red wheel

Chapter 69
That night, Du Guziyan's room in Wendinghou's mansion.

"Knock..." There was a knock on the door, "My son, my son..." Du Chuan's voice was a little anxious.

Dugu Ziyan, who woke up after hearing the sound on the bed, frowned instantly. Du Chuan had never looked for him at this time, so he got up one by one, put on his coat, and opened the door: "Du Chuan, what's the matter?"

"My son, our people came to report that Ji Haotian is gone!" Du Chuan bowed and reported back.

"When did it happen?" Duguzi frowned upon hearing this.

"It was discovered half an hour ago. Our people searched around, but found no whereabouts, so we hurried back to the house to report." Du Chuan replied again.

"Alas..." Dugu Ziyan sighed slightly.

"My lord, what does Missy ask Ji Haotian to do at this time?" Du Chuan asked in confusion.

"What else can it be? In the end, it's nothing more than for the successor." Duguziyan sneered.

Then he said slowly: "Yan'er was pampered and spoiled since she was a child. Because her mother died young, her father doted on her even more, and he couldn't bear to punish her every time. In these years, everything went well for Yan'er, but the only thing she cared about was It's Xiao Jinxi." At this moment, Duguziyan had a sad face, and his whole body was attacked by a sense of powerlessness.

"My son." Du Chuan on the side couldn't bear to shout.

After a while, Du Chuanfang asked softly, "My lord, what else can we do?"

"Yan'er's temperament, if she doesn't want to talk about it, if I ask now, I won't find anything." Dugu Ziyan said slowly.

"Now, it's no longer like being in the mansion. In the mansion, you can talk to her slowly about everything. There is always a way to ask her out slowly."

"Now, she is in the deep palace. If she really wants to do something, let's ask her now. Not only will we not be able to ask anything, but it will also attract the emperor's attention."

"To this day, if Emperor Ming Xi really wanted to make Yan'er his empress, he would not delay until now. Yan'er must have understood."

"Now that she came here, it must be because of this successor. This action must be at odds with Emperor Mingxi. If we enter the palace now, we will definitely harm Yan'er."

"My lord, let's just leave it alone for the time being?" Du Chuan asked in question.

After a while, Duguzi said again: "Ji Haotian has been plotting for so long, it is difficult for you to track him now."

"Forget it, you go down first, let me think about it."

Du Chuan bowed when he heard the words, and retreated quietly.

Dugu Ziyan was left alone in the room. After a long time, Dugu Ziyan got up and went to a side cabinet, opened it, and took out a wooden box from inside.

Dugu Ziyan slowly opened the wooden box, and saw a pink dress embroidered with butterflies lying in the wooden box. He reached out to take out the dress one by one, and stroked it lightly...Look at the dress The style of the skirt is like a dance dress, the color of the material has been slightly degraded, but when you look closely, the dance dress is cut in a mess...
Dugu Ziyan caressed the dress lightly, like a treasure in the world...
After a long time, I only heard Duguzi whispering: "Yan'er, you know, this is stitched by your mother when she was seriously ill... You cut it to pieces that year. Have you ever felt distressed?"

At this moment, Dugu Ziyan looked at Wushang, but his eyes seemed to be looking at the distant time...

In the ninth year of Zongyuan, the mother's health was deteriorating, but Yan'er at that time didn't know it at all, and her mother always supported the sick body in front of Yan'er, and couldn't bear to let Yan'er know.Because of this, Yan’er’s personality at that time was also lively and active, and he preferred to dance in the courtyard like a butterfly...

That year, my mother always sewed this dance dress when she was energetic.She said that she hoped her wild goose could dance happily in this dance dress.

Seeing his mother holding on to the sick body, he always persuaded his mother that there are a lot of dancing clothes in the embroidery shop outside, just buy some for Yan'er, don't work so hard.

But the mother said that she didn't have much time, and I'm afraid I won't see Yan'er put on the wedding dress and get married beautifully.She doesn't know what size Yan'er's wedding dress should be, so she can only make her a dance dress now, and see if she can dance happily in it...
It took my mother half a year to sew this dance dress.In the tenth year of Zongyuan, it happened that Empress Ren'an was celebrating the birth of a dragon and a phoenix, and a grand celebration was held in the palace. All the young sons and daughters of the princes and princes prepared performances to congratulate Empress Ren'an on her newborn phoenix marrow. ·····

For this reason, Yan'er also carefully prepared a dance. Although the mother was not feeling well at that time, she would definitely watch Yan'er practice dancing every day.

That day, when Yan'er put on the dance dress carefully sewn by her mother and practiced for the last time in the mansion, her mother looked at the dancing butterflies, and her eyes were filled with joy...
The next day, the celebration in the palace began, but my mother was unable to enter the palace that day because she was unwell.It was he and his father who brought the wild goose into the palace.Yan'er was really happy that day, wearing this butterfly embroidered dance dress, with a confident and sunny smile on her face...

However, at the banquet that day, in the end, it was Xiao Jinxi, the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Wu'an, who won the first prize with a sword dance!

"Miss Dugu's dance is really beautiful!"

"It's really beautiful, but Miss Xiao's sword dance is so fierce and beautiful!"

"Indeed! Miss Xiao is still amazing! At such a young age, the majestic sword dance is truly worthy of being the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Wu'an!"

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The discussion at the banquet that day is vivid in my mind, every sentence stabbed Yan'er, no matter how much I comforted myself, Yan'er didn't say a word...

I thought it was the child throwing a temper tantrum, and it would be fine afterward, but when I went back to the house that day, Yan'er went back to the room, but she cut the dance dress with scissors with her own hands, and then cried a lot in the room. Father, or he stepped forward to persuade him, but it was useless.

That day, my mother's illness relapsed again. In the end, my father and I had to go to see my mother first.And looking at the dance dress that was cut into pieces and thrown on the ground, I couldn't bear it. It took my mother more than half a year to sew it up stitch by stitch...

After crying a lot, Yan'er was so tired that she fell asleep. When she woke up the next day, although she didn't mention the dance at the banquet anymore, she never got back the dance dress...
And after that, Yan'er didn't dance in the mansion for a long time, knowing that she was unhappy, he often took her out to play, and only hoped that she would forget about those unhappy things.

Half a year later, my mother's condition worsened, and before she died, she repeatedly told herself that as the eldest brother, she must take good care of her younger sister...

And that day, Yan'er realized that her mother was seriously ill and was about to leave her.The geese danced again that day, and danced beautifully for the mother. The mother watched the dance and died with a smile...

(End of this chapter)