The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

There were scars of varying sizes on their bodies. Jun Yuexin could see the danger hidden behind those scars, and she could understand why Yan Yunyi and the others were suddenly so angry - if the survivors were so covered in scars, what about the dead mountain people?

Many of the Yi tribes outside the southwestern border have the custom of human sacrifice. The bodies of those mountain people who died in that war may never be recovered intact.

Jun Yuexin suddenly remembered what Xie Yuzhen said to her when she met her for the last time before she went to the expedition. In that battle, more than half of the mountain people who had surrendered earlier were killed or injured, including many female soldiers. But even if they did make contributions to the country, most of the people of Sheng Dynasty only knew that it was the imperial army that defeated the barbarians. Few people knew the key role played by the mountain people, let alone these female soldiers. Because the naming customs here are different from those in the Central Plains, they can't even remember all the names on the military merit book.

The women who had made military achievements and returned alive did not receive the official positions they deserved, but were instead rewarded with some meager property and returned home.

"So in this battle, I don't care what means you use, you must fight well and make a name for yourself!" Xie Yuzhen said to his close friend, "With me in the court, I can guarantee that you and the people who follow you will never be ignored and suppressed like before. Just go for it. I won't allow those pedantic old guys to get even a little bit of your credit!"

"I need a group of female soldiers, and I also need a general who can make their presence felt and has enough talent to lead them!" Xie Yuzhen's ambition was clearly revealed when he talked to his close friend.

At that time, Jun Yuexin put away her usual nonchalant attitude when facing her serious friend, and answered her seriously: "I won't let you down. For the future that we are looking forward to, I will not allow myself to fail."

Time returns to the present.

Jun Yuexin stood in front of the scarred women again with a look of reluctance, and said with a smile: "May I ask Madam He, your general has so many scars like this, is he as dangerous as these aunts?"

"You are also the daughter of a general. You must have learned these basic common sense. You can't tell what kind of injuries you suffered to leave these scars, right?"

She was wearing the clothes of mountain people, tall, with brightly colored bird feathers pinned in her hair. The feathers trembled in the breeze, and the thin silver ornaments on the feathers also made pleasant sounds. "If you can still insist on your dirty thoughts in the face of such scars, then I have to wonder if there is something wrong with the He family's upbringing. Your so-called martial arts and strategies are far better than those of soldiers who have actually fought in the battlefield, but you only know how to hide at home when the war breaks out. You regard yourself as the daughter of a general, but you have no empathy for the bloody soldiers... It can be seen that the root is rotten."

"How dare you!" Madam He clenched the handkerchief in her hand, her knuckles turning white. "When my father was on the march to the war, you were not even born yet. How dare a little girl make comments without permission..."

"I dare to say it. I've already said it. What? Are you going to hit me?" Jun Yuexin spread her hands. "Or do you want to write a letter home to cry to your father and ask him to help you beat me?"

"That's really unreasonable. Did I say that your family tradition is bad because General He is disrespectful to his elders and does not teach his father, which makes your whole family self-righteous and insult the soldiers who defend the country? Did I say that? No!"

"You!" Mrs. He pointed at Jun Yuexin, her face turning pale with anger.

Jun Yuexin still had a lazy smile on her face. She crossed her arms and said, "Look at you. Why are you so angry? You are already so old. I don't want you to get angry to death and end up blaming me."

Madam He's expression changed again and again, and finally she uttered a cruel word: "Just wait, I will ask my father to impeach you!"

Jun Yuexin shrugged and said indifferently, "As expected, you want to go to your father and cry. But Madam, I'm afraid you forgot that I am probably better than your family in terms of being able to hear directly from the heavens."

She stretched out her right hand and made a small gesture of "billion" with her thumb and index finger.

Mrs. He's brain, which was overwhelmed by anger, suddenly remembered that the man in front of her had a close friend with an even more disrespectful background, and this friend was about to become the mother of the country... She only felt a tightness in her chest and shortness of breath, and patches of ink appeared in front of her eyes.

General He was indeed the most trusted military general during the previous emperor's reign.

He was loyal to the late emperor and obeyed all his orders. The only thing he could not have expected was that the late emperor, who seemed to be very long-lived, would die suddenly.

Today, General He's status among the military generals is still transcendent, but it is too transcendent. If other generals are Taoist priests who burn incense, then General He is just a divine painting hanging on the wall - a mortal body made of paper, with nothing except his transcendent status. If the emperor of the world decides not to worship him anymore, he will instantly fall from a "god" to an evil demon.

If General He, the head of the family, is like this, let alone the other descendants who, except for the eldest grandson, are not very ambitious.

Mrs. He certainly understood that her family was no longer as powerful as before, and had long shown signs of decline, otherwise her husband would not have thought of taking a concubine. It was because the benefits that Mrs. He could bring to him had been declining rapidly, and Yan Yunyi was a candidate who could help him gain military merit and seemed easy to control at that time.

This couple, one wanted to use Yan Yunyi's military achievements and abilities to help himself get to the top, while the other was shocked by her husband's cold-heartedness and snobbery, and began to skillfully try to suppress her status in the harem before Yan Yunyi entered the house, but was completely broken by her husband's words that Yan Yunyi was different from her and was not an ordinary woman in the harem.

Yan Yunyi is certainly not a woman from the harem. She has never had any concept of the harem, and she has never known that the lover she might have had a brief or several times with already has a wife.

Just when Mrs. He deeply hated Yan Yunyi, a woman who was not from a military family like herself but was able to fight in the battlefield, and who was still going to take a completely different path from herself after hooking up with her husband, to the couple's surprise, the woman they both wanted to plot against and use directly rejected Yao's proposal, preferring to have her name blurred like her sisters and relatives when asking for credit, rather than becoming a "co-wife".

They hated her together, and the hatred continues to this day.

No matter how Jun Yue thought about Mrs. He's hasty move to come over and demonstrate to her "rival in love", she felt that it was because the man surnamed Yao had deliberately been hanging around Yan Yunyi. Otherwise, how could such military and political affairs of recruiting mountain people as soldiers be easily heard by Mrs. He, a "daughter of a general" who devoted herself to serving her parents-in-law and cooking for her beloved husband?