Although Gu Mang followed the footsteps of the Murong Lian, he was confused and surprised that the Murong Lian wanted to see him.
Although he had little memory of the Murong Lian, he was very clear that the Murong Lian had never treated him kindly, let alone bought him a box of snacks to apologize to him.
Children's love and hatred were not that complicated. Today, if you pushed me, I would hold a grudge, but if you gave me a stick of candied haws tomorrow, the grudge would disappear. Therefore, Gu Mang firmly believed that he had never received a box of snacks from the Murong Lian. If he had received it, his relationship with the Murong Lian would not have been as gloomy as it was later.
With this question in mind, he followed the Murong Lian all the way to Aunt Lin's hut.
There was a peach blossom tree outside Aunt Lin's hut. It was currently in full bloom and was blooming beautifully. The Murong Lian stood under the flower tree, tidied his clothes, and coughed twice to make sure that he was putting on the airs of a young master. Then, he raised his hand and prepared to knock on the door.
But before his knuckles touched the door, he heard the voices of two women talking inside.
"How did you get hurt like this?" The woman who spoke first had a dignified and oppressive voice. It was the voice of the Murong Lian's mother, Madam Zhao. "I told you to take care of the child, and this is how you take care of him?"
When the Murong Lian heard his mother's voice, his face showed some awe and surprise. He put down his small fist that was about to knock on the door.
Then, Aunt Lin's soft and timid voice came from behind the door, "… I'm sorry, I was careless."
"I don't think you were careless, you were brainless. Aunt Lin, when have I, Zhao Susu, ever bullied you in the Wangshu Mansion these past few years? This child was seriously injured, why didn't you report to me immediately? Did you think that I wouldn't help you? "
Aunt Lin hurriedly said, "No, no. I didn't … "
Madam Zhao snorted coldly, "There's no need to explain. I know you've always hated me. All the Chong Hua people think that I'm a jealous woman. Are you the only exception? "
"Madam …"
"Say no more." Madam Zhao said sternly, "I'll take the child away. You do your job well, don't show up in front of me. "
Aunt Lin did not say anything, but there were footsteps behind the door.
After a while, Madam Zhao's voice, raised in pitch, pierced through the wooden planks.
"What are you doing?"
Aunt Lin whispered, "Madam, please, I beg you, leave him to me. he's be alone, he is afraid of strangers.. he is, in fact, he is afraid of strangers.. he can't have a good rest.... at you.
"Am I a stranger?"
"It's not that …"
.. then, why is he? Will I eat him or poison him? "
"I didn't mean that …"
"Then why aren't you letting go? What are you worried about? Even if I don't like him, would I harm him? "
. "..
. "Aunt Lin, wake up. I am the head of the Wangshu family, and he is a child of the Wangshu family!"
Dead silence.
Gu Mang's head buzzed as if it had exploded. He almost couldn't believe his ears.
What?
Who is a child of the Wangshu family?
Madam Zhao … What, what does she mean … What is she talking about?.
Amidst the roar of blood, the door of the hut creaked open.
Gu Mang was not the only one who was stunned. The Murong Lian was as well.
The Murong Lian wanted to run away, but his whole body seemed to be filled with mercury. He could not move. He just stood at the door.
Just like that, he bumped into Madam Zhao.
"Ah, Mother …"
Madam Zhao carried the unconscious Gu Mang out. She saw the Murong Lian and the blood drained from her face.
"Why are you here?!"
The Murong Lian raised his pale face and stuttered to his mother, "I … I …"
However, Madam Zhao didn't let Murong Lian answer after she asked her own question. She suddenly reacted and raised her hand to stop Murong Lian's voice. She then closed the door, blocking Aunt Lin's view.
Aunt Lin, "Madam …"
"Don't come out!"
"Madam … Ah Mang is really timid … He's always afraid of disturbing others …" Even though Auntie Lin knew that she had annoyed her, she was still stubborn. "You … Since you've treated him, don't let him stay at your place anymore … I'll definitely …"
"Shut up!" Madam Zhao slammed the door shut.
There was a loud bang.
Madam Zhao did not want Aunt Lin to know that there was a Murong Lian outside. She lowered her eyebrows and gritted her teeth. "Come here."
The Murong Lian did not move.
"Come here!"
The Murong Lian was still stunned. He looked up at his mother in shock and fear.
"…"
Madam Zhao cursed under her breath and grabbed him by the collar. She carried Gu Mang in her left hand and the Murong Lian in her right. She returned to her room without looking back.
Madam Zhao dismissed all the servants and threw Gu Mang on the bed. She then said to the Murong Lian, "How much did you hear?"
The Murong Lian was so young at that time. He had never experienced such a situation. He was so scared that he could not speak. His eyes were wide open and filled with tears of fear.
"I'm asking you a question. You're a man. How can you cry just because of a few words? "
"I, I …" The Murong Lian was still holding the small box. He was pushed by his mother and burst into tears. "Am I not Ah Niang's child? Did you pick me up? "
Madam Zhao was stunned.
The Murong Lian could not stop crying. He looked at Madam Zhao for a while, then looked at the unconscious Gu Mang on the bed. In the end, he almost choked.
Madam Zhao pondered for a while and finally understood. She first held her forehead and then slammed the table. "… Murong Lian! What kind of nonsense are you thinking about? How could an outstanding beauty like me give birth to such an ugly stinking brat? "
The Murong Lian's narcissism was the same as Madam Zhao's. Just based on this point, it could be concluded that the Murong Lian was definitely Madam Zhao's biological child.
The Murong Lian raised a small hand to wipe his tears. He choked and said, "Then you just said … you said that he is … is …"
Madam Zhao narrowed her eyes.
The Murong Lian felt the pressure from his mother. His voice softened, but he still finished in a low voice, "He is a member of our family …"
This time, Madam Zhao did not immediately speak.
She walked in front of the Murong Lian and took the box of snacks that he struggled to carry. She put it on the table covered with golden embroidered white satin. Then, she poured a pot of fruit tea and slowly drank a cup.
Madam Zhao raised her eyes, but did not look at Murong Lian. Madam Zhao twirled the porcelain cup with her fingers that were dyed red with cardamom. Her gaze fell on Gu Mang. After a while, she said, "Murong Lian, come here."
The Murong Lian walked over to her hesitantly.
Madam Zhao put down the teacup and thought for a while. In the end, she still held his shoulder and said to him, "… You should have known about this sooner or later. I originally wanted to wait until you were a little older to tell you, but since you've already heard about it, there's no point in me hiding it from you. But this secret must be buried in your heart. You cannot tell anyone. You are not allowed to tell anyone. Do you understand? "
The Murong Lian nodded in confusion.
But such a young child, how could he learn to keep a secret?
Madam Zhao also had this thought, so she pulled the Murong Lian's palm. Her fingertips condensed light, and she drew a seal on his palm. It was obviously not a good seal. The Murong Lian immediately cried out, "Mother, it hurts!"
"It is only the pain of the seal." Madam Zhao said, "When this seal is cast, before you become the master of Wang Shu Manor, you will not be able to speak of the secret you heard today. If you say something wrong, you will suffer far more pain than this. You will have to keep your mouth shut. "
As she spoke, she let go of his palm.
"Don't blame Mother for being too cruel. You were born in the Murong family. If you reveal any weakness or make the slightest mistake, you may lose your own life. "
After doing all this, Madam Zhao let the Murong Lian sit down.
With a complicated expression, she looked at the Murong Lian who was covering the back of his hand with tears on his eyelashes for a while. Then, she deliberated for a while before opening her mouth. She tried her best to explain the past in a way that the child could understand.
"Your father … his relationship with me …"
She deliberated and finally said stiffly, "Actually, it has always … not been as good as you think."
The Murong Lian, "…"
Gu Mang had heard Mo Xi mention this before. The old Lord Wangshu Murong Xuan did not like Madam Zhao. Instead, he liked a girl from Lin 'an. However, due to the obstruction of the nobility, Murong Xuan did not marry her in the end. Instead, he married Madam Zhao, who was of equal status.
But for this kind of thing, outsiders only knew part of it. Only the words of the person involved were the most truthful.
With Madam Zhao's narration, the truth of the past gradually surfaced.
It turned out that although Madam Zhao was of noble birth, she did not live in the capital before. Her father was an important official stationed at the eastern border. Her family lived in the fief all year round. Only during the annual end of the year ceremony would Madam Zhao bring her wife and daughter to the capital to pay respects.
When Zhao Susu was in her teenage years, she saw Murong Xuan play the zither for the Emperor at a banquet. From then on, she fell in love with this young and promising nobleman.
However, she was a proud person. When others saw through her thoughts, she felt embarrassed and tried her best to deny it. She even deliberately looked down on Murong Xuan. As a result, Murong Xuan did not have a good impression of her and did not have any romantic feelings for her. Madam Zhao was a woman who felt very good about herself. She believed that even if she rolled her eyes at him every time they met, Murong Xuan would still find her beauty and fall for her.
The result was naturally very bleak.
Murong Xuan did not take a fancy to her. However, one year, he happened to meet a girl who fled from Lin 'an when he was hunting.
He did not know what happened to the girl. It was probably because her brain was damaged when she fell. She did not remember many things. She only knew that her surname was Chu. When asked about other things, she could not remember anything.
But other than that, she had everything beautiful. Not to mention that she was gentle and moving, her personality was also very gentle. Gradually, Murong Xuan developed feelings for her.
In fact, if one calmed down and thought about it carefully, one could see that this was a relationship with no future. Miss Chu's origin was unknown, her birth was low … … all of these showed that she was not a good match for Murong Xuan.
However, Murong Xuan was too young at that time. He thought everything was very optimistic. So, he went to the Emperor at that time, his brother, and confessed his feelings and asked the Emperor to grant him and Miss Chu's marriage.
Originally, this was not something that was absolutely impossible. However, unfortunately, the Emperor had just agreed to Eunuch Zhao's marriage proposal. He promised to betroth his daughter, Zhao Susu, to Murong Xuan as his wife.
Most of the marriages of these pure-blooded nobles were decided by the Emperor. The Emperor did not expect that Murong Xuan already had someone he liked. The Emperor did not joke. For the face of the royal family, he naturally refused Murong Xuan's request and asked Murong Xuan to cut off all ties with Miss Chu.
But at that time, Murong Xuan and Miss Chu were very affectionate. How could he be willing? He, who had always been gentle and elegant, actually argued with his brother in court. The Emperor was annoyed by him, but he did not want to make things too difficult for his brother. In the end, he suppressed his anger and reluctantly said that if Murong Xuan really could not let go of Miss Chu, then after he married Zhao Susu and had a son and a daughter, he could make an exception to raise Miss Chu's status and allow her to marry Murong Xuan as a concubine.
The Old Emperor thought that he had already taken a big step back, but unexpectedly, his brother, who had always been tactful, was very stubborn this time. He insisted on not giving in even a little bit.
In the end, he was furious.
At this time, Yue Juntian, who was conferred the title of Prince of Lin 'an, joined in and said that he had checked Miss Chu's identity. There was no Miss Chu in Lin' an at all. Such a woman of unknown origin was either a spy or an evildoer.
In his anger, the Emperor imprisoned Miss Chu on the altar for the crime of bewitchment and sent her to the trial.
At this point, Murong Xuan could only agree to fulfill the marriage contract and marry Zhao Susu as his wife. In this way, he would let Miss Chu live.
In fact, according to the Emperor's intention, he did not think that Miss Chu was a spy. He knew that the Yue Juntian took the opportunity to report this out of personal grievances, so he originally wanted to use Miss Chu to threaten Murong Xuan. As long as Murong Xuan obediently got married and satisfied the demands of the important minister Zhao Susu, then he would naturally let Miss Chu go.
But Eunuch Zhao's family did not think so.
Except for the extremely narcissistic Zhao Susu, who did not take the rumors outside seriously, she did not think that her husband and Miss Chu were anything special. The rest of the Zhao family felt that Miss Chu was a thorn in their side that had to be removed. In addition, the Yue Juntian fanned the flames, and the people of the Zhao family became more and more restless.
After several calculations, they bypassed Jun Shang and bribed the cultivators of the Judicial Arts Platform, making them release a fake Miss Chu, while leaving the real Miss Chu to continue to be treated as a body that could die at any time in the judicial arts platform.
They originally thought that this would remove the stumbling block on their daughter's path of love, but there was no wall without a crack. The Zhao family's secret plan quickly reached the ears of Murong Xuan, who was at the frontlines at that time. Murong Xuan was already very depressed at that time, and when he heard this news, his mind was immediately thrown into chaos. In the final battle, he was heavily injured by the enemy and died on the way back to the city. He breathed his last at the riverside.
The Zhao family did not think that this plan would backfire. Not only did they not help their daughter, but they also implicated Madam Zhao and made her a living widow. When the bad news came, Madam Zhao was already seven months pregnant. In her grief and shock, she prematurely gave birth to a boy in pain. That boy was the Murong Lian.
After giving birth, Madam Zhao was depressed and immersed in the pain of losing her husband. She did not know that on their wedding day, Murong Xuan was actually tricked into drinking wine. In fact, he did not have any feelings for her. She thought that the two of them were deeply in love, but they were separated by life and death.
When she recovered slightly, she went to her late husband's study to collect his belongings. She found a stack of letters that her husband had exchanged with Miss Chu when he was alive.
When the continuous feelings and warm words flowed out from between the lines, Madam Zhao finally realized that she had always been too conceited. In fact, those rumors were true. The one her husband liked was not her, but that lowly refugee.
Madam Zhao was such a proud person, how could she not be angry?
She had a big argument with the family elders who hid the truth from her and only wanted her to marry the Murong Clan. She smashed the table and smashed the door, but she still could not get over it. When she thought of that Miss Chu, she was even angrier.
She had unknowingly become a laughingstock, and all of this was thanks to the Zhao Clan who used her as a chess piece, and that slut surnamed Chu!
After Madam Zhao was done with the Zhao Clan, how could she let Miss Chu go? After several inquiries, she finally found out that Miss Chu was currently detained in the Asura Room of the Arcane Stage. Thus, she went to the Arcane Stage with a resentful heart. At that time, Miss Chu was being taken to the Medicine Refinement Stage by a cultivator who had received benefits.
The "vixen slut" she saw at the Arcane Stage was a body that had been frozen by a spell. She had a face that was unrecognizable, a body that was thin and bony, and …
A clearly bulging lower abdomen.
"It's been several months, but she has always been frozen in the Mysterious Underworld Ice. Staying in there for a year is only equivalent to two or three days outside." The cultivator explained to her, "Your father originally wanted to directly take her life, but that would be too obvious. He was afraid that it would arouse the Emperor's suspicion, so he first froze her."
"Madam, do you want to kill her now?"
Madam Zhao: "…"
She was a little dazed.
She first saw the love letter her husband wrote to this woman, and her heart was filled with jealousy and hatred.
But now, separated by the Mysterious Underworld Ice, she looked at the woman who was about the same age as her.
It was only because she didn't have a good family background that she couldn't marry the person she liked. Her face was ruined, her life was in danger, and even her child couldn't be saved. It was all because of her own family.
In the end, Miss Chu and her were both pawns on the chessboard, two sacrificial lambs.
Madam Zhao's heart was filled with mixed feelings. She looked at the pregnant abdomen again. She wasn't a merciful person, but after all, she had just given birth, and her heart was softer than before. After hesitating for a long time, she couldn't bear to see Miss Chu, so she rescued her.
Zhao Susu hid Miss Chu in the dark room of the Wangshu Residence without telling anyone. She also hired a tight-lipped midwife to take care of her until the child was safely born.
In order to keep it a secret, she also changed Miss Chu's surname. She only took half of it, and the surname was Lin.
From then on, that Miss Chu no longer existed in the world, and Wangshu Residence had an ugly woman.
That was Gu Mang's Aunt Ni.
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