Chapter 173 – My Name is Jiang Chen
Hu Mingya gently got up and put on her clothes. Borrowing the moonlight that filtered in, she used a strip of ink to write two lines on a piece of paper:
Father, mother, I’m sorry, daughter is not good, let you be sad. I don’t blame them, it’s my daughter who doesn’t want to live.
She couldn’t bear the thought that the old Sister Wu several people were killed by their parents because of herself, and begged for mercy on their behalf.
She gently walked out of the courtyard and looked at the sky, a bright moon was already in the middle of the sky, with a few silent stars sprinkled around. She rubbed her stomach and headed north.
During the day she noticed that there was a small river to the north of the nunnery.
It was mid-February, and the night wind was strong and cool, blowing her hair and skirt. She didn’t feel the cold, and walked forward dumbly.
She walked past the wall of the nunnery, through a grove of trees, and came to the river. The river had just thawed and was flowing forward, glistening coldly in the moonlight.
She could clearly see that the water at the river’s edge was so shallow and clear that she could see the rocks underneath. The further in it went, the deeper it got and the greener it became.
She wiped a tear from her eye and touched her stomach and whispered, “I’m sorry, Mother couldn’t give birth to you. Let’s die together and go over there for company.”
She walked toward the river. The river water was cold and chilled to the bone as she continued to walk forward.
Suddenly, a man shouted from behind, “No, stop ……”
Her pace quickened and she continued walking. The river flooded past her calves and knees and the resistance grew.
As the shouts got closer, the sound of treading water came from behind.
Hu Mingya glanced back and it was a man running towards her.
She screamed shrilly, “Stop, don’t come over, leave me alone.”
The man’s steps stopped and said, “Girl, you’re not even afraid of death, what are you afraid of?”
Hu Mingya ignored him and turned back to run quickly into the depths again. The man caught up with her and grabbed her arm as the river water spread over her waist trail.
Hu Mingya struggled and cried, “Let me die, let me die. I’m a bad woman, and I had a child before I married. But he doesn’t want me anymore, what face do I have to live ……”
The man’s hand lurched, then gripped her arm tighter. Said, “No matter what hard things are, there is always a solution. Trust me, I’ll help you think of ideas ……”
Saying this, he carried Hu Mingya on his shoulder and walked towards the river.
Hu Mingya cried out and pounded his back a few times, then fainted.
When she woke up, she was actually lying in a broken house with a leaky roof, and could see a piece of sky, and the bright moon. She was so scared that she sat up, she sat on the dirt bed, which was very hot.
There was a fire burning under the bed, and the firewood in the fire was “crackling”. A man was sitting by the fire, adding wood to the fire.
When the man saw her sitting up, he stood up and smiled, “Are you awake? Don’t be afraid, I’m a good person, this is an abandoned earth house.”
Hu Mingya just remembered that she went to throw herself into the river and was saved by this man.
Her tears flowed out again, shaking her head and crying, “Why did you save me? I have no face to live, don’t want to live ……”
The man said, “Miss Hu, do you still remember me?”
Hu Mingya stopped her tears and looked at him, he wasn’t very old, he was handsome, and was wearing a low-level military official’s uniform.
Seeing the blankness in her eyes, Jiang Chen walked over to the edge of the mound and said, “You must not remember. Last year, during the Chongyang Festival when you were ascending at Xiangshan Mountain, a child ran fast and fell without paying attention, you picked him up, wiped his tears, and rubbed ointment on her.”
Hu Mingya thought about it, as if there was something like that. She handed the child over to the parents who rushed over, and the child’s parents thanked her and said that the child’s father was a clerk at the county office who had seen her and knew that she was Lord Hu’s daughter ……
Hu Mingya asked, “Are you a relative of that child?”
Jiang Chen shook his head, “No, I was on the side and saw …… it.”
He was attracted to this beautiful and kind girl at that time, and quietly followed her up the mountain for a long time.
He heard that her father was the county magistrate of Fengping County, and on the day of the Mu break he went to hang around the Fengping County Office, trying to inquire about Miss Hu. If she wasn’t betrothed, he’d ask a matchmaker to arrange a marriage.
By sheer coincidence, he suddenly saw Miss Hu with a little girl coming down the street, looking in the other direction and smiling. A young man greeted her and the two stood and said a few words.
The girl was smiling like a flower. Even from a distance, he could tell that the girl was extremely attracted to the man.
That man Jiang Chen recognized, was the only son of the Grand Princess of Yichang, Zheng Ji. Zheng Ji look Hu girl is full of admiration, see her disappear in the crowd before retracting his gaze, striding away.
If it was another person, Jiang Chen would still fight with him. But Zheng Ji, he thought that nothing can compare.
Zheng Ji is from a noble background, capable of writing and martial arts, and is quite popular with the Emperor. He himself asked to enter the five regiment battalion, but also asked to start from the bottom of the seventh grade general ……
Jiang Chen was disappointed and rode away.
He had just flunked out of the Jingwu Hall and entered the Western Battalion. In order to forget about the Hu girl, every day in the military camp desperate to practice martial arts, his mother to give him two relatives have pushed back.
Only a few days ago he heard that only less than a year of magistrate Hu was transferred to Xiangxi, a thought that he knew he was offended. Then he inquired, his only daughter said a few relatives have not been successful, so far has not been fixed.
Jiang Chen is both happy and blaming himself. Happy is the Hu girl did not betrothed, they still have a chance. Self-blame is that he should have thought that Zheng Ji may not be able to withstand the pressure of the Grand Princess, he should inquire more.
In order to make his mother happy, he came to Zhaomingan today to pray for his mother, and tomorrow he will go home to tell his mother that he has a girl of his choice.
Due to the excitement, he couldn’t sleep most of the night, and when he came out to wander around, he came across someone throwing himself into the river. Later, he found out that the person who threw himself into the river was actually the Hu girl ……
Jiang Chen’s heart ached terribly as he asked, “The person who harmed you was Zheng Ji?”
Hu Mingya cried again and put her face on her knees, “Why did you save me and let me die ……”
It was really Zheng Ji. It was said that Zheng Ji was bold and righteous, not good with women, but it turned out to be a beast of burden.
Jiang Chen gritted his teeth and cursed, “Damn it!”
He looked towards Hu Mingya who was crying and said softly, “Miss Hu, there is still a way.”
Hu Mingya shook her head and said, “There’s no way, there isn’t ……”
Jiang Chen squatted down and said to Hu Mingya’s head, “There is a way, I’m willing to marry you, willing to be the child’s father.”
Hu Mingya raised her head in shock for a moment, staring at Jiang Chen in a daze.
Jiang Chen added, “My name is Jiang Chen, I’m seventeen years old this year, I just entered the western camp not long ago, and I’m a sub-lieutenant from the seventh rank. I have a mother on top, my elder brother is Wu Xiangbo, three brothers, I line two …… Not to hide from the Hu girl, since the last year in the Xiangshan encounter, I adore the girl, can no longer pretend to be someone else. A few days ago, I realized that the girl is not promised to someone, and I want to go home to tell my mother and ask the matchmaker to propose …… marriage.”
There is no graduation in ancient times, from the academy or the state prison out, are called incomplete.