Hidden golden branches

Chapter 3 Ruthless
  Yun Man felt very sorry for her daughter, who was born well-behaved, sensible and affectionate. She knew that if she mishandled her girlish feelings, she might suffer from a serious illness.

However, he still reached out to hold his daughter's cold little hand in his palm, and said in a soft but firm tone: "Sun Yi has married a wife at the frontier, and he is willing to use this military exploit to cancel the engagement with you. Rong'er, he is not suitable for you. .”

Sun Yi sent someone to deliver a memorial to the emperor as early as on his way back to Beijing from the frontier, expressing his request to break off the engagement with Chen Rong, the daughter of Chen Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Why did Sun Yi have to report to the emperor for renouncing his marriage?

It was just because he was engaged to Chen Rong because of the marriage granted by the emperor.

If you want to break off the engagement, you must get the emperor's permission.

That's why he had to exchange his military exploits.

Chen Youyu received Sun Yi's letter to break off the engagement three days ago, but she just kept it secret and did not tell her daughter.

I'm afraid that if she loses her mind and hurts her body, if others don't feel bad for her, how can parents not feel bad for her?

Chen Youyu and his wife both knew how much their daughter liked him and admired Sun Yi, a ruthless and ruthless lover!

If his daughter hadn't begged the emperor on Sun Yi's behalf, how could Sun Yi, a seventh-grade nomadic lieutenant, be qualified to lead troops to fight in the border areas?

snort! Now that he has achieved meritorious service and has strong wings, he actually wants to break off the engagement with his own daughter by burning down bridges!
  How could there be such a heartless and beastly person in the world?

Changes of heart are as fast as turning the pages of a book.

Doesn't he know how big a blow breaking off an engagement is to a girl?

Not only will his reputation be ruined by being ridiculed, but he will definitely not be able to marry into a good family after being divorced. Even if you get married, your husband will not be able to hold his head high as a man for the rest of his life.

It's a pity that his daughter, whom he cherishes like pearls and jade, is so miserable in his heart!
  Chen Rong stubbornly refused to believe it. With tears in his eyes, he still deceived himself and said that Sun Yi didn't know how to do it. His mother must have said this to scare her because she was angry at her for being stubborn and disobedient.

She slowly pulled her hand away from Yun Man's, then turned around and ran out.

Yun Man was startled and shouted: "Stop her!"

Numerous servants of Jinxiuyuan stood in front of Chen Rong. No matter how Chen Rong threatened and reprimanded him, no one dared to give way.

They all felt sorry for their young ladies, but how could they not listen to their mistress?
  "Mom! Let me go, I want to ask him clearly in person!" Chen Rong wiped away the tears sliding down his cheeks with the back of his hand, stamped his feet and shouted.

Yun Man felt pity in her heart, suppressed the pity in her heart, and said with a stern face: "Just save some face for you and our Chen family!"

Chen Rong stared dumbly as he watched Yun Man get up from the chair, came closer, held the brocade handkerchief to wipe her tears and said: "He would rather bear the emperor's thunderous wrath, even if he loses his life, he has to do this." The thing is, you have to be sincere towards the woman on the frontier, what else don’t you understand?”

Yun Man decided to wake up her daughter who was confused and unwilling to wake up.

The Chen family has always been a loving father and a strict mother.

But Chen Rong has been easy to talk about everything else since she was a child, except for the fact that others said that Sun Yi was not good at all. She couldn't listen to even a word of what Yun said. When the servant relaxed, she pushed a maid away with all her strength. Just rushed out.

While running, he shouted: "Cuizhu, stop my mother!"

Cuizhu and Yuzhu were the maids beside Chen Rong. Cuizhu looked at his mistress Yunman with pleading eyes after hearing this.

Yun was about to ask someone to catch her back, but she heard the lady in charge next to her, Aunt Li Fushen, comforting her: "Madam, let the county master go. If you go, maybe you will give up."

Yun hesitated, sighed and said, "Get someone to watch her, don't let anything happen to her."

Grandma Li took the order and immediately led a bodyguard to chase after Songlin.

Song Lin is Grandma Li's son. He practiced martial arts with the two young masters in the house since he was a child. When he grew up, he followed Chen Rong to protect her. Chen Rong drove straight to the palace in a carriage. She knew that Sun Yi had already entered the palace to report on his duties.

The carriage stopped in front of the palace gate. He immediately jumped out of the carriage and ran to the side door next to the palace gate. When he saw a familiar little yellow doorman, he asked: "Where is Sun Yi?"

Before Xiao Huangmen could answer, he happened to run into Chang Yuan, the emperor's bodyguard who usually guarded the Xuanzheng Hall. He came from the palace road and asked, "The county master is going to see the imperial concubine, right?"

Because Chen Rong has a special case, usually as long as there is no access control or the palace door is locked, there is no need to notify, as long as he takes out the special jade token in his hand.

Therefore, almost all the little Huangmen guarding the palace gate knew her, and sometimes they would let her into the palace without her even needing to show her jade token.

"Mr. Chang, my daughter came to the palace to find Sun Yi." Chen Rong muttered in a bad mood.

Chang Yuan looked at Chen Rong with a bit of regret in his eyes, and said with a smile: "If I go back to the county master, Deputy Lieutenant Sun just left the imperial study room not long ago. At this moment, he should be almost at the palace gate..."

Chang Yuan felt sorry for the little girl that she fell in love with such a weak, heartless and unrighteous man.

It's also a pity for Sun Yi that his whole career was ruined because of a woman.

According to the usual practice, Sun Yi and a group of generals will stay in the palace today. The emperor will appoint them officials, and then they will clean up their dust and hold a palace banquet, where the emperor and his ministers will have fun together.

Sun Yi will be like the 'little general' that others call him, and become a full-fledged fifth-grade Dingyuan general.

Sun Yi used his merits to the emperor in exchange for breaking off his engagement with the Chen family, which made the emperor unhappy. It would be considered merciful if the emperor did not punish him for the crime of disrespect.

How can we give him a promotion?

As a matter of course, the palace banquet will not be held.

Chang Yuan's answer told Chen Rong to put away the jade tablet he was about to take out. Since he would be in front of the palace gate soon, he didn't need to go into the palace to find him.

Behind her, Song Lin followed with a guard at a close distance.

After Chen Rong calmed down his resentment, he soon saw Sun Yi wearing the same military robe he met in the morning, walking towards the palace gate.

Unable to wait for Chen Rong to get excited, she saw a carriage slowly running to the palace gate from where the official sedan was parked.

Sun Yi walked out and ignored Chen Rong, treating her as a stranger not worthy of even a glance, and passed her by mercilessly.

She watched him walk to the carriage, which was the green-roofed carriage she had seen this morning.

And soon half of a woman's body and face emerged from the carriage.

Since she was not far away, Chen Rong could clearly see her appearance, her features were picturesque, and her eyes were full of spring water. There seemed to be countless sorrows in them, and she was pitiful. She had a delicate and gentle look, and the kind of weakness that men loved.

Seeing Sun Yi raise his hand to wipe the sweat from her face, his behavior was small and intimate.

Even though Sun Yi's back was turned and his facial expression could not be seen clearly, Chen Jia could guess how gentle and caring Sun Yi looked at this time.

He is serious about marrying someone else instead of himself.

Chen Rong stood there frozen, unable to deceive himself or others even if he wanted to.

　Sun Yi: I want to use my military exploits in exchange for breaking off my engagement with Chen Rong.

　　Jiarong Chen: I don’t believe it.
  　　Yun Man: It’s a pity that his daughter, who is as precious as pearls and jade, is so miserable in his heart!
  　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)