Two days later, Gu Yao came to An Jinshu's courtyard in a hurry and said happily that her engagement was really terminated. She pulled An Jinshu close to her, happily grinning from ear to ear.

An Jinshu put his hand against the mouth that was about to come to her and resisted desperately: "Don't come over!"

But even though she resisted tenaciously, she didn't stop Gu Yao from smacking her face in the end. An Jinshu felt that her face was sticky, so she wiped the saliva from her face vigorously. When Gu Yao saw this, she yelled that An Jinshu disliked it. She, she is not alive anymore.

An Jinshu pointed to the door and said: "After exiting the courtyard, turn right. Walk a few hundred meters and there will be a lake. Jump in and I will never catch you."

Hearing this, Gu Yao immediately became unhappy. She kept making trouble with An Jinshu for a long time, and finally shut up when she saw An Jinshu frowning.

But she was really happy and brought a lot of good things to An Jinshu when she came. Gu Yao couldn't stop talking when the two of them sat in the house warming themselves by the fire and eating melon seeds.

"You don't even know Yanyan. When my mother came over to tell me this this morning, I almost jumped up. Then He Chang deserves it. What he said in the teahouse that day was enough to kill him a hundred times. .”

This was expected. An Jinshu picked up a hot orange from the porcelain stove. It was a little hot and she touched her ears.

"I thought it would be difficult for you to break off the marriage, but I never thought why you would be so stupid. How could you suffer at his hands before? It's not like the Gu Yao I know."

Gu Yao curled her lips: "I don't want to argue with him. When I see him angry, I won't get angry. Every time I want to beat him, beat him to death!"

An Jinshu laughed: "That's a pity, you won't be able to beat me anymore."

"Hehehe." Gu Yao smiled like a flower when she thought of He Chang's fate: "What this Taifu said is different. He just mentioned what happened that day to the emperor, and the entire He family has to bear it. He was charged with treason, his whole family was imprisoned, and his family property was transferred to the national treasury. If he has the ability, he will do something arrogant to me. Now I really want to see what He Chang looks like in prison. He must be in such a miserable state."

"Okay." An Jinshu rolled his eyes at her: "He has also learned the lesson he deserves. Don't push yourself too far."

Gu Yao pouted and muttered something, but she still listened to An Jinshu's words and didn't say anything to add insult to injury.

Gu Yao stayed in Anjinshu Courtyard for most of the day, but she was still unwilling to leave when someone from Duanqin Palace came to look for her. Later, the maid said that it was Ge Shi who was looking for her, so she patted her butt and went home. .

An Jinshu also had some free time in the next few days. In addition to going to Mrs. An every day to show her filial piety and chatting with her, she would also go to Qu's house to chat with her mother while doing embroidery. If not, she would go to find her. An Jinran learned martial arts, but every time he ran away in less than half a cup of tea.

After the first lunar month, an imperial edict came from the fifteenth palace, breaking the peaceful and harmonious atmosphere of the An family.

The imperial edict came for An Nian, but to be precise, it did not come for her alone, because the imperial edict not only betrothed An Nian to the current third prince, but also arranged for the marriage of another person in the An family.

An Jinshu was sitting in An Ruhe's study. He saw his father behind the desk with a sad face and wanted to comfort him but didn't know what to say.

"Bang!" The door was pushed open with great force, and An Jinran walked in angrily in a brocade robe.

"I will never marry that princess. I will go to the palace right now to refuse the marriage!" After shouting, he started to walk out again.

"Stop!" An Ruhe slapped the table, stood up, strode forward, pointed at his nose and yelled angrily: "If you want to ask the An family to die with you, just go!"

An Jinran took a few deep breaths, and the rise and fall of his chest showed that he was out of breath.

An Jinshu saw his hands clenched into fists and blue veins bulging out, and walked forward to stand with him: "Brother, if you don't want to marry the princess, don't marry her. As long as our family is together, even if we eat bran-thick vegetables, we will be happy." of."

An Ruhe snorted loudly when he heard what An Jinshu said, and turned his back: "You are not as good as your sister in general knowledge!"

"Dad." An Jinshu took An Ruhe's hand and whispered softly: "Brother, this marriage is clearly a problem for the emperor. What will happen if brother doesn't marry?"

An Ruhe turned around and glanced at An Jinshu, with a look of struggle in his eyes, as if he was considering whether to say this to him.

His worries were not unreasonable. After all, An Jinshu was just a boudoir girl, and there was no benefit in knowing so many things about the court. But in fact, An Jinshu knew everything like a mirror. Seeing that his father was worried, his worries were overturned.

"Because Your Majesty is suspicious about the assassination of Adi Barbarian?" She only mentioned one of the points, but her accurate guess also made An Ruhe look askance.

Seeing that she had guessed the main point and there was no need to hide it, An Ruhe touched An Jinshu's head, half pleased and half sad: "Yan Yatou is so smart that her father will admire her with admiration."

He sighed, with a sadness that An Jinshu had never seen before on his brows: "Emperors have been suspicious since ancient times. First, it was your elder sister's collusion with the third prince, and second, your elder brother was assassinated by a barbarian. The emperor has long been suspicious, but there is no actual evidence. , since we can’t move Anjia, we can only do everything we can to tie Anjia up.”

An Jinran's body froze in place with these words. It was obvious that he actually knew the intention of the marriage.

The emperor is already suspicious of An Jia. If he resists the order, he will at least be reprimanded and punished, or at worst, he will take the opportunity to hold An Jia accountable. This is a dead end. Using An Jia's safety as bait, are you in the game or not? I'm afraid you don't have a choice when it comes to settling down. You have to go in if you want to, or you can go in if you don't!

The room fell into dead silence for a moment, and An Jinshu bit her lip because she couldn't bear the pain of her brother marrying someone he didn't love for the rest of his life.

Everyone understands the truth, but the price paid for it is to sell one's soul and body and become a puppet from then on.

In her previous life, she spent everything she had to protect someone who didn't love her, and ended up with a tragic death.

It is sad to love but not get it, and it is even more sad to get what you don't love.

Life is already very painful. Being able to have a loving person to stay with you for the rest of your life can alleviate most of the pain in the world. She understands the pain, so she doesn't want her brother to feel that pain.

"Dad, please forgive Yanyan for being disobedient this time."

She retreated to An Jinran, looked up at him and said firmly: "Brother, I support you. If you don't like the princess, we will resist the decree! I believe that my mother and grandmother must also support you. The worst outcome is It's about handing over military power and returning to the fields. At worst, we can buy a few small courtyards in the countryside, plant some land, raise some chickens, and plant an osmanthus tree in the courtyard. Although our lives are not as rich as they are now, we can be free and carefree, how about that?"

Her innocent and innocent words had an unspeakable bitter taste in the ears of the two men in the room. A few small courtyards, planting some land, raising some chickens... What a beautiful long-cherished wish, but the reality is... Where could it be as beautiful as she said?

Family relationships are closely related and inseparable. The An family resists the decree and surrenders military power. The first thing that is involved is the in-law family. Unexpected disasters will happen as soon as they happen, and no one can escape.

Former enemies and people who will add insult to injury will emerge one after another, so what?

You accompany the king and the tiger, you have enlarged this tiger's appetite. He is afraid that when you make a comeback, he will take advantage of your illness to kill you. How can you escape unscathed?

The whole world is not the land of the king, where can you escape to?

Dead end...that's it.

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