didn't even want lunch, and the guests should have just had a luncheon. This will be another dinner, probably knowing that the eldest lady has been granted a holy decree to marry to express the relationship between Hera.
This will leave Huilan with only frustration and powerlessness, she has been here for three years, and most of them live in isolation. I was blinded by some more enlightened policies and conventions than in the TV novels, and I didn't recognize the reality. When she just changed her life in a different era, the price she had to pay was just some material conveniences. At most, there is no electricity, no internet, no flush toilets, no aunt towels, no smart medical technology.
Today, she was finally awakened by the Holy Decree, and it turned out that what she had lost the most was human rights and democracy. Even if the haze brought by the Wang family before made her think about the problem of Zhulian, but after all, it was too far away from her, so she let it go when she thought about it. But today, she really felt the pain of the skin, and her personal experience is always the most profound.
However, there is little she can do. Even if she is a prophetic and civilized person who thinks she is superior to others, she is actually just a social ant. Huilan has always lived very soberly, even the decay of wearing gold and silver to call slaves and maids only made her temporarily lost. At this moment, she was completely awake.
"The matter on my side didn't alarm the elders, did it?" Hui Lan finally looked up at the eldest lady and asked nervously. She actually wanted to ask her if she didn't wear it out to gossip about her. The Gu family is overjoyed today, but the Gu family is not without enemies. The Gu family is her relatives, and she doesn't want to trap her relatives.
The eldest lady's face was calm, and she looked at her for a while before saying, "Don't worry, your yard is closed, and no one has gone out." Because Cuiwei heard the cry outside your hospital half an hour ago and went back to report me, I didn't worry about coming over quietly to take a look. ”
Huilan breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, she was very happy.
Then Hui Lan pursed her lips and fell silent with a bitter face, should she be happy that only the eldest lady knows about this, or should she be distressed that the eldest lady is the most difficult person in the family except for the old lady?
Huilan's heart turned a thousand times, and the eldest lady sat firmly on the Diaoyutai. The eldest lady is very suitable for psychological warfare with people, so as to respond to all changes without change, and Mount Tai collapses in front of her without changing her face. Hui Lan smiled bitterly and was bitter and happy.
Eventually, Hui Lan gave up struggling. To be smart in front of smart people is to die, and to lie in front of relatives is not a thing, so she confessed.
"Today's second will, does it mean that I want my sister to be the crown princess?" Hui Lan propped herself up and leaned back against the bed frame to sit comfortably, and then looked at the eldest lady and said softly.
The eldest lady looked at the bed that was mostly empty and didn't look up, and finally she sighed softly, took off her shoes, climbed onto the bed, and sat side by side with Huilan. After a while, he said, "That's just a verbal message, not an official intention to marry." But the name has been decided, so Ah Hui is right. ”
Unable to hear the eldest lady's emotions, Huilan turned her head to look at her, "Sister, have you seen him, are you happy, are you looking forward to it?" ”
The eldest lady smiled, "Your Highness, I have met quite many times, and I have also spoken. But what does this have to do with being happy or not? ”
Huilan opened her mouth and didn't know what to say, and the hearts of those who listened to this were a little blocked.
The eldest lady paused and continued, "The Daqin woman is fifteen and sixteen years old, in order to show her adulthood, and then she can be allowed to marry, and she will marry a woman at the age of sixteen or seventeen." Whether it was my father, my grandmother, or my mother, they all said that when I became an adult, they would carefully choose a lover for me. No matter who it is, as long as I don't look down on it, I will never agree. She smiled at the corners of her lips and looked at the bed net, her eyes a little glazed.
Hui Lan frowned slightly, yes, no matter how good and beautiful the eldest lady is, no matter how many people take a fancy to her, she can only mention it after passing the etiquette according to the rules. A family of women has a hundred wishes, if there is no second will today, you can meet the Gu family, the most important thing in the next year or two is to choose a good son-in-law for the eldest lady to send her to marry. Not only the elders, but also their younger siblings will help the eldest lady to choose thousands of choices, and they must be picky in every way, and they must pick out a unique one.
It's a pity that all kinds of favors and proud family backgrounds can't be worth a holy decree. Hui Lan felt uncomfortable in her heart, gritting her teeth and slashing the dog emperor in her heart. Looking at the calm lady, Hui Lan couldn't care about the pain in the tips of her fingers, and held the hand of the big lady to give her a little warmth.
The eldest lady's hand was half-clenched, cold as ice, and Huilan was full of satisfaction. Such a proud daughter of heaven still can't decide her own life, she must be very sad. Huilan didn't speak, only silently accompanied her.
The eldest lady seemed to have come back to her senses from her contemplation, and asked Huilan lightly, "So Ah Hui, was she stunned by this incident?" This is estimated to make Saburo and them laugh to death! ”
Hui Lan smiled bitterly, her previous incompetent rage was indeed from the unexpected and uncontrollable fear in her heart. In the last life of poverty, if you are really cornered and you can commit suicide, you can shoot a video to make your family feel no better. But here, even if she is cornered, can she die? I'm sorry, no, you don't finish dying one, you have to die a household register, it!!
"Maybe I'm young and knowledgeable, but I always feel that we are all free and can decide our own lives and destinies. As a result...... "Hui Lan told the truth, no matter how willful you are, you will have to stop if you hit the king's life." Hehe, what a pit truth this is.
The eldest lady looked at Hui Lan in surprise, not knowing how to speak. After a while, the eldest lady almost whispered: "Power can indeed determine the lives and fate of other people, but I hate this injustice. Do unto others as you would have them do to you. ”
Huilan was stunned, and then couldn't cry or laugh. She was wronged, she really didn't encourage the eldest lady to press her husband to be Wu Zetian after her father-in-law died in the future! She agreed with the eldest lady's words, leaned over and whispered to clarify herself, "Sister misunderstood, I was thinking, when can there be no such authoritarian system, no one can control others." ”
The eldest lady's eyes widened and her red lips were slightly open, obviously shocked by Hui Lan's otherworldly remarks. Huilan smiled innocently, shrunk her neck and waited for the eldest lady to return to her senses and announce the verdict.