If there is an afterlife
On the outskirts of the capital, a rickety broken cart was pushed up the hill by two men dressed as housekeepers, and did not stop until it came to a high cliff.
A few of the housekeepers in the cart took a sip, and scolded with disgust on their faces: "This fat pig, he only knows how to eat and eat all day long, damn, he is dead and sinking, and Lao Tzu's arm is about to fall and dislocate." ”
"Shut up, what the queen tells us to do, let's just do it. Hurry up and push her down, and you can catch up with the city to drink wine. ”
The two stood behind the cart, gesturing to push it off the dark cliff. On the sack on the car, there was a dark red blood stain, and there was a faint cry of a baby inside. The two servants didn't notice that the huge body in the sack, which was thought to be dead, had a slight convulsion.
At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded on the mountain road, and a man shouted angrily: "Keep your men!" ”
The two men pushing the cart were startled, and their hands slipped, and instead of being pushed off the cliff, the cart slid backwards toward the mountain road.
A spear whistled into the air and plunged straight into the road, forcibly blocking the car's downward trend. Immediately the man jumped down as well, holding in his hand a demented-looking boy who was shouting for his mother.......
Half a month later, Yan Qingge woke up from his coma.
When she opened her eyes, it was obvious that it was not the layout of her bedroom in the Shinkoku Mansion, but the top of an ochre-yellow bed tent.
Someone walked lightly around him, and a maid said softly: "Lang Zhong said that the Duchess of Xinguo will wake up in the past few days." If it weren't for the fact that our little prince has been in the army for many years and has seen a lot of dying people, it can be seen at a glance that the Duchess of Xinguo is actually still alive, and the life of the lady should be gone. ”
"Hey, Mrs. Xinguo's Mansion is so miserable, our little prince has found out that Miss Ling'er and Young Master Ming fell into the water back then, someone secretly instigated her, it's really pitiful for her, she was actually treated like this by her sister and husband."
The whispers of the maids did not make Yan Qingge have any mood swings. She looked at the top of the bed woodenly, as if she hadn't woken up from a nightmare, her sister and husband were going to kill her, drug her, and take out her child, so what was it to fool her son?
Yan Qingge's life is not dead, in Lang Zhong's opinion, it is a miracle, but her body is too badly damaged, and she is still half asleep from time to time, and it was not until more than a year later, when the weather became extremely hot, that she was able to be helped down and walk two steps.
During this period, she has been living in King Ning's mansion, her loyal servant Ruyi was taken over, her son Zhu Ming, and her youngest daughter Xingxing, who has begun to babble, are also with her.
Ning Wangfu belongs to Yan Xiuyu, the little Yama King who returned from the Northland, he inherited the throne of his grandfather's lineage, and he is already Ning Wangye, but he has always lived in Yanwang Mansion with his brother and sister-in-law Yan Wangye and Princess Roufu, and he has never been here, but it seems that Yan Qingge, a guest, seems to be the master.
In a year, too many things have happened, there are the queen mother Yan Shuyu died violently, the little emperor died of serious illness, with the support of the four major palaces, another clan was set up as the new emperor's various major events, and Yan Qingge wrote a letter of resignation, sent back to the Xinguo Mansion, and the Zhu family broke off the relationship with the lack of trivial matters......
The forces in Beijing have been shuffled, and the once powerful Xinguo Mansion has been knocked to the dust, but all of this has nothing to do with Yan Qingge, isn't it?
On the third day of the seventh month, it was one of the hottest times of the year, Yan Qingge supported her weak body, sitting under the huge pine tree in the courtyard, Ruyi was fanning her beside her, and on the other side, the two children were giggling and playing. Although Zhu Mao is stupid, he also knows how to maintain Xingxing's little sister, holding her hand and helping her walk, for fear that Xingxing will fall.
"Ruyi, in just these few days, let's go to King Yan's Mansion to thank Prince Ning, and then leave King Ning's Mansion. I'm really embarrassed to bother people for so long. Yan Qingge said.
"But Miss, where else can we go when we leave King Ning's Mansion. The housekeeper lady here clearly told you that Prince Ning had instructed that you can stay here no matter how long you stay. Ruyi was in a hurry.
Yan Qingge smiled weakly: "I can live here for as long as I want, but what about Ming'er?" What about apricots? The two of them will grow up one day, do you want the people of Ning Wangfu to take care of my children and grandchildren for the rest of their lives. Let's go back to Yan's house! ”
Ruyi was stunned, she never thought that they could go back to Yan's house.
The people from Yanwang Mansion heard that Yan Qingge came to say goodbye, but let her in. Yan Xiuyu and Yan Wang Ye were not at home, and the eldest princess of Roufu did not come to see her in person, but only promised her through the curtain.
The eldest princess of Roufu was not in good health, and after giving birth to her only daughter Yan Ling'er, she could not be reborn, but this only daughter fell into the ice lake with Yan Qingge's son Zhu Ming in a daze, and died in a daze.
Yan Qingge is also a mother, and she can understand the pain of the eldest princess of Roufu, so she buried her head low, kowtowed to her through the curtain in front of the door, and left with Ruyi and the children.
Yan Xiuyu came back in the evening, heard about it, took chopsticks, and said to his brother Yan Wangye: "She is a helpless woman, where can she go?" ”
The women in the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty are all flowers raised in the greenhouse, and they will wither their branches when the slightest wind and rain blows, unlike the barbarian women who are as endless as the weeds he has seen on the grassland. This Yan Qingge dragged his children and daughters, was lame and fat, and had asthma and epilepsy, but he was afraid that if he left the care of Ning Wangfu, he would immediately die on the streets.
I don't know why, Yan Xiuyu remembered the moment he saved her, even though she was covered in blood, through the thick fat, she couldn't hear her heartbeat at all, but she still tightly protected the bruised little thing in her arms, so as not to let her be hurt a little, and reminded him of the Hanlan he saw in the north, which was the only plant that could bloom on the Gobi covered with ice and snow in the snow, perhaps, she was different from those dodder silk seeds in the capital who couldn't live without their families......
Do you want to ask her to go back to King Ning's Mansion again? Yan Xiuyu hesitated for a moment, but finally forgot it, because he intuitively felt that this woman looked gentle, but in fact, she was very stubborn, and she would not be favored in vain.
Yan Qingge took the children and stood at the door of Yan's house, sighing in his heart.
She was married for nine years and finally came back. In this family, there are no more Aunt Hai and Yan Shuyu, but will her father welcome her home?
Since Yan Shuyu's death, the Yan family has also begun to fall, and Aunt Hai can't stand the bad news of her daughter's untimely death, so she followed. Aunt Hai is strict, Yan Songnian did not accept a concubine room when she was alive, and there was only one daughter under her knees, Yan Qingge and Yan Shuyu, but now the old tree is blooming, and more than a dozen young and beautiful water spirit beauties have been newly accepted, I heard that there are still people introducing him to the continuation of the string.
When the subordinates reported that Yan Qingge came back with the child, Yan Songnian was drinking with several beautiful concubines, and he only frowned when he heard it: "What are you doing when you come back from this evil obstacle." ”
Because Yan Qingge did such a bold thing as reconciling with Xinguo Gong, the reputation of the Yan family was about to be ruined for her.
Yan Qingge stood outside the door with the children for a long time, and finally a mother-in-law came out and handed Yan Qingge a small package: "This is the lord who pities you, the lord said, the Yan family does not have a daughter like you who does not abide by women's morality, and ask the eldest lady to find a place to settle by yourself." The woman said, a little afraid to look at Yan Qingge's clear eyes as if she knew everything, and she didn't know if she was dazzled or what, she always felt that the eldest lady had lost a little weight.
Yan Qingge opened the package and saw that there were several ingots of silver inside, about three or four hundred taels, and couldn't help but laugh mockingly-it was enough to catch up with the dowry she had married back then.
What can you do with three hundred taels of silver in the capital? It's probably not worth a wine run by those powerful people, it's not worth a pearl inlaid in the hats of the princes and grandchildren, it's not worth a horse, it's not worth an antique, but she has to use the money to make a living with two children and a wishful mind.
She lived in a street inn for two days, thought about the way forward, went to the tooth market to find a middleman, put down a storefront, received three or five embroidery girls, and began to do embroidery business.
Speaking of which, in addition to housekeeping and self-cultivation skills, what she is best at is embroidery, and if she wants to make a living in the future, she has to rely on this.
Every day, I was busy and busy, and before I knew it, two years had passed. Yan Qingge's youngest daughter Xingxing is three years old, and she is getting more and more handsome, probably because her mother is not in good health and her brother is stupid.
This morning, Xingxing sat at the door, with a big sister's style, playing with a group of children she knew in the market, and at this time, a horse galloped over, which scared a little bean Ding to cry. Xingxing immediately pinched her waist and stood up, threw a sharp pebble at the horse's buttocks, and smashed it into the horse's buttocks.
The horse was a tall and frightening black horse, with a bad temper, and when it sensed that someone was beating it, it ignored its master's orders, and turned around and ran over to bite someone.
The knight on the horse calmed down for a long time before he stopped the horse, dismounted and examined it, and found that there was a crack in the horse's buttocks, and it was bleeding.
Xingxing knew that she was in trouble, so she had already hid in the embroidery village at home, sitting behind the counter, waiting to see the excitement like no one else.
The owner of the horse cherished his horse, asked around outside, and walked into the embroidery village.
"Where's the owner?" The knight asked, looking at the little girl sitting behind the counter.
"You ask my mother, my mother is not at home. If there's anything going on, just look for me, the same. Xing Xing replied in a milky voice, her pink face was flushed, very cute, like the little devil that those people outside said.
The people of the Great Zhou generally call their mothers mothers, and there are not many people who call them mothers. But in recent years, barbarians on the street have become more and more common, barbarians have straight tongues, they think it is more convenient to call their mothers, and many of the children in Da Zhou also call their mothers mothers.
Yan Xiuyu always felt that this Xingxing had a familiar face, and was wondering, and when the curtain of the door leading to the backyard was lifted, a middle-aged woman came out, and her face became more familiar.
The woman was Ruyi, and when she saw Yan Xiuyu, she quickly knelt down and kowtowed to say goodbye: "I don't know if Engong is here, and I invite Engong to sit, so I'll invite our eldest lady to come out." ”
Yan Xiuyu suddenly realized that the little girl who injured his horse was the little thing he saved on the cliff back then.
After a while, Yan Qingge also came out, and suddenly saw Yan Qingge, Yan Xiuyu was a little unrecognizable. She was helped by Ruyi, but she didn't look lame, and more importantly, she lost almost half of her weight.
Although she is still quite mellow compared to an ordinary Da Zhou woman, she already belongs to the category of a normal fat woman. Probably lost weight, her facial features are no longer piled up with endless fat, and she is even more beautiful than ordinary people, and Xingxing has an eight-point resemblance, looking at the beautiful tight, like a soft colored marshmallow, I want people to hug and lick it.
Yan Xiuyu stared at Yan Qingge, Yan Qingge was a little cramped, gave him a salute, served tea, and said, "Lord Ning, I didn't expect you to come to the house in person, the store is shabby, and I neglected you." ”
Yan Xiuyu had a different feeling in his heart, and slowly drank the tea water with an astringent tongue, and did not mention the trouble caused by Xingxing, and chatted with Yan Qingge casually.
He was embarrassed to always stare at Yan Qingge, so he could only look around, there were embroideries everywhere in the store, there were purses, handkerchiefs, complete sets of wedding dresses, hijabs, and large quilts, screens, and hanging paintings, all of which were neatly cared for and arranged very refreshingly. Especially a few of the hanging paintings are particularly beautiful, and even Yan Xiuyu, who doesn't understand it, thinks it's good-looking.
In just a while, several people came in to buy embroidery, and they were all repeat customers, and they were very satisfied with the embroidery of Yan Ji Embroidery Workshop.
This woman really did what he thought, like a cold orchid in the snow, no matter how difficult the predicament was, she stood up on her own and lived a strong and self-reliant life.
Yan Qingge saw him looking at the embroidered paintings, and said softly: "Lord Ning, these are ordinary ordinary products, which one do you like, I will embroider it for you and send it to you." ”
Yan Xiuyu snorted, looked at Yan Qingge's clear eyes, couldn't help but be a little flustered, and waved his hand: "No need, I'll go back first." "After saying that, he will step and go.
Xingxing made a grimace at Yan Xiuyu's back, Yan Qingge saw her daughter's expression, she knew that she was in trouble again, and asked for a long time before she asked the truth, and she was reluctant to beat her, so she could only punish her for reciting two more books in the backyard. But Xingxing is not afraid, she can endorse it quickly, even if she forgets it just as quickly.
Yan Xiuyu returned to Yanwang's Mansion, he couldn't forget the chubby and beautiful woman in his heart, he couldn't help but ask the people around him, and he was surprised to find that in the past few years, Yan Qingge has sent gifts to the mansion every New Year's holiday.
He asked for the gifts to be brought up, and they were basically embroidery.
She couldn't afford to give away the expensive gold and silver jewelry, so she had to give her own embroidery. Sometimes it's a box of beautiful purses, sometimes it's all kinds of embroidery paintings, sometimes it's beautiful fan bags, headbands and other things, everything is made of good materials, and it's delicate and beautiful, better than the embroidery girls in Yanwang's mansion.
"The lady of the Yan family who gave the gift said that she made it all by herself, although it is not valuable, it is also a piece of heart." Yan Xiuyu's personal guard said smartly.
Yan Xiuyu's slender and beautiful fingers slowly stroked the dark blue hairband on his knees, and his heart softened slightly.
A few days later, a few subordinates came to Yan Qingge's door, dressed and imposing, stronger than some ordinary young masters, they brought in a big box, and said, "This is what our Lord Ning rewarded the two little masters for." ”
As soon as the box was opened, it was full of refined toys that could not be reached by all kinds of civilian homes, Xingxing couldn't take her eyes away when she saw it, and pounced on her and hugged her: "Mom, hurry up and take it away." She knew that Yan Qingge hated being favored the most, and she basically didn't accept gifts from others, so she hurriedly took the first step.
Yan Qingge felt a little sour when she saw Xingxing like this, she was most sorry for the two children in this world. Ming'er is so smart, because she doesn't take good care of her, she has become a fool, and Xingxing should have been the most favored concubine of the princely family, she wants to be windy and rainy, but she has even seen such a toy for the first time.
She sighed in her heart, anyway, it was given by Prince Ning, she received too much favor from Lord Ning, she can't pay it off in this life, and she doesn't have to worry about a lot of debts, so she will continue to owe it, so she thanked the person who gave the gift and accepted it.
Xingxing is happy, this time, she has become the child with the most toys on the whole street!
Because of this incident, Yan Qingge thought about it again and again, and finally stayed up for half a moon and night, worked in the dark, and finally embroidered a vivid hunting picture of the general, spent more than 100 taels of silver, and asked someone to inlay a small screen on the table with sandalwood, and went to the Yanwang Mansion with apricots and screens.
It happened that Yan Xiuyu was at home, and when she heard Yan Qingge coming, her heart trembled, and she hurriedly called someone to invite her in. For more than a month, his dream was no longer the scenery of the northland, but changed to Yan Qingge. He is already in his thirties, the fortune teller said that he was lonely in his life, not suitable for marrying a wife, and several nobles in Beijing who had been married before inexplicably died before getting married, plus he didn't know the strange disease of pain, and he didn't know how many more years he could live, and he gradually rested that heart, and he thought that he would never be tempted by women in his life.
Xingxing looked at Yan Xiuyu, knowing that he was the one who gave him his toys, and also heard Yan Qingge talk about Yan Xiuyu's life-saving grace to their mothers, tilted her head and knelt down gently, and bowed to Yan Qingge: "I have seen Lord Wang Engong." ”
Yan Xiuyu was a little amused by her, and asked her, "Do you still like the toy?" ”
"Like! I love it! Xingxing said happily.
Yan Xiuyu liked such a clever child the most, so he simply hugged her on his knees and listened to her. Xingxing people are big ghosts, such a little girl, she actually chatted with Yan Xiuyu and me sentence by sentence.
After Yan Qingge and the others left, Yan Xiuyu looked at the screen on the table, and suddenly felt that if he had married a wife in his early years, his current children would be as cute as Xingxing. It's a pity that he may not be able to have children of his own in this life.
Since returning to the capital from the grassland, Yan Xiuyu has taken the name of Ning Wangye, but he actually has nothing to do, just hanging out every day.
In the past few days, he always couldn't control his feet, and went to the Yan Ji embroidery workshop opened by Yan Qingge in the Fang City, teasing Xingxing in the backyard of Yan's house, basking in the sun, drinking tea, and fighting with stray cats and dogs in various houses for 300 rounds......
In the past, when he was in the grassland, he often wandered lazily in various tribes, and lived with those barbarians, but he went back to the capital to carry it, and now it is like this, it's really good!
Unconsciously, there were some rumors in the market.
Ruyi heard it and said to Yan Qingge: "Miss, what do you mean when you say that Lord Ning always comes to our house?" ”
Yan Qingge listened, smiled and said to Ruyi: "I, a woman with a child, am so fat and sick, do you think that Engong can take a fancy to me?" Even if he wants to marry the princess of the heavenly family, what is the difficulty. He just likes children and wants to play with Xingxing, and when Xingxing is older, Engong himself knows to avoid it. ”
One day, when Yan Xiuyu was playing with Xingxing, he discovered something terrible, Yan Qingge's eldest son, Zhu Ming, turned out to be very talented in martial arts.
He was crazy by himself, playing fist games for Xingxing, and Zhu Ming, who had been watching silently next to him, watched it again, and actually followed it out.
Yan Xiuyu was very curious, and began to teach Zhu Ming boxing, this time he was pleasantly surprised, Zhu Ming learned very fast, just taught a few times, and completely mastered the essentials. So Yan Xiuyu had a new hobby, that is, to teach himself the "stupid apprentice", with this matter, he had to come to the Yan family embroidery workshop every day, and he was more diligent than before.
It didn't take long for Lord Yan to talk to Yan Xiuyu.
"Xiu Yu, you have to go to the Yan family's embroidery workshop every day, do you fall in love with the hostess of that family?"
Yan Xiuyu didn't expect his brother to go straight to the point so single-handedly, and he couldn't help but reddened his ears, but in the end he decided not to hide it from him: "Yes, but I don't know how to speak to her." ”
"If you like it, let's propose. She was born in the Yan family, and her ancestors were Yan Qiu, the world's teachers who educated the Quartet, although she has fallen a little in recent years, she still has some identity. ”
Yan Xiuyu looked at his brother in surprise: "But sister-in-law ...... over there"
Although he is a man, he is already a man who is about to be forty years old, and he has already passed the time of carelessness, of course he knows that the eldest princess of Roufu has a bad attitude towards Yan Qingge.
"Your sister-in-law doesn't have to worry about it, you married a wife, do you still want to live with us for the rest of your life, of course, you go to Ning Wangfu to set up your own door." Lord Yan said: "And the two princes of Ning and Yan, the inheritance of the future is on you, if you don't marry and don't have children, our two mansions will be cut off." ”
Yan Xiuyu lowered his head and thought for a long time before he said, "But I don't want her to marry me so aggrieved." ”
She is a divorced woman, and she has no family support, according to the customs of the Great Zhou, if she remarries, she can't wear red makeup at all, and enter the door openly, she can only sneak into the house from the small door and stay in the pigsty for three nights, even if she is married.
Yan Xiuyu couldn't imagine what it was like for Yan Qingge to stay in the pigsty for three nights, he wouldn't ask her to do it. If he wants to marry her, he will let her be Princess Ning openly, and he will also treat Zhu Ming and Xingxing as his own children.
Just when Yan Xiuyu was at a loss, someone found Yan Wang's Mansion and asked to see Yan Xiuyu by name.
The person who came was an old man with a very bad temper, surnamed Le, called Le Yi, who was the governor of the five counties in the northwest, with tough means and a fiery personality, with one hand in charge of the people's livelihood and the other hand in the military power, basically no one dared to provoke him.
Le Yi took his son Le Xuan to the door, and when he entered the door, he knocked the cane on Yan Xiuyu's back, not polite at all because he was the prince.
"What do you mean by going to my niece's house every day and ruining her reputation! Even though I'm far away in the Northwest, I know about it. Le Yi rebuked viciously.
Yan Xiuyu was stunned, the only person he came to the door every day was Yan Qingge's Yan Ji Embroidery Workshop, who was this Le Yi talking about.
Seeing that Yan Xiuyu's expression was too stunned, Le Xuan explained: "That Yan Ji Embroidery Workshop was opened by my cousin. ”
Yan Xiuyu was overjoyed, he didn't know that Yan Qingge had such a powerful uncle, now it's good!
The Yan family and the Le family sat down to talk about it, and soon finalized Yan Qingge's marriage. Le Yi and Yan Xiuyu wrote together and personally asked for a holy decree, so that Yan Xiuyu could marry Yan Qingge as Princess Ning with the gift of marrying Ming Media.
When Yan Qingge received the holy decree, he was startled, what was going on? It wasn't until she saw Le Yi and Le Xuan behind the eunuch that she couldn't help crying, it turned out to be her uncle, she did something wrong when she was a girl, and she thought that her uncle would never want her anymore.
The two uncles and nephews hugged their heads and cried, Yan Qingge came back to her senses after crying, why did she marry Yan Xiuyu.
Although Yan Xiu Yusheng is so good-looking, she gets along with him a lot, and she also knows that he is not as fierce and evil as the legend, but a very interesting and good person, but this incident came too suddenly.
In the end, Yan Qingge still accepted this matter, Xingxing was faster than she accepted, because Xingxing, the ghost elf, had already seen that Wang Ye Engong was interested in his mother.
On the day of the wedding, ten miles of red makeup, silk and bamboo to marry, Yan Qingge made a bride again, she sat in the sedan chair, she never imagined that she could marry a second time in her life, compared to the shabby of the first marriage, this time, it was like a dream.
On the night of the candle in the cave room, Yan Xiuyu stretched out his hand, lifted off the hijab, and finally saw the round apple face that he was thinking about. He reached out and touched Yan Qingge's skin, it was as soft as he imagined, and when he kissed it again, it was really marshmallow-flavored.
He reached out and untied Yan Qingge's red wedding dress...... (The great harmony of life omitted here, please add a group 499978717 see)
A year later, Yan Qingge gave birth to another child, called Yan Chi, nicknamed Xiao Mo, because Yan Xiuyu and she both felt that they were both in the capital, and the distance between the Yan family and Yan Wangfu was not far, how could they never know each other when they were teenagers and girls, and they met when they were nearly forty years old, and they met too late! There is less happiness that can be attached to each other for so many years.
Another year passed, and they gave birth to another daughter, named Yan Shan.
Although they had their own children again, Yan Xiuyu treated Xingxing and the two children who had changed their names to Yan Ming as before, and even everyone forgot that these two children were not Yan Xiuyu's biological at all.
Yan Ming has learned a good martial arts, and he is a well-known enemy in the entire Great Zhou. One year of hunting, Yan Ming participated, but he didn't expect the emperor to be attacked by a tiger, it was Yan Ming who rushed forward, protected the emperor, tore the tiger with his hands, and became famous.
Xingxing found a husband by herself, she was a very good young man, she grew up in the market, and she was her playmate when she was a child. The young man was very hardworking, he took the top prize, and made Xingxing famous, the husband and wife were harmonious and beautiful, and they never blushed, and the champion never touched a finger from any woman other than Xingxing, oh, of course, except for their daughter.
Yan Chi inherited the title of Yan Wangfu and gave birth to a bunch of small radish heads. Yan Shan is determined to learn from her sister Xingxing, and she is also living quite happily, although her husband is not the champion, but he is the crown prince of the dynasty.
Finally that day came, Yan Xiuyu was lying on the bed, next to Yan Qingge, who was also old.
They held hands and looked at each other, seeing the same tenderness and desire in each other's eyes.
Yes! If there is an afterlife, dear one, I will still be with you, and I will never be afraid that it will be too late.