Chapter 3 Rebirth
“Crunch—”
Someone pushed open the door quietly, the footsteps were gentle, he must be a martial artist.
Lying on the couch was a girl of about sixteen or seventeen, with beautiful features. However, at this moment, her brows were furrowed, her breathing was rapid, and her chest was heaving violently. She must have had a nightmare.
The maid reached out her hand towards the person on the bed, but before she touched the person, the person on the bed suddenly turned over and attacked as fast as lightning. In a moment, the maid was strangled by the neck and pressed on the couch.
"Miss, cough cough...Miss..." The maid opened her eyes wide in shock, her face flushed due to difficulty breathing.
After seeing the maid's face clearly, Shen Yu suddenly let go of her hand and said uncertainly, "Green medicine?"
Luyao was one of her personal maids. That year, she went to the front line to collect the remains of her father and brother. On the way, she met a group of villains. Her martial arts were destroyed. Luyao and Hongqiao died in front of her to save her.
Chen Yu stared at the bed curtains in a daze. Was this a dream? If it was a dream, it was too real. But if it wasn't a dream, rebirth was something she had never heard of.
The maid named Lu Yao rubbed her neck and said, "Miss, did you have a nightmare?"
Chen Yu was still panting violently, with cold sweat almost soaking her back. Just now, she seemed to still feel the bone-chilling cold and suffocation in the lake.
"Why are you here?"
Lu Yao wrung out the towel and wiped the sweat off her face. "Finally, the fever has subsided. The young lady has been in a coma for three days. Even the imperial physician from the palace has been invited to see her."
Chen Yu looked around blankly, and a long-lost sense of familiarity came over her.
This is her boudoir. Although she has never lived here properly for a long time since she was a child, every plant and tree, every furnishing and layout here were arranged by her brother himself.
There was a dressing box placed by the window. Chen Yu pushed away Lu Yao's outstretched hand and rushed to the mirror.
The girl in the mirror had bright eyes and white teeth, and her eyes and eyebrows carried a bit of heroic spirit that ordinary girls did not have. Her face did not have the sickly look she had when she was in the Jiang family, and her eyes did not have the dejection that sometimes appeared in them.
Looking at herself in the mirror, Shen Yu couldn't help but laugh.
Thank God, she was reborn!
Green Medicine is still here, but what about my father and brother?
Chen Yu grabbed the green medicine and asked, "What year and month is it now?"
Green Medicine was confused by her question.
Leng replied, "Ah? Today is the 17th year of Tongxu, the sixth day of September."
On the sixth day of September in the seventeenth year of Tongxu, Chen Yu silently recited the date in her mind.
In my previous life, my father and brother went to war on the tenth day of the ninth month in the seventeenth year of Tongxu.
She remembered it very clearly. She had originally wanted to go with him, but she had already reached the age for marriage proposal, and her grandmother was scheduled to leave for Beijing in early September to look for a bride together with her stepmother. So no matter how she threw a tantrum, her father would not agree to let her go.
Who would have thought that within just over a month, I would receive news that not only my grandmother, but also my father and brother had died in battle at Yanliang Pass.
Now my father and brother are still alive.
Great! There's still time for everything.
"What about my father and brother?" Shen Yu hurriedly put on her coat.
Lu Yao smiled playfully, "The general and the young master are meeting guests in the front hall. The Jiang family is here to propose marriage."
Chen Yu only heard the first half of the sentence and walked out. When she heard the second half, she suddenly stopped and turned back in surprise, "Who are you talking about? Which Jiang family?"
"Who else could it be from the Jiang family?" Lu Yao said with a smile, "It's the Minister Jiang that the young lady met at Hongfeng Mountain outside Beijing when she returned to Beijing last time."
Chen Yu's heart suddenly sank, and the scene of Jiang Lianzhi pulling Lin Qingli away in the lake flashed before her eyes. It was as if she was still in an icy lake in winter, and her body couldn't help but tremble.
Seeing this, Lu Yao quickly supported her and reached out to touch her forehead. "You don't have a fever. Miss, are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere else?"
"It's okay, I'm fine now." Chen Yu said calmly after recovering from the shock.
After saying that, she went to the front hall, thinking that her first meeting with Jiang Lianzhi was indeed at Hongfeng Mountain in the suburbs of Beijing, but Jiang Lianzhi did not see her at that time.
The young man was very elegant in his behavior, completely different from the burly men she had met at the border. That was the first time she felt moved in her youth.
Later, when the Shen family fell into poverty, the young man reached out his hands to her, but those hands dragged her into the abyss.
"Are you happy, Miss?" Lu Yao asked behind her.
"No."
"But didn't Miss mention that she wanted to meet Minister Jiang a few days ago?"
Chen Yu said solemnly: "It was just a spur of the moment thing, don't mention it again in the future."
Lu Yao shrank his neck and dared not speak.
Chen Yu has always been easy to talk to, but the tone she spoke just now actually sounded a bit majestic.
As I approached the front hall, I heard my father's familiar voice.
"Master Jiang's family has always produced civil servants. My daughter grew up with me on horseback. She has a bad temper and likes to wield swords and guns all day long."
Shen Zhongan took a sip of tea and continued, "She calls herself a horse on the grassland. I'm afraid that the big house can't contain that wild girl. It's hard to control her."
It may sound like a disparagement, but in fact there is a hint of pride in his words.
Seeing her father and brother in the hall again through the window, Shen Yu's eyes suddenly became warm.
This is not a dream.
Her mother passed away early, and Shen Zhongan and Shen Zhao loved her very much. They were reluctant to leave her alone in Shengjing, so they took her to the border when she was still an infant. Although Shen Zhongan later married a second wife, many of his children were mistreated by his second wife, and they were worried about her, so they kept her by their side and sent her to her grandmother's home in Hezhou during the war.
The woman in the hall was mostly blocked by the pillars, so it was hard to see who she was, but as soon as she opened her mouth, Shen Yu recognized the voice as Jiang Lianzhi's mother.
Madam Jiang said, "General Shen is joking. My son told me last time that he would marry a woman like Miss Shen who is as capable as any man, since he happened to meet her at the Jokhang Temple. So today I came to propose marriage in person."
Chen Yu's mother-in-law in her previous life was Madam Jiang. Since she married into the Jiang family, she had never seen Madam Jiang in a good mood, and she had never heard her speak in such a gentle tone. She was usually either sarcastic or mocking.
However, in her previous life, she and Jiang Lianzhi were married by the emperor, and Mrs. Jiang had never come to propose marriage. Moreover, she had never been to the Jokhang Temple. It was simply nonsense.
In her previous life, Madam Jiang was obviously dissatisfied with her in every way, and Jiang Lianzhi was also deeply in love with Lin Qingli. It was the emperor's order to marry her, so how could he take the initiative to let his mother come to propose marriage in this life?
Could it be that if I live my life again, everything will be messed up?
The conversation in the hall continued.
Shen Zhongan said: "Mrs. Jiang is so straightforward, so I won't beat around the bush. My daughter is seventeen now. Although she has reached the age of marriage, she is restless and stubborn. I'm afraid..."
Madam Jiang smiled and said, "I understand what the general means, but engagement is one thing. We can wait until Miss Shen turns 18 before choosing an auspicious day to get married. I think it would be better to arrange the marriage for the two of them first so that neither of us will be delayed."
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