Rebirth: The wedding night, my whole family was exiled, I raised 500,000 soldiers

The student that Shen Yuanruan met came from a remote place in the north called Donglin. He was the student whose home was the farthest away among the students that Shen Congwen favored.

On the day of Shen Yuanruan's engagement, Shen Lanxi went over to make a formality.

Because it was the first happy event in the Shen family, even though it was the third wife's child, there were people willing to show their support, so the celebration was quite lively.

Shen Yuanruan took the opportunity of the engagement to say a few words to Shen Lanxi in private.

"Big sister, this student has been examined by my uncle, and I am very satisfied with him. My uncle said that after the imperial examination, we will get married, and then I will go to Donglin with him."

Shen Lanxi: "Just think it over for yourself!"

Shen Yuanruan had another purpose in visiting his elder sister.

"Big sister, can you please tell my uncle to let my future husband come home and study with the other brothers?"

Shen Lanxi looked at the man with a calculating face and refused decisively.

"I can't help you, just talk to my father yourself!"

Shen Yuanruan's raised lips froze, and she smiled bitterly and said, "Big sister, no one in my family likes me. If I tell my uncle, he will definitely ignore me."

Shen Lanxi: "You can ask your father to tell my father. My father only scolds me every day when he sees me. He doesn't like me very much. I can't help you!"

When Shen Yuanruan heard that she had been refused to this extent, she became anxious and blurted out: "Big sister, can you help my future husband?"

Shen Lanxi smiled and said, "Yuan Ruan, you've only known that student for a few days and have met him a few times. You came to me just for him. Do you really think you have a lot of face in my eyes?"

Shen Yuanruan couldn't laugh anymore.

"I have left you a piece of Shen family's dignity, you must cherish it, understand?" Shen Lanxi said coldly.

Shen Yuanruan felt a chill all over her body, and finally remembered how this person killed people without blinking an eye. It was because Shen Lanxi had said before that she would protect her family and make them live comfortably, so she forgot Shen Lanxi's cold-blooded and ruthless nature.

"Big sister, I was wrong. I will never do it again."

Shen Lanxi hummed in a low voice: "You made the right choice to marry far away. I hope you can take the right path in the future!"

Shen Yuanruan looked at Shen Lanxi's leaving back, his eyes becoming colder and colder.

……

On the day of Shen Yuanruan's engagement, the Jining Marquis' Mansion also sent a gift. This time the gift was very high-profile, with the intention of reconciling the old relationship.

Madam Shen directly rejected her, but Zhou Xinrou said a few words.

"The Marquis of Jining's Mansion is a wealthy family, so naturally they have to consider a lot when it comes to such a big thing as marriage. It's no wonder that the Marquis of Jining's Mansion canceled the engagement after the chaos in the mansion before."

This was the first time that Old Madam Shen had a fight with her eldest daughter-in-law, who was a princess.

"Marriage is not a joke. When we were engaged to the Jining Marquis' Mansion, their attitude was not good, and when we cancelled the engagement, their attitude was even worse. Our family does not need to cling to the rich and powerful. I cannot watch my granddaughter suffer such humiliation before she even gets married!"

Madam Shen’s meaning is actually very simple. You looked down on the Shen family before, but later when you saw that the Shen family had won the emperor’s favor, you came back to make friends with them. The Shen family also wants to save face.

Moreover, after such incidents, she had seen through it all. The rich and powerful, once something happened, would run away faster than rabbits and would be the best at disassociating themselves from anything, even worse than ordinary people.

Because of this insistence on face, Madam Shen ordered people to directly return the gift from the Jining Marquis' Mansion.

Soon it was Shen Yuanxin's turn to get married. Shen Congwen also picked a promising student and arranged the marriage for her before the imperial examination.

Shen Lanxi just went through the motions and gave a set of hairpins over.

"Big sister, my father intends for my future husband to come home and study with Mr. Ruohua."

Shen Lanxi thought about it and understood why she said that. She saw through it but didn't say it out loud.

"Before, Shen Yuanruan's future husband was not arranged to study at home, and my father was afraid that the third wife would have objections."

Shen Lanxi said ambiguously: "Father is free to arrange it, you don't need to worry about it."

Shen Yuanxin lowered her head and said hesitantly: "Big sister, I don't want to marry far away. I want to stay in the capital and stay at home in the future."

Shen Lanxi raised her eyebrows: "So, you don't like this future husband?"

Shen Yuanxin quickly shook her head: "No, that's not what I meant." Could it be that the elder sister was trying to sabotage it?

"Big sister, I really like my future husband, I don't have any other intentions."

Shen Lanxi: "That's good. Remember, we don't need daughters-in-law to marry off each other in our family!"

Shen Yuanxin didn't think it was a marriage arrangement, she just felt that her elder sister's words were a bit disrespectful to her. If she didn't want to help her talk to her father, she should just say it clearly, why bother beating around the bush and saying so much to scare her.

Soon after, the marriages of other concubines' daughters were also put on the agenda, and the candidates were all selected by Shen Congwen from among the students.

In recent days, Shen Congwen has felt very accomplished.

The children in his own room were disobedient, but the children in other rooms all let him do whatever he wanted.

He had tested all those students, and they were sure to become the most important officials of the Great Zhou in the future, with unlimited prospects. These people could be said to have joined him as his disciples in disguise.

When Shen Congwen thought of the scene in the future where there would be three thousand disciples, who were not great scholars but were better than great scholars, he would wake up laughing even though he was a doorman.

Just when Shen Congwen was busy arranging marriages for the girls in his family, Zhou Ru'an returned to Beijing in a low-key manner.

As a hero in the recovery of the Northwest, he should have been given a grand welcome by the imperial court. But who made up for the ridiculous affair between him and Zhou Qiwu's children? This matter was suppressed with great difficulty by the imperial examination system. Shouldn't he be as low-key as possible?

Zhou Ru'an quietly entered the palace, and when he came out, the slap mark on his face was clearly visible.

Within a day, the absurd affairs of Zhou Ru'an and Zhou Qiwu's children spread again among the peddlers.

Emperor Renxiao frowned as he held the list Wang Bao handed to him.

"Does Shen Congwen want to recruit all the pillars of the Great Zhou Dynasty to his Shen family?"

Wang Bao then snorted coldly: "Shen Congwen is so bold that he dares to snatch people from His Majesty."

Emperor Renxiao looked at the people on the list with a gloomy face, his expression changing from gloomy to bright.

Wang Bao: "Your Majesty, I have a plan..."

After hearing this, Emperor Renxiao's face immediately lit up.

"Just do as you say!"

"Yes."

"Wang Bao, did Shen Congwen do this with Shen Lanxi's instructions?"

Wang Bao laughed twice: "I heard that Shen Lanxi killed Shen Congwen's concubine, and her parents are at loggerheads at home. This old Master Shen is always holding Shen Lanxi back!"

Emperor Renxiao raised his eyebrows and soon burst into laughter.

……

"Sir, the Shen family sent the housekeeper to ask for help, saying that the third son of a concubine got drunk and molested a commoner girl, and was detained by the Dali Temple."

Shen Lanxi frowned: "Go and verify the authenticity. Who asked you to come?"

"It's the old lady."

Shen Lanxi walked towards the Shen Mansion with a gloomy face. She had finally had a few days of free time, but she had used them all to take care of household chores.

"Lan Xi, you're back. Please save Yuan Zhan." When Shen Congli saw Shen Lan Xi coming in, he quickly stepped forward to plead for the illegitimate son.