Rebirth of the Merchant Girl

Chapter 258 The Best of Both Worlds
The eldest princess raised her eyebrows: "You mean, the emperor also has such a substitute?"

The regent intends to use this double to replace the original young emperor?
If so, it can solve the current problem.But with the empress dowager around, the double would become a puppet in her hands, rubbing it arbitrarily would benefit her.

The eldest princess frowned, this result is no different from the empress dowager listening to the government behind the curtain, the old woman has the final say!

"It's very inappropriate. With this double, the empress dowager can be unscrupulous."

"If it's this substitute, why don't you listen to the Empress Dowager at all?" Ruan Jingxin smiled with her lips curled up, causing the Eldest Princess to shudder.

That's right, no one is willing to be a stand-in, living a life of shame, and having to lose his life immediately in case of an accident, even his real name will not be mentioned.

The substitute has accumulated a lot of grievances, now that he has the opportunity to stand up and stand in front of others, how can he be willing to obey others?

The empress dowager thought she could handle this substitute, so she would naturally agree.

When the substitute is firmly seated on the throne, he will no longer be an obedient puppet.

The eldest princess did not loosen her brows, and said again: "The substitute may not stand in line with the empress dowager, but after a long time, there is no guarantee that he will not have other thoughts."

"Mother-in-law, don't worry, I have my own way to make him obey, and don't cause trouble for us." Ruan Jingxin made a final decision, and then heard the mother-in-law outside to report.

"Master, someone has delivered something."

Mammy's voice trembled, which had never happened before.

Even if Xie Yanniang disappeared back then, Mammy still quietly sent people to look for her, but she didn't see such a state of affairs and panic.

"What's the matter, who is here, and what is the gift?" The eldest princess asked in a strange voice.

"The master will know when he sees it," it was rare for Mammy to keep her secret, the eldest princess got up and went out full of curiosity.

Xie Yanniang also followed behind, with a puzzled look on her face.

The visitor was in the pavilion, tall and tall, he looked like a warrior.

He stood there with everyone behind his back, and the eldest princess's brisk footsteps suddenly became slow, and gradually stopped.

"Impossible, it's impossible..."

The eldest princess muttered to herself, unable to take a step for a long time.

Ruan Jingxin recognized the person, and told Xie Yanniang in a low voice: "This is the person the ghost doctor asked me to bring back to Beijing, but he has been wearing a human skin mask, and I don't know what he looks like."

It's just that this person, how could he suddenly appear in the princess mansion?
The eldest princess finally moved. Holding her skirt, she ran over in a panic.

The person who came heard the sound of footsteps and turned around to see a face covered with scars.

Scars, large and small, densely covered the entire face, and it was almost impossible to see the original appearance clearly.

Xie Yanniang was stunned by such a face, but it made the eldest princess' eyes turn red, and tears fell down: "Xie Lang—"

Ruan Jingxin was also surprised, and stared carefully at the face of the visitor: "It turned out to be the son-in-law."

Xie Yanniang saw the eldest princess rushing towards him, so she guessed that it was her father whom she had never met before.

The son-in-law died in battle, so how could he appear here?

She was suspicious and full of worry.

It took a full 16 years for the consort to appear, and people always wondered if it was fake.

The eldest princess whispered a few words to the son-in-law, then beckoned Xie Yanniang to her, and said cheerfully: "This is our daughter, look how similar her nose and eyes are to yours."

Xie Yanniang stood a few steps away, wringing her hands awkwardly, but did not speak.

The son-in-law also knew that he came back unexpectedly, and it was only natural that his daughter would not be close to him, so he sighed softly: "Don't be too busy, let's talk first."

"Yes, you must be tired when you came back from a long journey, so go into the house and have a rest." The eldest princess took the arm of the son-in-law, and suddenly returned to the past. There are fine lines in the skin, but it exudes the charm of a girl.

Looking at such a long princess, Xie Yanniang suddenly felt that even if the man in front of her was a fake, it was a good thing for her to be so happy.

When the son-in-law was walking, his left leg was obviously stiff and he walked extremely slowly.

The smile on the eldest princess's lips gradually faded, and she knew that the son-in-law could never come back intact.

She also slowed down her pace, and it took a quarter of an hour to accompany the son-in-law slowly before returning to the house.

The son-in-law was already sweating profusely, sat down with difficulty, and smiled apologetically at Xie Yanniang and Ruan Jingxin: "I made you laugh. I was ambushed and fell off the cliff. But the leg is completely useless. Now I can stand up, which is already a great fortune among misfortunes."

Xie Yanniang could guess how dangerous it was just by listening to it, she was not as light-hearted as the concubine said, it was indeed not easy for him to save his life.

The eldest princess turned her head and went in to make tea, and quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.As long as Xie Lang can come back alive, even if she can't move, she will be happy.

Serving him in front of the bed all his life, the eldest princess would never say a word.

But to the brave and skilled son-in-law, he is like a useless person, and life is simply worse than death.

Perhaps, this is the reason why the son-in-law has not come back for 16 years.

The son-in-law took the fragrant tea from the eldest princess, lowered his head and sipped it, and said with a smile, "The tea made by my wife is really the best."

Ruan Jingxin also laughed: "The ghost doctor is good at medicine, but not good at tea."

The ghost doctor's medicine is powerful, but the tea brewed is worse than the medicine, and it always has a strange taste.

The son-in-law nodded: "The king regent sent me back, otherwise my legs probably wouldn't be able to return here in a year or so."

"This is what it should be, my lord father-in-law." Ruan Jingxin followed suit and indirectly acknowledged his identity.

Xie Yanniang tugged at Ruan Jingxin's sleeve, feeling that the two of them were talking dumb.

Ruan Jingxin believed that the ghost doctor would not misunderstand the person, and with the eldest princess' reaction, the son-in-law in front of him must be the Hussar General who died in battle long ago.

The son-in-law talked about the past in a few sentences: "I was rescued by a woodcutter farmer. The village is at the bottom of a remote cliff. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a paradise. It took me a full year to sit up; Stand firm; in six years, I left the village with the farmer and met a ghost doctor. He said that my legs were broken long ago, and it was impossible to stand up. The ghost doctor was willing to heal my injuries, but the price was He has been a medicine man for ten years."

He also knew that the hussar general was dead, if he was found when he went back, he would be labeled as a deserter.

It's fine if you are accused by thousands of people, the son-in-law doesn't want to implicate the eldest princess.

Beijing is too far away to get any news.

Ten years seem like yesterday, fleeting in the blink of an eye.He counted a good day and bid farewell to the ghost doctor.

The ghost doctor did not keep him, but gave the son-in-law good news: the late emperor died, and his missing daughter was found.

The son-in-law followed Ruan Jingxin all the way back to Beijing, looking forward to seeing the eldest princess as soon as possible, but he didn't expect that his body was still too weak, and the long journey brought great burden to his legs.

At this juncture, he didn't dare to meet the eldest princess, lest she would be left sad.

After recovering from the injury, it still made the eldest princess sad.

The eldest princess frowned unhappily: "You are heartless, you should come to me as soon as you return to Beijing."

She waited and waited for so many years, thinking that the son-in-law had been waiting on the Naihe Bridge for a long time, but who knew he was still here.

The eldest princess looked at the son-in-law and smiled, but the tears in the corners of her eyes could not be stopped.

The son-in-law raised his hand to wipe away her tears pitifully, feeling heavy in his heart, the tears touched by his fingertips seemed to be very hot: "You, don't cry..."

After all these years, he still can't coax people.

The Eldest Princess shook her head helplessly and said, "I'm so happy, the heavens have eyes to reunite our family."

Xie Yanniang saw that the eldest princess was crying so much, she took Ruan Jingxin out quietly without disturbing the two reunited after a long absence.

"It's great that Daddy is back." Looking at the starry sky, she couldn't help sighing in a low voice.

Xie Yanniang thought that in this life, she would never see the son-in-law again.

Unexpectedly, the son-in-law escaped death and came back after all.

Xie Yanniang thought about her previous life, the eldest princess passed away two years earlier.

Ruan Jingxin also died, who brought the son-in-law back to Beijing?

If he came back after all the hardships and saw the tombstone of the eldest princess, how desperate and sad would he be?
Fortunately, in this life, she kept the eldest princess and allowed her father and mother to meet again one day.

Xie Yanniang turned around, and suddenly reached out to hug Ruan Jingxin who was behind her.

And this person, she also forcibly snatched it from Yama's hands and kept it by her side.

Ruan Jingxin hugged Xie Yanniang, looked down at her trembling eyelashes, couldn't help but kissed her.

"Let's go home."

"Okay, go home."

The word "go home" made Xie Yanniang feel warm in her heart.Looking back at the figures cuddling together in the room, she smiled slightly.

When the son-in-law came back, the eldest princess seemed to be back to her youthful appearance, radiant every day.

Xie Yanniang didn't bother her parents after a long absence and Sheng's newlyweds, she just stayed in the Prince Regent's mansion honestly and didn't dare to come to disturb her.

Ruan Jingxin only ordered a few words, and then accompanied her.

The two played chess from time to time, took a nap on the soft couch together from time to time, and occasionally the white wolf came over to get in the middle, everything was peaceful and comfortable.

Xie Yanniang sometimes thinks that if this kind of life continues like this, there is nothing wrong with it.

The quieter the mansion was, the more tumultuous it was outside the mansion.

When the young emperor's double appeared, the empress dowager was naturally happy to see it succeed, and announced that it was the double who died, and the real young emperor stayed in the palace because of illness.

The imperial court, which was noisy because of the death of the young emperor, suddenly became entwined.

As long as the young emperor is still there, regardless of whether it is true or not, it can stabilize the country of Qing.

The same is true for the empress dowager, she is just a stand-in, at least she does not need to choose a minister to intervene in the government, and she does not need to listen to the government behind the curtain to be criticized by others.

It's a good thing to have a double in the front and she in the back. How could I miss it?
After all, no matter how much the assistant minister wins over, he is an outsider after all. Who knows if he has occupied this position for a long time, will he have other thoughts?
(End of this chapter)