The adopted son fell in love with the play, and knelt in front of the door all day to divorce the county lord.
I wanted to redeem the actor and send her out of the capital, but she suddenly died in the Qinglou.
Later, the adopted son rose to prominence and became a high-ranking first assistant.
On the day of my promotion, the first thing he did was order me to be put to death.
It was also on that day that I learned that my adopted son had long been in collusion with the concubine of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
He looked at me condescendingly and said,
"Your mother's family is ordinary, so she forced me to study hard all day long. 」
"But the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion has a prominent family, and I just promised to let her marry my father, and she helped me to rise to the top. 」
"You killed my beloved, so go down and be with her!"
When I opened my eyes again, I went back to the day my adopted son got married.
1
Looking at the foot of white silk and poisonous wine in front of me, I smiled.
Looking up, it was the cold and hard face of his adopted son Gu Xuancheng.
"You lost your mother at an early age, and I raised you by myself. 」
"Now that you're rising step by step, the first thing you want to do is kill me?"
There was something incredible in my tone, and even the people around me looked at me with pity.
When Gu Xuancheng was five years old, her biological mother fell ill.
Before dying, she dragged her ruined body and took Gu Xuancheng to find me.
"I know that Madame has always wanted a child, and in the future, Cheng'er will be helpless in the huge mansion and can only rely on Madame. 」
Because I fell into the water and contracted the wind cold in my early years, the imperial doctor told me that it was difficult to conceive a child of my own in this life.
Over the years, I have searched all the doctors in the country, but I have never been able to get a cure.
Gu Xuancheng is a good choice.
After that day, I took Gu Xuan under my name and raised him, making him a veritable concubine of the Hou Mansion.
I found the best master and taught him the six arts.
When he came of age, I found a marriage contract with the lord for him.
But now, he doesn't think about me, and he still wants to kill me in public.
Gu Xuancheng glanced at me and said in a cold tone,
"Mother is still so conceited, what you have given me over the years is really what I want?"
"I hate the deceit in officialdom, and what I love most is to walk through the mountains and rivers with my beloved. 」
"In all these years, no one has ever asked me what I really want!"
"Only Lan'er, only she loves me!"
Lan'er.
What an unfamiliar name.
I thought about it for a long time before I finally remembered who she was.
Lan'er is the drama in the largest green building in the capital.
The first thing Gu Xuancheng did when he became an adult was to withdraw from the marriage contract with the county lord and marry Lan'er into the door.
I can't afford to lose this person, and the Hou Mansion can't afford to lose it!
I rejected it in one fell swoop.
Ke Lan'er died in the Qinglou on the second day.
Everyone in the capital said that I killed Lan'er.
I wanted to explain, but seeing Gu Xuancheng become more and more calm, I suppressed my mind to explain.
Suddenly, Gu Xuancheng stabbed me with a sword.
The tip of the sword pierced through my chest, and with intense pain, I spat out a mouthful of blood.
Seeing me in such a miserable state, Gu Xuancheng finally laughed happily.
"You owe me this!"
"You don't know yet, do you? In three days, my father will marry the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion. 」
"My father and I only promised the position of the prime minister's wife, and she helped me ascend to the position of first assistant. 」
"But what about you, because your mother clan is weak, so you put all the pressure on me!"
"Since you're useless, don't blame me for finding a new mother-in-law. 」
"Killed Lan'er, you go down to accompany her!"
With Gu Xuancheng's roar, I closed my eyes unwillingly.
If I could do it all over again, I would never have such a wolf-hearted person again!
I don't know if the heavens heard my heart.
When I opened my eyes again, I was reborn back to the day when Gu Xuancheng knelt in front of the door and quit the marriage.
The maid knelt in front of me, vividly learning Gu Xuancheng's miserable appearance in the courtyard.
Looking at the steaming teacup, I sneered.
"Since he is willing to marry the actor, it will be according to his heart. 」
"I'm going to see if he can really hold on without the help of his family. 」
02
After getting permission, Gu Xuancheng rushed to the house with a look of disbelief.
Compared with Gu Xuancheng, who will hold a lot of power in the future and is full of joy and anger, there is a little more childishness on his face at this time.
He tried his best to suppress the joy in his heart, but still said with some vigilance,
"Mother, are you telling the truth?"
I'm noncommittal.
Rejected him, he hated me.
Now that he agreed, he felt untrustworthy.
This man is really hard to serve.
"What should be the marriage contract of the county lord?"
Gu Xuancheng's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and he asked me cautiously.
Many years ago, the third princess fell into the water, and I jumped down to save her.
The third princess promised me that the county lord's mother-in-law would only be me in the future.
After adopting Gu Xuancheng, this marriage naturally fell on his head.
is this marriage that everyone envies, Gu Xuancheng will actually choose a play.
It's ridiculous.
But when he asked me, he naturally knew the benefits of this marriage.
I took a sip of hot tea and said lightly, "Gu Linhui. 」
Gu Xuancheng's eyes widened, and he looked at me in disbelief.
"Gu Linhui is just a concubine, how can he be worthy of a marriage with the county lord?"
Compared with Gu Xuancheng, Gu Linhui was even more unpopular with the people in the house.
It was only because his mother was just a maid in the house that she climbed into Hou Ye's bed after getting drunk, so that Hou Ye was able to accept her as a concubine.
It's a pity that a few years ago, the concubine was caught having an affair with someone and was sold to the kiln by the Hou Ye.
Since then, Gu Linhui's status in the mansion has fallen to the bottom.
More than once, I have seen people in the house seek him out for fun and mock him with impunity.
Although I don't have much love for Gu Linhui, he also bears the name of the Hou Mansion after all.
If there are rumors that someone has bullied him, I'm afraid that I, the head of the house, will be the first to be held accountable.
Therefore, I taught the people in the house a lesson, and ordered them to bring him a few days to eat.
Then I was troubled by Gu Xuancheng's withdrawal from marriage, and I never thought of this person again.
In the last life, I was confined in the room by Gu Xuancheng, and everyone was afraid to avoid me, only Gu Linhui sneaked into the room and wanted to take me out.
I knew Gu Xuancheng's methods, and in order not to affect Gu Linhui, I rejected his kindness.
That night, Gu Linhui kowtowed three times in front of me with red eyes and left.
Before leaving, he said,
"Mother, I'm going to join the army. 」
"When I come back, I will take you out of this cannibalistic Hou Mansion without blinking. 」
I just gave me a favor casually, and Gu Linhui remembered it deeply.
But my sister-in-law, who has been carefully raised for more than ten years, wants my life.
People's hearts can never resist speculation.
Thinking back, I looked at Gu Xuancheng lightly.
"Then what do you say, find the county lord to get out of the marriage? How many heads do you have enough to lose?"
Gu Xuancheng was choked by my words, and said hesitantly,
"Lan'er can be a concubine. 」
The corners of my mouth curled up with a hint of mockery.
used to say that he wanted to marry Lan'er as his wife, but now that he knows the marriage contract of the county lord, he can let Lan'er be a concubine again.
I want both the power brought by the county lord and the affection brought by the play.
It's disgusting.
"Do you want the county lord and the drama of the Qinglou to serve a husband together?"
"Gu Xuancheng, why didn't I find out that you were a person with a clear head. 」
03
I slammed the bowl to the ground.
The splinters slashed across Gu Xuancheng's face, and blood dripped down his cheeks onto the floor.
If it had been in the past, I would have called the doctor in the house to bandage him in distress.
But now, I glanced at him with a cold expression.
The tea bowl just now obviously wouldn't hit him, but he secretly turned his face to that side.
Gu Xuancheng's purpose is very simple, that is, he wants to arouse my compassion.
At the moment, he was stunned.
The reason why Gu Xuancheng has been able to use me all the time is that he is sure that I will cover for him.
But what if I had another choice around me?
At this time, Gu Xuancheng was completely panicked, he knelt down and crawled to my feet, and pleaded and said,
"Mother, the child has never asked you for anything. 」
"This time, I beg you to make sure that the child gets what he wants. 」
"If the county lord marries Gu Linhui, then he will definitely take the child's place in the future. 」
"Do you really want to see the child kicked out of the house because of a power struggle?"
I have to say that Gu Xuancheng knows me, and he knows where to touch my heart the most.
Growing up pampered by my parents, I had never seen a trick of pickling between women in the backyard.
So after marrying into the Hou Mansion, I also had no interest in these things.
Unless someone provokes me, I usually let those concubines compete for favor.
"Besides, Gu Linhui is just a mere concubine, how can he be worthy of the county lord. 」
This is right, it seems that the matter of bringing Gu Linhui to my name should be put on the agenda.
Gu Xuancheng saw that I didn't speak, thinking that I was acquiescing to his words.
He smirked and continued,
"If the county lord doesn't like Lan'er, I can take Lan'er to live in the property in my name first. 」
"When my relationship with the county lord is stable in the future, I will take Lan'er over. 」
Take a look, from the beginning of promising Lan'er the position of wife, to the current outer room.
Gu Xuancheng's face really made me feel disgusting.
He didn't just do this for Lan'er, but he also felt that he had been oppressed by me, so he wanted to disobey my orders.
It's just that he didn't expect that I would actually follow his wishes so well.
I looked at Gu Xuancheng's eyebrows seriously, and I couldn't believe that this was an idea that someone I had carefully raised for more than ten years.
For his own selfish desires, he chose to hurt two women.
Lan'er is just a play, and due to the oppression of his forces, he can only be helpless to be raised by him in the outer room.
And in the future, when the county lord marries into the mansion, he will take Lan'er in.
If the county lord does not agree, he will be guilty of seven offenses and will be abandoned.
If the county lord still wants to make a good name in the capital, he can only agree to it.
In the future, the two women will definitely dislike each other, and feel that it is the existence of the other party that has caused them to fall into this fate.
And Gu Xuancheng, as the initiator, only needs to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
No matter what he does, Gu Xuancheng's move will be beneficial to him and harmless.
In his expectant gaze, I slapped him viciously twice.
With the resentment of the previous life, these two slaps used my full strength.
The corners of Gu Xuancheng's mouth were bloody, and he looked at me with a hurt face.
"I've taught you for so many years, is that what makes you treat people like this?"
"What do you think Lan'er thinks of, and what do you think of the county lord?"
"I really can't see through what you are strange now, from now on, the fate of you and my mother and son has been broken, and you don't have to come to me again. 」
04
Gu Xuancheng's face instantly turned pale, and he looked at me in disbelief.
But the next moment, his mind was instantly attracted by Gu Linhui, who was respectfully invited by his subordinates.
He pointed at Gu Linhui and said,
"Mother, you want to give up on me for such a wasted person?"
"Who in the capital doesn't know that Gu Linhui's mud can't support the wall, and he is the first to last in every exam. 」
Gu Linhui glanced at me in a hurry, and then hung his head deadly.
It seemed that he had acquiesced to Gu Xuancheng's words.
I got up and walked up to him with a demure face.
took his hand and said meaningfully,
"If you can't learn literature, can't you still learn martial arts?"
"There are many generals in the capital who have taken a fancy to Hui'er as a good seedling and want to pull him into their camp. 」
"It's much better than some people, who can't do anything. 」
Gu Xuan's face turned pale for a while, and in the end, he could only leave angrily.
Before leaving, he said angrily,
"Mother, you'll regret it!"
I lowered my eyes, if I had anything to do with Gu Xuancheng again, I would regret it.
After Gu Xuancheng left, Gu Linhui hurriedly pulled out his hand and knelt in front of me.
"Mastermother, I know that I can't compare to Brother Cheng. 」
"After a while, Brother Cheng'er is discouraged, I will never occupy his position. 」
I laughed dumbly, it turned out that Gu Linhui actually thought that he was used by me to anger Gu Xuancheng.
It's no wonder he thinks so, in the past, I really loved Gu Xuancheng as my own child, and I would take the initiative to fight for him in anything that was beneficial to him.
When he was a child, he broke the house rules, and I knelt in the ancestral hall to intercede for him.
And so on and so forth.
I picked up Gu Linhui and said softly,
"I'm the head of the house, so naturally I can't be just a mother alone. 」
"As long as you are the son of the Hou Ye, I will naturally do my best to raise you. 」
I feel a little weak when I say this.
If it weren't for the fact that someone had inadvertently bullied Gu Linhui, I wouldn't even know that there was such a person in the mansion.
But Gu Linhui's eyes were red, and he choked up and said, "Thank you, master." 」
"The master's mother is as kind to me as a mountain, and I will definitely go up the sword mountain and down the sea of fire for the master's mother in the future. 」
I was amused by his words.
Sure enough, I don't like to study in the academy, and the words I say are so straightforward and cute.
I handed him the jade pendant that represented the identity of my son-in-law.
"From now on, you will be the only concubine of the Hou Mansion. 」
"I don't need you to do anything for me, as long as you can live a life of peace and joy. 」
At the beginning, I agreed with the third princess that the person who the county lord would marry in the future would only be the concubine of the Hou Mansion.
It doesn't matter who it is, it's this identity that the county lord marries.
The previous county lord married Gu Xuancheng and was depressed in the mansion.
As soon as I asked, I learned that Gu Xuancheng had humiliated the county lord in public on the day of his wedding.
Since his wedding, Gu Xuancheng has never set foot in the backyard once.
And after Gu Xuan inherited the power, he directly retired the county lord.
The reputation of the county lord plummeted, and he spent the rest of his life with the ancient Buddha of the green lantern.
I've felt guilty for a long time, and if it weren't for me, the county lord wouldn't have ended up like this.
Gu Linhui took the jade pendant and said solemnly,
"Rest assured, I will not disappoint you. 」
On the same day, I directly announced Gu Linhui's identity.
Everyone knows that Gu Xuancheng has become my outcast.
The next day, the noise of gongs and drums woke me up from my sleep.
The maid said with a flustered expression, "Brother Cheng'er married Miss Lan'er and entered the door today. 」
05
After Gu Xuancheng learned the news yesterday, he was so angry that he beat and scolded many subordinates in the courtyard.
I don't know who gave him the bad idea, but he wanted to stimulate me with the matter of marrying Lan'er.
Gu Xuan was conceited and thought that I would definitely stop their wedding.
It wasn't until the afternoon that I got out of bed.
Since adopting Gu Xuancheng, I haven't had a good night's sleep for a long time.
Every day before dawn, I had to personally send him to the academy, and I was busy building relationships with those ladies in the court, just to pave the way for him.
While I was waiting for the small kitchen to cook, Gu Xuancheng wore a red dress and led Lan'er into the courtyard.
I subconsciously frowned and scolded in a low voice,
"You swallowed all the rituals into the dog's belly?"
"Who let you in without the permission of the mistress?"
「还不赶紧给我滚出去候着。 」
The corners of Gu Xuancheng's mouth raised a smug smile, thinking that I was angry because of his marriage.
He dragged Lan'er and stood outside the courtyard with a confident smile on his face.
"Son Gu Xuan took his wife Lan'er and asked his mother to say goodbye. 」
In the next second, the smile on his face suddenly froze.
Because I made the maid close the door mercilessly.
According to the etiquette, even if the housewife is unwilling to open the door to meet people, the junior must wait at the door and not leave.
It wasn't until it was completely dark that I opened the door and let Gu Xuancheng and the others in.
Because of their thin clothes, the two of them were slightly purple from the cold.
I thought that after this incident, Gu Xuancheng would have some brains, who thought that he said angrily,
"Mother, what do you mean by that?"
"I know you don't like Lan'er, but there's no need to humiliate us like this!"
"Lan'er is not selling her body in the Qinglou, she can stick to her heart in such a difficult environment, you shouldn't be prejudiced against her!"
I raised my eyebrows slightly and looked at Lan'er, who was silent.
According to my investigation, Lan'er is not as innocent as Gu Xuancheng said.
It's true that she doesn't sell her body or not, but she wants to use this to increase her value and want to hang those sons and brothers.
In addition to Gu Xuancheng, Lan'er also has several confidants with blue faces.
It's just that those people are shrewd and know that Lan'er must not marry into the mansion and insult the lintel.
Only Gu Xuancheng was stupid, and he thought that Lan'er was guarding himself like a jade for him so far.
Lan'er gently tugged on Gu Xuancheng's sleeve and said earnestly,
"Don't let me ruin the friendship between your mother and son. 」
"As long as you can marry Gu Lang, this bit of suffering is nothing to Lan'er. 」
"And the mistress must have a reason for doing this, and those of us who are juniors just listen to it. 」
Just these three sentences moved Gu Xuancheng to tears.
It's really unproductive.
The more I look at Gu Xuancheng, the more I feel that the kindness I used to have to him was fed to the dog.
However, Lan'er is much smarter than Gu Xuancheng.
She knows that the Hou Mansion is still in charge of me now, and she will look at my face in the future.
So he put on a top hat for me and complimented me.
Gu Xuancheng looked at me indignantly and said,
「母亲，您如此待兰儿，可兰儿依旧能耐心待您。 」
"You've humiliated Lan'er so much!"
Humiliating Lan'er?
Didn't I humiliate both of them together?
However, his mind is different from ordinary people, and I don't bother to bother with him.
"I just did what a mistress is supposed to do. 」
"If someone else marries a drama and enters the door, I am afraid that they will be kicked out of the house by the mistress a long time ago. 」
"If you don't appreciate me, forget it, and still be so ashamed to say so much here. 」
06
After that night, Gu Xuan and I completely tore our faces.
Everyone in the house knows that the housewife doesn't like Gu Xuancheng and his wife, and loves Gu Linhui even more.
What's more, now Gu Xuancheng has been removed from my name and has become a concubine.
With my connivance, more and more subordinates became more and more perfunctory towards him.
Today, I sent someone to spy on Gu Xuancheng's subordinates to report.
Gu Xuancheng quietly slipped out of the back door of the mansion early in the morning and went in the direction of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
I had a chill in my eyes and accidentally cut off the rhododendrons I had carefully planted.
I didn't expect these two to collude so early.
Long before I married into the Hou Mansion, I had heard that Liu Ruyan, the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Hou Ye grew up together as childhood sweethearts.
The two originally complained to each other, just waiting for Liu Ruyan and Lu to marry her that day and enter the door.
But later, Liu Ruyan fell in love with the unruly little general and abandoned the Hou Ye.
Later, Liu Ruyan followed the little general to the frontier and guarded the border pass.
But how could a person who grew up in the capital be able to endure the bitter cold of the frontier.
In just two years, Liu Ruyan returned to the capital in a hurry.
No one knows exactly what she went through.
It's just that since then, Liu Ruyan has changed from the first talented woman in the capital to a withdrawn character who stays at home all day.
At that time, Master Hou and I had just gotten married, and I specially found someone to investigate the matter.
There are rumors in the frontier that in those two years, the Xiongnu invaded, raided the military camp in the middle of the night, and took Liu Ruyan away.
The Xiongnu used Liu Ruyan as a threat to threaten the little general to retreat.
The little general naturally refused, now the country is exchanged for the lives of countless soldiers, how can he give in for a woman.
The two armies were in a stalemate for three whole days.
It wasn't until the middle of the night that Liu Ruyan returned to the army covered in blood.
The next day, the two reconciled, and Liu Ruyan returned to the capital alone.
After Liu Ruyan stopped for a while, he also wrote to Hou Ye.
The letter was full of Liu Ruyan's affection, she regretted marrying the little general, and asked if Hou Ye was still waiting for her as before.
When Hou Ye saw the letter, he showed it to me in a panic.
Although we don't have a deep emotional foundation, he assured me that no one would threaten my wife.
It's just that I didn't expect that so many years have passed, and Liu Ruyan is still worried about the position of Hou Ye's wife.
Eventually, people will be trapped in the unattainable things of their youth.
At noon, Gu Xuancheng stepped into the courtyard with a pair of jade bracelets.
He bowed down and offered the bracelet and said humbly,
"My son knows what he was wrong. 」
"A few days ago, my son was lost in his mind, and now he has lost his way, and I hope that my mother will forgive my son. 」
I played with the jade bracelet with a playful expression.
In the previous life, Gu Xuancheng also took the same bracelet to me.
I thought he was wrong, but he was trying to kill me.
The bracelet had been soaked in chronic poison for months, and as long as I wore it on my hand for many years, it would unconsciously erode my body until it was completely empty.
Under Gu Xuancheng's expectant gaze, I threw the bracelet on the ground fiercely.
"It's hard to reunite after a broken mirror. 」
"Why do you think I still need you now?"
07
Gu Xuancheng's eyes were red, and he said in a trembling voice,
"Mother, I really know that I am wrong. 」