Are there any novels that are so cruel that they cry? Zhihu (1)

Are there any novels that are so cruel that they cry? Huo Jingyan is a concubine. When I was

ten years old, he told me he wanted to marry me.

I waited for him for five years until I heard him ask my father to break off the marriage.

He wants to marry my servant girl. The snow was very heavy

that day, and I was full of joy as if I had been frozen by the first snow. I looked at him in disbelief.

He stood under the eaves, leaning over me, looking intently at the playful crowd in the distance.

「…… Are you going to marry Abby?

I said with difficulty.

“Ah Bi is the name given to her by the Shen family. I’ve already changed her name and called her Shen Ching-jung from the surname of your Shen family.”.

He held out a hand, took a snowflake, and said weakly.

“But her indenture is still in my house..” I looked at him and didn’t know what to say for a moment. “I’ll talk to Aunt Shen,”

said Huo Jingyan, who didn’t care very much.

At this point, I had nothing to say, so I breathed a sigh of relief to relieve the depression in my heart. I nodded, and Zhu Cui on my head tinkled. He was finally willing to look up at me. I forced a smile and said, “You go by yourself.”.

Huo Ching-yan loosened his eyebrows slightly and nodded to me. Thank you very much.

“I laughed at myself, but he was sorry.” You’re a good girl.

“I put down the veil in my hand, lowered my head and said,” I won’t make trouble. If you can convince your father and my father, I will agree to break off the marriage.

But I will not stand up for you, nor will I argue for Abby. You should also understand the consequences of doing so. I just don’t want to involve me. Can you understand?

I lifted my broken hair from the side of my cheek and looked up. I’m a very selfish person. Instead

, Huo Jingyan smiled, and the ice and snow between his eyes seemed to melt. “What kind of selfishness are you?” He said.

I’m the selfish one.

You can rest assured that I will take care of it.

In this way, I nodded and watched his back leave.

He didn’t even hold an umbrella. He strode to the crowd. I stared at him and watched him walk out of my world.

I’m not like him. This is the first time I’ve had such an idea since I was engaged to him for 14 years.

I am the legitimate daughter of the Shen family, and he is the eldest son of the Huo family. We should have got married in March. From then on, the Shen and Huo families complemented each other to a higher level. All his efforts since he was four years old should have been for this, but at the age of seventeen, he chose another way.

Another way I never, never thought about.

My servant girl, Abi, was so beautiful that she wanted to be sent to the Huo family as a dowry. Most of the dowry of the wife of the big house was to be sent to the husband’s family as a dowry, but he didn’t want it. He withdrew my marriage and wanted to marry Abi as the main house. An absurdity rose in

my heart.

This kid is really crazy.

[1] Huo Jingyan was only a concubine in the Huo family, but fortunately, the wife of the main house of the Huo family had only one son, who was ill all the year round and did not show himself on weekdays, while his sister Huo Yan entered the palace and was very popular with the emperor. Since the death of the empress three years ago, she had a tendency to be a little bit behind the seal, and the status of the Huo family was naturally rising. The Shen family is also happy to see. As a concubine,

he worked hard enough from an early age. Even if his wife was magnanimous, it was hard to see that his son was so powerful. There were not many opportunities for him to stand out, but every time he held it in his hands.

That’s what I appreciate most about him.

Enough to judge the situation and seize all the resources that can be grasped.

So after he married me, he should have become an official, and from then on, he had a bright future and worshipped the cabinet.

But he gave up.

He can marry Abby, and he can marry Abby in style. I can draw a conclusion.

Not only that, he can also save the face of the Shen and Huo families, which I can be sure of.

But he did such a thing, no doubt to the main room to send a handle, to do such a deviant thing, his sister in the palace is also very difficult not to be affected, uncle Huo will be disappointed with him, he can also be an official, but will be subject to greater resistance, I really don’t understand, I clearly have already made my dowry. What exactly is he not satisfied with.

“Alas..” I rubbed my forehead. I didn’t know him well enough. Maybe there was something behind it that I didn’t understand.

I appreciate him, he works hard enough and looks good enough, but when he wants to break off the marriage, my first reaction is to wonder where I have lost my use value, not why he doesn’t want me.

I went back to my room and closed the door slowly, shutting out the disturbance outside for a moment.

I looked at myself in the mirror, wearing a girl’s bright bun, two snow-white coins on my head, a butterfly flying, a white scarf around my neck, a red and white jacket, lovely and tight.

But then look at the eyes, although big, but no God, the corners of the mouth is also collapsed, there is no anger.

I touched my face and murmured, … I am really not good-looking.

[2] Huo Jingyan handled the matter very well.

He blocked our marriage with a horoscope, and somehow persuaded my father to accept Abby. No, Shen Qingrong, became the adopted daughter of the Shen family, and so on, the Shen family and the Huo family are still good in-laws, but this matter is his Huo family is wrong, my father’s actions make the Huo family owe the Shen family a favor, and. And he calls himself cheap.

He said that he was originally a concubine, and the eight characters were not naturally suitable for me, and Shen Qingrong, as the adopted daughter of the Shen family, was just the right match for him.

In this way, all my face.

It’s really crazy. It’s really, really crazy. Isn’t what

he’s been fighting for for more than a decade just to get rid of his reputation as a “concubine”?

Abi is how much good, he is willing to call himself cheap all my father’s face in exchange for her a good origin, get rid of the slave status and fly to the branches, Shen Qingrong. Shen Qingrong. A good name to marry.

I’m afraid that from the day I took the name, I was ready to let Abi into the Shen family.

I asked someone to disguise me in the room and sneaked out in the middle of the night to go to the Drunken Fairy Building to drink. The moment I stepped out of the door of the Shen family, I felt more carefree than ever before.

The Drunken Fairy Tower was not closed all night. When I went in, the boys looked at me in shock.

I looked down and understood at a glance. I was

dressed in a little jacket sewn with gold thread, and I looked very rich, and I was a stranger. The people who came here were either drunk and reckless, or they came to play with girls. I was a half-grown young lady, and they must be wondering whether I was here to catch adultery or to make trouble.

I pursed my lips and said in a gentle voice, “Find a quiet room and serve two pots of warm wine.”.

I’ve never had a drink before, so I don’t know what kind of wine is strong and what kind of wine is not strong, so I let the waiter decide for himself, and I’ll take it all. In the middle of the night, the

hall was still lively. I went upstairs and looked through the window at the sharp contrast between the silence outside and inside. Suddenly, I thought, in fact, I am now a long street, as quiet as usual, and Huo Jingyan is now like this Drunken Fairy Tower, bustling.

Maybe he lived a prosperous life, I think. As soon as the

wine came, I poured a glass and licked it, which made me almost cry.

I coughed for a long time, wiped the tears from my cheeks and smiled.

Suddenly, someone knocked at the door, and I became alert. “Who?”?

Someone pushed the door and entered, and I watched him walk slowly in front of me.

It’s Huo Jingyan.

His face was like a layer of frost. “Are you drinking?”?

I tried, somewhat at a loss, to find some solution, but my mind was confused by his sullen face.

「…… Yes.

I had to answer obediently. Where is

the servant?

Why not?

Perhaps the wine I just drank quickly went to my head, and I actually said, “Didn’t you marry me?”?

Then I regretted it and bowed my head in embarrassment.

He was a little speechless. After a while, he said in a dumb voice, “Why are you doing this?”.

I heaved a deep sigh, as if I had ruined the day I pretended to be free and easy, so I began to drink like a broken pot. The wine was so strong that I only dared to sip it.

He had to sit down, pick up another pot, and drink it one by one. When is the

wedding date?

I lowered my eyes.

「…… It may be the seventh day of next month.

He replied.

The seventh day of the first lunar month.. Good time.

I say so.

But in fact, what I think is that he is really anxious to get married next month, and he can’t wait at all.

He stopped talking. I drank three small cups and then I didn’t dare to drink any more. I was so drunk that I looked at him in a daze and asked, “Why don’t you marry me?”.

Huo Jingyan did not speak, but looked at me heavily.

Abby.. Abby, she’s nice, but I.. I I bowed my head.

“Forget it..” My voice was low, as if to say to myself, “It’s not mine. It never was mine.”. Be

good to Abby. She’s a good girl. Then

I was about to fall down, and in a daze he seemed to hold my shoulder and said, “Actually I..” Actually what?

I didn’t hear that.

[3] When I woke up the next day, he had sent me home, without a sound, and no one knew that I had sneaked out to drink.

My father called me over early in the morning. I smelled of alcohol and hurried to take a bath. He waited for me with a sad face.

I saluted, Father.

My father asked me to come, and if it was really for marriage, he thought I didn’t know.

“That boy Huo Ching-yan doesn’t deserve you. He’s done so much, but he broke off your marriage for that girl!” Father was bitterly grieved.

I don’t talk.

“But you, don’t be too sad. Your father will find another husband for you, and he will certainly be no worse than him!” On the contrary, my father’s poor consolation made me a little happy. I said, “Let’s slow down this matter.”. But

the left daughter is only fourteen, and two more years of filial piety will make it.

[3] Huo Jingyan’s wedding day soon arrived, and it was even colder at that time. I thought about it and sent a pair of kneepads to Abi.

I didn’t dare to go to his wedding banquet. It was the second thing to lose face. I was really embarrassed, so I sent someone to give me a big red seal.

Abby is really a good girl. Before she left, she embroidered an incense burner for me.

She stayed with me for three years, and I remember it.

Just, fate this thing, really can not say.

Just as Abby has been with me for three years and has taken care of me very thoroughly, Huo Jingyan is always close to me. I don’t know how they met and loved each other, but I know that Huo Jingyan and I really have no feelings, otherwise he can’t do such a thing. If

they can fly together, I also send my blessing.

It’s better than struggling in this fame with me.

It is worth mentioning that not long after Huo Jingyan’s wedding banquet, my brother went to join the army. I stared at him in a daze. He smiled and said, “Compared with literary talent, I really can’t compare with Huo Jingyan. But you can rest assured that my brother will be able to stand out in martial arts and fight for a good future for you.”.

My nose was sour, and tears filled my eyes unconsciously. I looked at my brother’s smiling face in the

dim light. In fact, I understood that my brother was afraid that I would not be able to talk about her husband’s family again. He wanted to fight for the fame that he didn’t have to fight for.

He always smiles like this. He used to ask me to cover up for him that he didn’t study and that he sneaked out to drink with his friends. Now he is covering up for his sadness of being away from home for many years. This smile is often a little guilty. In the past, I just wanted to laugh, but today I just want to cry. Depressed,

my brother poked me in the face and said, “My sister looks so beautiful. Why doesn’t she like to laugh?”.

“He raised my face with his fingers and said,” Come on, give my brother a smile.

I managed to hold up my smiling face, and he rubbed my head.

Three days later, my brother went to join the army. The

mother wept until she collapsed, and the father was really gratified.

My brother sends home letters every month, filling them with all the beautiful scenery beyond the Great Wall. At the end of each letter, he writes, “Ah Rou, remember to laugh.”.

I don’t know if these people are laughing at me, but why are they so obsessed with me? My brother did, my father did, and my mother did. In the past, I never noticed whether I was happy or not, but now I’m being cautious.

My father and mother always like to ask me to go out and get together with my little sisters, but the social intercourse in the past always makes me feel tired recently. I carry my skirt through the crowd, so tired that I want to go to sleep immediately.

I’m getting more and more lazy.

[4] In the spring, my new daughter, Ah Shui, and I went out for an outing.

Ah Shui is newly dialed. She speaks like a rapid-fire gun and is clever. She is very different from Ah Bi, but she is very safe. I like to talk to her and I am not tired.

Unexpectedly, this time I went out and bumped into Huo Jingyan. From a distance,

I saw him and Shen Qingrong flying kites by the lake. Shen Qingrong’s wrist was slender, and she gently pulled and flew the kite higher. She looked back at Huo Jingyan with a smile and rubbed her head.

What a pair of people.

I turned and walked to the other side of the lake. The scenery on the

other side was obviously not as good as that on the other side. There were few people, but it was better because it was quiet. There was a towering old tree. I looked up and suddenly said to Ah Shui, Ah Shui, can you climb a tree?

“Ah Shui was startled.” Miss?

Are you crazy?

I stepped forward and reached out to touch the old tree, but I didn’t make a sound when I heard this.

Ah Shui followed me, trembling. I stretched out my foot to test her, and she was so anxious that she seemed to have lost fifty taels.

I ignored her anxious call behind me, and in a twinkling of an eye, I got on a short branch.

The old trees are luxuriant, and there is no sunshine, which also blocks me.

I looked down and said, “Are you coming up?”?

If you don’t come up, I will go up.

Shui’s eyes widened. But

my heart was filled with joy.

This is what I want to do. I’m tired of being the legitimate daughter of the

Shen family. So

I climbed up faster. Ah Shui was so anxious that he lifted his skirt and followed me up. Instead of climbing to the top, I found a huge branch to lean on, just in time to sleep.

Ah Shui was beside me, and he didn’t dare to move.

I laughed out loud at her funny appearance.

Shui looked at me in a daze. When the

young lady smiles, she looks so beautiful.

Ah Shui said sincerely.

I raised my brows and lowered them again, and stopped talking.

We stayed quietly up there, and we didn’t think it would be disturbed. Two middle-aged men came

next, probably because there was no one here, and their voices were not surprised. I listened to them completely.

They said, “Is Diji right here?”?

Is the one next to Huo Jingyan?

Probably yes. Didn’t you say that Diji had already married Huo Jingyan?

“Then you go to inform the brothers and get ready to act!” I shouldn’t have cared, but when I heard Huo Jingyan’s name, it was hard for me to ignore the two men with knives.

Everything happened so fast that before I knew it, the two men took three or four people to kill Huo Jingyan.

But the target of the three or four people looked like Shen Qingrong, two or three people pestered Huo Jingyan, a person to take her away, I looked from a distance only feel dangerous, anxiously let Ah Shui to call people.

Can look at this posture, and so on, it is estimated that the body of Huo Jingyan is also cold. What

can I do?

I clenched my handkerchief and stared at the people in a mess.

HuoJingYan out of the move is almost deadly, the most dangerous step, the leader of the man’s hand has almost caught Shen Qingrong, HuoJingYan reach out to block, the leader of a backhand chop, almost cut off his hand, fortunately, HuoJingYan escaped. In

a flash of lightning, Huo Jingyan was stabbed with a knife and staggered back a few steps. Shen Qingrong was also going to be taken away. I gritted my teeth and rushed up. I picked up a knife they had left behind and waved it a few times.

The men were startled by my posture, but in a twinkling of an eye they saw a lady in the boudoir. She frowned and cursed loudly. I immediately shouted, “My servant girl has gone to call the guards. You’ve delayed too long to take her away!” The three or four people looked at each other and did not pay much attention to me. They just reached out to catch Shen Qingrong. At that moment, I suddenly thought of something.

They didn’t choose to hurt me, which means they didn’t dare to make a big deal out of it. Huo Jingyan didn’t have much good land on him, but Shen Qingrong was neat and tidy, which means they didn’t dare to hurt Shen Qingrong either. Thinking of “imperial concubine” again, I gritted my teeth, carried a knife, and put it on Shen Qingrong’s neck.

“Little Miss!” Shen Qingrong was startled.

Huo Jingyan covered his wound and shouted, “Jingrou!” Those people were scared, too. I gritted my teeth and said, “Get back!”! Or I’ll kill her! Can you afford it?

Hearing what I said, the faces of those people looked surprised and suspicious, and then I realized that I felt a burst of regret.

It’s over! Spill the beans! I had no choice but to say, “She’s Miss Shen!”! The first wife of the Fok family! I don’t know how much they believe, but try. As

he spoke, Ah Shui-tai’s men had already arrived. Seeing this sight, he was almost scared out of his wits: “Miss!”. Seeing that the plan had failed, the man gave me a vicious look and turned to run away.

At this point, I just lost my strength, while Huo Jingyan rushed forward, hugged Shen Qingrong, and nervously asked her if she was all right.

Shen Qingrong leaned weakly in his arms and shook his head. I don’t know how to feel when I

look at this scene.

I took the lead in apologizing and saluting, “I was too reckless just now.”. Excuse me,

both of you.

Huo Jingyan pursed his lips and looked at me.

I relaxed the depression in my chest.

It’s really idle.

I want.

I made another salute, asked Ah Shui to take Shen Qingrong, and asked someone to help Huo Jingyan, and planned to leave first.

Ah Rou.

Huo Jingyan stopped me.

I didn’t turn around.

「…… Your hand, remember the medicine.

He said sullenly.

[6] My hands are fine, but my father won’t let me go out for the time being.

I learned to make some gadgets and excitedly showed them to my father, pointing to him and saying that this is a sleeve sword, this is a dart, and this is a black iron needle.

The father was startled. “Little girl, how can you play with such a dangerous thing?”.

Danger?

I don’t think so. I think these things are very useful. The last assassination not only frightened Shen Qingrong, but also frightened me. The tip of the knife of those people almost hit the tip of my nose. I obviously had no power to fight back, but I had to be calm. That kind of powerless fear, I will never experience it again.

It’s really dangerous. You can’t rely on anyone. Refuted by

my father, I went back to my room bored. Looking at the mess on my desk, I sighed, “Ah Shui, put it all away.”.

Shui answered obediently. The days of

being grounded were boring, but fortunately I received a letter from my brother. There was finally something different in the

letter.

The elder brother said that the Hu people were split internally, so the battle was extremely easy, and soon they could return to Beijing.

In addition, he also said that he met the princess of the barbarians, who looked very different from the people of the Central Plains and had a unique style. He also said that there was a strange thing, that is, generally speaking, the barbarians intermarried with the Han people, and the children born were generally not tolerated by the barbarians, but the current leader of the barbarians, Tiemuci Khan, respected his Han wife very much.

That’s amazing.

I put down the letter, put my hands together, and breathed a sigh.

Later, I found that the weather in Kyoto was already so cold.

“I’ve heard that beyond the Great Wall there is a strong wind and sand..” I wrote back, ending, “I wonder if my elder brother can go home in the New Year?”?

」。

[7] My brother really didn’t come back in time for the New Year, so this year’s New Year was particularly lonely.

Compared with the Huo family’s prosperous and lively, our family simply ate a New Year’s Eve dinner and then stopped. It was snowing heavily

outside, and the world was covered with snow. Every family was happy. Only the three of us looked at the northwest direction worriedly.

Fortunately, after the New Year, spring is coming. The

marching team returned triumphantly in March. My father got the news early and led my mother and me to wait at the door with our necks craned. After my brother received the reward from the palace, he could go home. Far away

, I saw my brother turn over neatly from his horse, dressed in a strong suit and blown by the wind. He strode to the door of his house. When he came near, I took a closer look and found that he was much darker and taller.

My brother’s skin was tanned, but he did smile heartily, but as soon as he got close to us, he was stuffed into his arms by his tearful mother, who groped up and down carefully, fearing where he was hurt and where he was disabled. Sharp-eyed,

I saw this seven-foot man with a strong northwest flavor on his body, his nose was sour, and his eyes were filled with crystal thin tears.

He said that the wind in the northwest was so strong that it made people homesick. The

elder brother came back this time with meritorious service, and his father was very happy. With a wave of his big hand, he held a grand banquet. Naturally, all

of them were relatives and friends, and Shen Qingrong, as the adopted daughter of the Shen family, also appeared at the banquet as a matter of course.

I rubbed my face, which was frozen with laughter, and lowered my head.

The elder brother’s unworried voice rang out from his ears: “This couple came as soon as they came. What kind of gift do they bring?”.

I raised my head, and sure enough, I saw Huo Jingyan following Shen Qingrong with his hands on his back, and Shen Qingrong came toward us with a glass cup and a smile on his face.

Congratulations on my brother’s triumphant return.

Shen Ching-jung’s face was full of smiles.

The elder brother snorted and did not speak.

Shen Qingrong looked back helplessly at Huo Jingyan, who stood there and motioned for her to send things out.

Shen Ching-jung handed out the things in his hand and said, My foster sister doesn’t have anything of value. This glass cup is still valuable. Please accept it.

My brother still didn’t answer.

Huo Jingyan frowned slightly, simply put things on the table, and left with Shen Qingrong. As

I watched them leave, I heard my brother say, “Ah Bi is promising. The glass cup is said to be valuable. Who is disgusting?”?

I came to my senses, picked up the glass cup, and looked at it carefully.

Glass cup this thing although I have a workshop can produce, but the raw materials and rare, most of them are controlled in the hands of the conference semifinals, so the output of glass cup is not much, there are a few Huojia imperial concubines is not surprising, take home to honor the elders is also said in the past, but Huojing banquet was willing to take out to Shen Qingrong do with the gift, I already love her performance very much.

I rubbed the intricate and delicate patterns on it and was silent.

The elder brother said, “I don’t think Huo Jingyan is very attentive to Abi. You see, I just gave Abi such a look. Huo Jingyan’s temperament of protecting her shortcomings should have been said for her, but he didn’t say anything.”.

I forced a smile.

Soon, an even more surprising figure appeared for my brother and me.

A father-in-law dressed in palace clothes, with a flattering smile on his face and a jade Guanyin in his hand, appeared at the door. My brother

and I looked at each other, were taken aback, and hurried up. The appearance of

the Chamberlain inevitably caused a sensation at the banquet. When the Chamberlain put the Jade Goddess of Mercy in the hands of the maid behind me, everyone craned their heads to see, and my father arrived in time.

The father and the Chamberlain spoke back and forth in a bureaucratic tone. The Chamberlain lowered his voice and said, “Lord Shen is very lucky now. Your son’s heroic bearing on the battlefield has reached the emperor’s ears. The emperor is very happy. He said that in two days, he would give your son a separate reward.”. The

father understood in an instant, and the smile on his face almost cracked behind his ears. He sent the Chamberlain away with a beaming look. Naturally,

my brother and I shook off the crowd’s gaze and returned to our places. My brother put the Jade Goddess of Mercy on the table, while I smiled and patted him on the shoulder. “My brother is a man with a holy family now, and he will have to be more careful in what he says and does in the future.”. But

my brother stared at the table thoughtfully. I followed his gaze and saw the kind jade Goddess of Mercy. Curiously, I asked, What is my brother looking at? “

Ah Rou, tell me, what does this Jade Goddess of Mercy mean when she is sent out?”?

I laughed. My brother didn’t know that he didn’t associate with the ladies of the family. Although

the jade goddess of mercy was exquisitely made and the materials used were excellent, the people in the palace were not short of it. The ministers who were loved by relatives often got one on their birthdays and another on their birthdays. As long as they gave gifts, the emperor would give them the jade goddess of mercy. In short, if they wanted to be affectionate, they could not always bother, so they found such a convenient way.

Heard that some ministers home, can have a wall of so many jade Guanyin.

I told my brother the truth, but instead of laughing with me as I expected, he frowned and looked very melancholy. “What’s the matter?”

I asked quickly?

The elder brother looked disappointed and heaved a deep sigh: The empress in the palace had an exchange with me before she entered the palace. She was a very cheerful and happy woman. She didn’t stick to trifles and never did superficial things. But now she has learned these superficial skills in officialdom.

With that, my brother put down the things in his hands with some regret. I knew that my brother was just sighing at the passage of time, so I didn’t say any more.

[8] There is no banquet that does not come to an end. After the excitement, my brother and I were surprised when we settled the gifts of the guests.

Although the banquet was already a bit empty of my father’s family property as a five-grade official, these gifts not only filled the gap, but also made a lot of money for my family.

You are really very willing to pay the money.

I sighed.

The elder brother has a bitter and bitter look. In fact,

our family knows very well that my brother fought very well in the Northwest War, and now that civil officials are in power, fewer and fewer people are willing to practice martial arts.

Although this should be the Huo family imperial concubine in order to compensate for the advice, but after all, the elder brother this half big has not yet passed the examination of the son Lang is to come out. The military commanders who

receive the holy family must have a war before they can go forward.

Our family was quiet and leisurely for a while, and the only thing that could stir up some ripples was that in April, Huo Jingyan came to the Shen family again.

It was to take Shen Qingrong’s native place and take her slave status. He

must have made a good connection. Selfishly,

I got the document from my father and sent it to Huo Jingyan in the corridor.

He turned his back to me again.

It seemed that since the day of the feast, he had lost a lot of smiles on his face, and when he stood, his eyes were always blank.

He was clearly not like this before.

Huo Jingyan’s life always seems to have a very clear goal, but it is for everyone to look at him, not because of his life experience and look down on him, standing there, the back is always very straight, like a nail on the board, with a tough temperament, and others are totally different.

But now, the nail seems to have been shaken, looking blankly between heaven and earth, not knowing why he had struggled for so many years. When

I arrived, he heard the noise, turned around, and quickly tidied up his expression. At that moment, seeing the unspeakable weakness on his face, I suddenly realized that this nail, which had always been precocious, was only seventeen years old.

I handed over the place of origin, he took it, I suddenly want to know, in the end. Why on earth did he choose Shen Qingrong.

By the time I realized it, I had asked what I was thinking.

Can not help but feel some chagrin, whether this is too offensive.

He was in a daze, and his expression showed a vague look. It took him a long time to say, “Ah Bi’s life is pitiful, and she is considerate. There’s nothing wrong with her.”. Then

he looked at me apologetically. “I’m keeping you, but you don’t have to..” I knew what he was hesitating to say, and I also knew that my action was really too abrupt. After I had calmly blessed myself, I said in a low voice, “But the Shen family is not the only one who has such a servant girl.”.

I did not look at him again, but turned away.

[9] In June, the emperor suddenly summoned his elder brother to the palace, and I knew that the weather in the capital had begun to change.

When my brother came back that day and told me with a solemn face, I knew what had happened.

Since the barbarians had repeatedly invaded, the emperor had issued a strict order not to allow barbarians to re-enter the capital, and the merchants had almost found 18 generations of ancestors, and not to allow people to hide the map of the capital, in order to prevent the barbarians from reaching the capital and making a big mess.

But now, the other side of the border to report, said there is a group of conference semifinals do not know where to get the map of the whole central plains, all the way to break through their search checkpoints, there is a plan to reach the capital, the emperor was worried, so the seal brother a six-grade imperial commander, called the elder brother to the capital twenty miles away from the four hundred city guarding city, never allow the conference semifinals to go any further.

Presumably, it was because my brother had been to the northwest and had fought head-on with the leader of the Hu people.

I was a little worried, so I asked several questions about the barbarian leader: “What is the weakness of the barbarian leader that can be grasped in his hands?”? What is missing in

his marching and fighting? Do you know your

brother?

The elder brother was quite helpless. “Little sister, you’ve asked so many questions. Which one should I answer first?”?

“Naturally, I said,” Answer them all. Although

my brother knew that it was of no use telling these questions to my daughter’s family, he explained them in detail so that I could feel at ease.

On the second day, my brother put on his armor and went to four hundred cities. In times of

peace and prosperity, it was natural for civil officials to gain power. In the eventful autumn, military commanders were very rare. My brother caught up with a good time and got a six-grade official position as soon as he entered the official career.

At the same time, the emperor’s decree, strict investigation in the capital and the conference semifinals inside and outside the spy, and most of the existing officials in the Dali temple boil into the old deep-fried dough sticks, the capital forces intertwined, this kind of thing also needs young people, I don’t know the importance of check, is a clue, the imperial concubine and very much love the emperor, around to go around, people elected to the Huojing banquet head.

The elder brother arrived at the four hundred city but seven days, four hundred city immediately spread the news, the conference semifinals really arrived at the four hundred city, to open the opening to the capital from now on, the elder brother led three thousand people guarding the city, only to find that the previous border came to the war report is wrong, where only a small team, roughly, there are twenty thousand people.

While the elder brother was ready to defend at the front, the team of the barbarians seemed to bend lightly, and soon divided into three teams, straight to the capital in three directions, such a swift and brave response, not to say that the leader had a clear map in his hand, and timely feedback, I’m afraid even a three-year-old child would not believe it.

The elder brother in the front, HuoJingYan in the capital is also very busy, check the native place to shrink the scope, almost turned the capital to the bottom.

The barbarians must have planted spies in the capital.

The situation is becoming more and more dangerous.

[10] I was worried about my brother. I was afraid that the spies in the capital would spread any news that would put my brother in danger again, so I had to find Shen Qingrong to inquire about the recent situation of Huo Jingyan’s investigation.

Shen Qingrong poked her head out of the carriage, put one hand on the maid’s hand, and got down from the carriage lightly. Compared with her shaking bun and her delicate face, I was so worried that I almost didn’t know who was the lady who had been pampered for many years.

Ah Shui whispered behind me, “She’s having a good time.”.

When I pressed her, I was very reluctant to deal with her, because she was not very willing to deal with the Shen family, but I was really worried, so I had to do this. When I

entered the room, I called for tea and eagerly asked if there were any clues about the mole. Shen Ching-jung stroked his broken hair and said, “There must be some clues. My husband checks his native place day and night..” I looked at her eyebrows and eyes carefully. Compared with last winter, she already had the noble spirit of a lady. She no longer had the petty spirit of a shrinking family. Her eyebrows and eyes were all calm.

Huo Jingyan really raised her very well, as if she was born with this noble spirit.

It’s just that she talked a lot and didn’t say anything that should be revealed.

I suppressed my irritation: “So?”? Where the hell are we

?

“She took a leisurely sip of tea and said,” This is a secret. My husband specifically told me not to tell anyone.

Not only was it me, but even Ah Shui couldn’t help stepping forward: Are you out of your mind? You’ve been

asked to talk about important things, and you’ve talked a lot about them, but you haven’t said a word about important things! When Shen Ching-jung heard this, he frowned and slapped the teacup on the table. “If my little sister doesn’t know how to discipline her servants,” he snorted coldly, “I won’t bother her any more!” Ah Shui was burning with anger: “The servant?”?

You’re not a servant?

Run into the master’s room and turn up the master’s corner. Are you still right?

It’s a lady with what, Joe?

Our childe is now also got a serious official position, your husband in addition to a pile of junk entangled what fame? What

are you pretending to be, lady? Being born in a

slave family is always being born in a slave family! I was about to stop it when I heard the servant outside shouting, “Master Huo, Master Huo, you can’t go in!” Before the words were out, Huo Jingyan lifted my curtain and strode in. His face was as heavy as if he were about to drop water. He said sullenly, “Mrs. Huo is no longer a slave.”. As soon as

he reached Shen Ching-jung’s side, he grabbed the man in his arms and said, almost angrily, There is no one in the world who is more noble than anyone else. Miss Shen is just the daughter of an official of the fifth grade. How can she be qualified to say that others are inferior? It

was as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over my head. I felt cold all over my body, and my face turned pale in an instant.

Ah Shui was also stopped by his words. He pulled Shen Qingrong and walked away angrily.

My hands and feet looked coldly at the corner of his clothes, which had been blown up by the wind. It took me a long time before I murmured, “..” Is not qualified to… A Shui was almost at a loss, as if he had realized that he had done something wrong.

[11] After that day, I didn’t think I was smart enough to ask anything anymore. I just stayed at home and was in a daze all day. “

Ah Shui is about to cry:” Young lady, I am wrong, you hit me to scold me good, you do not torture yourself like this.

I still do not speak.

My brother’s battle report came one after another. He had just finished reading it in the morning and delivered it again in the afternoon. The content was almost tragic, and the people who read it were about to suffocate. I looked at it every day, and I could hardly hold the letter in my hands.

Finally received a letter, wrote the elder brother with only five hundred soldiers, and the conference semifinals there are two thousand people, the elder brother asked for numerous support, but because there are few soldiers around the capital, how to transfer people can’t fall out.

Four hundred cities have become empty cities.

The people fled and were wounded.

Saint great anger, called Huo Jing banquet into the palace accountability, heard anger almost big enough to lift the entire Imperial Study, and Huo Jing banquet stayed inside for two hours, did not come out.

I clenched the veil on my hand.

For a long time, I said in a heavy voice, “Ah Shui, harness your horse and go to four hundred cities.”.

Four hundred cities were already empty. Although the front was tightly guarded, there were only a few sentinels in the rear. I set out from the capital, and it was not difficult for me to enter from the rear.

The date of my return was uncertain, and I even left my last words on my dressing table.

I asked the guards guarding the city to inform my elder brother of my arrival. My elder brother hurried out from inside. When he saw me, he was so anxious that he said, “What are you doing here, little sister?”?

！」 Little did I know that when I saw him, I couldn’t stop my tears. How can

my brother be calm and relaxed before departure? His

thin cheeks were sunken, his armor was scarred, there was a lot of blood oozing out, and his hair was messy. Before

I could speak, a young man hurriedly reported, “Commander!”! Here come the barbarians again! The elder brother turned pale with fright. In a hurry, he asked people to keep an eye on me and hurried away with his gun.

I bit the tip of my tongue to calm myself down. The soldiers around me saw that I was not frowning. They all thought I was here to make trouble. I watched my brother ride away and said imploringly to the soldiers next to him, “Take me to the wall. I have a way to make the barbarians withdraw!” [12] Doubtful as they were, the soldiers took me on the horse.

Passing through four hundred cities, I almost couldn’t believe what I saw. As far as the

eye can see, it’s all blood.

Four hundred people have no life in the city, and so close to the rear of the boundary can see the bodies of our soldiers, we can see how anxious the war is. The people who

are still alive are either moaning or unconscious.

And the people who can still stand, almost all on the front of the wall.

Soldiers took me all the way on horseback, accustomed to all this, indifferent all the way on horseback.

But now is not the time to be sad! I stared at the wall getting closer and closer, and as soon as I arrived, I turned over and dismounted, carrying my skirt all the way up the wall.

Before I went up, I heard my brother and the leader of the barbarians shouting. The leader of the barbarians told us to defect. This time the capital was doomed. My brother cursed him for being shameless.

More to the near, the men eyes red, but still pull the hands of the bow and arrow and catapult, clenched fists white.

I ran all the way behind my brother, ignoring his shocked eyes, and said eagerly, “Brother, I may have a way to make him withdraw his troops.”.

“My brother was shocked and said,” Do you know what you are talking about?

“I said,” Of course I know! Brother, let me confirm again, does Temuji have a daughter?

“The elder brother frowned and said,” It seems.. Is there one?

That’s it! I gritted my teeth. The cry of the

next head intensified, the men’s mental state is so worrying, can not be delayed! I immediately bent over and looked at Temuji’s bearded face. Seeing that I was just a little girl, Temuji smiled even more brazenly. “What’s wrong?”? Is there no one in the court of the

Central Plains?

Let a little girl go to war?

Ha ha ha ha! Arrogant! I snorted coldly, “Temuji, you haven’t forgotten that you have a daughter in the capital, have you?”?

The unbridled laughter almost stopped at once, and my heart relaxed slightly. I knew I had bet right.

I relaxed my grip on my skirt and pretended to be calm. “You don’t really think we don’t know anything, do you?”?

Temuji’s face froze.

I took a deep breath. It’s hard to dismount at this point. I have to stay calm. I have to, I have to win this battle! Not only has your daughter been under our control for a long time, but after three months, almost all the news has come from us. Don’t you think you’ve been too relaxed along the way? There was a smile on

my lips.

Temuji was livid and gnashed his teeth. “Impossible!”! It is impossible for you to spread false news. I immediately said, “Believe it or not, that’s up to you, but..” I shook my head with a look of regret. “Your little daughter is really suffering. Did you hear her calling for her father?”? Beads of sweat as big as beans oozed

from Temuji’s forehead. What have you done to my daughter? If I am granted amnesty.

That’s it! I smiled and said, “It’s nothing. It’s just that the emperor said that if you barbarians go any further, we’ll pull out one of your daughter’s fingernails.” Almost immediately, Temuji shouted, “No!” I turned leisurely and said, “You may still have time to save your daughter if you withdraw your troops now.”. I

‘ll give you a quarter of an hour to think about it. If you agree to withdraw, I’ll make the decision immediately and let your daughter go.

This makes me feel cold and sweaty, and I am in charge? Where am

I qualified to make decisions? I

am just a little girl, standing here, no matter how imposing, it is not enough to trust people, only I pretend to be a high-powered look, in order to convince him of me.

At this moment, I can not help but some thanks because I didn’t have time to pick off the gold and silver jewelry in a hurry, although not very rich, but compared with the face of the soldiers, I am almost very neat.

My brother was still shocked by what I had said. I turned around and immediately said to him in a low voice, “Send someone back to Beijing immediately to arrest Mrs. Huo, Shen Ching-jung!” The elder brother’s eyes widened again. “What?”?

！」 The elder brother lowered his voice a little. “Aren’t you crazy?”?

Shen Qingrong? What does it have to do

with her?

“” I’m sure of it! You go! I pleaded.

While Temuji was still hesitating, a madam ran to his side crazily, tugged at his sleeve and cried, “Ah Zhao, our Ah Zhao is still in their hands.”.

I looked at it immediately. Although

the lady was wearing the clothes of the barbarians, she looked like a Han Chinese, so this must be the lady of the Han Chinese who was highly respected by Tiemuji in the rumor.

I suddenly remembered something.

It’s a good opportunity! “Oh, is this the wife of Temuji Khan?”? It

‘s a good color.

I said lightly.

I just don’t know how such a weak lady can handle your other concubines?

Temuji and the lady looked up at the same time. You

must be curious how we got the information.

Ah, it’s easy to say. In March of spring, we discovered that a small group from the Hu-Han border had entered the capital, which alerted us. We secretly followed their movements early on, only to find that those men had entered the capital for no other reason than to assassinate your daughter! I said sarcastically.

Didn’t think of that? It was one of our own who

revealed the secrets of your war! As soon as the words came out, I was sure that even if Temuji had only believed half of my words before, now he should have believed nine points.

Sure enough, he no longer hesitated and angrily waved to withdraw his troops.

I shouted after him, “When you retreat thirty miles away, your daughter will give you with both hands.” Then I came down from the wall, and in an instant, my back was wet with cold sweat.

I fell into my brother’s arms and felt cold all over.

When I came to my senses, I found that all the soldiers around me looked at me seriously with adoring eyes. Looking back, my brother’s face was full of solemnity.

My brother took me by the hand and announced, “We have won!” In an instant, cheers rang through the walls.

[13] The first thing to come back from the four hundred cities. Without stopping,

I asked someone to go into the palace to pass the invitation.

The emperor was obviously better informed than I was, and soon I had been invited into the Imperial Study.

I closed my eyes and gave myself a pep talk.

This battle is even more important. All the luck of

the Huo family in the future is almost tied to this time. On the way

here, I have already figured out that Shen Qingrong is Huo Jingyan personally promoted into the Huo family, this time if you don’t clean up the matter of Huo Jingyan, even the Shen family can’t escape! By this time it was completely dark, and it was almost silent outside.

I took a deep breath and stepped into the magnificent palace.

“My daughter Shen Ching-rou, see Your Majesty!” I knelt and said in a loud voice.

Get up. Although the

emperor’s voice was serious, I faintly heard a trace of gentleness, which made my heart relax. When I

got up, I glanced at Huo Jingyan. He was still kneeling there. His face was livid but white, and his expression was loose. I knew immediately that he must have learned about Shen Qingrong.

The emperor has obviously had a round of fire, the attitude is still gentle, which let me rest assured a lot. Tell me quickly

, how did you discover that Mrs. Huo was a spy?

The emperor’s complexion is not worried.

After listening to this sentence, my heart was again overwhelming, “Mrs. Huo.” The emperor called Shen Ching-jung Mrs. Huo, not Shen Ching-jung.

But I can’t sit back and watch the emperor on the charge of collaborating with the Huo family, even if. If not for Huo Jingyan, but also for the uncle of the Huo family.

I gritted my teeth and replied respectfully, “Back to the emperor.”.

Abi has been in the Shen family for three years, and is the maid of the minister’s daughter. In the past three years, Abi has not done anything wrong, and the minister’s daughter has not noticed anything wrong, but since March, the minister’s daughter, the brother of the Huo family, and Abi have encountered a surprise attack. That time, the minister’s daughter suddenly heard that the thieves called Abi “Emperor’s Concubine.” The minister’s daughter did not think much about it at that time.. At this point, I kowtowed again and said, “Your Majesty, please forgive my daughter!” The emperor waved his hand and said, “No harm.”.

“Seeing this, I went on to say,” But this Dynasty has never called a princess an’imperial concubine. ‘At that moment, I just felt that I had suddenly misheard her, and I didn’t suspect too much.

Later, when my elder brother returned from the northwest, he told me about the local conditions and customs of the northwest. When he talked about Tiemuci Khan, he was amazed by the fact that he attached great importance to his Han wife. My daughter also asked a few more questions because of this. Only then did she know that Tiemuci attached great importance to family ties, especially to his Han wife, and that Tiemuci’s room was in addition to the Han wife. There were also barbarian nobles who married each other.

Later, when the minister’s daughter was studying, she accidentally learned that the imperial concubine was the name given to the daughter of the leader of the former Dynasty, and that the former Dynasty had been destroyed for nearly a hundred years, so it was very strange that the remaining sins were left to do evil at this time.

And the assassination in March, led by three people are all Han Chinese appearance, but never see its harm a bi, therefore, I have some female suspicion, asked the elder brother to know, we and Hu to the border where Hu Han intermarriage is very common, and because of the remote location, many Hu people and Han people still retain the name of the “imperial concubine”, now there is still the name of the imperial concubine, There must be only Hu Hanbian left.

But based on this, it was still difficult for my daughter to conclude that Abi was the barbarian princess, because later her elder brother risked his life to defend the four hundred cities. My daughter was extremely worried, and was eager to find out where the elder brother of the Huo family had found the mole. She was surprised to see that Abi described it as ordinary, not to mention that she was not as worried as my daughter, and her face was even happier. But later in the conversation, My daughter found that the elder brother of the Huo family had made no progress, but how could the elder brother of the Huo family not devote himself to the country?

Come to think of it, Abby’s role in it is crucial.

What’s more, Abby knew the details of the Huo family’s elder brother’s investigation almost like the palm of her hand, but when it came to the important things, she was vague. The minister’s daughter became suspicious. Before the battle, she was in a hurry to seek medical treatment. The minister’s daughter cheated on Temuji. Temuji really cared about his daughter. Within a few words, she missed the stuffing. The minister’s daughter dared to ask her brother to send someone to tell the emperor. Catch the barbarian spies.

I finished in one breath and breathed a sigh of relief.

I have tried my best to excuse Huo Jingyan to this point, is already exhausted.

The emperor listened, but his expression changed several times.

I knew that I could not hide this thought in my heart from the 95 Supreme, who was nearly 40 years old, and I was quite nervous.

After a while, the emperor said, “You are really brave and resourceful.”. A good daughter raised by Lord

Shen! Women are not inferior to men. If you were a man, you would not be worse than Huo Jingyan. When I heard

this, I finally loosened my grip on the veil, and my body sank with some force.

I know, the Shen family is all right, and the Huo family is all right.

[14] The emperor didn’t keep me too long. At the same time, he let Huo Jingyan, who had been standing for six hours, go home.

When Huo Jingyan got up from the ground, he looked uncertain. I couldn’t say how he felt in his heart. At the moment, I only had the emptiness of the rest of my life, and I didn’t care much about him.

So he and I slowly walked out of the Imperial Study, one after the other, the same silence. There was no one on the

gloomy palace road, but there was silence all around, no lights, only the little eunuch in front of him silently holding the only light source in the vast night. The

towering walls of the palace gave me a strong sense of depression, and the air was so sticky that I could hardly breathe.

「…… Don’t you go to see the sister of the Huo family. I was

silent all the way, and when I saw that I was approaching the palace gate, I said.

Huo Jingyan stopped, I stared at his back, suddenly found that his back, I do not know when to start bending down.

「…… The elder sister is the empress and concubine, without the emperor’s permission, no one can see.

His voice was so light, so light, so light that it was almost inaudible.

He looked at least ten years older now, but I was undeservedly distracted.

The elder brother once said that the elder sister of the Huo family has always been free and easy, and is not bound by the secular world.

But now, even her own brother into the palace, she can hardly see one side.

I can’t help feeling a little sorry.

Huo Jingyan did not continue to move forward, and I stopped.

Huo Jingyan looked up with an expressionless face and said, “Look at the palace wall. It’s square.”.

Is it like a cage?

I was startled. “How can it be like a cage?” Then I took a step forward and gnashed my teeth: “Be careful what you say!” Huo Jingyan just glanced at me lightly.

I remember the last time I saw my sister.. It was at this time last year.

He suddenly recalled to himself.

I don’t know what he’s going to do, but I think he’s extremely dangerous now. Strange to

say, it is reasonable to say that he and Abby are deeply in love. Now that Abby has betrayed him and is in prison, he should have been extremely sad, but his behavior is even less like a person who is frustrated in love, but more like the melancholy of the poem “thinking of the leisurely nature of heaven and earth, and crying alone.”.

Ming Ming has already entered the summer, it can be seen that he is so, but it still makes people feel endless coolness.

Everyone says that my sister is in a high position and has good luck, but my sister is in the palace. How to live a torturous life. Everyone wants to calculate her, she has no family background, can only be careful, step by step back, this palace heart is black, grinding people, almost can not find the original appearance.

Ah Rou, tell me, what are we struggling for all our lives?

Is it for fame?

Is it for profit?

But these things, even if in hand, in the end, or because of a person’s joy and anger and gains and losses, this in the end, what is the world. What

he said was so emotional that even the faint rustling of leaves in the wind seemed to be crying for him.

But I feel very absurd, absurd home! I looked at him in disbelief, “This is you, this is the reason why you broke our engagement and asked to marry Abby?”?

Then I raised my hand and slapped him in the face without mercy.

Huo Jing Yan! Are you crazy?

I shouted, disregarding my image.

Huo Jingyan looked at me in a daze.

I was so angry that I laughed: “You feel sorry for yourself, and you have involved the Shen and Huo families in wiping your childish ass.”. You

blame others, and you are willing to ruin your future and be humble. You

say you don’t want your future to depend on the joys and sorrows of one person. Do you know that if all the poor people in the world thought like you, the world would have been destroyed long ago? I was so angry that I trembled all over, and my heart was full of anger and anger, mixed with disappointment, and even more ridiculous about my original understanding of Huo Jingyan! I.. I I was filled with resentment, but for a moment I couldn’t get any sense out of it, so I had to say, “How ridiculous you are!”! See for yourself! Huo Ching-yan was scolded by me for being a fool. When I finished, I was still angry in my chest. Seeing that he looked stupefied, I was angry again. I looked around, but I didn’t take advantage of what I was holding to give him a hard slap. I simply threw the handkerchief in my hand into his face: “If I were your elder, it would be like stuffing you back into your stomach to have another life!”. With that, I strode out of the palace gate, regardless of the young lady’s mood.

[15] What is it! Huo Jingyan is really. Really I thought, I thought he was like me! Are bound by this secular, how can not break away from the people! Even though I was full of resentment, I felt a deep sense of powerlessness. The rickety state of the

carriage scattered a lot of fatigue and anger in my heart.

At night, I dared to lift the curtain of the carriage and blow the night wind.

The night wind congealed into a mass, which covered my face tightly, and I woke up a lot after a cold spell. What are you

angry about? What

‘s there to be angry about?

I used to be in the Bureau, and I took it for granted to put everyone into the world I conceived, thinking that Huo Jingyan should have lived such an upward life, but now I think it is difficult for me to force others.

In fact, Huo Jingyan is only eighteen years old now.

Eighteen years old, everything is still young, he has temperament, unwilling to be manipulated by others all his life, but chose the wrong way, chose a self-righteous way to break away from the secular world.

But he’s still young and has a chance, I think.

However, even a man like Huo Jingyan thinks that he can’t make decisions for his own life. As a woman, what can I do to break free from this secular world?

The long street is long, where is the home.

“Alas..” The street outside is not very popular. It is gloomy, with only a few scattered lights, so the lanterns with the big “Shen” character are particularly conspicuous, and they are getting closer and closer.

Thinking of going home later and being questioned by my parents, my heart became tired again.

As soon as I got out of the carriage, my parents were sitting on the chair waiting for me. The

elder brother hasn’t slept well for a few days, and now he has already rested.

Looking at the tiredness in my parents’ eyes, I felt a little guilty.

I immediately knelt down and said, “My daughter is unfilial, which worries my father and mother.”.

Father and mother looked at each other.

The mother took the lead in pounding the table, while the father picked up the teacup. The mother said angrily, “Do you know this is unfilial?”?

That’s the battlefield! Do you dare to go where the sword has no eyes?

Is there such a thing that your brother can’t do?

“I squashed my lips.” It’s an emergency.. ” Urgent? How long will it take you to

write a letter to your brother?

My mother’s finger almost touched the tip of my nose.

I knew my mother wanted to be impatient, touched her nose, and did not dare to speak again.

Mother shouted for a while, then sat down angrily, took a sip of tea, and looked at me with my eyes, nose, and heart. She was quite tired. “You girl, aren’t you all pretending to be quiet and virtuous for the first sixteen years?”?

Look at what you’ve got in your room. Forget it. You even dare to go to the front! The father interrupted the mother in time and asked what had happened. Of course,

I told the whole story in detail.

The more he listened, the more serious his father’s expression became. With a dry mouth,

I stood up and took a sip of tea from my teacup. When I finished

drinking, I saw my father looking at me longingly. I was stunned for a moment and said uncertainly, “What’s wrong with my daughter?”?

“The father said seriously,” You have done a good job, or even a very good job.

You have given His Majesty a step.

“I took the hint at once.” You mean.. Cut out the redundant staff?

Father nodded. Of course

I understand. In the battle of

the barbarians, the 95 Supreme, who had been pampered for too long, realized that the great country, which had always boasted of its strength, could not even take out a hero at the moment of national crisis. Too many

civil servants is not necessarily a good thing.

Your majesty purges the strict order of the court, I do not know how many officials who point to the treasury to support him for a lifetime will cry.

I said, “This will never involve the Shen family. We just need to live behind closed doors.”.

Hearing this, my father and mother looked at each other and were silent for a moment.

I don’t know.

After a while, my father sighed heavily. “What’s the matter?”

I asked? Both the

father and the mother looked a little lonely. The father said, Mingming, Mingming feels that it was only yesterday that you were still riding on me and calling Dad. How come now you can already talk about the court with Dad.

“” Why, why is our family’s spoiled little daughter now so familiar with affairs. There was a rare blank look on

his father’s face. “How come even you..” I was stunned. All of a sudden

, Ah Ran joined the army and became a soldier, and you have such an exquisite heart with seven orifices.. Feel yesterday you still can’t find the north child, how now. Suddenly find the north?

Father’s expression is very complex, if you want to explore carefully, it is probably some kind of loss and melancholy.

People say that young people do not know the taste of sorrow.

When teenagers know the taste of sorrow, the elders should leave quietly.

I looked at the gray hair on my parents’ temples, and my nose was a little sour.

[16] When my brother got up the next day, he looked blankly at me and my parents in a happy mood. His teeth were a little sour. “No, father, mother, why did you change your mind?”?

Isn’t it agreed that the little sister must be punished when she comes back?

My father stopped laughing with me and said angrily, “Your sister is a person who has made great contributions to the country. What is the punishment?”?

It’s you who are still sleeping at the end of the day! If you have the time to sleep and study, do you need your sister to work for you?

My brother came home tired for half a month and managed to get a good night’s sleep. When he woke up, he was scolded for no reason and rubbed his nose.

I couldn’t help laughing.

Such a happy life never lasts long.

Soon, the word of the emperor spread all over the capital, now everyone knows that the emperor is going to reshuffle, now everyone feels insecure, the emperor does not like to form cliques, those petty officials on the edge of the court are anxious to jump feet, but also dare not find a big official position to pull them, calculate to calculate, can only secretly poke things to the Shen family.

Today the official sent a jade toad, tomorrow the official sent a map of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and the day after tomorrow there was a gold and silver hairpin sent to the door, the father bit the wind, and was not allowed to accept it. After five days of closing the door in

this way, no one from the Shen family came.

Everyone said that the Shen family was talented and arrogant, and that their official positions were not small and their airs were not small. Soon, the Shen family became the best place to find resentment in people’s hearts, and everyone wanted to take a bite.

And this sharp contrast before and after is only what happened in half a month.

At first, the elder brother was so angry that he jumped to his feet. Later, he gradually faded away. He understood that the person who scolded more severely must be the one who lost the most. It didn’t matter if he wanted to understand this.

It’s just that you show off. A frog without feet can’t jump for long.

It’s just not completely unaffected.

In the past, your daughter’s activities, although not every post to me, but at least seven or eight times a month, this month is really idle, not a letter.

The ladies are all actively moving around, and no one is following my example.

Once the crisis comes, girls’ sense of smell is also very keen.

They can listen to the news as freely as fish in the water, but they can’t talk to the gravel, or even, they don’t want to look at it, and subconsciously ignore it, as if as long as they ignore it, they can forget that there is an alien in their own group.

I’m the other one.

But I am not very sad, because for me, I am more comfortable not to communicate with them.

But after all, the atmosphere of everyone shouting and fighting alarmed the emperor.

Even if we don’t say anything, the emperor still can’t see that the future confidant he wants to cultivate is unable to move in this capital.

In August, the emperor issued an imperial edict that caused an uproar in the capital.

“Emperor Fengtian Chengyun issued an edict saying that Shen Jingrou, the daughter of the Shen family, was gentle and virtuous, brave and resourceful.” The shrill voice of the Chamberlain from the palace seemed to pierce the disguised tranquility.

「…… The Chamberlain solemnly placed the imperial edict in my hand and reminded me, “Princess, the emperor wants you to go to the palace to thank him.”.

[17] On the way to the palace, I have been pondering the deep meaning behind the emperor’s action.

On the one hand, the rumors in the capital probably reached his ears.

In order to win over the future minister of the humerus, he issued an imperial edict to give Shen’s daughter a more noble position. Now, even if someone wants to step on the Shen family now, he has to worry about me, the princess.

Second, in the name of sacrificing my life to protect my country. It

is also a reward for my contribution.

Pay off my affection, the Shen family also had to be grateful, I thought to myself, this is the balance of the imperial family?

However, there were only two or three sons under the emperor’s knee, and only one daughter, the nine princesses who died early. In addition, the brother of the emperor who seized the throne in his early years died in bits and pieces, and few of the girls in the next room were granted the title of princess. In this way, I am now almost the only woman in the world.

This feeling is too heavy, isn’t it?

I let out a sigh.

Sure enough, the holy will is still unpredictable.

「…… Long live our emperor! Long live our emperor! I’m on my knees, Shane.

The emperor sat at the top with a benevolent face: “Get up.”. As soon as

I sat down in the chair that had been lifted for me, I looked up and was almost startled.

The emperor is staring at my face.

I was on tenterhooks.

After holding back for a quarter of an hour, I finally couldn’t hold back any longer. I reached out my hand and touched my face, which finally brought the emperor to his senses.

The emperor twitched the muscles of his face twice, with a look of dull pain and desolation.

I moved a little uncomfortably, cleared my throat and said tentatively, “What’s bothering the emperor?”?

I dare to share the worries of the emperor.

The emperor forced a smile. There was silence

again. After a long

silence, the emperor said, “When I see you, I think of my daughter who died early.”. I looked like I was

listening.

I had been married to the late Empress Lin for five years. At that time, I had not yet ascended the throne, and I was busy with government affairs. As a result, the Empress had not been pregnant for five years. Later, after she ascended the throne, she finally expected to have a child.

The emperor’s expression was nostalgic, as if he had been completely immersed in the past.

The empress is a person who has never been restricted by others, but she has suffered a lot for this child. Because it is the first child, the child is very noisy, and often can’t sleep in the middle of the night. When she is in a hurry, she even says in a fit of pique that she simply doesn’t want this child.

“But no matter how urgent it is, she worked hard to conceive the child. At that time I said that the child was a little noisy, and she was a big noisy. When the child was born, my harem would not know how noisy it would be..” The emperor’s face emerged a shallow smile, was affected by memories of the mood.

Soon, the baby was born, a princess.

I cherish this child very much, and hope that she can always have the same noble spirit and good fortune as a princess, so I gave her a maiden name, Baozhu.

Baozhu has been intelligent and clever since she was a child, and she is carved in powder and jade. No one is unhappy with her.

But.. The emperor’s expression changed several times, and at this point, it was a little difficult.

“When Baozhu was eight years old, my childhood companion died of illness, and there was no one to guard the border between Hu and Khan, so the barbarians plundered their wealth and made the border restless. What’s more, the old Khan of the barbarians sent an envoy to the capital, and his words were arrogant and arrogant, but he even asked to marry his own princess!”. The late emperor didn’t leave any unmarried daughters, and my brothers all died in the process of seizing the throne, leaving only my precious pearls.

“” The orb.. Baozhu is only eight years old! How can you leave your parents? Marry Hu

far away?

The emperor looked with a dull pain.

But the courtiers don’t want to fight, and they all want to make peace. I can’t suppress the criticism of the Manchu court. After all, I let the empress know.

The Lin family was blindly loyal and secretly put pressure on the empress, causing the empress to cry all day and be depressed.

Baozhu was only eight years old, and she was already very intelligent. She refused to see her father and mother embarrassed. Why isn’t she afraid to marry so far away?

But she said she was her own princess, and she should have shouldered the responsibility! The emperor’s eyes were closed and he was in great pain.

“But all day long she didn’t seem to belong, and she lost her footing and fell into a carp pond..” Never again. Never come back.. I know what happened later. When

Princess Baozhu passed away, the first queen could not bear the pain of losing her daughter, and she died for a long time.

That year, Princess Baozhu was eight years old.

That year, the emperor lost his most trusted brother, his most beloved wife and his most cherished daughter.

That year, despite the opposition of the courtiers, the emperor beat back the barbarians with a red and gold bow, which planted the seeds of fear in the hearts of every barbarian.

That year, when the emperor returned to court, his officials died to remonstrate with him.

In the end, the emperor never stepped out of the capital again.

My heart is very complicated. Is it fortunate or unfortunate that

he was born in an imperial family? Everyone

in this world has his own unspeakable suffering. As a woman, although the rules of the world are overwhelming,

I don’t have to shoulder the responsibility of supporting my family.

Although everyone has his own ambition, the secular world has never let anyone go, but it is the mutual torture of all people. A thin tear oozed from the corner of the

emperor’s eye. How can

I not be sad and pained.. At that time, my foundation was not stable, and my means were green, which led to the tragedy of the orb. But now, you have this face that is five or six points similar to the orb. I can’t bear to see you suffer like this.. The emperor’s hand clung to the armrest of the chair. As

I watched, I felt a little heavy in my heart, so I had to kneel in silence.

He is the emperor, the supreme of 95, and the co-owner of the world.

So he hid all his emotions and let the wound rot in the corner behind him.

A few years later, it was suddenly torn open, and the air was filled with the smell of decay.

No one can escape.

Everyone is suffering.

[18] Perhaps it was on that day that the emperor finally spoke out the secret pain that had been buried in his heart for many years. He felt much happier and opened his mouth to promise that I could make a request at will.

I immediately thanked him and asked for a grace of free access to the checkpoints. Although the emperor was confused, he still waved his hand and answered.

Layoffs in the capital of the storm, but the real implementation of only one month, the shuffle above the court was completed, some people are happy and some people are worried. There are the Shen family and the Huo family who are

happy.

The elder brother was rewarded with a third-grade assistant minister according to his merits, and became an upstart in the capital, and the Shen family was in the limelight for a while. The imperial concubine of

the Huo family also succeeded in regaining her favor after falling out of favor for a month. Huo Jing held a banquet and worshipped an old temple minister of the Dali Temple as his teacher. He went in and out of the Dali Temple every day to practice the way of settling and investigating cases.

Before he left, he came to see me. His expression was already flat, as if he had gone back to a year ago. He said that he thought that as long as he was deviant enough, he would resist the secular world. But now he found that he was wrong. If he wanted to change the world, he had to have enough voice first.

I smiled and nodded. But

he was a little absent-minded. When I asked him what was wrong, he said, Ah Rou is very different from before. Rou

used to walk behind me, but now it’s like I’m walking behind Rou.

He said with a smile.

In the past, Ah Rou didn’t understand what a person’s life is for, and now Ah Rou doesn’t understand either. She just feels that the most important thing for a person to live is to obey his heart.

I nodded. Rou,

who obeys her heart, seems to have changed a lot.

He nodded and said no more, but somehow he added devilishly.

After my seventeenth birthday, I became an old maid who hated to marry.

But all over the capital, there is no son who suits my parents. Either my life experience is too low, and my parents are afraid that I will marry in the past, or my life experience is too high, and my parents are afraid that I will marry in the past and be looked down upon, and some don’t want to marry a princess at all.

In short, the parents have been busy until February next year, did not want to take good care of a son. Every day,

I watched my parents sighing in my spare time, and then went back to my room to knock on the iron and make wood.

One day, when I was studying the drawings in my room and looking at the full moon outside, I suddenly remembered the moon upstairs in the Drunken Fairy Building.

Moonlight through the window of the Drunken Fairy Tower into the arms of the wine cup, shadowy, can not see clearly, I blankly poured the wine into my mouth, will be full of moonlight into the heart.

I want to drink! I suddenly stood up.

Just do it.

But this time, I couldn’t be as shortsighted as I was a year ago, and I walked into the Drunken Fairy Building in a rich woman’s dress.

So I secretly took the clothes I had prepared for my brother in the room. Although they were a little loose, they looked very decent. I nodded with satisfaction and sneaked out of the house.

Zuixianlou is still bustling.

Waiter greeted him with a smile. “Is it a private room or a sitting room?”?

I glanced around the hall. There were a lot of people, and only a few corners had seats.

But I really wanted to experience the fireworks of the world, so I said, “Hall.”.

The child smiled respectfully and was about to lead me to sit down when suddenly a man reached his hand in front of the waiter and dropped a few pieces of silver. At the same time, his voice rang lazily in my ear: Excuse me, waiter, I’ll take all the empty seats in the hall. The

speaker, a man, was standing without standing on one side of the pillar. He shrugged his shoulders indifferently at the embarrassed smile of the waiter and my questioning eyes?

A new guest? According to the

rules of Zuixianlou, whoever gives money first is the master. Holding my breath,

I glanced at him coldly and said to the waiter, “Let’s go to the wing.”.

The child was in a hurry to bow and scrape, and I strode to the stairs with a cold face. I was so unlucky that I managed to come out to play, but I still met this kind of person. It was really disappointing. The wine

of Zuixianlou is still so intoxicating. I only drank one cup, and then I felt my mind swelled, so I didn’t dare to drink any more, thinking that my goal of remembering the past had been achieved. I held the table and staggered to go home. As soon as

I pushed open the door of the wing, a man stopped me.

I looked up in a daze, only to find that it was the man who had stolen my seat in the lobby.

The man put his arm across in front of me, still looking lazy, and said, “Excuse me, Miss, I’ll ask the bartender to take you home.”.

Lest you go downstairs with such honor and be gnawed to the bone in the end.

The word “Miss” scared me out of my wits, and I suddenly raised my head.

The man was probably frightened by my shock and had a heart attack for a long time.

「…… Really, miss?

You don’t think you’re doing a good job, do you?

The man looked stunned. The man couldn’t help laughing out loud at the look in

my eyes that said, “Or else.” “Oh, oh, this young lady, I’ve never seen a young man walk so coyly like you. Look at your slender waist. Your belt is tied three times, but you’re still hanging around your waist. Tut.

So, if you please, miss, it’s a dark and windy night. Hurry up and go.

」「…… How do I know if you’re a good person?

Perhaps it was the alcohol that made me lose my mind, and I couldn’t turn my head for a moment.

「……」 The man seemed speechless for a moment. “Did you just look at the eyes of the people below?”?

Young master just spent three taels of silver to wrap up four tables. If young master were a bad man, you would have been eaten up by those boys down there who indulge in debauchery! I drank wine, and my head was not very clear, so I couldn’t understand it for such a long time.

So I waved and staggered down the stairs again.

That person still follows after me ceaselessly: “Not be young lady, do you still want to go back by yourself?”?

My God, can you give me the silver before you go? Squinting my eyes and groping all over my body,

I took out my purse and handed it over at random.

「…… No, I asked you to give it to me, but did you really give it to me?

“Hey, miss, you don’t need so much silver!” “All right..” The man sighed with resignation. “Think of it as if you had paid for a bodyguard.”.

I walked on by myself, not intending to pay any attention to him.

After three blocks, it was almost dawn, and I looked at the smell of alcohol blowing away, and stretched.

Looking back, the man behind me put his hands on his head. I laughed and said, “You’re really following me.”. Sober up

?

The man put down the dog’s tail grass hanging in his mouth and muttered in a low voice, “It’s pretty fast.”.

He turned nonchalantly to go. Suddenly, he turned around and said, “So are you drunk or not?”?

“I smiled.” I only had one drink.

So you’re not drunk?

Well, I think I’m smart.

Seeing the man walking away, I suddenly asked in a loud voice, What’s your name? Still with his back to me,

the man did not stop walking. He waved his hand and said, “The Great Sage Equaling Heaven does not change his name when walking, nor does he change his surname when sitting.”.

I was suddenly dumb.

Seeing people walking farther and farther, I sighed and played with the jade pendant on my waist rather bored. Did

he see me wearing a jade pendant engraved with dragon patterns?

And I want to see his green face.

[19] In a twinkling of an eye, it was winter again. I

finally finished what I had been working on for almost a whole year-a set of protective equipment with hidden weapons sewn on it, which was for my brother.

Of course, there were not only this, but also two pairs of sleeves and kneepads, which were made for my parents. When I was satisfied to take them out and give them to my parents and brother, I saw the red eyes of the three people.

My daughter is going to leave tomorrow, so let these things be me, always by the side of my parents and brothers.

I am blessed.

Just half a month ago, the emperor issued an imperial edict to let the princess of Changning go to Jiangbei to pray for the country.

That day the emperor called me into the Palace. As soon as I stepped into the Imperial Study, I heard the voice of the emperor throwing cups and shouting angrily. I shrank for a moment, and the emperor quickly gathered his expression. Only then did

I know that the emperor’s three princes had just reached the age of marriage, and the courtiers all intentionally or unintentionally remonstrated with the emperor, asking the emperor to marry the princess of Changning and the three princes.

The emperor said angrily, “This is ridiculous!” My heart is relieved a lot, the emperor loves me, he knows I do not want to marry the three princes, he does not want to, now this attitude, there must be other ways.

The emperor’s method is also simple, after getting my consent, he quickly announced to the world.

That is to say, let me go to Jiangbei to pray for more than half a year, so he will arrange marriage for the three princes as soon as possible.

So the next morning after saying goodbye to my parents, I set off for Jiangbei.

My brother, my father, and my mother all came to see me off. My father and mother grimaced and said, “If only you had gone to the north of the Yangtze River and come back with a son-in-law.”.

I was greatly surprised. I didn’t expect that my father and mother could say such a thing now. I couldn’t help laughing: You don’t look at other people’s families anymore? What’s the use of looking at each other

again?

If you don’t like it, there’s always an excuse to turn him down. The

mother muttered.

I jumped into the carriage, just in the glare of the midday sun.

It’s so bright.

From now on, it’s all bright.

[20] I went to Jiangbei for a whole year, not without any news, but long enough.

So the first day I came back, my parents wanted to strip me all over, and with tears in their eyes, they blamed me for not going home for so long.

This is the first time I have been so far away from home. When I

was in the north of the Yangtze River, I always felt that a person outside was just so so. I also laughed at my brother’s weakness. When I got home, I realized that I had suffered the cold of a person outside. When the warm wind of home blew on my face, I could not bear tears.

But I didn’t go back to Beijing alone.

I brought someone home.

When I brought the man to my parents, they were all stunned.

I wiped away my tears and then said proudly, “My daughter said she would bring a son-in-law home.”.

That man was Xiao Yan.

If the second child of the Drunken Immortal Building is here, he must recognize that Xiao Yan was the person who packed four tables in one breath that day and stayed outside an elegant room for an hour. As soon as

Xiao Yan was brought in by me, he changed his usual appearance and looked very cramped, straightening his body.

My parents quickly arranged for someone to ask Xiao Yan to stay, and pulled me to ask questions about my family, temperament and so on. Naturally,

I answered truthfully. Xiao Yan and

I met again on the boat to the north of the Yangtze River. At that time, I was seasick and vomited in the dark. He threw a pill to me. After that, we exchanged identities. Later, I inadvertently helped him a lot, so we have been together.

The parents were a little nervous. “So what’s he like?”?

But what are the bad habits?

“I said with a smile,” I usually talk a little foolishly, but in fact I have my own way of doing things.

Even so, his father and mother left Xiao Yan at home and wanted to take a good look at him.

As soon as he settled down, Hsiao Yan came over with some discomfort: “Your family doesn’t have a lot of rules, does it?”?

“I raised my eyebrows and said,” Is there a time when Shaoxia Xiao is afraid?

Seeing that he was really restless, I said, “Why don’t I take you to the streets of the capital?”? He

promised, and when he left the house, it was as if he had returned to his own home. His expression was flying again, and his steps were fast.

Ah Shui said with a smile, “My son-in-law’s temper is really very different from that of your sons in the capital.”.

The young lady spoils him.

“I looked at his back and smiled,” He grew up among the people in Jianghu, and he never looked down on officials. It’s just that he’s willing to learn the rules for me, and I don’t have any reason to go against him.

Just as we were chatting, Hsiao Yan noticed that I wasn’t keeping up, and the pace slowly slowed down.

He doesn’t want to interrupt me catching up with you.

I said.

Ah Shui has some admiration: “My son-in-law is very considerate to the young lady.”.

Hsiao Yan went to a jewelry stall to pick up something. She was bargaining with her aunt with a pair of peach blossom eyes. The aunt blushed and sold it when it was cheap.

I was joking with Ah Shui, looking at him from a distance, but ran into Huo Jingyan head-on.

He seemed to be about to investigate the case, and he was dressed in a strong suit, crisp and neat.

When he saw me, he was stunned.

See princess.

He saluted.

I quickly raised his hand, and he stared at me.

「…… I heard that you are going back to Beijing this time to discuss marriage?

Huo Jingyan said with some difficulty.

I stood very straight, the wind blowing through my hair, I was silent, and then nodded: “Yes.”.

“He was silent for a moment and then said,” What kind of man is he?

“I thought about it and said easily,” He is a Jianghu man. He always has the habits of a Jianghu man. He doesn’t seem to care about anything and has no rules, but in fact he has his own bottom line.

I tilted my head and looked at Hsiao Yan. He never likes to use rules to bind himself, so he never has any restrictions on me. As long as I want to, he never cares about me without touching his bottom line.

He is really a very, very good man.

I can only sum up this sentence.

Xiao Yan was still arguing with the aunt, as if she had not noticed my eyes at all.

Huo Jingyan was silent for a long time and said softly, “..” If at the beginning, I didn’t give up my marriage.. I interrupted, “There are no ifs.”.

I looked at him sincerely and said, Brother Huo, during the more than ten years when you and I were engaged, the Shen and Huo families had a very good relationship. You often came to see me, but in the past ten years, I have never felt that you have the slightest love for me.

On the contrary, after I retired from you, you cared about me.

People are probably like moths. They all have phototaxis, and when they see that others have the characteristics they yearn for, they can’t help but approach them.

When you retired, I yearned for your indomitable momentum, but all this disappeared when I realized that you did not love Abby.

Xiao Yan was so attractive to me from the very beginning. He was free and uninhibited. I thought he was just used to lawlessness, but in fact he had a bottom line in his heart. After I got to know him, I really liked him.

Brother Huo, phototaxis is not love, do you understand?

I looked at him and said that.

Huo Jingyan was stunned by what I said again. After a long time, he finally smiled and said, Ah Rou is quite like a father when she talks about reason now.

“He handed his hand and said,” Well, let’s say goodbye.

I returned the salute to him.

He smiled, relieved, and then turned away, with his back to me, and suddenly waved his hand.

Then it’s really goodbye. When

I walked to Xiao Yan’s side, he just agreed to buy two hairpins at a satisfactory price with his aunt.

He asked me to pick one, and I chose a golden butterfly with thin wings that trembled slightly when I picked it up and looked as if it was ready to fly.

Xiao Yan was a little surprised: “Your taste is more elegant now.”.

He picked up what he had chosen earlier, which was an identical butterfly hairpin.

I gave him a white look and groped my way to put it on. I pretended to ask casually, “Did you see the one who was talking to me just now?”?

So Hsiao Yan looked at me and said carelessly, “I just looked at my back, but I didn’t pay attention.”.

I said, “Oh.”.

Then you didn’t hear what we said. It’s good if

you don’t hear it, or if you hear me praise him, the tail will go up to heaven.

I noticed an irrepressible smile at the corners of his mouth. “Why don’t you help me?” He said. Xiao Yan reluctantly pressed the corners of her mouth and took the hairpin to help me put it on. Aunt smiled and held up the silver mirror for me to see. I looked around at the people in the mirror. The butterfly wanted to fly but could not fly and landed on her hair. Her face was not made up, but her lips had natural blood. I smiled and was very satisfied.

Hsiao Yan suddenly brought up the one in his hand. I looked around, one on the left and one on the right. I looked like a little girl who was only eleven or twelve. “One on the left and one on the right,” I said discontentedly. “How vulgar!”. He refused to take it off. I stared at him and said, “Take it off!” He looked at me and laughed until I felt so strange that I reached out angrily to get it, but he put his finger on the butterfly before me and said, “This is the bottom line.”.

I was stupefied. Then I jumped up to hit him. “You heard me!” Yes, what are you pretending not to hear?

Hsiao Yan was somewhat innocent. “I didn’t say I didn’t hear it.” “Ah! Ah!” I’m so angry. But

he put his arm around my shoulder and held me in his arms. Then he turned around and said rather smartly, “Let’s go home.” [Extra chapter: Huo Jingyan] That day, I went to the Drunken Immortal Building for a drink. In fact, it wasn’t because of a sudden idea, but because before that day, I had been given the order by the emperor to see Abby, who was still detained in the palace at that time.

I went with Huo Jingyan. Although

I don’t know how their relationship is, I can see from his attitude that Abby is a spy that he doesn’t like Abby as much as I imagined. After

discovering this, my heart inevitably had a little resentment-after all, he married Abby, but not because he liked her, but because of those ridiculous and childish reasons.

I thanked the Chamberlain who opened the door for me and walked slowly into the somewhat desolate palace. Huo Jingyan bowed his head and followed me in silence. Half a year

later, I saw this man again.

At this point, I don’t know what to call her. Sitting on a chair in the room,

she was not haggard, her hair was scattered on her shoulders, and she smiled when she saw me. Between

her eyebrows and eyes, there is no trace of Abi who has accompanied me for three years. Abi is gentle like water, a few years older than me, and always speaks softly.

There is no trace of Shen Qingrong’s figure, at least not as cramped as when she was the adopted daughter of the Shen family, nor as arrogant as Mrs. Huo. Only

then did I remember that people like her had had so many appearances.

But now she looks calm, her eyebrows and eyes are stretched, and her proud neck is exposed.

I don’t see what kind of person she is.

She seemed to know what I was going to say. She smiled and said, “Bai Jinzhao.”.

Bai Jinzhao.. This should be the name given to her by her Han Chinese mother. So, did Temuji, who loved her so much, not give her a barbarian name? Once again,

she understood my desire to speak and then stopped, and the corners of her mouth curved deeper than ever: “I don’t have a barbarian name.”.

Because as soon as I was born, I grew up in a community of Han Chinese.

She seemed to have been holding back for a long time, and as soon as she saw me, she poured out all her stories. Hu Hanjiaodi

has a place where Han people live together. There is a fairly wealthy family in the place, whose surname is Bai.

The Bai family had a daughter who was very beautiful, and all the men within a few miles wanted to marry her home, but the master of the Bai family said that he would choose the best one again, and then consider whether to marry his daughter. The daughter of the

Bai family was raised by her father when she was young. She was very curious about the outside world. One day, she went to the stream outside to soak her feet and met a barbarian man.

The barbarian man, who claimed to be Temuji, took the youngest daughter of the Bai family on horseback, and soon they fell in love.

Originally thought that Temuji was just an ordinary barbarian man, until marriage, the white girl found that he was the prince of the leader of the barbarian, although his branch declined, the clansmen thought they were noble, did not want Temuji to marry a humble Han woman, but also took the initiative to send him three or four barbarian concubines.

Temuji’s riding and shooting is the top one among the barbarians.

He would not be willing to be driven out by his clansmen. From then on, he was willing to be ordinary. The daughter of the Bai family knew him very well.

Temuji really loved her, for her sake, and the clan had a conflict, but the elders in the clan did not want to lose such a leader of the seedling, Temuji was beaten black and blue. The daughter of the

Bai family left him in tears.

Later, it was discovered that she was pregnant with Temuji’s child.

Temuji sent hard, led the people to launch a internal turmoil, he thought, if, if quickly become the leader, you can quickly bring the beloved girl home.

But the internal turmoil lasted for three months, and he almost deserted his family and lost everything, and was almost executed.

Although not dead, but he had to hide Xizang life, only around and girls meet privately.

The girl was really silly. She told her father about her pregnancy. Her father was so angry that he was dizzy. He was anxious to arrange a marriage for her. She didn’t want to cheat others, nor did she want to marry others. She spread out her pregnancy. Her father was so angry that he fainted. He was so angry that he let go.

The girl’s heart was dead, the man she loved could not marry her, and the father who loved her most died.

In this way, two daughters were born.

Temuji can not appear for a long time, in the remaining memory of Bai Jinzhao, his father will only appear once every three months, every time he appears, he will come with delicious food, but there are always endless scars on his body. When

Bai Jinzhao was eight years old, Temuji appeared in the middle of the night as usual. He had a reluctant but loving smile on his face. His mother helped him take medicine and change clothes in silence. Finally, she whispered, “When will this day come to an end?”.

Temuji’s smile froze on his face.

Two more years.. I’ll wait for you for another two years, and if it doesn’t work, I’ll.. Little Bai Jinzhao did not know what the fragmented look on his mother’s face was for.

Temuji never came back after that day.

From spring to autumn, the Hu people broke out again, and this time, the scale was larger and more people were involved than a few years ago.

Bai Jinzhao watched his mother staring into the distance at the door every day, muttering to herself, “The turmoil you have painstakingly caused..” As far as she could see, people were in a panic. “Is it really right?” Dead. All dead.

No one knows how Temuji fought his way out in isolation, or how Temuji made the eldest son of the former leader bow down to him, but he did it, and he was elected by most people to become the new leader of the barbarians.

That year, when Bai Jinzhao was eleven years old, a long-lost smile appeared on her mother’s face. Her mother said that if her father succeeded, she would become the little imperial concubine of the barbarians.

However, the situation did not develop in this way.

Temuji’s success is not his own merit, there are many loyal to follow his subordinates behind it, they can’t believe that they tried to elect the leader, actually want to marry a Han people to do the main room, want them to bow to two Han mother and daughter.

Temuji argued with them. He didn’t want his loyal corporal to be disappointed with him. Deep down, he didn’t want to go through the life from prince to fugitive again.

The subordinates made a very excessive request-to leave the mother and children.

Bai Jinzhao, as Temuji’s bone and blood, is the only thing they can accept, but Bai Jinzhao’s mother, no.

Temuji’s burning head and mother’s tearful face made Bai Jinzhao unexpectedly precocious.

Bai Jinzhao said with a smile, My father said that he loved our mother and daughter very much.

At this time, the smile on her face was still so pure that she could even find a trace of tenderness when she was Abby, but what she said was full of malice and resentment. So, in order to save my mother, he threw me into the Central Plains and left me to fend for myself.

Temuji and his subordinates argued strongly on just grounds, but the subordinates could only make the final step back–two people, only one left. With a reluctant smile

, Temuji endured the pain and said to Pai Chin-chao, who was leaning up her neck to be held by her father, who had always loved her, “Oh, be good. Go with your father. My father will take you to the Central Plains to play.”.

Temuji gave Bai Jinzhao to a Han couple in the Central Plains to raise.

The barbarian commander in charge of the overall situation did not calculate that the couple were greedy and despicable. After getting the alimony he gave them, they sold Bai Jinzhao and ran away. In this way, at the age of twelve,

Bai Jinzhao was displaced in the Central Plains and suffered all the pains of life. He went all the way north to Kyoto, where he was already fifteen years old.

She wanted to break her head, but she didn’t expect that her father, who just let her come to the capital to have a look, would sell her to this group of old women who could only beat and scold. There was hardly a good piece of land on her body.

My mother said that I would be the noblest imperial concubine of the barbarians.

“Bai Jinzhao finally revealed her malice below the level, laughing very badly.” Is this the imperial concubine?

She pulled back her sleeve and stunned me. Her snow-white arms were almost covered with scars.

He said he loved me, and when he found out I was in the capital, he arranged someone for me to try his best to make my life better.

He let me be a maid in someone else’s house for three years, and he said he was good to me?

Someone doesn’t want to see me recognized by the barbarians and wants to kill me. He tells me to put up with it again. Is that good for me?

So, how can people like them, who are so vicious, deserve to succeed so easily?

Bai Jinzhao’s expression is dark and uncertain.

But soon, she was calm again.

“The Shen family is very good, and your family is very good to me.” She murmured, “Consider this my gift to you.”.

“I was silent for a long time before I said with difficulty,” So you did it on purpose, on purpose to let me find the clue?

“She said,” I knew from the assassination that you were already suspicious of me. It’s just pushing the boat

along. My

expression changed several times, and I kept glancing at Huo Jingyan from the corner of my eye.

He kept his head down and silent, huddled in the corner of the wall, almost merging with the darkness.

Bai Jinzhao followed my gaze and saw Huo Jingyan. The corners of his mouth raised a sarcastic arc: “Mr. Huo is here, too.”.

I looked at the two of them for a long time, knowing that this was not the time to say this, but I couldn’t help but open my mouth. You

Bai Jinzhao seemed to have made up his mind to solve all my puzzles. He said sarcastically, Mr. Huo and I have never had any feelings.

」「…… I’m sorry for you.

Huo Jingyan finally opened his mouth and said a word.

He only married me because of his father.

Bai Jinzhao said lightly.

I just know, originally, there is such a story.

Uncle Huo is not as benevolent as I imagined. He started as a businessman and always put his own interests first. When the imperial concubine of the Huo family was still in the palace, he had already regarded himself as a national uncle. He looked down on my father’s official position of only five grades. Even if he entered the official career, he still had a large part of my father’s contribution.

「…… He’s breaking the contract?

I had a stroke for a moment.

“Yes..” Huo Jingyan sighed and said softly.

Even though I couldn’t believe it, he was very insistent, saying that I had to listen even if I didn’t listen to my parents’ orders and matchmakers’ words.

At that time, I wanted to live like this in a cage. How long would I live? In this life, could I escape? “

Only if I marry the maid of the Shen family will he feel ashamed and continue his engagement with the Shen family.” Huo Jingyan’s face was at a loss. “Keep you..” Yes.. I’ve done so much just to keep you.

“Pai Chin-chao pondered,” Even I was chosen simply because I served you personally for three years, and my every move was like yours.

But it was so boring, and then I didn’t want to do it.

“” Is that enough?

I finally reached the end of my patience.

You don’t think you’re doing this for me, do you?

I can’t believe it.

You’re just moving yourself! Have you ever thought that I would be sad when you married Abby?

If she’s not a barbarian, you’ll ruin her life! There are so many ways in the world to save me. Why did you choose this one?

It’s not for yourself! Huo Jingyan’s voice was very low: “Yes, I know..” Like a punch on the cotton feeling of powerlessness, I was in a very complicated mood, thousands of words are stuck in the mouth, do not know what to say.

At this point, I did not have anything to ask, waved feebly, and hurried Huo Jingyan out. There was a breeze blowing in

the courtyard outside, and I was a little cold in the courtyard, so I shrank my neck.

Suddenly, I looked back.

Bai Jinzhao sat upright in his chair, his face expressionless, and he did not know what he was thinking.

「…… As soon as Temuji heard that you had been captured, he withdrew his troops.

After a while, I said, “He doesn’t even want to hurt a finger of yours. In fact, his fatherly love for you is far greater than you can imagine.”. Everyone

knows that there is no longer such a deep estrangement between Hu and Han in today’s border areas.

Now the Han people can also be used by the barbarians, no longer be regarded as humble slaves.

Presumably, Temuji has contributed a lot.

I took a deep breath and said sincerely, Only by putting down the knot in my heart can I face the future.

With that, I waved my hand and said to myself that I was really nosy. As I walked, I couldn’t help but leave a sentence: You are Bai Jinzhao, and you are also Ah Bi. I will never forget Ah Bi’s kindness to me.

I didn’t look at her again, but in the desolate yard, someone suddenly came sobbing in a low voice.

. Focus on not getting lost ~