The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

That night, Cui Shi, the Fifth Princess of Qi, finished reading the booklet, and she shed tears for no reason, staring at the candlelight in a daze for a long time.The servant girl was puzzled and advised a few words.She forced a smile and said "nothing", and ordered the waiter to wash up.After tidying up for a while, Cui took a cup of tea and ate two mouthfuls in a daze, and was stunned again.

The servant girl wondered: "My lady, what's the matter? I've been distracted these days."

Cui rubbed her stomach and said, "Women who are pregnant are all stupid."

Her nurse laughed beside her and said, "Your Majesty, I'm thinking too much. Didn't Princess Huai do well last time? This time is different from the previous years, obviously he is a little prince." The corner of Cui's mouth smiled.The nurse added another sentence, "In the future, I will become the king of Qi."

Cui's expression changed drastically, as he held the teacup in his hands, veins popped out on the back of his hands.The nurse was surprised, and just about to ask a few questions, Cui smiled sadly: "I'm tired." She stood up.The nurse didn't dare to speak any more, and helped her to sleep.

In the middle of the night, Cui stared in a daze and felt cold. It took her a long time to open her eyes, and suddenly she sat up in shock.This is not her house!The house is simple, with only two old bamboo chairs under the window and a broken wooden table in front of the bed.A candle stood on the table, and the light flickered.The door curtain was washed white, and there were too many patches to make it difficult to see what the original pattern was.She was lying on the kang by herself, wearing an inner garment and wrapped in the quilt at home.He only heard footsteps outside, and a male voice said, "I think I'm awake when I hear the noise." The door curtain was raised, and three people walked in.Two men and one woman, both of whom are not very old.

A man in his 30s looked at Cui Shi and said, "We are from Yan State. Does Madam Cui know what we are looking for from you?"

Cui immediately shed tears.After a long while, he said: "The concubine is guilty. However, the concubine is pregnant with Liujia, and the child is innocent. Can you ask your master to wait for the concubine to give birth...the concubine will die safely."

"Of course not." The man said, "But we have to confirm first." Nai gestured to the girl, "Zhimo give her the letter."

The girl took out a letter from her bosom, walked over to Cui Shi with a candle in her hand, and held the candle up to her head for her.Cui wept while reading the letter. After reading it, she was in tears.The girl snatched the letter from her hand and asked with a cold face: "What is written in the letter is true."

Cui covered her face in pain and said after a long time, "It's true."

The man nodded: "Since you admit it, it's easy." Nai turned around and ordered, "Abort her first."

Cui screamed: "It has nothing to do with my son!"

The man ignored it: "Her father's name is Cui Mian."

A young man said: "Yes. I have found out that her grandfather is still there. There is an older brother and two younger brothers. The elder brother is from the same mother, and the younger brother is from two aunts. Among them, the aunt of her second brother has a deep hatred for her mother, and she also raises two younger brothers. She has a daughter, and that sister has a lot of personal grievances with the Cui family; the third brother's aunt is attached to her mother. There are also two uncles. There are four nephews and nieces in total, and nine cousins ​​and nieces."

The man nodded and said: "Except for the aunt who had a grudge against her mother and her daughter, all the rest will be killed. Every morning, noon and evening, one will be killed in front of her. Finally, her daughter will be killed. All the corpses will be flattened." Lay it out in the yard for her to watch every day until it festers into bones. Before that, she is not allowed to die." Cui screamed.The man turned his head and stared at her coldly, and said loudly, "Don't abort her." Cui shut up instantly.The man said, "I'm afraid she won't be able to bear the pain, and she'll die before she's killed. Keep the fetus alive. She's only four months pregnant."

The young man said, "Five months."

"Yeah." The man said, "I'll raise it, and when I'm born, I'll fall to her death in front of her." Cui screamed again, her voice was shrill and deafening.

Suddenly the door curtain moved and hung up.Someone outside laughed and said, "Does your lord want to arrest this woman's parents? I have already arrested them."

The man was overjoyed: "Xiaoqi, you are really a glass man with a crystal heart."

Hearing the creaking and rolling of the wheels, a single-wheeled wooden cart was pushed in, and there were two people sitting side by side on the cart.Cui couldn't care about anything else, she ran over with her bare feet and took a look: she really was kissing my mother!Just as he was about to jump up, the young man grabbed the clothes behind her with one hand, picked her up, and threw her back on the kang in a few steps.Cui tried to struggle to get off the ground again, but was caught by the young man again.

The pusher said loudly: "I'm already dizzy. Do you want to wake me up?"

The man said: "Since you're here, let's wake her up. Kill her father first, and let Cui Shi and her mother cry together. Cry until tomorrow morning and then kill her mother. Xiaoqi, please work hard. I'm going to kill her at noon and night tomorrow." Her own brother and sister-in-law."

The cart pusher dusted off his clothes: "I knew I'd catch them together. Okay, I know, I'll go now." As soon as he reached the door, he turned back and asked, "Who else should be arrested?"

Cui Shi was so frightened that she was paralyzed and unable to move.The young man stood by the kang and said: "The Cui family is full of families, except for the two aunts, concubines, mother and daughter who have a grudge against the Cui family, they will inherit the family property, and the rest will not stay."

Walking out while pushing the cart, he said, "Understood."

The man said: "If you come back late, go get some medicine to prevent miscarriage. I want her to give birth to her son alive and then fall to her death."

The young man asked, "When will this old man be killed?"

"Wake up first. Kill both of them when they are awake."

The girl hurriedly said: "I'm going to fetch cold water." After speaking, she walked out.

The young man pulled out the sword from his waist and wiped it, complaining, "When did my sword kill such ordinary people?"

The man smiled and said, "If you don't want to part with the sword, go to the kitchen and get the knife you use to cut vegetables. The blunt knife will make killing more painful."

The young man smiled and nodded, "My lord is right." Nai shouted, "Zhimo, bring me a knife from the kitchen."

The girl replied from a distance outside: "I know~~" It sounded like she was laughing.

Not long after, the girl walked in with half a bucket of cold water in her left hand and a kitchen knife in her right hand, and threw the kitchen knife at the young man unexpectedly.The young man held the handle of the knife firmly from the air with one hand.The girl went to the wheelbarrow and put down the bucket, bent down and picked up the gourd ladle in the bucket to scoop water.

Cui is already sitting on the kang.Mu stared blankly at the girl stretching out her arm, and suddenly screamed: "Stop—it's not me—" The girl was stunned, and stopped scooping water.Cui cried, "It's not me... Our Highness asked me to bear this title... I don't know anything..."

Several people in the room looked at each other, and the man frowned: "What are you talking about? It's not you?"

Cui cried: "It's not me...it's not me..."

"Not who are you?"

"I don't know... His Highness didn't say... His Highness said that the princess regent of Yan Kingdom is also pregnant with a child, and the regent will not kill pregnant women. The regent is a monk, so it may be unlucky. Besides, Monk Jianru is a liar who stole the treasury of Wu Kingdom , Wu Guo has issued a sea arrest official document to arrest him and his eunuch accomplice throughout the country. And that is just an idea, but it has not been made. I am just a woman, and the regent will not care about me... No matter how bad it is, I will wait for the child Born. Even if I die, I will make him the heir..." Cui fell on the kang and stroked her belly with her hands, her internal organs were about to burst from crying. "Make my brother a high official... If I don't agree, there will be no eggs under the nest, and no one will live."

The man looked at her for a long time without saying a word.The girl couldn't help but put down the ladle and stood up: "It doesn't matter whether the person in your belly is a man or a woman, even if it is a son, you will believe him when he says he will make this child his son? You will die if you die. Concubine, let the son born to that woman be the crown prince in the future. Does your son still want to live?"

Cui's face pressed against Kang and wept hard: "He took a poisonous oath and left a blood book. I have hidden the blood book and will give it to my brother in the future."

The man sneered and said, "It's fine if you died in an ordinary way. You died like this, the fifth brother will let your brother go? How did you live in the emperor's house so stupidly?"

Cui cried: "He made an oath...I don't want to die...I have no choice...he is His Highness..."

The girl walked to the edge of the kang and patted her on the back: "Don't cry. Take it easy and tell us what you know. The person who came up with this idea is too vicious. Even if this plan fails, there is no guarantee that he will come up with other plans , therefore must die."

The man crossed his arms and said: "If it was the fifth brother who did it, you can protect you and your daughter and the fetus in your womb, but your man and his concubine children will not be able to stay. The royal widow is safe. , no one counts against you and your child."

Sitting on the edge of the kang, the girl looked at Cui and said, "The man who forced you to die, why are you still caring about him?"

Cui cried: "I don't know... Your Highness forced me to admit..."

The man stood there from the moment he entered, until now he took a bamboo chair and sat down in front of the kang: "How did he force you to admit it, and the words he made up for you, let me listen to it all. Ben The official is still not sure whether it is the fifth brother who really wants you to take the blame, or if you are dying to make the fifth brother take the blame."

Cui's body bounced up like a fish thrown on the ground: "He really made me take the blame!"

The man said with a blank expression: "Let's talk about it from the beginning. The details of the time, place, characters and demeanor are the same. I will judge whether you are lying or not after I finish speaking."

Cui Shi has frightened him so much that he didn't dare to cry, and he didn't care about wearing his underwear, so he raised his sleeves and wiped away his tears indiscriminately.

It was the sixteenth day of the first month of this year when the co-author Fifth Highness came to find her to talk about this matter.On the Lantern Festival, she accompanied her to the Lantern Festival in a carriage, and her face changed the next morning.That person first said a lot that he was in sight as the heir apparent, and that the state of Qi was already in his pocket, and Cui congratulated him for a long time.Then he said that someone in his camp did something wrong a while ago, which might drag down the entire Qi country.Nai told about Jianru, but never mentioned who came up with the idea.He sighed for a long time and said, "I don't want Yan to be so powerful. It has been found out that we Qi people instigated it. Now Yan is strong and prosperous. If you offend them, the fate of Qi will not be guaranteed." After saying this, he knelt down on his knees, "I beg your mother Save the country of Qi."

Cui Shi was still confused at the beginning, but finally realized that she wanted to top the tank by herself, so she naturally refused.His Royal Highness threatened her natal family, daughter and unborn baby, and said: "I have no choice. Now only my mother is pregnant. Jia Cong is a Taoist and will not kill pregnant women. If someone else goes, There is no doubt that she will die. If the empress decides this matter, there will be no danger." Cui's eyes blurred, seeing her husband's face seemed to have turned into a wolf's head, his lips were tightly pressed, and he shook his head vigorously while crying.

His Highness Fifth got up from the ground, and sneered: "From today on, the big girl will be raised by Mrs. Fang." Mrs. Cui couldn't hold back her anger.Concubine Ji Fang is a beauty presented by an official outside. She is frivolous and flattering, full of vulgar gossip. It is not sure what will happen to her daughter in her hands.But at this moment, laughter came from outside the window, it was the princess's wet nurse who was playing with her.Cui looked at the little girl who was less than three years old in the courtyard through the window, and fell down on the coffee table crying.

His Royal Highness the Fifth Empress helped her arrange her speech.What Cui and the servant girl thought, how did they find the monk, and how did they tell him.Inside and outside the words are the monk's thoughts on her.He said that he had finished listening to her, and asked her to repeat it many times, and repeatedly corrected her omissions.In just a few days, Cui's heart was ashamed, and she was just waiting to die.

After the narration, Cui's tears were gone, and she said in a daze: "If there is half a word of lies, I would like to fall into the endless hell and never be reborn."

The man shook his head and said: "People say that being a mother is strong. You are so cowardly that you can't even protect yourself and your children. Even if you live, you can't be Princess Qi."

The girl took La Cui's hand: "You are not even afraid of death, what else is there to be afraid of? Now it is only as if you have died once."

Cui murmured: "It's fine if I die, my daughter is only three years old... He wants to be raised by that kind of woman! How can I just watch my daughter be ruined in this life? It's just a life, so give it to him. yes."

The man scoffed: "How can a person who is willing to part with his daughter-in-law be reluctant to part with his daughter? When he grows up, he doesn't know who to give it as a gift." Cui shivered.The man continued, "If you are alive, even if you try to find a way to send your daughter to become a monk, it will be a clean way. If you are dead, the new princess will have the final say on whether your daughter will be round or flat." The princess is ready. Maybe the new princess did this."

Cui was stunned for a moment, and said pleasantly: "My lord believes it? It's really not me!"

The man said leisurely: "I know it's not you." He took out a stack of papers from his pocket and threw it in front of her, "This is the poem you usually wrote." Cui managed to make out a few times through the dim light, It's really my own doing, and I'm terrified—they can even get this kind of thing?The man said, "You are a girl who is waiting in the boudoir, all the poems are the voice of the heart. Look at what you wrote, it is either the flowers and the moon, the spring and autumn, the wealth and splendor, or the worries of the children. You don't even read a word about the history, and you will worry about the country. It's strange for the people! What about Yan and Qi has never been in your mind. Even if you are willing to share your husband's worries, you can't think of taking a maid to go out to meet foreign monks alone. Besides, hooking up with men is a technical job, and training in brothels Fentou has to be practiced for several years. You man really has no common sense. If you make it up, you can hire an oiran to do it. You do it yourself?" The man looked at her a few times.Only then did Cui remember that she was still wearing her underwear, she quickly wrapped the quilt around her body, and lowered her head.

The girl named Zhimo immediately jumped up and stood between the man and Cui Shi: "Hey, what are you looking at!"

The man sneered: "Do you know?"

The girl frowned: "Go, be honest." The man shrugged.The girl said again, "I said this must be a man's idea! Men are easy to kill. If a woman wants to make up her mind, she will probably send Jia Cong some beauties from the Qi Kingdom."

The man smiled and said, "No, everyone in the world knows that Jia Cong is afraid of his wife."

The girl snorted heavily: "It's good to know that Jia Cong is afraid, old, old."