Chapter 1

In the early autumn, the sky is blue, and the breeze blows the white tulle hanging in the water pavilion.

Inside the tulle, there are two beauties in brocade clothes, sitting lazily behind the long table with melons, fruits and tea, surrounded by maidservants, serving them attentively.

On the outside of the tulle, there are two strong guards with bare chests, fighting each other again and again.

Beads of sweat rolled along their handsome and upright faces and dripped on their muscular bodies.

During the stalemate, one of them pulled out his hand and clasped the other's narrow waist.

The waist and abdomen contracted, as sensitive as a blade of grass.

His eyes were on fire, and he gasped like a beast.

The surrounding air seemed to become hot and dry.

Hua Yang gently shook the round fan, and the shadow of the fan obscured her gaze that seemed to be indifferent but obsessed with admiration.

In fact, in the past, she hated fighting, and the smelly sweat of a man would only make her disgusted and disgusted.

At this moment, she actually felt that the scene in front of her was so full of vitality that galloping horses, fighting tigers and leopards appeared in her mind... and her late husband Chen Jingzong.

Chen Jingzong is tall and strong, and it is said that he has been practicing martial arts since he was six or seven years old.

His father was full of economics and was the elder of the court of the two dynasties, and his elder brothers also passed the examinations for the number one scholar and Tanhua respectively, but Chen Jingzong resolutely stepped into the martial arts.

His face was cold and handsome, and it was his face that Hua Yang had liked back then, so he accepted the marriage gift from his father and mother.

Who would have thought that a face alone would not be enough for a husband and wife to get along day and night, and Chen Jingzong's words and deeds challenged her bottom line of patience almost all the time.

He likes to drink at the dinner table, and he needs to gargle repeatedly to get rid of the smell, but Chen Jingzong is a rough person, he likes to pass it by, so that when the husband and wife share the same bed, she can always smell the alcohol on Chen Jingzong's side.

Chen Jingzong is proud of his martial arts, and he has trained a whole body of tendons, which is stronger than the bloody horses she has seen. Anyone who sees him for the first time will praise him as "heroic".

But military officers love to sweat, and every time Chen Jingzong came back from his errands, he would bring back the smell of sweat.

It's all right for him to be particular about people, if he can't smoke Huayang, he can do it, but Chen Jingzong is not particular, he either forgot to wash his hair or didn't even take a bath at all, and just lay down on her incense couch, Hua Yang didn't like it.His rough skin and thick flesh ruined the high-quality silk on her bed.

Father-in-law and elder brothers reasoned with him calmly, but he spoke coldly, which made the atmosphere of the whole family stiff, and she also felt embarrassed.

Because of these trivial things that happen every day, Hua Yang finds Chen Jingzong more and more disliked.

Chen Jingzong also knew in his heart that he had his pride, and the number of times he came to find her to spend the night became less and less.

Hua Yang couldn't ask for it, besides disliking him for his lack of attention to detail, he also couldn't stand Chen Jingzong's bull-like strength. Every time he came to spend the night, Hua Yang would scream out his throat.

They were husband and wife for four years, and she also hated him for four years.

Until Chen Jingzong died in battle.

Until that muscular man who always came home sweaty and buried forever, never to appear in front of her again.

The dead are the most important. After Chen Jingzong died, Hua Yang didn't want to care about his frivolity anymore, and gradually only his good things remained in his mind.

For example, the figure of him walking steadily in the rainstorm with her on his back.

Like his blazing chest on a cold winter day.

"Why, are you staring blankly?"

A teasing and smiling voice came into his ears, and Hua Yang regained consciousness from his memories, only then did he realize that the two guards had finished the competition and were kneeling outside waiting for the reward.

How could Hua Yang let the unscrupulous aunt laugh at him, pouted slightly, and said, "I just think their skills are mediocre, so I don't care much about them, so I thought about something else."

Princess An Le winked at the maidservants.

A maid went to reward the two guards and told them to step down.

After the outsider left, Princess An Le made fun of Hua Yang and said, "This is one of the best guards in my mansion, but you only get a mediocre evaluation from you, but ah, there used to be such a brave and good-for-nothing son-in-law in Panpan,It's normal to have high eyesight."

Hua Yang still looked idle and tired, as if she no longer cared about outsiders mentioning her late husband.

Princess An Le clicked her tongue: "Oh, are we really underestimated?"

Hua Yang: "It's been three years since he died, but I still remember what he did."

Princess An Le: "When a man loses his wife, some of them remarry a new man within three months. You are the sister of the current emperor. Since you have no memory of Chen Jingzong for a long time, do you want to learn from that chaste and strong woman to win a memorial archway for yourself?"

Hua Yang: "I don't need an archway, but why do I have to find another son-in-law? If the new son-in-law is also a sweaty and careless person, wouldn't I be embarrassing myself?"

Princess An Le smiled and said: "I agree with this. My aunt just can't see you sleeping alone every night in this golden age. Why don't you learn from your aunt and raise some faces in the house, who are either gentlemen or heroic?"Man, it's so much fun to invite him before going to bed and wake him up before dismissing him."

Hua Yang: ...

She knew that her aunt, an unscrupulous person, was going around to lure her into that unscrupulous path.

Hua Yang has a good face, but he doesn't want to spread the reputation of being a noodle head.

If she has this habit, it's fine. The dignified princess can do whatever she likes, regardless of what others say. The problem is that Hua Yang has no interest in raising noodles.

Just because she has seen the three most outstanding men in the world.

One is a general like Chen Jingzong, whose martial arts are the best in the world, and the heroes in the storybook are nothing more than that.

But the heroes of the world also have to eat and live, and the heroes of the world also have things that people hate and hate.

The other type is literati like fathers-in-law and brothers-in-law, who are dignified and personable.

But they are not as perfect as they seem. She has seen her father-in-law hide behind her mother-in-law after being scared by a snake, and her husband and brothers have fallen in embarrassment in the wind and rain.

The last type is an emperor like father, the most honorable person in the world.

So what about honor?Father Huang Zhixian Shan Ren seems to be a wise king, but in fact he is lustful and finally died on the woman's bed.

The highest thing that men in the world want is to be enthroned and proclaimed emperor, and to be appointed as a marquis and minister. Some people are just dreaming, and some people work hard for it all their lives.

But Hua Yang has seen all three of these best men, and sometimes admires them, sometimes feels that they are nothing more than that.

Therefore, what other men can catch her eyes and make her willing to sleep with them?

My aunt doesn't pay attention, she only wants to have fun in bed.

Hua Yang is particular, a man who can't even get into her eyes is definitely not qualified to get close to her body or sleep on her bed.

The aunt and nephew were still talking and joking about the matter of "face-to-face". The steward of the former house hurried over, looked at Hua Yang worriedly, and lowered his head to report: "Reporting to the long princess, the long princess, just now the Chen family sent someone to say, sayLord Chief-of-Staff . . . died of illness."

With a sound of "dang", the round fan in Hua Yang's hand fell to the ground, and the jade pendant hanging from the handle of the umbrella shattered in two.

Chen Chief-of-Staff, Chen Jingzong's father, is also her father-in-law.

If there is anyone that Hua Yang admires the most in his life, that person must be his father-in-law Chen Tingjian.

The father-in-law is extremely talented, he won the imperial examination at the age of sixteen, and was the top student in high school at the age of nineteen. He has become the elder of the Inner Pavilion at the age of forty.

When Hua Yang married into the Chen family, the old Chief-of-Staff was old and sick, and everyone thought that the father-in-law was going to take over the Inner Pavilion.

At this critical juncture, the father-in-law's old mother passed away. According to the regulations, the father-in-law should be home for three years.

The dignified princess of Hua Yang had to follow her husband's family to live a poor life in the old house in her hometown thousands of miles away. She was almost suffocated to death, but her father-in-law left Beijing indifferently and calmly, without any regrets about being on the verge of ascending to the top and being helpless..

After Ding You was over, the father-in-law brought the whole family back to Capital City.

This time, he was promoted to Chief-of-Staff without any suspense, and has devoted himself to the court ever since.

When the father died and King Yu rebelled, it was the father-in-law who planned strategies to stabilize the court internally and suppress rebellion externally.

Because of this respect, even if Chen Jingzong dies, even if she moves back to live in her princess mansion, Hua Yang still retains her identity as Chen's daughter-in-law, and will still be respectful when she sees the Chief-of-StaffCall out "Father".

The father-in-law is the pillar of the country, and his name will be left in history!

Therefore, Hua Yang never thought that after the death of his father-in-law, there would be a wave of courtiers standing up and counting his father-in-law's crimes.

She didn't even expect that her younger brother, who always respected her father-in-law, would actually order to copy the Chen family.

The elder brother Chen Bozong was imprisoned unjustly and tortured to death.

The mother-in-law couldn't bear the heavy trauma and passed away forever.

The rest of the Chen family were all fined and sent to the frontier.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, there was heavy snow.

Hua Yang still couldn't hold back, and the light car left Capital City and stopped on the only way for everyone in the Chen family.

She was standing by the roadside, and the servant girl was afraid that she would be cold, so she put on a thick fox fur cloak for her, and stuffed a small warm copper stove into her arms.

But Hua Yang soon saw that the relatives who had sat in the same room with her, chatted and laughed, were walking towards her in thin white prison uniforms, with their hands and feet handcuffed and chained.

The eldest brother Zhuangyuan Lang is no longer there. The third brother Tanhua Lang who used to talk and laugh at Yanyan, who was suave and suave, now looks haggard and lifeless. Seeing her, it seems like he didn't see her.

The sisters-in-law were crying, not for themselves, but begged her to intercede for the children.

Hua Yang and Chen Jingzong have been married for four years, and more than half of the time they spent in mourning in the old house. Afterwards, because they got together less and left more, they had no children.

But she has three nephews and two nieces in the Chen family.

Now they either looked numb, or walked in front of her with tears like rain.

Hua Yang just stood in the wind and snow, watching the familiar brothers and sisters-in-law, innocent nephews and nieces go farther and farther until they disappeared.

"It's snowing too much, you should go back."

The servant girl's eyes were red, and she helped her to the carriage.

Hua Yang looked towards the center of the official road.

The snow is white and the footprints are messy. They are probably the last traces of the Chen family members left in Capital City.

However, the footprints that stretched all the way were quickly covered by falling snowflakes.

She still saw the familiar faces.

"You take care of yourself, I'm leaving."

It was the day when Chen Jingzong went out to fight, the dawn was dim, and he stood at the head of the bed to say goodbye to her.

"The fourth son is a rough man, if he wrongs the princess, the minister will definitely punish him."

It was her father-in-law's upright and resolute voice on the day she offered tea.

"This courtyard is newly expanded, and the tables, chairs, bed cabinets are all new, if the princess is not satisfied with anything, I will ask someone to change it."

Just moved to the old house, the mother-in-law accompanied her to look at the yard first, lest she might not get used to living in it.

"It's what I said that didn't please you, princess, don't blame the fourth brother for losing his temper."

"Be careful, princess, this goose will bite!"

"This is my newly picked peach blossom, does Fourth Aunt like it?"

...

Hua Yang closed his eyes.

It shouldn't be.

The ending of the Chen family shouldn't be like this!