Chapter 154 Reed
When Liu Wuniang was looking for a place to have dinner, she made up her mind to ask the restaurant to serve her a fish.
There is no sea bass, but there are many carp in the nearby rivers, which are delicious when braised.
Jiang Shuyi picked up a piece, but when she saw countless tiny thorns in the meat, she frowned and went to dig out other parts of the fish.
Seeing that she was not eating properly and was about to tear the carp into pieces, Liu Wuniang quickly pulled the plate over to her, feeling a little distressed: "If you don't want to eat it, don't eat it. Don't treat it like that."
"There are thorns everywhere, how can I eat?"
Jiang Shuyi looked at her unhappily.
Liu Wuniang said helplessly: "Carp just has too many bones. If you can't eat it, just drink porridge."
Jiang Shuyi didn't want to eat that bowl of porridge with nothing but rice.
She called the servant girl that Liu Wuniang had bought: "Cui'er, help me to pierce the thorns."
Cui'er was squatting beside the carriage drinking porridge. Upon hearing this, she quickly finished her porridge in three or two mouthfuls and came over.
Liu Wuniang was very good at observing people's expressions and knew that she disliked her and didn't want her to touch her food.
She didn't touch the plate of fish, and after Cui'er took the plate away, she only ate the pickled radish pieces with rice.
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It has been ten days since we escaped from the capital.
Jiang Shuyi followed Liu Wuniang back to her hometown, Pinghe County.
She escaped once on the road and wanted to ask someone to take her back to Beijing, but no one paid any attention to her. Instead, she attracted the attention of some bad guys. It was Liu Wuniang and Cui'er who rescued her by fighting with bricks.
It was not until then that Jiang Shuyi realized that what Liu Wuniang said was true. She was not lying to her, but both she and herself were deceived by Wu Jianshan.
The old liar who looked like a human said that he wanted to let her practice cultivation, but ended up tricking her out of the palace and disappeared. What does that mean?
She hurriedly begged Liu Wuniang, saying that they were both victims and had been deceived by the evil spirit, and asked her to send her back to Beijing as soon as possible.
But Liu Wuniang didn't believe it at all. She was sure that Wu Jianshan was a good person and everything he did was justified.
Jiang Shuyi was extremely angry, but there was nothing she could do.
She could only follow her first, and then find an opportunity to meet the official. As long as she met the official, he could send her back to the capital.
The scenery in Pinghe County is quite beautiful.
But Liu Wuniang did not live in the county town, but in Liujia Village, five miles outside the city.
Jiang Shuyi watched her embroidered shoes get covered in mud and she tried hard to resist the urge to turn around and leave.
As soon as she entered the village, Liu Wuniang saw a woman with gray hair, about fifty or sixty years old. She rushed over, grabbed her arm, and asked tearfully, "Aunt San, are my parents still in the village?"
The woman seemed not to recognize her. After Liu Wuniang talked for a long time, she finally remembered. Then, she grabbed her arm with tears streaming down her face, and asked her where she had been all these years and why she came back only now.
Jiang Shuyi watched them recognize each other as relatives and thought of Pei Yan, feeling a little sad.
If Pei Yan appeared in front of her at this moment, she would probably cry like this old woman, and throw herself into his arms, hugging him tightly and refusing to let go.
Liu Wuniang and her third aunt cried for a long time.
Jiang Shuyi finally understood that Liu Wuniang was sold to a powerful man in Beijing by her husband because of her outstanding beauty when she was young. He was probably the boss behind Manchunlou.
Over the years, Liu Wuniang had to help him run his business and was closely watched, so she couldn't escape. Only now did she find a chance to escape back.
Aunt Liu finally stopped crying. She noticed Jiang Shuyi and Cui'er standing nearby and asked Aunt Liu Wu, "Are these your two daughters?"
Jiang Shuyi was about to deny it, but Liu Wuniang looked at her with tears in her eyes and nodded, "The older one is because she is spoiled, and the younger one is a maid bought to serve her."
Aunt Liu immediately gave her a complicated look of love and hate.
Jiang Shuyi: ...
Considering that Liu Wuniang had tried her best to save her, she reluctantly did not refute and acquiesced with frustration.
Aunt Liu looked at the delicate Jiang Shuyi and sighed, somewhat dissatisfied, but helpless: "Forget it, the child is always innocent. She was able to escape back with you, but her personality is not like her father. You should take her with you to visit your parents' graves."
Visit the grave.
Liu Wuniang's tear-stained face froze, she was a little dazed, she couldn't believe what she heard, she asked blankly: "What do you mean by visiting the grave? Dad and Mom were in good health, they could still work in the fields when I left, it's only been 18 years, even if they can't work anymore, they wouldn't..."
"Your parents must be sorry for marrying you to that beast!"
Aunt Liu was also heartbroken when she mentioned this: "After that beast sold you, he was afraid of revenge from your parents and cousins, so he ran away with the money. Your parents hadn't seen you for a long time and went to the county to inquire about you. They found out that the beast sold you to a rich businessman. You were unwilling, and the neighbors all heard your crying. When your parents heard about it, they regretted marrying you to the wrong person and made up their minds to find you.
But the world is so big, and we don't know where the rich businessman is from, so how can we find him? Your father went out to try his luck, and your mother was waiting for you to come back at home. Five years ago, your father heard that there was a powerful nobleman in Qingzhou who, relying on his uncle being a general in the court, raped women and set up private wine and meat forests. Your father wanted to try his luck and see if you were there. As a result, he happened to run into the powerful nobleman robbing someone's wife in the street. Your father rushed to save him as if he had seen you, but he was beaten to death by the powerful nobleman's men!"
Liu Wuniang was trembling slightly all over.
After making sure that her aunt was not talking nonsense, the woman who was always so cheerful and cheerful in the entertainment circles and could deal with beasts with ease, slowly squatted on the ground, hugged herself, and stared blankly at the blood-red glow in the sky.
The evening breeze brought the scent of wheat, mixed with the lifeless smell of soil that had been dried out by the sun.
The first time Jiang Shuyi smelled this smell was outside the second gate and the main gate of the Jiang Mansion, outside the heavy red walls of the imperial city.
"When your mother found out about this, she was completely desperate. She knew that even if she found you, she, a village woman, couldn't save you. So on the day of your father's burial, she went to the crooked tree at the entrance of the village and hanged herself while we were all asleep at night:"
Jiang Shuyi saw Liu Wuniang buried her face in her knees and her body trembled constantly.
She took two steps forward, then suddenly stopped, turned back and frowned and asked Aunt Liu: "Is the nobleman's surname Wen?"
Aunt Liu wiped her tears and said in surprise: "How did you know? Yes, it was this last name!"
Jiang Shuyi said nothing more. She quickly walked to Liu Wuniang's side, squatted down, and said softly in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Sister, I know who the powerful person who killed your parents is."
Liu Wuniang raised her red eyes and looked at her.
Jiang Shuyi: "He is the nephew of the first-rank general Wen Huan. Sister is in the capital, so you should know Wen Huan, right? He died this spring, and none of his family members were spared. Anyone who did bad things was severely punished. I heard that his nephew also caused another family to be destroyed, and he was already executed by lingchi, which means being cut alive one by one."
Jiang Shuyi didn't know how to comfort Liu Wuniang.
She had never encountered such a situation, but for herself, if a close relative like Pei Yan was killed, she didn't want to hear any comfort, she just wanted to tear her enemy into pieces.
Liu Wuniang twitched her lips, and it was unclear whether she was crying or laughing. Her eyes were red, but she didn't shed tears. Jiang Shuyi was about to persuade her to cry, but she fell down like a broken reed leaf.
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