"It seems that now there is only one person who can help us bring a message to the old lady." Third Yiniang said as if she had made up her final determination.
"Who is the person that my aunt is talking about? Now, the second lady, several aunts, and the ladies seem to be controlled by the eldest lady and the eldest lady. Who else can help us?" Xiang Qiao asked.
Third Yiniang made up her mind and said, "Aunt Su Ying."
"Aunt Su Ying?" the three maids said in unison, all full of doubts, Lu Rong was even less optimistic and said -
"But Aunt Su was taken back by the old lady after she was widowed. She was already living under someone else's care. How could she disobey the prime minister and the eldest lady for our sake?"
"This depends on our luck." Third Yiniang said.
Bi'er walked to the door, looked outside, and said, "Even so, how are we going to notify Aunt Su? There are guards guarding everything outside, and we can't even go out the second door."
"I've thought about this a long time ago. Lu Rong and Bi'er, you two quickly prepare a kite. The kite is shaped like a cuckoo. At dusk, we will fly the kite in the direction of Yonghe Garden.
Put it away." Third Yiniang expressed her idea.
"Cuckoo kite?"
Third Yiniang walked to the window and looked at the scenery outside. At this moment, the azaleas in the yard were blooming, and they were as red as blood and fire.
"You don't know that Aunt Su and my uncle once expressed their love through a cuckoo bird. Aunt Su was a famous beauty when she was young. However, she was quiet by nature and never liked to go out. Her beauty was not much.
As is known to all, one time, she accompanied the old lady to Jing'an Temple to pray, and she met the current emperor there. The emperor fell in love with her at first sight. It is said that when he returned to the palace, he asked a painter to draw a portrait of Aunt Su, which was plastered all over the capital.
Find.
However, I don’t know what happened, but the emperor finally chose not Aunt Su to enter the palace, but the current Concubine Zhen.
On the contrary, the day after Concubine Zhen entered the palace, the emperor issued an imperial edict to marry Aunt Su Ying to the then General Furong. However, this Furong was famous for his cruel temper, and the government would beat his wives and concubines without hesitation.
Damn it, and he already has a wife. Aunt Su Ying was a concubine when she was married. Although Aunt Su Ying is not the legitimate daughter, she is also the daughter of a wealthy family. How respectable her status is. Marrying someone as a concubine is such a shame. But.
Fortunately, General Furong was cruel but he loved Aunt Su Ying very much. The two were very affectionate, but it was a pity that the good times did not last long. She married only half a year ago. General Furong was sent to the battlefield by the emperor and unfortunately died in battle. Furong
The general had a cuckoo that he rescued from the battlefield. He kept it with Aunt Su Ying on weekdays. When his body was brought back from the battlefield, the cuckoo stayed there for three days and three nights.
It stopped wailing and even cried blood. On the day General Furong was buried, the cuckoo bird cried mournfully from the general's mansion to the place where he was buried, and finally died in front of his tombstone. To express her grief, Aunt Su Ying often
I made a cuckoo kite and flew it, but after the old lady took her back to the prime minister's house, she never flew it again in order to make people gossip."
Talking about that past event, Third Yiniang was still not very sad.
"So, if Aunt Su sees our cuckoo kite, she will think of her late husband and follow the kite." Xiang Qiao recovered from her sadness and said happily.