Fortunate Life of the Rural Beauty

Chu Lingxuan saw Chen Afu's probing eyes and did not immediately give an answer. Instead, he continued, "When I was seven years old, I heard my father come back and say that I might be pointed out by the emperor to the six-year-old Ninth Prince as his companion. The Ninth Prince was not of high birth. His biological mother was Shan Jieyu. Neither mother nor son was favored by the Emperor. My mother was very worried. The Ninth Prince was often bullied by the Eighth Prince who came from the middle palace. She was afraid that I would be implicated. At that time , my father served as a third-grade general in the imperial army, responsible for personal protection of the emperor. Although his official position was not too high, he was quite trusted by the emperor. My mother wanted my father to plead with the emperor. Can I change the prince? My father scolded me severely. That was the most severe scolding my mother had ever received, and she even cried..."

Chu Lingxuan glanced at Chen Afu, then changed the subject and said, "In our family, my great-grandfather was very strategic and versatile in both civil and military affairs. He was the general second only to Master Yuan at that time. He once served as a first-grade governor, but he was very He resigned from office a long time ago. He didn’t pay much attention to my grandfather’s education. He thought that my grandfather only needed to keep the family well and not lose, and the family did not necessarily have to be favored continuously. In those twenty years, our Chu family grew from the capital to One of the top nobles of the wealthy family was demoted to a mid-level family. But my father was taught by him step by step, so that when my father became the commander of the Royal Forest Army, my father was still a third-grade knight commander. So, My grandfather also passed on the title of Marquis of Yong'an to my father. Just when my father's career was getting better and better, and our Chu family was about to turn over completely, we suffered a disaster..."

Princess Rongzhao was born to Concubine Ma Shu. Concubine Ma Shu had no children. She only had one daughter, and she was so spoiled that she knew nothing about heaven and earth. She is the emperor's eldest daughter and is also quite popular with the emperor. She was a full ten years younger than Chu Guangche, the Marquis of Chu. When she was ten years old, she swore an oath not to marry anyone other than the eldest son of the Chu family. At a young age, he often tried to find ways to meet Chu Guangche when he was on duty, which made Chu Guangche extremely annoyed. When she was fifteen years old, the emperor ignored her crying and decreed that she should be married to Prince Consort Xue. A few years later, Prince Consort Xue died of illness, and she took her daughter to live in Concubine Shu's Zixia Palace.

At that time, Chu Guangche was thirty-one years old and was already the youngest marquis and commander of the Royal Forest Army in the Dashun Dynasty. The Marquis of Chu would be on edge as soon as he entered the palace, always on the lookout for Rong Zhao to sneak out from some nook and cranny to meet him by chance and say a few words of love.

One day, the second prince called him to come and said that the eighth prince and the ninth prince had a fight in his palace, and I was hit on the head. At that time, the second prince had not yet recovered from his fall, so he would occasionally let the eighth prince take the other princes to play in his palace.

Chu Guangche then left. Unexpectedly, he was taken into a room by the waiter and saw a person wearing Chu Lingxuan's clothes crawling on the table. As soon as he walked over, the person raised his head and it turned out to be Princess Rongzhao. Chu Guangche quickly turned around and walked out, but Rong Zhao stopped him and hugged him from behind. At this time, the second prince walked in with a group of people...

That day was Concubine Ma Shu's birthday. Queen Wang, Concubine Zhou, and several concubines were celebrating Concubine Ma Shu's birthday in Zixia Palace. When they heard that Commander Chu and Rong Zhao were discovered having a secret meeting in the palace of the second emperor, they all rushed over.

This matter came to the emperor again. Such a poor plot, not to mention that the emperor knew that Chu Guangche was set up, everyone else could also guess what happened.

The second prince even went to the emperor and cried bitterly, admitting that he had set up the trap. He said that he felt sorry for the emperor's sister and could not resist her cries and pleas, and even threatened death, so he helped to do such a stupid thing. He regretted it and asked the emperor to punish him, and so on.

But Rong Zhao was the emperor's eldest daughter and the only daughter of Concubine Shu, and the culprit was the son of Empress Wang. Just when the emperor didn't know what to do, another piece of bad news came.

When the thirteen-year-old Ninth Prince was playing with the twelve-year-old Tenth Prince, he was pushed off a rockery and broke his leg. One of the tenth prince's eunuchs seemed to have gone crazy. He took advantage of the chaos and hit the ninth prince with a big stone, breaking his leg bones.

Three days later, the emperor granted marriage to Chu Guangche and Rong Zhao, and Luo Shi, the former wife of Chu, was forced to become a monk. Chu Lingxuan was furious and ran to the border to find his third uncle Chu Guangkai to join the army.

"...Although there is no direct evidence, we all speculate that the Ninth Prince was also murdered by the Second Prince. We have never been able to figure it out. Our Chu family has no grudges against the Second Prince. Although my father became the commander of the Royal Forest Army at a young age, Our Chu family is not powerful, and it is not worth the effort of the second prince to bring it down. The ninth prince's background is low, so it does not hinder him. He should definitely deal with the third and fifth princes born to Concubine Zhou. Moreover, they had always been opposed to each other before, and the injury to the second prince might have been caused by the third prince and the fifth prince. But the strange thing is that the second prince did not cause trouble for them, but caught our Chu family off guard without any warning... These The question has been lingering in my mind and I can't figure it out. It was when my grandfather came to Dingzhou Prefecture the day before our engagement that I knew the answer. When my grandfather also went to tell my father about our marriage, I just found out..."

After sending Chu Lingxuan away, Chen Afu felt extremely heavy. For the Yuan family's wronged souls, and for the unknown future that he was thrown into. At first, she was embarrassed, thinking that she was causing trouble for Chu Lingxuan by marrying into the Chu family with a big treasure with a story. Only now did she know that the Chu family had a bigger problem for her.

At first she was wondering how her marriage to Chu Lingxuan got the approval of the Chu family so easily. It is said that people in ancient times were very concerned about family status. Why would such a wealthy family accept a daughter-in-law of her status? But it turns out that he was pulled into the whirlpool without even realizing it.

This feeling of being taken advantage of is really bad.

"Six years ago, the emperor was drunk and favored Shan Jieyu, the biological mother of the ninth prince. On February 27th of the new year, he gave birth to a stillborn baby..."

This sentence has been lingering in Chen Afu's ears and he can't get rid of it.

"Mom, why have you been standing by the window? Are you waiting for Jinbao and the others? It's so late, they will definitely not come back today." said Chen Dabao, who was lying on the bed.

To prevent him from moving around, his legs were placed on a small wooden frame. He looked at her sideways, with his small mouth pouting and his big eyes looking so cute.

In fact, it was this little villain who dragged her into the whirlpool. From the moment Wang took him home as her son, she was involved in that situation.

If she is still the stupid Afu, she is being taken advantage of without even realizing it. If this side really fails one day, as long as Dabao's identity is not exposed, if it is exposed, Silly Afu and the Chen family will definitely die. However, they died and they didn’t know why.