War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 532: The Princess Kneels, the Mother of the Country
"Fuzhen, are you waiting for your husband again today?"

Under the cover of night, Yuan Fuzhen sat in the moonlight, with a rockery behind her and the edge of a flower bed beneath her. Next to the flowers was a gurgling stream flowing around the courtyard, and in the waterway were fat carps that had filled their stomachs.

"He won again. At Tuanchengkou, he wiped out an entire brigade of the Japanese."

What Yuan Fuzhen said didn't sound like a good thing. It sounded more like she was talking about her husband, a gambler, who had lost all his family property again.

Deputy Director Li smiled and reached out to pat the back of Yuan Fuzhen's hand on her knees twice: "I asked someone to calculate it, and it said that Xu Chaoyang is a warrior who fights with his back to the scorching sun. How can such a man be bound by his family?"

"Liu Bang wanted to have a share of the spoils even from his own father, and was so cruel as to push his wife and children off the carriage. Okay, can I stop talking?"

Yuan Fuzhen turned her head, glared at Deputy Director Li and said, "Chaoyang is not that kind of person."

"There was emotion in the way he looked at me."

Deputy Director Li was laughing the whole time, as if he was laughing at a word that every man understands, called - playing along with the situation.

This man wants to play the role of deep affection, and his acting skills are excellent. As for the so-called "I am stupid and cannot pretend", anyone with a little social experience knows that from this sentence on, everything else counts.

"He went to Ruyuekou."

Deputy Director Li ignored what Yuan Fuzhen said and said to himself: "If he wins again this time, no one in the world will dare to look at him straight in the eye. Even the chairman who is in charge of Jinling will have to be polite to Xu Chaoyang if he sees him now."

"What on earth are you going to say?"

"I just want to tell you that when you thought he could save the Yuan family, you should have known that the Yuan family is definitely not something that can be saved by ordinary people. If one day he saves the Yuan family, then your attitude towards him will have to change."

Yuan Fuzhen didn't understand and didn't know how to understand.

She is a princess.
"Ma Da Jiao was able to limit Zhu Yuanzhang, but it was never the same as before."

"Xu Chaoyang's family is in Taiyuan."

Yuan Fuzhen didn't understand the first half, but understood the second half. She turned her head and looked at Deputy Director Li: "Uncle"

"Hey~" Deputy Director Li said half-jokingly, "As long as you go to Taiyuan and meet the old man, and let him recognize you as the principal wife, from now on, I will have to call you the Queen Mother."

Yuan Fuzhen looked at Deputy Director Li hesitantly, her eyes revealing an emotion that Chinese people in this era have never easily expressed. That thing is called love. Under the illumination of that thing, it should have been Romeo and Juliet, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, but it was not a woman flicking her long sleeves to guard the deep palace, expecting equal treatment.

"uncle"

Deputy Director Li interrupted Yuan Fuzhen again: "Empress Lü was waiting for the love you all talked about, but in the end, she chose power."

"Otherwise you will just keep complaining and become annoying."

"Xu Chaoyang hasn't conquered the country yet, and I, a relative by marriage, haven't monopolized government affairs."

When Deputy Director Li looked back in the moonlight, Yuan Fuzhen only had one sentence left to say: "I hate the surname 'Yuan'!"

Deputy Director Li laughed, and said sarcastically: "It's been thousands of years, and it can't be changed."

"There is no true love in heaven."

That night, they both sat under the rockery, gazing at the hazy moonlight, for the entire night.

Early in the morning of the second day, a horse headed straight for Taiyuan, carrying a letter, and entered the Taiyuan Prefecture. The soldier on horseback was different from everyone else. Facing the rain of guns and swords in Taiyuan Prefecture, he just sneered disdainfully, and then placed the letter on Yan Laoxizi's desk without much respect.

When he turned around, Yan Laoxizi left a sentence in the office: "What a powerful army!" At noon, a carriage set out from a wealthy family outside Taiyuan, with a team of less than a hundred guards, and drove straight to Taiyuan in the war-torn area, raising dust all the way.

It was because of what Deputy Director Li said: "Girl, the trip to Taiyuan may seem dangerous, but with the enemy troops approaching, Old Man Yan would never dare to do anything to you. And you going to meet your father-in-law in such a dangerous environment will be a story that will be passed down through the ages!"

"With the testimony of Old Lady Yan, even if Xu Chaoyang dies one day, the shawl and phoenix crown will only be yours."

Deputy Director Li did a great job, doing every aspect of it in the open, in a way that was both reasonable and legal, and a model for the country.

If this were still in ancient times, Deputy Director Li would at least be able to step into the emperor's hall.

But Yuan Fuzhen was still angry that Xu Chaoyang only cared about his comrades.

The carriage entered Taiyuan city, and soldiers saluted all around. It was the Jin army that lined up on both sides of the street in Taiyuan city, preventing the onlookers from moving forward. Although there was no kneeling by the whole nation like when the emperor went out, there were not many people in the world who could make Old Lady Yan pose in such a manner today.

It was not until the carriage entered Taiyuan City and stopped at the entrance of the alley that Yuan Fuzhen stepped out of the carriage, wearing fox fur hand warmers, black high heels, a cheongsam underneath, and a black woolen fur coat outside. Her noble aura immediately overwhelmed all the wives of officials in Taiyuan City, including the jealous gazes in the crowd.

"Have you heard? This is the daughter of the Yuan family!"

"If it was decades ago, you would have to kneel down to meet him."

"You have to kneel down? With your status, you probably won't be able to see me even if you kneel down, right?"

Every word of the officials' wives entered Yu Qiulan's ears. She could never have imagined that the man back then would actually marry a princess named Yuan!

"Mrs. Xu!"

But even though she was a princess, her husband's surname had to be placed before her status, a surname that she had once looked down upon!
Even so, this 'Mrs. Xu' still bowed slightly to Old Lady Yan who came forward, and only said, "My husband is not here, sir, please understand that I cannot say more."

In this situation, Yan Laoxizi could only nod and make way.

Old Lady Yan had to make way for her and let her walk towards the broken door.

The paint on the door had gone off, leaving only wooden splinters exposed by repeated shocks.

Yuan Fuzhen took off her hand warmers and black coat, and only wore the cheongsam that best represented her status. She knelt at the door of the shabby room, and then Deputy Director Li came forward and knocked on the door.

"relatives by marriage!"

"relatives by marriage?"

"Open the door, I brought your daughter-in-law back."

Yu Qiulan was watching this scene that the whole Shanxi was paying attention to, but what came to her mind was the poverty and hardship of Xu Chaoyang's father. Even though his son was a company commander in the Fengtian Army, he was reluctant to give two more betrothal gifts to such families. On what basis should the princess of the Yuan family be allowed to marry into the family!

Do you believe such a thing?

Yu Qiulan still doesn't believe it until now.

"dad!"

Yu Qiulan's thoughts were interrupted only when Yuan Fuzhen called out this voice. What she called was not "Dad" but "Dad", a word that is rarely used by Chinese people nowadays.

crunch~
The door was pushed open.
　It will be available later, don't worry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)