"When Yang Yingxue was seriously injured and receiving treatment, I initially went to take care of her, but when Yu Minghua found out, she started a scene with me. I felt that I should take care of her both emotionally and morally. She is my wife in name only, and morally, she was seriously injured to protect me.
Yang Yingxue woke up during her coma and heard Yu Minghua and I arguing, so she asked her maid to politely refuse my help.
I was worried about her, so I had to visit her every day, drop off some things, and ask about her situation. Yu Minghua stopped arguing with me and said she could take care of Yang Yingxue for me. I was very happy and very grateful for her understanding and willingness to help.
Unexpectedly, after she went to take care of Yingxue, Yingxue suddenly suffered a heavy bleeding. Fortunately, my father had received the news by then, and brought the military doctor and a large amount of medicinal materials to the scene, and finally rescued Yingxue.
The military doctor told my father and me that the local clinic's prescription was correct, but the hemostatic drug had been replaced with a powerful blood-activating drug. My father suspected Yu Minghua had done it, but I believed it was an accident.
Yingxue heard everything. With her dying breath, she begged her father for one thing: to send her away immediately.
I was worried her wound might burst on the way, so I disagreed. Weak and anxious, she shed tears: "If I had died that day, I would have died. But since my parents and brothers wouldn't take me in and kept me alive, and my uncle went to great lengths to save me, I want to live well too. Since we're just a couple in name only, I'll call you husband. Husband, give Yingxue a chance to live."
I suddenly realized that I didn't want to divorce, but I couldn't protect her. If something happened, I would still believe in Yu Minghua, which might hurt her.
I had no choice but to agree to let her go. My father sent a team of soldiers to escort her. She had just been rescued and had to travel a long distance. I felt both empty and worried.
In fact, after she woke up, I had made up my mind. She saved my life. She is my wife, the wife I married legally. I don't want to divorce her.
I wanted to take Yu Minghua back to the Jiang family and make her my concubine. When Yu Minghua found out, she had a huge argument with me. Her sister-in-law urged her to return to the capital with me. Yu Minghua, in turn, argued with her sister-in-law. She wasn't to be outdone, either, and offered her a wife and a concubine. Every woman knows that having chosen this path, she knew what the outcome would be.
During the quarrel, her sister-in-law said that every woman in the border area was restrained, but her sister-in-law never bound her chest and liked to wear red and green, all eye-catching bright colors. Other people's clothes had loose waists for convenience in daily work, but her sister-in-law insisted on wearing clothes that were pinched tight at the waist.
It's this kind of behavior that causes trouble at the border, and her brother always takes the blame. It's common for him to get injured in fights for her. No matter how many times her sister-in-law tries to persuade him nicely, he won't change. One day, he'll definitely kill her brother.
Since you have the ability to disregard your reputation and climb up to a high-ranking official, and fortunately this high-ranking official is also a particularly good fighter, the troubles you have caused in the past two years will finally not implicate your brother. You should leave quickly and live your good life in Kyoto.
Yu Minghua was furious and went up to hit her sister-in-law. Her sister-in-law pushed her away. Yu Mingyi came back at that moment and slapped his wife without thinking.
Instead, Yu Minghua was crying breathlessly, asking her brother to divorce her sister-in-law. What was the point of a matchmaker being a wife? A divorced woman was worse than a concubine. Her sister-in-law was stunned by the slap. After hearing Yu Minghua's words and seeing Yu Mingyi remain silent, she packed up and left.
I'd never seen Yu Minghua like this before. I told her to stop arguing and leave for Kyoto tomorrow. Her brother and sister-in-law already had children, so they couldn't really separate because of a quarrel.
Thinking about it, she had indeed caused quite a bit of trouble in the past three years. I had been in the military since I was young, and along with my older brother, we were trained by our father in a way that was inhumane. I could handle a beating and fight well, so I had helped her resolve a lot of things, but I also felt a bit uncomfortable. Now, it was just her sister-in-law who pointed it out.
Unexpectedly, Yu Minghua disappeared the next day, and her brother and I looked for her everywhere.
I heard that she was seen in a rage heading towards the border between the two countries, so her brother and I went there to look for her. As a result, her brother fell into a "man well" set by the Northern Huns on the border. He was trapped by one foot and hung upside down.
If I didn't save her brother, he would have died in a day or two if he had been hanging there. If I had saved him, I would have been caught in the "Human Well" trap, and there was a high probability that I would have been caught as well.
At that height, if I cut the rope directly with a flying knife, Yu Mingyi would most likely fall to his death. If I cut the rope and then help him up, I would definitely expose myself.
Finally, I decided to take a gamble. As soon as I rescued him, I was caught in a rope net and both of us were captured. When I was caught, I saw that Yu Minghua had also been captured. She said proudly to the Northern Hun soldiers, "Well, I promised to come to rescue you."
The Northern Hun soldiers who could speak the Central Plains dialect asked me to draw a city defense map, saying that my wife told me so. I was originally a general of the Western Route Army and knew about the defense of border cities.
When I left the military camp three years ago, I was only a captain. My elder brother and I were the same at that time. All we knew about city defense were the two places where we had fought ourselves. It was not because of my father's position that we knew things that we should not know.
I didn't want to draw it, and I didn't know what to do, so I refused. They were about to bring Yu Minghua to justice in front of me and her brother... I drew it, but drew two fake ones.
The Northern Huns did not let us go, saying they would wait until they had attacked these two places to verify the authenticity.
Fortunately, that night they were attacked by the army led by my father, and the enemy force was almost wiped out.
After we were rescued, Yu Minghua explained to us that she slammed the door and left in anger, thinking that the two of us would come to find her immediately. Unexpectedly, she deliberately walked to such a dangerous border and didn't see us follow her, so she panicked.
But she had been targeted by the Northern Hun soldiers. After being captured, in order to protect herself, she said that she could draw a city defense map and would definitely go to rescue her.
I was exhausted and heartbroken, and didn't want to say anything more. She probably felt that her anger and going to the border was excessive, which ultimately led to our capture and nearly death. She also asked her brother to divorce his wife, but Yu Mingyi remained silent. Finally, she agreed to return to Kyoto, but she would be his concubine.
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