Transmigration begins with archery training

"Oh, Brother Shi is back?"

Gu Xinlan put down her work and got up to greet them.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Chen Sanshi got straight to the point: "Sister Lan, who is this young lady?"

"Lord Chen, you must have a bad memory."

The woman's black robe was embroidered with gold trim. Her crimson lips parted slightly, and her voice, like the sound of a celestial palace, descended from the heavens: "Lord Chen has already forgotten how he displayed his power in the three prefectures, causing me to suffer heavy losses and lose territory?"

I?

Chen Sanshi re-evaluated this person.

The woman did not look at him, and said calmly, "My surname is Shen, and my given name is Guiyi."

"So it is His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Kingdom."

Chen Sanshi nodded and asked, "I just don't know why you came to Sheng Chen's house?"

"The person you're holding in your arms, whose real name is Shen Yuzhi, is..."

The Empress paused for a moment, then said, "My own elder sister, born of the same father and mother."

"you……"

Chen Sanshi looked at the Empress, then at Lan Jie'er in his arms, processing the information, and finally came to a somewhat unbelievable conclusion: "The Emperor of Qing is my sister-in-law?"

"Sister-in-law?"

The Empress frowned slightly, clearly not understanding: "What do you mean?"

"Brother Shi, I didn't mean to keep it from you."

Gu Xinlan explained, "I was still young then. If word got out, it would bring disaster upon our family."

"I know."

Chen Sanshi certainly understood the reasoning behind it.

"A country hunter, a scholar who couldn't even pass the imperial examinations."

The Empress's tone was contemptuous and angry: "You actually spent seven taels of silver to buy the Princess of Daqing as a child bride, to serve you like a slave."

"Returning tender shoots!"

Gu Xinlan was unhappy.

She retorted, "My son Shi is now an earl, and he knows better than anyone how capable he has been in battle these past years. What else is there to complain about?!"

"If my father hadn't taken pity on me and scraped together the money to buy me, I might be dead in some brothel right now."

"As for what you said about serving people..."

“The Chen family wasn’t a large or wealthy household back then, so how could the women not help share the burden?”

"Look now, everything's getting better, isn't it?"

Upon hearing this, the Empress's eyebrows twitched slightly, and she glanced at her sister, as if to remind her of something.

"You silly girl, I already promised not to go to the city gate to pick them up, haven't I given you enough face as 'His Majesty the Emperor'?"

Gu Xinlan said, "Aren't you going to call him brother-in-law?"

"Sister, you..."

The Empress was somewhat helpless.

Even as the ruler of a nation, she couldn't muster any temper in front of this woman. In the end, she could only sigh and say, "He is, after all, just an ordinary mortal."

"Guiyi, you're getting more and more arrogant."

Gu Xinlan said unhappily, "If you keep doing this, I'll really get angry."

"Well, what's done is done, and I have nothing more to say."

Empress Daqing got up and left the bedroom.

"Sister Lan".

Chen Sanshi then asked, "Now that things have come to this, there's nothing left to hide, isn't there?"

"Yes, Brother Shi, please have a seat."

Gu Xinlan helped her husband sit down and poured him a cup of tea: "Brother Shi, you should know about 'hostages', right?"

Chen Sanshi nodded.

"Back then, my father was a hostage sent from the Qing Kingdom. The Qing and Sheng Kingdoms exchanged hostages to establish friendly relations and trade, and jointly resist the barbarians."

Gu Xinlan spoke softly, “Qing Kingdom is different from Sheng Kingdom. Princes who are willing to go out as hostages will be regarded as making meritorious contributions. At that time, my father had basically decided on the crown prince and planned to stay in Da Sheng for a few years before returning to take over the country.”

"result……

"At that time, my grandfather suddenly died of illness, and my third uncle took over the throne."

"After that, my third uncle framed my father, dragging him into the dispute between the princes of Sheng Kingdom, and accused him of treason, trying to kill our whole family."

"In that major case, many ministers of the Sheng Kingdom died, and countless people were exiled."

"At that time, only one person could be saved, so I let my sister go. I was also lucky enough to save my life by using the false identity of a minister surnamed Gu. I was only exiled and not beheaded."

"And then, Brother Shi..."

"You should know by now."

Party strife has always existed, and a major purge every ten or eight years is quite normal.

Chen Sanshi really didn't know about these things.

He joked, "So, I really did get a good deal?"

"Brother Shi, are you still making fun of me?"

Gu Xinlan said coquettishly, "I've figured it out anyway. There's nothing good about being in the royal family. Being an ordinary person is not bad either, and our family is doing quite well now."

"The royal family..."

Chen Sanshi reminisced about everything that happened on Ziwei Mountain.

This is true.

Once they become royalty, fathers and sons, brothers and sisters will turn against each other.

The old emperor was no good.

But one thing is true: he was lonely and had no friends.

this point.

You can tell from the fact that he always talks to himself about the past.

"and then?"

Chen Sanshi asked, "Where did your sister go after that?"

He asked that question.

In reality, it was the spiritual energy within the Empress that was being questioned.

As far as he knows.

The empress disappeared for many years.

Until the coup two years ago, the mission was accomplished in one fell swoop.

"then……"

Gu Xinlan recalled carefully: "She fled with the elders of her clan and couldn't even return to the Qing Kingdom. She could only hide and wait for an opportunity to act. I don't know exactly where she went."

To the ends of the earth.

Chen Sanshi pondered.

His sister-in-law is probably also a cultivator.

Otherwise, how could someone so young become the ruler of a country?

"what?"

"Crossing the river?"

After finishing their conversation, Chen Sanshi suddenly realized that he had completely forgotten about his son.

"Oh, I don't remember either."

Gu Xinlan looked back at the cradle, but it was nowhere to be seen: "I was so focused on your return today, and Guiyi was also talking about something, so I forgot about it."

"..."

Chen Sanshi activated both his [Tracing and Concealing Techniques] and [Qi Observation Techniques] to search for his son at home. He eventually found him sleeping peacefully on a wicker chair in the backyard.

On the side.

The empress, dressed in a black robe, gently placed her crimson nail polish on his body. A spiritual light emanated from her, and then she murmured with some disappointment, "Another mortal."

"Your Majesty the Emperor Qing."

Chen Sanshi called Siqin over to carry him across the river, and tentatively asked, "Why do you call everyone just an ordinary person?"

This guy doesn't seem to be hiding his cultivation of immortality at all.

"You don't really count."

The Empress said expressionlessly, "Sun Xiangzong's disciples can follow the path of entering the Dao through martial arts."

"younger sister."

Chen Sanshi sat down in front of her and asked, "You've come all this way, besides reuniting with your sister, is there anything else?"

If it's just about recognizing each other.

There's absolutely no need to wait for him to come back.

For His Majesty the Emperor to infiltrate enemy territory carries considerable risk.

After all, she's not the only cultivator in the world.