I tell fortunes for NPCs in a horror game

My name is Wu Qinghan, this name was given to me by my maternal grandfather.

Speaking of my grandfather, the story is wonderful. He won the imperial examination when he was young, and the whole family expected him to become a minor official.

The results of the whole family's support were remarkable. My grandfather successfully became a government official. After marrying my grandmother, the two of them lived a relatively healthy life.

My grandfather married one wife and two concubines throughout his life, and had three sons and one daughter. The three sons had different mothers, and one daughter was my mother.

When my mother married my father, they were considered a well-matched couple. However, my parents were both caretakers of romance, treating money like dirt and leaving no way out for themselves. So when the two families began to decline, Their situation immediately became delicate.

Especially after my grandfather passed away, my uncles fought fiercely for my grandfather's assets, and even my mother often shed tears.

At that time, my father often told me that if my grandmother could be tolerant, my grandfather's two concubines would not cause such a fuss after my grandfather's death.

Perhaps because of my grandmother's "experience", my mother began to make me recite the "Female Commandments" every day under my father's harsh criticism.

In my childhood memories, my father was always devoted to my mother. The two of them held hands and played the piano and played the piano together. It wasn’t until I was 7 years old that my father brought home a strange mother and son. I didn’t know that everything was the same. scam.

My mother dealt with everything with a smile and took care of everything inside and out. My half-brother also called her "mother".

I asked my mother: "Aren't you sad that my father raised his wife and let her into his house?"

My mother said: "When you grow up, you will understand that there are many things in this world that you have to do no matter how difficult it is."

I thought that this kind of "growing up" would come to me only after a long time.

But five years later, when I was 12 years old, I was forced to take on responsibilities that were not mine.

My younger brother was seriously ill, and the family had no extra money to save his life. My father borrowed money from relatives and friends, but everyone knew that our family was in a hole where we couldn't save money.

The day after my brother coughed up blood, my mother pulled me to kneel in front of my father.

I only heard my mother say: "Husband, Han'er is not young anymore."

I was confused and overwhelmed, and after half a month I was carried into the Su Mansion on a small sedan.

……

You ask me what kind of person Mr. Su is?

Anyway, when I first met him, he asked me very gently what my name was, what books I had read, and what I knew. I always felt that he was warmer than my father.

The next day when we were serving tea, I met Mrs. Su.

She pulled me to her side, surprised at my age: "Are you so young?"

I thought about my mother's words and replied: "I am not young enough to get married."

Her inspection didn't make me sit on pins and needles like those of the servants in the Su Mansion, but her eyes were full of inexplicable emotions that I couldn't distinguish. It took me a long time to realize that she was looking at her past self.

For me, going from the Wu family to the Su family is no different. They study, eat, and sleep the same. Moreover, Mr. Su and Mrs. Su treat me better than my parents, which makes my life happier.

It's just that I lost my name. They all called me "Sixth Yiniang" and no one cared what my name was. Only Mrs. Su would call me Haner like my mother.

When I got my haircut, Mr. Su slept in my room. He stroked my body and teased me, saying that I made him wait for several years to mature.

I thought at that time that he should like me, otherwise, why would he be so patient and wait for me to grow up? Otherwise, how could he become my support like Mrs. Su?

But the good times did not last long. Within half a year, I fell out of favor.

The second aunt laughed at me: "You just take your feelings too seriously. If a man like him can really turn back his prodigal son and be single-minded, how can you be the sixth aunt?"

I have heard the story of my second aunt.

The second aunt's mother's family is not as famous as Mrs. Su's family, but she has also read poetry and books. However, she is a concubine in the family, and it is difficult for her to have a good future. Even if she wants to marry high, she must look at the face of her aunt's mother.

At that time, Mr. Su had been married to his wife for three years, and even if he had some social occasions outside, he had never taken a concubine. Therefore, when Mr. Su proposed to take her as his concubine, she agreed without hesitation, and when she entered the house, she flaunted herself as his true love.

The year when the second concubine entered the house, she was in the limelight, and even the madam let her use all the good things.

In a month, Mr. Su would stay in her room for most of half the month, and minus the few days when she couldn't serve him, she would see Mr. Su far more than Mrs. Su.

The second aunt often showed off in front of Mrs. Su, but Mrs. Su never lost her temper and asked her to serve the master well and strive to open up the Su family as soon as possible.

It's a pity that as soon as the first year came, the number of times the master spent the night in the mansion became less and less. Not long after that, the third aunt came into the mansion.

Whatever I said to my second aunt, I will also say to my third aunt; whatever I did, I will also do to my third aunt. Gradually, the second aunt began to think about it. How could she be the master's sweetheart? She was just the master's new clothes. They were rarer when they first got it, so he often looked for her.

The second aunt, who was so sharp and sharp, suddenly died down and spent the whole day holding Buddhist beads and chanting endlessly.

Humans, until they are severely slapped in the face by the truth, will have some unnecessary expectations. This was the case for the second aunt who had just entered the house, and for me who had just grown hair.

When Qi Yiniang entered the house, I cried hard in Mrs. Su's room.

I asked her: "Madam, aren't you sad that the master keeps taking concubines one after another?"

Madam stroked my long hair and wiped the tears on my face, with a calm expression: "Do you know why I married into the Su family?"

I shook my head. I knew very little about Madam. I only knew that she came from a scholarly family.

The maids talked about Madam privately, and they all said that Madam was the most kind-hearted, kept the house in order, treated all the concubines equally, and would not look down on them just because they were concubines. Even if there are some individuals who are arrogant and want to show off in front of the madam when they are favored, the madam will not take it to heart.

But the past about Madam has been lost to time.

The lady sighed softly and touched my heart: "That year, my father was seriously ill and the family could not spare any extra money for medical treatment. I was the richest and most generous of the people who proposed marriage. I simply don’t have anyone I like, so I will marry anyone, so I entered the Su Mansion."

My heart ached slightly, and there was a voice in my head telling me. My wife is so kind to me, probably because of our similar experiences. It's just that she voluntarily married into the Su Mansion for her father, while I was "sold" to the Su Mansion by my family when I was young.

I grabbed my wife's hand and couldn't help but ask, "Then, have you ever regretted it?"

A person's life is neither long nor short. It has been more than ten years since Madam married into this house. Except for the passionate love in the first two years, the rest of the time was mostly accompanied by troubles. She had to mediate the old lady's troubles and the concubines' conflicts. She also has to be busy helping Mr. Su take care of the house and home, and do what a good wife should do. Besides being a wife, what else does she have?

It is said that wives and concubines are different, but I only saw my grandfather's death, his two concubines and his legitimate sons fighting for property; I only saw my father, exchanging my legitimate daughter for money for his concubine; I only saw the entire Su family , the concubines lived more freely and freely than the head wives, at least they didn't have to be tortured by the old lady.

My wife was a little absent-minded, and suddenly looked at me and said softly: "I will obey my father at home and my husband when I get married. I can't talk about happiness or sadness. I just do my duty well."

I seem to understand but not quite understand, what is duty?

All I know is that I am not happy, nor happy.

I want to be a free bird, not a caged bird.