"Nineteen!" Wu Mu clenched his fists, veins appeared on his forehead, and he gritted his teeth.
"You're nineteen and you still haven't started a family? Are you willing to let the Wu family die and be destroyed in your hands?!"
After Wu Yun Tai finished speaking, he whipped him hard again.
Mrs. Wu couldn't stand it anymore. She broke away from Wu Yuelin's arms and threw herself on Wu Mu, with tears streaming down her face.
"Stop fighting, stop fighting..."
Wu Yuntai's hand that raised the whip paused in the air, looking at Mrs. Wu who was crying bitterly, he stamped his feet fiercely.
"A loving mother often loses her son! If you hadn't repeatedly indulged this evil son, how would he dare to act so wantonly?"
"Yue Lin, take your mother away! I will beat this evil boy to death today!"
Wu Yuelin came over to hug Mrs. Wu with tears in her eyes.
Wu Mu, who was kneeling on the ground, had red eyes. He bit his lower lip and said in a depressed voice, "Mom, it's all my fault. Let dad hit me."
After he came back from rescuing Ye Chuyan that day, he felt like he had fallen into an endless abyss.
The scene of Ye Chuyan walking down the stairs kept lingering in his mind.
He found that he seemed to like Ye Chuyan.
Her frown and smile, the strange fragrance on her body, and the charming look between her eyebrows and eyes were all like poison, making him want to stop.
He tried his best to recall the details of his past interactions with Ye Chuyan, but he couldn't remember them.
He always felt that he had a wooden sculpture exactly like Ye Chuyan, but he couldn't find it.
He searched like crazy for the past intersection between himself and Ye Chuyan.
He didn't know why he was like this, and he was extremely scared.
Ye Chuyan had known him since childhood and she should be regarded as his sister Ye. Now she got married and became Princess Qing. How could he have such heartless thoughts towards her.
He desperately tried to get rid of this idea, but this idea was like a seed, quickly taking root in his heart, and in just seven days, it had grown into a towering tree.
He was desperate and delighted.
I am happy that I have a girl that I am attracted to.
What was disappointing was that the girl he had known since childhood got married early.
Mrs. Wu didn't want to be pulled away, she screamed and rushed over, and knelt down in front of Wu Mu with a "pop".
"Son, I beg you, please go to the Zhang family and find a job... Don't let grandma and your father worry about it anymore..."
Wu Mu knelt and moved forward a few steps to help Mrs. Wu up. His eyes were sore and swollen.
"Auntie, please, don't force me like this..."
Wu Yuelin and Wu Yuntai went over to talk to Mrs. Wu at the same time.
"Auntie, how can you kneel down for Adi!"
"Get up! Does this scoundrel deserve to have you kneel down?"
Mrs. Wu didn't want to get up, she was crying so much that her whole body was shaking. She held Wu Mu's hand and said:
"Son, my mother-in-law has no future in this life. She just wants to see you get married and start a business. If you don't get married, my mother-in-law will never die in peace..."
Wu Mu's eye circles were completely red.
He raised his eyes and looked at the angry Wu Yuelin, the furious Wu Yuntai, and the old Madam Wu who was crying until she was shaking.
His spine seemed to have been taken away, his whole body was sluggish, and his shoulders slumped.
He knelt and took two steps back, bowed on the ground, and begged:
"Mom, dad, my child is unfilial, please give me three more months. After three months, I will definitely go to the Zhang family to hire him."
For the sake of his parents, he could convince himself to marry someone he didn't love.
But it would take him three months to pull out the towering tree of Ye Chuyan from his heart.
If Zhang Xiuyu wants to marry him, he will be responsible for Zhang Xiuyu after they get married. You don't have to love her, but you can't hold other women in your heart.
Otherwise, it would be unfair to Zhang Xiuyu.
Wu Mu's response was a happy one, at least for Wu Yuelin, Wu Yuntai, and Mrs. Wu, their goal was accomplished.
Wu Yun Tai was worried that Wu Mu would change again, so he asked Wu Mu to stay with him in the past three months to learn how to manage the Wu family's business.
Wu Mu could only agree.
That night, Wu Mu lay on the bed, staring at the gauze on the top of the bed with his eyes wide open all night.
When he fell in love with a girl who was already his wife, he not only had to endure the torture of not being able to love her, but also had to take away this love himself. He felt that he really deserved to suffer this crime.
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Three days later, in the square outside Tianmen Hall of the Imperial Palace.
Ye Chuyan was dressed in silver armor and a red cloak. She wore no makeup and her hair was pulled into a man's bun. She was riding on a tall horse. Her skin was cold white and her pupils were lively. She was indistinguishable from male to female and had a heroic appearance.
Standing next to him was a cold-faced man wearing a dark blue official robe. He was about twenty years old. His appearance was not very outstanding, but he had a pair of sword-shaped eyebrows on his temples, which made him look clean and neat.
He is the governor of Kyoto, Shi Lu, who assisted Ye Chuyan in suppressing the bandits.
Thirty thousand soldiers and horses stood neatly behind them, and at a glance, they looked majestic.
Pei Ye and hundreds of officials saw each other off on the high platform.
"Princess Ye Chuyan of the Qing Dynasty, a woman who is not inferior to men, leads the troops to suppress the bandits today and restore peace to our capital. I wish you all an early victory!"
After speaking, he picked up the wine handed to him by the eunuch and drank it in one gulp.
All the officials and the soldiers below shouted in unison, "Long live the emperor, long live the emperor!"
The sound was deafening, lingering outside Tianmen Hall, unable to stop for a long time.
Pei Xiuyan stood behind Pei Ye and smiled at Ye Chuyan from a distance.
His Ayan is so beautiful today. This heroic spirit is enough to overwhelm all the women in Kyoto.
Ye Chuyan raised the corners of his mouth slightly in response to Pei Xiuyan.
When Ye Chuyan smiled, Shi Lu beside him couldn't help but frown, but he quickly regained his composure.
The eunuch and eunuch in charge of rituals sang: "The auspicious time has come—"
Ye Chuyan and Shi Lu led 30,000 troops and began to set off toward the outside of the city.
The streets of Kyoto were crowded with people seeing him off.
The bandits on the outskirts of Beijing have been suppressed several times, but the bandits have not been completely wiped out. The merchants and foot soldiers often suffer disasters from the bandits. I heard that this time the princess led the troops and would not return to the capital until the bandits were wiped out. The people all clapped their hands and applauded!
Someone threw dry food and fruits on Ye Chuyan's horse.
"Princess, I wish you immediate success!"
"Princess, we are waiting for your good news!"
"Princess, you are the pride of us Dafeng women to avenge your husband's suppression of the bandits!"
“……”
These common people have forgotten how they scolded the Ye family for collaborating with the enemy and treason.
They also forgot how they spurned Ye Chuyan for dancing barefoot with a sword.
They only remembered that today, someone was going to help them suppress the bandits and give them peace.
In the private room on the second floor of Zuiqiu Tower, Wu Mu and Zhang Xiuyu stood side by side, both silently looking at the slow-moving team below.
Today, Zhang Xiuyu's brother Zhang Jing, one of the two lieutenants who suppressed the bandits, followed him out of the city. Zhang Xiuyu wanted to see her brother off. When Wu Yuelin found out, he generously invited her to Zuiqiu Tower.
The location of Zuiqiu Tower is excellent. With the windows on the second floor open, you can just watch the entire team passing by.
Wu Mu was forced by Wu Yuelin to accompany Zhang Xiuyu.
Zhang Xiuyu was introverted and shy, and did not dare to take the initiative to talk to Wu Mu. The two of them just stood in silence.
A boy about seven or eight years old suddenly threw something to Ye Chuyan. After Ye Chuyan stretched out his hand to catch it steadily, he found that it was a bunch of candied haws, which made him dumbfounded.
The boy shouted loudly: "Princess, I will give you my favorite food. After you finish eating, you must catch all the bad guys."
Ye Chuyan raised the candied haws and took a bite, then smiled brightly at the boy, "Okay!"
Shi Lu immediately said with a sullen face: "Princess, we go out to the city to suppress bandits to eliminate harm for the people. I hope you can be more serious."
Ye Chuyan didn't know why Shi Lu was so hostile to him. It seemed that he had a cold face every time they met.
Knowing that he was Pei Ye's confidant, he said he was serving as a military adviser this time, but in fact he was here to supervise him.
Thinking about the fact that I had seen him several times in the palace without any conflicts, I really didn't understand where his inexplicable hostility came from.
When Ye Chuyan thought of this, she nodded slightly and smiled at him, "What Mr. Shi said is absolutely true."
All this was seen by Wu Mu who was standing upstairs.
