The Empress Kneels in Her Palace to Admit Her Mistakes After Slaying Her Ways in the Female-Oriented

Su Hong knelt down to express his gratitude and pledged his loyalty to Ren Tianye. Even though he knew that Ren Tianye would still believe him even if he said nothing, he still did it.

Then, amidst Ren Tianye's smile, they left the general's mansion.

Standing outside the general's mansion, looking at the gate that was once wide open to him, then closed to him, and now basically open to him at will.

Su Hong was filled with many emotions.

However, although everything went as planned, there was no overwhelming joy as I had imagined, but deep down, there was a surge of excitement.

I haven't felt this way in a long time.

Now it has arrived as promised.

"Second Uncle!"

Not far away, Su Jin, dressed in plain clothes and looking like a clerk, walked over: "Long time no see, Second Uncle, you look haggard."

"It's alright!" Su Hong replied with a smile, his eyes full of admiration for his eldest niece. The fact that the Su family was able to be revived and even have the opportunity to go further was largely due to his eldest niece.

Most importantly, this eldest niece is becoming more and more to his liking.

The anxiety that once lingered on her body has been worn away by time, leaving behind a gentle and refined temperament, as warm as jade, and a calm demeanor that surrounds her.

He is truly a pillar of the Su family!

"The General must have agreed to support our Su family in the future, right?"

Su Jin said, "Shouldn't our Su family celebrate such good news?"

"By the way, should we tell my little sister?"

Su Jin naturally refers to Su Li.

During the few days Ye Fan caused trouble in Yunji City, Su Li was forcibly locked in her room, which was a kind of house arrest, in order to shatter her unrealistic delusions.

However, a person's thought, which arises from nowhere, always inadvertently becomes deeply ingrained in their heart. It may seem like a single thread, but in reality, it is an endless tangle that can never be severed.

"Maybe we should just leave it to fate!"

Before Su Hong could respond, Su Jin answered herself.

"Li'er shouldn't care about these things..."

Su Hong interrupted her, his tone leisurely, seemingly filled with endless melancholy, yet also with a hint of relief, saying, "Don't worry about Su Li anymore."

"She is dead."

"What?" Su Jin's body trembled violently.

Su Hong looked up at the sky, where the starlight was desolate: "Before Yunji City was attacked by the barbarians, I received advance notice and had someone send your little sister back to her hometown to live out her days."

"On the way back..."

"I don't know who told her, but the general dealt with a man named Ye Fan, who was burned to ashes and scattered across the world."

"After hearing this, your younger sister took advantage of a moment when no one was looking and committed suicide."

"Only the half of the jade pendant with the character '凡' remained."

"However, after the jade pendant was returned, I smashed it."

Su Jin fell silent.

She could still vividly recall the voices and smiles of her second sister, Su Xiu, and her third sister, Su Li, but now…

One disappeared in Sifang City.

One committed suicide.

The disappearance of the second sister most likely did not end well.

The fact that the Su family is unaware of the specifics may not be a bad thing.

My younger sister is gone too.

but……

Su Jin clearly remembered that during the days when Ye Fan caused trouble in Yunji City, she had been patiently persuading her younger sister Su Li in her boudoir.

I learned about the complicated relationship between my younger sister Su Li and Ye Fan.

It can actually be explained in one sentence.

Ye Fan doesn't remember her at all!

She was merely a messenger between her second sister, Su Xiu, and Ye Fan, yet she inexplicably fell deeply in love with him and couldn't extricate herself. Now, she has even hanged herself to prove her resolve.

Let our loved ones suffer and our enemies rejoice!

What's wrong with the Su family?

How did they raise all these women to be just as useless as her?!

Su Hong had clearly composed himself, or perhaps he had been trying his best to suppress his emotions. His face remained calm, but there was a hint of melancholy in his eyes.

He and Su Jin walked back to the Su residence along the street.

The pace was neither fast nor slow.

The streets on both sides no longer look familiar.

During the days that the barbarians were attacking the city, when they ran out of weapons, they demolished many houses. The area closest to the Yunji city wall suffered the most severe damage.

One of the jewelry merchants refused Sun Xiang's compensation offer, determined to protect their ancestral business, which is now in ruins, with heads hanging on the city wall.

Upon reaching that spot, Su Hong gazed at the ruins and suddenly began to murmur to himself.

"A humble room, an empty hall, once filled with officials' tablets."

"Withered grass and barren willows, once a stage for song and dance."

Su Jin looked up: "Second Uncle, what did you say?"

"It's nothing!" Su Hong took a deep breath and said, "I was just thinking that in the future, all the children of my Su family, whether they are smart or not, will have to go to school and learn etiquette."

"No matter how busy I am in the future, I will personally oversee this!"

"With proper discipline, our Su family may one day become a powerful and ruthless force!"

……

The training of troops in Yunji City began swiftly on the second day, mainly involving dispersing and reorganizing the original soldiers into square formations.

While maintaining combat effectiveness, we must also prevent these people from forming cliques to seize power.

Although the probability is low, Ren Tianye will not take these matters lightly.

He had to personally take charge of these people to get the soldiers to obey his orders, so he was extremely busy. Just then, a message arrived.

"Report!"

"General!"

"A force, suspected to be barbarians, has been rapidly passing through the main road outside my Yunji City. Judging by their numbers, they number approximately fifty to sixty thousand!"

"General Zhang Shi requests permission to intercept them."

Ren Tianye was greatly encouraged.

I immediately guessed that this was someone brought by Takuba Shota.

Through analysis and the constant stream of news coming back these days, he has deduced that political changes have occurred within the barbarian tribe.

The barbarian king Tuoba Ashina and his eldest prince have most likely perished in the now-deserted hunting village.

The current barbarian tribes are under the control of Tuoba Xiangtai.

Meanwhile, Tuoba Xiangtai is to lead a large army south to the capital to find Empress Xiao Mingzhao!

This was the scene that Ren Tianye had long hoped to foresee, and he immediately said, "Order Zhang Shi to hold back and let Tuoba Xiangtai pass."

"This is Xiao Mingzhao's order. As a loyal subject, I naturally must give His Majesty face!"

After the messenger went to report, Ren Tianye intensified the deployment of his soldiers, and the next day, he directly took charge of the command post!

"Gentlemen, judging from the constant reports from our scouts, the barbarians have already marched south. They are moving extremely fast, avoiding any engagements with the northern prefectures and counties, and heading straight for the capital!"

"If I am not mistaken, there will soon be a huge commotion coming from Kyoto."

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

"This general has no intention of missing this opportunity to be seated at the table!"

"Generals of the Guards, are you willing to follow me and gamble on the fate of this land, to see who will ultimately claim it?"

Almost without hesitation, everyone's spirits soared, and they all longed to immediately lead their armies south and take over the land of Dayu!

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