108 ways to die for supporting characters

Chapter 381 The Wife Given Away by Her Husband 19
Two years later, war broke out again on the border.

The King of Yue was ordered to lead his troops to fight. This battle was very difficult. The Tatar State gathered the strength of more than a dozen tribes to attack the Mo State with a spirit of fighting to the death.

The war dragged on for a year. During the cold winter, some people in the court colluded with the Tatars, resulting in a shortage of food and fodder. The ministers were still arguing about who was responsible.

Ning Yan took out a large part of her dowry to buy food and warm clothes and hired people to send them to the front line. She also took the initiative to ask the Queen and the Crown Princess to raise funds. In total, she raised nearly three million taels of silver, which she exchanged for supplies and sent to the front line.

When there was a shortage of medicine on the front line, she made the best trauma medicine and purchased medicinal materials to make pills. When there was a shortage of doctors on the front line, she sent emergency-trained surgeons to the front line.

Until two years later, the Tatar Kingdom was completely conquered and the King of Yue led his troops back in triumph.

Ning Yan, wearing the King of Yue's favorite white dress, led their fat son to greet them at the city gate.

There was a new inch-long scar on King Yue's face. When he saw Ning Yan, his murderous face became a little cracked. He was afraid.

Ning Yan understood that he was afraid that she would dislike him.

Ning Yan smiled at him.

The King of Yue's expression relaxed visibly, with smiles in his eyes and lips.

Ning Yan turned behind him again. Mao Rui was wearing a silver armor and looked majestic and imposing.

He had grown taller and stronger, and the seventeen-year-old boy was now a fourth-rank military general. As soon as he entered the city, several ladies from well-off families threw purses at him.

Ning Yan thought that within a year, she might become a grandmother.

The army was stationed outside the city, and the generals had to go into the palace to meet the emperor and discuss palace matters and give him rewards.

Ning Yan waited until the evening before the father and son returned home.

"Daddy, you're finally back."

Pang Xuan'er reminded, "There's also my brother."

She has been going back to the palace frequently recently. One reason is that she is waiting for her father to return triumphantly to the court. The other reason is that the mansion is too chaotic. Jin Shenglai's concubines are jealous of each other all the time. She is annoyed and just hides away.

Jin Shenglai has been complaining to her recently about not being able to have a child. She has already made up her mind that if he makes her angry one day, she will give him the other pill as well.

Little Dumpling turned to look at the brother he had never met before and respectfully called him, "Big Brother."

Mao Rui greeted Ning Yan and Pang Xuan'er, and then picked up his half brother.

"Did you receive the gift my brother gave you before?"

Little Dumpling stretched out his little fat hand and touched Big Brother's face, "I got it, I like it very much, Big Brother is hot."

The King of Yue was amused by his silly son, and took him from Mao Rui's arms. "What are you talking about? We are all hot."

"No, the big brother that my mother let me touch before wasn't hot."

Ning Yan: That’s a portrait, of course it has no warmth.

Even Qiu Ge'er, the son of Xuan'er, was there tonight, and the family had their first reunion dinner in history.

After dinner, everyone went back to their rooms to rest.

The King of Yue took a shower in the bathroom for a long time before coming out.

Ning Yan sat by the bed waiting for him.

Their eyes met, and he unconsciously touched his cheek again, "Have I become uglier?"

Ning Yan said calmly: "Not bad."

The King of Yue was not happy. The princess smiled at him when they were at the city gate. How could she dislike him now?
He walked towards the bed and tore off his pajamas, "My lady, do you think I'm ugly? But what can I do? You have to accept my ugliness. Who asked you to marry me?"

Ning Yan saw more scars on his body.

When they got married, she knew that he had many wounds on his body, but the wounds had long since scarred over and turned into shallow marks.

Some of the wounds have not yet healed completely and left scars, and some of the skin is pink. That is the tender flesh exposed after the scabs fell off. It will take at least two years for it to become the same color as the skin next to it.

Ning Yan was observing how those injuries came about when her body was pushed down on the bed, with the man's strong body pressing down on her.

He had been in the army for more than two years and missed her terribly. How could he tolerate her disliking him?
That night, the King of Yue was fierce and aggressive. He kept asking the princess to say that she missed him and loved him, and that she would not despise him or leave him!
At first, Ning Yan did obey him. She really missed him and had him in her heart. She didn't dislike him, and she didn't want to leave him. She said it sincerely. But she got annoyed when she was asked to say it too many times.

"Get lost! Go sleep with your son. I won't serve you anymore!"

After saying that, she kicked the man away.

The King of Yue was dumbfounded. The princess actually scolded him and told him to get out?

He won’t leave!

He turned over and pressed on her again, "You really do dislike me! What you said just now was just a perfunctory response..."

Ning Yan pinched his thighs, and the King of Yue gasped in pain, unable to utter any more naughty words.

The world is quiet...

……

At the end of the year, officials who have completed their three-year term have to return to Beijing to report on their work.

Mao Renyi was temporarily transferred, so this is the first time he returned to Beijing this year.

When Mao Rui got the news, he prepared his mansion early to welcome his father and his family back to Beijing.

However, just when they thought that the family would arrive in the capital in two days, bad news came. On their way back to the capital, Mao Renyi's family passed by Qingzhou and were killed by bandits hiding in Niumang Mountain. No one in the family was spared, and all their property was looted.

Mao Rui almost fainted when he heard the news. He immediately went to the palace that day to ask for an imperial decree to go to Qingzhou to suppress the bandits and avenge his father.

The emperor approved.

It took a total of two months to suppress the bandits. There were actually more than 700 bandits gathered in Niumang Mountain. They had been robbing passing merchants. The reason why they killed Mao Renyi's entire family was that when they were robbing property, Mao Renyi actually wanted to exchange his concubine's daughter for property, and refused to let go of his money.

The concubine's mother stabbed her husband's heart with a hairpin. Mao Renyi never expected that a concubine would dare to kill her husband, so he begged the bandits to save him, saying that he was the governor of Nanzhou.

The bandits were dumbfounded. They just wanted to rob money, but they never thought that they would kill an official appointed by the imperial court.
Why not just go all the way and kill the whole family.

When Mao Rui went to suppress the bandits, he conducted a thorough investigation before taking action. More than 700 bandits, except for those who resisted stubbornly, were all captured and brought to Beijing to be punished by the Emperor.

After coming out of the palace, Mao Rui went straight to the Prince of Yue's Palace.

Ning Yan took him to the study.

"Mom, I went to suppress the bandits myself and brought them back because I was afraid that someone would say that the prince disliked my father and killed them to silence them.

As for him, he had embezzled more than 30,000 taels of silver in the three years in Nanzhou. It is not unjust for him to die!"

During the years he served in the army, his mother, not to mention her, had always sent him money, clothes and food, and even the princess's non-blood-related stepsister had sent him things.

But his father seemed to have forgotten him, his legitimate son, and never even wrote a letter to him.

People are all made of flesh and blood. He was sad about his father's death, but the sadness only lasted for a while.

After all, with a father like that, there really isn’t much difference between having one and not having one.

“Mother knows.

Your father just passed away, so you should wait a few more years before getting married. As a son, observing mourning for three years is the most basic filial duty."

"My son will submit a memorial of mourning tomorrow."

Ning Yan looked at her son, who was a head taller than her, and said with satisfaction, "Okay."

……

At night, Ning Yan originally wanted to sleep with her son.

But he was forcibly taken back to their bedroom by a shameless old man.

"Madam, you are too cruel. Can you really bear to abandon your husband?"

"Madam, don't bear it! The little brat has grown up, so let him sleep by himself from now on."

Ning Yan: ...You're still asking and answering your own questions? Where did that arrogant prince go? Return him to me now!
My child is on holiday today, so I went to pick someone up and just got back. Sorry, there are only four chapters today.