Behind every beautiful face but not well-lived, it is usually not a simple experience, and Yulian is no exception.

If she hadn't been sold into Li Shouzhen's mansion since she was a child, maybe Yulian would have starved to death in a drought and locust famine, and it was even possible that she would be used as food; Or be lucky, grow up and marry into a poor family, and live the same poor, ignorant and obedient life as before. In short, since she became the servant girl of the Li Mansion, she has seen a life completely different from the environment in which she was born, where there is no longer hunger and cold, only fine clothes and food. Even being the most humble maid is better than living in her hometown.

But no one is easily satisfied, and no one is willing to be bullied arbitrarily by others with a low status, and does not envy those who are pampered. Yulian gradually understands that her greatest capital and opportunity is her appearance. She was more beautiful than the other girls who did chores, and she was already a slim girl.

The head of the family, Li Shouzhen, has the greatest power in that rich manor, but he is cunning and cunning, and even if he is favored by Li Shouzhen, he can only be a plaything. Yulian set her sights on Li Shouzhen's son Li Chongxun, a young man who had just grown up and had little experience.

Sure enough, Li Chongxun was easily fascinated by Yulian, and after a mountain alliance and sea vow, Yulian endured pain and disgust and stole the forbidden fruit with Li Gongzi...... Temporarily, she panicked inexplicably, but it was too late to regret it, and she didn't even dare to shout someone.

Before she became the wife of the lame husband of the Chen family, there were only two painful affairs between men and women, and this was one of them. She didn't expect Li Gongzi to fulfill all his promises, such a rich prince only needed to fulfill part of his promises; And Yulian later found out that she was pregnant all of a sudden, and the situation became more optimistic.

However, she finally realized that it was impossible for her to become the daughter-in-law of the great general Li Shouzhen, and the Li family would never give up the opportunity to marry another nobleman, Fu Yanqing's family. So Fu Yanqing's eldest daughter Fu naturally became Li Chongxun's first match. Yulian didn't dare to easily reveal that she was pregnant with the Li family's bloodline, she planned to try to have a good relationship with the Fu family first, and then hope to become a high-status concubine next to Li Chongxun and his wife, if she gave birth to a son, she should have a guarantee.

It's a pity that the world is impermanent, and before Yulian could wait for that day, the Li family was killed for rebellion.

She and Fu are both women and Li Chongxun's women, but they ended up very differently in a turbulent moment. Fu was just a sinner's wife, and after reporting her father's name and friendship with Guo Wei, she became the righteous daughter of Guo Wei, another powerful person; And Yulian's fate obviously couldn't be so courteous, as soon as the Li family was destroyed, she was helpless and was snatched away by one of Guo Wei's generals.

She was defiled by that general, and then taken back to her home, she couldn't resist, otherwise she would have a worse end, that is, she was gang-raped by countless people as a camp prostitute. As a result, Yulian miscarried, and was later told that she would not be able to have children for the rest of her life. She didn't have time to hate the general, and soon there was another war, the general was killed in battle, and the wives and concubines in the family were scattered; And sell Yulian as a commodity for a penny. The person who bought her was the last husband surnamed Chen, who was ugly, drunkard, grumpy, and poor, and he was a heavenly eunuch, who was simply good-natured...... Even more unfortunate, when Guo Wei led his army into Tokyo again, there was almost no resistance, and the casualties were very small, but he was squeezed off the city wall and broke his leg.

The days have come by like this, and in the first year of Xiande, Yulian has no hope for life. A remnant of flowers and willows who can't have children, has nothing and a burdensome husband, she wants to abandon her husband and run away many times, but where can she run and what can she do? She had speculated in countless dark nights that she might be sold into a kiln if she escaped...... Even if she is taken in as a wife by an ordinary family, when it is found that the woman cannot have children and does not need to explain to her mother's family, it is very likely that she will sell it and get a sum of money to marry again, because the common people marry women in order to have children.

Sometimes she is desperate, just thinking about living one day at a time, and when she can't bear it, she just dies.

Sometimes she is very unwilling and feels very aggrieved. Not to mention the rich and rich, even the ugly and vulgar women in the market of Tokyo Longjinfang are not as good, but they are ridiculed and gossip behind their backs instead of a good day. Is it like this to end your life in humiliation, and then let those people gloat and sarcasm a few more words?

There are no friends, no relatives, and even home is a broken home; Her husband was killed, and she was not very sad. This situation made her feel that she was the most unfortunate person in the world. Although she was from a humble background, God gave her a better appearance than most people, and she was not the only one from the bottom, where did she go the wrong way? Could it be that he shouldn't have provoked Li Shouzhen's son in the first place? How much better would it be if you hadn't......

Yulian felt that she had no face to see people, and just wanted to hide in a dark corner, so she came and went out and barely talked to people. It would be great if no one in this world knew him, and I also thought that those aunts and wives should not use their misfortune as a laughing stock after dinner.

However, she remembered the Weiguo lady Fu Shi she saw on Suzaku Street yesterday, who was also a woman in the ruined Li Shouzhen Mansion, and became the wife of an official family by virtue of her family status, and her noble status made officials look up in awe, not to mention these women in the market, who would dare to laugh at her? They don't even have the courage to be jealous...... Yulian fantasized that if one day she could be so noble, those who knew her should be ashamed and should realize their own inferiority! Imagining it like this, she had a faint sense of happiness in her heart. But having the experience of Li Shouzhen's house made her understand that it was impossible in reality, and she could only talk to herself in her own heart to comfort herself.

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In the evening, there was a knock on the door, and Yulian opened the door to see that it was Brother Shao who had returned. Shao Ge'er was still wearing armor but didn't bring weapons, he drooped his head and seemed to be in a depressed mood, he didn't even dare to look at Yulian with his eyes, and he didn't enter the door, he stood at the door and said: "Commander Wang ordered me to compensate the Chen family's pension and funeral expenses, but ......"

Yulian hurriedly looked left and right in the alley, and said, "Come in and talk, don't be at the door." ”

Brother Shao was stunned for a moment, walked into the stove room, and found a stool to sit down.

"Have you eaten it?" Yulian asked again, treating Guo Shao like killing her husband and enemy, she knew that Brother Shao killed the Chen family in order to stand up for herself. Brother Shao didn't say anything, so she guessed that he came back hungry, so she hurriedly opened the lid of the pot and took a thick bowl full of green soup.

Guo Shao saw the steaming paste on the wooden table, and said embarrassedly: "This is not good...... By the way, in the room where I live in the backyard of the blacksmith shop, there is a jar of money under the box, but it is not enough. ”

Yulian said: "They just told you to lose money, they didn't beat you?" ”

Guo Shao shook his head, finally couldn't help being hungry, took a sip of the mush, and suddenly felt that the taste was extremely bad, as if there were grain husk slags such as bran...... In this era, some people eat well, but Yulian eats this? He quietly glanced at her again, and he really couldn't see that such a white woman was living by eating chaff vegetables.

Yulian's forehead is smooth and round, with a goose egg face, which matches a pair of black and white almond eyes very appropriately, and is naturally beautiful in one piece, and her eyebrows are not charming, but they look more kind. It's just that the dress on her body is really shabby, revealing a white face and neck, which reminds people of glutinous rice dumplings that have been peeled off a little.

Guo Shao took a sip of the paste that he didn't know what to do, and he had no appetite, so he ate it slowly, and said: "Commander Wang thinks that I have something to do with Zhang Yongde, the commander of the palace, he originally wanted to sell his favor; But yesterday, Yang Biao was demoted three levels in a row for gambling and crippling others, and if Commander Wang opened up to me, the reward and punishment would be unfair and he would not be able to convince the public. Therefore, the order was to demote me from the capital to the ten generals, and to take charge of the compensation...... However, Yang Biao was more unlucky, he was demoted to ten generals yesterday, and today he was demoted to a deputy general again because I was the tenth general of the fourth team. ”

The military positions of the five dynasties are relatively chaotic, but Yulian once grew up in Li Shouzhen's mansion, and later met Guo Shao in Tokyo, and she knew a lot of these things in her speech, and she understood the following military positions under the command. The military envoy or the head of the capital is equivalent to the centurion, the ten generals are the captain, and the deputy general is the deputy captain...... Most of the people who joined the army just wanted to be promoted and make a fortune, although Guo Shao did not kill people to pay for his life, but he was demoted from a commander of 100 people to a captain, and the loss was also very large.

When Yulian heard this, she said, "I still don't want the title deed of the shop." ”

Guo Shao seemed to be a little misunderstood, nodded and said, "Now I have no choice but to count that shop as compensation for your family, and the jar of money will also be counted." ”

Yulian shook her head and glanced at him quietly: "You still have the shop, I don't want it." If I sign a bill for you and pay the difference, it will be regarded as if it has been compensated. ”

Guo Shao frowned and said, "I'm going back to the barracks tomorrow morning, what are your plans for in the future?" That blacksmith shop was compensated to you by me, and with the help of Old Man Huang, you can barely make a living after running it, so don't shirk it......"

"I don't have to worry about Guo Lang." Yulian's tone suddenly became a little cold, and the woman really changed her face faster than the sky.

Guo Shao's unfinished words were blocked in his throat and fell silent. He thought about it, he really has always had a good impression of Yulian, a beautiful but poor woman, and very diligent, anyone likes it; But it doesn't seem that just because you've been a little nicer to her and helped her in times of difficulty, you can't ask her to do anything.

He got up and was about to say goodbye, but by the light of the firewood in the stove, he suddenly saw Yulian's eyes shining with water, full of tears. The flames in the stove flickered, and the orange light alternated between light and dark on her face, as if it illuminated her wandering heart.

"You ......" Guo Shao didn't know how to ask.

Yulian pursed her lips, and she wanted to speak and stopped, her beautiful and clean face was very different from the dilapidated and dusty low and dilapidated house, and the contrast was great. This stove room is full of old smell, everything is old, because the presence of Yulian is not harmonious.

The water in her eyes finally slid down her cheeks, and at the same time, a smile appeared: "Go back, we won't be like those adulterous husbands, adulterous women, and I am not a femme fatale who commits adultery and murder husbands." Brother Shao'er is kind to me, I remember it in my heart. ”