After being a widow for half my life, I found out that my husband was not dead.

Liu Yunxiang was caught off guard and fell into the water. He choked hard on his water and hurriedly paddled with both hands in a panic. In fact, the pond was not deep. She could feel her feet touching the bottom of the pond, but she couldn't stand. Her body sank down again and again. She could only splash in the water and struggle to get her head out.

"Help... help..."

She shouted loudly, but there was no one around.

She looked at Chongming who was standing by the pond, his chin slightly raised, looking down at her and smiling. Just now she called him pathetic and ridiculous. This sentence obviously touched Chongming's sensitive nerve, so he pushed her into the water and watched her desperate struggle to let her know what it meant to be pathetic and ridiculous.

The water was once again above my head. My feet could clearly touch the ground but I couldn't use any force. This feeling made me even more crazy.

The suffocation made her unconscious slowly, and just when she fell into darkness, she was roughly pulled up. She breathed hard and leaned awkwardly against the person behind her.

"I have many ways to make you regret saying that to me just now. Do you want to try it?"

Liu Yunxiang snorted, "Do you think you are powerful when you deal with me, a woman who is unable to fight back?"

"You haven't given in yet."

"I will never give in to you."

Chongming's face darkened. He obviously killed Yan Mu and kidnapped her son, but he actually felt a sense of frustration from her. The more dissatisfied she was, the more he wanted to crush her.

"Don't forget that your son is still in my hands. Are you not afraid of him?"

"you!"

"Apologise to me for what you just said!"

Liu Yunxiang was stunned for a moment. He was torturing her like this just for an apology?

"otherwise……"

"sorry!"

Before he could threaten again, Liu Yunxiang quickly apologized.

Chongming snorted, "Aren't you quite stubborn?"

"An apology is only three words long and doesn't cost much."

And apologizing doesn't mean that you are really wrong, nor does it mean that you give in to him.

Chongming secretly gritted his teeth. At this time, someone came from the other side of the corridor. He could only carry Liu Yunxiang out of the pond and put her in the wheelchair.

In early spring, it was suddenly warm but then cold, especially when the water was still cold. Liu Yunxiang developed a high fever that night and got better after taking the antipyretic medicine given by Chongming. He also pretended to be watching outside, saying that Yan Mu entrusted her to him before he died, and it was a lifelong responsibility for him.

When Jin Yan gave Liu Yunxiang the medicine, he also said: "Mr. Qin is so kind-hearted."

The next afternoon, Liu Yunxiang felt much better and didn't want Marquis Jing'an to come.

"Girl, why don't you, my servant, go tell the Marquis that you are still ill and ask him to come back after a while?"

Liu Yunxiang let Jin Yan help him sit up, thought for a moment and said, "It doesn't matter, let him come in."

"The old Marquis is probably asking about what happened in the Marquis Mansion in the past few years. Those things are so terrible. I am worried that you will get angry." Jin Yan said with a frown.

Liu Yunxiang shook his head, "He probably knows everything about the Hou Mansion, so he shouldn't be asking about this."

With Jin Yan's help, Liu Yunxiang sat on the wheelchair, and then came out of the back room. He saw Marquis Jing'an sitting on a chair on the side. When he saw her coming out, he stood up and nodded to her.

"Master Hou, sit down."

Marquis Jingan's expression changed slightly, but he still sat down.

Liu Yunxiang asked Jinyan to push her to the top position. As the princess of Zhenbei, especially since this was Zhenbei, she was indeed superior to him in terms of position.

"I had a quick meeting last time in Yuzhou. The Marquis must have a lot to ask me."

Marquis Jingan frowned, "I did have a lot to ask at that time, but when I returned to Zhenbei, I already had answers to what I wanted to ask."

Liu Yunxiang responded, then picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea.

There is no longer a Marquis of Jing'an Mansion. The people in the mansion are dead and in abject poverty. She can respect him as "Marquis of Jing'an" and allow him to have a place in the north of the town. She already respects him very much.

Marquis Jing'an paused for a moment and said: "When I asked Zian to marry you, I didn't care about family status. I only valued that as the daughter of the Minister of Rites, you must be gentle, virtuous and courteous. But the Marquis's house declined, and you and Zian reconciled. She also privately decided to marry Yan Mu for life, but I was mistaken."

Liu Yunxiang's hand holding the tea paused, and then sneered: "The reason for the decline of the Hou Mansion is that you lost the war. The descendants of your Xie family are not good enough. It is up to me, a woman, to support the Hou Mansion, but why should I? Me I made peace with Xie Zi after I supported your family for three years. He did not die, but he did not dare to come back because he was afraid of being held accountable by the court. He even married a wife and had children. Is he sorry for me or am I? Him? As for me marrying Yan Mu, I really should thank you Xie family. If the old lady hadn’t forced me to commit myself to Yan Mu to save the second master, I wouldn’t have been able to achieve this marriage with him! You didn’t lose your sight, but you are blind. , can’t see the truth clearly.”

Marquis Jing'an's face turned red. He didn't expect that as an elder, Liu Yunxiang would not show any shame and would tear each other's faces apart.

"Let's not talk about the past." Marquis Jing'an said dryly.

Liu Yunxiang twitched the corner of his mouth, "If Xie Zi'an never returns home, I will be kept in the dark for the rest of my life. I will work hard for you and stay widowed for the rest of my life. When I get old, I will only be desolate. , you think I can live up to your Xie family."

Marquis Jing'an lowered his head and was speechless for a moment in embarrassment.

Liu Yunxiang sighed, "That's all, let's just forget about it."

She had already paid back the debt owed to her by her family one by one.

"Actually, I have other things to do today." Marquis Jing'an said after being silent for a while.

Liu Yunxiang roughly guessed it and did not answer the call.

Seeing Liu Yunxiang's indifferent attitude, Marquis Jing'an frowned, "Since the King of Zhenbei gave the royal seal to Mr. Qin before his death and asked him to take over the military power of Zhenbei, he must have trusted him. And Mr. Qin first The orphan of the crown prince is the orthodox royal family, so it is reasonable for him to take over Zhenbei. However, several generals in the army complained about this. Mr. Qin did not want to be criticized, so he handed over the royal seal. The current situation in Zhenbei is critical. We really need someone to stand up and take charge of the overall situation, so I would like to ask you to push Mr. Qin to the throne as the Princess of Zhenbei."

Liu Yunxiang lowered his eyes, and it was indeed because of this.

She was thinking and weighing the dowry, and after a while she asked: "What benefits can I get from handing over Zhenbei military power to Qin Fei?"

Marquis Jing'an frowned, "You are the Princess of Zhenbei, you should take care of the overall situation..."

"It would be boring to say these false things."

Marquis Jing'an thought for a moment and said: "The emperor at that time was fatuous, his three and four princes were incompetent, and the ninth prince was still young. Mr. Qin, as the orphan of the former prince, is actually the best candidate to inherit the throne. If we help him achieve great things, , then naturally the reward will be inevitable.”

Liu Yunxiang twitched the corner of his mouth, but Marquis Jing'an was still exposed.

He is an old minister of the former prince, and from this point of view he is loyal, but it is impossible to say that he is selfless. He just wanted to restore his palace to its former glory after Chongming achieved great success.

Liu Yunxiang narrowed his eyes, "You trust him, does he trust you?"

"What do you mean?"

"Is it possible that the royal seal was not given to him by Yan Mu, but from me!"