After Dawn Chapter 53: Daughter and poor wife (2)
"But..."
"But the unscrupulous person, after earning fame, asked someone to hand over a sentence, saying that he had found a beautiful girl in the capital, and he didn't want me and my two children..."
She covered her face and cried. The sewing on the woman's body was too rough to cover her graceful figure, but her hands were covered with calluses, and her skin was yellow and haggard.
The man let out a long sigh and took her and the two children into his arms.
Brother's warm embrace seemed to be able to shield her from all the wind and rain, Qing Ran grabbed his shirt, and began to cry: "I don't want him to be rich, I just want to go to the person who has a bad heart. A statement..."
"I want him to explain to me clearly why he abandoned his wife and children..."
"If he really is such a villain, I will treat myself as blind and take my children to make a living..."
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"It's getting dark now, why hasn't that kid in Qinghan come back?" The old lady of the Liu family, who couldn't sit still, stuck her head out and looked out.
"What's the hurry?" Mr. Liu, who was over fifty years old, patted the table, and the tea cup was shaken, "Maybe it was because the time to enter the city was delayed on the road, and I will come in early tomorrow morning. ."
"You are not in a hurry." Mrs. Liu angrily pushed Mr. Liu, "The son is mine, you are not in a hurry!"
"The same thing happened to you when Ran Ran left. I told you to send someone to chase after you. You said that it would not be lost or lost. Now there has been no news for six or seven years." Mrs. Liu said, and her grievances came to her heart. Sitting on the chair on the side, her eyes were red, and she wiped her tears with a handkerchief, "My poor daughter...I don't know where I am suffering now..."
"Why do you mention this?" Mr. Liu knocked on the cigarette stick in his hand, shook out some ashes left after the tobacco leaves burned, and coughed twice, "Don't mention the past. "
"It's all my fault for being a mother..." Not only did Mrs. Liu not listen, she patted her palms and shouted, "If I had told her back then, then Du Siyuan was an uneasy and kind person, how could she be attacked by him? cheated..."
"How many times I've said this, don't mention it again," Mr. Liu stood up, "I'll take her as a daughter without her, Liu Qingran!"
"Damn old man, get out of here!" Mrs. Liu suddenly exclaimed, "I told you to look for my daughter, but I haven't been able to find it for six or seven years..."
"My poor daughter..." She exclaimed again, and Mr. Liu felt uncomfortable when he heard it, and went straight out with a cigarette stick.
As he stepped out of the threshold, he also raised his hand and wiped his eyes.
"Old General, what's the matter with you?"
"The sandstorm in the capital today is a bit big, it fascinates my eyes."
"Ah, who said it wasn't. Concubine Shu was going to move to the new palace, and the emperor cut down most of the trees in the west to build the palace. The sand in the sand river in the west was no longer blocked by the trees, and it all blew in..."
"Yeah..."
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The two brothers and sisters, who were missed by Mrs. Liu, sat opposite each other in a dilapidated temple, speechless for a long time.
The bonfire was burning cracklingly, and the flames jumped on the faces of several people. After the two children hiding in Qingran's arms had passed the initial strangeness, they quietly looked at themselves with their eyes that suddenly appeared Uncle who came.
"My brother has grown taller, stronger, and more manly." After a long silence, Qing Ran broke the peace.
Liu Qinghan pursed her lips and said nothing. Hu Zi boldly looked at his master's face, but found that he couldn't see the expression on his face.
Liu Qinghan didn't speak, and Qingran didn't intend to continue.
She tugged Liu Qinghan's clothes and tucked them around her neck. The weather on the mountain at night was always very cold. Even sitting next to the fire, the mountain wind blowing chills down one's spine.
Liu Qinghan took her hand and put it in her palm, she shrank subconsciously, but he held her, not telling her to withdraw her hand.
Originally delicate, fair and slender hands, the joints were deformed due to suffering, and the palms were covered with layers of calluses and scars.
"You are thin, haggard, and suffer a lot."
"It's neither bitter nor bitter, as long as I think of my family, my heart is sweet." Qing Ran quickly shook her head, but tears almost fell from her eyes.
Liu Qinghan raised her hand and pulled the broken hair on her cheek behind her ear, her eyes pity and tenderness: "The silly girl of the past, now she has grown up..."
Qingran's tears couldn't be held back and fell down with a rush. Liu Qingran reached out and wiped away her tears. After she had completely vented her emotions, she asked, "What do you want to do?"
"I..." Qing Ran was a little at a loss. She came from a distant and poor hometown just to seek justice for herself and to earn a position for her children. What should I do? But I didn't think about it.
Before the age of sixteen, she was the apple of her parents' palm. She had been very protective of her since she was a child, and she didn't know that people's hearts were sinister, so she was easily hooked by Du Siyuan's words and things that could be bought for a few pennies. After that, she was oppressed by the two mothers and sons again. Although she is now the mother of two children, she has endured too much pain that ordinary people can't bear, but she is still the same as the little girl back then, innocent and simple.
She only wanted to come to the capital, to find Du Siyuan, to question him in front of him, and to ask him for an explanation.
How to do this has never been arranged in detail.
"Mingyuan, report Du Siyuan's information." Seeing her appearance, Liu Qinghan knew that she had not yet made up her mind.
When she learned that Du Siyuan's new wife was the princess, Qing Ran raised her head in disbelief.
"He and I obviously worshipped and entered the bridal chamber, why can he still marry her?"
"He, he... He only said in his letter that he was attracted by a high-ranking official and wanted to marry his beloved daughter to him..."
"It is clearly stipulated in the law that unless a man divorces his wife, he can only have one wife for life..."
"You don't even know who the backer behind Du Siyuan is now, so you dare to come to your door?" Liu Qinghan said, although Qingran's actions reunited brothers and sisters who had been separated for many years, but if he was on the road today It was quicker, I went home early, I didn't stay outside the city, I couldn't meet her, I'm afraid Qingran rushed up with two children alone, and only death would greet her!
Princess Mingzhu was gifted and intelligent since childhood, and was deeply loved by the emperor. Even with her mother-in-law, Concubine Shu, the status of the imperial concubine rose. It must be Concubine Shu, and her foreign family is the prime minister of the dynasty, which shows that her background is profound.
Let's not explain Princess Zhu's own power, just talk about her identity. Now Princess Du Siyuan has become a well-known fact. If he has another original wife, wouldn't he be naked and beat the royal family. Face, when the time comes, even if Princess Pearl does not make a move, the emperor may secretly kill Liu Qingran when he finds out.
"I, I don't know..."
Qing Ran looked at Liu Qinghan as if asking for help: "Brother, what should I do? What should I do with my child? Do I want to watch Du Siyuan with other women..."
"It doesn't matter if I'm abandoned, but my children..."
"Wu Shuang and Wu Xia can't live without their father...they are still so young..."
"Mother..." Seeing her cry, the two and a half-year-old children also leaned in her arms and cried.
"Don't cry," Liu Qinghan held her shoulders. "You see, when you cry, your child will cry too. Who can come up with a solution."
"Yes, I can't cry." Qing Ran sniffed, wiped the tears from her face with her sleeve in a panic, and handed over a handkerchief with a lotus flower embroidered in the corner, she raised her head to look At a glance, it was Huzi who had never spoken and was sullen and angry. She smiled gratefully at him and took it, "I still have children..."
"Shuang'er, Xia'er, don't cry, wipe your tears, don't let your uncles see jokes."
Hu Zi smiled stupidly, then frowned when he saw her appearance.
"My lord, this subordinate thinks that there is something wrong with Princess Pearl." The man in black who was called Mingyuan by Liu Qinghan hesitated for a while, but still clasped his fists and said.
This time, Qingran reacted one step ahead of Liu Qinghan and asked, "What's wrong?"
Liu Qinghan glanced at her approvingly, this is the demeanor that a general door tiger girl should have.
Although Liu Qingran's personality is simple, she is not weak, but very tough. She just went astray on Du Siyuan's path before, and she couldn't recover for a while.
In fact, when she was able to show the courage to elope with Du Siyuan back then, it can be seen that she is indeed a woman who dares to act.
"Does my lord know the housekeeping skills of my Ning family?"
"The technique of peeking into the air?" Liu Qinghan said.
Ning Mingyuan nodded and continued: "The day when Princess Pearl came back from the nunnery, was when the son went to the frontier..."
"My subordinate once took a look at Princess Pearl from a distance outside the mountain, and found that her luck was much weaker than that of the maids and guards around her. At that time, I asserted that Princess Pearl would not survive back then..."
"When the master sent me to send the family letter back to the capital, I once met Princess Pearl on the street, only to find that her luck was three or four times that of ordinary people, and it was on par with the average royal family..."
"My subordinates became suspicious of her, so they sent an elder from the clan to Princess Pearl..."
"Master, do you remember the emperor's comment on Princess Pearl three years ago?"
"If it's a man, it will definitely rule the world." Liu Qinghan could see the disdain in his eyes. Princess Pearl may indeed have some skills, but it still can't reach this evaluation.
In his opinion, although Princess Pearl has done a lot, and there are indeed a few things that are praised, in his eyes, it is just a mistake.
How can a person with quick wit, but no foresight and plan, become a king.
"According to the news from the elders, the purple energy on Princess Pearl's body has risen to the sky, and a phoenix is hovering, almost on a par with the emperor's golden dragon."