Chang Anqing

Chapter 314
The moon star is thin, and it is hanging on the tip of the willow.

Under the clear light of the bright moon, a gentle-looking woman was lying on the couch, watching her daughter on the side of the couch suppressing sobbing and crying, obviously her eyes were already filled with overwhelming sadness and loss, but she still tried her best Out loud, comforting weakly: "Don't cry, Su Niang, you aye—"

"He died for the Zhou family he guarded, which fulfilled his wish."

Seeing the medicine bottle tightly held in Wang Su's hand, Min stretched out his hand, held Wang Su's hand and said with a sense of loss, "Don't blame you, Aye, he didn't want our lives, but—"

Speaking of this, Min didn't continue, but the tears came out of his eyes first.

From acquaintance, acquaintance, to love, this life has gone through so many years of ups and downs. She has spent her life loving this man. , is also the same as the first time, never changed.

In the entire Yanzhou, there is no woman who does not envy her, envy their unwavering love for decades, envy that he never takes concubines, and envy her that even if she is injured by dystocia and cannot give birth to him, she cannot give him a continuation. Heir, he never had the heart to divorce his wife.

But in the end, the 24-year relationship between husband and wife was finally defeated by his belief in restoring the country.

But she doesn't blame him, let alone hate him.

Because in the past, what she loved was him who was passionate about the country and the people.

But when she inadvertently overheard that he and Dou Qin's rebels were secretly planning to use the whole city as a bait to besiege and kill Zhao Yi and restore Da Zhou, she knew that he had fallen into the paranoid belief in restoring the country and was being used by others. .

However, what she never expected was that what she tried to stop her was the poison he gave her and Su Niang. In order to prevent them from leaking the news, he sent people to monitor them day and night, and even threatened Su Niang with this. Su Niang was also involved.

All of these will undoubtedly completely shatter all the good things in the past.

"Since ancient times, loyalty and righteousness have been difficult to balance. You, Aye, chose to be loyal. He did nothing wrong, and neither did you and me. What's wrong is right and wrong, and it's just the way of the world where power is in power—"

Min's words were light and heavy. When she reached out to wipe away the tears on Wang Su's cheeks, she looked at her for a long time before saying, "So don't blame yourself, don't be sad, forget everything, and start over."

Feeling the tenderness on her cheek, Wang Su tried her best to restrain her sobs, held Min's hand tightly and said, "Okay, I will stay with Auntie no matter what time it is."

"For Aye, and for myself."

Hearing Wang Su's words, Min Shi finally nodded in tears, and then said, "Take the antidote quickly."

Wang Su remembered immediately when she heard the words, quickly poured out two, and handed one of them to the Min family.

The Min family took the antidote and swallowed it, and looked at Wang Su slowly. Seeing that Wang Su had swallowed it, she said at ease: "Clean up for me, I want to see King Yuling, thank him for saving you, Aye, and also for saving you." The people of Yanzhou."

"it is good."

Wang Su nodded and helped Min to get up, carefully dressed and tied her hair under the service of the maid, until she changed into a lilac-colored embroidered and painted group-pattern skirt, and then sat down on the bed under the window with Wang Su's support.

"Let's invite King Yuling."

After Wang Su left, Min stood up with difficulty, walked to the dressing table and took out a small thing from a drawer amidst the rustling of her dress, and then sat back slowly.

For a moment, hearing the sound of footsteps outside the door, Mrs. Min was sitting upright, and the next moment she saw a young man with broad eyebrows and an extraordinary bearing come in.

"I have admired the name of King Yuling for a long time, and I am honored to meet you today."

While speaking, seeing that Mrs. Min was about to get up, Zhao Yi said, "Ma'am, you don't need to be present."

Hearing this, Min nodded gently, then looked at Wang Su and said, "Su Niang, A Niang would like to say a few words to King Yuling."

Wang Su glanced at Zhao Yi, who was tall and straight, and then at Min Shi, who was smiling gently, and finally suppressed his worries and nodded and retreated.

As if he knew what the Min family was going to say, Zhao Yi broke the silence first and said, "Don't worry, Ma'am, I was able to kill Peng Jin today and surrender tens of thousands of rebels, all thanks to Mrs. Wang. When I return to Beijing, I will repay the emperor. The merits and demerits are offset, and the Wang family will not be affected."

Looking at Zhao Yi's dark lips due to excessive blood loss, and seeing his generosity in not embarrassing Wang Shi with any personal grudges, Min finally nodded in relief, and said in a harmonious voice, "Thank you, King Yuling."

"actually."

Hearing the turn of Min's words, Zhao Yi followed the sound, and saw Min's eyes were a bit secretive and said: "Su Niang is not our biological daughter."

Zhao Yi raised his eyes in surprise when he heard the words, and saw Min looking quietly at the bright moon outside the window, as if lost in memory.

"When we were still in Shou'an, we had a child. However, on the night of delivery, Shou'an experienced a flood that had never been seen before. I was tortured all night because of dystocia. But for the people of Shou'an, he, He also went to the embankment in person when the wind and rain were blowing, blocked the flood with the soldiers and civilians, and dug the silt. He was tired all night without sleep. However, the child lost his breath when he was born. When he came back and saw it, he cried all night. More guilty for a lifetime."

Speaking of this, Min choked back her sobs, looked sideways at Zhao Yiwen and said in a warm voice: "We met Su Niang when we went to Ankang, I remember it was a winter day, when we went to the porridge shed to give porridge to beggars, we saw her She was thrown on the side of the road, huddled with those beggars, almost out of breath from the cold, when she was an eight-year-old child, for some reason, seeing her reminded me of not being able to call me A Niang's daughter, so we took her into the mansion and guarded her for three days and three nights before pulling her back from the gate of hell."

While talking, the Min family smiled bitterly, half pity and half bitterly said: "Later we found out that she was born in poverty, and originally the family was going to sell her to a wealthy family to be a maid in exchange for two buckets of corn. Never wanted to be deceived, those people gave Mi, but sold her to Ankang, because of her good looks, those people sent her to Chuguan, where she spent two years and was also beaten For two years, because she saw a girl who had escaped being beaten to death by the people in the Chu Pavilion, in order to escape, she secretly took medicine and developed rashes all over her body. It happened that the plague was prevalent outside the city at that time. The people in the Chu Pavilion thought she was infected with the plague, so they let her out."

Hearing these words, Zhao Yi vividly recalled the half-life of a daughter whose family was miserable and had nowhere to ask for help.

Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are dogs; saints are not benevolent, and people are dogs.

But in this troubled world, what he sees are people all over the body, not silkworm farmers.

There is no justice in this world, there is no equal treatment of people, the rich and the powerful take the place of the powerful and powerful, it is ridiculous that they pursue the so-called reputation all their lives, and the elegance of fame and fame, but the poor people will always live in the mud at the bottom, and even their lives are lost. Can't ask for it.

"This child is intelligent and filial. We adopted her as a daughter since she entered the mansion. Now she has moved to Yanzhou and we have been together for several years. Whether it is learning medicine from me or doing accounts for our housekeeper, she understands it very quickly. , and her temperament is much calmer than children of the same age. Later I realized that because of the childhood experience, she cherishes this hard-won peaceful life more than anyone else. She is afraid that if she does not do well, she will be thrown away again. , sell-"

Speaking of this, Min Shi finally looked at Zhao Yi, the request in his eyes couldn't be more clear.

"I have a request to tell King Yuling about this."

When Zhao Yi heard the words, his expression was solemn, and he saw Min's words spilled from the corner of his lips: "Can I entrust this child to you, please take care of it."

Hearing these words, when Zhao Yi was surprised, the girl's cry also followed.

"No, I won't go, Aunt, I won't go anywhere."

Before the words finished, Wang Su rushed in and knelt in front of Min, shaking his head constantly, as if he was the abandoned child back then.

Min lowered her head with tears in her eyes and shook her head, obviously she was smiling and wanted to say something, but her chest froze, and a mouthful of black blood spilled from the corner of her lips.

Seeing this, Wang Su's pupils constricted, and immediately got up to help Min's crumbling body. At that moment, Zhao Yi, who was an outsider, understood everything.

"Aniang, what's wrong with you, Aniang——"

Seeing Min's complexion like gold leaf, Wang Su tried hard to wipe off the black blood from the corner of her lips, but he wiped more and more, as if it would never be wiped off.

"Didn't you take the antidote? How could it be, how could it be—"

Looking at Wang Su who was crying into tears in front of him, Min shook his head with difficulty, tried to hold Wang Su's hand, and said angrily: "Promise, promise, mother, live on, live well, go on—"

After all, Min looked almost beggingly at Zhao Yi who was standing aside, and when the eyes met, Zhao Yi was already shocked in his heart.

For Wang Jian's loyalty, for Wang Su's unyielding, and for the great love of the Min family.

"Don't worry ma'am."

Hearing this promise, Min smiled, but like a paper kite with its silk thread removed, her eyes gradually became loose, looking at the bright moon outside the window, she whispered softly: "Wherever you go, I will go."

At the end of the sentence, Min smiled and shed tears, closing his eyes bit by bit.

"Auntie, Auntie—"

"Auntie!"

The girl's more desolate cries lingered in Zhao Yi's ears. For a long time, he watched the kneeling girl in front of him buried beside Min's couch, and said over and over again: "You lied to me, you lied to me..."

"Parents' beloved sons have far-reaching plans for it. I hope you can understand their painstaking efforts."

Hearing Zhao Yi's words, the figure kneeling there trembled slightly, crying for a long time, but it made her gradually understand.

Aye was defeated and committed suicide in order to let the court see her meritorious deeds and the coercion she and A Niang had received, so that they could let them go.

A Niang told King Yuling of her life experience in order to let the whole world know that she is not a daughter of the Wang family, and that she has meritorious service, so they can forgive her.

And A Niang's suicide is to cut off the last trace of her and Wang's nurturing grace, so that she will not be implicated or criticized by others.

Thinking of this, Wang Su hugged Min in pain, clenched his hands tightly, and couldn't stop crying, even though the sharp pain in his palm was in his heart, it was no match for the pain in his heart at this moment.

Overnight, she lost everything.

Lost Aye, lost A Niang, lost the last person in this world who loved her.

If she survived, how should she survive.

(End of this chapter)