Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Behind every beauty who is beautiful but has a bad life is usually not a simple experience, and Yulian is no exception.

If she hadn't been sold into Li Shouzhen's house since she was a child, maybe Yulian would starve to death in a certain drought and locust famine, or even be used as food; or if she was lucky, she would grow up and marry into a poor family with a good family, and live the same poor, ignorant and submissive life as before. In short, ever since she became a maidservant of the Li family, she has seen a life completely different from her birth environment, where there is no hunger and cold, only fine clothes and fine food. Even being the humblest maid is better than living in my hometown.

But no one is easy to be satisfied, and no one is willing to be bullied arbitrarily with a low status, and does not envy those who are pampered. Yulian gradually understands that her greatest capital and opportunity is her appearance. She is more beautiful than the other girls doing chores, and she is already a slim young girl.

The head of the family, Li Shouzhen, has the greatest power in that wealthy manor, but he is cunning and cunning, and has already seen through the world, so even if he is regarded by Li Shouzhen, he can only be a plaything. Yulian set her sights on Li Shouzhen's son Li Chongxun, a young man who had just grown up and had little experience.

Sure enough, Li Chongxun was easily fascinated by Yulian. After some vows, Yulian endured pain and disgust and ate the forbidden fruit with Mr. Li. She didn't expect Mr. Li to fulfill all his promises. Such a wealthy son only needs to fulfill part of his promises; and Yulian later found out that she was pregnant all of a sudden, and the situation was even more optimistic.

However, she finally realized that it was impossible for her to become the daughter-in-law of General Li Shouzhen, and the Li family would never give up the opportunity to marry another great nobleman, Fu Yanqing's family. So Fu Yanqing's eldest daughter, Fu Shi, became Li Chongxun's first wife logically. Yulian didn't dare to reveal that she was pregnant with the blood of the Li family. She planned to try to establish a good relationship with the Fu family first, and then hope to become a high-status concubine next to Li Chongxun and his wife. If she gave birth to a son, she should be guaranteed.

It's a pity that the world is impermanent. Before Yulian could wait for that day, the Li family was killed for treason.

She and Fu Shi are both women and Li Chongxun's women, but they ended up very different in the turbulent moment. Fu Shi was just a sinner's wife. After reporting her father's name and friendship with Guo Wei, she suddenly became the adopted daughter of another powerful figure, Guo Wei; but Yulian's fate obviously couldn't be treated with such courtesy. Once the Li family was destroyed, she was helpless and was snatched away by a general in Guo Wei's army.

She was violently raped|defiled by that military commander, and then taken back to his home. She couldn't resist, otherwise she would have a worse end, that is, be pretended to be a camp prostitute and be gang-raped by countless people. Because of this, Yulian had a miscarriage, and because of insufficient treatment, she was later told that she would not be able to have another child for the rest of her life. Before she had time to hate the general, war broke out again soon. The general died in battle, and the wives and concubines in the family divided the wealth and scattered like birds and beasts; they sold the jade lotus as a commodity for the money. The person who bought her was the last husband surnamed Chen, who was ugly, alcoholic, bad-tempered, poor, and a eunuch, who was simply good-natured... What's more unfortunate was that when Guo Wei led the army into Tokyo again, there was almost no resistance, and the casualties were very small, but he was pushed off the city wall and broke his leg.

The days passed like this until the first year of Xiande, and Yulian no longer had any hope for life. A barren woman with nothing but a burdensome husband, she wanted to abandon her husband and run away many times, but where could she go and what would she do? She had speculated in countless dark nights that she might be sold into a kiln when she fled... Even if she was taken in as a wife by an ordinary family, when she found out that the woman was infertile and there was no need to explain to her natal family, it was very possible to sell her for a sum of money and marry her again, because the purpose of marrying a woman is to have children.

Sometimes she is very desperate, just thinking about living one day at a time, and when she can't bear it, just die.

Sometimes she is very unwilling and feels very aggrieved. Not to mention the rich and powerful, even the ugly and vulgar women in the market place like Longjinfang in Tokyo are not as good. Instead of having a good day, they laugh at them and gossip behind their backs. Is it just to end your life with humiliation, and then let those people gloat and sarcasm?

She had no friends, no relatives, and even her home was a broken home; her husband was killed, and she was not too sad. This situation made her feel like the unluckiest person in the world. Although she came from a humble background, God gave her a better appearance than most people, and she was not the only one who came from the bottom, where did she go the wrong way? Could it be that he shouldn't have provoked Li Shouzhen's son back then? How much better would it have been if I hadn't...

Yulian felt ashamed to face people, and just wanted to hide in a dark corner, so she hardly talked to anyone when she went out. It would be great if no one in this world knew me, and I also hope that those seven aunts and eight women will not use their misfortune as a laughing stock after dinner.

However, she also thought of Fu Shi, Mrs. Wei, whom she saw on Zhuque Street yesterday. She was also a woman from the disillusioned Li Shouzhen's mansion. With her family status, she became an official's wife. Her noble status made officials look up to her in awe, let alone these market women. Who would dare to laugh at her? They don't even have the courage to be jealous... Yulian fantasizes that if one day she can be so noble, people who know her should feel ashamed and realize their own inferiority! Imagining it this way gave her a vague pleasure in her heart. But the experience of Li Shouzhen's house made her understand that it is impossible in reality, so she can only talk in her heart to comfort herself.

...

In the evening, someone knocked on the door, Yulian opened the door and saw that brother Shao had come back. Brother Shao was still wearing armor but didn't bring a weapon. He drooped his head and seemed depressed. He didn't even dare to look at Yulian, and he didn't even enter the door. He stood at the door and said, "Commander Wang ordered me to compensate the Chen family's pension and funeral expenses, but..."

Yulian hurriedly looked left and right in the alley, and said, "Come in and talk, don't stand at the door."

Brother Shao was stunned for a moment, went into the kitchen, found a stool and sat down.

"Have you eaten?" Yulian asked again, she didn't treat Guo Shao like killing her husband and enemy at all, she knew that Brother Shao killed the Chen family's man to stand out for her. Brother Shao didn't respond, so she guessed that he came back hungry, so she hurriedly lifted the lid of the pot, and filled a thick bowl full of green soup.

Seeing the steaming mush on the wooden table, Guo Shao said embarrassingly: "This is not good... By the way, in the room I live in the backyard of the blacksmith shop, there is a pot of money under the box, but it is not enough."

Yulian said: "They just told you to pay, they didn't beat you?"

Guo Shao shook his head, finally couldn't hold back his hunger, took a sip of the mush, and immediately felt that the taste was extremely bad, as if there were grain husk residues like bran... In this era, some food is good, but Yulian usually eats this? He quietly took another look at her, and really couldn't tell that such a fair and innocent woman lived on chaff and vegetables.

Yulian's forehead is smooth and round, and she has an oval face, which matches perfectly with a pair of black and white almond eyes. She is natural and beautiful, her eyebrows are not charming, but she looks kinder. It's just that the dress on her body is really worn out, exposing her fair face and neck, which reminds people of glutinous rice dumplings that have been peeled off a little.

Guo Shao took a big gulp of what he had made, and lost his appetite, so he ate slowly, and said, "Commander Wang thinks that I have something to do with Zhang Yongde, the commander in front of the palace. I returned to the fourth team as a ten general, and was relegated to vice general again."

The military positions of the Five Dynasties were rather chaotic, but because Yulian grew up in Li Shouzhen's residence, and later met Guo Shao in Tokyo, she understood a lot of these things through the conversation, and the command made her understand the following military positions. A military envoy or capital is equivalent to a centurion, ten generals are captains, and vice-generals are vice-captains... Most people who join the army just want to get promoted and get rich. Although Guo Shao did not kill anyone, he lost a lot of money when he was downgraded from the chief of a hundred to the captain.

Upon hearing this, Yulian said, "I still don't want the shop title deed."

Guo Shao seemed to have misunderstood a bit, nodded and said: "Now I have no choice but to count that shop as compensation for your family, and that jar of money will also be counted."

Yulian shook her head, and glanced at him quietly: "You still keep the shop, I don't want it. I will sign the receipt for you to pay the business, and it will be considered as compensation."

Guo Shao frowned and said, "I'm going back to the barracks tomorrow morning. What are your plans for the future? I compensated you for that blacksmith shop, and I have old man Huang to help you. It can barely make a living after running it, so don't refuse..."

"Don't bother Guo Lang with my affairs." Yulian's tone suddenly became a little cold, women really change faces faster than sky.

Guo Shao's unfinished words were stuck in his throat, and he fell silent. He thought about it, and he had always had a crush on Yulian, she was a beautiful but poor woman, and she was hardworking, anyone would like it; but it seemed that he couldn't ask her to do anything just because she was a little nicer to her and helped her when she was in trouble.

He got up and was about to say goodbye, but by the light of the firewood in the stove, he suddenly saw Yulian's eyes sparkling watery and full of tears. The flame in the stove was flickering, and the orange light alternated between light and dark on her face, cloudy and sunny, as if she had illuminated her wandering heart.

"You..." Guo Shao didn't know how to ask.

Yulian pursed her vermilion lips, she hesitated to speak, her beautiful and clean face was very different in the dilapidated, dusty low-rise house, the contrast was great. This kitchen is full of stale smell, and everything is very old, because the existence of Yulian seems to be incongruous.

The drops of water in her eyes finally slid down from her cheeks, and at the same time she showed a smile: "Go back, we won't be like those adulterers, prostitutes, and I'm not a femme fatale who commits adultery and kills her husband. Brother Shao is kind to me, and I will remember that in my heart."