Strategy of Prince's Concubine's Rebellion

She pulled Murong Chen: "This is..."

Murong Chen's eyes darkened: "It's my brother, come and see me."

Princess Yingxue nodded: "I've never heard that you have a younger brother."

Murong Chen's expression was a little complicated: "Guhe Town is remote, I thought he couldn't find it, so I didn't tell you."

"Daddy, Daddy, I want to see the wooden horse!"

Xiao Xuan'er pulled Murong Chen's face and said coquettishly: "Didn't you say that the wooden horse has been repaired and you would take me to see it?"

"Okay, okay, Daddy will take you there right away. Daddy also made you a small pink cushion, it's so pretty."

Murong Chen has a special feeling for Xiao Xuan'er, and he obeys her unconditionally no matter what she says.

He carried Xiaoxuan into the house.

Outside the house, Princess Yingxue smiled and said to Xiangcao, "My uncle has been traveling a long way, so please arrange a room upstairs for him and prepare some good food and wine. I'll go upstairs and clean up before coming back."

"Got it, boss. Brother Chen's brother is one of our own family members. We will never neglect him."

Princess Yingxue nodded with relief, and as soon as she turned around, she heard Murong Guang's voice behind her.

"Why aren't you surprised to see me?"

Princess Yingxue stopped.

After a while, she turned around and smiled at Murong Guang.
"We are all family, there is nothing to be surprised about."

Vanilla's eyes widened: "Wow, boss, you don't know how surprised I was when I first saw him. I was simply shocked."

Princess Yingxue patted her forehead and said, "You are so ignorant that you get so surprised by everything."

The two of them walked forward, talking and laughing, leaving Murong Guang alone standing behind them.

Murong Guang's slightly trembling voice suddenly sounded behind him again.

"Xue'er, did you get the love you wanted?"

Seeing that she didn't turn around, Murong Guang choked up and asked again.

"Is that the preference you wanted?"

Princess Yingxue was chatting and laughing with Xiangcao, as if she didn't hear what Murong Guang was saying at all.

But she suddenly turned around, smiled and nodded at him.

Xiaoguang, I have got the preference I wanted.

Even though this life has its ups and downs, it is not in vain.

You can rest assured.

The midday sun was shining brightly, the small town of Guhe was bustling with people, and the hawkers' cries were one louder than the other.

Murong Guang, the tall and slender Prince of Northern Yan, stood in the small courtyard of Zhenwei Pavilion with tears streaming down his face.

***
One month later, at the Yan Palace.

Lying on the golden nanmu bed with carvings of dragons and paintings of phoenixes, Murong Yue, who was already extremely weak, finally saw her long-missed brother.

"Chen'er..."

He took Murong Chen's hand and sat up excitedly, half leaning on the bed.

His voice was extremely weak, but full of regret: "Brother knows he was wrong. Brother really knows he was wrong."

Murong Chen lowered his head, his eyes red.

"Brother, I have a daughter, her name is Murong Xuan, she is very cute and well-behaved.

After a while, her younger brother Murong An was born.

When you recover, we will take them with us for the autumn hunt."

Murong Yue felt longing in her heart, but shook her head helplessly.

"Ahem, Chen'er, big brother also wants to wait for that day, but big brother's illness will not be cured.

The eldest brother knew that the biggest mistake he made in his life was sending someone to assassinate the Princess of Chu.

Not only did your hair turn white overnight, but my dear brother almost lived like a walking corpse for the rest of his life.

But, Chen'er, I still want to say that the future burden of the world is on your shoulders..."

Murong Chen smiled bitterly: "Don't worry, brother, what you are worried about will not happen.

You are afraid of passing the disease to Xiaoxuan, so you don't let them in. Why don't I hold you and watch them from the window?"

Murong Yue hadn't gotten up for a long time, but he also wanted to see his brother's child, even if it was just a glimpse from a distance.

Murong Chen and the old eunuch helped him up and pulled him to the window.

When the window opened, Murong Yue, who had not seen the scorching sunlight for a long time, narrowed her eyes slightly.

When he fully opened his eyes again, he saw a mother and daughter as bright as the sun standing in the flower-filled garden outside the window.

The delicate little ball stood under the tree in the courtyard, shaking Princess Yingxue's sleeve with her chubby little hands.

"Mom, why hasn't Dad come out yet? I miss him so much."

Princess Yingxue squatted down and wiped the biscuit crumbs from the corner of her mouth.

"Xuan'er, be good. Mommy misses daddy too."

"Then let's go to the big house to find daddy."

"No, uncle is sick. You can't just go into that place. It will disturb uncle's rest."

Xiao Xuan pouted unhappily: "When will Daddy come out?"

Princess Yingxue rolled her eyes and said, "How about this, when you finish jumping five times, Daddy might come out."

Xiao Xuan'er looked around with her chubby face: "But mother, there is no grid here."

"How not?"

Princess Yingxue giggled and picked up a piece of mud-covered stone from under a big tree. She simply drew a few grids on the ground.

"Let's play hopscotch while we wait for daddy, okay?"

"No, no!" Xiao Xuan'er put her chubby little hands on her waist and pouted her pink little mouth in dissatisfaction.

"Daddy said that Mommy can't jump around so much. Daddy asked me to watch you every day!"

"I know you're on the same page with your father!"

Princess Yingxue curled her lips, glared at her angrily, and then smiled happily.
"Okay, okay, then Xiaoxuan, can you dance for mommy yourself?"

"Okay, mother, help me count! After you dance five times, I will go and call daddy!"

"Good good!"

When Xiaoxuan thought of her daddy, her eyes curved into little crescents from smiling.

She danced happily and sang loudly with Princess Yingxue.

"One grid jumps, two grids smile, three grids make noise, four grids are happy, five grids ..."

Under the azure sky, in the lush garden, the mother and daughter, as beautiful as the autumn moon, jumped and laughed, their eyes curved and their cheeks red with laughter.

Murong Chen, standing in front of the six-diamond flower window, couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

"Brother, look at her current state, will she command thousands of troops to kill me again?

Xiaoguang said that she had recovered her memory a long time ago and she knew it was me.

But she no longer thought about the Chu Kingdom, nor did she think about preparing for war.

Instead, he was willing to accompany me and continue the drama between the shopkeeper and the accountant in the small town of Guhe.

You said that I gave up my identity, status, kingdom and perseverance for her, but didn't she do the same?
Even though my life has had its ups and downs, it has not been in vain, and I am very content."

***
Thirty years later, Yongchun City Market.

On the busy street, a mother and daughter were arguing next to a noodle stall, attracting dozens of people to watch.

"I told you, mother doesn't agree!"

"Mom, Brother Zhan is a very good person. Although his home is far away in Yunzhou City, he is willing to stay in Yongchun City for me in the future. What else are you dissatisfied with?"

"Alas, why don't you listen, child? Didn't mother tell you that you can't marry a man from Northern Yan! They are rude and overbearing, and they burn, kill, and rob at any time. Even our Princess of Chu was taken away by the King of Chen of Yan!"

"Mother, what are you talking about? It's different now than it was before. There's no such thing as Yan or Chu. The emperor is Princess Yingxue's eldest son, and His Royal Highness Prince Chen abdicated and became the emperor a long time ago."

"That won't do! Girls from Chu should marry boys from Chu. The Yan people are barbaric to their core. You didn't see how cruel they were back then. I will never let you suffer that. Come home with me!"

The old mother pulled the girl back tightly and accidentally bumped into a handsome young man.

She quickly apologized: "Little brother, I'm sorry, I was in a hurry to go back and scold my daughter, so I didn't see you."

The handsome young man was dressed in white, holding a folding fan, and bowed with both hands: "Madam, you are too polite. It is my fault. I stood quietly behind you and disturbed you."

The old mother looked the young man in white up and down. The more she looked, the more satisfied she became. She turned around and angrily scolded her daughter: "Look at this young man, he is well-mannered, modest and polite. It would be a good thing for a girl to marry someone with such good looks. Why did she have to marry a northern barbarian? Do you want to piss me off to death?"

The girl looked at the young man in white, raised her sleeves to cover her mouth and smiled.

"Mom, this is the brother Zhan I want you to meet!"

The old mother was confused: "This... is this the northern barbarian?"

Passersby couldn't bear to watch it anymore.

"Auntie, please stop calling me a northern barbarian. The northern part of the imperial court has long been as prosperous as the south under the rule of the retired emperor and the empress dowager. The common people in the north can afford to eat white rice and wear silk. Every family has been studying and every day they go to private schools. They are all well-educated and well-mannered."

"Yes, ma'am, only you old folks still remember what you're talking about. How many young girls and boys know what happened back then?"

The old mother was even more confused: "But the people of Yan State burned, killed and looted back then..."

"Oh, mother, even Princess Yingxue who was kidnapped is now traveling with His Royal Highness Prince Chen in love. Why are you still talking about something that happened thirty or forty years ago?"

The young man in white still bowed with both hands, lowered his head slightly, and his ears turned red: "Auntie, it may be that I am too young and have not experienced the days you are talking about.

But I can swear on my future success that there are many private schools in my hometown, and everyone respects etiquette and the law, and they are especially respectful to women. They will never...will never do the kind of stupid things you mentioned."

The more the old mother looked at the young man in white, the more satisfied she became. However, when she thought of what the Yan soldiers had done decades ago, she still felt a lingering fear.

The girl held her arm and said, "Mom, don't let others watch the fun here. Let's go back and talk. Brother Zhan has prepared a lot of gifts for you, including Yunchun wine from the north, dried chestnuts, and green leaf tea..."

The three people walked further and further away, and the crowd gradually dispersed.

Murong Chen and Princess Yingxue looked at each other and smiled in the crowd.

Murong Chen held Princess Yingxue's hand and said, "Xue'er, let's go look somewhere else."

Princess Yingxue nodded, clasped her fingers together with his slightly old but still powerful hand, and looked at him with a playful expression.

"I heard that Wanbao Pavilion has new designs. Shall we go take a look? I just don't know if His Royal Highness Prince Chen can afford them. Will he still pawn another piece of beautiful jade?"

Murong Chen smiled: "This world belongs to my son. Is there anything I can't afford? But you little girl, please don't throw pearls at me again. After all, they are good things. It hurts to see them!"

The two smiled at each other again. Even though they had been broken before, there was no barrier between them now. There was only each other in their eyes and hearts.

With their fingers intertwined and their hearts connected, the two walked along with smiles on their faces.

The crowds are bustling, the sounds of hawking are heard, the people are prosperous and the country is thriving.

Princess Yingxue suddenly recalled a dream she had once had. At that time, she was captured by Murong Chen and brought back to the military camp. She hated him so much in her heart.

“I dreamed that there was no more South Chu and North Yan in this world.

There is only a peaceful and prosperous era where the north and the south are unified and the people live in peace.

By then, you and I will have gray hair.

You held my hand and walked with me in the streets.

Our stories are spreading everywhere in the noisy crowd.

We ourselves feel heartbroken and tortuous.

You and I looked at each other and smiled, and both said that if there was an afterlife, we really didn't want to go through this journey again.

But the people say we are legends!"

Perhaps all those ups and downs, twists and turns, are part of fate.

But the talented man and the beautiful woman, the emperor and empress, even though they had some ups and downs in their lives, they were never let down and finally found happiness in their hearts.

To have an impossible love with an impossible person and to accomplish an impossible career is a legend! ——
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