No one expected that the iron-hearted Qiu Hongxiu would become a different person after this. She never looked for anyone again and even moved into the city with her daughter. Relying on her medical skills and the one hundred taels of gold left over from her early years, she bought a small courtyard and hired a private school teacher, an embroiderer, a zither player, etc. to begin teaching their daughter.
When she was ten years old, Qiu Zhen finally stopped her wandering life and settled down in Yangliu Town, living the life of a lady who had nothing to do with housework.
In order to provide her with a better environment and a better education, and for them to be able to enter the General's Mansion in the future, Qiu Hongxiu's efforts are immeasurable...
A woman, with a daughter, who had to hire various teachers, could not earn much money just by grinding medicine for people in the clinic.
Fortunately, Qiu Zhen was a sensible child. Seeing how difficult her mother's life was, she would take on some laundry work in her spare time to supplement the family income.
But this girl is okay in the summer, but in the winter Qiu Hongxiu won't let her do it no matter what.
Qiu Zhen is very clever and deft, the kind of kid who understands things quickly. She doesn't give Hongxiu any worries about her studies, and especially the money she spends is well worth it, so Qiu Hongxiu doesn't feel like her efforts have been in vain.
As her embroidery skills improved and she was able to take on some work, she gave up the laundry job.
But this kind of life only lasted for five years. One day five years later, a group of bandits suddenly rushed into the house.
Those people had heard of Qiu Hongxiu's reputation a long time ago. If there were only one or two bandits, they would not dare to come to her house. Qiu Hongxiu's fierceness was definitely not someone that ordinary people would dare to mess with.
But this time, the people who came were a group of bandits. How difficult would it be for so many people to deal with one or two young ladies?
No matter how capable Qiu Hongxiu was, she didn't know martial arts after all. She was just a woman after all. Even if she fought for her life, she still fell into the hands of those people.
The other party had ill intentions towards the two of them, and the older one naturally wanted to take her to the village to be his concubine.
As for the younger ones, they were so tender that they might be sold for a good price, so after knocking the two men unconscious, he did not make things difficult for them.
Therefore, when the mother and daughter woke up, they found that their hands and feet were tied and they were trapped in the carriage. The road was extremely bumpy, and they immediately guessed that it was most likely a mountain road.
The mother and daughter looked at each other. Qiu Hongxiu signaled Qiu Zhen to turn around, and despite her bleeding teeth, she bit the rope on her wrist and broke it.
After being freed, Qiu Zhen immediately turned around and untied the ropes on Qiu Hongxiu.
The mother and daughter took a deep breath, carefully opened the window, and were surprised to find that there was no one behind the carriage.
Obviously they had expected that two weak women like them would not be able to escape from the carriage.
So the cavalry were all in the front, and although there were only two people on the car, if they cooperated well, it would be entirely possible for them to escape.
The mother and daughter looked at each other and realized that if they didn't escape now, they would never have another chance in the future. No matter how difficult it was, they had to escape at all costs.
And the fact is, they really did it. It turns out that people in adversity have infinite potential.
Although they jumped off the carriage and tried to escape successfully, they had no idea of the mountain conditions and it was broad daylight, so they had nowhere to hide.
In addition, for some reason, those people remembered to check on them, and when they did, they immediately discovered that they had escaped.
At this time, the mother and daughter had only escaped for a quarter of an hour when the enemy's cavalry quickly turned back and chased in the direction they fled.
Even if they use their toes to think, they know how difficult the road ahead is. If they are caught and taken back like this, their lives will be ruined.
Qiu Hongxiu pulled Qiu Zhen's people and ran desperately, but how could human legs compare to horse legs?
In the end, Hongxiu was hit by an arrow in the leg and could no longer escape.
But she didn't want her daughter to fall into the hands of these thieves, so she forced Qiu Zhen to escape, while she used her own flesh and blood to hold back the leader.
The man had no intention of taking her life, but her ruthless look really startled everyone.
As the two were struggling, the man fell heavily from his horse. Seeing this, the man behind him stabbed her with a sword without mercy.
Qiu Hongxiu fell down in a pool of blood. Before she died, she stared in the direction of Qiu Zhen, her eyes full of unwillingness.
Qiu Zhen watched his mother die in front of him, then he staggered to his mother's side, hugged her body and cried loudly.
That was the first time Qiu Zhen cried helplessly and desperately since she grew up.
After all, the patience of those thieves was limited. Looking at Qiu Zhen who was stunned like a fool and Qiu Hongxiu who was dead on the ground, they couldn't help but curse.
However, it was this curse that brought Qiu Zhen, who was immersed in great grief, back to reality. Her tearful face suddenly revealed a hideous smile.
She stood up slowly, straightened her back, and walked towards those people step by step.
Even though they were sitting on tall horses, the sight of the terrifying woman with gloomy eyes walking towards them made even these bandits, who killed people without blinking an eye, feel a chill down their spines.
No one noticed that the eyes of this stubborn woman were filled with hatred, and the way she looked at these people was like that of a dead person.
Perhaps it was really her destiny. No one had expected that a group of people would come walking on such a steep mountain road.
On several tall horses sat several handsome men with different looks and personalities, and the carriages behind them were even more luxurious and imposing.
In particular, there were several people who looked like guards surrounding the carriage, and behind the carriage, there were a large number of military horses. They were obviously rich or noble people.
When the bandits saw this situation, they no longer cared about Qiu Zhen. They just pulled their horses' heads and ran away.
After they left, Qiu Zhen seemed as if all the strength in his body had been drained away. He collapsed limply on the ground, holding Qiu Hongxiu, who had long stopped breathing, sobbing softly and calling out from time to time.
"Mom, those bad guys are gone, please wake up, mom, please wake up, okay? Your daughter begs you, wake up, wake up!"
None of the handsome men were nosy people. If they had just walked away from her, perhaps the Du family would not have ended up like this.
Unfortunately, just as the carriage was about to pass, Du Yunge's soft and pleasant voice rang out from the carriage: "Stop!"
The handsome men in front didn't seem surprised at all when they heard her voice, although their brows were furrowed.
But there was a deep helplessness in their eyes, as if they were already accustomed to such scenes.
When Du Yunge appeared in front of the embarrassed Qiu Zhen in a gorgeous goose yellow dress, she looked noble and elegant, Qiu Zhen raised her tear-stained face and looked at the woman who suddenly came up to her with resistance: "What are you doing? Go away!"
"Hey, don't be so ungrateful. My lady wants to see if your mother can be saved!"
The one who spoke was the little magpie with the hottest temper around Du Yunge. When she saw Qiu Zhen's look, she was furious. She immediately protected her own lady behind her, put her hands on her hips and pointed at Qiu Zhen with an angry face.
Qiu Zhen was slightly stunned, lowered his eyes to look at the person in his arms, immediately put Qiu Hongxiu down, knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times to Du Yunge.
"Miss, please save my mother. Miss, please save my mother."
Du Yunge shook his head at the little magpie, and the magpie reluctantly gave way.
Yun Ge slowly squatted down, and his slender white jade-like fingers placed on Qiu Hongxiu's pulse.
After listening for a while, he checked her eyes and pulse at her neck, and finally, he said to Qiu Zhen with an apologetic look on his face.
"Sorry, your mother... has passed away!"
The little bit of hope that Qiu Zhen had originally had was now completely destroyed.
She looked at Qiu Hongxiu lying on the ground without a sound, and was filled with grief. She hugged Qiu Hongxiu, and her eyes, which used to be full of spirit, were now filled with despair...
If Du Yunge had left without looking back at this moment, perhaps the grudge between the two of them would not have continued.
The sad thing was that just when she was about to get on the carriage, her legs and feet turned back uncontrollably.
When she turned around, there was a girl named Qiu Zhen in her carriage.
The Du family was no longer surprised by her overflowing kindness.
Moreover, this woman was indeed a pitiful person, so after she was saved, except for a few maids who were a little dissatisfied, the rest of the people just regarded her as having another servant by her sister's side, and no one took this person seriously.
Originally, everything was fine and good. However, when Qiu Zhen saw the legendary God of War General appear in the courtyard where they were staying, and these handsome men and beautiful women called that man "Daddy", Qiu Zhen's heart felt as if it was cut by a knife.
Thinking of my mother who was hastily buried, thinking of the fact that my mother never got to see her biological father until her death, thinking of the time when they were insulted and tortured by evil people, but she was saved by his children.
Hahahaha, what an injustice, what an injustice!
She hated herself so much. She hated why she had to follow them back, to watch them enjoy the family life together as father and son, father and daughter, while she could only stand in the shadows, looking at their family with envy and jealousy?
Why?
She is obviously his daughter and his blood flows in her body, but why is the treatment so different?
While others were living a life of luxury, she and her mother were arguing with others over a penny, and her mother even had to endure verbal insults from others.
When they went out in a grand procession, she and her mother were kidnapped by criminals. Even though they were desperate and heartbroken, no one came to save them, no one came to pity them.
Why?
Why?
Du Ruhui, how can you be so cruel? How can you?
From that day on, Qiu Zhen's mind changed completely. Instead of being grateful, she treated everyone in this family as enemies no different from those bandits.
Even though Du Yunge called her sister, even though Du Yunge entered the palace as the queen, she brought her into the palace as a dowry maid. No matter how good she was to her, her heart had become completely cold and twisted, and there was no possibility of turning back.
As long as Du Yunge likes, respects, and loves someone, she will take them away at all costs.
Wei Yuchen was her first target.
But what she didn't expect was that there was someone who had the same idea as her, and that person was the one she entrusted her life to - Wei Yuchen.
This man had some ulterior motive from the moment he approached her.
In order to make Wei Yuchen believe her and to help his plan succeed, the two foxes hit it off and designed a series of terrible and shameless schemes.
Regardless of the emotional entanglement between Wei Yi and Du Yunge, or the fact that several young wives of the Du family had miscarriages one after another, or that Mrs. Du was bedridden for no reason, or that Du Ruhui was repeatedly persecuted...
It took only seven years from rescuing Qiu Zhen, marrying Wei Yuchen, to giving birth to his eldest son.
Du Yunge went from being a proud princess to the culprit of the family's destruction.
She watched helplessly as these two scumbags and bitches showed off in front of her, but she had no ability to do anything.
She hated it so much that her heart was broken, she hated it so much that she regretted it so much, she hated it so much that she bit her tongue and broke her teeth, but she could not change the tragedy of the Du family being wiped out.
Qiu Zhen, her half-sister, haha, the one she rescued and showed weakness to her own sister, actually helped this man, pushing their Du family into an irretrievable situation bit by bit.
Du Yunge let out a long roar towards the sky, spat out a mouthful of blood, and finally left this world with regret and unwillingness.
After the Du family was wiped out, Qiu Zhen quickly came to power. At the same time, she immediately ordered people to destroy that group of bandits and use their blood to commemorate her mother.
It is impossible for her not to care about the Du family. After all, that man is her father after all.
She once tried to send a letter to Du Ruhui, but unfortunately, she was blocked by Wei Yuchen.
It turned out that he never believed in her from the beginning to the end. All he did was exploit her, and exploit her over and over again.
Until she was squeezed dry, she was thrown aside.
She thought he would kill her, but he didn't.
Although Qiu Zhen felt strange, she did not think much about it. After all, her life was given to her. Living one day more or one day less made no difference to her.
But she never expected that Wei Yuchen would actually make her his concubine and give her the title of "Zhen", which means treasure. Since when did she become the treasure in his heart?
Haha, others may envy this title, but only she herself knows what a mockery and irony it is.
The fact that he could push his wife who had been with him for seven years and his six-year-old child into hell is enough to show that this man is simply a heartless person.
Without heart, how can there be love?
Haha, she is really too naive!
At this point, what is there to be afraid of?
Over the years, she has never been able to figure out what position Du Yunge occupies in Wei Yuchen's heart.
However, whenever she felt that he still had feelings for her, he would always do something that made her feel cruel.
Whether it was the annihilation of the Du family, the annihilation of Kunning Palace, or the treatment of Du Yunge and Wei Lan, or even the killing of all officials involved with the Du family, he never blinked an eye from beginning to end.
The cruelty of the means and their swiftness are completely different from the past.
From this we can see that he would only kill without hesitation when faced with a threat to his throne. In order to avoid future troubles, he would even kill without blinking an eye.
Although he appears to be so cruel on the surface, how good is he behind the scenes?
At least in the two years after Du Yunge's death, he had never set foot in the harem.
If she hadn't learned from the informant that he had nightmares every night, she would have thought he could really be so heartless.
Wei Yuchen, his heart is actually conflicted, right?
Even if he deeply loves Du Yunge, so what?
Even if Wei Lan is his biological son, so what?
The blood of the Du family is stained on their bodies.
Her father, his grandfather, commands a large army.
Her daddy, his grandpa, was invincible.
Her father, her grandfather, was the invincible one in Siyou country.
He is the god of war in the hearts of the people and is feared by other countries!
He wanted to ignore the far-reaching influence brought by Du Ruhui, but no matter whether it was the court, the people, or the harem, wherever he set foot, he would always mention the Du family intentionally or unintentionally, the Du family, the Du family, all the Du family.
The Du family is a military family, and the Siyou Kingdom has relied on the Du family for protection for hundreds of years.
But only in his generation did the Du family produce a queen.
So, he was afraid. He was afraid that the Wei family would be destroyed in his hands. He was afraid that as Du Yunge's son grew older, the Du family would become more powerful and more difficult for him to control.
Therefore, there was the tragic case of the whole family being wiped out later. The biggest reason why the Du family was wiped out so smoothly, framed, and regretted by the people was because of her.
It was Qiu Zhen who stole Du Ruhui's seal from his study, thus providing evidence of a series of crimes against Du Ruhui, including treason.
Thinking about it today, if someone asked her if she regretted anything, Qiu Zhen might not say "I don't regret it" as decisively as before!
Now, she regretted it, she really regretted it. Her mother had spent her entire life without ever being able to see Du Ruhui.
Regardless of whether my mother was worth it or not, she still did it and still loved.
Even though, her so-called father had no idea that he had such a one-night stand with her.
But for Qiu Hongxiu, even if you asked her to choose again, she would still choose the same path she took before without hesitation, right?
She didn't regret it, but she really regretted it!
She even thought, what would the outcome be if she had recognized them when she knew that Du Yunge was Du Ruhui's daughter?
Will Du Ruhui recognize her? Will Du Yunge and the Du family brothers and sisters recognize her? Will she be accepted by Mrs. Du?
When this series of questions came to his mind, Qiu Zhen fell silent, because... these assumptions would have no results at all, right?
No matter how well you think about it, this is ultimately an ending without an ending.
The person is dead, and everything has disappeared.
She is the only bloodline of the Du family left in this world.
Hehehe..., originally she could own the ocean, but now, she only has a lonely tear. Is this the result she wanted?
Du Yunge, it is not until now that I realize that I don’t hate you as much as I thought.
I am just envious. I envy that you have a father, mother, brothers and sisters who love and care for you.
Even if it was Wei Yuchen, no matter if it was sincere or fake, he did hold you in his hands and loved you.
You even have a Wei Yi who is willing to die for you. Thinking of that gentle and jade-like peerless young man, Qiu Zhen's heart was tightened again.
Sure enough, the root of all hatred is women’s jealousy, right?
In the past, she was jealous of Du Yunge, but today, she was jealous of her substitute - Yu Yan.
I don’t know how long it took…
"Madam? Madam? What's wrong with you? You can start painting now. Everyone has been waiting for you for a long time!"
Mu Han saw Qiu Zhen standing in a daze at the desk. At first she thought she was thinking about drawing something, but as time passed, she realized that she was distracted.
But the people around her didn't speak, and she didn't disturb her, because she knew what Qiu Zhen was thinking without having to think about it. The only person who could make her stare at Yu Yan and fall into deep thought like this was her master Du Yunge.