Princess Bai'an rarely lost her composure, her eyes were sparkling, and the way she looked at Xianjin was gentle and soft - she was really short-sighted and blind. When they met in the mountains of Jing County six years ago, the little girl in her impression had long arms and legs, tall stature, and a slender figure. How could she look chubby and round at all?
After her niece was born, she lived in the capital for three years. At that time, her first husband, Duan Yuxin, the governor of the Northwest Pacification Office, passed away.
She had sought this marriage herself.
When she was young, she followed her uncle to the northwest in disguise. Seeing that the people on the border were trapped by the invasion of Tartars, she secretly made up her mind to stay in the northwest to quell the war and ensure the safety of the people. The empress dowager sent three consecutive letters to urge her to return to Beijing to visit her.
She simply asked all the newly recruited unmarried young men in the Northwest Pacification Division to line up. She blindfolded them, held a dagger in her hand, and would marry whoever she shot at the bull's eye behind him.
There were a total of thirty-eight unmarried men in the Northwest Pacification Office, but only four of them dared to stand out in a row.
She flew forward and swung out the dagger, hitting the target behind Qianhu Duan Yu.
She took off her blindfold, and Duan Yu walked towards her calmly, holding a red apple in his palm.
"I thought Your Highness would shoot my apple - that's what it says in the storybook," Duan Yu said to her.
Once words are spoken, they cannot be taken back.
That night, she married Duan Yu. She did not prepare wedding clothes, but only wore a crimson riding suit to marry Duan Yu. When the news of the marriage reached the capital, the Queen Mother was furious, but after all, she was just a woman in the deep palace, and the person in power was her brother whom she had always protected and doted on.
Her younger brother Xu Fengyin, who was two years younger than her and also Emperor Wenjing, consoled the Queen Mother: "...Don't worry about the process, let's just look at the final result - didn't my sister get married?"
The royal family members reluctantly accepted the marriage.
Unfortunately, the marriage only lasted a year and a half. She ran into Duan Yu holding a red apple and entering the tent of a well-known widow in the army. The situation in the northern border eased a little, so she signed the divorce agreement and returned to Beijing, with a soft, sweet, fragrant niece in her arms.
In the barren mountains of Jing County, this little girl with a melon-seed face and little flesh on her body spoke with a southern accent. She said her surname was He and she was from Jing County, Xuancheng Prefecture.
When her niece was three years old, the Nine Cities of Beiyun were conquered. She mounted her horse and returned to the Northern Frontier, and she never saw the descendants who were closest to her in blood in this world again.
The next time I returned to Beijing was two months after the Baiduo Rebellion.
Her younger brother told her with red eyes: "...During the escape, Guifei and Feifei were separated and both died."
She was heartbroken, feeling pity for her younger brother who had lost his love and pity forever, and hating his incompetence. The impregnable capital city could be breached in his hands. Her little niece, whom she had cherished for three years, was separated from her and would never see her again.
At that time, the tolerance, gentleness, prudence and restraint shown by his half-brother Xu Fengxian in the chaos formed an extremely sharp contrast with the panic and decadence of his younger brother.
And when she found out why Concubine Gao and Fei Fei died, her disappointment and resentment towards her brother reached its peak in an instant.
After finding out that the refugees' rush into the capital had nothing to do with her half brother, she made a painful decision after weighing the pros and cons - to support her half brother to ascend the throne as Emperor Zhaode and persuade her biological brother to abdicate and become Prince Xiao. The price of the deal was that her biological brother must live well, even in a corner or in seclusion, but please help her save the life of this good-for-nothing brother.
Then, within a month, she changed the tradition of three cabinet ministers meeting in the cabinet to five people, increasing the cabinet's voice. At the same time, she quickly and secretly spread her power in the court. For example, the current Minister of Revenue Hu Bingzhi, the Junior Secretary of the Honglu Temple Luo Wenhong, the Cabinet Assistant Minister Gao Shiqi, and more than a dozen others were all nails she had planted in the court at that time.
If we abide by the constitution and keep our promises, these nails will grow into big trees;
If Fengxian turns against her and breaks up with her, these nails will pry open the throne she left for him.
After finishing all this, she took a jade rabbit pendant from the Feifei Palace back to the northern border.
Perhaps, she and her brother were here to pay for the bloodbath committed by the ancestors of the Xu family when they seized the throne. The fact that they could not leave offspring was the most obvious curse - she had thought of this more than once after losing the fetus in her belly on the battlefield.
“Fei Fei…” Princess Bai’an’s eyes flickered, and her voice choked: “Your name is not He Xianjin, your name is Xu Yinfei.”
During this month, she arranged for the secret guards to conduct covert investigations in Qingzhou, Jingxian and Xuancheng. Once they had a clue, the truth would slowly surface as the rope pulled them - Xianjin was indeed her niece, the only descendant of the Empress Dowager Xiaochengren.
Xianjin lowered his head and whispered, "I know. The back of the jade mouse pendant also has these three words engraved on it..."
Combined with what Qiao Hui said, her surname was Xu, and the abdicated emperor had a strong curiosity and protection for her...it is not difficult to guess the true background of "He Xianjin".
Yin (Yin) Fei - Xian Jin, the two names are related to each other, but they will never be guessed correctly at the first try. So naturally, the surname He she gave will definitely not easily arouse speculation from those who are interested.
He Ainiang, it’s true, I want to hide her among the masses.
Why?
Why did He Ainiang do this?
Is it because after being dispersed, He Ainiang became one of the refugees, and she was afraid that she would not be able to prove her innocence and would no longer be accepted by the royal family?
No, it's not possible.
Princess Bai'an will not stay in the capital for a short time, and as the person who turned the tide at that time, she will never make things difficult for anyone because of a woman's chastity.
Why doesn’t He Ainiang go back?
Why go to such great lengths to hide it?
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