Bao Yuan's eyes darkened slightly, and she sighed, "Don't ask that...... If the mother hears it, she will be sad. ”

"I'm just surprised, how could she use such a drastic method to clear up the rumors on Niangniang......" Bai Ling's voice was also very low, she turned around and looked at Bao Yuan's still slightly red and swollen cheeks, "Sister Bao Yuan, is it still painful?" ”

Bao Yuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled, shook his head and said, "It's not painful for a long time, don't look at the blood marks on my face, these are all scattered bruises...... It's a lot better than it was in the morning. Hey, to be honest, the old lady would do this, and she also had her own troubles. ”

Bai Ling's eyebrows moved slightly, meeting Bao Yuan's eyes, waiting for her to continue.

Bao Yuan scooped another scoop of water, poured it on Bai Ling's exposed shoulder, lowered his eyes and said, "Our old lady's surname is Chang, have you heard the story of 'Pingjing Chang's daughter' before?" ”

Bai Ling shook his head.

Bao Yuan didn't seem to expect it, blinked his eyes, and asked again, "You should have heard about the matter of General Zhenyuan's mansion, right?" ”

Bai Ling still shook his head, "I don't go out much on weekdays, this is ...... Famous story? ”

"You ......," Bao Yuan's brow furrowed, "Hey, then I'll start at the beginning." ”

Bai Ling looked at Bao Yuan, nodded, and signaled that he was listening.

"If you want to talk about the Chang family in Pingjing, it is actually more prominent than the background of our Qu family. Because since the time when Emperor Taizu conquered the world, the Chang family has always been the emperor's right-hand man, and after the founding of the country, he has been guarding the southwest for the Great Zhou Dynasty. Almost all the men of the Chang family have practiced martial arts since childhood, and at the age of eleven or twelve, they followed the previous generation to the battlefield to hone their training, so far, in the twenty-three generations of the Chang family, there have been six grandfathers and thirteen generals, and there are countless seniors such as major generals and pioneers......"

"Six princes?" Bai Ling was a little puzzled, "Isn't their title hereditary?" ”

"Of course not," Bao Yuan glanced at her a little strangely, "The rules set by the great grandfather, what is 'the military general is entitled, and the second will be exhausted', I don't understand, but anyway, if you want the younger generations to enjoy peace forever, you can't have the slightest slack." ”

Bai Ling nodded thoughtfully.

"After all, the old lady is the twenty-first generation of the Chang family, and the Chang family has been passed down for several generations at that time, but in the old lady's generation, it suddenly broke out - she has five elder brothers! The Chang family has never been so prosperous, and everyone thinks it's a good sign. ”

Bai Ling looked at Bao Yuan's eyes with a little pity, knowing that she was about to say a "but" next.

"But," Bao Yuan's gaze was slightly sad, "In the twenty-fourth year of Chengping, Xidi suddenly attacked the southwest area of my Great Zhou, and the old lady's elder brothers, who went to the front line with her father, turned out to be ...... But not one of them came back alive. ”

Bai Ling was stunned, and suddenly remembered what Bai Yi had said to him before.

That's what it is...... It's out of business.

"At that time, the old lady originally had two sisters-in-law who were pregnant, but when the news came back, the two sisters-in-law couldn't bear it, and they had miscarriages within a month.

Bao Yuan's gaze flashed slightly, and Bai Ling knew that she would probably say another "but" next.

"But!" Bao Yuan's voice suddenly turned a little higher, "No one thought that the old lady would go to the house of the cabinet minister at that time, that is, our lord, by herself." She didn't find a matchmaker or bring a servant, so she came to Qufu alone, and she didn't know what she said to our old lady. Anyway, the next day, the news that the two families were going to get married was released. ”

Bai Ling thought for a moment and said in a low voice, "Old lady, this is ...... found a backer for the Chang family. ”

"Isn't it?" Bao Yuan's hand scraping Bai Ling's back couldn't help but work harder, "You don't know, how bad the old lady's sisters-in-law are, the Chang family has hundreds of acres of fertile land and mountains and forests nearby, and the people here are still cold, they have already calculated how they will eat these family properties once the filial piety period is over in the future!" ”

Bai Ling nodded with emotion, and said, "But the person has just died, even if the old lady wants to get married, doesn't she have to keep filial piety first?" ”

"Otherwise, what if our old lady is powerful? She prepared her own dowry, put on a phoenix crown and xia cloak, and hired a group of people to knock and beat, carrying a sedan chair all over the west and south of the city, east and north of the city, and finally went around to the palace gate, kneeling down to ask to see the first emperor.

"The first emperor was heartbroken for what happened to the Chang family, and he couldn't eat or sleep well for a few days. But our old lady didn't move, she slowly took out the fold she had written earlier from her sleeve, handed it to her father-in-law who came out to greet her, and said loudly in front of everyone, 'Ask for the Holy Authority'! ”

Bao Yuan spoke brightly, and the details depicted were more and more, as if she was watching at the scene at the time.

"Do you know what's written in that fold?" Bao Yuan asked in a low voice.

Bai Ling shook his head cooperatively.

"She wrote in the excerpt, asking the emperor to decree that she and our master should marry on the same day!"

Bao Yuan looked at Bai Ling, and almost said, "You didn't expect it, right?" It was written on his face, but Bai Ling still tilted his head slightly, listening as before.

"In the second year, our old lady gave birth to an uncle, and immediately passed it on to the sister-in-law of the Chang family. The Chang family is considered to have a successor! Those bad guys who are ready to move are all in vain, do you think our old lady is powerful? ”

Bai Ling nodded.

Bao Yuan told a story of good and bad, good and good ending.

But what the scene was at that time was even more complicated and critical than what she described.

Bao Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Later, the old lady gave birth to the second master and gave birth to our mother." It is also for this reason that the old lady knows how to repay her kindness, and over the years, she has devoted herself to the Qu family's family business, hoping that the second master can get ahead, and she can be regarded as repaying the kindness of the Qu family to her back then. But now that the second master is like that, I won't say anything, our mother is really angry, she has been riding and shooting kung fu since she was a child, and it is the same as when our old lady was young.

"One year in the autumn hunting, the emperor went out on patrol, and saw that our mother was beautiful and heroic, so he deliberately rode a horse and snatched her sleeve handkerchief, and as a result, our mother's backhand was an arrow, and before the emperor could react, the sleeve had already taken off his hand and was shot on a tree not far away! At that time, we were only fourteen ...... I don't know if I'm fifteen! ”

"Oh......" Bai Ling couldn't help but exclaim this time.

"We're scared when we think about it! But it was a blessing in disguise, and the emperor fell in love with our mother at first sight, and welcomed her into the palace the following year. Bao Yuan sighed, "It's a pity that our old lady unloaded his armor and returned to the field early, and the old man is a person who is dedicated to fun. Before leaving, she made a heavy oath in front of the old lady and the ancestors of the Qu family, saying that she would help the Qu family return to glory...... Hey, I didn't understand anything at the time, and the big guys were crying when they saw this scene, and they really couldn't say anything......"

Bao Yuan was still talking, his eyes shining with nostalgia for the past, "...... The old lady is really a bitter person. ”

Bai Ling's eyes closed slightly, and he sighed lowly.

People who have suffered from it sometimes have hard hearts.