The ultimate rebirth of the abandoned woman

Chapter 763 Fanwai Chapter 03 Who are you?
Some people say that he is a lucky gentleman.

The world admires the aristocratic family, but he is from the Li family of the Guanlong aristocratic family.

More than 20 years ago, a branch of their Li family had an emperor. After the emperor settled down, he recompiled the "Clan History", ranking the Li family first, and the Li family became the number one family name in the world. .

Born in such a family, his father is still motivated, and the official reaches the fifth rank. This kind of rank may not be worth anything in the capital where the rich and powerful are everywhere, but in their hometown in Longxi, it is not a small official rank. More importantly, according to the Tang Dynasty selection system, Officials of the fifth grade or above can have a son.

In other words, even if he doesn't do anything, he can easily become an official by relying on his father's shade alone.

However, he also complied with the phrase 'everything is impermanent', and his life, which was supposed to be smooth sailing, became rough because of his mother's death.

His biological mother died of illness, and his father married another bride. Although he was still the eldest son in the family, he was no longer his father's only beloved son.

There is a slang saying in the market, "If there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather", which is not rough, and he has confirmed this sentence with his own experience.

Especially after his stepmother gave birth to a son, his situation at home became more and more difficult.

Fortunately, he still has A Weng and Grandma. Under the protection of the two old people, he grew up safely. He also learned kung fu from his grandfather who had been on the battlefield since he was a child, and he never slack off in reading.

He can proudly say that he is outstanding, both civil and military, and even more authentic than the famous Cui Jiayulang in the capital.

It's a pity that he was far less lucky than that 'Yulang'. When he was 14 years old, his grandfather passed away, and his father's health gradually appeared problems. Selected age.

So...he wisely gave up the qualifications of Menyin to his younger brother, and with the meager family property distributed to him by his stepmother and 'stepfather', he left the home where he had lived for 15 years. Since then, he has traveled abroad, made friends, and entered Beijing , The imperial examination, along the way, there are dangers, difficulties, joys, and glorious moments that make you feel proud.

That day was the proudest day in his life. Not only did he pass the imperial examination and become the bridegroom, but he was also selected as the envoy of Xingyuan Tanhua.

It was early spring, when the apricot blossoms first bloomed, and the streets of the capital were filled with pedestrians, but he sat on top of a steed and rode away from the apricot orchard to 'explore the flowers' under the envious eyes of his classmates.

On the way, he was also worshiped by the eyes of passers-by. He looked down at the ordinary people on both sides to avoid him, and the pride in his heart could not be described in words.

The more proud thing is yet to come. On the way of "exploring flowers", in order to find a wonderful flower that can overwhelm all the bridegrooms, he accidentally stumbled into the farm of a noble lady.

He remembered very clearly that when he saw her for the first time, she seemed to have just had a serious illness, and her spirit was very bad, like a frightened little white rabbit who felt insecure, so weak , Such beauty, such confusion.

At that moment, he clearly felt his heart beating violently.

Being suppressed by his domineering and powerful stepmother for many years, he has always longed for that kind of gentle and quiet, reasonable, soft and beautiful little lady, but this noble lady in front of him has a noble background, but is not as tough as the women nowadays, which makes him very excited.

After that day, he immediately went to inquire about the noble lady. It turned out that this noble lady was the head of Xiangcheng County who had just reconciled, and her former husband was the well-known Cui Jiayulang in the capital. Of course, because of this reconciliation After leaving the lawsuit, Cui Yulang's reputation of "doting concubines and destroying wives" also spread throughout the capital.

There is even a gossip in the market, saying that Cui Yulang actually beat his first wife for a concubine, causing the original wife to abort a two-month-old fetus.

The county magistrate of Xiangcheng could not stand this kind of abuse, so he reconciled angrily.

After hearing this, he was very angry, and even more distressed——What a Cui Jiabalang, looking at the face of the wind, actually did such a thing that is inferior to pigs and dogs, it's really a pity that the county lord is like this Beautiful woman.

After that, he looked for various opportunities to get close to her, and then married the county lord who had been mistreated.

The county magistrate was indeed a virtuous woman as he thought, and she almost gave her all to help him, and he also caused her to suffer a lot of grievances because of his unsuccessful career.

Seeing the county lord secretly taking out the dowry to supplement the family, and trying his best to socialize for him... Everything the county lord has done for him, he saw and kept it in his heart, he told himself more than once, that Qiao Mu's Treat me like this, and I will definitely not let her down in the future.

However, for some reason, when his officialdom became bigger and bigger, the relationship between their husband and wife became further and further apart.

And she is no longer the gentle woman she was back then, but more and more like his domineering stepmother - she has to control everything at home and outside the house, and the few pretty maidservants around him are often criticized by her. Hitting and scolding, and she even showed the look of "if it wasn't for me, you would be where you are today" from time to time.

...this feeling is very uncomfortable.

Gradually, he didn't want to stay at home anymore, and when he got along with her, he dealt with it like a business, completely losing the connection with her back then.

Not long after, he met a really demure, gentle and beautiful woman.

Bai Xue, as the name suggests, makes people feel pity when they see it.

He redeemed her from the church, arranged for her to live, and sent her servants to serve.

Originally, he just wanted to save a poor man who unfortunately fell into the dust, and he didn't have any other thoughts.

In the end, the county lord heard about it from nowhere, and came to the door with his guards. If he hadn't gotten the news and arrived in time, Bai Xue, a weak woman, would have died long ago.

That day, he had a big quarrel with the county magistrate, and for the first time faced her with a strong posture, firmly expressing that he wanted to take the Bai family as his concubine.

His angry appearance frightened the county magistrate, and she backed down in the face of his red eyes.

The Bai family passed through the door, and there have been constant disputes in the inner house since then: wives and concubines have miscarriages in turn, blame each other, fight each other...

The only fortunate thing is that his official career was extremely smooth. Under the suggestion of his wife, he took refuge in the prince who was not in a good situation in advance, and in the crucial battle between the prince and the king of Wei, he desperately protected the lord, and finally waited for the prince Honored as Dabao.

His life seems to be on the right track after a few setbacks.

This is not the case. He accidentally discovered the secret of the county lord. At that time, he thought it was a gift from a fairy, so he accepted it with awe and gratitude.

Then the strange man from Tianzhu said that it was not a fairy thing at all, but a monster, which would disrupt the family and harm the people. Although he believed in the lady, he did not believe in the "monster" who gave this thing to the lady, so he followed the strange man's instructions. According to his orders, he broke the harmful jade bracelet.

After that, there was no more fighting between wives and concubines in the family, but the lady was unable to have children after an accidental miscarriage.

Looking at the grief-stricken look of the county magistrate, he also felt heartbroken. No matter what kind of conflicts there are between the husband and wife, they are husband and wife. Although they are not related by blood, they are the closest family members. To comfort his wife, he said: "Qiao Mu, the concubine's children are yours and mine's children. If you like any one, I will bring him to you and raise him. Okay?"

He obviously had good intentions, but he cursed like crazy because he didn't want his wife: "Li Jing, you heartless rat, you forgot the past... You want the bastard from the Bai family to be recorded in my name To improve your status, let me tell you, you are dreaming! I will never give birth to a child in my life, and I will never raise a child for that bitch Bai..."

When Bai heard about this, she was not angry. Instead, she persuaded him reasonably, "The lady is too sad to say anything, so don't take it to heart... How can I care about my concubine's status? I am a humble concubine. It is a great grace for a lady to allow a concubine to enter the door, and I have kept it in my heart all these years..."

She said a lot of comforting words in a soft voice, and finally Bai said with concern: "Mr. Lang, this is a heart disease. I am worried that ordinary medicine stones will not be effective. Why don't we ask that strange person to help us see it, or where can we find it?" If you did something wrong, you offended the gods, and the gods condemned you, and this implicated the lady?!"

Li Jing thought for a while and thought it made sense, so he nodded and went to find someone to help him. After he turned around, he didn't see the calculation and complacency in Bai's eyes.

That strange man named Luo Er Po Suo Mei was busy practicing all day long, but he still agreed to Li Jing's request. In his words, "Your Majesty has a predestined relationship with the Poor Dao!"

Under the guidance of the strange man, Li Jing found a small courtyard with an excellent location in Da Ci'en Temple, and then brought his wife to rest.His original intention was to restore his wife's health as soon as possible, but he didn't want to, but he provoked a stream of vicious words and curses from her.

"..." Li Jing took a deep breath, well, he cared about the relationship between husband and wife, so he always thought of his wife, but she can't be so unreasonable.

In desperation, Li Jing walked away. Before leaving, he said coldly: "Everything in the house will be taken care of by Mrs. Bai, you don't need to worry about the lady, you can just rest in peace in the temple!"

Although he said ruthless words, Li Jing still cared about his wife, and insisted on leaving a few guards behind to protect her secretly.

After sending off the lady, there was no more quarreling in the family, the sons were well-behaved and sensible, and Mrs. Bai's presidency was thoughtful, and Li Jing was finally able to concentrate on doing serious things.

Just at this time, a major event occurred in the court, the Western Turks rebelled. According to reliable sources, He Lu sent dozens of spies to sneak into the capital, waiting for an opportunity to cause rebellion.

The sage is the new king, and his throne is unstable. When he was about to establish his prestige, he immediately decided to send troops to conquer the Western Turks.

As for how to catch the spies who infiltrated the capital, the sage entrusted Li Jing with the task.

After Bai learned about it, he gave Li Jing an idea to lure the snake out of the hole: "Since those spies want to make trouble, they must attack the dignitaries in Beijing...or they may assassinate the saint in a frenzy... Rather than wait passively for them to find Come here, why don't we set a trap, attract them all, and catch them all!"

Li Jing thinks it makes sense, after all the capital is so big and there are so many barbarians, trying to find dozens of unknown Turkic spies from such a big capital is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

He asked, "Trap? What kind of trap?"

The Bai family seemed to have some fears, and finally murmured: "Lang Jungui is the Duke of the state, and he is also a capable minister valued by the saints. If there is any happy event in the Langjun's family, the dignitaries of the capital will gather in the Li residence. I will even come in person... If those spies get the news, they will definitely sneak in—"

Li Jing is not stupid, after thinking about it for a while, he understood Bai's 'plan', he frowned, "It's not right, this is not right, if my lady knows, she will definitely misunderstand, I can't make her sad."

Bai didn't say much, but looked at Li Jing silently with a look of "If you don't agree, I have no other choice, you can figure it out".

Finally, Li Jing finally nodded, because he couldn't think of any better idea.

Ever since, the news that Li Guogong wants to accept a noble concubine and hold a dark ceremony in the royal garden Furong Garden spreads immediately.

People who knew about the old affairs of the Li family stared blankly after hearing the news, thinking to themselves, now the face of the Xiao family will be thrown to the ground to be trampled on.

The old Duke and the old lady of the Xiao family passed away one after another. The Xiao family closed their doors and guarded their filial piety. They seemed to have no knowledge of the outside world, and no one came to the Li family to stand up for Xiao Nan.

The Xiao family was silent, and the others were even more silent. In addition, Li Jing was a saintly person who relied heavily on everyone. Due to the power of the Duke's Mansion, everyone also expressed that they would definitely go there when the auspicious day came.

On that auspicious day, all kinds of barriers fluttered in the Furong Garden, and the drums and music rang together.

However, just as the couple saluted, dozens of men with deep eyes and straight noses suddenly jumped out of the crowd, waving sharp ceremonial knives in their hands, and the blade reached the emperor and his son on the high platform.

Seeing this, Li Jing didn't panic at all, he raised his arms and shouted, trying to call out the hidden guards to escort him.

However, no matter how loud he shouted, no one answered. Dozens of assassins slashed and killed among the guests as if they were in no one's land, and soon approached the emperor's side.

Just when the assassin's ceremonial knife was slashing at the emperor, the eldest prince rushed forward to block the emperor, actually wanting to block the knife for his father.

But let him make such a block, the assassin in front failed to hit the emperor, but bumped the emperor into the enemy who killed him from behind.

"Ah!" The eldest prince's arm was cut, he subconsciously screamed, but his eyes were shining with excitement.

He was waiting for his father's screams behind him.

"Ah~" The screams sounded out, and the eldest prince was secretly happy, but before his smile came to his eyes, he realized something was wrong—the voice didn't seem to be Aye's.

He hurriedly turned his head, just in time to see a group of armored guards slashing and killing the assassins, "This, this is—" He was dumbfounded, didn't all the people who were lying in ambush in the Lotus Garden be quietly killed? Where did the rescuers come from?
The eldest prince didn't have doubts for too long, someone gave an answer soon, and saw a woman in military uniform striding over.

The eldest prince tremblingly shouted: "Eldest, eldest aunt!"

That's right, the person who came was the eldest princess of Changle, the daughter-in-law of Xiao's family who was supposed to be a filial piety at home.

"Dalang, are you alright?"

The eldest princess didn't even look at the eldest prince, but asked the pale emperor with concern.

"No, nothing, sister, why are you here?" The emperor stood still calmly, but his voice was slightly trembling.

Without waiting for the eldest princess to reply, Li Jing ran over with his clothes up, walked up to him, knelt down and pleaded guilty: "Your Majesty is frightened, I'm not good at doing things, I deserve death!"

"You really deserve to die!" The eldest princess looked at Li Jing coldly, and then turned to look at the emperor: "Dalang, don't you want to know why I came? It's not this traitor who first killed my Qiao Mu, Now colluding with He Lu in an attempt to kill the king, he is really a traitor—"

"What? Did I kill my wife? Still colluding with a traitor to kill the king?"

Li Jing's heart was pounding. He knew that if this crime was found guilty, not only would he die, but his children and family members would also be implicated.

Also, he had too many questions in his mind—why did the pre-arranged guards disappear?Why did the eldest princess appear with troops?Still keep saying that he killed his wife, and accuse him of plotting against the king?
The eldest princess said angrily: "You still don't tell the truth when things are coming to an end? Just half an hour ago, Qiao Mu was assassinated in Da Ci'en Temple, and the person who assassinated her was also caught by Ben Gong. It was your guard Bi Li. technique."

Then, the eldest princess said to the emperor: "Dalang, Bi Lishu has already confessed. He is He Lu's personal soldier. He was ordered to sneak into the capital a year ago in order to wait for an opportunity to assassinate the saint. But what kind of person are you, saint? Could it be that he and other youngsters can get in touch with it?"

The eldest princess paused intentionally, and saw the emperor's dazed face and Li Jing's ashamed face as she wished, she continued: "If you, Li Guogong, disregarded etiquette and accepted some noble concubines, and invited all the dignitaries in the city to watch the ceremony, How could a sage come here to enjoy the excitement? Li Jing, what good did He Lu do to you to make you so—”

"Qiao Mu was assassinated by Bi Lishu?"

Li Jing was completely dumbfounded, and only repeated this sentence in his mind. He suddenly widened his eyes, stared straight at the eldest princess, and shouted hoarsely: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"

The Eldest Princess looked at Li Jing with complicated eyes, and said slowly: "Ever since you drove Qiao Mu out of the Duke's Mansion and sent her to the Temple of Mercy for rest, my son-in-law and I have been ordering people to protect her secretly, it's a pity One step too late, Qiao Mu died tragically..."

Of course, the main reason was that she received a distress letter from Xiao Nan, which aroused the only trace of mother-daughter love left in her heart.

Although she gave up 'Xiao Nan', a child whose body was occupied by wild ghosts, she could not allow anyone to treat her eldest princess' daughter poorly. Since Li Jing has the courage to do it, he must have the courage to bear the responsibility of the Xiao family and the princess mansion. double revenge.

As for who is the real mastermind behind this assassination, the eldest princess knows it well, but she still decided to drag Li Jing into the water-didn't you say you wanted to live and die with Qiao Mu at the beginning, and now that Qiao Mu is dead, then you just go!

"No, no, it wasn't me, I didn't send someone to kill her, and I didn't collude with the Turks..."

On the half-old Humen kang, a middle-aged man in his 50s or [-]s was struggling profusely with sweat. Suddenly, he sat up suddenly, staring blankly at the front.

After being stunned for a cup of tea, he regained his composure and murmured, "Why did I have this dream again?"

Recently, he has been having this weird dream repeatedly.

In the same dream, after waking up, he clearly remembered everything in the dream, and he even remembered everyone's conversations exactly.

It was so weird, it was not a dream at all, but as if he had experienced it himself.

But if it was not a dream, let alone impossible, how could he and Mrs. Qi be husband and wife?Still, still being so foolishly played by a concubine in the palm of his hand?
Concubine?Bai's?
Li Jing wiped the sweat off his forehead with his hand, but felt that his throat was very dry, he raised his voice and shouted: "Come on!"

After a while, a woman with gray hair and a miserable face pushed the door in, "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"

Sure enough, he saw Bai Shi who was so old and out of shape, Li Jing silently compared the half-old woman in front of him with the beautiful woman in the dream, and found that there was no similarity between the two.

Maybe it's been too long, Li Jing has forgotten what Bai Shi looked like when he was young, he sighed slightly, and said to himself: It really is a dream, Bai Shi, how has he ever had such a beautiful and graceful appearance.

Returning to reality from the dream, he turned his head to look at Kong Luoluo's bedside, and asked, "Where's the Princess?"

When Bai heard the word 'princess', she flinched subconsciously, and said in a trembling voice: "Jun, the princess went, went to Qujiang, said, said that there was a Jinshi division bridegroom competing in poetry today, She, she went—"

"Okay, I got it," Li Jing interrupted her angrily. He understood very well what kind of virtue his wife was. He was watching a poetry competition, and he was clearly looking for a handsome boy.

The husband and wife have been married for more than [-] years, and in the first few years he would argue with her over these matters, but as his official career did not go well, and his status at home plummeted, Nanping ignored him even if he got angry.

Although Nanping was unable to gain a foothold in the circle of noble ladies due to being implicated by the Wei family, under the care of Concubine Wu Guifei, the title of princess has not been lost. He is a gentleman in his eyes.

If forced to ask urgent questions, Nan Ping would contemptuously throw a sentence to Li Jing: "Mr. In the mansion, depending on you, it is still uncertain what it will be like."

"My surname Li, let me tell you, if you know how to keep your 'duty', you will still be the county horse of my Nanping princess, and you can still live a prosperous life in the mansion, but if you don't know how to advance or retreat, then don't blame me for not doing it." Talk about the separation of husband and wife!"

If it were 20 years ago, Li Jing would have slapped him and left proudly.

But now... Li Jing closed his eyes and said in a low voice, "It's okay, you can go down."

After dismissing Mrs. Bai, Li Jing looked up at the hourglass in the corner, it was still early, maybe he could continue to have that dream tonight.

Although the ending of that dream was not very good, but the process was very enjoyable, making people unable to bear to wake up.

……

"Miss, who are you? That year, although I was young and inactive, I also felt that you changed your temper after you became pregnant. Your appearance has not changed, your person has not changed, but your attitude towards me has changed. Not like you at all."

"Miss, although you respected me everywhere at that time, I can clearly see that you don't actually have me in your heart."

"Miss, I don't care who you are... I know you are my wife for the rest of my life, but I'm about to die, can you tell me the truth?"

Xiao Nan never thought that one day, just before his death, the white-haired Cui Youbo would actually ask such a question when he was saying goodbye to her alone.

After a long silence, she leaned into Cui Youbo's ear and whispered: "I am indeed not Xiao Nan, I am a wandering soul from a thousand years later, my name is Lin Qiao, Shuangmu Lin, Qiao Muqiao."

Cui Youbo, who was over eighty years old, pulled the corners of his mouth with difficulty, showed a slight smile, and murmured: "Lin Qiao, my wife!"

(End of this chapter)