From the first year of Taiye to the third year of Taiye, the news from the north was first sparse and then dense, and it was sprinkled like snowflakes.

The great war, which dragged on for more than two years in the far north of Xinjiang, ended in the crushing defeat of the Chen Dynasty, just like the memory of Man Yun's previous life.

It's just that this time Man Yun can clearly know what has happened, not like his previous life.

In April of the first year of Taiye, he launched a northern expedition against Hanguo, and now he has abandoned those veterans who blindly defend themselves and are timid and afraid of war, including Man Yun's maternal grandfather Du Hengcheng. Liu Daochang, who led the army, was the uncle of the new emperor and queen, and the Liu family was also one of the best families in the north.

Before the army assembled in Yanzhou and waited for the expedition, Liu Daochang took the heads of some low-level generals in the border areas who did not obey the commander's orders and sacrificed the flag, two of which were adopted by Du Hengcheng, and did not take the plea of General Du in his eyes at all, and Shunshun took over the military and political power of Yanzhou on the spot.

Then, the army that broke into the territory of Hanguo broke through until it was defeated in the "Demon Sea" of the yellow sand.

Only more than 10,000 of the 80,000 troops who entered the sea of sand came back, except for a few who checked the death list, the rest were not alive or dead. Man Yun's two uncles are also among them.

General Du, who was assigned to guard Yanzhou City, vomited blood when he heard the news from the front, but he caught up with the Hanguo army to counterattack and attack the city.

The city pass of Yanzhou held on for 15 days, but without assistance, the city was broken.

Du Hengcheng, died and martyred......

When the news of his grandfather's death came from the north, Zhou Manyun was very sad and angry. She also understood that in her previous life, the Weishenme Zhou Mansion had been hiding the origin of her mother's birth.

Liu Dechang, who should be fully responsible for the command, was only reduced to a commoner, but when Yanjing was trampled by the iron hooves of Hanguo. A group of former Yanzhou generals who died and disappeared were not only infamous by the people, but also judged by the court about their crimes in this battle.

The rain rustled. In the main hall of the Cultivating Heart Hall of Xiao Zhou's Mansion in the south of Huocheng Xinan, Zhou Xian was also following his grandsons to analyze this battle that he lost in a daze.

"In the first year of Taiye, the argument that he fought for the shame of the first emperor is untenable. In the fifteenth year of Yongde, from the north to the Central Plains, more than a dozen prefectures encountered drought, and the capital, which had always supplied grain from all over Guanzhong, also encountered a food shortage crisis, and the same was true in Hanguo, so there was a barbarian army to the south to prey. Those who decided to make a northern expedition in Beijing may have wanted to take advantage of the crisis of Hanguo and seize the first-line important land of Shazhou, Puhai, and Daze. Connecting the Western Regions Passage and compressing the territory of the Han Kingdom to the north of the Karen River......"

Zhou Ke, the eldest of the grandchildren of the Zhou family, was standing, pointing to a map hanging in the hall and expressing his views. He is already seventeen years old, and in half a year, he will marry the eldest lady of the Liu family in Yining, a neighboring county, and truly take on the responsibility of the eldest grandson of the Zhou family.

His father Zhou Song seems to have been addicted to reading in the mountains, and he has stayed in the mountains as a hermit all these years, except for the big days of the New Year's Festival.

The room is almost all men from the Zhou family, only next to Zhou Shen's small table. Zhou Manyun, who was sitting in men's clothes, was nearly ten years old, and gradually showed the gorgeous appearance of a little girl, but her expression was cold.

After Zhou Ke finished speaking his opinion. Zhou Chen, who was in the second room, also got up and said slowly: "When the first emperor established Jinshang as the prince, he welcomed the daughter of the Liu family in Guanzhong as the crown princess. There are also many people who have the support of the wealthy families in the north. The meaning of coping with famine. It is the same as the Jiangnan family to expand to the south and open tea gardens to set up salt farms. Those big families in the north also want to expand to the north, if they can reconnect to the Western Regions. They're the most profitable......"

"Now that the north is defeated, Jinshang, who has always preferred to appoint northerners, has set up a lot of concubines from southern families! My uncle's family also has two cousins ......", Zhou Ti touched his nose in a sneer, lowered his voice, and said: "It's Luojing Xie Mansion, and I sent two more daughters into the palace as concubines." And Zhang, Shi and other families are the same......"

The discussion in the hall seems to be out of control, and it is getting more and more lively, but after all, it will come back again in zuihou.

Man Yun looked at the grandfather in the hall with his eyes closed as if he was asleep, and then at the cousins who were very different from his previous life, lowered his eyes, and concentrated on picking up a pen and practicing words on the paper.

From the very beginning, from the beginning of participating in Grandpa's teaching to his brothers, Man Yun was an unusually well-behaved observer, only listening and watching and never saying much. Over time, the boys got used to having a cousin who liked to pretend to be dumb to stay aside.

This life is different from the previous life!

According to the book "Chongming Anthology" in his hand, the news that was going to be sent back to the north was compiled into the short whispers of the parents little by little, and Zhou Manyun's heart was clear.

The letter was addressed to his grandmother, Mo Zhishi, who was still far away in the Northland.

After the fall of Yandi, Mrs. Du escaped with her husband's body. Originally, she lived in Yanzhou temporarily, but when the imperial court sent personnel to investigate the contradictory words, she took out the reckless temper of a woman of different races, flipped the table and left, and disappeared overnight.

It was also after she settled down that Man Yun re-contacted the Mo Zhi clan and the two uncles through the original paved way.

Whether his grandfather was martyred in battle, whether it was to protect the territory, or to protect his son, who had already arranged for him to hide if he couldn't do anything, Man Yun didn't know. But according to his mother's statement, his grandfather arranged a retreat by himself and did not retreat, most likely because he could not lose his honor and pride as a general of the Chen Dynasty.

Seek kindness and be benevolent! Therefore, Manyun, who served the filial piety of his ancestors, was sad but not sad.

The lecture in the Cultivating Heart Hall was over, the brothers dispersed, and Man Yun, who had stayed in Zuihou according to the custom, walked to Zhou Xian's side, slowly squatted down, and pillowed his head on Grandpa's lap.

"Talking about your grandfather like this, a little unhappy?" , Zhou Xian lowered his head and combed Li Manyun's long and black hair, and asked softly.

"Nope! Grandpa, wouldn't it be better to explain some things clearly! Man Yun raised his face and smiled, and said, "Actually, when you talk about this, you should not only tell your brothers, but also let the sisters of the Zhou family listen to it." ”

The brothers talked so generously, and Man Yun felt that it was nothing. On the contrary, it was the secret sympathy that the sisters showed to her that made her a little unbearable. Maybe it's because I've been messing around with boys for a few years since I was reborn. Man Yun was a little uncomfortable with the tangled little daughter's attitude.

The proposal to let the sisters participate in the grandfather is really serious.

Those cousins who were not outstanding in their previous lives were in this life when they were teenagers or children. was dragged out of the back house by Grandpa, although he didn't know the future. But just looking at the spirit of the present, it is very different from the old memory. The same child has different teachings, and when he grows up, he will be different. No one is born with a bad embryo.

"No way!" , Zhou Xian shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "Just you will give me a headache!"

Man Yun thought for a moment and whispered, "Because sisters will marry after all, if you teach them too well, you will get into trouble." ”

Zhou Xian nodded. sighed: "Just like the marriage between your second aunt and your second uncle, I originally looked up to haode." Hui Niang had the name of a talented woman when she was young, and she was full of poetry, I thought that marrying her into the door would make the impetuous Zhou Bai of learning take care of her. But Zhou Bai refused to marry before marriage, saying that Gao Hui was talented and immoral. Now that I think about it, I can't sing poetry and sing a few times when I was young, and your second uncle has always fallen behind. ”

Therefore, the women of the second uncle haode may not be more beautiful than the second uncle, but they are less educated than the Gao family, and they will praise him stupidly.

"Actually, if you teach it from a young age. At least in terms of knowledge, the daughter's family may not lose to the man. There was a hint of amazement in Man Yun's words. investigated the root cause of the misfortune in the previous life, in addition to the melancholy temperament raised in the Buddhist hall. Most of them are also because they don't understand the world. I don't understand, not because she's stupid, but because no one is willing to teach her. She wasn't even allowed to hear it.

After studying the past thirty years in his previous life, he still learned a little in the years he followed Xiao Hong. But when the man taught himself. Probably it's as fun as teasing cats and training dogs, right?

Man Yun's eyes couldn't help but feel a little sad.

"Sister Yun!" , Zhou Xian pinched his granddaughter's little hand distressedly. said: "These grandfathers know it." But the requirements for the daughter's family in this world are so harsh. Grandpa should have let you concentrate on learning how to be a good woman like other sisters, and now that you are like this, Grandpa is both relieved and guilty and heartbroken. Sometimes I can't tell if teaching you like this will hurt you in the end......"

"No, Grandpa!" , Man Yun smiled and raised his voice: "I will have a good life in the future, very haode." Aren't you afraid that no one will marry me? I'm not afraid, the rules in the world are not always the same, I have followed Master to various places all over the years, and I know it! ”

Even in Jiangnan, where etiquette and religion are very heavy, women are the most restricted, and they are still people who have surplus food to toss and can afford the rules.

In recent years, in order to find medicine, Man Yun followed Xu Ne through the deep mountains and Daze, and saw the different rules of those remote mountain and wild people.

The big families in Jiangnan are the three wives and four concubines of the men, but in the depths of the mountains where they can't find a daughter-in-law, there are also "gang wives", and once the young male guide who took them into the mountains called his nominal sister-in-law sister, because he was also one of her husbands.

And Master Xu Ne said that in some of the Wuman tribes in Nanzhao, there are also female leaders who have married Duofu. Those men from Yanzhou also had nonsense, and in the border areas where the probability of men dying in battle was high, there were also many women with assets who recruited their husbands, and some even recruited less than one person.

Man Yun is not interested in being a wife. It's just that more experience than in her previous life made her realize that the so-called husband is just the self-interested rules set by those men who hold power and money for women. Don't let your wife show up to earn money and stay at home to manage a bunch of concubines, and then get a bunch of concubines to nourish her temperament, the errand that men find for women is really wonderful.

If the situation is reversed, the positions of men and women will naturally change.

After counting the dowry he has now, and comparing it with the previous life of being poor and white and subsidized by his second uncle, Man Yun feels that he is still very confident.

"You're a bad girl who doesn't follow the rules!" , Zhou Xian angrily flicked down Man Yun's head.

Man Yun didn't care, dragged out his voice, and replied coquettishly: "Grandpa looks at Banzheng, but he is actually a bad old man who doesn't follow the rules!" ”

"I'm not following the rules?" , Zhou Xian's eyes widened, and the cane in his hand slammed heavily to the ground.

"You let the Liv sisters go free, and allowed them to choose their own people to marry, and you have already been pointed at by the people of Huocheng behind your back!" , Man Yun snorted and stabbed back. Now, she and her grandfather are getting more and more harmonious, and they are firmly in the position of the first person of the grandchildren, and Zhou Kai has to be ranked behind.

"If I had died first, wouldn't they have been sold and become someone else's woman......", Zhou Xian choked back angrily.

"Yo too!" , the orchid sisters who disappeared in their previous life, I think they were sold by their grandmother.

Man Yun helped his grandfather slowly walk towards his bedroom, the footsteps rustled, and seeing that there was no one around, Man Yun finally couldn't help asking: "Grandpa, will you allow my mother to remarry?" ”

Holding Man Yun's hand suddenly tightened, Zhou Xian said in a deep voice: "Is your mother asking you to ask?" ”

"It's not!" , Man Yun shook his head with some disappointment, and said, "Grandpa, I thought about it, don't take it ......seriously." She secretly reviewed the frizziness of the question, Sister Liv is just Zhou Xian's concubine, and her mother is a serious young grandmother of the Zhou family.

Man Yun, who had always been obsessed with his "second marriage" in his previous life, realized it after years of rebirth. In the previous life with two men, it was not that she was willing to be cheap, but that the world was impermanent, and that she was not respected, and that she was the painful result of being traded as goods by those two men.

Therefore, in this life, she can't bear to keep her mother who is still blooming like a flower. (To be continued......)