Reborn as the crippled king's favorite

Master Mei, whose real name is Mei Yuzong, is from Yangzhou.

The son inherited his father's legacy, and his current team was left by his father. The big players who are famous in the north and south were just orphans adopted by his father more than 20 years ago.

In the early years, his father led the troupe to attend folk temple fairs or celebrate birthdays of landlords.

In those days, the theater troupe not only performed operas, but also performed various acrobatics, relying on rewards of one or two coppers.

Mei Yuzong is the leader of the junior class. He has a good voice since he was a child. He rose to prominence in his teens and became a leading actor within a few years.

How did he meet Concubine Jing?

A wealthy member of a village invited them to perform a grand opera for his seventy-year-old mother. He was very generous and booked ten performances in a row, one performance a day, and people from eight villages in ten miles came to watch the opera.

At that time, Concubine Jing was not a villager who came to watch the show, but a slave in Liu Yuanwai's family. Liu Yuanwai also planned to take her as his mistress.

There is no word "jing" in Concubine Jing's name. Her real name is Honglian, Chen Honglian.

When he came to sing, Honglian would often hide behind a tree and look at him secretly. This kind of look was not unusual for him. He had red lips and white teeth. Everyone said that he was a beautiful young man, and he was good at drama. There are many women who are obsessed with him.

But he was still attracted to Guren, maybe because Guren was good-looking, maybe because the way she looked at him was undisguised, so it was particularly different.

But he already has a fiancée, and he doesn't plan to do anything extraordinary.

And he didn't expect that Guren was even bolder than he thought.

One night, when he returned to his room, Guren had undressed and was lying on his bed.

He was angry, but he was a hot-blooded young man and he was not Liu Xiahui. Even though he knew Honglian was plotting against him, he still dove in head first.

In the middle of the night, he and Honglian were caught red-handed by Liu Yuanwai, and the light of the torch illuminated them particularly brightly.

Only then did he know that Liu Yuanwai was planning to take Honglian as his wife and had already given his parents twenty taels of silver.

He also understood why Honglian would plot against him. He was angry and distressed. Even Liu Yuan, who was over fifty, could be Honglian's grandfather. Being a married woman to such an old man was not even a concubine. Honglian Why not pitiful.

He even thinks that Honglian is very smart. Unlike other women, she will fight for it and find ways to change her destiny instead of just waiting to die.

Thinking of this, Mei Yuzong showed a sneer on his face.

He has arrived at the place where Concubine Jing will pass. It is a rockery. The lotus leaves under the arch bridge are green, and the most beautiful lotus flowers will definitely bloom in the summer.

Just like the red lotus that bloomed in front of him back then, pure and beautiful.

How could he have imagined at that time that such a pure and beautiful lotus flower would one day sit in this majestic palace full of imperial power and wealth, enjoying all the glory and being respected by others?

After entering the palace for a few days, he had heard the maids and eunuchs whispering countless times that Concubine Jing would be named queen by the emperor, and Concubine Jing's son would become the prince. With such a humble background, she was inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. .

And all of this, just as she plotted against herself to get rid of Yuanwai Liu and change her destiny, was also calculated by herself.

He, Mei Yuzong, is no different from Liu Yuanwai back then.

"Whose handkerchief fell on the floor?"

Aunt Sujin was supporting Concubine Jing when she suddenly saw a solid-color handkerchief on the ground.

She took a closer look and sneered: "I don't know which little palace maid it belongs to. It's such an old-fashioned red lotus embroidery. How can anyone embroider this now?"

Concubine Jing suddenly changed her expression. She turned around and looked around. She saw a piece of clothes on the rockery. She clenched her nails tightly and said to Su Jin: "I am a little tired. Go sit in the pavilion for a while. Su Jin , you go and pick up a cloak for me personally." "Yes, slave, I'll go right now."

After Aunt Sujin left, Concubine Jing sent away the other maids and eunuchs on the grounds that she wanted to meditate, and then walked to the rockery.

Mei Yuzong also walked out of the rockery.

He first picked up the handkerchief, patted the dust, and put it in his arms with great care.

Concubine Jing looked at his actions and said, "Yulang, do you still hate me?"

"The common people don't dare. The common people lost their way in the palace for a while. They have no intention of disturbing Concubine Jing. I also ask the concubine to forgive me. The common people will leave now."

His voice was hoarse and not pleasant. After speaking, he lowered his head and raised his feet to move forward. After a struggle, Concubine Jing stopped him.

"Yulang, I couldn't help you back then, but I had no other choice. Your parents hated me so much. They even beat and scolded me while you were away and wouldn't allow you to marry me. I really can't stand it anymore."

Concubine Jing didn't know why she said these words to Mei Yuzong.

These days, she was also struggling in her heart. She was afraid that Mei Yuzong would hate her and want to destroy her, but over the years, the emperor's false love for her and treating her as a substitute for the queen mother, one after another, made her completely She understood that the only person in this world who had ever truly loved her was Mei Yuzong.

Just now, she saw that Mei Yuzong still kept the handkerchief she had embroidered for him with her own hands and cherished it very much. This touched her heart and reminded her of those tender years when Mei Yuzong treated her. .

Mei Yuzong came to find her, but he couldn't let her go.

He seems to be alone, and he has never married or had any children.

If he really resented her, he would have exposed himself in public as early as the first time they met in the palace.

Mei Yuzong looked back and saw that although he was no longer the handsome boy he was before, he was very elegant and lean, unlike the emperor who was pot-bellied and full of wine and women.

She was the most handsome man that Concubine Jing had ever seen before she was fourteen, just like the rich young man in the play.

And she has been the most beautiful girl in the village since she was a child. Many people have been telling her that with her appearance, she will definitely marry into a rich and good family. She was afraid of a hard life and naively thought that marrying someone would be a good thing. It was her second chance to change her life. She had a very high vision and looked down on none of the tough guys in the village. She just wanted to marry into a rich family.

Later, the family was really too poor. There was a severe drought that year and the harvest in the fields was not good. She was so hungry that she felt dizzy. When she woke up, her father had sold her to Yuan Liu's house.

She said she was working as a slave, but in fact, she was working as a roommate for Yuan Liu. Yuan Liu had a son who was a minor official, so he did not dare to take a concubine, which meant that Honglian could only work as a nameless bed-warming maid for an old man.

Her parents took twenty taels of silver, how could they not know what she did?

In a disaster year, twenty taels of silver can save the lives of eight members of the family.

She only needs to sacrifice one person to save the lives of the whole family.

What's the use of her resentment?

Fortunately, she was very lucky. On the day when Liu Yuanwai wanted to make things happen with her, he drank too much and couldn't do it, so he kept the intact jade.

Not long after, a male opera singer came to the house, and she chose Mei Yuzong because he was the young class leader.

Even being a concubine is better than being an old man's bed-warming maid, isn't it?