Yu Wu

Chapter 157

Although Gu Mang followed Murong Lian's footsteps, he was confused and surprised that Murong Lian wanted to visit him.

Although he had very few memories of Murong Lian, he knew very well that Murong Lian had never treated him well, let alone bought a box of snacks to apologize to him.

Children's love and hatred are not so complicated. If you push me today, I will bear the hatred, but if you give me a bunch of candied haws tomorrow, the previous hatred will disappear.That's why Gu Mang firmly believed that he never received Murong Lian's box of pastries - if he had indeed received it, the relationship between him and Murong Lian would not be as gloomy as it was later.

With such doubts in mind, he followed Murong Lian all the way, and finally arrived outside Aunt Lin's cabin.

A peach blossom was planted outside Aunt Lin's room, and it was in flowering season at this time, and it was blooming profusely and colorfully.Murong Lian stood still under the flower tree, straightened his clothes, coughed lightly twice to ensure that he had put on the airs of a young master, and then raised his hand to knock on the door.

But before his knuckles touched the door, the voices of two women talking could be heard from inside.

"How did you fall like this?" The voice of the woman who spoke first was majestic and full of oppression. It was the voice of Murong Lian's mother, Mrs. Zhao, "I asked you to take care of the child, and that's how you take care of it?"

When Murong Lian heard his mother's voice, a look of awe and surprise appeared on his face, and he lowered his little fist that was about to knock on the door.

Then, Aunt Lin's timid voice came from behind the door: "...I'm sorry, I was negligent."

"I don't think you are careless, you have no brains. Aunt Lin, during the few years you stayed in Wangshu Mansion, how did I, Zhao Susu, ever bully you? The child suffered such a serious injury, why didn't you come and report to me in time? Do you think I won't help you?"

Aunt Lin hurriedly said, "No, it's not. I didn't..."

Mrs. Zhao snorted coldly: "Why bother to explain. I know you have always hated me, and Quan Chonghua regarded me as a jealous woman. Are you the exception?"

"lady……"

"Stop talking." Mrs. Zhao said sternly, "I'll take the child away. You should do your job well, and don't shake it under my nose."

Aunt Lin didn't make a sound, but there were rustling footsteps behind the door panel.

After a while, Mrs. Zhao's high-pitched voice pierced through the wooden boards——

"What are you doing here?"

Aunt Lin mourned softly: "Madam, please, just leave him to me, don't look at A Mang who is always making troubles, he is actually very shy, he can't rest well with you... "

"Am I a stranger?!"

"no……"

"Then why is he afraid of me? Will I eat him or poison him to death?"

"I didn't mean that..."

"Then you still don't let go! What are you worried about? Even if I don't want to see him again, will I cheat him?"

"..."

"Aunt Lin, you are sober, I am the head of the Wangshu family, and he is the seed of the Wangshu family!"

Dead silence.

There was a dull buzzing in Gu Mang's head, it almost exploded, he could hardly believe his ears.

what?

Who is the child of Wangshu's family?

Mrs. Zhao... She, what does she mean... What is she talking about? ? !

Amid the roar of blood, the door of the hut creaked open.

But not only Gu Mang in the illusion, but also Murong Lian were also dumbfounded.

Murong Lian seemed to want to run away, but his whole body seemed to be filled with mercury, and he couldn't move, so he stood stupidly at the door.

Just like that, he bumped into Mrs. Zhao.

"Ah, mother..."

Mrs. Zhao brought out little Gu Mang who was in a coma.When she saw Murong Lian, the blood on her face quickly disappeared.

"Why are you here?!"

Murong Lian palely raised her small face, and stuttered to her mother anxiously: "I...I..."

But Mrs. Zhao didn't ask Murong Lian to answer her own question, she suddenly realized something, raised her hand, and stopped Murong Lian's voice.Then immediately closed the door, blocking Aunt Lin's sight.

Aunt Lin: "Madam..."

"Don't come out!"

"Ma'am...Ah Mang is really timid...he is always afraid of disturbing others..." Aunt Lin timidly but stubbornly said even though she knew that she was tired of her, "You...you showed him Ill, don't let him stay with you anymore...I will definitely..."

"Shut up!" Mrs. Zhao slammed the door shut.

bang.

Mrs. Zhao didn't seem to want Aunt Lin to know that there was Murong Lian standing outside, so she lowered her eyebrows and gritted her teeth in a low voice, "Come here."

Murong Lian stood still.

"Come here for me!"

Murong Lian still couldn't recover, looked up at his mother in shock and fear.

"..."

Mrs. Zhao cursed secretly, and simply grabbed his skirt, holding Gu Mang in her left hand and Murong Lian in her right hand, and went back to her room without looking back.

As soon as she entered the room, Mrs. Zhao shunned all the servants, threw Gu Mang on the bed, and said to Murong Lian, "How much have you heard?"

Murong Lian was only so young at that time, how could he go through this battle, he was so frightened that he couldn't speak, he only opened his eyes wide, which were filled with tears of fright.

"I'm asking you something. You're a man, you cry in just two words, what do you look like!"

"I, I..." Murong Lian was still holding the snack box in his hand, and was forced by his mother to cry, "Didn't I be born by my mother? Did I pick it up?"

Mrs. Zhao was stunned for a moment.

When Murong Lian cried, he was a little out of control. He looked at Mrs. Zhao for a while, and Gu Mang who was unconscious on the bed for a while, and finally felt like he was about to choke.

Mrs. Zhao pondered for a while, and she finally understood. She first supported her forehead, and then patted the table: "...Murong Lian! What are you thinking? How can a beautiful person like me give birth to such an ugly brat? Come?"

Murong Lian's narcissism is in the same line as Mrs. Zhao's. Based on this alone, it can be concluded that Murong Lian is definitely Mrs. Zhao's own.

Murong Lian raised a small hand to wipe his tears, choked up and said, "Then you just said...you said he was...was..."

Madam Zhao narrowed her eyes.

Murong Lian felt the pressure from his mother, and his voice weakened, but he still finished in a low voice: "He is from our family..."

This time Mrs. Zhao didn't speak immediately.

She walked up to Murong Lian, brought over the snack box that he was struggling to hold, and placed it on the table covered with gold silk embroidered white bird satin.Then poured a pot of flower and fruit tea and drank a cup slowly.

Shi Ran's finger holding Danzhu Doukou turned the Ru porcelain cup, Madam Zhao raised her eyes, but she didn't look at Murong Lian.Her eyes fell on Gu Mang, and after a while, she said, "Murong Lian, come here."

Murong Lian walked towards her hesitantly.

Mrs. Zhao put down the teacup, thought for a while, and finally held his shoulders and said to him: "...you should know about this sooner or later. I wanted to tell you when you were older. But since you have heard it now, there is no point in keeping it a secret. But this secret must be buried in your own heart, and no one can tell it, and no one is allowed to tell it, do you understand?"

Murong Lian nodded in confusion.

But how did such a young child learn how to keep a secret?

Mrs. Zhao also had this consideration, so she pulled Murong Lian's palm, and with her fingertips focused, she drew a curse mark on his palm.That was obviously not a good curse seal, Murong Lian yelled out all of a sudden: "A Niang, it hurts so much!"

"It's just the pain of the seal." Mrs. Zhao said, "After the seal, before you become the master of Wangshu Mansion, the secrets you heard today will be doomed to be unspeakable. Once you say something wrong, there will be more people." Suffering far worse than this pain keeps you tight-lipped."

She said, letting go of his palm.

"Don't blame Aniang for being too cruel. You were born in Murong's family. If you show any weakness or do something wrong, you may lose your life."

After finishing all these, Mrs. Zhao asked Murong Lian to sit down.

She looked at Murong Lian who was covering the back of her hand with tears hanging on her eyelashes for a while with a complicated expression, and then she thought about opening her mouth, and tried her best to explain the past that she had concealed in a way that children could understand come out.

"Your father...his relationship with me..."

She thought about it, and finally said firmly: "Actually...it's not as good as you imagined."

Murong Lian: "..."

Gu Mang had heard from Mo Xi about this before, that old Wang Shu Jun Murong Xuan didn't like Mrs. Zhao, but a girl from Lin'an.It's just that due to the obstruction of the powerful class, Murong Xuan finally did not marry her as a wife, but married the Zhao family who was well-matched.

But this kind of thing, after all, others only know one thing and don't know the other, only what the person involved said is the most true.

Following Mrs. Zhao's narration, the truth of this past finally gradually surfaced.

It turned out that although Mrs. Zhao came from a noble family, she never lived in the capital city. Her father was an important official stationed at the border of the eastern border, and the family lived in the fief all the year round. Only at the end of the year would the Lord Zhao bring his wife and daughter to the capital city. pay homage.

Zhao Susu met Murong Xuan who played the piano and presented music for Jun Shang at an annual banquet when she was in her prime, and fell in love with this young and promising nobleman ever since.

It's just that she is arrogant, others can see her thoughts, she is embarrassed, so she tries her best to deny it, and even deliberately looks down on Murong Xuan with her nostrils upturned, so that Murong Xuan doesn't have a good impression of her, and even more so Never had any affection for her.Mrs. Zhao is also a woman who feels extremely good about herself. She firmly believes that even if she rolls her eyes every time they meet, Murong Xuan will still find her beauty and bow down under her pomegranate skirt.

The result was, of course, dismal.

Murong Xuan didn't fall in love with her, but in a certain year, while hunting, he came across a girl who fled from Lin'an.

The girl didn't know what happened, probably because she broke her brain before, she couldn't remember many things, she only knew that her surname was Chu, and if she asked about anything else, she couldn't remember anything.

But other than that, everything she has is beautiful, not to mention her gentle and charming nature, and her temperament is also very gentle. After coming and going, Murong Xuan actually developed feelings for her.

In fact, if you calm down and think about it carefully, this is a relationship with no way out at a glance.Miss Chu's background is unknown, her family background is humble...everything reflects her incompatibility with Murong Xuan.

But Murong Xuan was too young at that time, and thought everything was extremely optimistic, so he went to the Junshang at that time—that is, his brother, to confess his thoughts, and asked the Junshang to give him and Miss Chu a blessing. marriage.

Originally, this was not absolutely impossible.Unfortunately, Junshang just agreed to Zhao Gonghou's marriage proposal and 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, and the emperor never expected that Murong Xuan already had a person he liked.Jun Wu joked, for the sake of the royal family's face, he naturally rejected Murong Xuan's entreaty, and asked Murong Xuan to break with the Chu family.

But at that time, Murong Xuan was in love with Miss Chu, how could he be willing?He, who was always gentle and refined, actually had an argument with Brother Wang in court. Your Majesty was annoyed by him, and he didn't want to embarrass his brother too much. In the end, suppressing his anger, he reluctantly said that if Murong Xuan really couldn't let the Chu family go, then After he married Zhao Susu and gave birth to a son and a half daughter, he could also make an exception to elevate Miss Chu's status and allow her to marry Murong Xuan as his concubine.

Lao Junshang thought that he had already made a big move, but unexpectedly, his younger brother, who was always knowledgeable, was very stubborn this time, and he insisted on not giving up half a point.

In the end, Thunder was furious.

At this time, Lin'an Feng Wang Yue Juntian even participated in the performance, saying that he went to check the identity of the Chu family, and there was no girl named Chu in Lin'an, and such women of unknown origin were either spies or evildoers.

Burning with anger, the king took Miss Chu to the Sishutai for the crime of bewitching, and put her into a trial.

Things have come to such a point, Murongxuan can only agree to fulfill the marriage contract, marry Zhao as his wife, and use this request to let Chu's life out.

In fact, according to your majesty, he didn't think that the Chu family was a spy at first. He knew that Yue Juntian took the opportunity to sue Murong Xuan because of his personal grievances, so what he originally thought was to use the Chu family to threaten Murong Xuan, and it would be over. However, as long as Murong Xuan got married obediently and satisfied the demands of the important officials Zhao's clan, then Miss Chu would naturally be let go.

But Zhao Gonghou's family didn't think so.

Except that Zhao Susu, who was extremely narcissistic, didn't take the rumors outside seriously, and didn't think there was anything special about her husband and Miss Chu at all.The rest of the Zhao family felt that the Chu family was a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh that had to be removed.Coupled with Yue Juntian fanning the flames from the sidelines, the members of the Zhao family became even more impatient.

After several calculations, they bypassed the king and bought off the monks at the Sishutai to let them release a fake Chu girl, leaving the real Chu family to continue to be treated as a trial body that would die at any time at the Sishutai.

I thought that this would clear the stumbling block on the road of love for my daughter, but there is no impenetrable wall in the world, and the conspiracy of the Zhao clan quickly reached the ears of Murong Xuan who was on the front line at that time.Murong Xuan was already very depressed during that time, but when he heard such news now, he was immediately disturbed, so that he was severely injured by the enemy in the decisive battle, and finally died of illness on the way back to the city, dying on the banks of the Fushui River.

The Zhao family did not expect that this self-defeating, instead of helping their daughter, made Mrs. Zhao a widow.When the bad news came, Mrs. Zhao was already seven months pregnant, she was born prematurely in grief, and gave birth to a baby boy in pain, that is Murong Lian.

After giving birth, Mrs. Zhao was depressed and immersed in the pain of losing her husband.She didn't know at all that Murong Xuan was tricked into drinking carnival wine on the wedding day. In fact, he had no feelings for her.

It wasn't until she recovered a little, and when she went to her deceased husband's study to collect her belongings in tears secretly, she found a stack of letters between her husband and the Chu family during his lifetime.

When the lingering thoughts and gurgling words flowed out between the lines, Mrs. Zhao finally realized belatedly that it was her over-conceitedness who had always been at the top. In fact, those rumors were all true, and the root of her husband's liking It wasn't her, but that humble fugitive.

Mrs. Zhao is such a proud person, how can she not become angry from embarrassment?

She concealed the truth from her and only wanted her to marry the elders of the Murong family. She had a big fight with the elders of the Murong family, throwing tables and smashing doors, but she still couldn't let it go. Thinking about that girl Chu, she was so angry that she couldn't bear it .

She became a laughing stock unknowingly, and all of this was thanks to her Zhao family who treated her as a pawn, and that bitch surnamed Chu!

After Mrs. Zhao finished making trouble with the Zhao family, how could she let the Chu family go?After a few rounds of inquiries, they finally found out that Miss Chu is now being detained in the Shura Room of the Sishutai.So she went to the operator's platform with resentment. At that time, the Chu family was being taken to do potion trials by the monks who had taken advantage of it.

The "slutty bastard" she saw at the operator's desk was a body frozen by a spell, with an unrecognizable face, a bony body, and...

Visibly protruding abdomen.

"It's been several months, but she has been frozen in the ice of Xuanming. Staying in it for a year is equivalent to spending three or two days outside." The monk explained to her, "My lord was originally I wanted to kill her directly, but it was too obvious to do so, so I was afraid of arousing your suspicion, so I froze it first."

"Ma'am, do you want to kill her now?"

Mrs. Zhao: "..."

She was in a daze.

She first read the love letter her husband wrote with this woman, and she felt jealous and resentful in her heart.

But at this moment, separated by Xuan Bing, she looked around at the woman who was about the same age as herself.

Just because you don't have a good background, you can't form a couple with the one you love.His face was also ruined, his life was on the line, even the child could not be saved, it was all thanks to his family.

She, like her, is, after all, a pawn on the chessboard, two victims.

Mrs. Zhao's heart was full of mixed feelings, and she looked at the belly that was pregnant with life—she was not a compassionate person, but after all, she had just given birth, and her heart was softer than before.After hesitating for a long time, she finally couldn't bear it, so she rescued Miss Chu.

Zhao Susu hid Ms. Chu in the dark room of Wangshu's mansion without telling everyone, and hired a stern woman to take care of her until the child was born safely.

And in order to deceive others, she also changed the surname of the Chu family, and only took half of it, and named it Lin.

From now on, there will be no more Miss Chu in the world, and there will be an ugly woman in Wangshu Mansion.

That was Gu Mang's Aunt Mud.