Dou Xunen obviously knew that for the position of the main general of the first battle in the north, Ning Zheng had fought for Emperor Ming for a long time, and this matter had been decided two months ago. But just because Dou Xunen wanted to seize military merits, Emperor Ming gave him such an opportunity.

Although Ning Zheng was only the king of a small domain at that time, he was always superior among the princes by virtue of the favor of Emperor Ming and Queen Ma since he was a child. When the coming-of-age ceremony was crowned king, although he was dissatisfied with Emperor Ming's assignment of a small city like Poyang to him as a fief, he always felt in his heart that this might be Emperor Ming training him.

He looked down on his brother Ning Sleeve, who was born to the same mother, and he didn't think that Ning Sleeve would always occupy the position of the crown prince. Because of Ning Sleeve's mediocre talent in governing the country, Ning Zheng felt that sooner or later, Emperor Ming would abolish Ning Sleeve's position as the crown prince and replace him as the prince, who was also born as a son-in-law. He believes that the reason why Emperor Ming drove him to Poyang was precisely to let him experience some setbacks so that he could better welcome the crown prince.

He obeyed the virtue of Emperor Ming, and worked hard to do practical things, in order to let Emperor Ming order him to transfer his self-styled land back to the capital to live, he personally invited the Huns to fight, and the determination to make contributions was clear and firm.

Who knew that such an opportunity was taken away by Dou Xunen.

Since Dou Xun'en returned, Emperor Ming didn't seem to pay as much attention to Ning Zheng as he used to. On the contrary, Emperor Ming put a lot of thought into Dou Xunen, and seemed to have the intention of paving the way for him and making him the prince.

This made Ning Zheng, who always believed that he could win the position of the East Palace, panicked, and he began to feel that Dou Xunen was an eyesore, and felt that he was about to take away everything from him.

When he learned that his brother Ning Sleeve wanted to attack the Cao family, Ning Zheng had a plan in his heart. He couldn't love Cao, and he was already jealous and hateful in his heart. Now that Dou Xunen intends to take away the glory that belongs to him, he naturally has no intention of being a friend of his classmates.

He was naturally reluctant to do anything to the Cao family, so he went to the East Palace to meet the prince and told him about his plan.

Ning Sleeve praised his plan, only to feel that it was still wonderful.

The two brothers colluded.

Ning Zheng and Dou Xunen are good friends, and everyone in this capital knows about it.

Cao Xiu met him in Chang'an again, and thought that he was a close friend, so she didn't take precautions, and there was Dou Xunfen to accompany her at that time, so she was invited.

Who knew that Ning Zheng pretended to use the name of Dou Xunen to invite Cao Xiu to the restaurant inn, and had a happy dissolution in her soup and dishes, and stunned Dou Xunen, who was also invited, as well as Bi Yun and several family members who accompanied her.

Cao Xiu's body was violently and unbearable with the aphrodisiac medicine, and in his confusion, he mistook Ning Zheng for Dou Xunen, and under his step-by-step guidance, he lost his innocence.

When the effect of the medicine in her body subsided, she opened her eyes with a sore back, and found herself lying naked in Ning Zheng's arms, and the bed and futon were in a mess and dirty.

Such a fiasco made her heart like a knife, and she wanted to die.

She suddenly felt that Ning Zheng's face was hateful and disgusting.

After Ning Zheng woke up, he saw that she was grief-stricken, so he immediately vowed to marry her and never let her suffer any grievances.

After Cao Xiu, who was as delicate as her heart, woke up, she knew that Ning Zheng's invitation yesterday was not because of Dou Xunen's matter, all this was just a game set up by him.

If it weren't for that time, Cao Xiu was already pregnant with Dou Xunen's son in her womb, and she couldn't wait to die immediately.

She had already made up her mind in her heart, when she gave birth to the fetus in her womb, she would kill herself immediately, and she would never succumb to Ning Zheng to live for a lifetime.

However, Ning Zhengzhi was despicable, how could she get her wish.

On the second day of the incident, the matter between her and Ning Zheng spread all over the city.

Although Cao Xiu and Dou Xunen did not have a marriage ceremony, almost everyone in Luoyang City knew that he had set a lifelong contract and would get married soon.

Now there is a rumor of her and King Huai's friendship, and this matter has reached the ears of Emperor Ming, which naturally makes him angry.

Emperor Ming loved Dou Yue the most in his life, and he was also a favorite of Dou Xunen, if he hadn't been outcast, I am afraid he would have been the prince long ago. When he heard that Cao Xiu, who had already been married to Dou Xunen, had a private affair with Ning Zheng, and he didn't know what to do, he couldn't bear his anger, and hurriedly summoned Cao Xiu into the palace and asked the reason.

Cao Xiu cried and cried and told Emperor Ming everything about the matter, and wanted to hit Mingzhi in court.

Emperor Ming hurriedly stopped her. and personally invited a medical officer to treat her, only to know that she was more than a month pregnant.

At this point, the wood is already in the boat. Although the fetus in Cao Xiu's womb is the son of Dou Xunen, the world who was blinded by rumors did not know about it, if Emperor Ming covered up the scandal for her, marrying Dou Xunen in the future would still be humiliating.

Is there a way to have both worlds?

Emperor Ming saw that Cao Xiu's heart was broken, his despair was unbearable, his body was getting thinner and thinner, and his heart was becoming more and more anxious. 8090 Chinese

The only solution is to let Cao Xiu marry into the Huai Wangfu as a side concubine, and declare to the public that Cao Xiu and Dou Xun have become brothers and sisters and live in the Dou Mansion, all because of the old lady of the Dou Mansion, and she and the Huai King have been married since childhood.

But if this is the case, at that time, when Dou Xunen returns, I am afraid that the capital will be turned upside down.

Emperor Ming had a hard time making a choice, and when he summoned Ning Zheng, he saw that he was full of remorse, and he didn't know how to blame. After all, whether the Cao family was forcibly tarnished by his design is impossible to verify.

Both sides are his favored sons, and if they are slightly biased, it seems unfair to either side.

But Emperor Ming alone forgot to consider Cao's feelings, and was just entangled in how to deal with Cao's family and how to calm the dispute between the two sons?

In the end, under the consideration of Emperor Ming's weighing of the pros and cons, he decreed that he would marry Cao and Ning Zheng, and persuaded Cao to consider the fetus in the womb and not to be rash.

Cao Xiu was even more desperate, and even did not want to give birth to a child, so he committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake, resisting the decree to the death and refusing the emperor's marriage.

At this time, an urgent report of the war came from the north, and the letter said that the general Dou Xunen broke out of the encirclement, was seriously wounded, and did not know whether he was alive or dead.

She fainted several times and couldn't wake up.

By the time she came to her senses, Ning Zheng had already carried a sedan chair and married her into the palace of King Huai. The edict of the side concubine reached her the next day, and everyone in the palace honored her as a lady.

At that time, the Cao family was already in despair, and only in her womb, the only bone and blood left to her by Dou Xunen could still make her look forward to it.

She didn't believe that Dou Xunen was dead, and firmly believed that he would be able to return one day sooner or later, and there was finally a glimmer of hope in her heart to live. In order to protect the fetus in her womb, under the difficulties of Princess Huai to her, she was careful to survive, she only stunned Ning Precious and pretended to have a night with him, and told him that she was pregnant.

In August of the tenth year of the early Yuan Dynasty, Dou Xunen had been missing in the north for nearly half a year.

Cao Xiu was looking forward to it, waiting for its return, and the fetus in her womb gradually reached the end of production.

On the day of frost in September, she pretended to be born prematurely and gave birth to twins. Because she was isolated in the palace, the eldest brother of the twins, Ning Nanwei, was poisoned and brutalized by Princess Huai, and her life hung by a thread. Chen Wuniang, the dancing girl who was waiting by her side at that time, took a huge risk, walked against the wind, and went to Huiji with Ning Nan to ask for help from the master of Shuilou to save her life.

Cao Xiu was especially afraid that the Wang family would poison the other son again, so he ordered someone to contact Ji Xianzhi, who was working as a petty official in Luoyang City overnight, to communicate with Dou Taijun, who was also sad, and to inform him of the truth about the life experience of his twin sons, wanting to send one of the sons out of the Huai Wangfu to keep Dou Xunen's bloodline.

She lied that the late-born son of the twins had died, and with the help of Ji Xianzhi, she sent him to Dou Mansion. At that time, it coincided with the birth of Dou Xunfen's concubine Chen. Chen's son lost signs of life less than two hours after birth due to the weakness of the mother and fetus and the lack of fetal heartbeat.

Dou Taijun took advantage of this incident to exchange the baby sent to Dou Mansion with the stillborn birth of the Chen family, and named it Dou Yueshan.

At this point, the slightly younger of the twins became the third son of Doufu.

And Chen Wuniang fought for her life, rushed to the water building to ask the master for diagnosis and treatment, and Ning Nanwei, who saved her life, stayed in the Huaiwang Mansion.

Dou Taijun was sitting in front of the case, telling Jiang Chengjia about the past slowly, his face was sad, his heart was unbearable, and he almost wanted to cry.

Jiang Chengjia heard this twists and turns of the past, and he couldn't bear the feeling of desolation and grief in his heart, and was silent for a long time. Only then did I know why for many years, the Cao family was anxious about Ningnan, and never confided in his sincerity, but was just estranged.

The Cao family didn't like Ning Zheng, and even said that it was hatred, and after marrying into the Huai Wangfu, except for the wedding night, they never had anything to do with him.

Although Ning Zheng loves Cao very much, he has never lowered his head to anyone because he is careful and arrogant, but for Cao's repeated compromises, seeing that she is still thinking of Dou Xunen during her pregnancy, he is so angry that he never sets foot in her courtyard after she is pregnant for five or six months.

Since the Cao family hated Ning Zheng, they should also hate his son. Therefore, in order to make Ning Zheng eliminate her suspicions about the mystery of Ning Nan's life, she could only pretend to be disgusted, and never dared to get close to Ning Nan Wei, only when there was no one in private, she quietly treated him well.

Dou Taijun sighed for a long time: "If Ah Xiu doesn't love Zhaoyuan, then how can it be? After all, he was the meat that fell from her, and he was the son of Saburo. It's just that she has a last resort. is used to being estranged, and over time, there will never be a return to the past between her and Zhaoyuan. ”

Dou Xunen is the third in the Dou family, so he was also made a third by the old lady.

Jiang Chengjia was panicked in his heart, and he didn't know what to say.

When Dou Taijun talked about the anger, he couldn't notice what the little girl beside him was.

"If you want to say how hateful Ning Zheng, the king of Huai, is, if the old man is powerful in this life, he will definitely be scraped with a thousand knives. If it weren't for him, San Lang wouldn't have died outside the eastern suburbs of Luoyang back then! She was filled with righteous indignation, and said with annoyance and self-reproach, "This thing is also to blame on the old body, if it weren't for the old body to let Ah Xiu meet San Lang, San Lang should have been able to survive that disaster." And Ah Xiu will not be trampled by Ning Zheng and contracted madness. ”

Jiang Chengjia was shocked when she heard this, and didn't dare to ask, but just looked at her with wide eyes.

Dou Taijun told her everything that happened. When she wanted to say this, she gritted her teeth, and the crutches in her hands were also squeaked by her fists.