Three days later, in the most remote small courtyard in the west corner of the huge Ximen Mansion, a woman who looked like a maid walked angrily through a short and narrow corridor carrying a snack box to the main wing of the courtyard and walked in.
I saw her throwing the food box on the table with a little force, and then she walked towards the only study room in the wing with a slumped face, shouting:
"Miss, I'm back!"
The maid said as she came up behind a graceful and elegant woman.
Perhaps hearing the maid's weak voice, the woman with her back to the maid did not turn around, but asked softly:
"Xiang Qing, why are you so unhappy?"
She just heard the sound of the little girl throwing away the food box, and it was not difficult for her to guess that something happened to make the little girl angry.
In this Ximen Mansion, she lived in a poor house and ate a simple diet, but at least she had a roof over her head, enough food to eat, and no one disturbed her on weekdays. In fact, she was quite comfortable.
Although they were not welcomed by the Ximen Mansion for a day or two, she no longer felt that there was anything to care about!
However, she actually had nothing to miss in this Ximen Mansion. If she hadn't been trapped suddenly, she would have planned to "say goodbye" to Ximen Mansion and live a free life.
She originally lived freely in the "Shengci'an" outside the city for five years. But in the early years, Mistress Ximen's "kindness" pointed out a marriage for her, and the other party came to urge her to get married, so she was remembered by Mistress Ximen again.
As soon as she got up, she was ordered to go back to Ximen Mansion to wait for her marriage!
However, less than two months after she came back, something happened in the Ximen Mansion, and naturally her marriage was canceled by the other party.
However, this is better. She was unwilling to let her life enter another prison. Now that she is alone, she is calm and relaxed.
Originally, she had already made arrangements to "disappear" in this world without the shackles of the Ximen family name. Without the shackles of the Ximen family name, her world would be very different.
Who would have thought that Ximen Mansion would suddenly end up in the situation where she is awaiting execution today without any warning, and she would be trapped here and temporarily unable to move.
If she had known that there would be such a trapped result, she would not have thought about coming back to "finish things". She could have avoided today's predicament by simply going out as a "dead person" to get rid of the Ximen surname.
However, the matter has come to this, and she can't change anything anymore. She can only calm down and take it one step at a time!
Xiang Qing was sulking. Their master and servant were almost starving to death, but when she saw that her master was not in pain, she raised her mouth and said angrily:
"Miss, please calm down. The food I have received in the past few days has been getting worse every day, and I am going to die. Although we ate lightly outside in the past, we still had enough to eat and drink. Now, our little
The dilapidated courtyard is not like other courtyards where you can find some valuable things by rummaging around and bribing the guards in exchange for more food. Our food for the day today is only two hard steamed buns. I want to ask them for more.
But they said hatefully that we will all die in less than two days, and eating too much or too little is a waste of food. But we are still gasping for air, so we must be eaten for one day to survive!"
Xiang Qing said, she looked at the master who was still calmly drawing the courtyard scene outside the window on the rice paper. She came closer with some curiosity and looked at the almost completed painting on the rice paper, and then looked at her master's picture.
Every time I feel like my face is absolutely beautiful.
It's really strange, now that the entire Ximen Mansion has lost all its glory, from the head of the family, Ximen Zhende, down to a little girl like her, no one can face the coming cruel reality calmly.
The reason why the Ximen clan still exists intact today is because the Ximen clan has the "Exoneration Monument" given by the ancestors of the Dongling clan to temporarily resist the consequences of being massacred.
But now everyone in the world doesn't know that the new emperor has returned to the imperial city and inherited the throne. Others can't touch the Ximen family, but that doesn't mean the new emperor can't!
You must know that Ximen's crime of framing the Yin family and Queen Fuxuan will never be forgiven by the new emperor.
The whole Ximen Mansion was panic-stricken about this, but Xiang Qing found that she was the only one who had her master. Ximen Yourong was like an aloof person, living a life of pure and stoic life as usual, not at all because of what happened to Ximen.
be affected in any way by the catastrophe!
Just like now, she put the perfect final stroke on the rice paper, and then looked at the painting she had spent two hours painting. She smiled with satisfaction and said:
"The weather is good today. The sunshine makes the yellow leaves in autumn feel less cold and more warm. It is a good time to warm the sun to keep out the cold autumn, and the yellow leaves are also competing for glory!"
Ximen Yourong didn't care at all about Xiang Qing's complaints, and she didn't seem to care about whether she had enough food to feed her belly.
"Miss, aren't you afraid?"
Xiang Qing really doesn't know why her young lady is so calm. If the rumors are true, Ximen's family has less than two days left to live. How come her young lady is still in such a good mood at this time, painting and reciting poems?
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Ximen Yourong gently put down the brush, then turned his right wrist to relax, looked at Xiang Qing and asked:
"What are you afraid of?"
"Miss, you know exactly what I'm asking!"
Xiang Qing pursed her lips with obvious worry. Although she was a little girl and her life was not precious, she had done nothing wrong. Why did she have to die?
Especially her young lady. Although she is a concubine from the Ximen family, when has she ever been treated like a young lady? She was abandoned in this remote and narrow courtyard after she was born and lived with her mother for more than ten years!
Five years ago, the young lady's mother passed away due to illness in this small hospital. The young lady may have fallen ill due to excessive grief.
Therefore, Mistress Ximen took the opportunity to send her to the "Shengci'an" outside the city, which was called a recuperation, but in reality, she was left to fend for herself.
When the Ximen family was prosperous, the young lady had no benefits at all. Now that a disaster is approaching, the young lady will have to die together. This God is really unfair!
Ximen Yourong saw that the little girl's facial features were almost wrinkled together. She guessed what Xiang Qing was angry about, so she smiled slightly and asked:
"What about you, if you die, are you afraid?"
"I'm following the young lady. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm just not convinced. Since Aunt Qing passed away five years ago, the young lady and I have been kicked out. We live like people who are not from the Ximen Mansion. If we don't say this
When we go out, no one knows that the young lady is the daughter of the head of the Ximen family. It's good now, it looks like the young lady will suffer a lot in a day, but she will be included in the Ximen family's must-punishment list. Young lady, you really died unjustly."
The more Xiang Qing talked, the angrier she became, and she even stomped her feet to vent her anger. Unexpectedly, she thought that the floor had something to do with her. Ximen Yourong laughed and said:
"It turns out that you girl is aggrieved for me. I thought you were aggrieved for yourself!"
When Xiang Qing was eight years old, she was sent here to be her personal maid. Ten years have passed since then.
Although she and Xiang Qing are servants to their master, they are actually sisters. They eat and drink almost the same, and there is little distinction between you and me.
Although Xiang Qing was a maid, her relationship with Ximen Yourong was not as formal and restrictive as the masters and servants in other courtyards, so she naturally sat down opposite Ximen Yourong and said:
"Of course I feel wronged. If Miss and I had enjoyed the blessings of the Ximen Mansion, I would have no reason to complain if we died like this. But we didn't enjoy the blessings, and we didn't commit any crimes. If we die, we must be unjust.
, If we had known earlier, we shouldn’t have come back. No one cares about our lives anyway. It’s all my fault, Miss, that you still want to show your kindness in raising me and insist on coming back to formally “farewell” to this Ximen Mansion. It’s okay now, but you can’t do it.
I have to say goodbye to this world forever."
"Oh, you girl...!"
Ximen Yourong smiled helplessly. She slowly poured a glass of water and put it in front of Xiang Qing. She poured another glass for herself and drank. She sighed in silence.
She was born in Ximen Mansion, lived outside for five years, and has lived for seventeen years now, but no matter where she is in these seventeen years, she is a life forgotten by Ximen!