In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the northwest wind stabs people like a knife.
Su Luo held the handkerchief and stood in front of the door of Chen Heng, the eldest son of Zhenninghou Mansion. She was shaking slightly, not sure whether it was blown by the wind or something else.
"Miss Su, why are you here again? You know that the prince doesn't like you, but you still keep going like this day by day. It's been five years and the prince has not changed his mind. If you are not tired, I will help you even if I look at you."
tired.
Everyone has a face, so Miss Su should at least take care of her face."
The woman in charge of cleaning the house in Chen Heng's yard stood on the porch, three or five steps away, squinting at Su Luo from a high position, with disgusted impatience in her eyes, and the words in her mouth were blunt and unpleasant.
Su Luo bit her lip and pinched the handkerchief, her breathing trembled several times, and her heart hurt as if someone had cut it out with a knife.
She ignored the woman and looked at the closed door. It was just a wooden door. People inside could hear clearly what was said outside.
What the woman said was so unpleasant, but there was no reaction in the room, which meant they acquiesced.
Chen Heng was her engaged fiancé. The engagement was made five years ago, when Su Luo was ten years old.
Taking a deep breath, swallowing the sourness, and pushing back the tears, Su Luo stood up straight, with a stubborn tone, "Zimu has a severe fever. He has taken medicine for five days and can't do anything. Can you please help me, Prince?"
Will the imperial doctor come and take a look?"
There was still no movement at all in the house.
Instead, a sneer came from behind.
"Miss Su wants to see a doctor for her younger brother. She goes to the imperial hospital to ask for a medical doctor. What are you doing here by pretending to be here?
Back then, it was your father who had ulterior motives and saved Mr. Marquis from the dead. Mr. Hou was kind-hearted and thought that your parents would later die from the epidemic, so he took you and your brother back to the Zhenning Marquis Mansion to raise you.
When you raise a dog, you still know how to repay your kindness, but Miss Su is very good at repaying your kindness.
My cousin never liked you. Don't you feel embarrassed that you are pestering him like this?
A tough melon is not sweet, don’t you understand this?"
The speaker was Chen Heng’s cousin, Mrs. Zhenninghou’s niece, Gu Yao.
Five years ago, the Marquis of Zhenning supervised the Qianzhou plague. As the plague raged, the Marquis of Zhenning fell from exhaustion into a pile of victims. It was Su Luo's father who discovered him and pulled the Marquis of Zhenning out of the pile of dead people.
After taking a breath, he gritted his teeth and carried the person back to his home.
That epidemic was really fierce.
Su Luo's father fed Marquis Zhenning to life, but he and his wife failed to carry it through. Both of them died before the epidemic could subside.
Su Luo was only ten years old at that time, and her younger brother Su Zimu had just been born and was not yet full-term.
The Marquis of Zhenning was grateful for this life-saving grace, so he brought Su Luo and Su Zimu back to the Marquis of Zhenning's Mansion, and made a marriage contract between Su Luo and Chen Heng, the eldest son of the Marquis of Zhenning.
In the past five years, Chen Heng has been the man in Su Luo's heart.
At the age of ten, she didn't know anything about love. She only knew that Chen Heng would be her husband from now on, and this place would be her home from now on.
Both her parents were dead and they were strangers to each other. She and her younger brother lived in Zhenninghou Mansion with great fear. Everything centered on this man. What he liked was what she liked, and what he hated was what she hated. She tried her best
Do everything to please him.
After chasing her for five years, when the day came for her to get married, Mrs. Zhenninghou took her niece over and said she wanted to show Chen Heng the horoscope.
Everyone in Kyoto knows that Su Luo is the wife of the prince raised by the Zhenning Hou Mansion.
Now, Mrs. Zhenninghou suddenly wanted to show Chen Heng and Gu Yao their horoscopes, and no one in the house, except Su Luo, ever mentioned their previous engagement again.
After Gu Yao finished speaking, she passed by Su Luo, sneered and disdained, went up the steps, pushed the door and entered Chen Heng's house. In a blink of an eye, Gu Yao's delicate voice came from inside, "Cousin, I want to go to another courtyard to visit
Plum blossoms, my aunt said it will snow tonight, so why not enjoy the plum blossoms in the other courtyard tomorrow?"
Su Luo didn't hear Chen Heng's answer, but she heard Gu Yao burst into laughter, "I knew my cousin was the best."
Her throat suddenly hurt even more, and the sore tears at the root of her nose kept pouring out. Su Luo stumbled half a step back, raised her head and blinked at the dusty sky, holding back the tears that were about to burst out.
"Remember, you are my fiancée. If anyone dares to bully you in the future, just tell me!"
Su Luo stumbled towards her yard, with the scene from five years ago filling her ears and mind.
When she first arrived, she was bullied by the young masters of the Hou Mansion. It was Chen Heng who stood in front of her and gave those people a lesson. After scolding them, he turned back and lowered his eyes and said these words to her, and robbed her of her clothes.
The necklace she left was put back into her hand.
It turns out...she was the only one who kept these words in mind.
The twisted melon is not sweet, it is not sweet...that's all.
Walking all the way back from Chen Heng's yard to Su Luo's own small yard, the northwest wind blew, and Su Luorang was completely sober.
Five-year-old Su Zimu was suffering from a high fever, with a handkerchief covering his forehead, sleeping on the bed, and his face was red from the fever.
Su Luo pushed the door open and came in. Chun Xing, the maid who was guarding Su Zimu, immediately stood up and came over to greet her, "What did the prince say?"
Su Luo clenched her fingers, smiled a little, and shook her head.
Chun Xing's eyes widened, "The prince refused to agree? Are you still angry about what happened yesterday? Didn't the lady explain it? The necklace is a very important thing for the lady. Miss Gu destroyed the necklace for no reason. Miss
Isn’t it time to get angry?”
Su Luo did not tell Chun Xing that she had not even seen Chen Heng's face.
Before today, she was still angry at Gu Yao for destroying her necklace. In fact, it was just an ordinary chain. The reason why it was valuable was that Chen Heng snatched it back for her. It had a different meaning to her.
Yesterday, for some unknown reason, Gu Yao suddenly pulled the necklace off her neck, threw it to the ground and stepped on it.
She was so angry that she raised her hand and slapped Gu Yao.
Gu Yao cried and complained before Chen Heng.
She was also aggrieved. She wanted to explain, and she explained that the necklace was expensive, but Chen Heng frowned and looked at her with a sullen face, impatient, "It's just a necklace, no matter how expensive it is, it can't be used to hurt someone. Marriage
I have already told you that I will handle it. What are you making trouble for? Isn’t that enough chaos?"
yes.
What's the fuss about?
Since the melon is not sweet if she is forced to do so, she just doesn't have to do it.
"You go to Madam for me and say thank you to Madam for her support over the years. I should have gone to say goodbye in person, but Zimu is really ill, and I'm afraid that going there will bring illness to Madam."
Chun Xing looked shocked, "Miss?"
Su Luo took Chun Xing's hand and said, "You have served me and Zimu for five years. I remember this love in my heart. It's just that your marriage contract is in the Marquis Mansion, and you will probably have to endure hardship if you follow me and Zimu away."
"
Before Su Luo could finish speaking, Chun Xing's tears fell. She shook her head desperately, "Miss, the Crown Prince has your heart in mind. Please go and beg the Crown Prince again."
Su Luo raised her hand to wipe away Chun Xing's tears, "This is the last thing you can do for me. If I go there in person, Madam may not want to see me, so there is no need to cause a quarrel between the two parties. You go over and the words are brought to her."
You know what I mean, so I will naturally make other arrangements for you."
ps: Second male lead Chen Heng comes on stage, sisters, you can start scolding~