The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Jun Yuexin's blunt question made the yelling maid stop for a moment, and her master, the noble lady whose attire was out of tune with the mountain folks, couldn't help but look at Jun Yuexin: "This... girl, what you said is really ridiculous. I am the head wife of the Yao family, so naturally I have to stabilize the rear for my husband when he goes to the battlefield, take care of all the affairs at home, and serve my parents-in-law..."

"Yao family?" Jun Yuexin smiled a little abruptly, "Then you are the youngest daughter of General He?"

Madam He frowned immediately: "I didn't expect that you, a girl from the mountains, would have some knowledge."

"Madam, you are wrong. I am not the daughter of a mountain dweller. Although you and I have never met, I think you have heard of my name to some extent. After all—" Jun Yuexin's smile became more and more strange, "I have beaten up several of your nephews."

Her words made Madam He's mind pop up a name quickly. Her eyebrows immediately raised, and her originally calm expression quickly took on a hint of anger: "It's you!"

Jun Yuexin's father used to be a tiger hunter in the mountains. He saved General He's life by chance, and thus got the opportunity to join the army - but the relationship between these two families was not very harmonious.

The life of General He only gave General Xian Zhenguo a good citizen household registration and a recommendation letter for enlistment. General Xian Zhenguo started as a soldier, and worked his way up to this position step by step, relying on his numerous military exploits.

Later, the He family explained why their head of the family's life was saved by someone else, but they only gave him such a small reward - because General He was dying at the time, and they really couldn't take care of this wild boy who suddenly appeared. They wanted to wait for General He to wake up, find out the situation at that time, and then arrange a place for the wild boy.

Unexpectedly, the old lady was so concerned that she became confused. Because the appearance of the wild boy was too sudden, she took the initiative to only give him the household registration and recommendation letter. By the time General He was out of danger and woke up, and told his family the truth, the former wild boy had already made a name for himself on the battlefield that the He family could not ignore, so they hastily came up with such an explanation.

General Zhenguo did not make any special statement about this explanation. He just visited General He occasionally and discussed military matters with him. It seemed that he did not care that despite being his savior, he was treated coldly and doubted by his family.

But the more the general did this, the more the He family felt that he had big ambitions.

After much thought, the He family thought that this wild boy now had an official position and fame, but still lacked a wife of noble birth, so he must have set his sights on their daughter!

Although the rank of the General Guarding the Country at that time rose rapidly due to his military exploits, he had not yet been given the title of Guarding the Country. In the eyes of the He family, which had been a family of generals for generations, he was still a rustic nouveau riche. And with such embarrassing and cold treatment in front of him, several branches of the He family were unwilling to marry their daughters to him.

Old General He appreciated the ability of the General Zhenguo. It just so happened that he had a little daughter who was only two years older than the other party. Because she was a young girl, she was spoiled since childhood. They had been choosing a marriage for her but had not yet decided. Just when everyone thought that Old General He would marry his little daughter to that wild boy.

The youngest daughter of the He family, now Mrs. Yao, quickly got engaged and married to her current husband, and even hurriedly followed her husband to take office, acting as if she was trying to avoid the general who guards the country.

However, not long after the marriage between the He and Yao families ended, Ye Lianxin, the lady of the Ye family, took away the wild boy whom his family avoided. Because of her title, her wedding was much more grand than those of the other two families. The excitement even reached the ears of Madam He, who had already left Beijing. It was as if something slapped her hard in the face from thousands of miles away.

If the grievances of the previous generation were still obscure, then by the time of Jun Yuexin and her siblings, the conflicts between the two families were almost laid out in the open.

Because of the early death of the general, whenever the younger generations of the two families clashed with each other, outsiders who were not aware of the true situation would always think that the He family was bullying the orphan of the general. But in fact, every time the descendants of the He family made trouble, they failed to gain any advantage, but instead caused the brother and sister to be put in a lot of trouble.

The most serious incident was when several nephews of Madam He wanted to take advantage of Jun Yuexin being alone and disguised themselves as bandits to kidnap her and ruin her "reputation". However, Jun Yuexin took advantage of the situation and not only beat them up as if they were bandits, but also stripped several He brothers who had one hand or one foot deliberately broken, leaving them only in their underwear, tied them up into a string, and dragged them to Jingzhao Prefecture in a swagger to demand the reward for defeating the bandits, which made the people of the capital city watch with a lot of fun and laughter.

Later, after the trial and mediation by the Jingzhao Prefecture, the He family and the Jun family seemingly let each other go and reconciled. However, Madam Ye was so angry that these grown men actually used such means to harm her daughter, so she submitted a memorial to Empress Dowager Hu. Although Empress Dowager Hu had gone out to relax at that time, the emperor, who respected his biological mother, still directly stripped these He family children of their empty positions. If their fathers and brothers did not have any great achievements in the future that could allow them to rise to prominence, then their official careers would be completely cut off.

Since then, the two families have never had any open conflicts, but the grudges between them have become bigger and bigger in secret. Although Mrs. He is a married woman, her natal family is the basis for her to stand firm in the Yao Mansion, so she naturally pays attention to every move of her natal family. Although she has been living with her husband in other places and has never met Jun Yuexin and his sister, after learning about the miserable situation of her nephews, she hated this family to the core.

Now that she had seen the real person, she was still standing on the opposite side of her as soon as she appeared. Madam He became more and more angry. "So it's you. You all came from this poor mountain area. No wonder you are just like these shameless women. On the surface, you say you don't care about the disputes in the inner house, but in fact you are deliberately trying to attract attention. You deliberately acted uniquely to flirt with others. Going to the battlefield and fighting against foreign enemies are just excuses. As a woman, you have no sense of shame. Who knows what your so-called military exploits are based on?!"

This is a harsh statement, and it is very unpleasant to hear.

The mountain women, led by Yan Yunyi, looked at each other with gloomy faces, unbuttoned their clothes, and took off their shirts without paying attention to the sight of everyone.

"Ah!" The servants brought by Madam He screamed, "What a shameless and dissolute woman!"

The mountain folks glared at them, and Yan Yunyi's eyes were particularly furious. She pointed to a scar that ran diagonally from her left shoulder to her right waist and said, "Maybe I have offended you out of ignorance, but you shouldn't insult me ​​and my sisters like this!"

"We fought like men and gained military merits. We can't let you just say you are dissolute or shameless and then erase them or make malicious inferences about them!"