I am a lady of gold and jade, married to the general for three years, but was forced by the woman brought back by the general to invite herself to the court.
The woman said, "After all, I and Youzhi stay together."
1
I married into the general's mansion for three years, and kept the empty house alone for two years, eleven months, and twenty-nine days.
On the night of his wedding, the general received orders to lead a large army to the frontier.
In the past three years, I have taken over the big and small affairs in the house, supported my mother-in-law, and balanced my concubines.
If the general does not come back, I will still be a model of the lady in charge praised by everyone in Shangjing.
But the general returned, accompanied by a handsome woman, dressed in riding and riding on a tall horse, who followed my husband.
The general called her Zhenzhen.
Since the general returned to Beijing, he took Li Zhen everywhere every day, envying the daughters' families.
And I didn't even have a cup of tea in front of the general.
My mother-in-law is stronger than me, and I can see the general's work with two teas.
My good name vanished at this time.
The people of Shangjing said that the woman brought back by the general was a hero who had saved the general from danger many times during the great battle against the enemy.
For a time, the words of a match made in heaven and fairy couples were endless.
And what shall the people say about me?
said that I was just a deep house woman, how could I compare to a heroine who could stand side by side with the general.
I don't know how to deal with myself.
2
On the day when the emperor rewarded the three armies, it was the time of the military merit banquet.
Li Zhen was dressed in a neat power suit, with long hair tied high, sitting idly on the left side of the general, and the emperor looked up.
And I was on the right side of the general, wearing a heavy court robe, holding a luxurious bun, sitting upright.
The emperor praised Li Zhen as a heroine among women, and hundreds of officials praised Li Zhen as a goddess from heaven.
But what do you look at me?
Sympathy?
In the main hall, I saw my father, with a blue face, and my mother were like two stone statues, sitting motionless, without even an expression.
The emperor rewarded Li Zhen with a number of silk and satin, as well as a hundred taels of gold.
When Li Zhen got up to thank him, he refused the emperor's reward.
Li Zhen glanced at the general affectionately, and then said, "The people's daughter thanked the emperor, but the people's daughter didn't like the yellow and white things, and she didn't really need those silk silks. The people's girls are brave, please ask the emperor to reward the people's daughters with a house, which can be next to the mansion of the general's mansion."
I glanced at the bold Li Zhen, then at the emperor, and quietly lowered my head to fill the general's wine glass.
He triumphed three days ago, and before I could see him properly, he was called by him to tidy up a yard for Li Zhen.
In the past few days and nights, I have been waiting for a lot of sleep, and I have not waited for my husband who has been waiting for three years.
"Exactly!"
The emperor rewarded a mansion next to the General's Mansion and named it Li Mansion.
The ladies here are envious, jealous, and even more disdainful.
After all, today's women still follow the set of obeying their fathers at home, marrying their husbands, and their husbands following their sons.
"Mrs. Lin."
As soon as the princess spoke, the noisy hall was silenced.
Look, Li Zhen not only has a name and a surname, but also a mansion with a surname, while I only have the surname of my husband, not my own name.
I put down my chopsticks, sat down in a proper manner, and looked up at the princess who was now being favored.
"Now that the general has returned victorious, Madame should be more considerate of the general."
The princess looked at me with a smile, how to look at it with bad intentions.
"This palace sees that the general has a relationship with Miss Li, and has saved the general's life, such a heroine among women, it is better for Mrs. Lin to invite someone to enter the door and marry the general as an equal wife."
I curled the corners of my mouth and smiled the most decently, thinking for a moment, I really didn't want to let myself suffer this grievance.
"The courtiers know that they are dull and boring, and they can only do trivial things in the back house, and they can't go to the battlefield with the general to recover the frontier."
I got up and walked to the center of the main hall, and this kneeling, Shangyi in the palace couldn't find anything wrong.
If you want the house to be next to the general's mansion, if you don't have me, you must have to give the marriage decree directly.
The crowd was in an uproar, even if they thought about it, how dare they show it in their faces.
"As a flat wife, I'm afraid that I will treat Miss Li lightly, so it's better for the courtiers to give up the position of the general's wife."
I slammed my head on the ground: "Your Majesty, the courtiers are willing to invite themselves to the court, and spare General a beautiful story."
I hung my head on the back of my hand, and I couldn't see the general with a black face, and Li Zhen who was only staring at me with an unknown expression.
"You ......"
The princess couldn't spit out her depression in her chest, and she couldn't wait to draw a knife and stab me three times and six holes!
Recently, rumors are flying all over the sky, and the emperor's eyes and ears are all over the world. Which courtier has a concubine, which courtier has a clear child, and even a few moles on the courtier's buttocks, the emperor is clear.
What's more, Lin Youzhi takes Li Zhen everywhere every day.
There is no need for the secret guard to report, no matter how loud it is, it can be heard in the Taihe Palace.
The emperor pondered for a moment, then raised his hand for Manager Chen to help me up.
"Why did the Lin family take it lightly? Your etiquette rules are less than three points even for a princess, and handling the affairs of the back house is a model for women in Beijing, and it is fortunate for Lin Aiqing to marry you."
I returned to the general's side and calmly accepted the emperor's order.
However, the general seemed unhappy.
So what? Am I wrong to learn the way of women and not to go to war with men?
3
I don't think I'm wrong, but the poetry and poetry that used to be centered around me has now changed hands.
The one who handed me the post naturally also handed it to the Li Mansion.
Seeing that everyone was chasing Li Zhen and wanting to talk about me, I couldn't see it at all, and only drank my tea.
"Miss Li and the general are really a match made in heaven."
Listening to Li Zhen's story, she told everyone about her and the general's affairs in the frontier, how she tacitly cooperated, and how she sacrificed her life to save each other.
Li Zhen chuckled, as if he had glanced at me.
"Second Miss Chen, why don't you go to the frontier too, maybe you can also come back by a good opportunity."
I put down the teacup and walked over and patted Miss Chen Er's shoulder, only to see her retract her envious gaze and hurriedly waved her hand to refuse.
"Am I crazy? If I go to the battlefield, my mother will have to kill me, and how can I marry when I go back to Beijing."
Looking at Miss Chen Er's delicate appearance, Li Zhen's face was visibly cold.
Chen Er is right, not to mention the women in Beijing, how many women in the world can break out of the cage of fame, mixed with men?
Since ancient times, Mulan has served in the army on behalf of her father, with iron bones and soft intestines.
Every time she is in battle, she takes the lead and kills the enemy bravely, and that is the female general who is loyal and martyrful.
But from ancient times to the present, how many Mulans are there?
She Li Zhen is full of flowers and moons, how can she be a heroine like Mulan?
Holding Li Zhen's girls, they left in twos and threes, leaving only me and Li Zhenzhen speechless.
I turned to leave.
"Mrs. Lin."
Li Zhen spoke, "Lady Lin is hostile to me?"
I glanced back at Li Zhen and replied seriously, "The general that Miss Li fell in love with and was willing to save with his life married me three years ago."
The people in Beijing shouted that I should invite myself to go to the court more and more, and their admiration for Li Zhen made them think nothing at all, and they only asked me to quickly give up the position of the general's wife, so as to fulfill the dream of a beautiful relationship in their eyes.
"So what?" Li Zhen asked me.
"That's not going to work." I thought it was funny, so I laughed out loud, looking at Li Zhen like a child.
"Miss Li, you are not bound by the boudoir in your wanton life, but none of the women in my court are like Miss Li."
I added, "The general and I have known each other for more than ten years, and he first knew me, a girl in the boudoir who was restrained with a smile and a smile, and then he felt that Miss Li was more likely, so what if the general knew Miss Li first?"
In this world, how can there be true feelings from the beginning to the end.
Moreover, if all the women in the world go to the battlefield on war horses, or show up with men to drink and chat, and have a good time, then what do they depend on men?
No matter how beautiful a woman in the world is, isn't she also a plaything in the palm of a man's palm?
It's a joke.
The emperor didn't want to see such a situation, so he rewarded me with an edict that the general should never marry Li Zhen.
After all, my father is a big official, and the general doesn't dare to divorce, and I don't dare to marry Li Zhen as a side room, so I can only ask the emperor for an order.
It's a pity that it hit the iron plate.
It wasn't so troublesome, and I'm not an intolerable person, I can't destroy my reputation just to prevent the general from taking a concubine.
But she really doesn't want to be a concubine.
The general wants to use public opinion to pressure me, and let me beg him to marry Li Zhen as a flat wife, and let them take up all the good things and reputation, why?
Now I'm even more disgusted, because I can't give Li Zhen's name, and he has poured all his anger on me.
4
Lin Youzhi went to the training ground with Li Zhen to train recruits during the day, and slept in the study at night, and did not set foot in the backyard.
My mother-in-law ran up to me again and again, but didn't say anything, and finally looked at me sadly.
What do you see me doing?
I asked myself to leave the court, but the emperor didn't agree!
My father couldn't stand the public opinion, so my mother handed over the post, I thought it was to persuade me to give way generously, but I didn't think that my mother would scold God when she entered the door.
"What's wrong with me? Is it wrong to support your mother-in-law? Is it wrong to settle in the inner house? He wanted to ride and ride, but he said, ah, it's not that my son can't ride a horse. If you go to war with him, will his wife starve to death at home?"
My mother is exaggerating, how can people starve to death in the huge general's mansion.
"My son is not afraid, if you want to leave, your father and I will come to pick you up and go back, and see how he and Li Zhen stay together. If you don't get along, no one can shake your position."
My mother held my hand tightly and endured the monstrous anger to reassure me, what was there to be afraid of me?
As soon as my mother-in-law left, my mother-in-law entered the house.
"Ruan Ruan, it's my mother's fault that made you feel wronged."
My mother-in-law had red eyes and wanted to scold Lin Youzhi for a few words to relieve my anger, but I was really reluctant to say that he was not.
After all, it was also her son who had been worried about her for three years, looking forward to it day and night, and afraid of coming back with bad news.
"Ruan Ruan, why don't you ......" my mother-in-law didn't dare to look at me, but just held my hand tightly and said with difficulty, "Or you will tolerate that woman, right?" I won't let her go past you if I'm here, and you'll always be my son's only wife."
I don't blame my mother-in-law, after all, she can't control her son's thoughts.
But I'm disgusting, he can't bear the help that I, a famous lady, can bring him, and he can't give up Li Zhen and his wanton life.
He wants to sit and enjoy the blessings of all people, so that I can swallow my grievances and magnanimity, but I can't.
"Mother, have you figured it out?" I asked, "The general has not once set foot in my yard since he returned, and if she had passed the door, I would have been a widow." If you want to have a grandson with a grandfather, you can't."
My mother-in-law was stunned for a moment, thinking that she also knew that the general and I had not yet had a consummation.
"I...... I'll let him have a baby with you."
I broke free of my mother-in-law's hand, not wanting to look at her again, but turned my head to look at the picture of the country hanging on the wall.
"Mother, the embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the anthill, and I will do as you wish."
My mother-in-law ignored my reminder, as if she had only heard the second half of the sentence, crying and laughing, responding repeatedly, and hurriedly leaving to tell Lin Youzhi the news.
Li Zhen once said, "I swear to the Bodhisattva that I will not be another concubine in this life. Now that I have met Youzhi, although I can't be his wife, I'm willing to be a wife."
She is righteous and awe-inspiring, but it seems that I am narrow-minded.
It was as if she had been wronged, and I almost couldn't help but roll my eyes.
That night, Lin Youzhi walked into my room, when I had removed the hairpin ring and was leaning on the soft couch to read the account book.
The ledger of living with his brothers and concubines is full of incurable diseases.
I watched him come in, put down the ledger and got up, and waited until he sat down at the table of the Eight Immortals and poured him a cup of hot tea.
"General, please have tea." With a gentle and decent smile, I also poured myself a cup of fine Biluochun.
"You ......" Lin Youzhi wanted to speak and stopped, and when he saw that I didn't raise my head or open my eyes, he swallowed back and just sat quietly.
What are you waiting for?
Etc. I Sleep Samurai Sleeping?
Look at me for being sensible and rewarding me for being a child?
I called the maid Xizhu to prepare a table of sake dishes, and took advantage of Lin Youzhi's inattention to give Xizhu a look.
Come to think of it, she understands.
After a stick of incense, the sake side dish had not yet come, but the subordinates of Li Zhen's mansion came.
"General, my master suddenly vomited blood, and said that his heart hurt badly, please go and see my master."
The little guy was very clever, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, as if Lin Youzhi didn't go again, and Li Zhen was about to swallow his breath.
"She's been shot at me, I'll go see her first."
After that, Lin Youzhi got up and left, like a gust of wind.
I'm not afraid of being embarrassed when I say it, the dignified general needs a woman to save his life on the battlefield.
This general's name, about injected with water?
Lin Youyi left, and Xizhu came in and closed the door.
"Well done." I praised Xizhu, which made the girl very happy.
I took the account book and asked Xizhu to study ink, and immediately wrote a letter for Xizhu to send to my mother's house in the city overnight.
While waiting for a reply, I closed the door to thank the guests, whether it was my mother-in-law or the housekeeper, I didn't see anyone.
5
When Xizhu brought back the letter that my father had written to me, I opened the door and went to my mother-in-law's room, and by the way, I asked someone to invite the general.
"What did you ask me for? I'm really sick."
Lin Youyi sat on the Taishi chair with an angry face, and he didn't spare my posture if I didn't give an explanation.
"What's wrong, Ruan Ruan? You haven't seen anyone lately, but what's wrong with you?" My mother-in-law asked someone to bring me tonic soup, and I think she really cares about me.
"Naturally, there is something wrong, don't worry, general." I gave Xizhu a look, and she took out the folded paper from the wooden box in her arms and respectfully presented it to Lin Youzhi.
"General, since we have no fate, I will not dominate the position of the general's wife, let's get together and disperse, and let's leave!"
Lin Youzhi frowned, but his mother-in-law screamed, stood up and threw herself in front of me.
"Ruan Ruan, what are you talking about, only you can be my daughter-in-law." My mother-in-law was so angry that she wanted to shove what I had just said back into my mouth.
A lady who is piled up with gold, silver and jade by a dignitary, and a wild girl who doesn't know the etiquette and doesn't know the account book, which is more important?
My mother-in-law understands.
Oh no, Li Zhen is not a wild girl.
When Li Zhen returned to Beijing with Lin Youzhi, I had already inquired about it, Li Zhen was not a wild girl, but a concubine of a small official who couldn't even enter the Taihe Palace.
It's really not angry, the concubines have eaten with the emperor, and my father has never even been to the court.
"Yes, you're confused? What do you mean?"
Seeing that I was not moved, my mother-in-law turned her head to beat Lin Youzhi's arm, eager to wake up her lard-covered son.
"You don't have to be like this, you really come through the door to be a concubine, she can't go past you."
Lin Youzhi put down and left the book, pressed the teacup on it, and left a circle of water stains.
Even if it is a concubine, he has to give Li Zhen the concubine with the highest status, the concubine who can attend the formal banquet.
Isn't that still a joke about me?
The general's wife with no name.
It's really embarrassing for him, and he made a big concession. Isn't this just telling me that he has let Li Zhen be a concubine, so I will obediently welcome people into the door and don't make trouble.
"The general is too worried, I don't like the position of the general's wife."
As soon as I finished speaking, at this moment, the chief manager of the palace Chen entered the general's mansion with the holy decree.
Everyone hurriedly ran out to receive the order, and knelt down in front of Manager Chen.
I knelt beside Lin Youzhi and listened to the holy decree I had asked for.
Listening to the shrill voice of Manager Chen, I instantly recalled the day Lin Youzhi went on the expedition, and we were newly married.
He put the jade pendant in my hand and said to me, "I am completely relieved to have you at home."
I regret it a little, so I might as well not reassure you.
The Holy One agreed to our reconciliation, and in order to appease me, he jointly announced the holy decree that I would be the lord of Jiaping County.
For a while, there was joy and sorrow.