A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

Chapter 586: Parental Love Part 586

Even though he was personally sent back to his father's home in Wuchuan by the Regent Lady and treated with all due respect, and even though Dugu Rugu understood the difference between "letter of release from husband" and "divorce letter" in Chinese, he knew clearly that he was divorced by her.

Even though Yuan Mingjing took a detour to take him back to the Shiweiga Fairy Cave, under the pretext of fulfilling her original promise to him, Dugu Ruyuan, holding the divorce letter in his hand, had no intention of dealing with her perfunctory attitude.

He still remembered the wedding night when his beloved wife promised him at the most loving moment: after pacifying the Central Plains, she would take him to worship the ancestor Gaxian.

Dugu believed this sentence as he wished year after year, and dreamed over and over again about the scene of the couple worshipping their ancestors together. But in the end, it came late after the couple divorced.

So, at the entrance of Gaxian Cave, the two men wore the formal clothes of the Xian and Han families, and when they burned incense and offered sacrifices to their ancestors, Dugu Ruyuan showed no joy on his face or in his heart.

If she had fulfilled her promise earlier, even when his baby was still in her belly, even if they were surrounded by wolves, he would have been able to pay homage to her ancestors with a smile, and then find the courage to continue to be her weapon. For her and her child, he would have dared to risk his life to go against everyone.

Unfortunately, the moon has its phases, and Dugu Ruyuan and Yuan Mingjing were full of regrets from the very beginning.

Dugu Ruyuan was not a person who didn't know the big picture, so he divorced her cleanly and decided not to bother her again after returning to Wuchuan. However, what he couldn't accept was that she got engaged to Yuan Baoju, the murderer of his child, right after he divorced her.

When the news reached the northern frontier, Dugu Ruyuan was furious. He ran back to Luoyang alone and wanted to return the sword to her. However, she said that she didn't break up with him because she didn't love him anymore, but she had no choice. Gan Jiang and Moye will always be the symbol of their love.

Dugu Ruyuan was a Xianbei man who grew up in the northern frontier. He loved and hated directly. Hearing the words of his ex-wife, the regent princess, he was naturally angry at her cowardice. What was the difference between giving love without status and prostitution? Then he thought, she was the Khan of the Celestial Empire. Even the Rouran Khan had many wives and servants. Which of them, the royal relatives of the Han Dynasty, did not have countless concubines and mistresses?
He knew very well that if he continued to be entangled with her, he would become a mistress, which the Xianbei people hated the most. He knew very well how shameful it was for the original wife to become a concubine, but he still could not control his heart and could not give up the marital relationship that had lasted for so many years.

Therefore, Dugu compromised as he wished, hoping for a revival.

As a result, she clearly allowed him to stay in Luoyang and continue to serve as the "Wu Qu" general of the main star of Suxing Mansion, gave him great honors and generous salaries, and let him fight with his old fellow villagers. She almost kept him by her side, but every time he returned home and looked at his old master's wife and children, he felt sad and confused, with mixed feelings.

How could two people who each had a new home rekindle their relationship?

With the outbreak of the Heyin Incident, all kinds of chaos that had been foreseen followed. When the warlords were divided, the power of Dugu's tribe was divided into the Eastern Wei supported by Gao Huan. Dugu Ruyuan's soldiers stayed in Luoyang, and his princess returned to Longxi.

This time, his elderly father did not stop him, but held his hand and told him that even if they were divorced, she was still his lord, so go and follow her. This time, Kuzhe also dedicated his last son to the Wei Dynasty, which he had protected for hundreds of years. He also asked his son: If he could still have children, he should give birth to more children for the female khan to serve her.

This time, Dugu resolutely abandoned everything, including his family, local militia, and even his self-esteem and backbone, and followed her troops westward alone.

Even though she was neither the king nor his wife, and she didn't even give him a legitimate status, Dugu Ruyuan still fought to the end, fulfilling the oath he made when he first came to the Central Plains from the northern frontier, that he would accompany her through life and death. At the upper reaches of Longmen, at Fengling Ferry, when Dugu Ruyuan rode alone against the sunset to catch up with the regent princess's troops, even Yuwen Heita, who was already her military commander, was quite surprised to see him coming.

The same sunset, the handsome Xianbei man in red shirt and white horse, the same love that lasts forever at first sight, but the difference is that some people gather for profit and disperse when the profit is gone. However, some people only seek love and sincerity from beginning to end.

In the vast Wei Dynasty, from the northern border to the Central Plains, everyone was vying for power. Only Dugu Ruyuan did not seek anything, not even the favor of his beloved, but took out his heart to let her abuse him, and dragged his fearless life just to follow her.

Later in Chang'an, Western Wei, Yuan Mingjing supported Yuan Baoju as the founding emperor in order to appease his old subordinates. He continued to be the Lord of Suxing Mansion who supported the emperor, and even rebuilt Suxing Mansion in Chang'an. Yuan Baoju then agreed to abdicate on the condition of marrying her and becoming the queen. He even changed his name and surname, pretending to be a brother who died young, and transformed himself from Yuan Baoju, the founding emperor of Western Wei with wives, concubines and children, into "Yuan Baoyue", an unmarried and childless person, to her male queen, and took over her Suxing Mansion. His identity was exchanged to him being the "Purple Star" and a celestial being loyal to him.

Dugu Ruyuan felt uncomfortable, but he accepted it.

Especially after she became the female khan, he, the original wife, was favored more than the queen. Yuan Mingjing even made two jet stone seals for himself with eighteen sides, one for himself and one for him. This treatment, which even the queen did not have, made Yuan Baoju so angry that he broke a corner of his seal. When the empress found out, she actually dug out the corresponding tooth marks on her own seal according to the gap left by his break, so that the two pieces of jet could be inlaid diagonally, forming a mortise and tenon structure.

Dugu Ruyuan recalled that he was holding the Moye sword with the coal seal in his hand, which fully demonstrated the empress's blatant preference for her original wife, and it seemed that everyone in the world knew about their passionate love.

From then on, wherever the Western Wei Khan Yuan Mingjing sent him, he would emulate her ambition to "support the Han Dynasty" and continue to perform his duties as General Wu Qu of Suxing Mansion. With his enthusiasm and kindness, he worked hard to benefit the people and did everything beautifully for her according to benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. After all, this was her country and his home.

Later, Dugu Ruyuan had to watch helplessly as she took Yuwen Heita's brother as her male concubine and married the son of Gao Huan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in order to balance the power of the court... Even when she recommended that she remarry Guo from Taiyuan who loved him, Dugu Ruyuan married her as she had arranged and had children.

Dugu Ruyuan remembered his father's advice, so he always educated his children to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and to serve the female Khan when they grew up.

Even though they were no longer husband and wife, they were still monarch and subject. Dugu Ruyuan loved her humbly and was powerless. Fortunately, his second wife not only loved him but also respected the empress. Over the years, he remained her most loyal minister and general. She even gave him the word "Xin" as her name. From then on, Dugu Ruyuan completely became her most trusted minister.

But even the world and even the history books called him Xin, only the supreme empress still called him "Ruyuan" in front of everyone and behind their backs.

It's just that Dugu Ruyuan, who loved her so much that he gave up everything, and his ideal wife, are all in the past. But I don't know if it was before she was given a name, before she went on the Western Expedition, or even earlier... before they divorced?
Time flies and beauty fades in the blink of an eye.

As the country became more stable, Yuan Mingjing and Gao Huan each controlled Hexi in Shandong and ruled along the Yellow River. The chaos among the warlords of the past had long ended.

At the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the people who shared the world today and who had joined him in raising an army to save the emperor ended up helping the tyrant and destroying the country. From loyal soldiers to loyal ministers, and then to deceiving the emperor and treason, they turned the Northern Dynasty upside down and killed everyone like grass.

And decades of time passed quickly in the smoke of this chaotic world of endless wars and conquests.