Before learning some truths from the younger brother of the Min family, Yang Jingyue never thought about a problem: not only a beauty may become a disaster, but a man who is too good-looking can also become a disaster.
He felt that he was a blue-faced disaster.
Because of him, the younger sister Shuying of the Min family died miserably, and the Yongchang Hou Mansion was in turmoil for many years. His grandmother died of anger, and the last chance of his seventh brother's life was ruined.
For many years, he could not forgive himself.
When he was young, many people praised him for his good looks.
Some people liked him very much because of this, while others said sourly: What's the use of a man being good-looking? The most important thing for a man is to be capable.
He secretly vowed: to become a person who is not only good-looking, but also very capable, so that all those who speak sour words will shut up.
So he practiced martial arts diligently, studied military books hard, and won the champion of martial arts at the age of seventeen.
After winning the official position, he went to the Liangzhou border, wanting to see the yellow sand desert there and listen to the Qiang flute and huqin there.
When he first went there, the officers and soldiers there jokingly called him "little white face", thinking that he should go to the theater to sing operas instead of guarding the border.
After he had played a few fair games with them and had a few good drinks, they stopped calling him a boy and called him a brother.
He heard the Qiang flute and huqin of Liangzhou, and saw the vast desert and the majestic border.
Although the food, clothing and living here are far less sophisticated than those in the capital, he is very happy, with a kind of boundless joy.
He had only been in Liangzhou for more than a year, and he caught up with the Tunu people's aggressive invasion of the border.
Based on the information obtained by the scouts, he guessed the direction of the Tunu people's "grazing valley" (plundering folk food and grass for military supplies), and led a small number of elite soldiers to set up an ambush in a dangerous place, and wiped out the enemy troops who were fighting the grass valley.
Afterwards, they pretended to be Tunu soldiers, deceived the gate of the Tunu army's supply camp at night, and then set fire to the enemy's supply camp, and cooperated with the main force to defeat the Tunu soldiers. slave prince.
In this battle, he was recorded as the first meritorious service.
Afterwards, he was ordered to return to Beijing to offer prisoners and receive a reward, and got married by the way.
The Min family and the Yang family are family friends. He has known Min's sister Shuying since he was a child, and he can be regarded as a childhood sweetheart.
His mother liked sister Shuying very much and asked him if he would marry Shuying.
He thought Shuying was pretty and had a good temper, so he agreed.
He was fifteen years old and Shuying was fourteen when they got engaged.
Before becoming the No. 1 in martial arts, his thoughts were all on martial arts; the elders of both parties also felt that they were still young and there was no need to rush to get married.
After he won the champion of martial arts, Shuying wanted to honor his grandfather's filial piety, so he went directly to Liangzhou, and their marriage was delayed.
When he returned to Beijing, he was in high spirits, and Shuying had already passed her filial piety.
The two elders quickly agreed on the date of marriage, and planned to let him marry Shuying before returning to Liangzhou. It would be best if Shuying could conceive a child, so as not to delay the offspring.
Who would have thought that Shuying "died of a sudden illness" when her wedding date approached!
At that time, he didn't believe that Shuying really died of a "sudden illness", so he brought Wu Zuo to the house for an autopsy.
However, the Min family was unwilling to open the coffin anyway, and Uncle Min even said very serious words to him. He had no choice but to give up and let the Min family bury Shuying hastily.
As his fiancé, he didn't even see Shuying's last face, the feeling in his heart was simply indescribable.
Not long after Shuying's death, Empress Wei actually acted as a matchmaker for Princess Xing'an herself. His grandmother couldn't resist, so she agreed.
Although he still couldn't let go of Shuying's death, he could only calm down and prepare to marry the princess.
At the beginning, he didn't know Princess Xing'an well, and he really thought about living a good life with her.
If she has a big temper, he will let her go; he will try his best to satisfy her request to him.
He only hoped that she would look at his own face and be a good daughter-in-law of the Yang family, and not use her status to embarrass his parents and elders.
After all, it was the queen who was the matchmaker, and her identity was there. He couldn't divorce his wife, so he could only get along with her well.
But he did not expect that Princess Xing'an is a person who pushes forward and will not repay others' kindness.
She made more and more demands on him, and became more and more unreasonable; but she was never merciless and contemptuous of his family, and she couldn't do a good job of saving face.
He communicated with her, and she promised well, but she went her own way as soon as she turned around.
He gradually felt tired and disappointed.
The thing that crushed the last bit of tenderness in his heart was: Princess Xing'an used very despicable means to exchange the person who made his seventh brother happy, and angered his grandmother to death.
Grandmother has always been very kind and loves her children and grandchildren very much. He was also close and respectful of his grandmother.
He never thought that his grandmother would die of anger because of his daughter-in-law, and she would not die well.
At that time, he thought: no matter what price he pays himself, he will completely drive the troublemaker, Princess Xing'an, out of the Yang family.
Therefore, he planned the murder in the mourning hall. At the cost of committing the crime of murder and ruining his future, he completely drew a line with Princess Xing'an and saved the Yang family.
When he was sent to prison, the younger brother of the Min family came to visit him secretly, accidentally slipping a little bit of information.
Only then did he know that Shuying's death was indeed strange, and it must have something to do with Princess Xing'an.
But when he asked for details, little brother Min refused to say anything, saying that he could not go against his sister's last wish.
He could only stop his pursuit of the bottom line just like he did back then.
Later, the then king of Hengjun went to the prison and asked him: How did the Min family girl die
His heart ached unbearably, but he was speechless. Because he really didn't know how the younger sister of the Min family died - he only knew that it must have something to do with Princess Xing'an.
Because of the crime of murder, he was exiled to Liangzhou.
Returning to the old place, he is no longer the high-spirited Wu Zhuangyuan and the prince of Yongchang. He has no official position on his body, and there is a group of tattoos on his face that belong to a prisoner.
Time passed day by day, and all the memories of the capital seemed to be slowly fading away.
The Yang family did not send him out of the clan, his parents were still worrying about his marriage.
But now he is just a guilty soldier exiled on the border. A good girl from a good family will not marry him; if a good girl from a bad family is not, his parents will be wronged for him. This has been dragging on.
One day a few years later, under the pretext of traveling, Min Xiaodi traveled all the way to Liangzhou to meet him for a drink.
After drinking for three rounds, little brother Min became a little drunk and said to him, "Brother Yang, I have already avenged my sister."
Yang Jingyue shook his hand and asked, "How did you take revenge?"
Little brother Min had tears in his eyes: "You don't need to know how I took revenge. You just need to know: I have already taken revenge, and my sister should be able to rest in peace under the nine springs... So, you can also let go of my sister .”
Yang Jingyue drank the wine in the glass silently, closed his eyes and asked him, "Am I a wimp?"
Brother Min wiped away his tears, picked up the jug and filled him with a glass of wine: "No, you have done what you should and can do. My sister didn't really marry you. Her justice, I have the Min family to ask for it."
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Brother Min thought: If there hadn't been the murder in Yang Jingyue's mourning hall, that woman wouldn't have become the abandoned wife of the Yang family, wouldn't be famous in the street, and wouldn't be rejected by the royal family.
If she was not desperate, she would not marry Cao Baigong, and she would not be involved in Cao Baigong's treason case, and would not be forcibly sent to Puhui Temple to become a monk.
If she hadn't been a nun, she would have no chance of revenge.
Because although the Min family is not as prominent as the Yang family, it is also a big family with a lot of worries. It is not the kind of desperado who can ignore it and kill people in a fit of anger.
Puhui nunnery is the royal family's nunnery, located in Nanyuan.
Although the former emperor and the current emperor rarely visited Nanyuan, it was a royal forbidden garden after all, not everyone could enter or leave it.
Xiaodi Min pretended to be the son of a wealthy businessman, and managed to get acquainted with several eunuchs in Nanyuan, one of whom was in charge of delivering supplies to Puhui Temple.
On the pretext of admiring the former Xing'an Princess, he bought the eunuch who delivered supplies with a lot of money, and used food, wine, and all kinds of exciting news to arouse the woman's nostalgia for the world of mortals, and lured her into thinking of escaping from Puhui Temple. .
Nearly two years later, the woman finally couldn't bear the hard life of a monk, joined him inside and outside, and escaped from Puhui nunnery.
Then, she fell into his hands.
He tortured and revealed the whole truth of the year.
He made her suffer double all the humiliation and pain his sister had suffered back then, and finally crushed her to ashes...
He felt that only in this way could his sister rest in peace.
Although after he did this, he felt that he was no longer clean.