What Yuheng's family didn't know was that in the original book, although Yuheng and Zhang Niangzi, who were beaten and scolded by the Zhang and Liu families by pulling their hair, also met the then Prince of Zhenbei, Yu Zizhen, because Yu Zizhen was still a young original owner at that time, she had no say in the team. The nanny sent by the Princess of Zhenbei to control her disagreed, so she couldn't help them more.
Apart from stopping the Zhang and Liu families at the beginning, she was unable to do anything for the mother and daughter afterwards.
After she left, the Liu and Zhang families started to bother her and her again.
Madam Zhang was sold to a family in the mountains for twenty taels of silver by her brother's wife, who was determined to take her job away. She was to be the wife of several brothers of that family. She refused to obey and begged her parents and brothers to no avail. In desperation, she took advantage of her family's inattention and hanged herself in the woodshed where she was imprisoned.
Yuheng, who was taken back by the Liu family, worked as a servant for several years and was beaten and scolded by the Liu family. Then she was sold to an old widower in his early thirties.
Not only did the old widower already have three children, but he also beat his last wife to death.
Yuheng didn't want to accept his fate, so he secretly escaped the night before the old widower came to pick him up. Unfortunately, he ran into a group of refugees who entered the village to loot food and property.
They were afraid that Yuheng would scream, so they took the initiative and killed her.
After enduring humiliation for more than ten years and risking his life, Yuheng's father Liu Qingshan finally returned to his hometown. Upon learning what had happened to his wife and daughter, he angrily killed his elder brother, younger brother, and brother-in-law who had shown no remorse and no guilt.
Then, feeling hopeless, he slit his throat in front of his evil parents.
The Liu and Zhang families, which were originally quite prosperous, were reduced to a group of only four elderly people and only a few children who went out to play with their friends survived because of his crazy revenge.
Yu Zizhen didn't know whether the Zhang and Liu families regretted such a tragic ending, but the fact that Liu Qingshan, who had learned superb horse-raising skills in Beiyan, died just like that was quite regretful for the Beiyan princess who knew him well.
After having an on-again, off-again and on-again love affair with Yu Zicheng, and finally marrying him with another identity under Yu Zicheng's arrangement, she racked her brains to show her personal value, just to make the Princess of Zhenbei stop criticizing her and stop thinking about giving Yu Zizhen a concubine.
In addition to using her advanced knowledge to continuously make money, she also started from the actual needs of Yu Zicheng and the Zhenbei Palace, racking her brains to increase important bargaining chips for him and the Zhenbei Palace to compete for the Central Plains and the throne.
Those are the things needed to fight a war. Apart from the formula of gunpowder, firearms and bomb making which had not been researched in this era, the Princess of Beiyan also set her sights on the existing weapons and horses of the Zhenbei Army.
She was not good at improving military equipment, and could only occasionally use the vision and knowledge she had accumulated from visiting museums and watching documentaries in her previous life to provide some improvement suggestions to the Chief of Works.
As for the raising and training of horses, although she was not favored in Northern Yan, she was still a princess after all, and it was not her turn to raise horses.
Fortunately, although she herself did not know how to raise horses, she knew who among the Da Qi people who were captured in Beiyan were good at raising horses.
Because she was not sure who among those people had escaped alive, the Princess of Beiyan sent her trusted subordinates to inquire privately. Then, she received the explosive news that Liu Qingshan, the best horse breeder, had gone mad and killed almost everyone in his brothers and brother-in-law's family after finally escaping, and then committed suicide.
As an important cannon fodder with some abilities, although the original author did not give much words to Liu Qingshan, it was enough for the system to extract important information from him and issue a task to Yu Zizhen in advance.
Yuheng had no idea that she would meet her father by chance, and that it was actually Yu Zizhen who pushed her behind the scenes. She brought her father to Yu Zizhen with great trepidation.
Not only did her father propose to thank her eldest son in person for his protection and training of her and her mother over the years, but he also planned to recommend himself and ask her eldest son for a job, which made Yuheng very worried.
She hoped that her father, who had suffered so much, could have a good rest and did not want him to work hard all the time. At the same time, she did not know what her father could do for Yu Zizhen. She was worried that her father's self-recommendation would make Yu Zizhen embarrassed.
Liu Qingshan saw that his daughter was worried, but he didn't know that Yuheng's worry was actually divided into two parts. He thought that the other party was just worried that his body could not bear it.
"Master." Yuheng left her father outside and went to find Yu Zizhen to hand in the task. She also told Yu Zizhen that she had brought her father back.
Yu Zizhen pretended to be surprised and delighted, "Does your mother know? Is she sure that man is really your father?"
"It's confirmed, he..." Yuheng recounted everything his father had done since returning to the village. "To be on the safe side, I also told him some things my mother had told me before, things that only she and my father knew."
At first, Yuheng accepted her father's sudden appearance without any doubt, but after being with Yu Zizhen for so long, her caution and vigilance had long been engraved in her bones. When the ecstasy gradually cooled down, Yuheng's mind regained its original intelligence and alertness.
Not only did she openly test her father to the best of her ability, but she also had people investigate her father's escape routes based on some clues provided by her father.
She was out of reach of the grassland outside the northern border, but although Yuheng didn't dare to say that she could find out all the details of her father's activities after he crossed the border and entered the territory of Da Qi, she should have no problem finding out most of it.
She also told Yu Zizhen about how she had used one of his intelligence networks to investigate her father. "Although I dream of my father returning alive, I cannot put you and your companions in danger because of my selfish thoughts."
What they were doing was a dangerous business where if they were not careful, they would lose everything. Yuheng had to be extremely careful and cautious.
Although she really hopes that her father can be alive and their family can be reunited, Yu Zizhen, Yaoguang and others are actually no less important to her than her father and mother.
She couldn't, and didn't want to, push everyone to their deaths because of her momentary emotions.
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