Wang Xipei and the fifth prince Xuanyuan Huaiyu had been divorced for six years. After that, Xuanyuan Huaiyu continued to pester her. It had been more than four years since Jiang Tao rescued Wang Xipei from prison. Xuanyuan Huaiyu had never seen Wang Xipei since then. Although he often heard news about Wang Xipei and Jiang Tao, he was always one step too late when he arrived.
When Sun Yanan returned to the capital, their team of carriages entered the capital, while the fifth prince and a group of people galloped past, leaving the capital.
Sun Yannan recognized it as the Fifth Prince's dragon flag, and while taking a break, he asked others, "What big deal has happened? The prince is waving the dragon flag, so he's in such a hurry."
Shili Pavilion is the place that best witnesses the fickleness of the world. People who are leaving the capital have their last reunion here before parting, while people entering the capital stop here to reveal or conceal their yearning for Kyoto, and to inquire about various news about Kyoto. Joy, excitement, indifference, uneasiness or ambition can all be seen in their eyes or on their faces.
The teahouse owner said, "Maybe there's news about the former prince's wife. They all say Concubine Chen is dead, but this guy just doesn't believe it."
Sun Yannan was a few years older than Wang Xipei, and his impression of her was that she was a lovely young woman. Remembering her eldest sister, Wang Lingyi, was extremely beautiful, Sun Yannan asked tentatively, "Can the Wang family just endure this?"
The boss said, "What else? The Queen saved the people, and His Majesty approved the divorce. General Ren and his two sons are still guarding the border, so that's it."
Sun Yanan lowered his head and said nothing: Just because others are sensible, don’t you think you are sensible?
Ren Jiayu's recent years could be described as both good and bad. She disciplined those she disliked, forcing them to retreat and relocate to distant prefectures or completely surrender, publicly apologizing and simply asking for Ren Jiayu to raise her hand. No other woman in the capital could match her sway.
But her life was not easy. Her father and elder and second brothers, who had once protected her wholeheartedly, often said words of advice that drove her crazy. No matter what she said, they no longer believed her unconditionally as before.
Ren Jiayu felt that this was Ling Ruofei's doing. She ran away so quickly and ran to the border after seducing her elder brother. Last time she killed the mouse, she was afraid of hurting Yu Ping'er, and considering her father and brother, she gave the medicine too slowly. She would wait for a chance, and she would not let go of this annoying thing.
But when she thought about her father and brother going to He Qing and asking Wu Xiaoman to rescue Ling Ruofei, she felt mixed emotions. If there was still someone in this world that she was afraid of, it was He Qing. Her Majesty and the Queen had always been gentle and tolerant towards her. Although the Queen had not treated her the same way after Wang Xipei committed suicide, she had never been afraid of her.
Only He Qing.
Ren Jiayu spent some time at the border. He Qing, who was known as "Jade-faced He Lang" when he was young, became more and more heroic after a few years on the battlefield. He was no longer as heroic as the young man he was before, but he had become more vigorous and resolute, with a sharp and resolute face. He looked intimidating without being angry at ordinary times, but when he became gentle, his smile lasted for a thousand years.
When Ren Jiayu first arrived at the border and saw He Qing, she was stunned the moment he turned around while riding his horse. The setting sun cast a warm glow behind him, and He Qing looked like he had just walked out of thousands of years of war and iron cavalry. He stood on his horse, and the wind and clouds of the world became his backdrop.
It's no wonder such a person crushed her father and brother. She'd heard her father constantly refer to him as He Qing, and her two brothers constantly mentioning Uncle He, and she felt quite resentful. They served in the same court, both generals, so what?
But later, she only acted like a little girl to He Qing in her life. The Third Prince and the Fifth Prince were all just children. Later, she returned to Kyoto, unable to forget He Qing. When the Fifth Prince looked at her admiringly, she felt as if she saw herself facing He Qing.
She said she liked men who had been tempered by the blood, fire, wind and sand in the border military camps. In one word, the child went to the border to join the family army.
She hated He Qing.
She simply stole her father's order and had the messenger pass a false order to discipline a few junior officers who did not take her seriously.
When they led three teams of people crawling back from the Gobi Desert in tattered clothes and half dead, Ren Jiayu's hearty laughter echoed in the tent for a long time.
But the next day, He Qing came with a sullen face and said to his father, "You and I fought side by side as brothers. If you don't want to alienate yourself from the soldiers and even turn against your own side in battle, you can't just brush this matter aside by saying she's still young and doesn't understand."
My father and his brothers were both honest men. Because the son's failure to educate the father was the father's fault, my father was caned with sixty strokes of the cane in front of the entire army, and my two brothers were each caned with fifty strokes of the cane. The three of them took out their annual salary and divided it among the three groups of soldiers.
Because of her father's order, the executioners did not dare to let them go. Her father and brother were beaten to a bloody pulp, and all the soldiers in the army were watching. It took three months for the three of them to get out of bed, and more than half a year to recover.
When she was so angry that she went to find He Qing, He Qing said, "Just right."
She was picked up by He Qing and pinned on the "Black Panther". He Qing jumped on his horse and led a group of people to throw her into the desert Gobi.
The sun scorched during the day, the cold wind bit at night, and wild beasts howled. No matter which direction she turned, she found herself unable to leave. Her shoes slipped from her swamp, leaving her snow-white feet covered in blood and blisters. Without food or water, she was terrified of near-death, watched by circling vultures. She feared they would tear her apart...
She vaguely felt He Qing coming, and later learned that it was the three small teams who brought her out on He Qing's orders, probably so that they could witness her miserable condition with their own eyes...
From then on, she hated He Qing and was afraid of He Qing.
Few people knew that she was actually very good at housework. After being taken back and recuperated in the tent this time, she cut the pair of wrist guards and knee guards she made for He Qing into pieces, and then left the border and returned to Kyoto without telling anyone.
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