Grandmother Was the Family’s Secret Ally: I Alone Crossed the Border and Were Awarded as a Marquis
Everyone knows the Sheng family’s splendor and the elegance of the scholarly families of Bianliang. Yet no one knows that an old servant who had been loyal to Old Madam Sheng for half a lifetime returned to the countryside and raised a young man from a poor household. Lu Chen grew up in the countryside and was poor from childhood, used to oppressive officials bullying the people and the coldness of the world. His grandmother kept to her duties all her life and told him not to cling to nobility and not to rely on old ties. In a year of famine and desperate straits, with no way forward, he abandoned farming and left his homeland, enlisting at seventeen in plain clothes. The Great Song had bloated armies and decay, frontier smoke and flames everywhere, and hereditary nobles dominating everything; for poor commoners, it was hard to turn the tide. He started from the very bottom as cannon-fodder infantry, surviving countless bloody battles and near-death ordeals. When the Sheng family’s children were trapped in inner-courtyard marriages, when Gu Tingye drifted amid noble entanglements, when Qi Heng was bound by the rules of aristocratic families, Lu Chen, who came out of the countryside, had already trampled the mud, cut down all enemy invaders, and with a body of iron and blood and a commoner’s clothes, guarded a thousand li of rivers and mountains and terrified the Great Song court. The hidden child of the Sheng family’s old home would ultimately become the world’s general.
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