Madam Ma advised Mengying not to reveal her identity herself. Mengying knew Madam Ma had good intentions, so she shook her head and said, "Thank you, Granny, for the advice, but I have my own plans. You saved my life and then buried my mother. Please accept Mengying's advice."
Bow." After Mengying said that, she knelt down and kowtowed to Mrs. Ma.
"Oh, I can't do it, I can't do it, you are worth a thousand dollars. My old lady will lose her life." Mengying's sudden move made Madam Ma flattered, and she quickly stood up to help her.
"This is two hundred taels of silver. I want to thank you on behalf of my mother." After Mengying finished speaking, Hongying handed over the silver note.
Mrs. Ma looked at the bank note, her eyes were red, and she said: "I took Mrs. Yao's money to buy a business for my son in Qingzhou. How can I take your money now?"
"You deserve this. If it weren't for you, I might have starved to death that winter."
Hongying stuffed the banknote into Mrs. Ma's hand and said, "Take it, it's our girl's heart. Where is our girl's biological mother buried, I have to trouble you to show the way."
After closing the courtyard door, he took the master and servant and walked towards Liuyuan.
Liuyuan was originally a willow forest, but later it became a mass grave.
Those who have no graveyard and those who died in a foreign country are buried here.
Mrs. Ma led the two of them to a big locust tree and said to Mengying, "Your mother is buried here."
Mengying walked closer and saw that the small grave was very small and covered with weeds.
Hongying looked at the lonely graves everywhere and asked, "Grandma Ma, there are so many graves here, can you remember them correctly?"
Mrs. Ma shook her head and said, "No, look at this." After saying that, she pulled away the weeds and revealed a wooden sign. The words engraved on it were not very clear, and it read: "Meng's Tomb."<
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Mengying nodded, took the basket from Hongying, lit the incense candles, and placed the fruits.
Hongying felt that Mengying must have something to say to her mother, so she said to Mrs. Ma: "It's windy here, I'll take my mother-in-law to a sheltered place to stand."
After the two left, Mengying ignored the coldness on the ground, knelt down on her knees, kowtowed three times, and said: "Mom, my daughter is unfilial, and I just came to see you now..."
My own mother lies in this desolate solitary grave, and has long since become dirt under the spring.
Mengying burst into tears and cried, "Mom, it turns out you are here. I mistakenly thought Li Gui was Li Kui, and I treated Mrs. Yao as my own mother to show my filial piety. Because of this, my daughter will live for the rest of her life."
It’s very hard.”
In the previous life, I lived as someone else; in this life, I have been living for others.
The grievances she endured for many lifetimes made Mengying cry so hard that she couldn’t help herself.
"If you have a spirit in heaven, please give me guidance and tell me where to go..."
Mengying was so engrossed in crying that she didn't even notice that the lit paper money had ignited the incense basket next to her.
Mrs. Ma and Hongying over there said, "Go back and tell your girl that she is still the eldest daughter of the Yao family. I won't tell anyone this secret."
Hongying gave a thumbs up and praised: "Our girl is right, mother-in-law, you are really a warm-hearted and chivalrous person. If our girl remembers your kindness, you will definitely be blessed."
Mengying just cried and didn't even notice that her skirt was burned. It was Mrs. Ma who saw the thick black smoke on the grave and realized something was wrong, so she said to Hongying: "No, go and have a look."
When the two rushed closer, most of the basket had been burned. Mengying's clothes were only burned at the skirt, and she was fine.
Hongying was frightened for a while, and she persuaded Mengying for a long time before she was able to persuade her.
After coming out of Liuyuan, Mengying took Hongying to the Chenghuang Temple.
Because Lin Xiao was reprimanded by Hongying last time, she also reflected on herself. Although Mengying's methods were ruthless, she was still out of self-protection. She wanted to admit her mistake to Mengying, but last time she was satisfied with what she said.
It’s hard to bow your head now.
Seeing Mengying and Hongying coming again, I felt that Mengying's subordinates were really indispensable, and I couldn't help feeling proud.
Hongying came to see him, and he was still there to get Qiao. Hongying said angrily: "Our girl has a few important questions to ask. After asking, she will leave and never disturb Mr. Lin's purity again."
Lin Xiaocai pretended to be reluctant and followed Hongying to the pavilion to meet Mengying.
Mengying's face was solemn and she asked directly: "Do you still remember the woman you helped call the midwife at the Empress Temple?"
Lin Xiao was stunned and asked: "How do you know? Do you know her?"
Mengying smiled bitterly and said: "More than just knowing each other, I am the baby she gave birth to back then."
Lin Xiao was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth.
"Aren't you the daughter of the Yao family?"
Mengying nodded, "Tell me everything you know."
Lin Xiao sighed and said: "I don't know much. That year my mother was seriously ill and the family couldn't open the pot, so I planned to go to the Empress Temple to steal some tributes to eat. Who would have thought that I would see your mother lying there? p>
There was a lot of blood under her body at that time. I was very scared, so I turned around and wanted to run away. She said that her maid had lured away the pursuers and that she would not live long. She asked me to save the baby in her belly. She also pulled out a stick from her head.
Silver hairpin, please ask me to invite the old lady.
I didn't recognize other people, so I knew that Mrs. Ma always delivered babies, so I went to fetch Mrs. Ma. Later, Mrs. Ma came, and I missed my mother, so I went home.
Later, I asked Madam Ma how the woman was doing, and she said that the woman died and gave birth to a daughter, and she gave her away far away."
"Is that hairpin still there?" Mengying asked.
Lin Xiao shook his head and said: "I pawned it at the pawn shop for five taels of silver and bought medicine for my mother."
Hongying interjected and asked: "After so many years, if you think about it again, is there anything else you have missed?"
Lin Xiao shook his head and said: "No, although I was young back then, I remember it very clearly. I remember that silver hairpin very clearly. It was a silver pole with butterflies coiled on silver thread. The shopkeeper said that the workmanship was very exquisite.
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It was impossible to retrieve the object from more than ten years ago, and the only clue was broken. Mengying walked down the pavilion in despair, and Hongying hurried over to help her.
Lin Xiao looked at Mengying's back and didn't leave for a long time.
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After returning to Yao Mansion, Mengying went straight to Mrs. Yao's yard.
Now that the pomegranate has been moved to the outer courtyard by Mr. Yao, two more maids have been added to the inner courtyard.
When Mengying entered, Mrs. Yao was sitting crookedly on the Arhat bed, with a maid beating her legs and a maid rubbing her shoulders.
Mrs. Hu was handing tea to the side.
Hearing the footsteps, Mrs. Yao raised her eyelids and glanced, then closed her eyes again.
It was like this when I was a child. My younger brother would sit in Mrs. Yao's arms and eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake. Mrs. Yao would say warmly, "Eat slowly," and would feed him water from time to time.
He walked over and said, "Mom, I want to eat too."
Mrs. Yao would frown impatiently and say to the maid: "Pick up a few pieces for her and let her go and eat them!"
Even older, she would also like to hear Mrs. Yao tell this story, but as soon as she gets closer, Mrs. Yao will get angry.
She never understood why her mother was so angry and furious towards her.
As a helpless young girl, she eventually got used to it. What she feared most was not that her mother would lose her temper, but that her mother would turn a blind eye to her.
She will deliberately cause trouble and go against her elders.
At that time, she would be angry and jealous of her brother.
But Mrs. Yao never looked at herself directly, as if she was a dirty thing.
After knowing the truth, she felt relieved, and things she couldn't understand before were now explained.
Why did Mrs. Yao take it for granted that she worked on embroidery day and night in her previous life?
Why, when I scolded my brother a little harshly, my mother became furious;
Why did Mrs. Yao sell herself to Mr. Qi, who was over fifty years old, as a concubine for her younger brother's twelve bundles of repairs...
She thought she was a member of the Yao family, but in Mrs. Yao's heart, she was just a servant of the Yao family, an unpopular maid. If she found it useful, she would stay with her; if she got bored, she would sell herself.<
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She had enjoyed everything her dead son should have enjoyed, and seeing herself would arouse her pain of losing her son.
Therefore, in her heart, she is worse than a servant girl and more hateful.
Therefore, even Shi Lanxiu was once more favored than herself.
Therefore, no matter how hard she tries, she cannot change the fact that she is not a member of the Yao family.