EBE Chapter 1081 The Short-lived Husband Has Lived Long (1)
Chapter 1081 The Short-lived Husband Has Lived Long (1)
"Where's the young marquis? Why is he a big rooster?"
"I heard that the young marquis is too ill to get up, so the marquis' wife had to find a big rooster to perform the wedding ceremony on his behalf."
"Is the young marquis so seriously ill?"
"If the illness wasn't serious, how could the Marquis agree to marry a man to bring good luck to the young Marquis?"
"Yeah, that's right."
Everyone in the capital knows that Song Huaizhou, the young marquis of Bei'an Marquisate, is terminally ill and bedridden all day long. It is estimated that he will die young soon.
But three years ago, no one in Beijing would believe this.
As the only son of Marquis Bei'an and Princess Lianying, Song Huaizhou was not only born into a wealthy family, but also had extraordinary talent.
As the only son in the family, Song Huaizhou could have done nothing but wait until he reached the age and performed the ceremony of coming of age, then he could be canonized as the crown prince and safely inherit the title of Marquis of Beian.
However, Song Huaizhou chose to take the imperial examination and became the top scorer at the age of fifteen.
At that time, Song Huaizhou was in high spirits and saw all the flowers in Chang'an in one day.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Before Song Huaizhou could become an official in the court, something unexpected happened.
That day, Song Huaizhou and his friends were drinking tea in a teahouse when they accidentally saw the carriage of the Duke's Mansion lose control and rush through the street.
In order to save people, Song Huaizhou had his legs broken by a horse's hooves. Despite timely treatment, he was unable to be saved.
Since then, his legs have been disabled and he can only sit in a wheelchair. Song Huaizhou has completely lost his chance of becoming an official.
Marquis Bei'an and Princess Lianying loved their son and wanted to pass the title to Song Huaizhou. The emperor also agreed to enthrone Song Huaizhou as the crown prince, but Song Huaizhou refused.
Ever since his legs became disabled, Song Huaizhou became increasingly depressed and even unwilling to see people.
Song Huaizhou didn't want others to see his crippled legs, because as proud as he was, he didn't want to see sympathetic looks on other people's faces.
Perhaps it was because Song Huaizhou had not appeared in public for a long time, and somehow, rumors spread among the people that Song Huaizhou was seriously ill.
As the rumor spread, Song Huaizhou went from being a crippled man with difficulty walking to a sickly person who was about to die.
Song Huaizhou himself didn't care about this, but Marquis Beian and Princess Lianying couldn't help but care.
Song Huaizhou was already depressed, and if he were disturbed by these rumors, he would definitely become depressed.
Just when Marquis Bei'an and Princess Lianying were so anxious that they couldn't eat or sleep at night, a wandering Taoist priest visited the Marquis's mansion.
The wandering Taoist priest said that if Song Huaizhou wanted to stand up again, he must marry a woman whose birth date was March 10th of the Gengchen year to bring good luck.
The wandering Taoist left this sentence and left.
With the idea of trying everything possible, Marquis Bei'an and Princess Lianying stated that as long as a woman's birth date was March 10th of the Gengchen year and she was willing to marry into the Marquis's mansion, even if she was not a noble lady from the capital, the Marquis Bei'an would be willing to marry her in a formal ceremony with a sedan chair carried by eight people.
However, there was no woman in the capital whose birth date was March 10th of the Gengchen year. Just when Princess Lianying was about to send people outside the capital to look for her, people from the Duke's Mansion came to her door.
Princess Lian Ying naturally had no good face towards the Duke's Mansion, the culprit that caused her son to break his leg, but the Duke's wife said that someone in the Duke's Mansion was born on March 10th of the Gengchen year.
However, that person was not a woman, but a man, and that man was none other than the eldest son of the Duke’s Mansion, Yun Shen.
Princess Lian Ying had never thought of marrying a male wife for Song Huaizhou before, but then she thought that a male wife might be better, at least it would be more convenient to take care of Song Huaizhou.
Song Huaizhou had difficulty moving, and the woman was too weak to support him, so she might not be able to do so. But it was different for the man.
Thus, Yun Shen and Song Huaizhou's marriage was settled.
But both parties disagreed with this marriage, especially Yun Shen.
Although Yun Shen is the eldest son of the Duke's Mansion, his glory is only on the surface.
Yun Shen's biological mother died early, and his maternal grandfather's family was of humble origin. In addition, the Duke married a concubine named Dou, so Dou naturally disliked Yun Shen, her legitimate son, in every way.
Ever since Dou became the mistress of the household, she has been bullying Yun Shen every day. It was a small matter for her to deduct money from him for food and clothing. When Yun Shen was fifteen years old, Dou directly poisoned and blinded his eyes.
Because Dou was afraid that Yun Shen would compete with her son for the position of crown prince, she directly poisoned Yun Shen to eliminate future troubles.
The reason why the Dou family was so rampant had a lot to do with Duke Yunling’s indifference or even turning a blind eye.
Yunling is an ambitious man. In his eyes, there are only two kinds of people: those who are beneficial to him and those who are useless to him.
Yun Shen happens to belong to the latter. To Yun Ling, Yun Shen is just a useless pawn.
It's because of Yun Shen's conditions that he is destined to not be able to marry a wife with a prominent family background, nor can he become a helper to Yun Ling.
Therefore, when Dou said that she could arrange a marriage for Yun Shen to the Bei'an Marquis' Mansion, Yun Ling didn't even care that Yun Shen would marry as a male wife.
Yun Shen didn't want to be someone's man's wife, so she resisted desperately, but resistance was futile as the marriage was already a foregone conclusion.
Yun Shen knew that resistance was hopeless, and hanged himself in despair.
Yun Shen also came for this reason.
Three days ago
"Wow, sir, your life is so hard!"
Yun Shen slowly opened his eyes amidst the intermittent sobbing.
But there was only darkness before my eyes, no light at all.
Yun Shen immediately determined that the original owner was a blind man.
But it didn't bother him much, he could use his eyes.
Before Yun Shen could replace his eyes, the crying voice from before rang out again.
"Sir, you finally woke up!"
Yun Shen could only deal with the person in front of him first and responded lightly, "Yeah."
"Sir, can I help you up?"
Yun Shenwei nodded.
Shu Bai quickly wiped his tears with his sleeves, and then slowly helped Yun Shen up.
"Sir, you worried me to death!"
Yun Shen didn't respond. He hadn't received the original owner's memories yet, so it was difficult for him to answer.