Legend of Concubine’s Daughter Minglan Chapter 357: Second choice

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From then on, Minglan seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, no matter how the news of Zhang Gubing’s defeat and death was spread out, she only slept well and continued to take a walk every day; after three appointments On the 4th, the Tujia brothers returned from outside, and a pair of dusty mother and son were escorted in the carriage.

Tu Long stood under the corridor and said, "Madam, let’s go back from Master Liu. According to Madam’s order, the brothers who got the people gave twenty taels each. Now the people have brought them. , Shicai was handed over to Mama Cui."

Ming Lan stood stiffly on the inner hall of the door, supporting her back with one hand, "It's time for a butcher."

The Tujia brothers' cage hands, who did not squint, bowed and quit in unison.

Xiao Tao helped Minglan to go out slowly, Lu Zhi and others followed, and everyone walked through the long hand-picked porch and passed through the hanging flower door on the side. The surroundings fell silent for a moment. They didn't hear half of their laughter and talk, just rustling. Array of insects and birds cry.

When we came to a remote room, Minglan raised her foot and went in, only to see the bald inside, only the first armchair was set up, and there were no other furnishings. Cui's mother led several sturdy women around, staring bitterly at the mother and son standing in the room.

Ming Lan sat down steadily, put his arms lightly on the armrests, and said with a smile: "I wanted to say,'Don't come and be safe', but when I saw you today, you are more than ten years older than you were at the time. People, why are you getting worse and worse."

Manniang slowly raised her head, her messy hair, haggard face, and deliberately dressed up in crude clothes, she was covered with oldness, she said in a low voice: "We are scumbags, not more honorable than madam, young and beautiful Win the past."

Minglan raised her eyebrows and turned her head to the boy beside her and said: "Brother Chang, do you know me?"

The boy was about eight or nine years old. His appearance was pale, with a thin skeleton. He pulled his mother's sleeves tightly with his hands, lowered his head, and quickly raised his head when he heard the words. His face was full of guard and hatred, as soon as he touched Minglan. Looking down, he quickly lowered his head again.

Ming Lan didn't miss the look in his eyes, she only sighed softly, and said, "Mother Cui, ask someone to send Brother Chang to the west wing to have a snack, and then call Sister Rong to go there, and their brothers and sisters too. Haven't seen it in years."

Without waiting for the boy to fight back, the four healthy women on both sides have already rushed forward, two of them held Manniang from moving, and the other two picked up Brother Chang and quickly walked out the door.

Minglan smiled at Manniang and said: "Don't worry, for my own sake, I won't let my brother have an accident in the house; I send the child out, but I want to talk to you."

Manniang was unwilling, but she also knew that Minglan was telling the truth, so she stopped struggling; at this time, two tormentors came in, one carrying a high chair and the other holding a bundle of cloth.

Ming Lan patted his palms three times, and the two wives swiftly moved their hands, and a few other healthy women worked together, or held their legs and wrenches, or pressed their heads against their abdomen, and soon tied Man Niang firmly to the chair; The women filed out, leaving only Mama Cui and Little Peach Green Branch in the house.

Manniang’s arms, back, and even both legs were fixed as if by iron welding, and her toes were three inches off the ground. She couldn’t move her body. She cried and cried, “When Shi Cai came in, our mother and son were searched. I passed and there was nothing on my body, so how is the lady going?"

Ming Lan said lightly: "It's nothing. But I'm afraid that you will get the bronze and iron skills, so I knocked back and broke my floor tiles."

Manniang knew that Minglan meant that back then. She didn’t suffocate, and mourned, "...Madam, I was wrong last time. I blamed me for being confused. After hearing Madam’s rhetoric, she actually dared to collide with Madam. . Thinking of it later, Madam was pregnant at the time. If something was wrong, I would really be to blame..."

She said that tears and tears flowed, and she was emotional, she just wanted to knock her head a few times to make some bloodshot eyes on her forehead.

Minglan was expressionless, interrupted her and said, "I said you save a little bit of energy and cry pitifully, will I eat your set? What happened to you and I know well. Keep guarding outside. My wife, all ten steps away from this house, and there are only a few of us in the house."

She pointed to a few of Cui's mothers, and jokingly said: "Even if I told them to say you danced naked in the house, they would also say. So..." She smiled, "Let's spread out Come and talk, you can stay clean when you get out of this room."

Manniang put away her tears, slowly condensed the water vapor in her eyes, and said coldly, "Okay, Mingren don't talk secretly. Our mother and son are called to win as soon as they enter the Kylin Gate of the capital; Madam is really a good method, even The escorts can also be sent at will."

Ming Lan smiled slightly: "You made a mistake on two things. One, it was not an ordinary guard, but a garrison guarding the city; second, what happened to me, that was Lord Hou leaving the house. Before, I specially asked Master Liu Zhengjie."

Manniang changed her face suddenly and tremblingly said: "...You mean, Erlang, he asked someone to arrest me...?"

"At the beginning, Lord Hou said that if you dare to make troubles, you will be rude; but you will not believe it." Minglan looked very tired of her infatuated and unbelievable appearance.

"But you are also capable. The news from the front is only a few days away, and you get the letter, and then you rush to Beijing day and night... When you were sent back to Mianzhou by Lord Hou that day, you should have left a whistle in Beijing. People who are violent." While crying and robbing the ground, he was sent out, but he was able to leave his eyes and ears in advance. This kind of courage and courage, Ming Lan really admired.

Manniang said coldly: "Madame, don't be busy praising Nu's house. I am afraid that Madam's eyes and ears are indispensable in the countryside."

Ming Lan smiled and said: "You are wrong again. It is true that some people often come to report the situation of your mother and son, but it is not what I ordered to call, but Hou Ye. The person who reported the letter was a few days earlier than you. Then I told Master Liu as ordered by Lord Hou, and then..."

"After that, there will be officers and soldiers waiting for our mother and son at the gate of the city." Manniang sneered, and immediately said again, "How is the lady going to send us mother and son now?"

Ming Lan raised her eyebrows: "It's wrong again, should I ask you what your talents are when you come to Beijing?"

Manniang raised her neck and laughed. She laughed so that the blue veins on her neck were violent, and she said coldly: "It's still a husband and wife! Erlang is still undecided in front of him, but you are sitting right here! How much Erlang treats you. Okay, do you really have a heart!"

Minglan thought carefully and said: "Then what should I do?"

Manniang said loudly: "I'm still talking about it? Hurry up to find some help in the officialdom to see if I can save Erlang's life; or inquire about people who know him in the northwest; and... With hair and feet, I beg the emperor to look at Jiro’s past achievements and forgive this defeat!"

Ming Lan couldn't help it anymore, covering her mouth and laughing, and her waist couldn't straighten her straight smile: "You are still serious about what you teach in the essay? You are still wearing your hair and feet, can Wen Ji save her husband?" /

It took a long time to stop, she gasped with a smile, "First, now that the army is pouring out, where are the troops next to it? Isn’t it possible for Master Liu to take the garrison of the arch guard to the northwest? Second, the northwest. It’s a major town, military affairs, and it’s not easy to even inquire about civil servants. What's more, I’m a woman of the family? Don’t cause trouble! Thirdly, so far, the sage hasn’t had any will come down, and even Yushi hasn’t even spoken out. Which one do I ask for? Love!"

Manniang was grinned by her smiling face, biting her teeth, she pointedly said: "Madam is a crystal heart, she is extremely smart; but it's not as infatuated as I am obsessed with Erlang, she is in chaos!"

"Infatuated? Stop teasing, how do you plan to send you off when you are a master?"

Manniang's face changed suddenly: "He, he..."

Ming Lan said quietly: "At the beginning, Master Hou said, if you dare to come and be wordy, you won't be told to see Brother Chang in this life?"

Manniang screamed: "Don't you want to separate our mother and child!"

"It's not me. Master Hou didn't intend to dirty my hands at all." Minglan shook her head slowly, "According to Master Hou, as soon as Master Liu holds you, he will immediately send Brother Chang away and choose a kind. She was raised by a good family. I asked Mrs. Liu to send you over and ask Sister Rong to see her brother again."

"...Then...what about me?" Manniang was startled.

Ming Lan said indifferently: "Can't you see it? If Master Hou is interested, where did your mother and son leave Mianzhou? But Master Hou only asked people to take care of Brother Gu Chang. For you, he never stopped anything. This is Why? Lord Hou doesn't care what you do at all! When you send off Brother Chang, where do you like to die?" Huh? Is this phishing law enforcement?

Manniang shook her head desperately, howled and cried, and repeatedly said: "Erlang won't treat me like this! No! No..." She was afraid until then, crying for a long time, and suddenly looked up. Gougou stared at Minglan, and begged, "Madam, I'm stupid and stupid, I don't know what to do, I beg Madam to lead Brother Chang into the mansion! Madam treats Sister Rong so well, she can also raise him well. !"

"There is no need for me to teach him. Didn't you say that you would die without your son? Now you are willing." Minglan looked at her indifferently, and the corner of her mouth provoked a sneer, "It seems that these years , You taught Dechang brother very well."

Teach him hatred, teach him revenge, teach him to mention his biological mother from time to time with Gu Tingye, and teach him how to'get along' with his younger brothers.

Manniang's eyes narrowed, and soon she was mournful again: "Without my mother by my side, I will be in front of my father anyway! He is an honest child and will honor his wife..."

"Brother Chang is definitely not allowed to enter the mansion and return to the clan." Minglan said, "These are the original words of Lord Hou."

Manniang's eyes are full of resentment, and she screams low: "You nasty person, you are all nonsense! You must be provoking, how can Erlang be so cruel to our mother and son!"

Ming Lan looked at her for a while, then slowly said: "Why did you think Hou Ye wanted to bring Brother Chang into the mansion? Because of that fashion, no one knows who Lord Hou is going to marry. Brother Chang is young. Teach your son what to do. When the child enters the mansion slowly, he may be saved—but I can ask you to give it a mouthful. Later, Master Hou told me that if you are taught by a mother like you, that’s all. I miss you As for the harm to my own son, I can’t rest assured that Brother Chang will be with the child I gave birth. The so-called indefensible, there is only one who has been a thief for a thousand years, and there is no one who has been a thief for a thousand years."

Manniang was stabbed hard in her heart, her face was pale and plain, and she murmured, ‘I don’t believe I don’t believe it, you are here to anger me, Erlang must still be thinking about our mother and son’.

Ming Lan didn't sneer, watching Manniang deceive herself and others, she said in a low voice, "Today, I have a lot of trouble, tell you to choose another way for Brother Chang." Sigh, "As long as you agree, If I don’t leave Mianzhou in this life, and if I don’t get entangled in it, I will ask Lord Hou to send Brother Chang to Chang's home for training."

Manniang raised her head in a daze: "...Mother Chang?"

Ming Lan nodded: "A few days ago, I told Mother Chang. She said that instead of asking someone who I don’t know to raise brother Chang, it’s better for her to raise brother Yan. Anyway, sister Yan is married. , Brother Nian is busy reading day and night again. Wouldn’t it be right for her to come to leisure all the time."

What a kind old man, who couldn't bear the child's sins, Ming Lan sighed in her heart, and then said: "Mother Chang is a person, you also know that there is nothing more upright; let's see how motivated the grandson she brought up , Brother Chang will surely be promising in the future."

Manniang said in a while: "What if I break my promise?"

Minglan blinked and smiled: "God testifies, as long as you agree, I won't tell you to break your promise."

Manniang's heart tightened, looking at Minglan's gentle smile, she felt a chill for no reason - she knew what this meant, and once she agreed, she would be immediately taken back to Mianzhou, Yining Yuanhou Mansion As long as the forces of the country had a few words with the local officials, they would be in jail, and they would never be able to leave that mountain ditch forever.

Ming Lan looked at Manniang's face, and seemed to be fighting a lot of drama in her heart, and smiled: "How about it? Just think about it."

Manniang took a disdainful sip, and snorted coldly: "Your tongue is full of flowers, but I don't believe you! I want to see Erlang, he will definitely not take our mother and son!"

Ming Lan was slightly disappointed, and sighed: "Brother Chang...Oh, nothing, he was born to you. It's better to follow Lord Hou's intention."

She stood up slowly and helped Xiao Tao to leave, never wanting to look at this selfish and indifferent woman again.

Back to the room, I saw Brother Tuan with fleshy chubby legs, bitterly pulling a pair of shiny brass nine chains, seeing his mother came back, immediately dropped the nine chains, shaking from the kang She stood up and opened her arms milkily: "...Mother..."

Nothing was wrong this time. Ming Lan was full of soft and warm heart. She hugged her son for a while. Seeing that the little fat man showed signs of climbing up with his mother, Mama Cui hurried over and hugged him.

Ming Lan lay down on the kang and watched the little fat man roll around on the soft mat with a smile. She was so stubborn and tired that she spread her limbs and fell asleep with her belly straight.

Ming Lan looked at her son’s sweet sleeping face, inexplicably sad--in fact, it might be safer to send Brother Chang to the place no one knew, and to be raised by a reliable family; besides, how expensive it is to raise a child Heart strength, she really asked Mother Chang to clean up this mess for Gu's family, and she couldn't bear it either. Alas, why bother for yourself.

It's just...In this world, not all women are qualified to be mothers.

After a short break, Green Branch hurried in and reported in a low voice: "Madam, I have handed over Brother Chang... and his mother to Mrs. Liu." Mama Cui was listening and sighed: "Ms. Liu It’s really troublesome, it's just...but it's the ugliness of the family."

Ming Lan couldn't help but sneered and wanted to do what Liu Zhengjie did. He didn't know the private affairs of the civil and military officials.

"Where is Sister Rong?"

Lv Zhi couldn’t hide her excitement, because she was afraid that Minglan would say her, she had to try her best to make a prudent gesture: “Brother Chang couldn’t recognize Girl Rong a long time ago. Our eldest girl coaxed her for a long time. Xiang Xiang sat, and then... the woman came... The mother and daughter closed the door and talked, who knew that afterwards, Miss Rong ran back to the house crying. I heard that she was still crying now."

Minglan was silent.

Lvzhi had to continue talking to himself, "According to Lord Hou's instructions, Brother Chang sent away all the way, and the woman was driven out of the capital by another road. When the soldier sent by Mrs. Liu and Guan Hao had a drink, After a few words, I said that if I see the woman again, I will immediately send it to Mobian for military service."

Minglan remained silent. Gu Tingye once said that the brothers who knew in the past were mostly magnanimous, but Liu Zhengjie often ridiculed his wife's benevolence, and he will continue to be annoyed in the future. Others might still show mercy to Man Niang's men, but Liu Zhengjie is definitely not polite-he just entrusted him.

Being unhappy, someone outside suddenly reported to Tu Long for seeing him, Ming Lan was slightly taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Please speak outside." Hearing only the sound of heavy footsteps, Tu Long stood outside and whispered: " Mrs. Disturbance is resting, the little one has something to report."

Ming Lan waved her hand gently, Mama Cui carefully picked up the little fat man into the back room, Lu Zhi stood by the door, and said crisply through the curtain: "Please say, Mrs. Tu, listen."

Tu Long said: "I have been investigating in the market for a while, and I feel that something is wrong. There is no official report of the military affairs in the front, so why did it spread? The servant who reported to Mianzhou did not necessarily have any news. Smart, why... so fast...?"

He said very tactfully, but Minglan immediately understood. After another thought, her heart was shaken, and she said, "Master Tu is reasonable! I am in this mountain. I never thought of it. Place!"

She also wondered about the source of the news of the defeat, but she never thought back about it.

We must know that the ancient social news is blocked, especially for fear of misrepresentation, which will arouse instability in people's hearts; like this time with soldiers, even if the front is really defeated, we have to whitewash it for a while; but this time, how can it be spread? Boom?

"Tu Ye means...?" Ming Lan hesitated.

Tu Long said: "I can't see it. However, Beijing seems to be unstable lately. This morning, Mrs. Liu also said that many fleeing famines, most of whom are unidentified; I think, it is always important for the wife to be safe. Zhuang raised some young men who know kung fu to visit the nursing home..."

Minglan pondered for a moment, then slowly nodded.