Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

"She lives in Shengjing, in Prince Heng's mansion, which is under surveillance 24 hours a day. Someone is watching her every step. Even what she eats, what time she goes to bed, and what time she gets up every day will be reported to Ling Heng in detail."

"We are facing conspiracy and deception. If we are not careful, we will be doomed."

"But, even in such an environment, she still kept her original intention, protected the women of the Hu family, and tried every means to save the men of Prime Minister Hu. She also protected the entire General He's mansion, mediated for them, and caught the culprit Ling Yun."

"She also saved countless people in Northern Jin like Yang Luo. This is what the Ling family should do, but this corrupt court has made loyal officials and generals feel disheartened. She, a weak woman, shouldered all of this for them."

"Every step she took, she was very careful, as if she was walking on thin ice. It was extremely difficult and painful. I felt sorry for her. How could I let her down like those people who are worse than pigs and dogs?"

Li Yuanqiao was left speechless after hearing these words.

After returning to their own yard, they couldn't fall asleep for a long time. It turned out that their sister had done so many things without their knowledge.

And during this time, Gu Xingyan helped her a lot.

It's his incompetence as a brother.

……

Early the next morning, Li Yuanqiao came to see Li Shuangwan with big dark circles under his eyes.

Li Shuangwan was startled and quickly asked Hongshuang to get two eggs: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

Li Yuanqiao sat opposite Li Shuangwan and said, "I'm sorry, I was reckless yesterday."

Li Shuangwan glared at him: "How dare you say that? You're too harsh."

Li Yuanqiao shyly took out a porcelain bottle and said, "Give him the medicine and apologize for me again."

李双晚收了药：“行了，没事。他昨天不是说了吗，说很高兴你能揍他这两拳，说明哥哥爱我护我。”

"Of course, it's up to Gu Xingyan to tell him." Li Yuanqiao raised his chin proudly.

Li Shuangwan came closer: "Brother, tell me, who did you see in the carriage yesterday?"

"What? Who did you see? No one saw it." Li Yuanqiao avoided her eyes.

How could Li Shuangwan not understand this?

She circled around Li Yuanqiao: "Oh, brother, you have someone in your heart, right? Tell me quickly, who is it?"

Li Yuanqiao touched his nose and scratched his ears: "No, sister, what are you thinking? Who would be willing to marry a soldier like us who guards the border all year round?"

Not only is he often not around, but I also live in constant fear, wondering if one day I might go out and come back to find only a cold corpse being carried horizontally.

Even no body was left.

How many soldiers at the border finally turned into a handful of soil guarding the northwest gate.

"There really is someone here." Li Shuangwan's ears turned red when he saw this.

"If you like someone, you should be brave enough to say it out loud. If it's too late and someone else gets there first, you won't even have a place to cry when you regret it."

"Or are you willing to be with someone you don't love at all and be disgusted with each other for the rest of your life?"

Li Yuanqiao's heart ached for a moment. When he thought of that girl, he felt sour and bitter: "I, I heard that she is engaged."

Li Shuangwan's heart sank slightly: "Engaged?"

That’s indeed a difficult thing to do. We can’t ruin someone’s marriage.

If the girl liked the other man, and she disrupted his marriage, wouldn't she and my brother become a pair of resentful couples if they married?

"Brother, how about changing to someone you like?"

Why does this sound so awkward? If someone told her to stop liking Gu Xingyan, would it work?

No, I can't.

It’s over.

Li Yuanqiao scratched his ear and said, "I haven't finished what I said. She was indeed engaged before, but didn't the He family participate in the third prince's treason case? The entire He family was executed, so her marriage was naturally..."

"Wait, wait a minute, brother, the girl you like is Zhong Jiawei from the Zhong Mansion?"

Li Yuanqiao's face turned red and he nodded quietly.

The corners of Li Shuangwan's mouth widened and widened until they almost reached his ears.

Li Yuanqiao was furious at his sister's behavior: "I should have known not to tell you. I knew you would laugh at me."

"Brother, do you know that Miss Zhong and the He family have already called off the engagement? Even if the He family didn't fall, Miss Zhong would not marry He Youkun."

"Really?" Li Yuanqiao looked up suddenly, joy spreading wildly in his heart.

"Of course it's true. I was the one who helped her cancel the marriage."

Li Shuangwan took the opportunity to let Zhong Jiawei know how he had made He Youkun a mistress and gave birth to a pair of children on the Lantern Festival, and then told his brother in detail how the two families broke off the engagement the next day.

Li Yuanqiao clenched his fists and angrily said, "He Youkun is really going too far! He is already engaged to Miss Zhong, but he is still keeping a mistress outside. If I had known this earlier, I would have beaten him to a pulp!"

"So I'm helping my own brother." Li Shuangwan patted his chest, "Brother, leave this matter to me. I'll make sure she becomes my sister-in-law."

Li Yuanqiao chuckled: "If it works out, you can sit at the table when we get married."

Li Shuangwan rolled his eyes at him.

In the afternoon, Zhu Anhe came to Qinglanyuan with a large pile of posts.

Li Shuangwan was flipping through the book in his hand. When he saw his mother coming over, he put it down and walked over: "Mom, what is this?"

Zhu Anhe frowned, "Look, there are so many invitations, all inviting mother to attend this banquet and that banquet. It's because your father has just been named the Duke of Zhenguo, and you and Yuan Qiao are old enough to discuss marriage."

"But, there are so many. If I join this and turn down that, none of them will work. I'm so worried. Yanyan, can you give me some advice?"

Some of them happened on the same day, and she couldn't handle them even if she had three heads and six arms.

It had only been a few days since they returned to Beijing, but she had already received nearly ten messages.

Li Shuangwan flipped through it casually. It was either the wife of the Shangshu family or the old lady of the Marquis's mansion, and both of them were personally sent.

More than half of them were the ones who had taken advantage of their country's defense in the previous life. If that was the case, why should they just pretend to be nice to them?

Li Shuangwan took out one of them and handed it over: "Mom, choose this one."

Zhu Anhe took it and found it was an invitation to the old lady of the Zhong family’s 60th birthday in half a month.

"Mrs. Zhong's eldest son is the chief priest of the Imperial College. When she celebrates her 60th birthday, all the prominent people in the capital will attend. Mother, why don't you choose this one?"

Zhu Anhe's eyes lit up and he nodded.

Li Shuangwan approached Zhu Anhe and smiled slyly: "Besides, the Zhong family's daughter has grown up. Mother, you can find a wife for your brother."

"You mean Zhong Jiawei, the daughter of the Zhong family."

"Well, how about it, does mother also think that she and brother are a good match?"

"she……"

"She is seventeen years old this year, and her original marriage proposal to the He family was cancelled at the beginning of the year. Therefore, Miss Zhong is still unmarried."