In the first year after Xiao Changfeng went to war, Su Nianyun and Fu Ming completely covered the medicinal material business in all parts of Mobei, and also donated 600,000 taels of silver to the imperial court as military expenses.
Compared with when she was in Mobei, the money she paid doubled.
Only then did everyone in the court know that the emperor was not only supported by the Fu family, the richest businessman in the world, but also by Princess Nianyun, the adopted daughter of the Empress Dowager.
At this time, when everyone thought about how the Sixth Prince took advantage of the dispute between the Crown Prince and Xiao Hou over Princess Nianyun and attempted to usurp the throne, they realized that the Sixth Prince was indeed too greedy for power and took the initiative.
This is just a big chess game played by the new emperor.
The fact that he covets the fiancée of a minister and turns against Xiaohou because of Princess Nianyun is simply a ploy to lure the enemy deeper.
Behind Princess Nianyun was the Empress Dowager. Princess Nianyun supported the eighteenth prince, and the Empress Dowager came forward to set the record straight. The cause and effect became clearer.
For a time, although Su Nianyun no longer served in the court, no minister dared to look down on her, or even said anything about her.
After all, this woman grew up next to the Queen Mother, and her way of doing things is similar to that of the Queen Mother, without any faults.
After Su Nianyun donated money to the court and settled the business in Sujia Village and Beijing, she immediately packed her bags and set off for Mobei with Jing'er.
The newly married Su Ming led a caravan to escort their mother and son.
As the New Year was approaching, Xiao Changfeng was shocked when Su Nianyun appeared in Mobei with her children.
"Why are you here?" In his eyes, there was fatigue from successive battles, but more importantly, there was surprise.
Su Nianyun smiled and said, "Sorry, I can't wait for three years..."
After going through so many ups and downs, how could she endure being separated from her lover for such a long time?
"But here in Mobei..." Xiao Changfeng wanted to say that the war would have some impact, in case the country fought back desperately...
Although he had experienced these things in his dream, and he had solved them perfectly in the end, he still did not want Su Nianyun to take risks here.
Su Nianyun shook her head, "Mobei is my home, have you forgotten?"
She has settled here, what's not used to it, and her loved ones are here, so what's there to worry about?
"You come here like this, to the Empress Dowager's place..."
"Don't worry, it was the Empress Dowager who agreed to my coming."
She had previously wanted to stay by the Empress Dowager's side, but since the late Emperor's burial, the Empress Dowager had been seeing fewer and fewer people.
Others, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager could disappear without seeing them, but Su Nianyun could only see the Empress Dowager once even after going there three times.
Grandma Sun assured Su Nianyun that the Queen Mother was in good health, but she really wanted to calm down and practice Buddhism and pray for the late Emperor and the Supreme Emperor.
Su Nianyun finally felt relieved.
Before leaving the capital, she sent Aunt Liu back to the palace and continued to take care of the Empress Dowager with Aunt Sun.
Su Nianyun felt more at ease now that Aunt Liu was by the Empress Dowager's side.
When the new emperor learned that Su Nianyun had taken people to Mobei again, he didn't know what the look was on his face. He just wrote blankly and let the vermilion ink drip onto the memorial in front of him.
Suddenly, a pair of Rouyi surrounded him from behind, "Your Majesty, what's the matter that makes you so embarrassed?"
Zhao Chengji didn't look back and knew it was Nangong Yue.
He patted her hand and said, "It's not difficult, it's just that it's difficult to handle, and I'm a little distracted."
Nangong Yue helped him put away the pen, and then put a bowl of ginseng soup into his hand, "I made this specially for the emperor to replenish his health. When he was in the other courtyard, the emperor liked to drink the soup I cooked the most.
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Zhao Chengji took a sip and then looked at her affectionately, "Not only before, I also like to drink it now."
Nangong Yue's face turned red due to his affectionate eyes, and she said shyly, "Then... Your Majesty, will you come to my place tonight?"
Zhao Chengji pointed to the pile of papers in front of him, "If these things are taken care of, I will go find you, how about it?"
Nangong Yue nodded, "Okay, then I'll wait for the emperor."
Not long after Nangong Yue left, the young eunuch outside the royal study came to report again, "Your Majesty, I wish to see you as a concubine..."
Zhao Chengji refused at all, took a sip of Rufei's ginseng tea, and dealt with her as he did with Nangong Yue. Rufei also left the imperial study happily.
"Sincerely?" Looking at the two concubines leaving one after another, Zhao Chengji smiled sarcastically, "Leave it to those outside the palace!"
In the palace, never be sincere!
People with sincerity die miserably.
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Three years later, Xiao Changfeng lived up to the expectations of the new emperor and finally conquered the country.
The small Monan tribe that had been in the south of Mobei, seeing Fan Bang being conquered, also uneasily surrendered to Zhao Chengji.
At this point, Zhao Chengji ignored the opposition of people in the DPRK and persisted in the policy of purging the surrounding small countries after ascending the throne, which initially achieved results.
Those ministers who had supported the sixth prince or the ninth prince in the past were finally completely convinced by the new emperor.
Their new emperor did what the previous emperor could not do.
After Xiao Changfeng returned to the court, in addition to the grand reward from the emperor, he and Su Nianyun were also given a new marriage.
No one in the court said much about the relationship between the new emperor, Xiao Changfeng and Princess Nianyun.
Everyone could see that the new emperor was trying to win over the couple by offering them a marriage.
The three-year period promised by Xiao Changfeng and Su Nianyun was completely realized on their wedding night.
The red quilt tent was warm, Su Nianyun lay in Xiao Changfeng's arms and asked.
"You originally said you would give me a grand wedding if you asked me to wait for you for three years. How did you calculate so accurately?"
She knew the time when Fan Bang surrendered, but Xiao Changfeng didn't know. How did he judge the time?
After all, war is not a side event, there are many factors that can affect it.
"What if I said..."
At this point, Xiao Changfeng finally decided to tell the secret in his heart.
"If I say that I once had a dream about a past life, and I have experienced almost everything in reality and dreams, would you believe it?"
"What?" Su Nianyun was stunned, "Is this...all true?"
Xiao Changfeng hugged her shoulders tightly, "I was just afraid that you would have this reaction, so I never dared to tell you."
This matter has been weighing on his mind for three years.
Except for the fact that he and Nianyun met, everything else corresponded one to one, otherwise he would never believe in the long dream that encompassed his life.
"Then...can you tell me what you do in your dreams without me?" Su Nianyun asked.
Recalling his previous worldly dream, Xiao Changfeng smiled bitterly, "Speaking of it... there's really nothing to say..."
"After that night at Lingyun Mountain, I kept looking for you to no avail. Since then, I have been on the battlefield and my stay in the capital was very short..."
Hearing Xiao Changfeng talk about Lingyun Mountain again, Su Nianyun felt nothing at all.
The tablet of Xiao Changfeng's mother was enshrined in the temple in Lingyun Mountain. When Xiao Changfeng was away, she, accompanied by Xiao Lei, went to pay homage several times.
Before getting married this time, she and Xiao Changfeng also formally worshiped together. Lingyun Mountain was no longer an untouchable existence in her heart.
On the contrary, she is now very grateful there. No matter whether the past life they experienced was a reality or a dream, they both will cherish this life even more.
As for whether to tell Xiao Changfeng about her dream, Su Nianyun thought it would be better to discuss it later when she has the opportunity.
Tonight is the first night of their wedding, so of course it is not the time to talk about other things...
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Thirty years later, the young Marquis Xiao had become the old Duke Xiao, and Su Nianyun once again reached the age where she set herself on fire in the Chen Mansion.
But in this life, she had someone she truly loved by her side, and she lived an extremely happy life.
Ever since Xiao Changfeng gradually withdrew from government affairs, the couple had been living in Sujia Village.
Today's Sujia Village is no longer comparable to the past.
As people of the Su family got married and had children here, after more than thirty years of development, Sujia Village is now prosperous and has a large population.
In the past, people could not even form a small village, but now there are ten villages.
Xiao Jing, the eldest son of Duke Xiao, came riding a horse.
Behind him was a luxurious carriage, carrying the emperor's most beloved princess and Xiao Jing's wife who he had loved for many years.
Next to the wife sat her eldest son, who was more than ten years old. In the arms of the two nannies, each held two five- or six-year-old milk dumplings.
When people in Sujia Village saw the prince, they would not call him prince, but would call him mistress.
People in the capital rumored that Duke Xiao was actually a fool.
It was clear that Princess Nianyun gave birth to a son, Xiao You, and a daughter, Xiao Jin, one after another, but he just wanted to give birth to the princess to the Chen family, and the child named Su Jing was included in the Xiao family genealogy.
Forgetting the position of the eldest son in Su Jingpai's family, he even gave him the position of heir apparent.
Sometimes, Xiao Jing also heard the rumors, but he didn't feel unhappy at all.
Outsiders don't know, but his parents, siblings, and his mother's tribe all know his true identity.
The appearance in the mirror that looked more and more like his father kept telling him whose son he was.
For his mother's birthday this time, he originally wanted to take his parents to the capital to make a grand celebration, but his mother only liked the bonfire dinner organized by the tribe.
As a last resort, he took the cook, helpers and others to Sujia Village.
Xiao Jin, who is already married to Chu Xue's eldest son, and Yang Tongchen, who has just entered Dali Temple to inherit his father's inheritance, have already come to congratulate him in advance of his eldest brother and second brother.
Their children had been playing happily around Xiao Changfeng and Su Nianyun's knees.
Seeing the children of Xiao Jing's family arriving, the children suddenly became more lively.
Su Nianyun looked at her grandchildren and grandsons with a smile, and she burst into tears with laughter in her eyes.
It's been a long time since she remembered her past life.
However, the scene in front of her made her emotional, and the scene in front of her still reminded her of the scene she saw through the crack in the door of Mrs. Chen and Zhou Yao's son and children getting along with each other when she heard that Chen Shao'an came back alive.
Today, the Chen family's mansion has collapsed, and the Chen family's masters are torn apart.
Chen Shaokang, the third son of the Chen family, fled to a foreign country and became an unknown teacher.
Chen Shaoting, the son of the Chen family, finally had no choice but to end up with the ugly widow who owned the tavern.
Once, he spent a lot of money in a brothel, and the girls in the brothel were obedient to him.
Now, in order to survive, he has to treat that ugly woman just like those women treated him back then...
As for Chen Shaoan and Zhou Yao, they originally wanted to cooperate with Princess Shunyang again to smear Su Nianyun once more, and then leave with the money.
Unexpectedly, there was a huge change in the court. Shunyang was implicated by the sixth prince just after he took refuge with him. Shunyang fell, and naturally no one could help Chen Shaoan and Zhou Yao.
As a last resort, Zhou Yao returned to the brothel to work in the business she was still familiar with. Unfortunately, a new generation replaced the old ones. She had gone through the storms of time and had long lost her former glory.
Fortunately, Zhou Yao knew how to stop her losses in time, and found another older customer who looked honest and easy to deceive, and followed that person back to her hometown in the countryside.
A few years later, Su Nianyun heard that because of Zhou Yao's misbehavior, one day he caught her stealing with others.
g, they united the villagers and sank her and the man into the pond.
As for Chen Shaoan...
Su Nianyun can still see him now, because he is begging for food on the streets of the capital with an unkempt appearance.
When he first started begging for food, he tried to intercept Su Nianyun's carriage, hoping to reconcile old friendship with her.
However, the secret guards Xiao Changfeng sent beside Su Nianyun beat him every time they saw him. Later, he became frightened by the beatings and ran away when he saw Su Nianyun's carriage from a distance.
Su Nianyun didn't let him starve to death.
She arranged for people to keep an eye on him. Whenever he couldn't get food for three days, her people would give him a little charity, so that he would neither have enough to eat nor starve to death. This state would last for decades.
Su Nianyun always believes that death is a kind of relief, and only a half-dead and painful life can be the real revenge.
She and Xiao Changfeng sat in the huge bonfire square in the center of the village, waiting until night fell before their second son Xiao You arrived belatedly on a horse.
Su Nianyun patted Xiao Changfeng's arm, "Look at the good name you gave You'er. Since he was eighteen years old, he has really been living the life of a wanderer who flies as high as the sky, and he hasn't gotten married yet. Who are you worried about?
"
Xiao Changfeng watched the figure who looked like him get off his horse. His handsome facial features were somewhat similar to his mother's.
He held Su Nianyun's hand, "This can only be said that You'er is undoubtedly my biological son. When I couldn't find you, we never got married..."
When it comes to infatuation, the second son is on par with him.
"You mean, You'er has a woman he likes and has been searching for her all these years?" Su Nianyun looked at Xiao Changfeng in confusion.
Xiao Changfeng fed the delicious cake into her mouth, "People say that children and grandchildren will have their own blessings, but that is another story!"