The big red cloak covered Ming Huachang from head to toe, and the cloak was decorated with rabbit velvet. The fine and soft fur collar covered most of her face, making even the sound became vague.
Zhaocai seemed to hear the girl say something, but when she looked back, the face that was more delicate and beautiful than the New Year painting was buried in the white hair, and it didn’t look like she was talking. She thought it was too windy outside, and she heard it awkwardly, so she said as usual: “Madam, you can’t be so casual anymore. You are the eldest daughter of our Duke’s mansion, the serious daughter of the Duke Zhenguo. In the past, you didn’t care about it, and no one dared to talk about you, but after the New Year, you will be sixteen, so it’s time to say you’re kissed. Madam left early, and your marriage has to be arranged by the old lady. If you don’t be more enthusiastic, how can the old lady remember you?”
Zhaocai talked about marriage from paying homage to marriage, as if he had opened up his conversation, and he talked endlessly. She first looked at the young master in Luoyang who had not yet said he was close to him, and especially emphasized Ming Huashang’s superior family background. Finally, she summarized: “My wife, although you have never been good at picking the best and have always been too lazy to compete for reputation in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but with the Duke’s Mansion and Erlangjun, you can definitely say that your family is close.”
Zhaocai is really worthy of being her maid, and he can modify the gold and jade so well. There are many families in Shendu, including Dukes and Marquis everywhere, and there are also many ladies from famous families. Ming Huashang never competes for the reputation of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Doesn’t she want to?
Even the close-minded maid counted over and over again, she knew that Ming Huashang’s only advantage lies in her family background, which shows how authentic Ming Huashang himself is.
Ming Huashang sighed again, even Zhaocai was more enterprising than her, which made Ming Huashang feel a little ashamed. Of course, she was not ashamed of not working hard, but was guilty that she might have disappointed Zhaocai.
Because, she has no advantage of family background.
Ming Huashang got up late today not entirely because of sleepiness, but because she had a nightmare last night. In the dream, a slender and beautiful woman with orchid temperament came to the Ming family and said that she was the daughter of the Ming family and showed her physical evidence.
After a turmoil, her father, Duke Zhenguo, walked out of the backyard. It seemed that he had investigated it clearly and said a past story with a blank expression.
At that time, Wang Yulan, the wife of Duke of Zhenguo, gave birth to a pair of rare twins. The elder brother was named Minghuazhang and the younger sister was named Minghuashang. Unfortunately, Wang Yulan had a bloody disease after giving birth and fainted before she could see the child. Therefore, she gave the evil slave the opportunity to cause trouble. When Duke Zhenguo named the child, he did not know that the younger sister in the twins had been replaced.
This evil slave is Wang Yulan’s nanny, Su, and she should respectfully call her Madam Su in the inner house. Madam Su works as a servant in the noble family. In fact, there are land in the countryside, and it is considered a small and small property in the local area.
However, this family property is not enough to be seen in front of the Duke’s Mansion. It happened that Madam Su’s daughter-in-law gave birth to a daughter. Madam Su was obsessed with it and quietly changed two children, allowing Ming Huashang, who should be the daughter of a farmer, to enjoy it in Luoyang.After seventeen years of wealth, the real daughter of the Duke’s Mansion has been wandering among the people, rooted in the countryside, and became a slave’s granddaughter Su Yuji.
Seventeen years later, Su Yuji, a girl who was born in the Nongmen but was still outstanding, learned everything and climbed the Ming family’s door himself. Only then did the Duke of Zhenguo realize that the young lady who had been with him for seventeen years was actually fake.
After the truth was revealed, the entire Ming family was in an uproar. Duke Zhenguo even immediately asked his servants to take a cart and send Ming Huashang back to the farmer Su family. In the end, the prince Ming Huazhang couldn’t stand it and came forward to stop him, so Duke Zhenguo reluctantly gave up.
But even so, Ming Huashang was driven to the side courtyard and died on his own. The real daughter Su Yuji changed her surname to Ming and was able to recognize her ancestors and return to her hometown. Ming Huashang in her dream is still so salty. She eats, slept every day, and there is nothing she can’t think of.
This is very bright and bright. No matter how good or bad things are, she will never insist on making progress. So on a bright moonlit night, she died silently after she fell asleep.
She didn’t even know how she died.
After waking up, Ming Huashang was shocked in the dark for a long time. The heartbroken pain seemed to remain in her body and it did not dissipate for a long time. She stared at the brocade tent for the middle of the night, and she was about to close her eyes until dawn.
Not long after, she was woken up by Zhaocai and Jinbao and came to pay tribute to the old lady.
I thought about it in the middle of the night yesterday, and Ming Huashang has become much calmer when she goes out this morning. But she still couldn’t figure out who wanted to kill her? Why kill her?
Before Ming Huashang’s identity was revealed, she was just an ordinary girl from Luoyang City. Her father, Ming Huaiyuan, Duke Zhenguo, was an old minister of Emperor Gaozong’s dynasty. Now that the empress is in power, the Ming family is not valued, but it is not considered a down-and-out with the hierarchy. There are so many such families in Luoyang, and there is nothing special about it.
Her mother, Wang Yulan, was a daughter of the Wang family in Taiyuan. She was born in five surnames and had a very noble reputation. However, the aristocratic family had long become empty-handed under the suppression of Emperor Gaozong and the Queen. Now she has only a good reputation and no longer has any political influence.
Wang Yulan and Ming Huaiyuan have three children together. The eldest son was not raised and died at the age of two. The remaining two children are their twins.
Unfortunately, Wang Yulan passed away after giving birth to her twins. Ming Huashang and Ming Huazhang lost their mother as soon as they were born. The Duke of Zhenguo lost his son and his wife, so he was extremely pity for their brother and sister and was spoiled. For their sake, Duke Zhenguo did not even renew his marriage. He has been devoted to raising their brothers and sisters over the years, and has not even had children from illegitimate children.
My father has inherited the title, but because his grandmother Ming Zheng is still there, he has not separated and lives with his second uncle Ming Huaiyuan and his third uncle Ming Huaihan. Both uncles have married and have children.
This is the population situation of the Ming family, which is not complicated. Ming Huashang thought, is it that the second and third rooms want to kill her?
It is possible that Madam Su dared to change the bloodline of the Duke’s Mansion and Ming Huachang’s bodyHow can you continue to live in the Ming family with such poor blood flowing inside?
Or is that real daughter Su Yuji?
It makes sense. After all, Ming Huashang replaced her identity and relatives and enjoyed wealth in Luoyang. Now she still has to be shy and lean on the Ming family. It is reasonable that she is too angry to start.
Or maybe my father, Duke Zhenguo and brother, Ming Huazhang?
It seems that each has a motivation, but each is not that absolute. The second and third rooms will be separated from the mansion sooner or later. Madam Su changed the bloodline of Duke Zhenguo, not theirs, so why should they stretch out this hand? To put it bluntly, even for the sake of family titles, the second and third houses should poison Ming Huazhang. What’s the use of giving Ming Huashang?
The real daughter Su Yuji returned with great momentum, destroying Ming Huashang, the fake daughter. Ming Huashang has been swept into dust and is living in a side courtyard. She is peaceful and unrestless and unscheming. What is the need for Su Yuji to kill her?
As for Ming Huazhang, it is even more unnecessary. If he really wanted Ming Huashang to die, it would be enough not to stop Duke Zhenguo from the beginning. He would just let her go back to the Su family. If something unexpected happened on the road or at the Su family, he would definitely disappear without realizing it. Why did Ming Huazhang do this so that she could continue to live in the Ming family and then dirty her own land?
Is that the Duke of Zhenguo? Ming Huashang tried to think about it, and could not imagine that her father would be so cruel if he responded to her and obedient.
After so many years of father-daughter relationships, just because she was replaced by her elders and deceived the Ming family, the Duke of Zhenguo wanted to kill her? Is my father’s company and indulgence all fake over the years?
Ming Huashang’s head hurts when she thought about it. She doesn’t like this feeling at all, and she is suspicious whether everyone around her wants to kill her.
She had never doubted the authenticity of this dream, but everything was too delicate. The little movements of Duke Zhenguo’s speech and the behaviors of the people around her were exactly the same as those in the real world! Even until now, Ming Huashang clearly remembers the appearance of the real daughter Su Yuji.
Is there a face she doesn’t know in the dream? Ming Huashang doesn’t know. She glanced at a fork in the road beside her from the outskirts, paused slightly, and suddenly turned her direction.
Zhaocai was still counting the marriageable men in each family in front of him, and once he got to his senses, he found that there was nothing behind him. She was frightened and turned around and saw Ming Huashang walking in the other direction. She hurriedly chased after him: “Madam, Yanshoutang is here, where are you going?”
Ming Huashang could not forget the pain of death in her dream, nor was she willing to doubt her relatives who were with her day and night. She wanted to do a verification to see if the dream last night was true or false.
She clearly remembered that after her identity in her dream was exposed, she moved to a side courtyard to live. There is a tall osmanthus tree in the yard, which is just the fragrance of the garden. Before she went to bed, she specially collected the fallen osmanthus petals and planned to make osmanthus cake the next day.
Then, she will no longerDidn’t wake up. When she died, the clear and soothing fragrance of osmanthus was still lingering in the tip of her nose.
Ming Huashang could no longer bear this suspicion. She wanted to go to the side courtyard in her dream to see if there was an osmanthus tree.
It is remote and quiet here, with few people coming, and no one cleanses the snow on the road. Ming Huashang stepped on it, and the snow didn’t reach her calf. She was unmoved and still strided towards the courtyard in her memory.
Zhaocai followed behind and struggled to follow her footsteps: “Madam, what are you doing?”