Chapter I
My husband came back from a victory and brought back a pregnant woman.
Coincidentally, it's not.
I came back from visiting relatives in Gangnam and brought back a teenager as well.
01
When Qi Yue rode back to Beijing in triumph, he happened to crash into my carriage back to the city.
One of us sat in a sedan chair, the other on a horse, looking at each other from a distance.
In the end, it was Qi Yue who got off the horse first.
Behind him slowly came a young girl in the carriage.
Hibiscus face, willow eyebrows, dressed in white, pure and delicate little white lotus.
But my eyes fell on Little White Lotus's bulging belly.
Qi Yue set out in March, and now it has just entered autumn.
Looks like I got it right away.
Qi Yue and I didn't have any feelings, just a simple marriage.
The Qi family is a family of military generals, holding military power from generation to generation, and Qi Yue is the most outstanding of this generation.
Originally, he and the concubine of the prime minister's family were in love, and they had to make a private decision for life.
Just kidding, a family of military generals, the head of a civil servant, the emperor's head is burned and confused, so that the two families will be good for Qin and Jin.
Only then did the emperor remember that there was still a powerless and powerless county lord like me, whose parents died.
The emperor struck the pair of mandarin ducks with a holy decree.
And I am the stick in the emperor's hand
First, I have no power, only the false name of a county lord, and second, my status is noble, and it is more than enough to match Qi Yue.
Qi Yue naturally doesn't have a good face for me, a woman who intervenes in his beautiful love.
Soon after getting married, he automatically invited Ying to go to the frontier, and it turned out that he went to hunt game.
The little white lotus hid behind Qi Yue, and the appearance of the weak willow supporting the wind made me feel distressed, let alone Qi Yue.
"Brother Qi, is this my sister?"
Qi Yue's gaze did not dodge at all, but said unashamedly: "Xue'er, don't worry, with me here, I will definitely protect you." β
I glanced at Qi Yue and got out of the sedan chair slowly.
He looked the Cher girl up and down.
It's worthy of being called Xue'er, dressed in white and not stained with dust, I don't know who I think I will keep filial piety for, a plain little face, cleaner than I died for three days, and the jewelry on my body is only wearing a lustrous jade bracelet on my hand.
It looks familiar.
Ao, isn't this the family heirloom bracelet of the Qi family's housemother.
Qi Yue, a rough man, doesn't know a few big characters, he will dance with knives and guns all day long, and the woman he likes is either a talented woman with a chapter, or a slender person who seems to be an immortal in the next second, and sure enough, people just lack what they love.
But it's a pity that Qi Yue and I are the same kind of people.
I'm vulgar, I love red, I like gold the most, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple can make a rainbow in my wardrobe.
If it weren't for my identity and not being able to go to the battlefield, my current military rank would be higher than Qi's.
"Sister." The little white lotus bowed to me, and her body was so soft that it seemed to be able to pinch out water.
Before I could do anything, Qi Yue stared at me with his two dead fish eyes, and his hand was already protecting the waist of the little white lotus.
"Xue'er, you are not physically convenient, so you don't have to salute."
After speaking, he said to me: "Xue'er is already pregnant with my flesh and blood, you will get along well in the house in the future, if Xue'er's child has any accidents, I will ask you." β
I rolled my huge eyes.
Before the stage is set up, you scumbags and are already addicted to drama.
I haven't said a word since then.
These two people's brain replenishment ability is too strong, and a set of processes is smooth, as if they have been rehearsed several times on the road.
I silently walked back to the carriage, grabbed the sedan curtain, and lifted it vigorously.
"Show up, baby."
02
As the saying goes, it's not terrible to hit the shirt, and whoever is ugly is embarrassed.
Mu Baichen got out of the carriage and saluted Qi Yue.
The same white clothes, the same fine dust, only a piece of smooth and transparent jade pendant hanging from the waist on the body.
Coincidentally, this is not the heirloom of my son-in-law.
Although he is a man, in terms of temperament and appearance, no matter how you look at it, he is better than the little white lotus.
"Bai Chen has seen General Qi."
After Mu Baichen finished speaking, he obediently retreated behind me.
Qi Yue looked at the two of us in disbelief, and even Little White Lotus forgot to protect it.
Laughing to death, I don't really think that only you Qi Yue can cuckold people.
"You...... You ......" Qi Yue pointed at me, so angry that I couldn't speak.
Originally, today was the day when Qi Yue's class returned to the dynasty, and many people had already gathered on the street.
From the moment Xiao Bailian gave me a horse just now, the people around me began to eat melons.
Throughout the ages, which hero has not had a few romantic affairs.
Qi Yue took the little white lotus to show off her power in front of me, didn't she just want to coerce me in front of the people to give her a name.
If I don't, I'm stingy and jealous, and if I do, it's disgusting to myself to fulfill their heroes and beauties.
The abacus hit me so much that I heard it in Jiangnan.
But who am I, I am the lord of Nanyang, my father was the champion of the year, and my mother was the eldest princess, and I can still let others knead and flatten it.
If it weren't for the fact that my parents had passed away, Qi Yue would not have been able to climb me.
"Qi Yue, my Sheng country has a rule that men can take concubines, and princes and nobles can also take servants. I will get along well with Sister Xue'er, but Bai Chen grew up in Jiangnan since he was a child, and he is not familiar with the capital, so I want to ask you to take care of me. β
As soon as these words came out, it could not be said that they were not rebellious, and the people around me had already begun to point fingers at me.
I am not unfamiliar with such a scene, when I was fifteen years old, I led my troops alone to drive away the mountain bandits who often came near the capital.
At that time, I was full of thoughts that when I returned to the capital, I would become a hero that everyone praised.
But the reality was so disappointing that no one praised me for how valiantly I fought off the enemy and repelled the bandits.
Everyone only cared about whether my innocence was still there, and even relied on some obscene means to reach an agreement with the bandits.
I was furious and wanted to kill all those who criticized me.
My mother, however, told me that as a woman, when she made up her mind to embark on this path, she was destined to suffer more criticism than men.
So now I turned a deaf ear to these instructions, straightened my waist and looked at Qi Yue.
Maybe it was because he saw that I was weak, Mu Baichen's hand stretched out from his sleeve and gently grabbed my hand.
Under the cover of the wide sleeves, I quietly squeezed his palm, signaling to him that I was fine.
This level of humiliation has long been nothing to me.
Noble girls can be served, or my mother's mother, that is, the regulations established by the Queen Mother, but looking at the entire prosperous country, there are very few noble girls who dare to serve. My mother counts as one, but after meeting my father, she also dismissed her own backyard, and I'm one now.
"General Qi, today is the day when your class teacher returns to the court, I came to greet you on the order of the emperor, why didn't you leave when you arrived at the city gate?"
The officials sent by the emperor to greet him didn't know when they came, so they must have stood in the crowd and watched this farce before coming out.
If Mu Baichen hadn't come out of my carriage just now, I'm afraid he wouldn't have come out so early to relieve Qi Yue.
Because I was the only one who was embarrassed.
I glanced at the man, I didn't even bother to give him a salute, and took Mu Baichen to take a step first.
03
When Qi Yue returned victoriously, the emperor naturally wanted to hold a celebration banquet for him.
It stands to reason that I, the wife of a righteous general, naturally wanted to attend.
But Qi Yue didn't go back to the general's mansion at all, and took the little white lotus directly into the palace, and when the news reached me, half of the banquet was opened.
The little eunuch who came to deliver the letter tremblingly invited me into the palace, for fear that I would be angry and hurt the fish in the pond.
After all, I didn't have a good reputation before I got married.
I told the eunuch to wait, and then changed into a red dress that would ensure that I would be glamorous to the audience.
I was born beautiful, with my mother, others think that the gaudy red clothes and gold, but I can suppress it.
"Bai Chen, follow me into the palace."
Mu Baichen helped me sort out Gong Xuan, and smiled at me: "Nanyang's request, Baichen Daoshan and Sea of Fire, are not to be resigned." β
I almost flashed in my eyes with his smile.
For a moment, he seemed to understand why Qi Yue was so fascinated by the little white lotus.
Who can withstand this?
Halfway through the banquet, Qi Yue drank a few glasses of wine, and was about to ask the emperor for a reward, so that he could give Xiao Bailian a name, when I brought Mu Baichen over to smash the field.
"Uncle Emperor, when he had a banquet in the palace, he didn't even notify Nanyang, Nanyang rashly came to ask for a glass of wine, and my uncle wouldn't allow it."
As soon as I appeared, the hall that was still lively just now fell silent for an instant, thinking that I was blinded by my beauty.
I'm happy with my appearance.
Seeing me come in, a look of embarrassment appeared on the faces of the emperor and Qi Yue.
But the emperor is the emperor after all, when he saw me coming, he immediately beckoned me to sit down: "How can it be, Nanyang came just in time, today's victory of General Qi is also a good day for you, quickly prepare a place for the county lord." β
"Hahaha, General Qi was still begging me for a reward just now, and you came in before you finished speaking, you and General Qi are husband and wife, and if you have anything you want, tell me quickly."
I smiled: "General Qi just decided to ask the emperor's uncle for a name for Sister Xue'er, this is a happy event, it just so happens that there is also a happy event here in Nanyang that I want to ask my uncle to fulfill, wouldn't it be better to let the general's mansion be happy." β
The emperor was coaxed by me to laugh: "What a Nanyang girl, you should tell me what is a happy event." β
I raised my hand and shook Mu Baichen's ten fingers, and said, "Since General Qi and Sister Xue'er are in love with each other and want to ask for a name, Nanyang also fell in love with Bai Chen at first sight, and the emperor's uncle also has to give Bai Chen a name." β
As soon as these words came out, I could even hear the sound of the courtiers in the hall gasping.
Even the emperor's smile froze on his face.
Qi Yue was embarrassed by me in front of everyone, his face turned pale for a while, and he glared at me angrily.
"This ...... Nanyang, do you have any other requests? β
The Emperor didn't seem to be going to accede to my request.
I said, "Your Majesty, Nanyang has nothing else to ask for. β
"Good, good, good."
The emperor had three good words in a row, obviously annoyed by my ignorance.
I faced the emperor's anger and said, "Your Majesty, Nanyang's mother once told Nanyang that when you meet your loved ones, you can only have no regrets if you pursue them boldly. Before leaving, her mother also instructed Nanyang, hoping that Nanyang would have no regrets in this life. β
I was on my knees, but my back was straight.
That's what my mother told me, you can bend your knees, but you can't bend your spine.
I brought out my mother, and the emperor, even if he had a monstrous anger, could no longer do anything to me.
After all, his throne at the beginning was also sat on by my mother running around and pulling forces.
After he sat on the throne, he also relied on my mother to guard the frontier, so the barbarians did not dare to attack.
Before my mother left, she specially asked the emperor to treat me well, but before my mother left, he stuffed me into the general's mansion in order to sit on the dragon chair under his ass for a little longer.
He was ashamed of me, so he did not dare to see me, and after I got married, he seldom summoned me to the palace.
Whether I was doing well in the Qi family, he never asked.
And the hint to outsiders is that I, the county lord, have fallen out of favor.
Seeing that I mentioned my mother, the emperor's face really changed, but he was still angry at my disobedience.
"Someone, proclaim."
Qi Yue's Xue'er girl was given the position of a flat wife as she wished, but before she was happy, Mu Baichen became my husband, the same as Qi Yue.
If you want me to say, the marriage between me and Qi Yue is really unprecedented, and there is no one to come.
04
Little White Lotus's little white face was distorted to be more hideous than Bai Impermanence.
Qi Yue's face was also good, and he couldn't see where to go.
I am the lord of the county, and I am a member of the royal family, and even if the courtiers want to talk about it, they have to find a place where no one is there to talk about it secretly.
Qi Yue is different.
Especially those Wenchen who have long looked at him unpleasantly, it is estimated that tomorrow morning, my emperor's uncle's desk will be able to receive his recitals.
"In that case, Nanyang won't disturb the interest of your adults."
After speaking, I took Mu Baichen and retreated.
When I passed by Qi Yue and Xiao Bailian, I proudly raised the holy decree in my hand at them.
"The lord of this county will drink my wedding wine when you return home."
After returning home, the next person was already arranging the new house, which was arranged by Qi Yue, probably because he wanted to wait for the holy decree to spend candles in the cave room with his little white lotus.
But I'm sorry, today is a good day for me too.
First come, first served, I will requisition this happy house first.
It seems that Qi Yue is really interested in this little white lotus, just marrying a flat wife, and the preparation is even more thorough than the wedding of the two of us.
Even the wedding clothes are prepared.
I picked up the man's suit and compared it to Mu Baichen, he was about the same height as Qi Yue, but he was thinner than Qi Yue.
Although Qi Yue is a scumbag, his muscles are still really trained on the battlefield, and a literati like Mu Baichen naturally can't compare.
"Tsk, it's too big."
I put the wedding dress aside in disgust, and said to Mu Baichen: "On the wedding night, I didn't even prepare a suitable wedding dress for you, and I wronged you." β
Mu Baichen just smiled and grabbed my hand: "To be by Zhizhi's side, I don't want anything else." β
I smiled, my big name is Shen Qingyun, my name is Nanyang, Zhizhi is my nickname, only my parents and grandfathers will call me by my nickname.
When he heard my nickname from my grandfather, he called me one by one.
Mu Baichen is my grandfather's most outstanding student, and this time he also took the initiative to ask Ying to follow me back to the capital.
I picked up the wine on the table and handed it to Mu Baichen.
I looked into those beautiful eyes that were as bright as a galaxy and said, "I'll only give you one chance to regret it." β
Mu Baichen took the glass of wine and grabbed my arm: "Baichen has no regrets about dying." β
After saying that, he drank it all.
I drank it all the same.
Mu Baichen and I were about to fall asleep when we heard a noise outside the door, and then my maid Qiu Ye said: "The county lord has orders, tonight is the wedding night of the same servant, no one should disturb it, even the general." β
"The county lord has prepared a new house for the general and Mrs. Xue in the side courtyard, please move the general."
Qi Yue's scolding voice became farther and farther away, and I couldn't help laughing out loud under the quilt.
I really like the way he can't get used to me and can't do anything about me.
Mu Baichen has been weak since he was a child, and when he was a child, an old man calculated for him that he should be raised as a girl since he was a child, so that the yin of asking for his life could be confused.
Hair, in particular, should never be cut unless absolutely necessary
Therefore, his hair was longer than that of ordinary women, and he was afraid of getting tangled around his body when he slept, so he tied it into a long twisted braid at the back of his head.
I played with his braids in my hands and fell asleep before I knew it.
Faintly, I felt as if the person next to me had gotten up and done something.
I only heard the red candle on the bedside beep twice.
When I woke up again, it was already dawn.
05
Since my mother passed away, I have rarely been able to sleep until dawn, and I don't know why I slept so soundly that night.
Mu Baichen had already gotten up, and was sitting in front of the window with a book and reading seriously.
He was still dressed in white, his long hair tied up by a ribbon, and the ends of his hair were slightly curly.
When he saw that I was awake, he put down the book in his hand and came over to help me get up.
I laughed and said, "Where there is a reason for a husband to serve his wife to get up, just ask the maid to do these things." β
Mu Baichen's ears were slightly red, but the hand that was holding my shirt did not stop.
After I finished freshening up, I led Mu Baichen to the front hall for breakfast.
Unexpectedly, Qi Yue and Little White Lotus were waiting there early.
Qi Yue's face was so black that it seemed to be dripping ink, and Xiao Bailian's face was not much better.
It seems that last night the candles in the cave room were not very good.
Seeing us coming, Xiao Bailian immediately came up to salute and said, "Sister, don't blame, Xue'er entered the house yesterday, and it stands to reason that she wanted to offer tea to her sister, so she came to disturb her early in the morning." β
I raised my eyebrows, what kind of nuisance is this, it's obvious that I'm here to sing.
I glanced at Mu Baichen beside me, sat on the main seat next to Qi Yue, and said, "Then I will respect." β
Tea was served quickly, but there were two cups of tea.
Little White Lotus was also stunned for a moment.
Mu Baichen stepped forward to pick up a cup of tea and took the lead in handing it to Qi Yue: "This cup of tea was given to General Qi by Bai Chen." β
I couldn't help but applaud Mu Baichen in my heart.
I looked at the hesitant little white lotus and said, "Aren't you going to give me tea?" β
Xiao Bailian bit her lip, took another cup of tea, and handed it to me: "This cup of tea, Sister Xue'er respects." β
I crossed my arms and looked at Qi Yue provocatively, meaning, if you don't take it, I won't answer it either.
Mu Baichen is also a man no matter how he says it, and he can't be tired when he raises a cup of tea, but the little white lotus is different, she is a delicate little white flower, and she has a body.
Just raised it for a while, and then it faltered.
Qi Yue still felt sorry for the little white lotus after all, almost the tea he snatched from Mu Baichen's hand, drank it all, and then looked at me angrily.
I ordered someone to take the tea in the hand of the little white lotus, blew the foam on the tea, and drank it slowly twice, and then a bracelet was removed from the hand and handed to the little white lotus.
"My sister just entered the mansion, and she thought she was going to serve the general as much as she could, but now that my sister is carrying her body, the most important thing is to give birth to the eldest son for the general."
Xiao Bailian took the bracelet and looked at Qi Yue as if asking for help.
I pretended to be surprised and said, "Ah, on the first day of Bai Chen's entry into the mansion, the general didn't prepare a greeting gift." This is the general's mistake, after all, Baichen was ordered by the emperor, and I entered the mansion openly. Even if the general is dissatisfied, he must do enough work to save face. β
Qi Yue was so angry with me that his face turned red, glared at me and gritted his teeth: "Shen Qingyun, don't go too far." β
I continued to arch the fire: "Why is General Qi's belly not as good as my inner house, just after your new marriage, you left your wife behind, it is unkind, and you carry me to raise an outer room outside, it is unjust." Even so, I will be kind to Sister Cher and her children, why can't you have a white dust in your eyes? β
"You are presumptuous!"
Qi Yue slapped his palm on the table, and the fine rosewood table instantly cracked.
Not to be outdone, I shouted at the door: "Autumn leaves, prepare the car to enter the palace, it seems that General Qi is very dissatisfied with the emperor's holy decree yesterday!" The lord of this county entered the palace and asked the emperor to take back his order. β
Xiao Bailian looked at her face and said loudly: "General, if my sister minds Xue'er's identity, then Xue'er is willing to be a slave and a maid." β
Qi Yue said: "Xue'er, you don't have to wronged yourself, today I will enter the palace with this poisonous woman, even if I fight for my military exploits, I will take her off!" β
It's just that as soon as his words fell, he heard Mu Baichen say: "Bai Chen knows that a white body is never worthy of the county lord, Bai Chen only wants to be able to accompany the county lord all the time, and he is willing to be nameless and unshared." β
Isn't it just pretending to be affectionate, who wouldn't, I immediately walked to Mu Baichen's side and held his hand: "Baichen, you don't have to be self-contemptuous, in my eyes, this reckless man is definitely not as good as you, I will enter the palace today, even if I don't become the county lord, I will take a break from this house." β
06
The four of us knelt side by side in the emperor's study.
When the emperor heard what we were coming, he was so angry that he threw the fold in his hand directly between me and Qi Yue.
"Nonsense!"
"Didn't you ask me one by one yesterday for a decree? What are you, three-year-olds? β
After speaking, he pointed to the pile of recitals on the table: "From morning to now, do you know how many recitals I have received from you?" General Qi, I married the county lord to you, and that's how you treated her? Do you still have the emperor in your eyes? β
The emperor's gaze swept over the little white lotus kneeling behind Qi Yue, and his gaze fell on her stomach, which frightened the little white lotus's breathing a little rougher.
"And you!" The emperor pointed at me again, "I married you to the general, so that you can assist the general in taking care of the family, so that General Qi can go to the battlefield with peace of mind. β
I rolled my eyes, if you put me at the border, then the border will definitely be much more peaceful than now, just a few barbarians, and dare to provoke my great cause to the border again and again.
My hometown has copied it for you.
It's a pity that this dog emperor doesn't dare.
After the dog emperor finished speaking, he looked at Mu Baichen behind me, Mu Baichen lowered his head, and the emperor couldn't see his appearance.
The emperor's eyes looked at Mu Baichen and asked, "This is your first time in Beijing?" β
"Back to the emperor, the grass people have been living in the south of the Yangtze River, and this is the first time to enter Beijing." Mu Baichen's answer was neither humble nor arrogant, and he couldn't find any mistakes.
The emperor didn't get the answer he wanted, and he was so angry with the two of us that he scolded me and Qi Yue and drove him back to the general's mansion.
The General's Mansion is divided into two courtyards, east and west, separated by a lake in the middle. Qi Yue and I take the lake as the 38th parallel, and one person occupies a courtyard.
Qi Yue: "Hmph." β
Me: "Huh. β
Qi Yue and Little White Lotus don't come to disgust me, and I don't bother to take care of them, after all, I still have my own things to do.
But although Little White Lotus doesn't disgust me anymore, it doesn't toss less.
She held several banquets in the General's Mansion in the name of Qi Yue, as if she had already regarded herself as the hostess of the Mansion.
Naturally, the nobles in Beijing also heard about the absurd incident between me and Qi Yue, and they couldn't wait to come over and join in the fun.
The yard next door was banging every day, making our side miserable.
Mu Baichen's body was not good, and after the autumn, he was sick intermittently, and he was stuffy in the house for almost half a month, and today I pulled him out to walk in the garden.
I leaned on the railing by the lake to feed the fish, and Mu Baichen sat quietly reading a book. There was a babbling and singing sound next door, and I threw the last fish food into the lake.
"Follow me here in the cold, you won't be bored." I asked.
Mu Baichen put down the book, his eyes drifted to the opposite side of the lake, and shook his head.
"It's enough to be by Zhizhi's side."
I smiled, glancing at a corner of the porch opposite.
"Bai Chen, I want to feed the fish while eating chestnut cake."
"Okay."
After Mu Baichen finished speaking, he went to get the chestnut cake.
Sure enough, as soon as he left on his front foot, the little white lotus on his back foot came over.
"Sister, the general ordered Xue'er to hold a banquet, and wanted Xue'er to get to know the ladies in Jingzhong. Xue'er is not as noble as her sister, and there are also things that she does not do well in etiquette, so she wants to invite her sister to go, and also guide one or two by the way. β
I didn't speak, and quietly watched the little white lotus perform.
"Sister, I don't mean to fight with you for the general, it's just that I'm pregnant with the general's child now, and the general cares about me a little more."
After saying that, she took my hand affectionately.
I raised an eyebrow: "So what?" β
Seeing that I wasn't angry, Xiao Bailian was a little anxious for a while, and put my hand on her stomach: "Sister, you touch it, the child has been moving a lot recently." β
I withdrew my hand, thinking that the time was almost up, why the group performance was not in place yet.
It's a bit boring.
Seeing that I was still indifferent and looked too lazy to take care of her, Xiao Bailian simply gritted her teeth and stopped pretending: "Do you think you are great if you are the county lord?" The general has already told me that as long as I give birth to my eldest son, the entire general's mansion will be under my control. β
Footsteps finally came from the porch, and I was glad that it was finally coming.
"General, Mrs. Xue just went to invite the county lord, but the county lord did not give up, and she had to kneel down before she was willing to come, Mrs. is not in good health and pregnant, please save Mrs."
When Xiao Bailian heard the voice, she immediately changed to a pitiful expression: "Sister, it's Xue'er who is sorry for you." β
After that, he was about to jump into the lake.
It's a pity, my eyes are quick, and I grabbed her: "Sister, what are you doing, how can you kneel to me with your body." β
The maid had already taken Qi Yue and a group of guests across the porch, and the little white lotus was pulled by me and couldn't move at all, so anxious that her little face was distorted.
At this time, Qi Yue, who had just passed the porch, happened to bump into Mu Baichen, who came over with chestnut cakes.
Qi Yue had already seen me and Xiao Bailian here from a distance, and bumped into Mu Baichen again, and the two of them didn't know what to say.
Qi Yue knocked over the chestnut cake in Mu Baichen's hand.
"Plop!"
"Someone's overboard!"
I shook off the little white lotus, rushed to Qi Yue quickly, and slapped him hard. Then he shouted at the guards behind him who were at a loss: "What are you doing in a daze!" Don't save people yet! If anything happens to Bai Chen, you will all bury me with me! β
For a while, not only Xiao Bailian and Qi Yue were stunned, but even the guests who were called to see the excitement were stunned.
Mu Baichen was quickly rescued by the guards, I held him in my arms, it was already late autumn, the lake was bitterly cold, Mu Baichen's whole person was shivering, and his face was as pale as a piece of paper.
"Twigs...... Chestnut cake ......"
I grabbed his hand that was shivering with cold: "I'll eat the chestnut cake next time." β
Mu Baichen pulled out a smile at me and squeezed my palm, and then I remembered that I should say my lines.
I turned my head towards Qi Yue, my eyes were red! "Qi Yue! You bring a woman back from outside, I have endured it, Baichen has always been with you well water does not interfere with river water, what else do you want! As a general, don't you even have the capacity to accommodate people? β
Qi Yue was stunned from just now to now, and the words that should have been said are now coming out of my mouth.
Qi Yue's speechless appearance was taken into my eyes, how about it, the knife that should have stabbed me was stabbed on himself, this taste is not very pleasant.
Although this trick is a little yin, it does not hurt him much when it affects Qi Yue, at most it makes people laugh at him, and when he wins the next battle, he will be a good man.
If it is the little white lotus who is pushed down the river today, then I will have a reputation for being vicious and jealous.
The emperor was already afraid of the Qi family, if my little white lotus's child fell today, then it is difficult to say whether my position as the county lord can be kept.
Oh God it's not fair.
The guests watched a good show today and left satisfied.
I helped Mu Baichen back to the room, and the house doctor was quickly invited. Mu Baichen was lying on the bed, and the doctor was taking his pulse.
Only then did I realize that it was my hands that were shaking badly.
I coldly swept Qi Yue and Little White Lotus behind me.
Little White Lotus was frightened by my gaze and shrank into Qi Yue's arms.
"If something happens to Baichen today, even if I, Shen Qingyun, don't want to fight for the position of this county lord, I will go to the emperor to ask for an explanation."
"Shen Qingyun, don't go too far, I didn't touch him at all! It's shameless for a big man to play this trick that only a post-otaku woman will use! β
"Smack!"
I gave Qi Yue another slap.
The half of his face that I had just beaten was still swollen, and now the other half was swollen by me.
"The back house is private, General Qi dares to say this, if it wasn't Bai Chen who fell today, it was your Xue'er, would you still believe that I hadn't touched her at all?"
"Oh, that's right, Miss Xue'er naturally doesn't dare to do anything to frame the county lord herself, and she must report it to the general before she acts."
"You!"
Qi Yue, who was poked by me, was annoyed and ashamed, and reached over and wanted to hit me, but as soon as his hand reached mid-air, he was grabbed by me.
"Ahh
Qi Yue screamed, and his wrist hung down softly.
I shook off his hand and said to the little white lotus: "Help your general back and take care of it, tomorrow I will enter the palace to see the saint, if you have anything to say, it is not too late to leave it in front of the emperor." β
Qi Yue stared at me with a swollen face, looking ridiculous.
Little White Lotus was intimidated by my majesty, didn't dare to say a word, and helped Qi Yue back to his yard in a gloomy manner.
Mu Baichen's situation is not very good.
The doctor shook his head after checking the pulse, saying that he was sick from his mother's womb, and his body had been bad, and he was cold, so it was estimated that it would not be easy to recover.
After sending off the house doctor, I sat in front of Mu Baichen's bed.
I helped him straighten the messy hair on his forehead, and he had a fever since the beginning, and he was in a coma.
I looked at his pale face, maybe I shouldn't have brought him to the capital, he should only be his beautiful white dust boy in Jiangnan.
Why bother with me on this troubled trip?
I have to admit, Mu Baichen, I regret it.
07
Mu Baichen burned for one night, and I accompanied him to toss all night.
When the day was about to dawn, his fever finally subsided.
I called Akiba to dress and change my clothes, and Akiba was startled when she came in.
After staying up all night, my face was ugly and scary, and she covered my face with a thick layer of powder to barely cover my tiredness.
Mu Baichen was still asleep, but he finally stopped burning.
I told Akiba to take care of him, and I went into the palace alone.
I knelt outside the door of the Emperor's study for two hours before he finally summoned me in.
When I got up, my knees weakened, and the palace maid next to me wanted to come over to help me, but I waved me back.
I limped into the study, and the emperor looked unkind.
He threw a copy in front of me.
"Nanyang, I'm so used to you!"
It seems that what happened in the General's Mansion yesterday has reached the ears of the Emperor early in the morning.
I took a deep breath and my eyes turned red.
"Uncle, is that how you see Nanyang?"
"Uncle." I took two steps forward on my knees and rubbed in front of his case, "If it is Qi Yue who kneels in front of you today, and he accuses you of killing his child, do you believe him or me?" β
"If there is no white dust, what do you want to do with Nanyang today?"
The emperor was speechless by my two questions, and the words he wanted to say were swallowed into his stomach, but as the majesty of the Son of Heaven, he still had to reprimand me.
"Nanyang, you are the county lord, even if there is a big mistake, what can your uncle do to you?"
The implication is that I shouldn't fight back, I should endure it.
But why should I bear it!
Back then, the emperor issued an edict, and the heir to the throne was clearly my mother!
What kind of waste of princes did it take to let the emperor choose my mother to inherit the throne when there was a male heir.
My grandfather, the emperor of the time, personally watched the emperor write this edict.
A few days before the death of the first emperor, the prince of the emperor put all the imperial doctors under house arrest and led people to surround the emperor's bedroom.
This dog emperor has no other skills, so he will steal his home.
At that time, the forces of all parties were still unstable, and my mother was running around in order to appease the various ministries, if it weren't for this waste dragging her feet, while my mother was not in the capital, she was impatient to force the palace, and after he sat on the throne, she had to hurry to the frontier to wipe his ass for him.
In order to save my parents' lives, my grandfather had to hide the real edict and forge an edict proclaiming him emperor, and then resigned and returned to his hometown after he ascended the throne.
If it weren't for this trip back to Jiangnan to visit relatives, I might never have known these truths.
And my mother, until she died, was running for this man.
To this day, it's hard for me to have any reverence for this man sitting in a high position.
He took the life that belonged to my mother.
And as long as I live in this world, I will always remind him that he is just a thief with an unrighteous name.
It turned out that from beginning to end, he only wanted me to die.
A cold sweat oozed from my back, but having come this far, I had no choice.
He killed my parents and felt guilty about me.
But he was afraid of me, after all, I was raised by my mother, and at the age of fifteen I could lead troops to suppress bandits.
After my parents died, my grandfather wanted to take me back to Jiangnan, but the emperor left me in the capital on the grounds that my only relative was not with him and he was inevitably worried.
This is clearly to keep me in the capital as a hostage to threaten my grandfather.
Every year my grandfather would secretly send me a letter from home, which would always be four words: hidden, obscure.
The emperor can't kill me now, after all, he has always been weak, and he hasn't made a few political achievements, and if he kills the orphan of the eldest sister who did his best for him, then he won't be able to leave any good reputation.
After all, it has only been three years since my mother left, and those barbarians on the border began to act again, often harassing the people on my border.
And he knows that he doesn't have the courage of my mother, and in just three years, he has sent no less than five princesses to the family.
He himself has a thin heir, and he has not given birth to an heir for so many years on the throne.
Therefore, most of the princesses sent over were the daughters of officials and magnates.
There was already a lot of dissatisfaction in the court, and Qi Yue was the most capable of fighting in his generation.
He didn't dare to offend Qi Yue, but he couldn't do anything to me.
Therefore, the result of my crying in the study was to play fifty boards each.
I was grounded for a month, Qi Yue was fined for half a year, and of course, the military power in his hands was also collected.
08
Qi Yue went to court the next day and learned that his military power had been collected, and his face was crooked.
As soon as I got home, I was going to settle the score.
I glanced at his right plaster cast and sneered, "If the general wants both hands to be useless, just try it." β
I blew the ink on the paper in front of me that hadn't dried.
"If the general is idle and has nothing to do, he will copy the Buddhist scriptures like me, and the anger on the battlefield is too heavy, so copy more to get rid of bad luck."
Qi Yue looked at me incredulously, as if he was surprised that there were such brazen people in this world.
"Autumn leaves, send-off."
After Qi Yue left, I took a slow sip of tea, and said to Mu Baichen, who was writing hard in front of the case: "Don't copy it, the emperor punished me a hundred times, when do you want to copy it, don't toss it anymore." β
Mu Baichen put down the wolf hair in his hand, clenched his hand into a fist against his lips and coughed lightly twice, and then smiled: "Is Zhizhi feeling sorry for me?" β
I pretentiously walked up to him and shook his hand: "Yes, you see that your hand is red, I should be so distressed." β
A flush appeared on Mu Baichen's pale face, and he turned his head a little uncomfortably.
I stepped forward shamelessly: "What, shy? You are all married to me by Ming Media, and for you, I have become the first county lord in history to spoil and kill her husband. Those historians have long been unpleasant to me, and they don't know how to arrange me. β
"Does the county lord care about the evaluation of the world?"
Mu Baichen didn't know when he had already wrapped his arms around my waist, and put one hand on the top of my hair and gently smoothed my hair.
I shrugged, "I care about a fart, if I cared about me, I wouldn't be Shen Qingyun." β
Mu Baichen smiled and didn't speak again.
Qi Yue and Little White Lotus have completely settled down after this experience. After all, they couldn't hold me, wounded 800 enemies, and damaged 1,000 themselves.
But recently, a script has begun to circulate in the capital.
The protagonist is myself, Shen Qingyun, the lord of Nanyang.
I thought it was some good deed who wrote it to arrange me, so I asked Akiba to buy me a copy.
I flipped through it and was stunned, this is an idol biography written by one of my avid fans.
I am a lady of the sky, heroic and unparalleled, from my brave beating when I was a child, to my fifteen-year-old leading troops to suppress bandits, almost a biography of my life.
Moreover, this book is full of pictures and texts, and the language is concise, so that even illiterate women, children, and children can understand it.
No wonder it spread in the capital all of a sudden.
However, my legendary and heroic biography came to an abrupt end in the year I got married, and the content of the book only wrote that I married Qi Yue, oh, and it ended without even Qi Yue's name appearing.
I thought it was a pity, so I decided to talk to the author himself.
I took the notebook and pushed open the door of Mu Baichen's room, I took the book from his hand and stuffed it back into him.
"Why didn't you continue to write until the year I got married?"
Mu Baichen didn't look at the script in his hand, only looked at me.
I was a little uncomfortable with him, so I had to straighten my face, but fortunately, Akiba's announcement interrupted my embarrassment.
"County Lord, Lady Snow asks to see you."
Little White Lotus? What is she looking for me to do?
How comfortable life is?
Anyway, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and I asked Akiba to invite people in.
As soon as the little white lotus came in, she knelt down for me with a plop.
"Sister, please save Cher!"
Xiao Bailian's face also has a clear palm print, which looks like Qi Yue's scumbag.
Although I don't treat Little White Lotus very well, Qi Yue even beats pregnant women, which is really too much.
I was angry, but I didn't want to care about the two of them at all, so I said: "This is your and General Qi's business, I can't take care of it." β
When Xiao Bailian heard this, her little face instantly lost its blood, like dead ashes.
Then she gave me a smack.
The force was so great that it seemed to smash my floor.
"Ask the county lord to save the child in Xue'er's belly, the county lord, Xue'er knows that she is sorry for you, but the child is innocent, as long as the child can be born safely, Xue'er is willing to raise the child under your name, Xue'er is willing to become a monk, and will always accompany the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha from now on."
I really don't have much interest in the child in the belly of Little White Lotus, but looking at her expression really doesn't look like a fake, besides, I don't have any problems embarrassing pregnant women, so I quickly asked someone to help her sit down.
"Tell me what's going on."
Xiao Bailian glanced at Mu Baichen who was standing beside me, and stopped talking a little.
I said, "Bai Chen is my person, just have anything you say." β
Xiao Bailian calmed down her emotions, and then she told the story.
Xiao Bailian's surname is Jiang, and her full name is Jiang Yingxue.
The surname Jiang is rare.
Because the new emperor ascended the throne five years ago, the Jiang family in the capital was beheaded, and all the female dependents were exiled.
There is no other reason, rebellion.
As for whether it is a real rebellion or a fake rebellion, who cares about the truth of such a thing.
"So, Qi Yue knows your identity and wants to kill you?"
"Yes."
Little White Lotus only promised.
"Then how did Qi Yue know your identity? And how did you meet him on the frontier? β
"Our whole clan was exiled to the frontier, and many old and weak women and children died on the road, but my mother told me that our Jiang family was wronged, and told me to return to the capital and avenge the grievances of my Jiang family."
"But how can I do it as a weak woman."
"Later, I don't know why, my mother suddenly found a farmer's family and asked me to pretend to be their daughter, and since then, Jiang Yingxue of the Jiang family has died, and I have cleared my identity and become a peasant girl."
The later story was very old-fashioned, Jiang Yingxue saved Qi Yue, the two fell in love, and she also took the opportunity to return to the capital.
I sighed and said, "Then have you ever thought about avenging your Jiang family when you go back to the capital?" β
Jiang Yingxue shook her head and said: "General Qi treated me very well at the beginning, and I was also pregnant with his child, so I thought that if I could live a good life with the general when I returned to the capital, then forget the past and no longer think about revenge." β
I smacked my lips, and Mu Baichen next to me whispered, "Tut-tut." Love brain harms. β
Mu Baichen quietly stayed by my side, letting me hold his hand and play with him.
Jiang Yingxue obviously heard my words, and her whole body suddenly shook, and then she cried again.
"The general returned home angrily a few days ago, and immediately told me my identity, if it weren't for my child, I'm afraid I'm ...... now Today, I took advantage of the general's absence to sneak out. β
"County Lord, it was my fault in the past, and you have a lot of begs to save my children."
I sighed, in fact, I didn't take Jiang Yingxue to heart at all, I knew that most of her tricks were done under Qi Yue's instructions, and to put it bluntly, she was also a victim. β
I looked at Jiang Yingxue's crying pear blossom with rainy face, and I found that this was the first time I had faced this woman.
She looks so familiar, like Qi Yue's mandarin duck who was beaten by me.
Miss Chang of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Didn't Qi Yue have a childhood sweetheart who almost became a sweetheart, but was forcibly broken up by the emperor.
The co-author is still in the old love, and I found a stand-in for myself.
But I don't plan to tell Jiang Yingxue about this cruel reality, after all, she is pitiful enough.
I promised her that I would keep her and her baby, and then let Akiba send her back to take care of her.
It was also time to test the people under my hands, so I summoned my subordinates and asked them to find out who Qi Yue had met with recently.
The efficiency of his subordinates is very fast, where Qi Yue has been in the past few days, who he has met, and what he has done, he has been reported to me in detail.
Sure enough, among the people Qi Yue has met frequently recently is his childhood sweetheart, Liu Yingying.
It seems that Jiang Yingxue's true identity should also be found out by her.
09
I snorted coldly, of course I wouldn't be naΓ―ve and just think that these two people had an old relationship.
This is the concubine of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and she has no evil diseases, how can she keep her daughter as an old girl.
If there is no collusion between the Prime Minister's Mansion and their Qi family, I will never believe it.
Before, I was just a powerless orphan girl, but this time I went back to Jiangnan to visit relatives, and my grandfather gave me my mother's token.
With this token, I was able to get in touch with my mother's old ministry.
It's easy to do with manpower.
I ordered someone to keep an eye on Qi Yue and the Prime Minister's Mansion, and report to me whenever there is any trouble.
After doing this, I thought about going to the emperor to find a reason to bring my mother's old ministry to the fore.
Mother's old ministry was a private soldier she raised, and she was dismissed after her mother's death, and she has been acting in private for so many years.
Now that they have followed me to the capital, they can't continue to hide in the shadows like this.
Seeing that I was thinking about it, Mu Baichen asked, "What's the trouble with Zhizhi?" β
I reached out and wrapped it around a strand of his long hair, and said, "I'm just worried about not knowing how to arrange my mother's old department." β
Mu Baichen smiled, walked around to me, and said, "I heard that the county lord of Nanyang is brave and unparalleled, and when he was fifteen years old, he led his troops to exterminate the mountain bandits around the capital. β
I laughed when I heard this, got up and pinched his face: "Ah Chen is really my virtuous helper." β
It didn't take long for a group of bandits to occupy the mountains near the capital.
When the news reached the emperor, it naturally made people panic, but if it was said that this group of mountain bandits did not do anything bad, they just occupied a hill, neither burning nor looting.
The emperor was originally a coward, and since this mountain bandit didn't do anything bad, he just let it go.
Qi Yue asked for orders to lead troops to suppress bandits several times, but was rejected by the emperor.
I don't know when, there is another rumor in the capital, saying that it is because the mountain bandits are afraid of the Nanyang county lord in the capital, so they have been keeping to themselves.
After all, when I was fifteen years old, I led troops to suppress bandits, and for a while, many people really believed in it.
At this time, I myself was in the house listening to the news from my subordinates.
Wang was brought up by me, and now in order to facilitate things, he is disguised as the manager of a shop outside my house.
This person's ability is not small, and there is a ruthlessness in him. In just one month, the details of the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Qi family have been completely touched.
I looked at the news on the paper, and their appetite was quite big, and they were not afraid to kill themselves.
Just as I burned the letter paper in my hand one by one, Jiang Yingxue's personal maid suddenly ran over and knelt in front of me.
"Please save my master, my master gave birth today, General Qi refused to invite a doctor to come, this is to kill our master."
I frowned slightly, Qi Yue, this guy, actually started so early.
So I instructed Wang Qiyi: "You take my token and go to the palace to ask for a doctor, just say that the county lord is unwell, and go directly to the West Courtyard after you come back." β
But as soon as Wang got my orders, he didn't dare to delay for a moment to ask for a doctor. I took the maids and guards and broke directly into the west courtyard.
As soon as I entered, I heard Jiang Yingxue's screams.
The maid in the west courtyard knelt on the ground, and Qi Yue sat in the courtyard.
This beast is inferior to something!
Qi Yue obviously didn't expect me to take care of his business, and he was a little surprised to see me.
I didn't say a word and took advantage of his unpreparedness to unload one of his arms, Qi Yue screamed, and then my guards restrained him, and I rushed directly into Jiang Yingxue's delivery room despite the obstruction of a few mothers-in-law at the door.
When Jiang Yingxue saw me coming, a smile finally appeared on her pale face.
"County Lord......"
"Don't talk, save your strength." I stuffed a piece of ginseng in her mouth.
"The county lord...... Protect your child...... The child's surname is Jiang ...... Give me the Jiang family's grievances and Zhaoxue......"
Jiang Yingxue almost squeezed out this sentence from her mouth, and her whole person seemed to be soaked with sweat.
I grabbed one of her hands and said, "The Imperial Doctor will come soon, I said that I will protect you, you and the child will be fine, now hold my hand hard." β
"Ahh
Accompanied by Jiang Yingxue's terrible scream, I didn't expect that the seemingly weak little white flower had so much strength, and I felt that my entire arm was about to be pinched off by her.
Wang Qiyi's efficiency was very fast, and the imperial doctor was almost carried into the mansion by him.
Fortunately, Jiang Yingxue's fetus was not bad, and soon after the imperial doctor came, she successfully gave birth to a baby girl.
Jiang Yingxue didn't have any strength anymore, and watched weakly as the child was held in my arms.
"County Lord, life-saving grace, Jiang Yingxue can't repay it, this child will be used by the county lord in the future......"
I chuckled: "You have a good game, let me raise the child for you for nothing." β
While Jiang Yingxue was speaking, Wang Qiyi, who was standing behind me, suddenly raised his head and stared straight at Jiang Yingxue lying on the bed.
"Cher's ......"
Hearing someone call her, Jiang Yingxue saw Wang Qiyi who had been standing behind me, and tears instantly filled her eyes: "Brother......"
Wang is one, Wang is one, isn't it just a river character.
I carried the baby to the outer room, leaving the two siblings to catch up.
Mu Baichen didn't know when to wait outside, he was still taking a nap at the time, so I didn't ask anyone to disturb him.
I looked outside, and it was already dark.
Mu Baichen couldn't stand the clumsy appearance of me holding the child, so he came over and took the child into his arms.
I watched him skillfully coaxing the child's technique, and I couldn't help but smack my lips: "Seeing that you are so skilled, you won't have a child outside behind my back." β
Mu Baichen's ears instantly turned half red, and he retorted in a low voice: "Absolutely not." β
10
It didn't take long for Wang to come out of the room.
It looks like I've just cried.
Mu Baichen went out with the child in his arms, and I looked at Wang Qiyi who was kneeling in front of me.
"Can you talk about it now?"
Wang Qiyi's original name was Jiang Yingxuan, and he was the eldest son of the Jiang family.
And the Jiang family is a force loyal to my mother.
It is no wonder that the first thing the new emperor did when he ascended the throne was to behead the Jiang family.
Directly broke one of my mother's arms.
Maybe my mother didn't know anything about the Rival Prince. Because the place where the Jiang family was exiled was the same place where my mother was stationed later.
It seems that the person who helped Jiang Yingxue change her identity should also be my mother.
Sure enough, Wang Qiyi's words confirmed my conjecture.
"When the Jiang family was exiled, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess escorted them all the way, but the new emperor was cautious and sent many people over to assassinate them. My parents were afraid that the eldest princess would be exposed, so they begged the princess to save our brother and sister, and after the princess sent our brother and sister away, my parents and the clan ......"
"I thought I would never see my little sister again in my life......"
Speaking of this, Wang was already crying.
Then he solemnly kowtowed to me a few times: "My little sister has just told me about her experience, and I still hope for the county lord Haihan in the previous matter, and I have sworn to swear allegiance to the county lord in the future, and I will not hesitate to go to the soup." β
I sighed and told Wang to stay in the house for a few days to take care of Jiang Yingxue.
Mu Baichen handed over the child to the nurse and waited outside the door. When he saw me come out, he hurriedly draped the big hat he held in his hand over me.
I said to him, "You go back first, the scene may be a little bloody later." β
Mu Baichen shook his head: "I said, I will be with you when I go to the soup and fire." β
I squeezed his cold hand: "Why don't you wear more yourself." β
Mu Baichen came with me to the firewood room where Qi Yue was kept.
He was restrained by my men, tied up and thrown into the firewood room. Seeing me come in, Qi Yue lurked in the dark and stared at me coldly
"When did you change the people in my house?"
I raised an eyebrow: "You found out." β
"It didn't take long for me to come back from a family visit."
Mu Baichen didn't know where to take out a candle, lit it silently, and stood behind me watching me confront Qi Yue.
"I'm underestimating you." Qi Yue sneered, then closed his eyes and didn't want to speak again.
"Okay." I said softly, "It seems that General Qi also knows what I'm going to do next." β
To be honest, I didn't plan to do it so early, but today I learned about my mother's past and the destroyed Jiang family.
The knife in my hand can't be sharpened any longer.
"In the case of the Jiang family's extermination, the Qi family and the prime minister seem to have made a lot of efforts."
"Let me guess why you chose Jiang Yingxue, who is similar to Liu Yingying's appearance, and why did you hinder her when she gave birth."
"Jiang Yingxue's identity Liu Yingying has already told you, but presumably you already knew it when you were in the frontier."
"The prime minister's appetite is big, but your Qi Yue's appetite doesn't seem to be small."
I finished speaking slowly, but Qi Yue couldn't calm down anymore, his eyes were split, and his gaze staring at me could be called vicious.
He struggled to get up, but he was fed cartilage by my people early in the morning, and he struggled for a long time and couldn't get up from the ground.
I instructed my subordinates outside the house: "Spread the news, and it will be said that the Snow Maiden gave birth to the eldest son for General Qi, and he is now going to divorce me, the county lord, and make the Snow Maiden his wife." β
After speaking, I took Mu Baichen and left.
After returning to the room, Mu Baichen wanted to help me untie the big gun, but I waved my hand to indicate that I didn't need to.
I sat in front of the mirror and handed him the comb: "Dress up for me, I'll be in the palace again when it's dawn." β
As I expected, at dawn, the palace sent someone to invite me into the palace.
The emperor had just come to court, and he was dealing with government affairs in the study at this time, and the eunuch at the door saw me and let me in.
I saluted: "Uncle, call Nanyang early in the morning, is there something wrong?" β
I didn't sleep all night, just for the dark circles that these two fat powders couldn't cover at this time.
The Emperor sighed and handed me a note.
When I opened it, it was an excerpt of Prime Minister Qi Yue.
The prime minister's movements are really fast enough, this excerpt will not be written overnight.
But I'm not surprised. The prime minister and the Qi family are originally an alliance, but the two families have their own calculations for each other. There is only one throne, but both want it.
Since he was able to form an alliance for the sake of interests, he naturally could turn his face for the sake of interests.
Qi Yue brought Jiang Yingxue back to deter the prime minister, and after beating the prime minister, Jiang Yingxue was naturally useless.
After all, the orphans of the Jiang family are a big hidden danger for them.
However, I deliberately made people emphasize yesterday that Jiang Yingxue gave birth to the eldest son, and may soon become the eldest son of the eldest son.
This is naturally a dangerous signal in the eyes of the prime minister. He was worried that Qi Yue would make the first move, so he came over early in the morning to join him.
After all, the Qi family and the prime minister, neither of them can usurp this position by themselves.
And no matter who sits on the throne in the end, they must rely on the other party to balance by in-law and blood relationship.
Therefore, Liu Yingying can only marry Qi Yue in the end, and Qi Yue's eldest son can only be Liu Yingying's child.
"Nanyang, uncle won't let you be wronged, don't worry, I will send someone to beat him, and this child will be recorded in your name in the future."
I smiled: "Uncle, Nanyang is unwilling to raise children for others, and Nanyang wants to reconcile with Qi Yue." β
The Emperor's words of comfort to me were choked back by me at once.
"This ......"
The emperor naturally didn't want to see me and Qi Yue reconcile, after all, there would be no excuse to contain Qi Yue in the future.
Of course, I won't reconcile with Qi Yue so soon, just to block him.
But after all, I am a county lord, Qi Yue is slapping the emperor in the face by doing this, and under my side knock, the emperor ordered Qi Yue to reflect at home for a month.
In the end, I returned home with a few cartloads of treasures from the emperor.
As soon as he returned to the house, the people of the Qi family sent someone to ask about Lijiang Yingxue as his wife.
After the two of us got married, they separated from the Qi family and set up a new mansion.
The Qi family naturally hopes to continue the alliance with the prime minister, and they also hope that Qi Yue's eldest son was born by Liu Yingying.
After all, Qi Yue's doing this is equivalent to unilaterally turning his face with the prime minister.
But now Qi Yue is locked up by me, and all the people in the house were replaced by my people yesterday.
I didn't let the Qi family come in, but I just asked my subordinates to report that Qi Yue was busy with his wife and children now, and he had made up his mind.
The Qi family got the news and left in disgrace.
So the next day, I heard that someone had joined the prime minister's Yue's family, saying that it was embezzlement of disaster relief funds.
Although he is the prime minister's father-in-law, if he delves deeper, where can the prime minister be clean.
Sure enough, the people of these two factions had their own evil intentions, and now I just gave a little bit of a boost, and then I started dog-eat-dog.
The reciprocal recitals were sent to the Emperor like flowing water, and I knew that he had been worrying about the matter lately.
The crimes they participated in were all things that could be inconsequential and could not be fundamentally harmed, the forces of the DPRK and China were intertwined, and the Qi family and the prime minister were two big trees.
The emperor will not be able to move them for a while, but he cannot sit idly by.
He had a headache, so he simply pushed it all to Dali Temple to investigate.
Dali Siqing was a poor student promoted by the emperor, and he originally wanted to cultivate it for his own power.
But unfortunately, this wish of the emperor was doomed to fail.
The new Dali Siqing is my father's student.
I always thought that I was going to follow a never-ending bloody path, but then I realized that my parents did much more than I thought, and they seemed to have foreseen their own end, so they were paving the way for me today.
Dali Siqing acted impartially, and quickly handled the matter neatly and cleanly, and by the way, he put a bombshell on the emperor's desk.
The Prime Minister's Office intended to rebel.
You must know that you can endure anything else, but the rebellion is definitely against his rebellion, and he can be said to be obsessed with this throne.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have cornered my mother in the first place.
Therefore, almost no verdict was pronounced in the case of the prime minister's rebellion, and the conviction was soon confirmed, and the prime minister's house was full of beheadings.
The prime minister knew that his general trend was gone, but before he died, he still took a bite of the Qi family.
The emperor was furious and punished even the Qi family.
When the news reached the General's Mansion, I was teasing Jiang Yingxue's daughter.
The little one doesn't cry or make trouble, and he knows that he is smiling at me with a pair of big eyes.
It stands to reason that Qi Yue is also a member of the Qi family, but after all, there is still a relationship with me, not to mention that there are really few generals who can be used in the court, so the emperor specially pardoned Qi Yue, and only sent him to the frontier to garrison, even with me.
This dog emperor is really desperate.
However, Qi Yue has now been abolished by me, and it is not impossible to go to the frontier to garrison, but the boss has to be changed.
It's bitter cold on the frontier, but it's a good opportunity for me to practice.
What's more, expelling barbarians has always been my mother's unfulfilled wish.
It's just that there is one thing that makes it difficult for me, Mu Baichen is weak, and he may not be able to withstand a place like the frontier.
But he insisted on going with me.
I said to him: "I'm going to the frontier, the capital lacks someone to help me with it, I can't trust anyone else, only you can do this." β
Mu Baichen looked puzzled, but finally nodded with difficulty.
On the day of departure, the first snow of the winter fell in the capital.
He stood in the snow to see me off, and our carriage went far away, and he still stood where he was, his white robe as if to merge with the blank white of the world.
11
Two years later.
I have been to the border for two years, and the border is a place where the sky is high and the emperor is far away.
The emperor deliberately embarrassed me and Qi Yue, and withheld supplies for the border soldiers, but I still won many battles this year.
However, I didn't let the news on the battlefield go back at all, and it is estimated that the emperor still thinks that Qi Yue and I are suffering at the border pass.
It took me three months to drive the barbarians of the frontier back to their hometown on the grassland, and the other side wanted to pay tribute and sue for peace, and I said to the leader on the other side, leave the things to me, and I don't have to go to the capital with great difficulty, and I promise not to send troops with you for ten years.
The things given by the Huns were very rich, enough for my soldiers to be fed and clothed for a while.
Now that the hidden dangers of the frontier have disappeared temporarily, I began to think about when the class teacher will return to Beijing, there are always heavy winds and snows in the winter of the frontier, and I have to go back before the snow falls.
With that in mind, my subordinate delivered my letter.
It was a letter written to me by Mu Baichen. After I left, he would send me a letter every ten days, and I would sometimes reply, and sometimes I would not have time to reply when the war was tight.
But I don't know where he got such a great ability, even if I am on the battlefield, the letter can be delivered to me on time and properly.
Most of the letters asked me about my current situation, telling me to take care of my health after working hard at the border, and occasionally mixed in a sentence or two about his own recent situation.
I also learned in the letter that in the spring of the second year after I left, he became famous in one fell swoop and became the youngest new champion of the dynasty, and he had become a household secretary in just two years.
I was amazed at how quickly he had risen through the ranks, but I wasn't much surprised. After all, with his talents, it's not that difficult.
In the letter, he talked about the grand occasion when he was playing horses and parading the streets, about the mansion given to him by the emperor, about the troubles of the officials who worked with him, about the newly opened pastry shop on West Street, and about the emperor's addiction to cultivating immortals in order to give birth to an heir.
It just so happened that I had recently won a battle and was about to return to Beijing, so I ordered someone to bring a pen and paper and write a reply to him.
"Our army has won a complete victory, and if you don't return to Beijing in the next day, don't read it."
After writing the reply, I ordered the army to prepare and return to Beijing in a few days.
During the year, as my prestige spread far and wide on the frontier, the size of the army was much larger.
I divided my soldiers into two halves, half of them stayed in the frontier to guard them, and the other half returned to Beijing with me.
When the first snow fell in the winter in the capital, I finally returned to the capital after a two-year absence.
Since I returned to Beijing without permission, the emperor did not know about it, but I did not hide it from him, set up troops outside the city, and swaggered into the city gate.
Mu Baichen waited for me at the city gate early in the morning.
It was also a heavy snowfall, and Mu Baichen's appearance was no different from two years ago.
There was already a thick layer of snow on his shoulders, and I reached out to brush it away for him, and I don't know how long he stood motionless in the snow.
He took my calloused hand and didn't speak, just stood quietly with me.
I traced his eyebrows carefully, his face was thinner, his eyebrows and eyes were more mature than before, and they were still as handsome and good-looking.
I hadn't paid attention to the wind and sand of the frontier for two years, and for a moment I suddenly began to worry about whether my skin would become rough and ugly.
As if he saw what I was thinking, Mu Baichen's hand lightly touched my face again.
"The branches are getting better and better."
I smiled at him and dragged him home.
In the letter he came earlier, he said that the former general's mansion was given to him by the emperor as a mansion. My old yard is still there, the same as before.
However, before I set foot in the courtyard, I was invited into the palace by someone sent by the emperor.
Mu Baichen wanted to enter the palace with me, but was stopped by the palace people, I gave him a reassuring look, and rubbed his hand in his sleeve.
After entering the palace, I was taken to the emperor's bedchamber.
Not long after the emperor left, his body collapsed, but there was no prince under his knees, so he became more and more obsessed, and even indulged in asking for immortals.
As I stepped into the Emperor's bedchamber, the smoke was filled with smoke and a foul smell of burnt burnt food filled the hall.
"Nanyang, come here, let my uncle take a look."
He beckoned to me, who was standing outside the hall, and in front of the bed lay a concubine, feeding medicine to his mouth spoonful by spoonful.
I lifted my feet and walked a few steps inside, and saw the emperor's true face.
If it weren't for the fact that this place could only be treated by the emperor, otherwise I really wouldn't have recognized the withered old man lying on the collapse as the emperor.
The emperor is not confused, but he is already like an old man who is about to die.
"Come here, come to my uncle's side." He patted his side weakly, and in just two strokes, it seemed that he had exhausted all the strength of his body.
The concubine beside her immediately stepped aside with interest and stood with her eyebrows bowed.
This concubine looks like she is only at the age of Lu, and Yingying's vitality will be suffocated to death in this lifeless palace before she can bloom. The young face made my half-dead emperor's uncle have little time.
"What about General Qi? Why didn't I come with you. β
I smiled: "Qi Yue has been abolished by me, and now the army only listens to me alone, and only recognizes me as a commander." β
The Emperor coughed sharply twice, his chest rising and falling violently.
"You're like your mother...... No, you're better than your mother now......"
I was noncommittal and waved my hand at the little concubine, who retreated in amusement.
I leaned over to the emperor's bed and whispered, "Do you know why you haven't given birth to an heir for so many years?" β
"Because my mother gave you the medicine to cut off your children and grandchildren long before you got married."
The Emperor's eyes widened in disbelief, and his chest heaved even more.
"No...... It couldn't be ......."
"Believe it or not, but no matter what, uncle, I am now the only bloodline of our Shen family's royal family."
"Did you think about it today when you killed my mother?"
"No...... I didn't ...... I thought about killing the royal sister...... If she keeps to herself......"
"Enough!" I interrupted him, "It's clear that you're incompetent, but you blame my mother for her excellence." β
After speaking, I took out from my sleeve the Emperor's Decree, which had been hidden by my grandfather for more than ten years.
"Uncle, are you familiar with this?"
The Emperor tried to snatch the decree from me, but I easily dodged it.
He burst into a hoarse laugh.
Then there was a sound of footsteps behind me, and I looked back to see that it was Mu Baichen, who was escorted in by the emperor's guards.
"My good nephew, Nanyang, look who your uncle invited you."
I stood up and said, "What do you want." β
Mu Baichen's hair was a little messy, but his clothes were still clean, and he shook his head at me, signaling that I was fine.
"Daoist Menghua said that as long as you have a little bit of your heart's blood, I can reshape my body."
A touch of madness burst out of his eyes, and he grabbed the corner of my clothes: "Nanyang, as long as you have a little heart, my uncle will let you go." β
I sneered, drew the long sword at my waist, and stabbed the Emperor in the heart.
The Emperor smiled triumphantly at me: "Kill him!" β
In the next moment, the emperor's dead men surrounded me.
"Twigs!" Before Mu Baichen's words fell, a dagger was pressed against his neck.
The number of dead soldiers is not much, if I can barely deal with it alone, but if I still have to take care of saving Mu Baichen, I can't cope with it.
I sneered, and drew my sword to meet it.
If one of the dead is cut down by me, there will be new ones to make up for it, and I am gradually a little exhausted, and I don't know if I can catch up with the reinforcements.
When Mu Baichen saw my appearance, there was some determination in his eyes, and he grabbed the guard's wrist, and his neck was about to hit the dagger.
"Mu Baichen!"
I exclaimed, and the sword in my hand was thrown out.
The guard's hand was cut off by me, and even the hair on the side of Mu Baichen's shoulder was cut off by the sword qi, and the green silk fell to the ground.
"County Lord! It's too late for help! β
The sound of reinforcements came from outside the hall, and I let out a sigh of relief, which can be regarded as catching up.
My reinforcements quickly dealt with the last bit of the Light Emperor's dead soldiers. Mu Baichen stood still and didn't move, I picked up the long sword in front of him and pulled his hair together.
I pulled him to the emperor, the emperor knew that his life was over, and he didn't forget to struggle before he died: "Mu Aiqing...... With your talents, you shouldn't ......"
Mu Baichen shook his head: "Bai Chen swore that for the sake of the branches, he would go to the soup and go to the fire, and he would not give up." β
I stabbed the emperor in the heart with a sword, and the emperor did not blink an eye.
The emperor is dead, there is no one to succeed him, the country cannot be without a king for a day, and I am the only one left in the blood of the royal family.
The next day, when the minister went to court, he saw me sitting on the dragon chair, and everyone was surprised.
I wiped the long sword that had been stained with blood last night, and stared at the people of His Highness without saying a word.
At this time, my grandfather came out of the palace tremblingly, and he returned to the capital a while before me.
My grandfather was a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and he was the emperor of two emperors, and he was also a colt, my father.
Let's ask who in Beijing doesn't know.
Sure enough, as soon as my grandfather came out, everyone was silent.
He took out the real edict of the emperor, and the person who succeeded to the throne should have been my mother, and now it is even more reasonable for me to succeed to the throne.
In this way, there are many fewer obstacles to my succession, except that there are still some stubborn old schools who are forced to die.
I don't care, the vacant position is just topped by the person I have cultivated before.
After the blood was splashed a few times in the main hall and I appointed new officials on the spot, everyone was honest. The resignation is resigned, and the post is held.
12
It's just that the matter of my harem being empty has not been resolved for a long time.
After I ascended the throne, there were a lot of love at first sight in Beijing, heroes saving beauty, childhood sweethearts, and two little guesses.
For a while, I couldn't find a man of the right age to marry in Beijing, which really hurt me.
As soon as Mu Baichen came in, he saw me sighing.
I deliberately teased him: "As an emperor, there is no one in the harem, it's really embarrassing." β
Mu Baichen put the fold in front of my case, lowered his eyebrows and said, "Baichen does not seek fame, he will always accompany His Majesty." β
I'm itching my teeth, isn't the biggest matchmaker in Beijing opened by your kid, and I can't count the money in the recent period.
But when I think of the dismissal of the former queen's palace, how to place those crying and crying women is really a waste of effort for me, so thinking about it, the harem is actually quite good.
I pulled Mu Baichen to my side and sat down, resting my head on his lap: "You say, how about I make a decree tomorrow to make you my queen." β
I obviously felt Mu Baichen's body stiffen, but his face was still not visible: "Listen to the branches." β
But the reddened tips of his ears betrayed him.
I rolled over, took out a blank piece of paper, and made a mistake with the first sentence of my pen, which was the first time I had written such a decree.
Mu Baichen's hand covered my hand.
Take me to write down one stroke at a time:
Hold the hand of the son, grow old with it.
finish