From doomsday survival to fast-forward daily life

In that heart full of hope and endless waiting, only Jing would come to see her from time to time.

In the autumn of the ninth year, Jing brought a secret bag.

Qiu Niang recognized it; it was the thing he always hung around his waist.

"My brother said that this thing is a gift for you, so just forget about it in the future." Jing looked at Qiu Niang and spoke, his words full of reluctance.

How could Qiu Niang agree with them?

She was educated by the ladies from a wealthy family since she was young, and later lost everything on her wedding day. She is soft-hearted, but she is never a person who lets things go.

Why can he forget it just like that?

Even if I want to forget, I have to say it in front of both of them. Otherwise, what is the point of all my long anticipation and waiting?

Qiu Niang was still brought into Chen's house by Jing. She rushed to the man's bed, lifted the bed curtain and wanted to scold him.

Then she began to tremble and burst into tears.

The man who used to be able to stand tall and proud could now only lie on the couch with his legs nowhere to be found.

"Did you see it?" He smiled bitterly, his voice full of helplessness.

Qiu Niang's voice also began to tremble: "How could it be..."

"How can a good girl like you be worthy of a cripple like me?" His voice was bewitching, as if he was persuading Qiu Niang to give up.

After wiping the tears from her face, Qiu Niang smiled instead, with a stubbornness in her voice that she had never shown before.

"So what if I'm disabled? Do you really think of me, Qiu Niang, as a wife who can be summoned and dismissed at will?"

"My father and husband died on my wedding day. Is there any storm that I can't handle?"

She looked at the man and said seriously, "Since you promised to marry me when you return, you have made a vow. Don't say that you are missing two legs now. Even if you only have a head left, as long as you are still breathing, you have to fulfill my wish."

The man looked at her and gradually began to laugh. His laughter became more and more unbridled, and the light in his eyes became brighter and brighter.

"Then I will marry you. Once you say this, it won't count no matter how much you regret it!"

In the spring of the tenth year of Shunhe, General Chen's mansion welcomed a girl from the music troupe as his legal wife, which caused a lot of discussion on the street.

No matter what, Qiu Niang finally married her sweetheart, taking the agile and strong dog A Yu with him.

At the spring banquet of that year, Qiu Niang became the hostess of this mansion.

The people in the mansion specially found peach blossoms from the South Mountain. Qiu Niang gently presented a toast and put it into her husband's silk bag, hoping that he would be well from now on.

The Chen family was full of loyal and brave people. Now all that was left was her disabled husband and Jing who was in the deep palace.

All matters in the mansion were handed over to Qiu Niang to take care of. Although she did not grow up in the capital, she came from a scholarly family and was trained to be the mistress of the house in the future. Even though she had once fallen into the music school, these matters were no problem for her.

At this time, she thought that her life could go on peacefully.

Ever since her husband lost his leg, he has not been in good health. Most of the affairs in the mansion are taken care of by Qiu Niang. At the same time, in order to recuperate, the two of them live in the villa most of the time.

At the end of winter that year, someone from the palace came to tell them that Jing was injured and ordered his eldest sister-in-law to come to the palace to serve him.

Qiu Niang remained calm, arranged the affairs of the mansion, and entered the palace early in the morning.

Jing is the only remaining family member of her husband, and she treats her like her own sister.

Jing was lying on the couch, his face pale. When he saw Qiu Niang come in, he burst into tears.

After sending everyone away and comforting him, Qiu Niang finally understood why Jing was so abnormal now and what happened when he fell into the well that day.

General Chen's Mansion has made great military achievements since the founding of the country, so the royal family is naturally afraid that the achievements will surpass those of the master.

Jing's entry into the palace was a helpless move by the dwindling Chen family. She was framed in every way when she first entered the palace. If she had not pretended to be dead and escaped from the palace, she might have been framed by accident.

Now she called Qiu Niang into the palace because she accidentally heard what the current emperor said in his study. For a moment, she didn't know what to do. Her brother had a crippled leg and was still sick, and the only one she could rely on was Qiu Niang.

"Why are you panicking!" Qiu Niang's thin wrist now supported the hope of the general's mansion.

Her soft willow-shaped eyebrows raised, revealing a bit of sharpness for no reason: "A lean camel is bigger than a horse. Did she copy the General's Mansion just because she wanted to?"

After comforting Jing, Qiu Niang hurried out of the palace.

Inside the carriage, her shoulders trembled slightly. She didn't know what to do. She was just acting tough on the outside but weak on the inside just to make Jing feel more at ease.

My husband's health is getting worse day by day.

Qiu Niang's home is south of Shangjing, which is a place that scholars and poets yearn for, and there is also a legend about becoming an immortal and summoning souls there.

After all, Qiu Niang could not resist the torrent of fate, but she also wanted to do her best to protect the people she loved.

In the Chen Mansion, Qiu Niang met an alchemist who came from her hometown.

The other party left her a prescription, saying that it would be of great help to the recovery of sick people.

Qiu Niang didn't believe it at first, but she couldn't bear to see her husband living in pain. After several experiments, she found that it did seem to cheer up her husband, and his complexion was much better than before.

Although she was still a little worried, she continued to use this incense for the sake of her husband's health.

But since some time ago, her strong dog Ayu has disappeared.

When the last bit of incense left by the alchemist was used up, Qiu Niang panicked. Her husband's health was visibly deteriorating.

She ordered people to look for the Taoist priest everywhere, and when they found him again, he was completely different from the one who had come to Chen's house to seek a meeting the previous time.

Today's alchemists no longer have any immortal airs and look no different from ordinary farmers.

The other party said frankly that his prayer to the god was answered and his body was inhabited by an immortal for a period of time. After the immortal left, he naturally lost his original abilities.

After many days of pleading, the other party finally agreed to the sky-high reward offered by Qiu Niang and summoned the immortal to possess her again.

This time, Qiu Niang obtained the incense recipe, but one of the medicinal ingredients required human blood.

Qiu Niang never exposed her arms again.

As spring goes and autumn comes, the Chen Mansion holds a spring banquet every year.

The scene in the palace remains the same as before and has never declined.

However, when the scenery of the long street was no longer there, everyone knew that a vengeful spirit lived in the mansion of General Chen, whose property had long been confiscated.

Qiu Niang added new incense to her husband's incense burner and said, "Sleep peacefully, you will feel much better in the next few days."

At the spring banquet this year, everyone in the mansion once again went to find peach blossoms from the Nanshan Mountains.

Qiu Niang poured more wine for her husband, raised the glass and looked at her, and slowly uttered the toast that condensed all her hopes: "Spring feast, a glass of green wine and a song."

"I bow and make three wishes: first, I wish that you live a thousand years; second, I wish that I stay healthy; third, I wish that we can be like the swallows on the beam, and see each other every year."

The longer time went by, the more blurred Qiu Niang's memory became. She could no longer remember the scenery elsewhere, and her lover was left with only a pile of bones on the bed time and time again.

Time and again, she looked forward to her own death so that the man could live again in his prime.

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Tian Yu put his hands down from the props, already sweating profusely.