Daqing Kingdom, the southwest border, scattered with several tribal groups, tribes have been fighting with each other for many years, occasionally attacking the capital to plunder what they need, and immediately withdraw before the arrival of the Korean army.

The DPRK and China sent several generals to station here, and finally sent a general named Zhao Fu to dominate the southwest, ending this chaotic situation. When the people thought they were relieved and could live in peace, they didn't know that this was the beginning of the dire days.

Zhao Fu spent three years unifying the southwest, and the court rewarded him and asked him to continue to garrison here in case the southwest was in chaos again. In the southwest, each place has different customs and different races. In order to defend this place, he directly ordered to burn down the tribal villages of other tribes, and reduced all these people to slaves, used as miners, and mined day and night. Strict laws were laid down for the people of the city, and the slightest mistake was inflicted on the people of all kinds of heavy punishments, and the local magnates were no exception, even if they paid a lot of money, they could not be exempted from punishment.

Unwilling to be humiliated, the local big families united to resist Zhao Fu's tyranny, and Zhao Fu learned of their deployment in advance, so they were directly arrested and hung on the city wall to demonstrate. The finances of several major families were all confiscated, and all men became miners, and their wives and daughters were sold into slavery.

After this forced shock and deterrence, no one in the city dared to make trouble, and the people were quietly doing their own thing, fearing that if they were not careful, their lives would be lost.

Everyone in the small family was in danger, they shrunk their necks, Zhao Fu gave whatever he wanted, and he didn't dare to resist at all.

At this time, in a manor, a thin, bearded manor wandered anxiously back and forth in the courtyard, and his advisers gave him advice.

"If you don't take action, you will end up like those masters. Think about it, how can your father's family business, which you have built up with great difficulty, watch it fall into the hands of outsiders in the sky! You can't hide in this Zhuangzi for the rest of your life. ”

"But what should I do?" As soon as he heard the name of the killing god, the little family head shook his hands and feet and his body trembled. "This is his hall of words, he can kill whoever he wants. None of the killers we sent out returned. We're done. ”

"The head of the family, the general has experienced a hundred battles, we are naturally not opponents, and they also have the strongest people on the border in their hands, these people are the most familiar with the southwest border, what we have to do is to start with the people around him." The advisor advised the head of the family to calm down, "Think about it, is he a man? ”

"I know he's a man, you want to use a beauty trick, no, this can't work, those lords have tried it before." Someone murdered him using a beauty trick, and in the end the man was tortured to death.

"The beauty plan I said is not the same as the beauty plan you think of, the head of the family." The strategist carefully analyzed for him: "Think about it, master, whose weapon is in his hand?" ”

"Former Grand Chief." The little head of the family said casually, and after he finished speaking, he understood what his subordinates meant: "What do you mean?" ”

"I heard the gossip that he was killed by his own son-in-law. What would the General's wife think if she knew this information? The strategist touched the beard on his chin as if he was winning.

"Once a woman gets married, her heart changes, and you think she will still go to her mother's house. I heard that her brother is also dead, and she has no one to rely on men. Besides, that army has already been assembled by the God of Killing. ”

"Definitely. These tribesmen are the most faithful, and their allegiance is always to their masters. Now the master is in the General's Palace, so they won't move. Little by little, the strategist elaborated to the head of the house: "These women in the mountains are different from the women here in ours, they dare to love and hate, and if they don't like it, they will leave as they are." ”

"You mean, talk about the general's wife, so that the two of them will turn against each other." The head of the family immediately understood.

"The head of the house is smart. This is not enough, you also need to send a beauty over to stimulate the general's wife, a woman's heart is the most fickle. As far as I know, the general's wife is not doing well inside, we just need to add a fire to the back, and we will not be blamed for the failure. The counselor's eyes narrowed.

Yun Yao has been here for almost two years, and she is still not used to the many rules of the Daqing Dynasty. For example, every day, I have to give my mother-in-law morning and dusk and serve my mother-in-law to eat. There are obviously people in the house, and she still has to let her daughter-in-law serve, which makes her feel weird. It's like their tribe, everyone eats around a table, talking and laughing.

Now, she is four months pregnant, and she has to stand aside and cook for her mother-in-law. There were also a few generals' concubines around, standing aside, holding some things in their hands. These concubines were personally substituted for the general when her mother-in-law came here a year ago. When the mother-in-law didn't come, there were only two people, she and the general, and they really lived a happy life. In the house, she has the final say, and she can do whatever she likes, and no one gossips. Only from the general's mother came here, Yun Yao's good days came to an end.

As if whatever she does, in the eyes of her mother-in-law, she often looks at Yun Yao with arrogance. In addition to the mother-in-law sitting on the table, there was another concubine, who was the general's cousin, who looked pitiful and always appeared in front of everyone with a weak look, and now she was eight months pregnant, and Yun Yao also held the dishes for her.

Yun Yao didn't know how long she would have to endure this kind of life, and the general always advised her to be patient. Patience mother-in-law sent one strange woman after another to the general's bed, endured her eldest son, who was taken away and raised by her mother-in-law all his life, she couldn't see her if she wanted to, no matter how she begged.

Almost every day, she had to be reprimanded by her mother-in-law for a few words, in front of other concubines, so that she could not get off the stage. As soon as her mother-in-law came, she took away the power in the house, and now, she has to look at the faces of people living in the house. Only when the general came to her house would good food be served. Since she became pregnant, the general has never been seen in her field of vision. Her mother-in-law persuaded her to be generous, and since she was pregnant, she would let other women serve her husband and add a few more children to the Zhao family.

Yun Yao didn't know why she always wanted to cry, she missed the days in the tribe, free and easy like a bird. Daddy is gone, Elder Brother is gone, even her playmates who have played since childhood don't know where to go, and all the people she knows are gone. She looks at the birds in the sky every day and longs for freedom.

"Madam, don't cry, it's broken, and it's in the arms of other people." A fat-faced servant woman with a comb on the woman's head comforted her.

Yun Yao raised her head and found that it was a stranger in front of her: "Who are you?" I've never seen you? ”

"Madam, I am a handyman who has come to Madame's yard to do odd jobs. Seeing that Mrs. was sad alone, she came over to say a few words. If you annoy your wife, please forgive your sins. The servant woman bowed.

"Mom, please get up." Yun Yao was weak.

"Madame doesn't have to get up." The servant woman straightened up, "If the lady has anything unhappy, she must not hold it in her heart, because she will be suffocated, but it will be in the minds of others." The servant woman explained.

"I don't want to fight anymore, I just want to live my life." Yun Yao touched her stomach, she didn't fight for herself, in exchange for her husband's indifference and alienation, and her mother-in-law treated her harshly.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to enter Madame's will." The servant woman replied.