Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 228

After Wu Qingyi came out of the palace, he returned to the mansion.

The new dynasty was established, and Emperor Zhengyuan awarded and rewarded his subjects. Because of his great military exploits, the Wu family became Duke Ying. (Ying Guo Gongfu, Ying Guo: Outstanding person of the country; Gonfu: government post in Han dynasty) 

However, the position of Duke Ying was not his, but his father Wu Zhong.

Back then, the father and son were drafted into the army together, and they also met King Yi together.

Wu Zhong was not born with divine strength like his son, he was just an ordinary peasant.

However, he was in his prime at that time, and he had a mighty and upright appearance. At the beginning, he was more useful to Emperor Zhengyuan than Wu Qingyi, who was still a boy at that time.

It was a pity that the sword had no eyes on the battlefield. Three years ago, he was seriously injured trying to save Emperor Zhengyuan . He heard the news that Batou Village was destroyed by the flood. Under the grief, he suffered a stroke and became a patient who could hardly speak or walk. From the front line, he retreated to the rear, and even needed to be served in daily life.

King Yi originally wanted to entrust the dukeship to Wu Qingyi, but he begged and insisted on giving it to his father.

Both father and son were taciturn, and Wu Qingyi said nothing after asking for peace.

Wu Zhong was nearly fifty years old, and his body was uneasy, and he was folding paper ingots with a shaking hand.

He did it very slowly, but he was also extremely patient, and he had already folded a lot around him.

Relatively speechless, Wu Qingyi simply helped him fold together. However, he was clumsy, and his speed was not much faster than his father.

“Miss Chun,” the servants at the door greeted in unison.

A woman wearing a pale pink robe with red chrysanthemum came in. She looked to be in her early twenties, with a beautiful appearance, and her name was Shen Hanchun.

Shen Hanchun was originally an orphan, but she was skilled in medicine. Because she accidentally saved Wu Zhong’s life during the turmoil, she took care of him when he suffered a stroke.

When the new dynasty was established, and Wu Zhong heard her coming, he mentioned, “Marry Hanchun.”

His mouth was still a little crooked, and he was reluctant to talk more in daily life. At that time, after saying those words, he looked at Wu Qingyi.

Wu Qingyi understood what he meant and said, “Don’t worry, dad. When I come back, I will go to see the Empress and ask for marriage for Hanchun.”

Shen Hanchun rescued his father and took care of him for a few years. Now that the situation was settled, it was time to find a good marriage for her, and let her marry as a lady.

The father and son were rough, so it was not easy to talk to Shen Hanchun, so Wu Qingyi didn’t say any more after saying that.

Shen Hanchun took the soup medicine into the house, and firstly touched the wall of the bowl with her hands, and tested the temperature before delivering the soup medicine to Wu Zhong.

Wu Zhong took the soup with his normal hand, drank it, and then folded paper ingots.

The father and son folded them silently for a while, and finally finished folding the rest of the papers.

Wu Qingyi counted the number, and the ones he had folded just added up to a thousand, so he called someone to pack them.

“Let’s go early.” Wu Zhong said with trembling lips, and then continued with difficulty, “Your mother, she has little patience.”

The people were happy, but the father and son were most concerned about the family members who died in the flood many years ago.

They had long agreed to return to their hometown to find their graves.

Of course, in fact, both the father and son knew that they must be dead.

The so-called search for graves was them convincing themselves that they were still in their hometown. In fact, it was to build new graves.

Wu Qingyi nodded, walked to the door, turned back, and reported, “After I return from our hometown, I have to go to another place for a short stay. I have asked his majesty, so this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival…”

The father and son had never celebrated a festival recently. Wu Zhong nodded. He just said a few words, the saliva was already dripping to his mouth, so he just waved his hand to let him go.

Shen Hanchun followed Wu Qingyi out of the house, he slowed down when he noticed it, and asked her with eyes if she had something to say.

In her previous life, she stayed by Wu Qingyi’s side all her life, and Wu Qingyi would always look at her with that kind of undulating eyes that were no different from looking at flowers, plants, rocks and trees all his life.

Until she was dying in her previous life, someone sent a message to Wu Qingyi.

He was still the same, with no emotion in his eyes.

But she was still stupid at that time, and she asked him with hope, “General, you have never married, what do you think about me… Don’t you feel anything for me?”

However, even if she was about to die, Wu Qingyi didn’t even want to lie to her, and said,, “No.”

She died with hatred, hating herself for being stupid, hating herself for falling in love with him back then.

Unexpectedly, when she opened her eyes again, she returned to her youth.

That year, her parents disappeared one after another, and she was forced by her brother and sister-in-law to marry to the old staff in the town, and fled from home to the wild.

An orphan girl had no livelihood and it was difficult to survive. It happened that the rebel army was stationed nearby and was short of manpower.

It was at that time in her previous life that she went to the military camp, and she became an apprentice of a military doctor by virtue of her ability to pick and sell herbs for money since she was a child. She was just a little girl with not very good medical skills, and the difference in identities between her and the general was like the difference between clouds and mud.

After reliving her life, her medical skills were already superior to those of military doctors, and she was immediately used then and also healed a dying general at the time.

Only later did she find out that she actually saved Wu Qingyi’s father, Wu Zhong, who had been seriously injured and died at that moment in her previous life.

A strange thought popped up in Shen Hanchun’s mind.

If she became Wu Zhong’s wife and Wu Qingyi’s nominal mother, wouldn’t she be able to become a non-negligible existence for him?

For that purpose, she took care of Wu Zhong and finally pulled him back from the gate of hell.

It was a pity that Wu Zhong was a person who shouldn’t live. Later, he accidentally heard about the flood in Batou Village, suffered a stroke and almost died.

It was still her, who did her best to rescue him, and that was what allowed him to survive until then.

It was decided at the beginning of the world that she could have entered the palace as a medical woman just like in her previous life by virtue of her merits and medical skills. In this life, she still stayed with the Wu family as she had the reason to take care of Wu Zhong.

Wu Zhong was increasingly inseparable from her, and he never drove her away. Shen Hanchun was already planning to wait for an opportunity to ask the Empress for grace and let her marry him. Wu Zhong would not refuse even if he wanted to.

Although she would marry an old and useless person, when Wu Qingyi saw her again, he had to respectfully call her “mother”, and Shen Hanchun’s heart was indescribably happy.

At that time, she followed Wu Qingyi out of the house, because she knew that he had encountered an assassin and was seriously injured on that trip. So much so that because of the extremely serious and inhumane injury he suffered, he did not marry in his entire life.

But Shen Hanchun was not going to remind him. If she reminded him, wouldn’t he want to marry someone else in the future?

Although she worked hard for half a lifetime in her previous life, she failed to warm up his cold stone heart and she felt that others couldn’t do it, but she didn’t want to change that thing.

Since her rebirth, most of the things had not changed, but there were also variables. For example, although Wu Qingyi also went after the abolished Emperor in his previous life, the trip was not successful. He only succeeded in trying to assassinate the Emperor, but he did not kill him. Later, he was forced to leave his side, and returned to the rebel army to confront the old army, and there was a tragic massacre in the town.

Later, the Emperor fled all the way to the south, blamed the rebel army for the massacre of the town, and occupied the land in the south as the Emperor.

It wasn’t until that one came back and personally took command of the expedition to behead the deposed Emperor under the sword, and after three days of exposing his corpse, his bones were smashed to ashes, and the dispute between the new dynasty and the old dynasty ended.

Although she didn’t understand why that change happened in her life, she didn’t dare to change the situation rashly and bet on the event. In case he was not injured and wanted to marry someone else, which was not the situation she wanted to see.

So she just suppressed her smile and said, “Go and return early.”

Wu Qingyi nodded slightly and left.

After packing the things to bring to his hometown, Wu Qingyi asked the attendant to wait for a while, and then went to Fuzhong Courtyard.

There was an old man living in the other courtyard, who was Wu Qingyi’s master.

That old man was from the Valley of the King of Medicine, and had lived a life of idle clouds and wild cranes.

Unfortunately, at the time of the war, the imperial court was in retreat, and when there was a shortage of doctors and medicines, he turned his attention to the Valley of the King of Medicine.

It was Wu Qingyi who led his men and preserved the Valley of the King of Medicine.

The old man repaid his gratitude and went out of the valley to help Wu Qingyi.

Wu Zhong could live to the day, although he relied on Shen Hanchun’s wholehearted treatment at that time, but the follow-up still depended on the ability of the old man.

“You are here,” the old man said while playing with his newly made small planetarium.

“Master,” Wu Qingyi knelt down after calling him.

The old man let him kneel for a quarter of an hour before he couldn’t hold back his anger. He swept all the things on the table forward, and said angrily, “You still call me master? I’ll call you master!”

A bunch of bits and pieces fell on Wu Qingyi. He didn’t dodge, and he didn’t dare to talk back.

“I’ve never seen a fool like you who doesn’t know how to live or die! What did I tell you? Now he has a shallow foundation and is in his prime, but he will grow old one day! At that time, you will not be able to save him. If your father is gone, even if you are thinking about the old love, shouldn’t you pave the way for his son?”

The old man pointed at him and scolded, “Didn’t I tell you to chase down the abolished Emperor this time, don’t kill him, let him run away, and keep him there. It would have prevented future blows……”

The old man kept scolding him for a while, and then out of breath after scolding, “Are you deaf? I’m talking to you!”

Only then did Wu Qingyi speak, “However, the abolished Emperor intended to slaughter the town.”

If he didn’t know that, he might really listen to the old man’s words and leave the Emperor alive. But once he knew it, how could he let such a person live in the world?

The old man didn’t speak any more, just sat down slumped, and said in a panic, “Other people’s lives are lives, but isn’t your life a life too?”

Wu Qingyi pursed his lips with a sullen face, but still didn’t speak. Obviously he didn’t regret it.

“Then we can only do as we decided before,” the old man sighed.

At that time, he persuaded Wu Qingyi to let the abolished Emperor live to save himself, but over the years, he still knew Wu Qingyi who was just too righteous. Even if he didn’t know about the slaughter in advance, he would definitely have the opportunity to kill the abolished Emperor and would not hesitate.

So to be on the safe side, he also thought of another way for him, that was, to find an opportunity to say that he was seriously injured, inhumane, and not close to women in his life.

A courtier with no heirs, no brothers or relatives, naturally there was no need to rebel.

Even if he changed his mind, thinking of that, even if he seized power, the Emperor would not kill him.