Chapter 1739 I am a sharp knife (2 more chapters for the reward from the book friend "Xiao")
Manbao looked at her in surprise, struggled but couldn't get free, and seeing that the gauze she had just wrapped was stained red again, he realized that his finger was bleeding because of the force.
She frowned and simply stopped struggling. While mentally asking Koko to deduct some points to stare at Xu An, she asked, "That little eunuch just now, his name was Xu An? Who is he to you?"
Seeing that she was not leaving, Xu Yu leaned back on the pillow, letting the bed curtain block the window. She whispered, "That's my brother."
Manbao was extremely surprised.
Xu Yu looked up at Manbao and pointed to the small stool beside the bed and said, "Master Zhou, would you please sit down and talk?"
Manbao couldn't help but glance at Master Tang outside the window. Seeing that he was still looking up in a daze, he sat down. "He's your brother? But your documents..."
Xu Yu said: "That's not my family."
Manbao asked, "What about your aunt who comes to see you every month?"
"That's fake too," Xu Yu said expressionlessly, "Everything is fake. The only relative I have in this world is Xu An."
"But he's not a bad person. He doesn't know anything, not even that I'm his sister..." Xu Yu's voice dropped, her hands resting on the edge of the bed as she whispered, "He was too young when he entered the palace, and he was separated from me, so he doesn't have many memories. Unlike me, I was already sensible when I entered."
Manbao opened her mouth wide. It was obvious that this news had a great impact on her, and it took her a while to come back to her senses.
Xu Yu looked at Zhou Man expectantly and said, "Sir Zhou, I know you are kind and well-intentioned, and you have a lot of influence in front of the Crown Prince. I am willing to tell you everything, including all the spies I know. I have a list of names, and I will tell you where they are in exchange for his life. Okay?"
Manbao's throat tightened a little, and he asked, "Didn't you say he knew nothing? If that's the case, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince won't make things difficult for him. You might as well ask Brother Tang Xue for your life in exchange."
Xu Yu shook his head. "No, he knew nothing before. As long as I was still here, they wouldn't use him. But I'm going to be wasted. They're transferring him to Chongwen Hall now, hoping he'll continue my work. This is a road of no return."
Her tears fell drop by drop. "Being a slave in the palace, I am still half a human being. If I am careful, I can still survive. But once they use me, I am not even half a human being anymore."
She looked at Manbao with tears in her eyes and said, "I know you've suspected me for a long time. Many times, you didn't want me to organize your bookshelf. When I got up at night to stare at you, I could feel as if you were looking at me through a wall."
Manbao and Keke: ...
"But you didn't expose me. Until the incident happened, I listened to Eunuch Wu. You even pleaded for me and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Xu Yu looked at her and said, "Master Zhou, I only trust you."
Manbao opened his mouth, glanced at Master Tang outside the window, and finally nodded. "Tell me, who ordered you to do this?"
Xu Yu shook his head, "I don't know."
Manbao: ...
Seeing Zhou Man's eyes widen, Xu Yu said, "I really don't know. I only get tasks from my aunt. I do whatever the higher-ups tell me to do."
"You don't even know who sent you to the palace?"
Xu Yu nodded.
It is precisely because of this that she has never dared to betray.
She said, "I don't remember where my home is. I only remember that when I was about five or six years old, there was a war and a rebellion. The bandits rushed into my house, but my father protected us and ran away. Then my father died, and my mother was separated from us. At that time, only my brother was left by my side."
"My brother was less than two years old at the time and couldn't even walk properly, so we had no choice but to beg on the road," Xu Yu said. "I don't know if it was good or bad luck, but someone saw me and my brother and took us away."
"At that time, he took away many children like us whose parents had either died or been separated from them, and raised us in a village. Every day we had to learn to read and learn many things. Because I learned quickly, I was able to see my brother once a month."
Manbao asked, "Did you study separately?"
Xu Yu said, "Boys and girls are separated and can't see each other. In fact, when girls reach a certain age, they will be taken to other farms and not shown to other girls. I heard from my aunt that they want no one to remember what they look like, even if we were together."
Manbao shuddered.
"I studied at the manor for two and a half years. When I was less than eight years old, they gave me the name Xu Yu. They sent me to a family surnamed Xu in Xuzhou, the same family my parents are listed in my documents. I was purchased from there and brought into the palace. They only took me from the manor at the time, but later I saw several familiar people in the Ye Ting Palace. I quietly asked them about it and found out that they and I were purchased from various places in the same year."
Manbao couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.
"At the beginning, they didn't let us do anything. They just told us to follow the palace rules and survive in the palace." Xu Yu said, "My aunt said that some people may never need it in their entire lives, and those who don't need it are blessed."
"So I've always been very cautious and timid in doing things, and I didn't dare to stand out," Xu Yu thought of something, his face full of pain. "But two years later, when I was leaving Anfu Gate to deliver something, I saw Xu An. I saw him sweeping Shunyi Gate with a big broom."
"They lied to me!" Xu Yu said, "They said that as long as I worked hard in the palace, they would let Xu An study and learn to read in the manor and not send him outside. But the second year after I entered the palace, they sent him into the palace. He was only five years old, just five years old..."
"Aunt Xu said that it was because I was disobedient and didn't work hard in the palace that the master decided to send Xu An in. She also said that he was just entering the palace now, and if I still didn't obey, the master would abandon me and use him." Xu Yu said with tears in her eyes, "I know that in this palace, it's either me or him who will die. I have to choose one of us, brother and sister, to go down."
"I didn't know who the master was, but I figured it out later. Aunt Xu was lying, as were all of them. The master probably didn't even know who I was, let alone plotting against my brother for a mere minion. Everything was fake, including the promises he made to me and everything he said to me. It was all fake."
Xu Yu stared at Zhou Man with bloodshot eyes and said, "They are just using us as pawns. In order to make us pawns alive, they can use all means. Sir Zhou, tell me, can I still trust them?"
Manbao shook his head repeatedly.
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