The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Madam He struggled and squeezed out a sentence from between her teeth: "Marching and fighting is not a woman's job. You...you are so against the laws of nature, reversing yin and yang, sooner or later..."

"What about sooner or later?" Jun Yuexin's brows narrowed. It was obvious that the person that Mrs. He really wanted to accuse of doing these so-called "unwomanly things" was not just herself. After all, in the eyes of such people, the woman behind Jun Yuexin who stepped into the court and kept slapping ethics in the face is still living a prosperous life.

With a half-smile, she pushed aside a servant who tried to stand between her and Madam He and said, "Madam, guess what, if I kill you here, will your husband and your family dare to stand up for your wrongful death?"

"You!" Madam He's eyes were red with anger. She was so angry that she didn't know what to say. At the same time, Jun Yuexin's serious and fearless look also made her feel scared from the bottom of her heart. This crazy woman dared to break the arms and legs of her nephews when she was young. Now that she is old, there is a concubine who is even more crazy and flamboyant than her. I am afraid...

After thinking it over, Madam He finally didn't have the confidence to risk her life against Jun Yuexin. She moved her lips twice and said in a very small voice, "Forget it, let's go back."

She noticed that the servants didn't even react at first, until they saw their master turn around and walk away in the direction he came from. Then they realized that their master didn't even have the courage to retort when faced with Jun Yuexin's extremely impudent and rude threat.

The maid who had previously been clamoring that her wife was the daughter of a general and would definitely do more than Yan Yunyi if she had the chance to go to the battlefield, now had an expression of disbelief, as if her faith had collapsed.

Mrs. He and her group felt frustrated and almost fled in defeat.

The mountain folks were silent for a moment, then burst into a tacit laughter. From a distance, Jun Yuexin saw Madam He, who was surrounded by servants, stagger. It seemed that she heard the laughter very clearly.

"You are so awesome. You actually managed to scold her away." A mountain girl came forward happily and praised Jun Yuexin. She did not speak Chinese very well. Her accent was very heavy and mixed with the mountain people's vocabulary.

Although she didn't quite understand what was said, Jun Yuexin still maintained a polite smile.

At this time, Yan Yunyi put on his shirt again and came over: "Thank you."

She was not good at arguing with others, and she really couldn't understand why she had clearly rejected General Yao's proposal and the two of them had no contact for several years - even Yan Yunyi had found a new lover and had a child - but Madam He was still so stubborn that she believed that he still had the intention of snatching her husband away.

"Aunt, you don't have to be polite. You don't have to be too reasonable with people like this. If she dares to come again, just beat her out. There's no need to prove her crazy words. She... never wanted your innocence, but just the pleasure of trampling her 'rival' under her feet."

Yan Yunyi was stunned for a moment, then said, "But she and I are not a love rival."

"It's enough for her to think that you are one. Not everyone can reason and understand human language." Jun Yuexin shrugged and said, "Just think of her as a wolf in the mountains. The wolf wants to eat people only because it is hungry and needs to use human lives to fill its empty stomach."

She glanced at Yan Yunyi's worried expression and said, "But since we have had a dispute with that Yao, he is no longer suitable to be the general of the southern expedition. When I return, I will persuade the Marquis of Anguo to replace him, so that he will not delay military operations due to personal grudges."

Even if General Yao is General He's son-in-law, he should not - let alone casually disclose all matters related to the military mobilization to outsiders. Mrs. He's unauthorized visit to the mountain people to provoke trouble was, in a small sense, just jealousy between women, but in a big sense, it was General Yao who was careless and leaked military information to outsiders.

Jun Yuexin would naturally not help them to make a big thing into a small thing. On the contrary, she would seize this opportunity to make this extremely well-matched couple in this family fall into disgrace.

When the mountain people heard this, they looked at Jun Yuexin with surprise in their eyes.

Zhuqueyin said with a click of the tongue: "Can he really be replaced?"

"Are you that powerful?" she said excitedly, "If you can really replace him, then all the troops of my Yuewu tribe will be under your command from now on!"

Yan Yunyi glanced at Zhu Queyin, then nodded and said, "It's the same here."

Perhaps the mountain folks were really fed up with the court officials represented by General Yao, or perhaps they had long intended to use this to find out Jun Yuexin's abilities, so they all echoed this and spoke at once.

Jun Yuexin waited patiently for the villagers to finish speaking before pulling out a small knife from her bosom and saying, "If you are willing to trust me, why not swear an oath of blood today?"

She cut her palm with a knife and blood gushed out.

The villagers were silent for a moment. Zhuqueyin raised his head and took a step forward. He also took out the knife he carried with him and cut his palm: "Okay!"

Seeing that there was no hesitation in her eyes, but only calmness and determination, Jun Yuexin dipped her hand in the blood and gently smeared it on Zhu Queyin's lips. After she finished, Zhu Queyin also dipped her hand in the blood and raised her hand to smear Jun Yuexin's lips.

"From now on, your blood and my blood will blend with each other's bodies. From now on, you and I will be sisters born from two different sets of parents." Zhuqueyin said solemnly, "I will trust your friendship with me, and please put down your guard against me and trust me as you would a real relative."

"That's natural." Jun Yuexin's original purpose of this trip was to gain the trust of the mountain people.

She looked up at the people around her and said honestly, "I have a very difficult road to travel, and I really need your help."

"No matter how difficult the road is, can it be more difficult than the dangerous journey through the Ten Thousand Mountains?" Zhuqueyin patted his chest, his expression becoming cheerful again, "I will help you!"

Because of the special nature of the羈縻县, the female officials and female soldiers here are within a reasonable but not particularly accepted range. Xie Yu really needs to expand this reasonableness and force people all over the world to accept the fact that women can also be officials and generals.

She didn't care whether those whose interests were affected would fight back. Now she had become the representative of a large interest group, and the female officials and generals would also be part of this group in the future. They were meant to devour the power and lives of others to strengthen themselves. And only by constantly strengthening themselves could they persistently suppress the voices of opposition and turn Xie Yuzhen's ideal state into a reality that everyone would recognize and get used to.