The day after Yun Wenfang was sent back to the Yun family, the Meng family took the initiative to send their daughter, Meng, back to the Yun family. They also lectured Meng in front of the Yun family, telling her to serve her husband well and be filial to her elders. If she dared to sneak back to her parents' home without her husband's permission again, the Yun family would sever ties with Meng and disown her as their daughter.
When Meng returned to the Yun family, she looked haggard. Her eyes were swollen like buns, and it was unclear whether she was crying for Yun Wenfang or for herself. Regardless of her feelings, she obediently served Yun Wenfang her bedside medicine. However, the youthful brilliance in Meng's eyes was gone.
The Meng family had already made their position clear to Mrs. Meng. If Yun Wenfang could recover, Mrs. Meng would live a good life with him. If Yun Wenfang could not be saved, Mrs. Meng would stay in the Yun family and remain faithful to him. In any case, they would definitely not allow Mrs. Meng to return to her parents' home or remarry.
Yun Wenfang's deeds had spread throughout Yanbei. Regardless of his personal life, he had already proven himself an outstanding Yanbei soldier with his own life. If the Meng family took their daughter back at this point, regardless of whether they were right or wrong, they would ultimately be the ones to be blamed. The world was always more tolerant of heroes, and the Meng family still needed to establish themselves in Yanbei.
Ren Yaoqi didn't specifically avoid hearing about Yun Wenfang's situation. Her only reaction to him was a sigh. By now, she no longer hated him. Instead, she was willing to treat him like an old friend with whom she had a casual acquaintance, hoping his injuries would heal.
Xiao Jinglin returned to Yunyang City the day before the old princess's funeral, accompanied by Yun Wenting, the eldest son of the Yun family. Xiao Jinglin arrived during the day, and many people recognized her as she entered the city. Although Yun Wenting arrived an hour after Xiao Jinglin, many people still associated her departure with Xiao Jinglin. Neither the parties involved, nor the Yun family or the Yanbei Palace responded to this.
Xiao Jinglin returned to the Yanbei Palace, while Yun Wenting rushed back to the Yun family to visit his seriously injured brother.
Ever since Yun Wenfang was injured, many people had focused their attention on the Yun family. However, with the return of the Yun family's eldest young master, everyone also paid him a lot of attention. Having mysteriously disappeared and even missed his own wedding, he returned to Yunyang City at the same time as Princess Xiao. This made the Yun family's eldest young master a frequent topic of conversation.
However, before everyone could figure out what Young Master Yun was doing, the Yun family announced that the engagement between Yun Wenting and the Miss Zhao from the imperial court was invalid. Although the Yun family did not openly state the reason for the cancellation of the engagement, there were rumors that Miss Zhao was a spy sent by the imperial court to Yanbei, and the last unrest in Yanbei was caused by Miss Zhao colluding with the Liao people and some traitors. As soon as this news came out, everyone in Yanbei hated Miss Zhao to the core, and no one thought that there was anything wrong with the eldest young master of the Yun family breaking off the engagement.
What is strange is that the court did not say much about this matter this time, and the court did not make any statement when the Yun family broke off the engagement. In the eyes of outsiders, it seemed that the court was guilty, which further confirmed the rumor.
Most of the imperial army had withdrawn, leaving only a small group to negotiate with the Yanbei Palace. It just so happened that the Yun family planned to let Zhao Yingqiu return to Beijing with this small group.
The Yun family took action, and the other families also took action. The families that had been arranged to marry by the Queen Mother followed the Yun family and broke off their engagements with the young ladies. These carefully selected girls would eventually be sent back to the court.
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