palm river mountain

Chapter 89 The Suffering of Beauty
Duan Yi's eyes lit up, and she instantly regained her energy.

"After all, is your sweetheart the son of your enemy, or is your grandfather madly telling you to marry a 70-year-old man?" Duan Yi said, patted her Duan Shu on the shoulder, "What are you going to do?"

"Did I lift off the hijab during worship, and let my sweetheart break out of the siege and wander around the world; or do you plan to tell me to cut down the pear tree, so that he can't suppress the begonia, so that he can only bloom on the grave next year?"

Duan Shu was a little dazed.

She shook her head, "I just want to go to the coffin shop to see it, but you just want to press me into the coffin?"

Duan Yi was instantly discouraged, "What else?"

Duan Shu looked at her fear of chaos in the world, and smiled self-deprecatingly, "Look, I said that you are different from us, and I think it's not well-behaved for me not to obey my parents' order and matchmaker's advice. "

"And what you're thinking is shocking things. I don't have that much thought to make such waves. You know, my grandmother always wanted to send my eldest sister to the East Palace."

She said, touching her face, "I was born with such a face, how could grandma leave me aside?"

Duan Yi stopped joking and listened to Duan Shu seriously.

She is 16 years old this year, and Duan Shu, the daughter of her original wife, would have been engaged long ago if she were in someone else's family.She has been delayed all the time, and there must be a story in it.

"Third sister, have you heard of Uncle Gao Guo?" Duan Shu asked softly.

Duan Yi nodded, "Uncle Gao Guo is the empress' brother-in-law, and is now the Minister of the Ministry of Officials."

"On the surface, he is the queen's righteous brother, but in fact, Gao Guojiu's origin and identity are unknown. It was His Majesty who gave him the surname Gao and became the queen's righteous brother. Although Gao Guojiu is the servant of the official department, the official The Bu Shangshu was emptied, in fact, there is his Yiyantang."

"Grandfather felt that Uncle Gao was the auxiliary minister left by His Majesty to the new emperor. Uncle Gao's wife died in childbirth when she gave birth to the eldest son. Uncle Gao never remarried, and asked his concubine Mei Niang to take care of him. with that child."

Duan Shu said with a smile, "You can guess the rest."

Duan Yi frowned, "Grandfather wants you to marry Uncle Gao Guo to fill in the house? Uncle Gao Guo is not much younger than our father."

"Where would he see this? He only thought that my sister would enter the East Palace, and I would marry my uncle. In the early dynasty, although there was no place for Duan to stand, but the house in the back of the Great Zhou Dynasty was my surname Duan's world."

"This happened years ago. On that day, my grandfather took me out to a garden on a rare occasion, saying that he was going to celebrate my birthday. As soon as he entered the door, he seemed to be waiting for someone. He waited for a long time. No one came either..."

"It was only later that I found out that he had made an appointment with Uncle Gao Guo that day. Uncle Gao Guo, on the surface, had a deep affection for his late wife, but in fact he was the most greedy and lustful. In the past, there was a girl named Wu Yue in our poetry club. She was from Jiangnan. People, when it comes to official dialect, it is also the tone of Wu Nong's soft language."

"Her father was convicted and demoted, so she begged Uncle Gao Guo. Uncle Gao Guo...is too disgusting, so I won't mention it."

As Duan Shu said, her hands tightened, "Wu Yue also read the books of sages and sages, how could he endure such shame and humiliation, so he hanged himself. After that, I received the letter Wu Yue left for me..."

"It was also because of that letter that I found out that my grandfather had plans to let me marry Uncle Gao Guo. I wanted Sister Jing to listen to me and not follow my grandfather's advice and marry Wang Zhan."

Seeing that her body was trembling, Duan Yi patted her on the back in fear, "Grandfather is not someone who can change his mind casually, and then? Why is there no further action on this matter?"

"Big sister in the East Palace had an accident, and my grandfather didn't take care of me during that period of time. It's my luck. During that time, Uncle Gao fell in love with a young lady in the gentleman's building in the capital, and had no intention of getting married. "

She said, looking at Duan Yi with wide eyes, "Compared to you and big sister, I am not smart at all. But I know that people can't always turn danger into good fortune. Big sister is married, and the third highness is now That’s when you need help the most.”

"Uncle Gao Guo is not married yet, and I am worried that my grandfather will bring up the old matter again. If this matter is settled, I will not be able to shirk it, so I want to find a marriage for myself before then, and get married in a hurry. Now, leave Jincheng and Duan's house."

Duan Yi frowned, "You dare to choose a good son-in-law yourself, why don't you dare to shirk this marriage?"

Duan Shu shook her head, she smiled softly.

Duan Yizhi felt that the whole night seemed to be lit up, and Duan Shu really wanted to see the immortals passing by, so much so that she jumped down to take a look.

She pulled Duan Yi and sat down on a big blue stone. There were only a few broken branches and leaves left in the lotus pond, and the evening wind blew in with a muddy smell.

Duan Shu shook her foot, "I know myself, I can't implicate eldest sister. My grandfather will definitely say that as long as I marry Uncle Gao Guo, His Highness the Third Prince will definitely be able to enter the East Palace, and eldest sister will be able to get what she wants. ..."

"If the marriage is settled and I run away from the marriage, it will be even more impossible. If the marriage fails, it will be a hatred. My reputation will be damaged, and it will also cause my eldest sister to be looked down upon."

Duan Shu said, paused, and did not continue.

Duan Yi didn't interrupt her either, but just listened quietly. She knew that Duan Shu asked her so much and just wanted her to listen. In fact, she didn't need her to do anything else for her.

Because she didn't leave any room for her spear at all.

After a long time, Duan Shufang raised her head. She looked at the starry sky and said desolately, "I'm even more afraid that big sister will come to persuade me, just like she persuaded younger sister Jing to marry Wang Zhan."

"You live alone in Jiannan, and you don't understand what it means to depend on each other. Although the eldest sister is only a little older than me, she exists like a mother in my heart. I have never met my mother, and even what she looks like, I don't even remember."

"I was born good-looking. Since I was a child, many embarrassing things have happened. It was my elder sister who blocked those disgusting sights for me..."

Duan Shu said, looking at Duan Yi, "It's strange, obviously living in a wealthy family. But no one lives easily. Everyone has everyone's suffering."

"I often think, maybe only when I wake up and become a grandpa, can I feel at ease."

Duan Yi raised her eyebrows, "What is his peace of mind? Xin'an's own descendants are all trash, or is half of Xin'an's body buried in the loess, and will be buried on the Duan family's grave in the future, and I will step on it?"

"If you become a grandfather, you won't feel at ease. After all, you have to worry about whether you will wake up after sleeping."

(End of this chapter)