Strangely enough, when Lijia was a child, her impression of her father was not that of a scholar like Liu Chengxu, but of a man who was strong and taciturn, and who would always bring some candied haws clay figurines to her from time to time. In her memory, her mother was not housekeeping in the main hall as she is now. Instead, she was cooking in front of a dark stove, or weaving.
The summer was too hot. When she woke up, she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the soft bed she was lying on and the high pillow.
She thought she had forgotten those memories that were rotten in her stomach, but in fact she had not forgotten them at all. Her mother is now the serious wife of the Liu family in Jinghu. Because she has gone through many hardships outside, she is highly respected by her father. In fact, Lijia knows that although her mother has had hardships outside, she is well cared for and only does household chores. It was such a trivial matter that the man even used the money he had earned so hard to support his brother's education.
Later, they left without saying goodbye.
"Girl, why are you awake? Are you thirsty? My servant is here with honey water." Shaoyao came over holding a lamp.
Although Lijia was not thirsty, she took the water and took a sip without showing any signs of it. She just said: "The weather is too hot, so it's inevitable that I can't sleep."
Shaoyao smiled and said, "Who says it's not the case? You are a big girl after all. There are two basins of ice in the house. I heard there is only one basin in total in the west courtyard."
"Why is this necessary?" Lijia felt that skimping on such a trivial matter would make her look like a mistress.
Shaoyao knew that the eldest girl had always been generous, even treating the mother and daughter in the west courtyard very well. She couldn't help but said: "That's right. When this young lady saw our wife coming back, she didn't even talk about going back to her parents' house to get married. What kind of peace of mind did she have? Everyone knows. Big girl, in this backyard, either the east wind prevails over the west wind, or the west wind overpowers the east wind."
Everyone knows what little Fu wants to do, but now he is just dormant. Lijia thought that if her mother had the means, she would just treat her like her grandmother. But little Mrs. Fu still lives at home. What's going on? I heard that during the years when they were away from home, their father obeyed little Fu's advice. What if she was favored again one day?
Everything should be done secretly, instead of depriving others and giving them ready-made excuses.
If Mrs. Fu was a concubine, she would have been burned by a fire openly or secretly, and she would have destroyed herself. But she was also married to a matchmaker, so my mother was probably too worried about her family ties to make a move.
Lijia's right eyelid twitched. She had to go to a girls' school, so she had to force herself to sleep.
Sure enough, a few days later, the incident in the ice basin broke out, and little Fu used this as an excuse to hook his fingers, and his father passed away.
This was the first time Lijia sensed a crisis, but she couldn't care about it. Her mother's affairs were tightly buried, but she increasingly wanted to show the magnanimity of a girl and not have a bad reputation.
And she was only eight years old, so she really couldn't do much.
But things happened one after another in the family. His brother Shu Zhao passed away and his mother fell ill. Coincidentally, Mr. Fu was pregnant. Lijia definitely didn't believe this was a coincidence. She just felt that her father had moved on too quickly.
Her father was indeed very good. When her mother brought her and her brother back from abroad, he never said a word, but why could a man fall in love so quickly? Love in the world is indeed not trustworthy. She is immersed in being a female celebrity, and she always feels that she is becoming more and more indifferent.
My mother values love too much, so she fell into such a situation and made wedding clothes for others.
Little Fu
She was completely pampered and even got a boy in one fell swoop. Her daughter, who was a little chubby girl before, was later sent to be raised by her grandmother.
Fortunately, she has the Fu family and cousin Minglun in marriage.
Every time she goes to her grandfather's house, it is the happiest thing. Her uncles love her and her cousins are also childhood sweethearts. Lijia also quietly inquired about the maids around Fu Minglun. She was very lucky. After all, they were both clumsy and not capable of success.
Cousin Minglun was outstanding in academics, and her aunts in the Fu family were very friendly. She kept this sense of superiority well hidden, for fear that it would be destroyed by others.
Seeing that she was the one the Zeng family wanted to marry, she naturally refused to take the issue. The third wife of the Zeng family had her eyes set on her, thinking that her son was so great, and he was far behind his cousin Minglun.
Speaking of their sisters studying in the Zeng family, we have to mention Xiao Fu's daughter, her rival Li Shu.
Lishu was born with extraordinary intelligence. She was several years younger than her, but she could keep up with her progress. She was also naturally beautiful. However, she had a bad personality and easily made enemies. She was also withdrawn. None of the sisters in the mansion had a romantic partner.
If she wanted to provoke a fight, she didn't have to be overt about it. There was someone ready to deal with Li Shu for her, and that was Li Zhen, the elder of the house.
This Li Zhen is the apple of Dafang's eye, but she is a spoiled little girl. It would be nice if such a person gave her a threesome and coaxed her, but Lijia expected that Lishu was quite competitive and didn't know how to hide her edge. Everyone else would give in to Li Zhen, but she wouldn't.
So in the early stage, there was Li Zhen, who was always in trouble for Li Shu. Li Jia didn't have to take action on her own. She only had to stand by Li Zhen's side to become isolated.
But Lishu is also a very magical person. She doesn't seem to care at all whether she is isolated or what she does is not what a lady should do. She is smart, sharp, and the kind of person that men are afraid of.
Such people are just beautiful, but their lives are not like this. Lijia grew up in her maternal grandparents' house, and her maternal grandmother took her with her to teach her, so she knows very well that the more people like this are too strong, the more difficult their lives will be.
What's more, her marriage was decided by the Zheng family, who had a better family background than hers.
The Zheng family has been a famous family for thousands of years. Mrs. Zheng is gentle and elegant, and Zheng Hao is also a handsome young man. This family looks perfect in everything, but they also have high requirements.
But before she could sympathize with Li Shu, something happened to her. Young Fu forced her mother to get Minglun's cousin engaged to her. In fact, Lijia was also secretly looking forward to it. After all, Liwan and Lishu had already decided to get married. As the eldest sister, she was still alone with the younger sister. Even though everyone knew that she was destined for the Fu family, there was always no clear path. .
In her opinion, it was just a matter of breaking the window paper. How could she know that the Fu family had never thought about marrying her. In fact, they were very concerned about her mother's previous affairs, and even forced her to become a monk to save their reputation.
In fact, before his brother died, he once told himself something. He saw that person while playing on the street.
He fell into the water and did not die because he was originally an orphan and a hunter who grew up eating the food of hundreds of families. Even though he was almost silenced by the Fu family, he never really wanted to harm the Fu family. He just saw his brother by chance and wanted to talk to him. I heard that he was working part-time here and there, and he had no way to register, so his life was very difficult.
My brother suffered from the cold and was not in good health when he fled, so he died of guilt.
Lijia didn't know why but she thought of that person again and shook her head.
She was planning to marry into the Song family again. In the future, my father-in-law will be the assistant minister of the warehouse, so let her let the past happen.
Her life in the Song family was actually not easy. Her mother-in-law was partial and her mother-in-law was snobbish. Lijia always felt that it was difficult to live in her mother's family. Little did she know that life in her husband's family was a hundred times harder than her mother's family.
But no matter how sad she is, she still wants to live a good life.
After she gained a foothold, she would occasionally visit her mother in the nunnery. It was rare for her mother to have peace and quiet here now.
"Lidya, good child, you don't have to come see me in the future. As long as my life is good, that's all!"
"Mom, my daughter is unfilial."
"No, it's my mother who is too greedy. If I had thought clearly earlier, what happened could not be treated as non-existent, and the fire could not be contained. Why do you live so tiredly at such a young age, and why do you care so much about your reputation? It's all because of my mother. Your father is a good man. He has piercing eyes and doesn't know anything. But he still accepted me. It's just that human feelings are like this. It's hard to stop when it happens. He thought I was dead. He fell in love with me. I have left your aunt, and I won’t be able to get in between them after I come back. Don’t blame your aunt, and don’t resent your father.”
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On the way back, Lijia thought that she might never be able to be like her mother. She was already too much.
Little Fu was just seeing through his own tricks in advance, just pretending to show his father that it was really the case. She and Li Shu could never get along well.
It was like she heard something secret and was afraid of being discovered, so she subconsciously blamed it on Li Shu.
She didn't care why she blurted out that it was Lishu, but ultimately it was Lishu that she hated the most. If there were no little Fu mother and daughter, even if she could not marry Fu Minglun, she would still marry Zheng Hao. Zheng Hao won the first prize, the Zheng family was rich, and Zheng Hao was single-minded. Such a good husband was originally hers.
But as the Song family suffered disaster, she was about to be exiled.
What good could there be in being exiled? She might be raped on the way. Li Jia hoped that the Liu family would save her, but Liusu was the one who saved her. Liusu, my mother's former maid, is now the daughter-in-law of the magistrate, and her business is very big. She just wants to repay my mother's kindness for saving her.
"It's my mother's spirit in heaven that protects me." Lijia knew that Liusu had no feelings for her and had a deep relationship with her mother. The only way for her to develop better now was to mention her mother more.
Liusu is not stupid. When he saw Lijia acting like this, he wondered why the Liu family could be so indifferent to their daughter. She shouldn't. She had stayed in the Liu family. Liu Chengxu was an extremely upright man, a very upright person who was not afraid of power.
Lijia was unhappy when she saw Liusu's probing words, but she still had to rely on Liusu at this time and would not show it. She only said: "Now that you are helping me, I am much better."
After having Liusu, her children could ride in a carriage without having to travel fifty miles a day. The jailers who guarded her also accepted Liusu's money and no one bullied her. Lijia was an unexpected blessing.
After being exiled to a bitterly cold place, Liusu was sent thick cotton-padded jackets, all made of black and cyan fabrics, which were not eye-catching at all. She also prepared fifty taels of silver for Lijia. Lijia and the others are now military households and are divided into two crooked mud houses. They heard that they have to do the work of building the city wall and farming. She is very grateful to Liusu, but...
"Are you leaving now?"
Liusu nodded: "Miss, don't worry. I've heard about the little flag you assigned here. He's a very nice person. If my uncle has some skills on his side, he will live a comfortable life in the new year."
Lijia frowned: "But now my brother Song can't study. I'm very grateful that you sent me all the way here. But you know, I don't care about myself, I only care about my son. Can you Let Brother Song fake his death and send him to study, I will be grateful to you forever."
After speaking, she kowtowed several times and spoke sincerely.
Who knew that Liusu refused, "To be honest, I left my children and came here with my husband. I have been delayed for a long time on the way. What you have committed is a serious crime of beheading, not an ordinary military household. In fact, I It’s already inappropriate, but I have to pretend to take my brother back, I’m afraid…”
Lijia knew that Liusu was a person who liked soft things but not hard words, so she smiled and said, "It's my fault for making things difficult for you. Don't take this matter to heart. I will tie your kindness to you in my next life. Immediately. It's going to snow heavily, and it's not getting very early. I'll cook for you, and at least have something hot before leaving."
In front of the stove, Lijia made a fire for the first time, but she was very quick. Liusu thought that it was not easy for Miss Qianjin to do this. Brother Song was doing the work beside him, running around and reading in a childlike voice.
Lijia inside said to Song Geer: "When your grandmother was alive, she loved scholars the most. You should study hard and benefit the people in the future."
Liusu was moved after hearing this, because what Song Geer read was exactly what Fu taught her to read. Fu also personally taught her to write and never disliked her. !
