Chapter 202 Life is like water, time is like song
Midsummer in Kyoto.
After traveling all the way, Rongzhen and Jingshu finally arrived at the most prosperous city at that time.
It is worthy of its status as the capital of a country. Whether in terms of population, architecture or economy, it is very different from Hongye Town. Even Taolin County is dwarfed by it.
However, after admiring its grandeur, prosperity and beauty, Rongzhen had no desire to stay and live there.
This is not the place for them.
They just came here to have fun, broaden their horizons, and take a look at someone's fun.
The excitement came quickly and lived up to their expectations.
At that time, Rongzhen and Jingshu were sitting on the second floor of the teahouse and witnessed the scene through the street-facing windows.
The carriage that the head of the Xi family was riding in hit a beggar. The driver couldn't drive the beggar away, so he could only ask the owner of the carriage for help.
The head of the Xi family lifted the curtain of the carriage and was about to say something when the blade that the beggar spat out of his mouth cut his neck.
Because the beggar was weak, the wound was not deep.
But the knife is poisoned.
The head of the Xi family, who had originally been indifferent to this, suddenly grabbed his throat, as if he couldn't breathe, and suffocated to death with his eyes rolled back in a short time.
Seeing him fall down, the beggar who was held down by the driver out of fear burst into laughter, with tears on his face. He took the opportunity to escape while the driver was at a loss.
In fact, he would not be able to escape on his own. Rongzhen and Jingshu helped him secretly, wanting to see how far he could go.
The head of the Xi family was killed on the spot, and it was eventually determined to be a vendetta among the underworld.
The Xi family quickly raised white banners to hold a funeral, and the new emperor came to personally attend the funeral. I don’t know how many ministers and people were moved by this. He took the opportunity to turn a good funeral into an imperial show.
When the funeral was successfully concluded and the new emperor was about to leave with satisfaction at having achieved his goal, someone hiding in the dark took advantage of the situation and stabbed the new emperor in the chest with a dagger in the chaos.
It can be said that he is worthy of being the male protagonist. Even if he is disabled and ruined, he can still make his wishes come true with the residual power of his halo, and killing people is as easy as drinking water.
Even if the one killed was the emperor.
Afterwards, the emperor passed away, the Xi family was confiscated and exterminated, the relevant participants were exiled, and the vacant interests were divided up by other families. A new emperor quickly came to the throne, starting another cycle.
These things happened quickly and chaotically. Rongzhen and the other person just watched the fun the whole time and didn't get involved at all. They ruined themselves.
Xi Jingyuan was torn apart by five horses. Jingshu went to collect his body at night and buried it in a beautiful place outside the city, hoping that he would not be reborn as the son of the head of the Xi family in his next life.
Jingshu didn't care about the other Xi family members who were beheaded.
Since we have benefited from the Xi family in the past, we must now bear the sins they have committed. Everything is the result of cause and effect, and we have to bear the consequences ourselves.
"Fortunately, you broke off relations with them a long time ago." Rong Zhen felt relieved when she saw the bloodstains on Caishikou caused by beheadings in those days.
I didn’t expect the male protagonist to explode with such power that he almost dragged Jingshu into it.
Although they can return to their identities as ordinary people at any time and are not afraid of being wanted and hunted by the court, sometimes a large number of ants can kill an elephant. Who wants to live a stable and peaceful life and be displaced and insecure?
Good news happened one after another. Just as the head of the Xi family suffered retribution, news came that Xuanmen had destroyed the Manyue Tower.
The latter is a major event in Jianghu. Even in Kyoto, where the imperial court has the strongest control, it cannot stop everyone from paying attention to it and discussing it.
Rongzhen stayed out of this atmosphere and traveled around the city with Jingshu like ordinary people. After satisfying her curiosity, she planned to go home.
Before leaving, someone found the inn where they were staying and said respectfully, "Miss, the master of the family invites you and this young master to come into the house for a chat."
"What's going on?" Jingshu put one hand on the soft sword wrapped around his waist, turned sideways to block Rongzhen, and was secretly on guard.
Rongzhen didn't expect that his adopted uncle would come looking for him. It seemed that his power in Kyoto was not as weak as it appeared on the surface.
In addition, she did not disguise herself after arriving here. If the original owner looked somewhat similar to her mother, grandparents, uncle, etc., it would not be difficult to recognize her after meeting her.
She had let her guard down too much and hadn't considered this.
However, she has no conflict of interest with the other party, and there is also a thin layer of blood relationship, so there should be no problem.
Even if something happens, they are not afraid.
Those who are barefoot will never be afraid of those who wear shoes. The one who should be worried about is your cheap uncle.
Thoughts raced, Rongzhen patted Jingshu's tense arm and explained, "It's probably someone sent by my uncle." Then she replied to the servant who was waiting quietly, "Just come into the mansion for a chat. If my uncle is really interested, please come here for a cup of tea. My husband and I will be leaving tomorrow, so we won't be waiting any later."
After she and Jingshu arrived here, they made inquiries. Although the Lu Mansion had not explicitly announced the death of a cousin, they really thought she died on the way here and simply built a cenotaph for her.
For the sake of the cenotaph, Rongzhen did not cause them any trouble, nor did she refuse to meet her adoptive uncle, but it was not possible for her and Jingshu to rush to visit the mansion.
They were afraid that they could not stand that kind of rules, and they did not want to be wronged for no reason.
We are not from the same world, so why get involved?
In addition, in order to prevent the other party from plotting against her marriage, she directly made Jingshu her official wife in advance and called him husband, indicating that she was actually married and refused to use a matchmaker.
I don't know if he understood Rongzhen's intention, but after being rejected, his step-uncle didn't send anyone to look for her again, and of course he didn't come to meet her in person. He just sent someone to send 1,000 taels of silver on the day they left, saying it was to make up for her dowry.
Don’t miss out on money that you get for free.
Both the original owner and she served as tools to warn each other's daughter, and the money was well-deserved, just as an appearance fee for the service.
After Rongzhen took it, the servant who came to deliver the money did not leave, but followed them out of the city, and seemed to be walking in the same direction as them.
Jingshu suddenly became alert again.
Rongzhen chose to ask those people directly: "Are you planning to follow us, or what do you want to do?"
The servants answered honestly, "Excuse me, cousin, we didn't mean to follow you, but the master ordered us to fetch the eldest daughter, and we happened to be going the same way."
Bring back the heroine?
Rongzhen couldn't help but speculate suspiciously.
The heroine has already secretly married the male supporting role and has a baby, so why would the cheap uncle take her back now? Is he going to hold a wedding for her and the male supporting role?
Seeing the servants were fully prepared, she felt that it might not be the case.
In this case, she should stay away from them as soon as possible to avoid getting into trouble again.
Later, when they encountered a fork in the road, Rong Zhen chose to take a detour and naturally separated from the Lu family servants.
Not long after she left, the Lu family servants met the heroine.
Because the heroine and the supporting actor were also rushing to Kyoto, they happened to bump into each other on the road.
The heroine received the news of the demise of the Xi family. No longer worried about bigamy, she planned to rush home with her husband and baby so that her loving father could hold a legitimate wedding for her.
She wanted to marry her lover openly, rather than being a concubine without a matchmaker or an engagement and with her status unknown.
When the two sides met, Rong Zhen and his companions had already driven away on their donkey carts, and were unable to witness another good show.
However, almost as soon as they returned to Hongye Town, the news that the Lu family had a queen spread throughout the world.
Rong Zhen initially thought that the queen was a concubine or a side branch daughter of the Lu family, until she learned from the well-informed Master Huang that the queen was the eldest daughter of the Lu family, a legitimate daughter named Lu Xiran.
Uh... this made her not know what to say.
Just keep silent and don't express your opinion.
Regardless of whether the heroine became the queen voluntarily or was forced by Lu's father, that was other people's business and had nothing to do with her.
Jingshu thought more than she did. He suspected that they were visited by Lu's father in Kyoto at that time, and that the other party was planning to marry his niece into the royal family.
As a result, Rong Zhen's words "husband" revealed that he was married, which accidentally discouraged the other party's purpose, and he then chose to give away his own daughter.
Although Lu Xiran has secretly married someone and even has a child, she uses the name of the female hero Lin Xixi. What does this have to do with Lu Xiran, the legitimate daughter of a noble family?
As long as the relevant insiders are dealt with, the Lu family's legitimate daughter can still marry into the palace as queen with a clear conscience and give birth to a prince in one fell swoop.
As to whether this prince is the new emperor's or the young heroes', that is a matter of opinion.
The head of the Xi family once planned to conquer the martial arts world, hoping to step on all the people in the martial arts world to pave a smooth path for his heir in the officialdom. In the end, he failed and his entire family was wiped out.
The head of the Lu family is now plotting against the imperial court, trying to manipulate power through nepotism, and ultimately achieve the goal of controlling the imperial power or even usurping the throne. No one knows what the future will be like.
In the end, it is best to stay away from these conspirators.
Jingshu did not tell Rongzhen about these speculations and the dirty deeds going on in secret, but quietly accelerated the process of their marriage.
Their wedding was not very grand. According to Rongzhen's request, the process and scale of their wedding were similar to those of ordinary folk weddings. It was not eye-catching but warm.
For this reason, Patriarch Huang and Doctor Liu did not give her any extra dowry. Knowing that she liked gold and silver, they each gave her a dowry filled with gold, silver and jewelry, showing their sincerity.
This was given by her family.
Jingshu was not left out either. They acted as the husband's family and gave Jingshu an additional betrothal gift, which was also two large boxes filled with sword and knife secrets, showing great care.
But on the wedding day, the actual situation was that Rongzhen got married and Jingshu got married into the family, and they sent the dowry and betrothal gifts in reverse, haha.
The accidental misunderstanding did not prevent the wedding from going on happily. Everyone happily had a meal at Song's house, and then watched the joyful scene of Jingshu being disturbed in the bridal chamber, laughing so hard that tears and saliva flew up.
The two people's bizarre wedding format can be regarded as opening the door to the world for everyone. It is really eye-opening. If there is a woman marrying a man in the future, this will be a ready-made example for reference.
The key is that the two of them lived a good life after marriage. They ran a grocery store and a tofu shop. Their life was comfortable and they loved each other very much, which made others envious.
By the time the news came that the queen had given birth to a prince prematurely and issued a general amnesty, Rongzhen had just given birth to her first baby.
She no longer cared about the heroine's affairs. At most, she treated them as gossip for fun and focused on living her own life.
Jingshu paid a little more attention, in case the Lu family's father and daughter got into trouble one day and implicated them who were thousands of miles away.
Fortunately, Lu Xiran had the halo of the heroine, and even if she opened her own harem, she was never discovered by the emperor. Even the children she gave birth to were not the emperor's.
Rongzhen didn't know about this, but she had completely cut off ties with the Lu family. Since that encounter in Kyoto, she had never had any contact with them again.
Until the year the story ended, she had just given birth to her little girl and was in confinement after the birth of her child. An old servant, exhausted and tired, came to the Song residence with a baby and begged her to take him in.
Afterwards, the news of the Lu family's extermination and Queen Lu's sudden death spread throughout the world again, ending the ambitions of the head of the Lu family and the legendary life of the heroine.
The little baby was the last bloodline of the Lu family and was sent out to seek refuge in advance by the head of the Lu family.
The rest of the people did not escape.
After all the busy work and careful planning, in the end, everything was in vain.
Although the child was innocent, Zhen had no intention of causing trouble for herself and disrupting the peaceful and stable life of her family.
She helped them find a place to settle down in Lin County, and used the one thousand taels that her step-uncle had given her to buy them a family business and servants, and asked the loyal old servant to look after his young master until he grew up.
As for what the child plans to do when he grows up, she doesn't care. She has done the most she can.
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