In early spring, Fu'an Temple is suddenly warm and cold. In the night, the thousand-year-old trees and green bamboos make the temple more profound and quiet.
The window in the west wing of the backyard was pushed open with a creak. After a while, the smell of Chinese medicine was still lingering in the house.
Fu Qionghua frowned in disgust, covered his nose with a handkerchief, turned around and walked towards the bed.
The face of the girl lying on the bed was red, and fine beads of sweat oozed from her forehead, which wet her hair, but even so, it did not diminish her appearance at all. On the contrary, because of the reddened skin, the face that was usually covered up now gave people a stunning beauty that made people unable to take their eyes away.
Fu Qionghua stared at it for a long time, and the displeasure in his eyes became more and more intense. After a long time, he murmured: "Mother Kang, do you think this child's eyebrows look more and more like my sister-in-law?"
When Mother Kang heard this, her heart skipped a beat, her face changed dramatically, and she blurted out without thinking: "Madam, be careful what you say! The second girl is Madam's biological daughter, how come she looks so similar to the Duke's wife?"
Aunt Kang said, feeling a little strange in her heart. She and Madam kept the matter a secret. Why did Madam look a little impatient today.
She thought about it carefully and remembered that it would be Mrs. Zhou's birthday in a few days, and she understood why Mrs. An was in a bad mood.
On Zhou's birthday, the children must be carefully taken care of by their mother. The Zhou family's daughter was replaced by her wife, and now it is naturally their wife's own son who is busy trying to please the Zhou family.
No wonder Madam was in a bad mood. Aunt Kang couldn't help but warned her: "Madam, we are in Beijing now, and we won't be able to make such jokes in the future."
Fu Qionghua heard the uneasiness and nervousness in her words, but he couldn't help but chuckle, covered his mouth with a handkerchief, and said with a bit of pride: "Why are you so afraid, mama? Let me talk in private. , who can listen?" When she said this, her eyes kept falling on the unconscious girl lying on the bed. Seeing the girl wearing green clothes that were not old, her eyes became more and more proud. a bit.
Back then, she admired her husband Xie Shaochuan, but her sister-in-law, Mrs. Zhou, looked down upon her husband's background. He was obviously talented and handsome, and he was ranked second and third in one fell swoop. With a Jinshi background, the only drawback was that Xie's family was not from a good family background. Gao was not from the noble family in Zhou's eyes. Zhou said that her husband approached her because he liked her because of her status as a girl from the Duke's palace, and told her not to be fooled by others. She also said that since ancient times, her parents had ordered matchmakers to deal with marriage matters, telling her not to have too much contact with foreign men, so as not to ruin her reputation.
It must have been that Mr. Zhou had said a lot of bad things about her husband in front of her mother, which was why her mother was so opposed to the marriage, forcing her to fight to the death to get her father and mother to agree to the marriage. From then on, she had resentment towards Mr. Zhou.
What really made her hate Mrs. Zhou was that when she returned home from three dynasties, Mrs. Zhou showed her husband no need to show it but still hid her contempt and contempt in her eyes. This hurt his self-esteem and made him thank her later. home, she vaguely felt that her husband treated her differently. Even when she brought up the incident and wanted to comfort her, her husband sternly scolded her for the first time and moved to the study.
Since then, her husband seemed to have a knot in his heart. Even though he still spoke kindly to her, she felt like there was a layer of separation between him and her. Even her mother-in-law, Mrs. Liang, who was so kind to her before they got married, started to be very picky about her. How could she not hate these?
Fortunately, her husband loved her and treated her as well as usual. She soon became pregnant and gave birth to her eldest daughter.
Another year later, she and Mr. Zhou were both pregnant at about the same time. Before giving birth, they made an appointment to go to the temple to offer incense and pray for a safe delivery and for the health of the child. On the way, they encountered heavy snow and the horse's hoof slipped and lost its balance while galloping along the way. In the end, they hit a rock hard. They were frightened and their fetuses were all pumped up. They finally managed to get to the temple, and they were in bad condition. The maids and women who were following them were all in a mess. They were going to deliver babies at that time. The only one left next to her was Aunt Kang, who was screaming hysterically as Fu Qionghua gave birth to a son first. After a while, Aunt Kang came over through the curtain to report that Mr. Zhou had given birth to a daughter. She hadn't heard yet. After hearing whether it was a man or a woman, she fainted. The maid next to Zhou in the room went out to fetch hot water. Zhou's confidant had knocked his head on the carriage before, leaving a big pool of blood, and was still unconscious. Wait and watch closely. Looking at his infant son, Fu Qionghua suddenly had an idea.
Although she didn't want to admit it, she couldn't bear to hear that her husband and the Xie family were looked down upon. But how can the Xie family's family status be compared to that of Duke Anguo?
Not to mention anything else, since she married into the Xie family, her daily food and clothing expenses have not dropped a bit. She likes her husband and is willing to accompany him to endure hardships. But what about her son? The son she had worked so hard to conceive for ten months was destined to bow her head in front of the young masters and girls of Duke Anguo's mansion, just as Mrs. Zhou looked down on her husband back then.
In the future, the son's cousins will definitely look down on his son in their hearts. Even if the son goes to his grandfather's house and walks around normally, he doesn't know how much grievance he will suffer.
Just thinking about this made her feel like a knife was cutting through her heart, and she felt that she could not bear the pain of this infant child. So, the next moment, a shocking idea suddenly came to her mind. She wanted to replace the two children and give her son a noble birth. She wanted her son to be a distinguished young master in Duke An Guo's palace, or even the heir apparent to Duke An Guo.
After all, my brother's eldest son was in poor health after urinating and needed medicine every day.
The Zhou family's children will grow up in the Xie family and will be girls from the Xie family.
So, for the sake of her son's future, she boldly exchanged the two children regardless of the fear in Nanny Kang's eyes.
Fast forward more than ten years, in addition to the uneasiness and tension in the first few years, as well as the longing for her biological son when she followed her husband abroad, she felt that this was the boldest and most correct thing she had ever done in her life. She always thought that her son was now the distinguished young master of An Guo Gongfu, enjoying all the glory and wealth and being held in high esteem by others, while the Zhou family's daughter was kept low in the house and was manipulated by her because of her frown. And when she was cautious, she felt indescribable joy and pride in her heart.
If her sister-in-law knew the truth of the matter, would she be so angry that she would regret her past actions?
Fu Qionghua thought about this, and a smile appeared on her lips. She withdrew her gaze from the bed and told Aunt Kang: "Ask Qingdai to come in and guard her. Sister Yan is so weak. Because of her She fell ill and delayed us in the temple for two days, asking her grandmother to wait for nothing, which is really not worry-free at all."
"She is very angry, and I see that the old lady's grandnephew may not mean that. She just has something in her heart to mistreat others. Otherwise, she doesn't respect herself. Now she will give herself to Being angry makes me look unloving as a mother."
Fu Qionghua said and walked outside.
Aunt Kang thought to herself that she was not her biological child after all. Madam was telling lies with her eyes open. Over the years, no one in the house knew that the old lady wanted to marry the second girl to her natal grandnephew. Even though she was a slave and looked at Liang Heng's profligate attitude, she was not worthy of the second girl. Along the way, his eyes were on the second girl. No wonder the second girl felt uncomfortable and maybe sick from anger. But as a slave, she only dared to think about this in her heart, and she didn't dare to persuade her wife even a single word. The only reason to blame is that the second girl came out of Zhou's belly.
Thinking like this, Aunt Kang stepped forward and opened the curtain, winked at the maid Qingdai standing in the corridor, and asked her to go in and serve her.
Shortly after she left, the girl on the bed opened her eyes.
After being in a daze for a while, I finally found my voice: "Qingdai."
"Girl, the girl has finally woken up. She was almost scared to death. The girl suddenly fell ill and had to stop in this temple. She has been delayed for two days. If this continues, the madam and the eldest girl may be in trouble again. I have something to say.”
Xie Shu looked at Qingdai in front of her and was in a daze for a while before realizing that she was probably reborn.
In her previous life, after she was given the gift of death by the Empress Dowager, her soul was somehow attached to the string of red sandalwood beads worn on the wrist of the new emperor.
In the prayer beads, she saw everything that happened after her death.
In prison, Fu Qionghua confessed how he had given up the child. He cried and begged the old lady of the Duke's Palace and his eldest brother and sister-in-law to remember that the prince grew up in the Duke's Palace and not to anger the prince.
They also said that it was a kindness for them to raise their son, so wouldn’t it be a kindness for her to raise her eldest sister-in-law’s daughter?
Later, when Fu Qionghua heard Fu Xuzhi's request to go to the northwest, he felt extremely remorseful. He also heard that his daughter had become crazy and hit her head on a pillar to death.
And her biological mother, Mrs. Zhou, had her adopted son go to war and her own daughter died. She also learned that her mother-in-law, Mrs. Wei, had almost poisoned her own daughter to death. In great pain, she reconciled with An Guogong and moved out. . From then on, he lingered on the sickbed and passed away within a few years.
Later, she accompanied the new emperor day by day, and learned that the new emperor did not ask Fu Xuzhi to die, but sent a secret order halfway, asking Fu Xuzhi to secretly investigate the army's grain, grass, armor, and empty pay. The Empress Dowager's natal family, Feng En Gong, was involved, and in the end Feng En Gong's family was convicted.
It was even found out that the death of the late queen was actually related to the Feng'en Palace.
No one expected that the Empress Dowager fought back before her death, and that a close servant of the new emperor turned out to be an old member of the Feng'en Palace. He drew his sword and stabbed him, and then the beads fell to the ground.
She has come back.
Thinking of all the events in his previous life, Xie Shu calmed down and said to Qing Dai, "Is this Fu'an Temple?"
Qingdai was stunned when she heard this, "Yes, how come you know the name of this temple? This is our first time in Beijing."
Xie Shu tightened her grip on the quilt, and before she could speak, she heard a familiar voice outside.
"Cousin, you have been sick for two days, but are you feeling better now?"
Xie Shu frowned slightly, but before she could speak, Qingdai's face darkened and she walked out.
A voice came in from outside: "My slave, I would like to greet my cousin. Why is my cousin here so late at night? It is against the rules to act like this. If my wife finds out, she will definitely blame my cousin."
"Look what you said, I care about my cousin but I am confused. My cousin is sick. How can I, as an elder brother, not come over and take a look?"
Having said that, the person left unwillingly.
Qingdai came in from the outside with a very ugly face: "If he wasn't the old lady's grandnephew, I could really spit on his face. How dare he miss a girl like this."
Xie Miao said with a bit of sarcasm: "It's just bullying the weak and fearing the strong. It's just that the lady doesn't want to see my daughter."
"Otherwise, why didn't he bother the eldest sister?"
In her previous life, Liang Heng looked at her with evil intentions. She was afraid and couldn't help but tell Fu Qionghua, but her good mother told her that women should respect themselves and not be disrespectful. If she hadn't misunderstood him or made some frivolous behavior, how could she make others worry about her.
Otherwise, why doesn't he miss your eldest sister?
Even a lifetime later, she could still remember the grievance she felt when she heard these words. She is her daughter. No mother in the world would say such things to her daughter.
Now, she finally understood that she was not Fu Qionghua's daughter, but the daughter of her sister-in-law Zhou, whom she disliked the most. How could she treat her well? He raised her up, partly because she was her brother's daughter after all, and partly because he thought she might still be of some use.
