webnovelfull Chapter 672: The General’s Wife Who Was Married but Left with Her Son (1)
Chapter 672: The General’s Wife Who Was Married but Left with Her Son (1)
After having a feast in the companion space, Su Li returned to the system's original space.
She converted the merit power she obtained into spiritual power.
The rewards for white tasks are indeed much less than those for pink tasks.
Fortunately, Su Li has been practicing in his companion space for more than ten years, and the spiritual power he has accumulated is almost the same as that obtained from the pink mission.
"Tuanzi, how is it? Are there any higher-level tasks?" Su Li asked softly.
[Host sister, the next mission is still a white mission, do you want to take it? If not, we will wait for a while? ]
"What about the white mission? What should we do?"
[Just, just leave it there for now...] Tuanzi said in a low voice.
Su Li laughed, "What do you mean put it there? Didn't I tell you? Since he accepted the dream-fulfilling token, it means he is destined to be with me. Let's continue!"
[Okay! Wait, host sister, this mission seems to need to be upgraded.]
"Oh?" Su Li raised his eyebrows.
[Host sister, the mission has been upgraded to blue, come on, hehe! ]
Following Tuanzi's voice, Su Li disappeared into the system's original space.
Blue is blue, the higher the level, the higher the reward.
When she opened her eyes again, Su Li found herself in a festive wedding room with a red veil covering her head.
The ancient-style room, the orange candlelight, and the dragon and phoenix wedding dress she was wearing made it clear that this was a wedding night.
At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and the door was gently pushed open with a creak.
"Miss, your husband said he would go to accompany Miss Mianmian tonight, so let's go to bed early!" The voice of a little maid came to my ears.
"Okay, I got it. You can go down now!" Su Li responded.
"Miss, aren't you angry that your brother-in-law is like this?" The little maid stomped her feet, her voice filled with depression.
"It's okay, go out first and let me think about it." Su Li dismissed her casually.
The situation is unclear now, so she should absorb the memory of her original body first!
After the little girl left, Su Li picked up the memory ball in his hand and began to read it.
The original identity was Xie Shuer, because her father once saved the eighth prince who was living among the people, and who is now the emperor.
Therefore, after the emperor ascended the throne, in order to express his gratitude, he made her father a king of a different surname.
As soon as Xie Shu'er was born, she was conferred the title of county lady and was granted a thousand acres of fertile land and a thousand households.
At the same time, her mother and the wife of the Marquis of Pingyang, who was a close friend of hers, also arranged for their children to be in-laws.
After Xie Shu'er reaches the age of 15, Gu Yanzhao, the prince of Pingyang Marquis's Mansion, will come to marry her.
When the original body was nine years old, she caught a glimpse of Gu Yanzhao, who was four years older than her and had an upright figure and a high spirit.
From then on, he took root and sprouted in her heart.
After that, Gu Yanzhao would often send her some small gifts and ask her out to play from time to time.
Childhood sweethearts, childhood sweethearts.
After she came of age, the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion quickly came to propose marriage and set a date for the wedding.
But, right now.
Pirates suddenly appeared in the East China Sea, and the young general Gu Yanzhao was ordered to suppress them.
Half a year later, he returned to Beijing with countless gold, silver and treasures, and also brought back a pitiful woman, He Mianmian.
According to Gu Yanzhao, he was ambushed by pirates during the suppression of bandits, and it was He Mianmian who saved him!
During the period of recuperation, the two fell in love and brought him back.
The countless jewels that Gu Yanzhao brought back filled the national treasury, which made the emperor very happy, so he asked him what reward he wanted.
So, Gu Yanzhao said that he would exchange his military merits for the position of He Mianmian's co-wife, and he would marry Xie Shuer on the same day!
The original body really did not expect that before setting off, the young man who kept saying that he was waiting for him to come back and marry him would marry someone else in the blink of an eye!
The emperor deliberately leaked the news from the palace, and her father immediately went to the palace and proposed to cancel the marriage with the Gu family of Pingyang Marquis's Mansion.
Gu Yanzhao can marry whoever he wants in the future, and the Xie family will no longer interfere. Let them get married on their own.
"Uncle Xie, I have Shu'er in my heart, and I am only grateful to Mianmian. She lost her fertility for me, and I can't let her down!" Gu Yanzhao refused to cancel the marriage.
In fact, everyone in the capital city knows the reason.
The Pingyang Marquis Mansion was only a marquisate in name only; the family fortune had already been squandered by Gu Yanzhao's father's generation.
Even the title was limited to Gu Yanzhao's father's generation. Gu Yanzhao, who had no title to inherit, earned himself the position of major general through military merit.
However, Xie's mother came from a merchant family and was the number one imperial merchant in the capital, plus Xie Shu'er received the salary of a county lord.
Not to mention one Pingyang Marquis' Mansion, even ten marquis' mansions would be more than enough.
As for the jewels seized by Gu Yanzhao, with so many eyes watching in the army, it would be impossible for him to embezzle them.
"Your Majesty, please honor my humble intention of maintaining both friendship and loyalty!" Gu Yanzhao pleaded again.
The emperor pretended to be embarrassed and looked at her father, "Old Xie, you can see that General Gu still has your daughter in his heart, and he just wants to repay his kindness. Besides, having three wives and four concubines is just normal..."
Father Xie bowed his hands and insisted, "Your Majesty, my Xie family does not agree with the Gu family taking a concubine. Isn't this a slap in the face of my Xie family?"
Finally, the emperor thought about it and issued an edict to grant a marriage between the Xie and Gu families, and let He Mianmian be his concubine!
Seeing that Xie's father still disagreed, the emperor said meaningfully, "I am the emperor, the whole world belongs to me, I can reward you, and I can also take it back!"
Father Xie immediately understood that the emperor had been instigated by some villain and began to be afraid of him!
The imperial decree has been issued and there is no turning back.
The Ministry of Rites selected an auspicious day to hold a wedding for the Gu family.
However, no one expected this.
He Mianmian was obviously a concubine, but the etiquette was followed according to that of a co-wife.
Even on the wedding night, Gu Yanzhao left Xie Shuer and went directly to He Mianmian.
The marquis' wife, who had originally said that she wanted to treat the original body as her daughter, deliberately gave her a warning when she served tea the next day.
"Shu'er, a woman should learn to be gentle and considerate, and learn to serve her husband. It was really your own fault that you didn't keep him on your wedding night."
The Marquis's wife drank her daughter-in-law's tea and lectured her, "Just say that the water was a little hot when I served you tea just now, but you couldn't stand it. Then how can you live in harmony with Mianmian and give birth to an heir for the Marquis's mansion?"
Seeing that the original person lowered his head and said nothing, she spoke again, "Logically speaking, as a new daughter-in-law, I should hand over the household affairs of the Marquis' Mansion to you! But, seeing how you are now, I'll take care of it for you temporarily!"
Afterwards, she arranged for someone to move the original dowry directly to her own warehouse.
"Mother, that's my dowry, I can take care of it myself!" How could the original body agree to let them move away.
However, Gu's mother had already made up her mind to seize her dowry and arranged for dozens of servants to forcibly take it away.
She also said, "These dowries will only distract you and prevent you from concentrating on serving your husband. Mother will take care of it for you. When you give birth to a child for the Gu family, mother will return it to you without a penny less!"
The original maid was planning to go back to the Xie Mansion to tell Xie's father and mother, but she found that they were under house arrest!