After his wife and daughter died tragically, the scumbag prince's hair turned white overnight

The first thing Murong Jingyan did after ascending the throne was to grant amnesty to the entire country.

The second thing was to confer the title of Princess Anping on the young princess Murong Xiaoxiao, and to grant her a princess's mansion when she reached the age of 15.

The third thing was to establish the rule that the Nanyuan royal family would not have harems.

The fourth thing is to announce to the world that Shen Muxi will be married into the harem in the grand wedding ceremony three months later.

The ministers were in an uproar.

A month later.

Changxiju.

Gu Xiaoxiao is identifying herbs with Xia Chan in the herb garden.

Shen Muxi was sitting by the fire in the pavilion, brewing tea while listening to Luoluo and Hongdou vividly describing what had happened in the court today.

"...Miss, you don't know that Lord He just said that, and the Emperor immediately arranged for his two daughters, who were proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, to marry the sons of General Zhou and General Zhao. Lord He's face turned green."

"I also heard that the two daughters of the He family are good, but unfortunately they have an unreliable father."

Luoluo continued, "Isn't it? Isn't it a coincidence that General Zhou's son and General Zhao's son seem to have a good relationship with Lord He's eldest and second daughters. Unfortunately, Lord He is arrogant and looks down on military commanders. When General Zhou and General Zhao came to propose marriage, he threw all his things away. Now that the emperor has granted the marriage, he can't even resist the order."

Shen Muxi raised the corners of her mouth slightly without saying anything, but the smile that did not reach her eyes revealed her true mood.

Very strange.

She was obviously with Murong Jingyan, so she should be happy.

But...

Whenever she was happy, an indescribable emotion would always well up in her heart...

This feeling made her very uneasy.

Just when she was distracted, Murong Jingyan came quietly.

"What are you talking about? You look so happy?"

The palace maids and eunuchs all bowed to Murong Jingyan and retreated.

Shen Muxi stood up to greet him and was about to salute when he stopped her.

"Why should there be such alienation between you and me?"

The two sat down together, and Murong Jingyan suddenly saw the tea brewed in front of Shen Muxi.

The tea soup is light in color and smells like both tea and medicine.

"The medicinal tea I made two days ago is good for strengthening the body and replenishing the vital energy. Want a sip?"

Murong Jingyan was not polite and poured himself half a cup.

Even though his previous injuries had healed, Murong Jingyan's constitution was still a bit cold.

The moment he drank the medicinal tea, he felt a warm current spreading from his stomach and abdominal cavity, and then flowing throughout his body.

He looked at Shen Muxi in surprise.

"Did you prepare this specially for me?"

Shen Muxi proudly straightened her back, saying one thing and thinking another, "That was prepared for me. Who told me to have my life tied to you?"

Murong Jingyan was delighted and drank a few more cups before putting down the teacup.

Gu Xiaoxiao who was having a lot of fun in the medicine garden, no, she is now Murong Xiaoxiao.

When Murong Xiaoxiao saw Murong Jingyan coming back, she ran over with her skirt lifted up like a mud monkey.

"Father."

"You run slower."

Murong Jingyan lifted her collar like a chicken and helped her stand up.

Seeing that there were some mud marks on her face, before Shen Muxi could speak, he took out a handkerchief and wiped the dirt off her face.

Shen Muxi straightened her messy hair and adjusted her hair crown.

The hair crown on her head was complicated, some of which were tightly entangled in her hair because of the large movements she had made while jogging.

It’s really not easy to solve.

He accidentally pulled Murong Xiaoxiao's scalp.

"I come."

Murong Jingyan took the soft hair from Shen Muxi's hand.

His brows furrowed, "If you were in the palace on a normal day, you wouldn't have to dress so elaborately."

"But Ping'er, who was doing my makeup, said that Xiaoxiao was dressed appropriately, and it would be a great honor for you, Father."

"Father doesn't need anyone to give him face."

Murong Jingyan looked at Murong Xiaoxiao disapprovingly, "The palace is your home. When others come, they have to follow your wishes and behave according to your will. It's not like you, as the master, have to rely on others for your life. That doesn't make sense."

"Go, return to your bedroom and have someone help you change into some light clothes and simple hair accessories. You are in your own home, there is no need to be so restrained."

Murong Xiaoxiao followed the palace maids and eunuchs to retreat.

Shen Muxi glanced at Murong Jingyan with a rather jealous look, "Alas, sometimes, three words from mother are not as effective as one word from father."

"You are such a person that you even make children jealous."

Murong Jingyan knew that Shen Muxi said this in front of him on purpose.

Xiaoxiao is not his biological daughter, so no matter what he does, she will always feel insecure.

He knows it all.

So, all he could do was go along with her words and misinterpret her meaning.

"If you're jealous of me being nice to Xiaoxiao, then be nicer to me and let me be nicer to you."

"You...don't push your luck. I gave you a bed, but you still want to cover yourself with a quilt."

"More than just covering me with the quilt," Murong Jingyan whispered in her ear, "I also want the beauty on the bed to be my obedient guest."

Shen Muxi blushed and stood up to leave, "You lecher, pay attention to your image."

"What kind of image do I need to maintain in front of you? There's no one else here."

Murong Jingyan pulled her back into his arms and said, "The wedding dress has been embroidered at the Shangyi Bureau, and the phoenix robe and phoenix crown should be ready in the next two days. I'll have them delivered to you when the time comes. Try them on and if there's anything that doesn't fit, have someone make some changes."

According to Nanyuan customs, brides usually embroider their own wedding dresses when they get married.

Murong Jingyan arranged for the Shangyi Bureau to rush the production because time was tight.

Secondly, he was familiar with Shen Muxi's personality. If she did it, she would either not do it or do it to perfection, especially when it concerned her life. If he asked her to embroider it according to his own requirements.

Not to mention three months, even three years might not be enough to embroider well.

She can wait, but he can't.

Shen Muxi had no idea what Murong Jingyan was thinking in that short period of time.

She just nodded shyly, and instead of refusing, she changed the subject.

"Before the wedding, I want to go to Ziyang to take a look."

Murong Jingyan's smile froze slightly.

"Ziyang Temple disappeared when you first went to Beichen from Nanyuan."

Shen Muxi frowned, "No more?"

Murong Jingyan nodded. "Overnight, the Taoist temple and the surrounding mountains were desolate after the trees withered overnight. Even the Taoist priests in the temple disappeared. Why did they go to Ziyang Temple so suddenly?"

Shen Muxi sat up straight with a serious look on his face.

"These past few days, I've been dreaming that Shen Xi was still in Ziyang Temple."

Seeing Murong Jingyan's expression also turned cold, Shen Muxi hurriedly comforted him, "I know you don't believe in these weird things, but..."

Before she finished speaking, Murong Jingyan had already held her hand and said, "I'll go with you."

"You are busy with your work on weekdays, I can go..."

"Be obedient. It's not just you. I've also had dreams recently, and they're also related to Ziyang Temple."

Seeing Murong Jingyan's serious expression, he didn't seem to be lying.

Shen Muxi did not refuse again.

...

The next day.

After Murong Jingyan retired from court, he and Shen Muxi changed into their usual clothes for going out, and left the palace with He Xuan and Xia Chan.

Appearing in front of Ziyang Temple again, Shen Muxi felt as if he was in another world.

Murong Jingyan told He Xuan and Xia Chan to stay outside the temple, and he and Shen Muxi pushed the door open and walked in together.

Shen Muxi clearly felt the thin sweat oozing from Murong Jingyan's palms.

"Are you nervous?"

Murong Jingyan squeezed his hand slightly, then relaxed a little.

"No."

The moment the two of them stepped into the Taoist temple.

The door of the Taoist temple closes by itself even without wind.

Shen Muxi just turned his head and glanced behind him. When he looked back, even the people around him were gone.

Just as she was panicking, a strange yet familiar voice sounded beside her.

"Believer, it's been a while since we last met. How are you?"

Shen Muxi recognized the person at a glance.

"Master Xuanqing?"

Xuan Qing flicked his whisk lightly and bowed slightly to Shen Muxi, "May you be blessed with infinite blessings."

Shen Muxi looked at him warily, "Where's Murong Jingyan?"

"He has his fate, you have yours, and you both have your own knots in your hearts."

"Knot?"

Shen Muxi covered his lost chest.

Obviously, Murong Jingyan had given him everything he could.

But she still felt that there was a void in her heart that had not been filled...

"The word 'debt' is always in your heart. Do you feel okay, believer?"

Xuan Qing's words were like a loud bell, giving Shen Muxi an epiphany.

Correct.

owe.

She couldn't be happy because she still felt guilty.

Murong Jingyan is already trying his best to make up for what he owes Xiaoxiao.

She wanted to make up for what she owed to the former owner of this body, Shen Xi, but she didn't know where to start.

That's why she felt uneasy.

"Mu Xi."

A plain Hetian jade pendant emitting a soft and lustrous glow floated in front of her, and Shen Xi's gentle voice came from the pendant.

She looked at Xuanqing in surprise.

The latter clasped his hands together and bowed to Shen Muxi again, "Blessings and Infinite Heavenly Venerable, the soul of this little believer has not yet completely dissipated. The various entanglements in the past have led to your destined mother-daughter relationship. Isn't this another kind of perfection?"

Mother-daughter bond?

The surprise in Shen Muxi's eyes turned into excitement.

"what do you mean..."

"Since I feel I owe you something, I will make amends in the future."

Xuanqing's voice became more ethereal.

As he waved his whisk, the jade pendant fell steadily into Shen Muxi's hand.

The moment Shen Muxi caught the jade pendant, the scene around him returned to normal.

The magical thing is that from the moment she held the jade pendant, the empty space in her heart seemed to be filled.

Murong Jingyan was looking at her worriedly.

She slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, "I'm fine, go back."

Murong Jingyan said nothing more, his eyes falling on the lustrous jade pendant in her hand.

In the end, he didn't ask anything.

"Ah."

That night, Zi Yang Temple collapsed.

Shen Muxi never dreamed of Zi Yang Temple again.

Two months later.

Shen Muxi and Murong Jingyan got married.

Murong Jingyan married Shen Muxi into the palace with a grand wedding, and the dowry was so huge that there was no end in sight.

A year later, Shen Muxi gave birth to a son for Murong Jingyan.

She was named Nianqing and given the title Princess Rongle.

Murong Xiaoxiao particularly likes this new sister.

Ever since Nianqing started to speak, Murong Xiaoxiao has been taking her sister everywhere.

Occasionally, after Murong Jingyan finished dealing with affairs of the court, he would take his wife and two daughters on a secret tour around Yecheng.

All the officials in the court were dissatisfied with the fact that Shen Muxi had not given birth to a prince for several years. They only shut up when the imperial physician said that Murong Jingyan had injured his body when he was young and the probability of having children was very small.

To prevent others from having inappropriate thoughts.

One morning during the court session, Murong Jingyan "confessed" to the court officials that the third prince, who was once a rebellious king, also had a son who was living among the people. He had not mentioned this before because the situation was unstable.

Now that the situation has stabilized, he will make that child the crown prince.

As a result, some of the Third Prince's former subordinates who were once loyal to him and had not yet been pulled out completely gave up the idea of ​​making trouble in secret.

Thanks to the unity of all court officials.

During Murong Jingyan's reign, Nanyuan's national strength reached its peak.

As the queen of a country and a role model for women in Nanyuan, Shen Muxi established a girls' school, giving women the opportunity to enter school and take exams to gain academic honors.

In addition, she abolished the bad custom that women were not allowed to engage in business and encouraged women to step out of their homes independently.

Abolish the bad custom of foot binding and abolish chastity arches.

In most folk customs, the status between husband and wife is unequal, and she argued with many scholars with solid reasons.

Finally, we succeeded in adding to the "Laws of Nanyuan"——

For a woman who has been divorced without fault, all the betrothal gifts and dowry shall belong to her;

Those who abuse their wives and children shall be strangled;

Anyone who beats his wife and children to death will be punished by lingchi (death by slicing), and his entire family will be punished by exile 3,000 miles away.

Anyone who keeps a mistress during his wife's pregnancy or sleeps with a concubine shall be punished with eighty strokes of the cane, and the husband's entire family shall be exiled three thousand miles away.

Those who kidnap and sell children will have their entire families punished, including the buyer and seller, and their entire clan will be exterminated... and so on.

Many of the laws were still in use hundreds of years later in Nanyuan.

In addition, she wrote "Man's Virtue" and "Women's Classics", breaking the status quo of gender inequality and greatly reducing the number of infanticide cases in remote counties.

With the joint efforts of her and Murong Jingyan.

The entire Nanyuan achieved great harmony.

The people are prosperous and the country is strong.

Fifty years later.

Danyang.

Summer evening.

In an elegant mountain villa.

The white-haired Murong Jingyan was wearing a straw hat and picking lotus seeds while rowing on the bow of the boat.

Shen Muxi, who also had white hair and a simple bun, sat in the cabin and urged, "Old man, please hurry up, I'm almost starving."

"Wait, I'll call you out after I'm done peeling you. It's very hot out here, don't let your pretty face get tanned."

If one were to ask what Murong Jingyan had shown most during the decades they had been married, it would probably be the sweet words that came out of his mouth.

Since the second day after she married him, he has been praising her in disguised ways every day.

Praise every day, praise every day.

She was debating with a group of scholars, and he was praising her. Not only did he praise her, he also joined in the discussion, making the group of old guys in the court so angry that they almost rolled their eyes.

Occasionally, they would have an argument, and she would contradict him regardless of her status, but he would praise her, saying that she was very observant and could even find such a small flaw in him. She must love him terribly.

Humph, even if she loved him terribly, she would not tell him.

The two lived happily together for decades.

Now that she is in her seventies, she can eat bowl after bowl of millet porridge, he continued to praise her.

Everything that happened in my youth seemed like a mirage.

She has forgotten the pain of being hurt.

After filling the debt in her heart, she completely let go of the past.

then.

Murong Jingyan did not ask about her bond, and she did not inquire about his worries.

They only knew that after returning from Zi Yang Temple, the two of them got along more naturally, and that was enough.

"Old lady, the lotus seeds are peeled, come and have a taste."

At the bow of the boat, Murong Jingyan placed the peeled lotus seeds on the lotus leaves. Shen Muxi grinned at him, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes almost pinched a fly to death.

"coming."

What she wants is never just to enjoy the lotus and eat lotus pods in summer or to make tea around the fire in winter.

But there is someone who can treat her sincerely until old age.

Now, she found it.

It’s summer, the lotus fragrance is in the air, and everything is just perfect.

Um...

The lotus seeds are very sweet, so she wants to dry some and keep them.

This winter, while sitting around the fire and making tea, she cooked some lotus seed and white fungus soup for the old man.

【End】