When I was almost home, I saw the third brother of the pig butcher coming out of his house. When he saw Gardenia, he said with some embarrassment: "Gardenia, I'm back. I brought some meat to my aunt for you to eat."
Get dizzy."
Gardenia smiled faintly and said, "Thank you, Third Brother."
The mistress blushed slightly and strode away.
Entering the house, my mother was lying on the bed, "Zhi Niang, you are back. The mistress just brought some meat."
Gardenia helped her mother lift the quilt and said, "Mom, I just saw my third brother."
"Gardenia, what do you think of the mistress?"
She didn't expect her mother to ask this, but she understood what she meant. Gardenia said calmly: "Little Third Brother, you are a very nice person."
"I think that young man is not bad. The mistress also came to me two days ago and told me that I hope I can help you, so why not just take care of your affairs."
Gardenia's heart skipped a beat, she looked at her mother, thought about the bloody leaves, and said, "Mom, what are you talking about? Gardenia just wants to cure my mother's illness, and then go back to the Lost Forest together to spend the rest of my life with my mother.
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"Silly boy, your father can't cure the poison in your mother, so why do you still count on you?"
"If dad can't cure the poison, my daughter will definitely be able to cure it. Otherwise, how could you survive until now? My daughter is just waiting for a medicine now. If I get that medicine, my mother's disease will definitely be fine."
"Then you promise mother, if mother leaves before you find the medicine, you must marry the mistress and live the rest of your life well. Mother doesn't want you to go back to the Lost Forest and live alone for the rest of your life." Zhinu Mo Ruomu
, how could she not know what Gardenia was thinking.
"Mom, my daughter is not alone. There is Cai'er in the Lost Forest, there is Little Master, there is Lu'er and..."
Interrupting her, my mother said: "My daughter's family always wants to marry. Besides, with your father's status and appearance, it's not a bad idea to marry into a rich family. It's just that my mother is afraid that a rich family will have three wives and four concubines, which will disturb your peace."
, I just want to marry you to an ordinary family and live an ordinary life. Although the mistress's family is a butcher, you won't necessarily have to worry about food and clothing after you marry."
Gardenia smiled lightly and said: "I know, mother, my daughter promises you." She has never thought about getting married. It is not easy to find an ordinary person who has the same affection as her. Whoever gives her body is not a gift, and whoever she marries is not.
Marry, just let it happen.
I agreed with my mouth, but I knew in my heart that it would be impossible to get married in this life. In fact, there is nothing wrong with being alone, at least it saves the nagging.
The next afternoon, when Gardenia went out, she told her mother that she might come back later because she had something to do, so she came to the Yang Mansion and got ready.
According to the plan, she would first dress up as a bride and ride in a sedan chair with eight people to the city lord's palace, and Yang Xiuzhen would dress up as a maid to follow. Once the wedding ceremony was over and Ling Jiyun left, the two would switch identities.
, Yang Xiuzhen then handed the bloody leaves on her body to Gardenia and asked her to take them away.
Everything went very smoothly. Gardenia got on the sedan chair and was sent to the city lord's palace with music and music played all the way. Then she was helped into the bridal chamber by Yang Xiuzhen.
There is no festive atmosphere in the mansion. It must be commonplace to marry a concubine. Even some of the maids and women in the mansion are a little impatient. I am afraid that only the Yang family will celebrate by wearing red and green clothes because they have climbed this high branch.
Sitting quietly in the bridal chamber, Gardenia kept thinking about strategies to avoid being recognized. She didn’t know if it was God’s joke or if it was destiny. She still had forty-five pieces of silver in her arms. She couldn’t figure it out.
Why did you bring the silver to repay him? Maybe he must have forgotten it a long time ago. After all, dozens of taels of silver are nothing to a prince. It was just his duty to bring him back.
Feeling that the candlelight was getting more and more dazzling, knowing that it was completely dark outside, and thinking of the bloody leaves, Gardenia gained the courage to face him.
After a while, she heard the sound of stumbling footsteps. Gardenia was still nervous for a moment, and the door opened and closed.
From under the red hijab, she saw a pair of wedding boots approaching her with the smell of wine, and heard his disdainful voice. It was obvious that this girl Yang Xiuzhen was destined to be a concubine for the rest of her life.
Gardenia suddenly stood up, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, today is the night of flowers and candles in my bridal chamber. Please understand that I am just going through my wedding, and I am afraid of disturbing the prince, so please allow me to turn off the lights and candles."
Ling Jiyun was startled by Gardenia's words. A shy woman who had just experienced her first career, spoke these words in a neither humble nor overbearing manner, as if she was speaking righteously.
There was a faint medicinal fragrance in the air, did it feel familiar? Where had I smelled this medicinal fragrance? He was half sober in an instant. He wanted to come over and see if the daughter of Yang Dahu's family was as beautiful as the rumors, but he didn't expect it.
….
He smiled seductively in the darkness and extinguished the red candle with the wind of his palm...
He took off her dress, kissed her cherry lips roughly, smelled the faint fragrance on her body, and broke through Gardenia's last line. He kissed every inch of Gardenia's skin tenderly, put his hands in her hair,
Inadvertently, he noticed that the corners of her eyes were moist, he frowned slightly, covered her mouth, and bit her shoulder hard, and then he slowly let go until a fishy smell hit his face.
Gardenia gasped loudly in pain, but he blocked her lips domineeringly, sucking in the taste that only belonged to her.
Yang Xiuzhen outside the door was nervous and at a loss, her fingers almost dug into her skin. She was afraid of revealing any flaws. She just thought that Prince Ji would come out soon. Unexpectedly, it was already midnight, so why didn't he go out?
A glimmer of white light appeared in the sky, and Ling Jiyun was finally willing to leave Gardenia, put on her clothes and strode away in vain.
Yang Xiuzhen hurriedly came in, put the bloody leaves on the table and said, "Get up quickly, it's time to go."
Gardenia endured the pain and struggled to get up. Yang Xiuzhen lit the candle. Gardenia saw the bite scar on her shoulder. She had no time to deal with it and quickly changed her clothes. Yang Xiuzhen lay on the bed. Gardenia took the blood on the table.
Can Ye left the house.
She had to go home quickly. She stayed away all night. Her mother must have been so anxious that she couldn't sleep. She ran with her all the way. When she passed the corner, she saw the person who took out the money from his arms that day walking towards this direction.
, I guess he must be an acquaintance of the prince. He took out forty-five taels of silver from his arms and placed it on the corridor chair, and said softly: "Thank you."
That person was Wang Yang, the iron general next to Ling Jiyun. When he passed by, he saw the forty-five taels of silver in the corridor chair and thought with a smile: "I picked up money early in the morning. I must have good luck today."
Because Gardenia was wearing the clothes of a maid in the city lord's palace and came out of the back door very quickly, the pain in her lower abdomen forced her to slow down.
At dawn, Gardenia dragged her exhausted body back home, but what awaited her at home was a bolt from the blue.
From time to time, Xiao San'er looked at the door and saw Gardenia coming back. She hurried up to greet her and said in a reproachful tone: "Gardenia, where have you been this night? Auntie... Auntie, she's gone..."
Gardenia was startled, she tightened the bloody leaves in her hands and ran towards the house. Xiao Ling'er had already changed her mother's clothes and was burning paper money by the bedside. Gardenia quickly took her pulse, oh my God,
It was too late, mother's body was already cold.
Sitting paralyzed on the ground, tears welling up uncontrollably, Xiao Ling'er cried and said: "You didn't come back last night, and we couldn't find you anywhere. My aunt was so worried that she left before she could take a breath."
Gardenia raised her neck and shouted loudly: "God, don't you think the joke is too big? I have lost too much in this ordinary night, right? Since I want my mother to die, then what I have to do
What's the use?" Thinking of the humiliation she suffered last night, Gardenia was so heartbroken that she suffocated. The mistress ran over and held her tightly in her arms, comforting her: "Gardenia, don't be sad. My aunt is gone, you are still there.
Me, and me."
He put the blood-remnant leaves obtained by his own sacrifice into the brazier and watched the red flames rise high and gradually turn into ashes. His already cold heart became even colder at this moment.