Yangzhou City, in Menghao Pavilion.
In the charming red gauze bed curtains, a delicate-looking woman closed her eyes tightly, her forehead covered in cold sweat, and muttered something. After a while, she struggled to sit up.
At night, Menghao Pavilion is always brightly lit and filled with endless music. This is the quietest time of the day. The girls in the pavilion are busy until late at night before they go to bed.
Wan Qiuyu was breathing heavily. After calming down, he looked at everything in front of him with a vicissitudes of life expression. Mo Sheng felt a sense of familiarity.
"Miss Yanliu, you are finally awake."
A little girl with a birthmark on her face helped Wan Qiuyu up and said soothingly, "Miss, please don't get angry with Mama Hong anymore. She's determined to make you a top star, and it's all for your own good."
"Once you have a good reputation, whether you save enough money to redeem yourself or marry an official or a wealthy businessman, it will be a good choice."
"Your future is bright, unlike someone like me who is destined to serve others all my life."
The little girl had been living in Menghao Pavilion since she was a child, and had seen how the top girls and popular girls in the pavilion lived a life of extravagance.
People like her who were born in Menghao Pavilion are naturally of low status and have nowhere else to go. Because of her facial flaws, she can only do these servant jobs.
She couldn't envy a girl like Yanliu, who was delicate and timid, with fair skin and a first-class figure.
Of course, if she could escape from her lowly status, she would not envy Miss Yanliu.
When Wan Qiuyu heard the name "Yanliu" again, it felt like a lifetime ago.
She looked at everything in front of her, got off the bed weakly, picked up the bronze mirror on the table, looked at the girl of her teens in the mirror, her pupils dilated.
She pinched the flesh on her arm hard and it hurt, but the scene in front of her did not disappear. Could it be that everything she saw was real?
But the scene before her death was still vivid in her mind. The Queen Mother gave her poisoned wine, and the palace servants forced her to drink it. She was in pain for half an hour.
The feeling of all my internal organs being twisted together still seems to have not gone away yet.
She vaguely remembered that the girl in front of her was called Xiao Xing.
"Xiao Xing, what year is it now?"
Xiao Xing was stunned. Could it be that Miss Yanliu was confused due to the fever?
"This year is the eighteenth year of Jian'an, and today is July 20th."
Wan Qiuyu's beautiful face was tightly locked, and she had a splitting headache. She waved her hand and said, "You go out first, I'll lie down for a while."
Xiao Xing said "Oh" and pouted as she walked out the door.
Wan Qiuyu sat in front of the window, looking at her "boudoir" in Menghao Pavilion, recalling scenes of the past. With mixed feelings of sadness and joy, she covered her face with her hands and cried silently.
Now she is still in Menghao Pavilion. She was not auctioned off by Hong Mama, nor did she become the top courtesan in Menghao Pavilion, the number one brothel in Yangzhou. She did not enter the mansion of an official over 60 years old to be a concubine, nor did she enter the palace to become a tool for Queen Wan to consolidate her favor.
She was abducted for many years, and only she knew the bitterness.
Now, it is still not too late. She can still be a clean-cut young lady of a noble family and fight for a better future for herself, trampling under the feet of her elder sister and the noble family who used to treat her as a puppet.
Since God has given her the chance to live again, she will use the experience of living another life to establish herself in a high position and never be bullied again.
She vaguely remembered what happened in Menghao Pavilion.
Mother Hong felt that she had been trained enough, so she thought of spreading her reputation so that she could get a good price for her first time.
Mother Hong has even thought about who she will sell her virginity to.
He was an official who was old enough to be her grandfather.
How could she be willing to do this?
So she didn't cooperate these days. In order to make her behave, Hong's mother tried every possible way to torture her and make her submit.
She had to wash clothes for several days in a row and didn't have enough food to eat every day. Her "pampered" body could no longer bear it.
Although she was sold to Menghao Pavilion, she has been a beauty since she was a child, and Mother Hong is very concerned about her "education".
The life she lives is completely different from that of Xiao Xing and others.
But she was originally a legitimate young lady from a noble family, why should she suffer all this!
She remembered that this winter, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo and her good sister would also attend the birthday celebration of Mr. Shen in the Yongchang Earl's Mansion.
There is still about half a year left, and she has to find a way to dissuade Hong Mama from her idea, preserve her own reputation, and return to the mansion to be a proper lady.
In the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion, the lively atmosphere in Jinchun Hall ended.
Wan Jinlan returned to Yilan Courtyard after a long absence and put the things he brought back from the southwest into the room.
In the afternoon, she was called by the old master to the martial arts training ground in the mansion.
Wan Jinlan knew that his grandfather was itching to do something again.
When I arrived at the martial arts arena, I saw my grandfather wielding a golden long sword with great vigor.
Although he is over sixty years old, his steps are still steady and powerful, and his eyes are bright and lively.
Wan Jinlan sat obediently in the shade and watched his grandfather demonstrate. When it was over, he clapped his hands.
"Great! Grandfather is still as heroic as ever!"
The old Duke snorted.
He asked his granddaughter to come over to accompany him in the demonstration, not to watch him perform!
This girl, why hasn't she gotten on with it yet?
How could Wan Jinlan not understand his grandfather's expression?
"It's so hot, I'm sweating just by moving a little. I just encountered a wave of pirates last night, and my mother said I was reckless and is holding me captive. I can't handle these weapons any more."
She explained a little.
He understood his grandfather, he was just lonely at home after taking off his armor. The younger generation in the family who were taking the imperial examinations did not carry weapons, and those who carried weapons were in the southwest, so wasn't there anyone to practice with him?
Even though she said this, her grandfather didn't think her mother was meddling.
Her grandmother came from a family of civil officials. Except for her mother who came from a merchant family, none of her second and third aunts came from a military family.
She was a girl born with great strength. Her grandfather taught her martial arts, but her grandmother did not fully support it.
My grandmother always said that women should be gentle and virtuous, and should be educated so that they could understand the world and have a broad vision, so that they could be considerate in all aspects of life when they married into another family. As for the skills that Wu Jiang learned, there were already male descendants in the family who inherited them. As a girl, she should act like a girl.
As a daughter-in-law, her mother naturally listened to her grandmother.
Wan Jinlan heard from her mother why her grandmother was not happy about her martial arts training.
When my grandmother was young, she married into the Duke's Mansion. The Duke's Mansion was not as well-off as other aristocratic families. Although the Mansion had military merits, it was not well-received by other nobles with deep-rooted backgrounds. Many people secretly scolded the Wan family for being brainless and reckless.
Therefore, over the years, my grandmother has never relaxed her teaching of the children and grandchildren in the house.
Before going to the southwest, she was well-behaved in the mansion and had a fixed time for practicing martial arts. Now that she is back, her good days in the southwest are over.
After so many years, the grandfather knew how his wife taught her children and grandchildren and disciplined her daughter-in-law and granddaughter, so he had no other emotions in his heart.
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