Brocade tears

Meng Kuang led Sui'er back to the second courtyard, opened the door of the west wing, and said calmly:

"Now that the house is getting bigger and there are many vacant rooms, you can live here temporarily."

Sui'er followed behind, a lot of questions bored in her mind, but she didn't know how to ask them.She felt that she was a sinner, and she could no longer face the Meng family.

Sui'er was let into the west wing by Meng Kuang, but unexpectedly Meng Kuang turned around and went out, and locked the lock on the west wing neatly.

"Hey! What's going on!" Sui'er shouted, knocking on the door inside.

"Stay honest, I'll be back in a while." Meng Kuang left after leaving this sentence.

Sui'er didn't continue to knock on the door, a surge of grief and resentment welled up, and the tears flowed down unsatisfactorily.She leaned on the door and slowly fell to her knees, crying bitterly.At this moment, her state of mind is too complicated to express. On the one hand, she has an indelible sense of guilt towards the Meng family, and feels that she has caused them to be like this. From what she has seen so far, it seems that only Meng Qing is left in the Meng family. The two sisters, Meng Yan, are such a happy family of six, but now they are in such a mess. What happened in the middle, even if you don't know the details, you can guess the misery.But on the other hand, Sui'er has all kinds of grievances and sorrows in her heart and has no place to express them. Who knows what she has experienced in these years?They blame themselves, who should they blame?In order to survive, she went through nine years of hellish life, no one to comfort her, no one to take care of her, only herself to rely on.Lying and deceiving, using slavery, and intrigues, she finally thought she was going to be free, but she never wanted to be teased by fate, and she returned to the Meng family.Perhaps, it was God who wanted her to atone for her sins.

She hated it, hated the heaven for treating her so coldly, making her lonely and helpless since she was a child, and suffering many disasters.The warmth in my memory, except for the carefree years when I was a child with my adoptive mother, is only the short time of three months when I stayed in Meng's house.Now, Meng Qing and Meng Ai's attitude towards her is so hateful, will even the only warm memory left be taken away?

She curled herself into a ball, leaning against the door, weeping faintly.Just like the first dawn when she first arrived at Meng's house nine years ago, she shivered shivering in the corner of the Meng sisters' bed.

Fate turns around, and it feels like a world away.

I don't know how long it has passed, Sui'er sat on the cold ground for too long, her body was frozen stiff, her voice was hoarse from crying, her face was covered with tears, her eyes were red and swollen embarrassingly.Finally, there was a sound of unlocking the door, the door creaked open, and Meng Kuang walked in carrying a food box.She probably didn't expect Sui Er to be sitting on the ground by the door, and she was stunned for a moment.

Looking at her crying face, Meng Kuang's cold expression flashed a trace of unbearable for a moment.The corners of her lips trembled, and she said:

"Get up, come and eat."

Immediately, he took the lead to walk to the side table and put the food in the food box on the table.

After she had set the food, bowls and chopsticks, Sui'er was still in a daze for a long while, and Meng Kuang sat at the table and looked at her from a distance, and said coldly:

"What's the matter? Crying dumbfounded? Can't even stand up? You don't want me to help you, do you?"

A sense of humiliation welled up in Sui'er's heart, she gritted her teeth and stood up angrily.I got up too violently, I was dizzy for a while, my body swayed, and I almost fell, I hurriedly leaned on the wall and closed my eyes to slow down, and finally stood still.She didn't see that Meng Kuang's body moved on the spot, almost got up to help her, but finally returned to his original position.

Sui'er came over, Meng Kuang pointed to the basin rack on one side, and said, "Wash your hands and wipe your face before coming over to eat."

Sui Er paused, and did as she was told.Then she sat across from Meng Kuang, and there was a bowl of hot soup on the table. Sui'er cried until she became thirsty and her voice became hoarse.There was only a meal for one person on the table, two servings of leftovers and a white bun, no meat.Sui'er ate all of it, so there was no waste.

Meng Kuang waited silently for her to finish eating before finally speaking.

"When my father and brother sent you to Liaodong, what happened, what happened to you in the next nine years, why you entered the palace, and how you got out now. Tell me in detail."

Sui'er was silent for a while, then said:

"I can tell you, but I don't know some things, no matter how much you ask me, I don't know."

"You speak first."

Sui'er sorted out her thoughts, and began to narrate in a calm tone:

"I said, I followed your father and brother out of the city, all the way to the east, about [-] miles away, and stopped near the first station——Sanyuan Station. I drank the water in the water bag, and soon I don’t know about personnel. I don’t know where your father and brother went or what happened. After I woke up, I was arrested and put in a water prison. I didn’t know who arrested me at first. They saw They looked like well-trained soldiers, but their voices were high-pitched. I realized later that they were all servants in the palace and had received military training. They forced me to ask me what I embroidered in the Zhang Mansion, and I was tortured for several days. My body was soaked in water for a long time, hypothermia, suffocation, my hands were hung, the skin on my wrist was completely worn out, and the bleeding continued to scab and bleed. I couldn't bear it, and promised to tell them what I embroidered, but I asked them Fish me up, I have to paint by hand, my body cannot be destroyed.

They agreed to my request, got me out of the dungeon, blindfolded me and sent me to a yard, where they hired a doctor to recuperate my wounds.In just three or two days, they came to force me to draw again.I said that I couldn't paint because my hand injury hadn't healed yet, so they forced me to draw on the desk.I ended up having to draw the picture and show it to them. "

"What picture is that?"

"I don't know. It seems to me that they are all very weird and fragmented paintings. The patterns on the paintings can barely identify leopards, wolves, tigers and other beasts. Maybe they can be spliced ​​together, but I have tried it myself, and there is no The clue. Back then in Zhang’s house, I embroidered according to the drafts sent by the capital. There are more than 40 fragment paintings, each of which is three feet square." Sui'er explained.

Meng Kuang frowned after listening to her, and didn't pursue the question of what was embroidered, and let her continue to talk about what happened afterwards.

"I drew a sketch, and they didn't let me go. They probably couldn't figure it out with the sketch. They came to ask me what the picture was, and suspected that I drew a few pictures indiscriminately to fool them. I was used by them The whip was whipped and I was tormented all over my body. I knew that if I continued like this, I would definitely die. In order to survive, I thought of a way to save myself.

I know, they are trying to press where the treasure is.Presumably you also know that when Zhang’s property was confiscated, more than 2000 taels of gold, 15 taels of silver, more than [-] pieces of gold and silverware were confiscated, and nearly [-] pieces of valuables such as pearls, agates, emeralds, crystals, and ivory were confiscated. There are more than [-] bolts of brocade silk.In the eyes of poor people, these properties, which are incomparably rich, are indeed lacking in the minds of many officials.People speculated that there was still a large amount of property hidden by Zhang Taiyue, and I, as a study boy, was suddenly sent back to my hometown to embroider. It was very unusual. Many people speculated that maybe what I embroidered was a treasure map.Whether it was Li Laosan from the prison, your father and brother, or the several groups of people who arrested me later, they all had this purpose and wanted to find out the whereabouts of those treasures.That year, the whereabouts of Zhang Yunxiu, the fifth son of the Zhang family, was still unknown, and the children of the Zhang family who were exiled in the misty land were too far away, so it was very difficult to find them, and the risk of exposing themselves by forcing them was too great.As an insider right in front of my eyes, I am a humble person, so I naturally became the best target for interrogation.

I made up a lie and told them that maybe I could find out where the treasure was hidden.The treasures are hidden in several places. I need to compare those embroidery paintings with the map of Ming Dynasty, and then find out the possible treasure locations.My statement convinced my captors, and I bought myself time.This group of people started to look for treasure according to the map I analyzed, and I started looking for a way to escape.Later, I found a chance and escaped.I know someone helped me, and I couldn't escape so easily with my own strength.Among the group of people who arrested me, there are hidden stakes of other forces.Sure enough, as soon as I escaped, I was taken away by this hidden stake.He told me that the person who arrested me was Zhang Jing, the middle official of Dongchang, and he belonged to Concubine Gong. "

"Concubine Gong!" Meng Kuang was taken aback. Concubine Gong is the mother of the eldest son of the current emperor.After ascension to the throne today, the eldest son of the emperor and the third son of the emperor have been fighting for several years over the issue of establishing the heir. As it was about Concubine Gong, things immediately became more complicated.

"The hidden pile told me that Concubine Gong and the eldest son of the emperor are not very powerful outside, and they can help me very little. They don't even dare to directly conflict with Zhang Jing's people, so they can only rescue me secretly. For the current plan, I have to find a way to enter the palace, only by entering the palace can I save my life."

"Who is that hidden pile?" Meng Kuang asked.

"Fang Ming was only a general banner of Nanzhen Fusi at that time, and later I heard that he was promoted to the deputy thousand households of Nanzhen Fusi. I only found out later that there are quite a few people in Nanzhen Fusi who are Zhang Jing's people, who specialize in Fang Ming is one of his thugs, but he is actually the one placed by Concubine Gong and the eldest son of the emperor next to Zhang Jing." Sui Er replied.

Meng Kuang nodded, she knew this person, because he was also one of the thirteen Taibaos at the moment, ranked twelve, and ranked ahead of Meng Kuang.Nicknamed "Dian Xiaolang" Fang Twelve, he is a rare and elegant figure in Jinyiwei, and he has a clear understanding of the complex and complicated internal personnel of Jinyiwei, just like the Dian Xiaolang of the library.

Sui'er paused, then lowered her head and said, "I had no choice but to follow Fang Ming's arrangement. He quietly took me into the palace, bribed Si Yi from the Bureau of Shangfu, and added me to the newly recruited In the list of a group of embroidered maids of the Shangfu Bureau, the pseudonym Huier. After that, I stayed in the palace for several years. Zhang Jing once found out my whereabouts. Zhang Jing did not dare to touch me openly. In the palace, there were intrigues and tricks, and it was hard to guard against backstabs. I was trembling, like walking on thin ice, struggling to save my life. Shengqian made a slip of the tongue, was dismissed from office and returned to his hometown, and completely lost power, so I was able to get a little respite. During this time, Concubine Gong found me several times and asked me about the legendary treasure. But because Zhang Jing searched for many years and found nothing As a result, Concubine Gong couldn't confirm whether my idea was correct, and the matter of the treasure has since become a mystery. The only way is to find the surviving Zhang family and get some news from them.

Four years later, that is, some time ago, the people sent by Concubine Gong and the eldest son of the emperor to look for Zhang's children finally sent back news that they had found Wulang Zhang Yunxiu.But Zhang Yunxiu claimed that he didn't know it completely, he only knew part of the key to the formula for stitching together the blueprints, and the other keys were held by the Zhang brothers respectively.Now Zhang's eldest son and two sons are dead, and the third, fourth and fifth sons are left lingering in different places.And the batch of embroidery that year has been burned, and I am the only one who remembers all the drawings.He must see me with his own eyes and let me draw the blueprint in front of him, so that he can explain the mystery in the picture according to the picture I drew.According to the news sent back, Zhang Yunxiu has a disease in his feet, he is no longer able to travel long distances, and now he is in Datong.That's why Concubine Gong arranged for me to sneak out of the palace and rush to Datong to meet Zhang Yunxiu.But somehow the news leaked out. After I left the palace, the person whom Concubine Gong arranged to take me to Datong did not show up. Instead, a group of strangers followed me all the time. Unfortunately, the mountain was blocked by heavy snow and had to escape to Miaofeng Mountain.You know what happened after that. "

In a few or two sentences, she finished the nine years' events calmly, as if she hadn't experienced it herself.Meng Kuang, who heard it, was terrified deep in his heart. The things that Sui'er has experienced in these years are really twists and turns, and every step of the way is shocking.Meng Kuang felt a little remorse for a moment, as if he shouldn't blame her for the hatred of his family's death.However, she had hated her for so many years, but she couldn't turn it around for a while.

She was silent for a while awkwardly, and finally said in a muffled voice:

"In this way, the person who killed my father and brother should be Zhang Jing."

"If there is no accident, it should be him." Sui Er said.

Meng Kuang gritted her teeth and searched for nine years. She finally identified the enemy who killed her father and brother.Right now, Zhang Jing is retired to the abandoned forest. She is in Hangzhou, and the road is far away. As a Jinyiwei, she can't run around.How to avenge the family's blood and blood is still to be planned.

Sui Er saw that her face was full of hatred and could hardly be concealed, so she finally plucked up the courage to ask:

"After your father and brother passed away, what happened to your family, and why did you move here now?"

Meng Kuang was poked at the sore spot, the corners of his lips curled down for a moment, his face was sad.Although she doesn't want to recall the painful past, she still decides to briefly tell Sui Er what happened at home.So I organized my thoughts, organized my words, and finally spoke.