kingnovel Chapter 882: The Young Marquis's Broken Engagement Wife (4)
Chapter 882: The Young Marquis's Broken Engagement Wife (4)
Shangguan Wei defended Youcheng, but did not return to Youcheng.
In grief, his wife gave birth to a daughter, who later became Shangguan Ruojin.
According to the agreement, Shangguan Wei's wife was going to take Shangguan Ruojin back to the capital to live.
But after giving birth, the female doctor suffered heavy bleeding. She waited for three days for her daughter's family to arrive and entrusted her daughter to her brother before she passed away.
Shangguan Xiong finally secretly found a baby girl who was about the same age as his niece, and arranged for his confidant to take the child back to the capital, and raised her in the general's mansion in the capital.
And the news was spread from the beginning: the niece was born prematurely and it was not easy for her to go out, so no one had seen what the young lady of the general's mansion looked like in those ten years.
Luoyue, who grew up under the care of Shangguan Xiong's confidants, has a very good temper. She also knew her identity from the beginning, so when Shangguan Ruojin returned home later, she refused the proposal of being his sister.
Instead, he learned medical skills from Shangguan Ruojin.
Although he may not be as talented as her young lady, he is still much better than the average doctor.
Shangguan Ruojin and Huo Qingyang met at a palace banquet.
As the orphan of a general who has been "hiding" in the mansion for ten years, in order to show the emperor's grace and also to allow Shangguan Xiong to continue to stay in Youcheng.
The emperor specially asked the imperial physician to come to Shangguan Jin's house to check her pulse before inviting her to the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet.
Although ten-year-old Shangguan Ruojin grew up in the common people, his uncle's family is also a large family.
She also learned these complicated etiquette seriously.
only because
"A'man, you are the daughter of a general's mansion. Even if your uncle can support you for the rest of your life, you still have to learn." Shangguan Ruojin's uncle touched her head and said, "The more you learn now, the wider your future will be.
The first step to breaking free from the rules is to learn the rules. Only when you understand where the line is can you make good use of the rules."
Therefore, Shangguan Ruojin's life was not easy at all before he was ten years old. He had to study literature, medicine, martial arts, and etiquette.
I have some thoughts of slacking off, but the children of the Shangguan family, whether boys or girls, are not the kind of people who give up easily.
Finally, when she was ten years old, she returned to the capital with the ability to protect herself and became the eldest daughter of the general's mansion again.
This time, the imperial physician who came to check her pulse was actually a doctor from her uncle's family. Of course, there were eunuchs following him, so the man couldn't say much. He just gave her a note that had been written long ago before he left - to enter the palace and become a princess!
With this message, Shangguan Ruojin understood.
Perhaps the emperor was very happy with the good news that my uncle brought some time ago, so he wanted to give me another reward.
But there is nothing left to reward my uncle with.
The emperor also didn't want the two of them to have too high positions. After all, the Shangguan family could only have one commander-in-chief.
Therefore, this reward will probably fall on me.
It's really like hitting the snake at its most vulnerable part!
The emperor knows how to win people's hearts.
My uncle Shangguan Xiong was injured in his early years and never married or had children.
So her uncle treated her and her two brothers as his own children.
When their father passed away, the two brothers were already old enough to remember things. They knew that their sister was a premature baby and were always worried that Shangguan Ruojin would die young.
So if I have something good, I want to give it to my sister.
If you are not of royal blood, even a princess cannot be granted a fiefdom, so all the emperor can give you is really just an empty title.
If I use this military merit to exchange for the title of princess for Shangguan Ruojin, I am afraid that the three men of the Shangguan family will be happier than I am if I get the reward.
The emperor could win over the Shangguan family with just an empty title and some gold and silver. This was really a good deal.
The palace banquet that night was Shangguan Ruojin's first appearance in the imperial city, and there had been rumors about her before.
The Shangguan family is a family of military generals. Most of their members are tall and strong, with dark skin, and they are not very good-looking.
It is said that a daughter is likely to look like her father, so many people have believed in recent years that Shangguan Ruojin has never gone out, not only because of her poor health, but more likely because she is too ugly to be seen.
So when Luoyue got off the carriage first, many people mistook her for Shangguan Ruojin.
Because Luoyue's appearance is very consistent with the characteristics of Youcheng people. Her eyes are not big, her facial features are somewhat flat, and her skin is slightly dark - not due to the sun, but because of her natural appearance.
Fourteen-year-old Huo Qingyang attended palace banquets with his father every year. Like many people, he wanted to know what the young lady of the general's mansion looked like.
However, it was not because he thought the other person was ugly, but because Huo Qingyang admired the military generals of the Shangguan family very much and thought they were all great heroes who served the country and the people.
He wondered what such a hero looked like—it was said that a daughter resembled her father.
When he saw the falling moon, Huo Qingyang felt a little disappointed, but at the same time, he felt it was natural.
Just as everyone was about to leave, a little girl's voice rang out: "Luoyue, I can come down by myself, you don't need to help me!"
As soon as this voice was uttered, everyone present suddenly realized that the girl who came down first should be just a maid.
Some people feel embarrassed because of their preconceived ideas, like Huo Qingyang.
A small hand with slender fingers grasped the side of the shaft. Although Shangguan Ruojin had also practiced martial arts, she knew there was no need to let others know, so she deliberately moved slowly outside the curtain, and then got off the carriage with the help of the footrest prepared by Luoyue.
In the past, she would have jumped off the carriage easily.
A flash of surprise crossed the face of the eunuch waiting at the palace gate - this little girl is so beautiful, how come she is completely different from the rumors!
He has big, round eyes, lively gaze, fair skin, and three-dimensional facial features. This is a typical appearance of a person with a high nose and deep eyes.
This slightly exotic look would not surprise people, after all, there was a period of ethnic integration in the previous dynasty.
Therefore, this kind of appearance is also common in some aristocratic families, but it may not have been well-received before.
But it is not a big deal in front of the current emperor. After all, the royal family also has foreign blood several generations ago, and the current emperor has a serious atavism, so he is almost the same.
When the eunuch led Shangguan Ruojin to sit in the inner court sedan chair, she happened to walk past Huo Qingyang. Unlike the floral scent in the sachets on her sister's body, the little girl exuded a faint smell of Chinese medicine.
Having heard bad rumors about the other party, Huo Qingyang "understood" that this young lady from the Shangguan Mansion was in good health and should be quite weak.
Shangguan Rujin didn't expect at the time that the other party could imagine so many things just from the smell of medicine. If he knew, perhaps many things that happened later would not have happened.