The yard next to Jiang He's is twice as big as hers, and Tie Ren lives there.
Tie Ren has always followed His Majesty and Ye Zhou in the bloody battles. When the epidemic broke out in southern Yunnan, Helan City borrowed Tie Ren from Ye Zhou and sent the tens of thousands of people he had abducted to the western border and handed them over to Shang Huaitang, the acting official at the time.
After completing this mission, Ye Zhou told him to go back to Kyoto directly and not to foolishly go back to southern Yunnan, as he would not be able to leave once he came back.
He can't go back now because he is leading the Yunnan Army here. If Tie Ren comes back, he will definitely not be able to escape.
Tie Ren hesitated for a moment between returning to Kyoto to be with his wife or going to southern Yunnan to be with his brothers, and decisively chose to return to Kyoto to be with his wife and children.
Ye Zhou understood and said to Helan Cheng with a bitter face: "I'm just being polite. I learned this from you. What did you say?
I understood the meaning behind the words. But my brother didn’t understand and went back directly.”
Helan Cheng said, "Your letter has a second meaning? Isn't it just asking him to go back?"
Ye Zhou said angrily: "You didn't see it, why didn't you say it at the time?"
Helan Cheng said: "But I don't know what you mean by this. What can I say?"
Ye Zhou said: "Didn't I tell you at the time?"
Helan Cheng said: "You are not being clear. I'd better read the letter directly. I think you wrote it quite clearly."
Ye Zhou said, "I can never win an argument with you, let's fight. Let's compete in what I'm good at."
Helan Cheng said, "Why are you so unreasonable?"
Ye Zhou said: "Is there any justice in the world if I try to reason with you?"
When Cheng Min, the governor of Yunzhao County in southern Yunnan, arrived, the two men were in the middle of a fierce chase.
Cheng Min said, "A provincial governor and a duke, can you two stop now?"
Helan Cheng ran breathlessly and said, "Is this... something I can stop... just because I want to? Don't you... even... look... at... what... is... in his hand?"
When Ye Zhou recalls it now, he often thanks himself for not having literary talent and not being able to write a second layer of meaning. Therefore, Tie Ren happily went back to accompany his wife and children for a few years.
Fortunately, he had his company during those years. If he had left Tie Ren in southern Yunnan, Ye Zhou would probably feel so guilty that he would vomit blood.
It seems that Tie Ren's wife has only had Tie Ren's companionship for a few years in her life.
Tie Ren's original wife married him at the age of sixteen.
Then she accompanied him through all the ups and downs. Tie Ren was in the bloody storm, and his wife was in fear day and night.
The two of them were always apart, and even in Kyoto, Tie Ren often had to serve on duty in the garrison outside the capital.
When Ye Zhou finished his time in southern Yunnan and returned to Kyoto, he saw Tie Ren, who was so thin that he looked like a skeleton. Only then did he know that his wife had died half a year ago.
Perhaps the most hurtful thing in this world is guilt, including guilt for love and affection.
Tie Ren felt that his first wife had suffered all her life with him, and all he could recall was him abandoning her and riding away on horseback.
In addition to working hard for the family, she seemed to be always waiting, waiting for news of his safety, waiting for his triumphant return, waiting for him to recover from his injuries and leave again.
Now it's Tieren's turn, but he can never wait for her again.
When his wife passed away due to illness, she held Tie Ren's hand and said to him: "Don't say sorry, I don't regret it... I want to marry you in the next life... I hope I can accompany you until we grow old together in the next life..."
Tie Ren burst into tears.
This was almost like torture to Tie Ren. Every time he recalled it, he felt heartbroken and felt that he had let this beautiful woman down.
Why can't I grow old with her?
I used to think I had plenty of time... Tie Ren regretted it. What was the point of building all those achievements? This woman, whose eyes were filled with joy when she saw him, just wanted him to be by her side.
After his son had been in mourning for three years, Tie Ren arranged a marriage for him. Seeing that his son and daughter-in-law were living well, he secretly bought a small house outside and moved out of the house, no longer living with his son and daughter-in-law.
He usually lived here with only two servants. One of them often went to the courtyard next door where Jiang He lived to help the maid named Dongzao.
He knew what his servant and Dongzao from the other yard were thinking. They probably felt that they were both lonely because they were widowed and the girl from the other yard was divorced, so they wanted to live together.
But he had never thought of this before. Until Jiang He and his servant were somehow targeted by some hooligans, who even knocked on Jiang He's door for no reason and even climbed over the wall.
This scared Jiang He and his servant so much that Tie Ren and his servant had to go over and beat those hooligans away.
After that, he allowed his neighbors and those hooligans to say that he had a close relationship with Jiang He and that good things were about to happen.
With him, a "soldier" protecting them, the master and servant in the next yard can live a much more peaceful life.
This kind of "reputation" was spread, but he actually never had such thoughts.
Ye Zhou and his former colleagues would sometimes bring food and wine to his house to have a drink. Seeing him alone, everyone seemed to think it was inappropriate and wanted to force women on him.
His colleagues always felt that he needed a woman to take care of him, but Tie Ren felt that he was a grown man with hands and feet, so why did he have to find a woman to take care of him.
Ye Zhou felt guilty and felt sorry for Tie Ren. Tie Ren, in turn, comforted Ye Zhou.
"She said she had no regrets, and that reassured me. She said she would marry me in the next life... You know how much I'm looking forward to the next life.
She told me to take good care of myself and watch her son get married, her grandson grow up, and her grandson's wife get married. I didn't spend much time with her, so I should spend more time with the children in the future. As long as I am around, the children will have a father.
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