Spring of the fourth year of Jingyang in Dongchen Kingdom
In the Zhenbei General's Mansion, in the courtyard paved with bluestones, people were kneeling on the ground.
A father-in-law wearing a blue round-neck robe, a blue gauze hat, fair skin, holding a bright yellow imperial edict in his hand, said in a high-pitched voice: "By God's blessing, the emperor decreed that Lin Qingxue, the daughter of deputy general Lin Zhong, I am a virtuous and virtuous man with a beautiful heart. I am specially given to marry Song Heng, the general of Zhenbei, as my equal wife. If I find a good time and auspicious day, I can get married. I admire this!"
After the imperial edict was recited, the servants kneeling behind all looked at the general's wife, Mrs. Shen, who was kneeling next to the general.
This madam is also a liar. If she had agreed to let Miss Lin come in as his concubine earlier, she would not be in this situation today. Now, the emperor has decreed that this girl Lin should be the general's wife, and the madam is not even qualified to object. . Moreover, everyone inside and outside the imperial city knew that the wife of the Zhenguo General's Mansion was a petty, jealous, and intolerant country woman.
This lady is really... To use an old saying, if you lose your wife, you will lose your troops!
Shen Wan's face turned pale. If she hadn't been holding on, she would have collapsed on the ground at this moment. No matter how much she objected, it was useless. Lin Qingxue would eventually enter the Song family. The world would probably laugh at her to death. , she refused to let her husband take a concubine, but now the person who was originally going to be a concubine was granted a marriage by the emperor and was given to the husband as an equal wife. The emperor granted marriage, which was a great honor, and her, the legal wife, has become a big joke. .
She knew that she was too unkind and ungrateful to not let Lin Qingxue in, but she just wanted her husband to keep his previous promise, so what was wrong with her?
Song Heng frowned and glanced at his wife kneeling beside him worriedly. Seeing that his wife's face turned pale, he frowned even more. He didn't expect that this matter would reach the ears of the emperor. In the middle, the emperor issued a decree to grant the marriage.
"General Song, Miss Lin, hurry up and accept the order." The father-in-law Liu Cheng who delivered the order smiled and looked at Song Heng who was kneeling in front of him and Lin Qingxue who was kneeling behind him.
This General Song and this Miss Lin are a perfect match! This General Song is handsome and mighty, and this Miss Lin is beautiful, gentle and generous. On the other hand, this General's wife... Liu Cheng glanced at Shen Wan with the tail of his eyes, his eyes showing A look of disdain.
However, a country woman with no talent and color entered the imperial city and became the general's wife under the guidance of General Song. However, she did not know the general situation and did not know how to advance or retreat. She objected to General Song's acceptance of the daughter of his savior. She even made a fuss. , was known throughout the city. She didn’t even think about it, if it hadn’t been for Vice General Lin blocking an arrow for General Song, would General Song have come back alive? She actually had the nerve to object to General Song taking in Miss Lin, who was an orphan. When she came in, she really didn't know what repaying a favor meant. When the emperor learned about it, he was very angry, so he personally decreed the marriage, so that she had no right to object.
Song Heng raised his hands above his head and said loudly: "I accept the order and thank you for your kindness. Long live my emperor and all things."
Lin Qingxue also followed in a soft voice: "The daughter of the people accepted the order and thanked the Lord for his kindness. Long live the Five Emperors."
Liu Cheng placed the closed imperial edict in Song Heng's hand, and then Song Heng stood up, followed by others.
"Madam..." Qiu Ju helped Shen Wan up with a worried look on her face. If she had known this, she should have persuaded the madam to agree to the general taking a concubine.
Miss Lin is a concubine, and Madam is the head wife. This status is much higher than that of Miss Lin. Now, Miss Lin is going to marry the general as his wife, and the marriage is granted by the emperor. I am afraid that Miss Lin will have to be suppressed everywhere in the future. Madam. It turns out that Miss Lin is also very good at being a good person. No one in the whole family except Madam dislikes her.
Shen Wan stood up. If it weren't for Qiu Ju's support, she wouldn't be able to stand at this moment.
"Aunt Lin, it's great that you can finally marry my father." The little girl wearing a pink skirt, combed her temples, and two pink beaded flowers held Lin Qingxue's hand, happily said.
Shen Wan's body swayed and she almost fell down. She held Qiu Ju's hand tightly, and her heart hurt like a needle. Because the little girl who spoke was exactly twelve years old. Her daughter Song Ziyu and Lin Qingxue were going to marry her husband and become equal wives. She felt extremely uncomfortable, but her daughter was happy for Lin Qingxue. Could it be that she was really wrong?
"Aunt Lin, should I call you Erniang from now on?" Lin Qingxue, a little boy with a high chest, asked her with a smile.
This little boy is none other than Shen Wan's nine-year-old son Song Ziling.
Her son's words were like a heavy punch on Shen Wan's chest. The pain was so painful that she couldn't breathe. She was a failed mother. The children she had worked so hard to raise did not care about outsiders but her.
Lin Qingxue blushed, bit her lip and glanced shyly at Song Heng who was seeing her father-in-law out, and said coquettishly: "It's still early! The date hasn't been decided yet!" She was an equal wife, so Ling and Ziyu naturally wanted to call her. She sounds like a motherfucker.
Mrs. Liu couldn't help but sigh when she looked at her daughter-in-law, whose face was pale and looked like she might fall down at any time.
She shook her head and whispered: "If I had known today, why did I do it in the first place!" She had already agreed to Qingxue's entry and there would have been no such problems.
"Mother..." Shen Wan opened her mouth, as if a big stone was blocked in her throat, and she couldn't say anything.
"Sister...I'm sorry." Lin Qingxue walked up to Shen Wan and looked at her with a guilty look on her face.
Shen Wan pursed her lips, a bitter taste spreading in her mouth.
The servants of the General's Mansion looked very guilty when they saw Miss Lin apologizing to Madam. They were all thinking, how could there be such a kind-hearted woman in this world! It was clear that Madam was hard-hearted and refused to let her in, but now the Emperor gave her After getting married, she felt guilty and even apologized to Madam. This rich lady who knew books and etiquette was completely different from the village woman from the countryside. Standing together, Madam and Miss Lin, they were as different as clouds and mud. .
It’s no wonder that the lady didn’t agree to let the general accept Miss Lin as his concubine! She was probably afraid that if the general accepted the young, beautiful, knowledgeable and polite Miss Lin, he would lose sight of her as a poor wife!
"Aunt Lin, you're not wrong. What are you saying you're sorry for?" Song Ziyu raised her chin and glanced sideways at her mother. It was clearly her mother who was in the wrong.
Aunt Lin's father died to save her father and she became an orphan. Before his death, Aunt Lin's father entrusted Aunt Lin to his father and made Aunt Lin his concubine. But her mother disagreed and said she didn't care about Lin. Aunt Lin can marry anyone, but she can't be dad's concubine. She and dad had quarreled several times over this. A few days ago, Aunt Lin knelt in the rain and begged for her mother, but she was so hard-hearted that she refused. This made Lin so angry. Aunt Lin had been ill for several days. After she recovered, she secretly left the general's mansion. If she hadn't found out in time, Aunt Lin, who had nowhere to go, would have gone without knowing where she was now!
Thinking of Aunt Lin lying on the hospital bed, she felt that her mother was good or bad.
"No..." Lin Qingxue shook her head and said with a pair of red almond eyes: "It's my fault. If it weren't for me, the emperor wouldn't have done it... Anyway, it's all my fault..."
"No" Song Ziling interrupted Lin Qingxue, raised her round face and said, "Aunt Lin, you are not wrong."
It's his mother's fault. His mother is a petty and jealous woman. It's because of his mother that his classmates in the academy are laughing at him, and he doesn't want to go to the academy now.
Looking at the two children standing next to Lin Qingxue, Shen Wan felt chilled and heartbroken. If Lin Qingxue hadn't been able to give birth to such a big child at her age, she might have thought that these two The child is Lin Qingxue’s biological child!
Shen Wan swallowed, looked at Lin Qingxue and said, "You are right."
It's me who's wrong, it's always been me.
Shen Wan didn't want to stay here anymore. She didn't want to see a pair of children standing with her like Lin Qingxue's biological children. She also didn't want to receive the pity-filled looks from her servants.
"I'm going back to my room first." Shen Wan said to her mother-in-law Liu, and then she was supported by Qiu Ju and left.
When the father-in-law came back after sending the edict, he saw that Shen Wan had left, so Song Heng went directly to the backyard.
As soon as she returned to the house, Shen Wan slumped down on the low couch.
"Woo..." She lay on the couch and cried.
"Madam..." Qiu Ju stood aside, at a loss, not knowing how to comfort her.
She was wrong, she was really wrong, she didn't expect things to turn out like this. She knew that Vice General Lin died to save her husband. He left an orphan on his deathbed and asked her husband to take Lin Qingxue as his concubine, which was unreasonable for her. Everyone should agree. But she is afraid! She is just a country woman with no talent and appearance, and is old and beautiful. How can she compare with the young and beautiful Lin Qingxue? After entering the imperial city, there were many people She said that she was not worthy of her husband, and that she looked like his sister. For this reason, she did not dare to go out. She was afraid that with Lin Qingxue, her husband would one day be disgusted with her, and there would be no one in her heart or around her. She lost even a little bit of her position. She was even more afraid that if Lin Qingxue gave birth to children in the future, she would compete with her children and compete with her children.
Before entering the imperial city, she had often heard people say that in the back houses of wealthy families, they fought openly and secretly, and went to any lengths to murder other people's sons for their own sons. It was precisely because she was afraid that Song Heng, who had become a general, would have three wives and four concubines. Before entering the imperial city, she made him promise not to take concubines in the future. Of course he also promised and said he would swear an oath. At that time, she couldn't bear to let him say those thunderous words, so she stopped him and didn't let him swear. She had known this would happen , she shouldn't have stopped her in the first place, so that he could have a reasonable excuse to refuse.
Song Heng heard his wife's cry as soon as he stepped into the courtyard. His hands, which were clenched into fists and clasped behind his back, could not help but tighten a little, and he rushed into the house.
When the "general" saw Song Heng entering the room, Qiu Ju hurriedly lowered her head and blessed him.
Song Heng waved his hand at her to signal her to go out. Qiu Ju understood, glanced at the lady who was still crying on the couch, lowered her head and left.
"Madam" Song Heng sat on the low couch and called softly.
Shen Wan ignored it and bit her lip to prevent herself from crying.
"Don't cry." Song Heng patted his wife's shoulder gently, "I know that I'm sorry for you, but the matter has reached this point and cannot be changed. I know what you are worried about? Don't worry, even if Qingxue comes in Door, in my heart you are my Song Heng’s wife. I, Song Heng, will definitely not let you down in this life.”
When he married her, he promised to live up to her in this life, and he would naturally do it. On his deathbed, Vice General Lin asked an orphan to take Qingxue as his concubine. He refused at the beginning, but Vice General Lin said that if he didn't If he agreed, he would die in peace. He had no choice but to agree and let Vice General Lin die in peace.
After the war ended, he returned to the court with his troops and also went to the home of Vice General Lin. He originally wanted Lin Qingxue to choose a good son among the generals in the army and marry him as his wife. But Lin Qingxue said that she would follow her father's footsteps. Her last words were that she wanted to be his concubine. He already had a good wife who had given birth to children for him, and he didn’t want to take a concubine, so he persuaded Lin Qingxue several times. When Lin Qingxue saw that he didn’t want to take her as a concubine, she said , if he could not abide by his father's last words, he would go to the temple to become a sister-in-law. Unable to do so, he had to take her into the imperial city and live in the general's mansion a month ago.
Won't you let her down? Shen Wan sat up, wiped her tears with her sleeves, turned to look at Song Heng with red eyes and said, "Remember what you said today. When Song Heng and I were pregnant with Zi Ling, you were arrested I went to join the army and stayed there for five years. My mother was in poor health, and there were natural disasters for two years. I was the only one who supported the family. You know how miserable I was during those five years, even if I don’t tell you. If you marry Lin Qingxue and forget about me, then you have no conscience."
Lin Qingxue wants to marry Song Heng, whether she wants it or not, she has to accept it. Now, she can only pray that her husband will not marry someone new and forget about the old one. She wants her husband to remember that she has eaten All the hardships she has gone through, remember what she has done for this family.
Thinking of the hardships his wife had endured over the years, Song Heng felt distressed and guilty. When he went to his teacher's house to propose marriage, he once said that he would not let her suffer even the slightest grievance or suffer any hardship. However, they had only been married for three years. When the war broke out, he was arrested and sent to the army. As a woman, she not only had to raise two children, but also took care of her bedridden mother. She suffered a lot and suffered a lot of grievances. Three years ago, she After becoming a general, he returned home in fine clothes. When he saw his dark and thin wife, he didn't dare to recognize her. It was only in the three years since he entered the imperial city that he allowed her to live a good life. He, Song Heng, had been indebted to her all his life. her.
Song Heng reached out and put his hand around his wife's thin shoulders, and repeated softly: "I know, I know, I will never be a heartless person."
In the future, when Lin Qingxue comes in, he will do even more good to his wife and not let her feel the slightest difference.
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