Tu Zongye's leg injury could not be separated from his stepmother.

At the beginning, his mother was the most beautiful woman in Qingshui Town, and she came from a scholarly family. Her natal family was quite prestigious among scholars, and because of this, she was asked by the Tu family at that time to be the head mother.

To be able to give birth to such a good-looking son as Tu Zongye, besides his mother, Tu's father was also a well-known handsome man at that time.

It's just that this handsome man has no strengths other than his looks, and even his official position from the third rank was obtained through the protection of his father's generation.

However, Tu's father is not good at gambling and is not greedy for drinking, but he is a real official fan.

As a husband and wife, Tu Zongye's mother naturally hopes that her husband will be self-motivated. She is also a person of intelligence and wisdom. When the couple were in harmony, she also gave some ideas for Tu's father. After the errand, he performed outstandingly. With credit and performance, after the assessment period, Shangfeng promoted him to a level, and became a third-rank Wei Weiqing.

Tu's father is ready to move and wants to climb up again, but Tu's mother is a sensible person, knowing how capable her husband is, she can hold as many bowls as she wants, and she repeatedly hints that her husband can rest assured and do his duty well. .

But Tu's father felt that Tu's mother was belittling him, and even though he had been promoted by his wife several times before, he was stubbornly unwilling to give the credit to a woman, so he couldn't bear to talk to Tu's mother about it. These things, the relationship between husband and wife will appear cracks.

Tu's mother Bingxue is smart, so she naturally knows why Tu's father is indifferent to her, but seeing that Tu's father does not take concubines and does not look for others, he maintains the superficial harmony between husband and wife. All the power was put on Tu Zongye.

More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Tu's father has also stayed in Wei Weiqing's position for more than ten years.

However, the ambition to be promoted has not faded with the passage of time, but has become more and more hot.

Since the crown prince passed away early, there has been no crown prince. At this time, the older princes have grown up, even though they are still strong and healthy today, but in this era when the average age is only 60 or 20 years old, they have been on the throne for [-] years. Over [-] Kinshang is already a very long-lived man.

As a result, not only the adult and soon-to-be-adult princes had their minds fluttering, but even the officials of various factions in the imperial court began to sway from side to side.

Father Tu was naturally among them.

In this position these years, he has understood that if he acts honestly, he will probably have no hope of being promoted in his life, but if he stands in the right position, he will have to change his position when he rises to heaven alone in the future.

Father Tu's wishful thinking was well planned, but his political sensitivity was not strong. He only felt that the imperial concubine was the most favored at that time and that the eldest prince she gave birth to was the most high-profile. Then he felt that the eldest prince was firmly established as the next prince, and the next prince was eight or nine inseparable.

But I don’t know that there is another saying called shooting the first bird with a gun. The high-profile behavior of the imperial concubine and her son made the old but healthy Imajo feel very dissatisfied. In addition, the courtiers urged the crown prince from time to time. , This made him feel a sense of crisis, and made him feel that everyone was expecting him to step down, so the emperor was furious, and directly found a concubine and eldest prince with hair, and several other younger brothers also took the opportunity to make trouble. The incident of a lesson kept escalating, and finally the noble concubine was thrown into the cold palace, and the eldest prince was imprisoned.

As the saying goes, when the tree falls and the monkeys scatter, when the eldest prince's faction falls, the officials who are inevitably implicated will suffer.

Father Tu, as the big prince's party, naturally couldn't escape.

But thanks to Tu's father being too mediocre, even though he was in the first prince's team, in the end it was settled because he was insignificant, and it was only the result of being demoted two ranks in a row and deducting half a year's salary.

Compared with those who lost their black hats or even ransacked all over the house, it can be said that they are very lucky.

But Father Tu was very uncomfortable, he was downgraded two levels in a row!This simply killed him!

It's just that after eating the bitter fruit of being wrong in line once, Father Tu didn't dare to seek refuge with any prince in a short time.

And when he was depressed, he met General Zuo's daughter when he accompanied Tu's mother to offer incense.

General Zuo is a fierce general. As the youngest and only daughter in the family, General Zuo's daughter can be said to be very favored.

Although each other's father is over 30 years old, but because of his good looks and the considerate care of his mother in terms of food and clothing, he does not appear old. In addition, he has been depressed during this period of time, and he looks like a melancholy gentleman. She was only 16 years old, and she usually likes to read some stories about wits and beautiful ladies.

In the Qing Dynasty, it was not uncommon for husbands and wives to have a age difference of several or ten years, but the key point was that Father Tu already had a wife and son and his wife was pregnant again. Know how to control your words and deeds.

But General Zuo's daughter didn't, not only pursued Father Tu carelessly, but also clamored to marry him.

Although General Zuo's family felt that their precious daughter was arguing to marry a married man, it was really unattractive, but they were used to being petted since childhood, but they couldn't bear to refuse. Let her go to Tu's house as a flat wife.

To Father Tu, although General Zuo's daughter looks like a newly bloomed flower, it doesn't impress him, but General Zuo was not implicated in the eldest prince incident, and because the original General Right was the noble concubine's natal family, One ebbs and another, General Zuo's momentum among generals can be said to be advancing by leaps and bounds.

Once he establishes a relationship with General Zuo's family, it's not difficult to get promoted, let alone reinstatement.

That's why he was so excited.

As a bedside person for more than ten years, how could Tu's mother not know Tu's father's thoughts? Originally, she was pregnant with a second child at this time, and she was in a bad situation, so she thought about offering incense to keep the baby in her belly safe. Knowing that Tu's father could not comfort her at this time, but would stab her, this made Tu's mother give birth prematurely.

In the end, after struggling to give birth to the child, she suffered a hemorrhage and died of a blood collapse.

It stands to reason that after the death of a wife, a husband has to be in mourning for one year before he can remarry, but Tu's father said that because his second son is young and the family lacks a mistress and the various operations of General Zuo's family, it has only been half a year. At that time, he beat the gongs and drums and married the daughter of General Zuo's family.

This undoubtedly stabbed Tu Zongye's heart several times one after another.

The daughter of General Zuo's family is only three or four years older than Tu Zongye. To be honest, I am still a wayward child, so how can I be a good stepmother to others, not to mention the death of this stepson's biological mother and my shameful behavior? The matter cannot be separated, so that although she is not only displeased with Tu Zongye, but also very guilty - and she belongs to the type that the more guilty she is, the more she will do it.

It can be said that since the Tu family married a new wife, not only have the outside world criticized the Tu family, but the inner house has not had a moment of peace.

Not only is Tu Zongye dissatisfied with this woman who indirectly killed his mother, but the new wife is also very jealous of this handsome but ruthless stepson. In addition, she is pregnant soon, and she is even more concerned about the one left by her ex-wife. Treat his son as a thorn in his side.

However, Tu's father is selfish and only cares about himself. After the son born to her by the new wife was born, he also returned to his post, which made him feel that he did nothing wrong in this marriage, especially for Tu Zongye and Tu Zongqin brothers. Indifference.

It can be said that because of Tu's father's inaction and the new wife's various disturbances, the Tu family's rich and powerful families in the capital are digesting after dinner, but this couple is totally unaware of it.

The fact that the couple didn't care didn't mean that General Zuo's family didn't care.

Although they are military generals, being able to achieve this position means that they are not without brains. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Tu Zongye's martial arts and martial arts are very good, and his future prospects are even more limitless, far above his father.

General Zuo's family told their daughter that they wanted her to change her attitude and win over her stepson, but from what she heard, she felt that Tu Zongye was a big obstacle.

She knew very well that the death of Tu Zongye's two brothers' mother had a lot to do with her. At this time, she heard that her father and brother said that Tu Zongye would have a great future in the future, and that Tu Zongye had indeed had a smooth road to the imperial examination. She was worried that if the other party did this The second high school would pose a great threat to herself, so she simply did nothing and planned to destroy Tu Zongye directly.

So on the day before Tu Zongye was going to take part in the palace examination, in order to buy medicine for his brother with high fever, on the way back, he accidentally ran away from a crazy horse and broke his leg bone!

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"How can she be so bad! You have already ruined your future, and at this time you have to find someone to hunt you down!" At this time, Ohm and Tu Zongye had just escaped the previous wave of pursuit and were in a cave. shelter from the rain.

Here along the coast, the rain is quite frequent, especially in summer, it often rains continuously at night, and the sun is scorching during the day.

"It's a good thing I'm with you. If you really let Ah Quan come, maybe you will really become a dead soul!" Ohm withdrew his hand bandaging the other's wound, and was terrified. Fortunately, he still had the strength to stay. Although the agility can't keep up, but with the lady's 360-degree monitoring, she can barely avoid chasing soldiers.

"Yes, it's all thanks to Xiaomu." Tu Zongye thanked with a wry smile.

He didn't expect his stepmother to be so mad. According to what he knew about her, avoiding the capital by himself and his younger brother should be enough to reassure her—after all, even if he was under her nose in the capital, she was the most vicious The only method is to send people to startle the horse and cut off his own imperial examination path.

After she left, she secretly murdered her. This kind of method was beyond her pig's brain.

Unless, someone whispered something in her ear and gave her this idea.

But Tu Zongye quickly crossed over the people he had come into contact with in the past 18 years in his mind. Before he showed his talents, no one would want to put him to death?

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Capital, Li Mansion.

As the former prince Shao Fu, although the prince died early, but because of the upright family style of the Li family, Mr. Li never formed cliques in the court, so he is quite reliable today.

It's a pity that the Li family is withered, and besides Master Li, there is only one granddaughter and the widowed daughter who lives with her granddaughter in her mother's house.

"Qianqian, did you go out again today?" A majestic voice sounded, making the woman in pink clothes stop, then turned around, and smiled coquettishly: "Oh, mother, there is no rule for boudoirs in the Qing Dynasty." Women must go out of the gate and do not step out of the second door, so I will go out for a stroll, and I will be suffocated to death if I stay at home all day embroidering!"

"Nonsense!" The elegant woman who still had a little wrinkle on her face scolded softly, "We live in your grandfather's house, so you have to pay attention to your words and deeds, and you can learn a lot besides embroidery. For the time, I want you to recover soon so I let you go for a few days, but I don't want you to run out of the sky and go shopping as soon as possible, what is there to talk about with the stepwife of the Tu family! It's not just once or twice!"

Hearing her mother explain her itinerary for the past few days, the girl's complexion changed, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, before she had time to think of a reason, she blurted out: "Mother, follow me!"

Regarding her daughter's accusation, the elegant woman didn't feel guilty at all: "I need to follow you? Am I worried that something will happen to you outside?"

After the panic at the beginning, the girl had calmed down a little, and when she heard what her mother said, she followed along and said, "It's my daughter who misunderstood mother."

Seeing that her daughter admitted her mistake with a good attitude, the elegant woman's frown relaxed a little, her eyes turned lovingly: "If you want to know about Zong Ye, just ask me directly, although they are all from the Tu family, but that Stepwife has a bad reputation, and she doesn't treat Zong Ye with any kindness, so you'd better not deal with her."

The girl clenched the silk handkerchief in her hand, her eyes panicked: "I, why do I want to know about him?"

The woman mistakenly thought it was a young girl's shyness, and half-jokingly said: "You don't have to be nervous, Zong Ye is a student of your grandfather. Some... Mr. Tu also... But Zong Ye is a good one. In fact, your grandfather still told me a few days ago that if it weren't for his legs... he would be an excellent candidate for grandson-in-law ..."

"I don't want it!" Before the woman finished speaking, she was interrupted by the girl's sharp voice. Her face was pale, not at all the shyness of a normal girl talking about her marriage, but with panic and needle-like hatred , "I don't want to marry him again in my life!"

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