Chapter Twenty-Six: The Past
How Shen Miaolian tossed in the family temple without giving up, Zheng Qiyan naturally knew, and he looked back on the past while flipping through the thirty-six strategies written by Jintong that Gongsun Wuji copied for him.
In the ninth year of Taihe, the regent who had been dormant for many years recuperated and recuperated, changed the name of the country to "Pei", established himself as a virtuous emperor, and raised troops in Weinan, all the way like a bamboo.
The old Maozi in the north was eyeing him, and the Marquis of Jingbei led his two sons to resist with all their might, and he was unable to return to Beijing to escort him. The Marquis of Xiping led 100,000 troops in a roundabout and tactful way to deal with the regent, but he was almost defeated repeatedly.
At that time, people in Beijing were panicked, and various forces took the opportunity to dump each other. Lao Jian'anhou was revealed to have a close relationship with the regent, and the holy lord ordered the house to be raided, and hundreds of people in the Hou Mansion were all imprisoned.
Zheng Qiyan didn't learn about this until half a month later, he had the blood of the Zheng family in his body, the Zheng family was in trouble, although he was a concubine, the family raised him in Huben Mountain to learn martial arts since he was a child, and he was not treated lightly, he naturally had the responsibility to maintain the Zheng family.
So after Zheng Qiyan asked his teacher, he led three hundred children with strong martial arts in Huben Mountain to form an alliance with blood and prepare for the escort of the diligent teacher.
Zheng Qiyan and Gongsun Wuji made a plan that was later called "cutting off children and eliminating grandchildren's lack of virtue": 300 people with more than 1,000 horsemen rushed day and night, detoured to Weinan, and entered the regent's palace. burned, killed, looted, captured dozens of the regent's favorite concubines and children, and dragged them all the way from Weinan to Shangjing, threatening the regent who had already arrived in Shangjing.
Running all the way, dozens of pampered concubine sons died more than a dozen, and the grandson Wuji, who lacked great virtue, took two coachmen leisurely and leisurely to send more than a dozen corpses to the regent's military camp. And Zheng Qiyan, who also lacked virtue in the five elements, tied the remaining 30 or so hostages to kneel outside the capital to humiliate them.
The regent was furious and wanted to kill Gongsun Wuji.
Gongsun Wuji's expression was calm: "The old husband is a lonely star, his wife and children are dead, and now he is dead, there is no pity." Could it be that the regent envied the old man and wanted to learn from the old man and die alone? ”
The regent knew that if he killed his grandson Lao'er at this time, Zheng Qiyan would definitely kill several of his wives and concubines and children to get angry, so he was so angry that he slashed the table with a sword.
There are only two adult sons left by his side to join the army, and more than a dozen sons were captured by Zheng Qiyan, including three sons that he has always valued and focused on cultivating, if he wants to give up, he can't do it! And to give up this soon-to-get flowery country, don't say that he can't do it, and his two sons who fought with the army are not allowed.
After weighing the pros and cons, he had to pretend to be kind to Gongsun Wuji on the surface. The regent plans to make peace with Gongsun Lao'er for the time being, stabilize Zheng Qiyan behind him, and then find a way to save the third son he likes no matter what.
Unexpectedly, Gongsun Wuji should cooperate with the outside and plot against the two sons of the regent. The two sons were afraid that the regent would be soft-hearted in order to save the other brothers, so they sent troops to attack that night.
Zheng Qiyan used the regent's family as bait, lured his two sons into an ambush without knowing it, and proudly slaughtered all the hostages. As a result, the dead soldiers secretly planted by Zheng Qiyan triggered explosives, and more than half of them were killed and wounded, and they were shot by a rain of arrows by the archers who were ambushed around, and there was not one in ten.
The Marquis of Xiping led 30,000 elites, taking advantage of the sneak attack led by the two sons of the regent, and counterattacked the regent's camp with lightning speed.
Under the bewilderment of Gongsun Wuji, the regent generals did not take any precautions, but one night of negligence, the 200,000 troops under the city fell apart, and more than a dozen sons of the regent died completely.
is only one step away from victory, the success falls short, the hatred of killing the son is not shared, how can you endure such a shameful humiliation!
The regent, who fled in a hurry, hid back in Weinan and sorted out the remnants of the army to prepare for a comeback, and he hated Zheng Qiyan, the eighth calf of the king, and wanted to eat his flesh raw.
There are still three catties of nails in the broken ship, the regent has been in business for many years, and there are many dark lines buried in various places, knowing that Zheng Qiyan has a family in Huben Mountain, so he sent a team of people to hide in Huben Mountain, looking around, preparing to retaliate with a tooth for a tooth and assassinate Zheng Qiyan's family.
Unexpectedly, Zheng Qiyan had already prepared, and the eldest son Zheng Yu was escorted to Beijing by Shen Deye's brothers, but Shen Miaolan was pregnant and inconvenient to travel long distances, so she could only be taken care of by her sister Shen Miaolian and hid near Huben Mountain.
The two daughters-in-law and several young sons of the Shen family, who remained in Huben Mountain, were tortured and forced to die. In order to save their two daughters and grandson, Shen's parents held their own grandson to lead away some of the regent's pursuers, and they were all killed.
The Shen sisters hid in Tibet, exhausted for their lives, Shen Miaolan finally couldn't support it, and died of blood after giving birth to a daughter.
Shen Miaolian, a fourteen-year-old girl, took an infant baby alone, evaded layers of chasing soldiers, and finally came to Beijing. Both of them were dying, and they almost couldn't be saved.
And the secret post buried by the regent in Shangjing shot several times, wanting to kill Zheng Yu and Zheng Yu, and the two brothers of the Shen family, Shen Deye and Shen Changlu, were seriously injured and died in order to save Zheng Yu.
The Shen family is full of loyal protectors, but only Shen Miaolian, a young daughter, is left, not to mention that Shen Miaolian almost died in order to rescue Zheng Yu. Such a great kindness, Zheng Qiyan always remembers it, so even if Shen Miaolian has any excesses, Zheng Qiyan generally doesn't care.
Zheng Qiyan originally planned that there was only one orphan girl left in the Shen family, so it was better to set up a female household for Shen Miaolian alone and recruit men to come to the door, so as to at least leave a root for the Shen family.
Helplessly, Zheng Yu only recognized Shen Miaolian, and if she left her, she would cry for a while. Zheng Yu, a newborn premature weak child, accompanied Shen Miaolian to travel nearly thousands of miles and survived, which is a miracle. Zheng Qiyan was sad that Shen Miaolan died in childbirth, and he loved this young girl even more, for fear that Zheng Miao would have three long and two short, so he could only entrust Shen Miaolian to take care of Zheng Yu.
Later, Zheng Qiyan relied on his military exploits to wash away the grievances of the Marquis of Jian'an. It's a pity that the Marquis of Jian'an almost died in prison, leaving only the crippled third son Zheng Qishuo, the Holy Lord to show his grace, restore the title of Marquis of Jian'an, return the family property, and make an exception for the already disabled Zheng Qishuo to attack the Marquis of Jian'an.
In order to ensure that there is a successor to the Marquis of Jian'an, Mrs. Zhen took the lead and succeeded Zheng Yu, the eldest son of Zheng Qiyan, to the name of Zheng Qishuo as the son of the Marquis of Jian'an. Zheng Qiyan knew that if Zheng Yu still followed him, he could only be a concubine and had no right to inherit his title, so he did not object.
Zheng Qiyan himself was named the Marquis of Pingning and opened a mansion to live in another place. In order to facilitate Shen Miaolian to take care of Zheng Fang, she could only let Shen Miaolian temporarily take the name of her sister, and call her Zheng Miaolian's biological mother and the concubine of the Pingning Marquis Mansion to the outside world. But in fact, for so many years, Zheng Qiyan didn't touch Shen Miaolian, he pondered that when Zheng Qi grew up, he would help Shen Miaolian set up a female household alone in Shangjing according to the original plan, and recruit a lot of money.
At first, Shen Miaolian also took care of Zheng Yu wholeheartedly, and she didn't think about it, so she waited for Zheng Yu to be older, and she went out of the house. But in the Pingning Marquis Mansion, the eyes are full of wealth and nobility, where can people's hearts withstand temptation, and gradually become unrecognizable.
Shen Miaolian's greed gradually rose, she knew that she looked quite like her sister, and tried her best to get close to Zheng Qiyan, but she never succeeded once. Shen Miaolian thought that Zheng Qiyan felt too guilty about her Shen family, so she didn't want her to be a concubine, so she was delusional about the position of the Marquis of Pingning.
The Holy Lord is suspicious, the Marquis of Jian'an's Mansion and the Marquis of Pingning's Mansion are in the limelight, and Zheng Qishuo's crippled body not only attacks the Marquis of Jian'an, but also is responsible for the salt affairs, which is a big fat meat that everyone is red at. In order to keep a low profile, Zheng Qiyan only married a family full of Qingliu, and Lan, an ordinary Beijing official daughter compiled by the Hanlin Academy, was his wife.
Zheng Qiyan looked back on the past and sighed a lot. Shen Miaolian has thoughts about him, how can he not know? It's just that Zheng Miao is extremely dependent on Shen Miaolian, and he can't force Shen Miaolian to move out of the mansion after all, always thinking about waiting for Zheng Miao to be older and then make plans. But she didn't want to drag it out, and the more Shen Miaolian did whatever she wanted.
Alas, he only cared about operating outside, neglecting the house, and causing the Lan family to lose his life in vain. Fortunately, Jintong was able to stand up, suppressed and punished Shen Miaolian, and put the Pingning Marquis Mansion in order. Now she can only take advantage of this matter to lock Shen Miaolian in the family temple and beat her up, if she repents, then she will not blame the past and help her recruit a man to come to the door. If she still doesn't repent, then she has to be reunited with the Shen family.
Zheng Yu is now the son of the Marquis of Jian'an, and he is quite famous at a young age. Zheng Yu has the teaching of Jintong, and went to Zuo's family school to study, and it will be a matter of effort to find a wishful husband in the future. Both brothers and sisters have half of the Shen family's bloodline, and the Shen family's family is in the spirit of the sky, and they will definitely be able to understand him.
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The years have passed, and Shen Miaolian is no longer the innocent girl she was at the beginning. She has been with her sister since she was a child, and when the girl's heart first moved, she also secretly fell in love with Zheng Qiyan. It's just that at that time, Zheng Qiyan was just a concubine whose biological mother died early, and he studied art in Huben Mountain, and was taken care of by their Shen family every day, and he didn't seem to be very rich, so Shen Miaolian's admiration was just admiration.
Her parents told her again that in the future, they would let Zheng Qiyan raise her to a civil register, help find a rich family, three books and six ceremonies, twelve dowries, and marry her out. Shen Miaolian wants to be a lady, so she doesn't imagine that her sister is like her, being an unfavored concubine in the outer room, with no name and no points.
So Shen Miaolian, who took her sister's name as a concubine, didn't think too much about it at first, just thinking about helping her sister take Zheng Yu, and then leaving the house by herself.
But gradually, she was reluctant to live in this rich and noble mansion. Mrs. Zhen is old and lives in the Jian'an Hou Mansion, and she only cares a lot about Zheng Qiyan, the Marquis of Pingning, and rarely reaches into the Pingning Hou Mansion. So although Shen Miaolian did a lot of things out of the ordinary, for the sake of the Shen family's full face, no one really cared about her, which also nourished Shen Miaolian's ambition.
Shen Miaolian didn't know that she was lucky, and she was doing things more and more.
The Lan family has a soft personality, and she has been in the Pingning Marquis Mansion for a long time without children, and Shen Miaolian easily held her in her hands, which even harmed her life.
Shen Miaolian thought about getting rid of Jintong again and spreading the reputation of Pingning Houke's wife, and then Zheng Qiyan wanted to marry a famous and noble girl again, and the difficulty would only increase. Then she tried to find a way to hook Zheng Qiyan and her skin-to-skin relationship, and the position of Mrs. Pingning Hou was within reach.
Everything was going according to plan, but how did it turn out like this? Shen Miaolian, who has repeatedly failed, lies in Siguozhai and reflects on what went wrong?
She thought that everything she did was unaware, but after all, she was born as a domestic slave and followed Zheng Qiyan with her family since she was a child. She is the youngest daughter in the family, and her two brothers and one sister love her very much, and there is no intrigue at all.
The Shen family is serving Zheng Qiyan, a rough man who is dedicated to learning the art of martial arts, with a simple population and a happy life, where can they compare to Mrs. Zhen, who has the vision and scheming to withstand the wind and waves? Everything she thought she was leaking was not even an axe in the final analysis.
So when Jintong made a bold move and unceremoniously dug out Shen Miaolian's rotten sores in the Hou Mansion, Old Madam Zhen would only push the boat down the river to help. And Zheng Qiyan is too late to help Jintong for the sake of Pingninghou's future, how can he protect Shen Miaolian again.
Shen Miaolian, who was puzzled, could still see her situation clearly, and reluctantly lowered her profile for the time being, and waited for Zheng Qiyan to return before making plans.