Once a man has a change of heart, he will secretly do these four things. Women should see clearly earlier.

Chapter 1 unlucky Ah Ch'ou

The Great Zhou Dynasty.

The first day of March, the 32 year of Jiasheng.

The capital.

"I've never seen anyone more unlucky than you!" In the chilly spring, Ah Ch'ou sat by the well, rubbing his clothes with his cracked hands, muttering to his own reflection in the big wooden basin, and looking at a hill of clothes by the edge of the wooden basin. Ah Ch'ou could not help sighing, "how long will this have to be washed?"

Ah Ch'ou is right. She is really unlucky.

You said that she was a daughter of an eunuch, but her father was an one-legged speech official and offended the boss. Overnight, her parents died, and Ah Chou, who was four years old in her family, survived, but was beaten into the Huun clothing Bureau to be a slave. after washing clothes for ten years, at the age of 14, Ah Ch'ou finally handed over a good fortune, because the clothes were washed well. Was recommended into the most beloved Zhao Guifei's Jubilee Palace.

It's just that Ah Chou was used to bad luck, and the good luck this time didn't last long. Within two years, A Ch'ou accidentally offended Zhao Guifei and was given by Zhao Guifei to an unlucky man who had a six-grade downgrade from Liupin Hanlin Academy.

What kind of character is Duan Chenghong?

At the beginning of Jiasheng in 32, as soon as the dynasty began, the sky changed. Zhong Mingwei, the eldest prince born by the late Empress Zhenxian, Prince Zhong Mingwei of the Eastern Palace, was greedy and rude at the dinner party in front of the saints. He was so angry that he was locked up in the patriarchal mansion. A few days later, several important courtiers in the court jointly signed a letter to report the evidence of the prince's immoral crimes for many years, and the court ordered a thorough investigation. As a result, before the first month, the prince was abandoned and demoted as a common man. Ning Gu Pagoda was demoted directly, while his quasi-Yuezhang and right phase Duan Chenghong dropped six grades in a row in a day, which became a mere compilation from the Liupin Imperial Academy.

The prince was abandoned, among which the Zhao family behind Zhao Guifei made great efforts. Duan Chenghong naturally gritted his teeth. At this time, Zhao Guifei was still alive and stuffed with such a girl. Duan Chenghong naturally thinks that Ah Chou is Zhao Guifei's eyes and ears, so can Ah Chou not be unlucky?

Poor Ah Ch'ou has become a thorn in the eye of the Duan Chenghong family. They dare not kill the people given by Zhao Guifei, but there are many ways to torture people. Ah Ch'ou has never been idle since he entered Duan's door. A 16-year-old girl has to get up before dawn to chop wood, cook, clean and wash clothes, especially laundry. Ah Ch'ou has to wash for at least four or five hours every day in such a cold day. I don't know why the Duan family has so many clothes to wash, even more than she does every day in the Huun clothing Bureau. Ah Ch'ou hasn't complained, but ever since A Ch'ou washed the same clothes for several days in a row, A Ch'ou stopped complaining.

Well, they're just waiting to treat her, so is she going to send Baba to the door of her own accord?

When she finally finished washing her clothes, it was almost midnight. Ah Ch'ou felt that her waist was going to be broken. She painstakingly hung the clothes and was about to go back to the woodshed. Yes, A Ch'ou lived in the woodshed. This small courtyard house is already tight for a dozen members of the Duan family. She is a slave who can settle in the woodshed.

Ah Ch'ou rubbed his waist and was about to open the door of the woodshed when he heard a hysterical cry from the young lady's room.

"I don't want to marry that paralytic! I don't want to go to Ninggu Pagoda if I die! Mother, you. If you push me again, I'll die and show you! "

Chapter 2 Poor Miss Duan

Ah Ch'ou could tell that it was the voice of Duan Chenghong's eldest daughter, Duan Rulan, and could tell that the girl was really extremely sad and indignant, otherwise a lady from an aristocratic family like her would not have cried so shapeless.

Well, it looks like she's not the only one unlucky.

I heard that the prince was carried out of the patriarchal palace. I heard that he was punished in the patriarchal palace, and his legs and feet were not very good.

I also heard that it had been a bumpy journey from the capital to Ninggu Pagoda for more than three months. by the time we finally got to the place, the prince had become paralyzed. Some people said that the prince had been frozen, while others said that the prince had been maimed.

Zhao Guifei was very sad when she heard this. She was so distressed that she burst into tears in front of Master Wan, saying that although the useless prince was now a common person, her mother was unbearable. Now the disabled prince was crippled, and there was no proper person to wait on her. It was a pity that Ding, the wife of the useless prince, died early.

With this reminder, Master Wan suddenly remembered that there was such an engagement between Prince Fei and Duan's daughter. Counting that the daughter had reached adulthood, Master Wan immediately ordered Duan Chenghong to send his daughter to Ninggu Pagoda.

In the past two days, Duan Rulan has been in trouble again and again for four or five times. Duan Chenghong lost his good temper and didn't bother to talk to her any more. He directly told the housekeeper to lock people in the room, but Mrs. Duan felt sorry for the meat she had fallen from her body. So she stayed with Duan Rulan these days for fear that her daughter would really find a short-sighted vision.

Thinking of Duan Rulan's red and swollen eyes like walnuts, Ah Chou shook her head and sighed, then pushed open the firewood door and went in. She was so tired that as soon as she got into the tattered quilt, she fell into a drowsy sleep.

Of course, if she had known that she would be more unlucky tomorrow, she might not have slept so soundly.

In Miss Duan's dorm room.

"Mom, you and Dad can't do this to me." Duan Rulan was already out of breath crying, and her usually sweet voice was hoarse at this time. "that man has obviously become a paralytic." I. I don't want to marry a paralytic! Mother, I don't want to go to Ninggu Pagoda. I'm afraid I won't see my parents again if I go! Mother! Don't push me again! "

"Lan er, there's nothing my parents can do about it," said Mrs. Duan, with tears in her eyes, holding Duan Rulan in her arms and choking with sobs. "this is an edict, and it's hard to do a holy destiny!" Besides... Besides, you do have an engagement with the useless prince. You are one of his people. "

"but once upon a time. But he used to be the crown prince of Donggong! Now. Now he is a half-dead paralytic! " Duan Rulan was excited again, clapping her heart with both hands, and staring at Mrs. Duan, she complained, "Niang, I have been your master and teacher since I was a child. I followed you to learn housekeeping skills, to learn checks and balances, and to play chess, calligraphy and painting. I can recite the female commandments, female training, and the female Analects from beginning to end!" I worked so hard because you told me that one day I would be the mother of a country, but now you and my father want me to marry a commoner and a paralyzed man! I don't want to marry or not! "

"if you don't marry, you have to get married!" Mrs. Duan suddenly cooled her face. She took out her veil and wiped the tears from her face, while she spoke coldly to Duan Rulandao.

Chapter 3 Marriage Girl

"you think you are still the eldest lady of the right prime minister's mansion! Now your father is only a minor official from Liupin, and he is even more implicated by the abandoned crown prince. What is the life of our family now? I am afraid that there will be no tomorrow after today! At this time, there is still room for you to act so willfully?! Did it ever occur to you that if you resist the decree today, our family will all be tied up to the entrance of the vegetable market tomorrow, and our heads will be accumulated in previous lives, pointing out that the anger of an uncertain king will lead to a crack in the car? "

Duan Rulan was pressed by Mrs. Duan's momentum, stepped over her body, grinned, and began to cry again.

"Lan'er, there's nothing you can do about it." Mrs. Duan's voice softened again. She gently patted her daughter on the shoulder, helpless and tired. "Lan'er, I know I've wronged you, but what can that do? Princess Wan Guifei is complacent. I'm afraid it won't be long before Lord Wan Guifei's prince will be the crown prince. We naturally have to be careful and calm. Especially at this time, is it really difficult to dig our own grave? "

"but the mother." Desperate and sorrowful, Duan Rulan cried and fell into Mrs. Duan's arms.

……

When Duan Rulan was coaxed to sleep, it was past time. Mrs. Duan went back to her room with red eyes, and Duan Chenghong was still awake. She was sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze, listening to the sound of pushing the door. Only then did she come to her senses. Looking at Mrs. Duan's appearance, he could not help sighing, "has that girl figured it out?"

Mrs. Duan wiped her tears and nodded, as she came over and sat down next to Duan Chenghong. the originally well-maintained lady, who had been exhausted in the past few months, had already looked old. She wiped away her tears, paused, and choked up and said to Duan Chenghong, "it's so aggrieved, Lan er."... "

"what is aggrieved and unaggrieved? he has been a king and loser since ancient times. What is there to say?" Rao said so, Duan Chenghong's eyes were full of remorse.

Two years ago, Princess Ding, the crown prince, died of illness. at that time, in order to hold on to the big thick leg of the useless crown prince, he made painstaking efforts before and after running before and after the 14-year-old daughter and the useless crown prince agreed to get married. Only when the daughter was an adult, she could do the continuation of the princess. With this marriage contract, their Duan family had a firm foothold in the court, and he had a lot of pride in this engagement in recent years. Who would have thought it would have happened in such a cold manner.

It was a bolt from the blue.

"the day after tomorrow will be the day when our daughter will leave Beijing," sighed Mrs. Duan. "We used to prepare a lot of dowries for her, but now our family is like this. I'm afraid he can't even bring out a decent wedding dress, and he doesn't even have a dowry girl. The child has been used to being privileged since childhood, and he has a high temperament. how can he live the rest of his life? "

After a long silence, Duan Chenghong said in a quiet voice, "Let the girl named Ah Ch'ou be the dowry girl and follow Lan er to Ninggu Pagoda."

"but. She. " Mrs. Duan looked surprised and lowered her voice as she was busy. "but isn't that girl Zhao Guifei's?" I don't trust her to follow Lan'er. I don't know how that girl will harm Lan'er. "

"I look at that girl coldly these days that the girl is not a vicious person. At best, she just tipped off Zhao Guifei." Duan Chenghong said.

"is that all right?" Mrs. Duan said hurriedly, "if there is an ear report god around me every day, does that orchid's every move have to be passed on to Zhao Guifei's ears?" Isn't Lan er's life even more difficult? "

Chapter 4 Marriage Girl 2

"what can I do about it?" With a long sigh, Duan Feihong scratched his gray sideburns and said helplessly, "Zhao Guifei just stuffed her with this front foot, and her back foot urged him to let Lan er go to Ninggu Pagoda. Are we going to pretend to be confused? Forget it. Let her go. "

"Zhao Guifei, this is. Make sure that Lan er marries the useless prince and let the girl watch brazenly. "Mrs. Duan took a breath." she wants to completely tie us to the broken boat of the useless prince, and she will never turn over again for the rest of her life! "

"I'm glad you know," Duan Feihong said in a tired way. "up to now, we can only follow the meaning of Zhao Guifei, at least we can save the lives of the family."

Mrs. Duan's tears came down again, whimpering and wringing her veil, and she had another sleepless night.

The next day.

Ah Chou got up before dawn, chopped wood, boiled water and cooked for a full hour. Ah Chou's waist began to ache again after a night's rest. I don't know if it was because of her long stature. She was always sore, and she didn't get enough sleep. She had cramps a few times last night, and Ah Chou grinned for most of the night.

The prepared food was brought into the main hall, and Ah Chou set it up. When he was about to go out, he was stopped by Duan Feihong.

"Sir, did you call me?" Ah Chou was very afraid when he looked at Duan Feihong. Since Duan Feihong brought her back from the Jubilee Palace, he had not given her a good face. Ah Chou knew that people hated him and knew he was bad, so he never dared to spend more time in the main hall. "what can I do for you, my lord?"

Duan Feihong looked at Ah Chou, whose face was going down to the ground, and kept staring at Ah Chou for a long time. It was not until Ah Chou's neck was sore that he heard Duan Feihong say, "tomorrow you will leave Beijing with the young lady."

"Ah?" Ah Chou was surprised. She knew early on that Duan Rulan was going to marry to Ninggu Pagoda, but she never thought that it would have anything to do with her. At that time, she didn't care whether Duan Feihong would dislike him more. She was so busy that she looked up at Duan Feihong, "my lord." What do you mean? "

Duan Feihong's originally calm face, looked at by Ah Ch'ou, suddenly gave birth to a lot of disgust and silence: "what?" Have you been wronged by an ugly girl like you to be a maid for a young lady? "

Yes, the ugly man is as ugly as her name, not because she was born ugly, but when she caught fire in the palace last year. When she was fighting the fire, she was licked by the tongue of fire. The dark red scar area is not large, but it winds all the way from the right wrist to the neck. Even the chin has a scar the size of a fingernail, so Ah Ch'ou got such a name.

"No, not aggrieved." Ah Chou hurriedly waved his hand, paused and shook his head, "but …"... "

"nothing is impossible!" Duan Feihong didn't bother to talk to her any more. he waved his hand to drive Ah Chou out, paused, frowned and looked at Ah Chou's white linen robe and said, "go to the housekeeper and ask for a decent dress, so you don't have to do the hard work today. Go and wait in the lady's room."

"Yes, the maidservant obeys." Ah Ch'ou stubbornly promised that her deed was in the hands of Duan Feihong. Naturally, that's what people say. Where is the reason for her beak?

It's just Ning Gu Pagoda...

Ah Chou frowned and went to the housekeeper, staring at the green grass buds emerging from the cracks in the stone bricks, while thinking about the roots of the tongues he had heard in the palace.