The story of the rich and the young being tricked into farming

Jiang Fuliu's eyes were gloomy, her face was not covered with makeup, her thin lips were pale, and her face was bloodless: "Master is overthinking, Ah Min is just Fuliu's son."

"I still remember... more than ten years ago, Ye Lai, who was suffering from lung disease, came to me and begged me to take in your mother and son. His parents used to think that I was an orphan when I was young, and they often helped me, and I cared about his family. For your kindness, I took you in without even asking." Ye Hongfang's eyes fell on her plain face, and he suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly, "It's also my greed. When I saw you, I didn't just want to I've taken you in."

Jiang Fuliu listened quietly, with no sadness or joy on his face.

"I know you are hiding secrets, and it seems that someone is looking for your mother and son outside, so I pretended to be a new beauty, adopted Ah Min, changed his surname to Ye, and told him to go to school openly," Ye said. Hongfang spoke very slowly, as if he was recalling the past while talking, "I think it would be better for you to do the real thing, but you always refused."

"You said that you have a husband and I have a wife, so it really violates the rules of ethics. Let me tell you that Lianxue and I are just a promise between our parents and a matchmaker. She has always had someone else in her heart, and I just treat her as a relative, but you Still refuse."

"It wasn't until after Lianxue passed away that we became husband and wife. I know this relationship is hard-won, so I dare not ask you. You are proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. You have read many books and are familiar with various etiquettes. , clearly looks like a lady of everyone, why is she reduced to the point where she is homeless with her children?"

Jiang Fuliu still lowered her eyes, with a look of indifference: "Master, I'm just thinking too much. I'm just an ordinary woman, and I just happen to have some talents."

Ye Hongfang looked at her deeply: "You still don't want to say a word - isn't it worthwhile for you to tell me half the truth about our relationship between husband and wife for so many years?"

"It was our mother and son who killed you and Xiaozhou," Jiang Fuliu lowered his head, and Ye Hongfang could hardly see her eyes, "Hongfang, I have already found a dignified and virtuous wife for you. Mother, the family background is clean, if anyone asks about it in the future, you can say that she is the wife you helped after Mrs. Ye left."

Ye Hongfang really didn't like the feeling of being kept in the dark, so he suddenly lost his temper, and said very angrily: "Yes, you have made all the arrangements properly, and you have already planned to leave, but Have you considered me? So what about being dignified and virtuous? Why do you decide who to spend the rest of my life with me? And Xiaozhou, what do you want Xiaozhou to do? How can I bear to watch him marry into that unknown Ning To the palace?"

Jiang Fuliu was silent for a long time, and at the end her thin shoulders were trembling slightly: "I can't escape, Xiao Zhou can't escape, Ah Min, he... is King Ning."

Ye Hongfang was dumbfounded. He only guessed that Ah Min might have something to do with the royal family, but he didn't expect that he was the current emperor's younger brother, the only prince who survived the Luling disaster.

"Then you are...you are the concubine Shu, the biological mother of King Ning who was martyred in the Luling disaster?"

Jiang Fuliu smiled palely, with a hint of mockery in that smile, which was both pain and relief.

"No wonder... no wonder." Ye Hongfang also smiled bitterly. He actually married a woman who served the late emperor, and adopted a prince as his stepson.

It couldn't be more ridiculous.

"When Lu was in trouble, the Xiongnu joined forces with King Kang and captured Shangjing in three days. Emperor Xiaoren fled with his concubine and prince, preparing to go south for refuge, but he was surrounded by the Huns army on the way. Fortunately, Emperor Xiaoren was on the way. Feeling uneasy, I asked Ah Min and the prince to go to another path. Later, Emperor Xiaoren died unfortunately, so they were taken captive. The two of us, the mother and the son, and the prince met King Kang's party, and fled in all directions. It's gone."

She paused, and then continued: "The imperial guards who protected me and Ah Min died one after another. I don't know how I found Yunxi Village behind Ah Min's back. Ah Min fainted in someone's field, and was rescued by someone, and then our mother and son lived in Yunxi."

"It's just that God failed, and Kang Wang's remnant party still found Yunxi Village. At that time, the prince was confronting the rebel party, and Emperor Xiaoren was still in the hands of the Huns. The King of Kang was afraid that the Huns would not keep their promises, so he wanted to stay behind. It really didn't work. , so he supported Ah Min as the emperor, and he became the regent, at least in terms of title." Jiang Fuliu closed his eyes, "It's just that I don't want Ah Min to become a puppet, not to mention that Ah Min is just kept by King Kang for himself. As long as the Huns don't tear themselves apart, he will just kill Ah Min and sit on the throne himself."

So Jiang Fuliu took Ah Min and fled. Fortunately, Ye Lai, the former palace guard, rescued them and secretly sent them to Ye Mansion.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon can't overwhelm a local snake, and the Ye family tree's roots go deep into the ground of Pingjiang. Even though King Kang sent people to turn Pingjiang upside down, they still couldn't find the mother and son hiding in Ye's mansion.

Jiang Fuliu: "You also know what happened later. The Xiongnu turned against the water and joined hands with the prince. King Kang was captured and died Ling Chi. The Xiongnu sent back the kidnapped Emperor Xiaoren, but after all, Emperor Xiaoren was over [-] years old and was arrested again. He was taken captive to the bitter cold northwest desert, and when he was sent back, he was already seriously ill, and the imperial physicians said that his life would not be long after diagnosis and treatment."

"Later, I heard that the new emperor followed the Supreme Emperor's wish and started looking for the lost Ninth Prince and Concubine Shu everywhere, so I asked someone to send Ah Min to Shangjing."

Ye Hongfang stood quietly, listening to her without saying a word.

Jiang Fuliu seemed to be discouraged suddenly, his body leaning against the door softened, and he slid on the stone steps in front of the door as if he had lost his support: "Ah Min is very smart and ambitious, he can't live forever Hiding in Pingjiang, but his status is destined to make it impossible for him to take part in the imperial examination and make achievements, otherwise, once his status is exposed, the entire Ye Mansion will be affected."

Of course, Ye Hongfang understood that if the emperor found out the truth, he would definitely not pay attention to him. Whether Ye Hongfang took in the mother and child out of good intentions or bad intentions, he would only take them into consideration secretly for the face of the royal family. The family is destroyed.

"Originally I wanted to go with him, but I was too greedy for this place. I couldn't let go of this freedom, I couldn't let go of this life without intrigue all day long, and I couldn't let go of you either." Jiang Fuliu's eyes were red, always gentle The tone suddenly became higher, "So I let him, a child who just turned ten years old, go to the capital alone, and then I heard... King Ning's legs were broken in the hunting ground, and I heard that the entire imperial hospital was at a loss what to do. , Hongfang... I regret it so much, I live a comfortable life here day after day, but he stays alone in Shangjing, walking on eggshells every day, I am too selfish, I am not a good mother."

Ye Hongfang sat beside her, and suddenly reached out his hand, stroked her back, and comforted her: "Who said that being a parent must be selfless to your children? Besides, even if you were in Shangjing at that time, I'm afraid It can't help him with anything."

"It's because I didn't teach him well," Jiang Fuliu leaned on his knees, tears streaming down his face, "I think he didn't just want to take revenge on Xiaozhou for the fingering of marriage... King Ning suddenly begged the emperor to point out a person thousands of miles away. For him to be a concubine, the emperor must wonder who this person named Ning Wang's "Qin Xin" is, and he will definitely send someone to check the Ye family completely, and then the emperor will find out that there is still me in the Ye mansion. The concubine who should be martyred."

Ye Hongfang's expression turned cold: "So when you say you want to reconcile, you actually just want to leave Ye's mansion to seek death, don't you?"

He immediately understood that the only way for the emperor to let the Ye family go was that Jiang Dowager was really dead.

Jiang Fuliu was noncommittal.

"What do you think I am?" Ye Hongfang said angrily, "You just want to hide and die like this, you are happy, what about my boat? You left me alone in Pingjiang, you How do I live?"

At the end of the sentence, he closed his eyes again, his eyelashes trembling angrily: "Prince Ning is such a good planner, even his own biological mother has plotted against him, how can Xiao Zhou marry such a person? No, I can't even die. He went into that wolf den!"

At the same time, the messenger who arrived later also arrived at Ye Mansion.

"It's urgent," he said to the slave guarding the gate before he could even catch his breath, "It was passed on to the sage that Prince Ning was seriously ill, so he sent the concubine Ning to the capital. Congratulations."

The words passed through the mouth of the little servant, and immediately stumbled across the entire Ye Mansion. Before Ye Xiaozhou had time to finish his meal, he was surrounded by the Jinling garrison who arrived later.

Ye Hongfang, who hadn't recovered from Jiang Fuliu's words, ran all the way over and stopped the group of people with a hundred slaves and guards.

"Father!" Ye Xiaozhou struggled desperately under the escort of two officers and soldiers, but he was like a rabbit whose ears were caught, no matter how hard he struggled, it was useless.

There were Cheng Xiaofeng and Chen Mengchu standing beside him. Seeing that they had no intention of saving Ye Xiaozhou, the garrison just followed closely and did not stop them.

"Master Ye, please make way," the eunuch said in that sharp and thin tone, "If you miss a major event, how can you apologize?"

Then he persuaded him nicely: "Besides, Master Ye, the miscellaneous family is going to send him to be Princess Ning. This is a good thing that many people can't wait for. Why do you stop it?"

Ye Hongfang said anxiously: "Even if we want to marry, our Ye family's dowry has not yet been arranged, and the dowry slaves have not yet been drawn up... After all, everything is too hasty."

"You're wrong. Prince Ning's mansion doesn't lack dowry. As for the dowry slaves—the miscellaneous family looks at these two very well." The eunuch's eyes fell on Cheng Xiaofeng and the two of them, "You Let's go to the capital together."

"Ye has only heard that the royal family respects etiquette, but he did not expect it to be so rude and arrogant. Bringing so many officers and soldiers to the Ye Mansion to kidnap people is simply an act of banditry!"

"Bold!" said the eunuch sharply, "Do you know what rebellious things you say?"