The ancients shocked the old feudal society when they watched modern women raising babies.

The ministers who had been mocking An Ran just now were looking at the sky with disbelief. They were so surprised that they could swallow an egg with their mouths wide open unconsciously.

The ministers in the emperor's camp felt extremely happy when they saw the defeated ministers in the queen mother's camp. Some of the young and impatient ministers couldn't help laughing.

"Hahaha, Miss An is the future imperial concubine. How can you and others question her? This is simply treason and I will offend you below!"

The ministers of the Queen Mother's party, headed by the Censor, knelt down one after another: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty, and please forgive me, Your Majesty."

This royal censor is Wang Ziyan's father. When the former prince was still alive, he followed and flattered the prince all day long. Seeing that the prince died of illness, he kept looking for another patron.

As the second prince, Yun Chenyu was not taken seriously by the royal censor Wang Zhaoxian at all. Wang Zhaoxian was interested in Yun Chenfeng, the son of the Queen Mother.

The power of the third prince's mother's family is second only to that of the former prince's mother's family, and they are the best candidates to become emperor.

And Yun Chenyu's mother-in-law was from a humble background. In the early years, the late emperor visited the south and was attracted by a beautiful folk woman.

Women are not like the concubines in the palace. Everyone is so afraid of him and speaks in a condescending manner.

This woman had bright eyes and white teeth, and a bright and open temperament. She was neither humble nor overbearing when facing the late emperor. The late emperor soon fell in love with the woman.

This woman is Yun Chenyu’s biological mother, Ren Qingyue.

The Ren family was originally a farmer. Ren Qingyue's father, Ren Mingxiao, was talented and was the only scholar in the village.

Ren Ming has been pursuing the imperial examination all his life. When he was in his thirties, he neither succeeded nor wanted a wife. This made his parents anxious.

Fortunately, Ren Ming is a scholar and is quite respected among the educated people in the village. Even if he is in his thirties, there is an endless stream of matchmakers.

The two elders of the Ren family asked Li Xiuniang, the girl from the village chief's family, to help Ren Ming.

The girl is beautiful and smart, and is good at embroidery. She is known as a virtuous person in the village.

Ren Ming was focused on the imperial examination and did not care about these external matters. It didn't matter who he married. Since his parents asked him to marry, he should marry him. It would be a good thing to have one more person to serve him.

Li Xiu was a young girl and the daughter of the village chief. She was good-looking and smart. She was highly sought after by the young people in the village, but Ren Ming was the only one who was indifferent to her.

This made Li Xiu look at Ren Minggao a lot. In addition, Ren Ming was not as open-minded and vulgar as other middle-aged men. Ren Ming always spoke in a rude manner, which Li Xiu found very interesting.

When Li Xiu heard that she was going to be promised to Ren Ming, she was not disgusted, but had some expectations.

Not long after their marriage, the two had a daughter, Ren Qingyue. Although their relationship was not sweet, they could be regarded as respectful to each other.

A few years later, Ren Ming still failed to pass the exam, and his parents were getting older. Ren Ming spent all day studying in his study, without any income. He relied on his two elders to farm and sell grain, and to do needlework with Li Xiuniang.

Soon after, the two elders drove west from Hexi. After arranging the funerals of the two elders, Ren Ming suddenly proposed to leave this small village and study in a nearby city.

Euphemistically saying that there was no learning atmosphere in the village, Ren Ming sold his home and took his wife and daughter to a foreign country.

Ren Ming didn't get what he expected when he arrived in the city. With the little money he had, he could only buy a small house in the slums.

So Ren Ming started to learn how to drink, and made some bad friends, hanging out and bragging every day.

Li Xiuniang takes care of everything at home.

Li Xiuniang became a little anxious when she saw her husband not coming home all day and not focusing on studying.

But her advice only aroused Ren Ming's disgust, and sometimes he even scolded her for having long hair and short-sightedness, and that women don't understand anything.

Ren Ming had already lost almost all the money from the sale of the old house. He and his daughter relied entirely on Li Xiu Niang to make money from her own embroidery.

Li Xiuniang looked at her little daughter and thought about how she would live in the future if her child got married and she would be too old and too dim to work.

Li Xiuniang remembered that when the two elders were still alive, she looked down upon Li Xiuniang and only gave birth to a daughter. Now Li Xiuniang thought about it, she wanted to give birth to a son!

But things didn't go as planned. Before their son was conceived, they got the news that Ren Ming had died of drinking.

Li Xiuniang and Ren Qingyue were left orphaned and widowed, living a difficult life.

Although Ren Ming is not a good father or husband, he is also somewhat talented. Ren Qingyue has been influenced by it since she was a child, and she also learned a few words and composed a few poems from her father.

As she grew older, Ren Qingyue became a beautiful woman in the neighborhood with both talent and appearance.

The young man pursuing her and the matchmaker who came to propose marriage were almost over the threshold.

Li Xiuniang was both happy and worried. She was afraid that her daughter would end up like her if she met an unkind person, and she was also afraid that if she didn't make an appointment for her daughter early, she would delay her daughter's life.

In Tianyun Country, once a woman gets older, it is difficult for her to find a husband, and she will be laughed at by her neighbors.

Of course, what Li Xiuniang fears most is that her daughter is getting more and more beautiful and eye-catching, and more and more people are surrounding her like wolves and tigers.

Her daughter was like a treasure that had been hidden for many years and was suddenly opened. There was no one around to look after her. She was afraid that she, a poor old woman, could not protect her daughter well.

Li Xiuniang felt that it was really impossible without a man in the family. Li Xiuniang once went back to her hometown to seek help from her parents and brothers.

However, earth-shaking changes have already taken place in the village. The war in Tianyun Kingdom continues. In recent years, the older brothers and younger brothers in the family have been drafted and sent to the front line.

They were not good at fighting and died on the battlefield at a young age. Their parents could not bear the blow and both died in depression.

The village chief usually has a good reputation in the village, and the kind-hearted people in the village simply took care of their funeral arrangements.

Li Xiuniang cried so hard in front of her parents' graves. In these years, she had focused on her small family and rarely contacted her family. She hated it so much and regretted it so much!

When Li Xiuniang returned home, her hair was whiter and she looked much older.

Ren Qingyue comforted her mother that she would take good care of her and provide for her in her old age.

Since then, Ren Qingyue seemed to have grown up suddenly. She wanted to marry into a rich family while she was young and beautiful.

In this way, we can have a good future and give our mother a stable old life.

When she met the late emperor, he paid a private visit incognito. Ren Qingyue didn't know that this was the emperor. She only felt that the man's general demeanor was more noble than the son of the county magistrate's family.

Ren Qingyue determined at that time that this was her future golden turtle husband.

However, many years later, when Ren Qingyue looked back on this time, she could only lament the inevitable reincarnation of fate.

Her original wish for her mother to spend her old age in peace not only failed to come true, but she also followed her mother's old path.