At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Shun of Yuan Dynasty and his group of Yuan Dynasty's nobles were extravagant and were very fond of merit. Officials at all levels even took the opportunity to embezzle corruption and deceive their superiors and subordinates. In addition, in 1344, the Yellow River broke in the fourth year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty. The court decided to govern the Yellow River despite the deficit of the treasury, so it increased taxes and labor. The taxes in some places were even received three years later, so that the two banks of the Yellow River were starving everywhere, and the people were living in poverty. Bandits from all over the country flocked, the weak occupied the mountains and became kings, and the powerful fought for the Central Plains. The world was in chaos for a while.

With years of annexation wars, the situation gradually became clearer. Only Chen Youliang, who occupied the two lakes, owned Zhang Shicheng, who owned eastern Jiangsu and most of Zhejiang, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who held western Jiangsu and parts of Jiangxi and Anhui.

Just when these three heroes were intriguing and fighting happily, in the Dabie Mountains where Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng had intertwined forces, a group of powerful bandits suddenly emerged. They acted erraticly, robbed passing caravans and captured surrounding prefectures and counties. Even Zhu Yuanzhang's military rations were robbed by them, and their reputation rose to prominence for a while, which attracted Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng to look at each other.

In order to eliminate his worries, Zhu Yuanzhang was determined to deal with Chen Youliang and decided to wipe out this bandits first to prevent them from becoming bigger. He sent a general named Shi Liang and ordered him to lead more than 2,000 troops from his headquarters to the mountains to suppress the bandits.

If we say that Shi Liang is also a brave general under Zhu Yuanzhang, he made many military achievements with Zhu Yuanzhang in the south and north battles. This time, he heard that he was asked to lead his troops into the mountains to suppress bandits. He was very dissatisfied with complaints and felt very contemptuous at the beginning. He led his troops into the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains and settled in Huoshan County in western Anhui. He then sent a sentry to the white horse entrenched by the bandits. Unexpectedly, the next day, the three sentry attackers were cut off and ran back stumbled back. They also told Shi Liang that the bandit leader of the bandits was a woman, extremely beautiful, but as poisonous as a snake and scorpion. The female bandit leader did not kill them, just asked them to come back to warn Shi Liang, asking him to retreat quickly, and everyone could be at peace.

When I heard this, I thought to myself that if a beautiful woman like Ye Lingwen was not talented and able to protect herself in troubled times, she would definitely be a beauty with a poor life and a miserable fate. The female bandit leader she mentioned must be herself.

"If I guess well, this female bandit leader should be you?" I asked

Ye Lingwen seemed to be completely immersed in her memories of the past. She didn't say anything but nodded slightly and continued to tell me her story, but she replaced the female bandit leader she mentioned with "me"

Shi Liang didn't take us bandits seriously, and what he didn't expect was that the bandit leader was actually a woman, and he dared to be so arrogant in front of him. He was furious and immediately brought all his troops into the White Horse Spike. The White Horse Spike is the highest mountain in this radius of hundreds of miles. The mountain is steep and the strange rocks are rugged on the mountain. The mountains are clouds and mist, and there is only a small path leading to the top. It is indeed easy to defend but difficult to attack. One man should be a pass and ten thousand men cannot open it.

Shi Liang was still a little cautious when he saw the mountain so steep, and hesitated at the foot of the mountain. However, when he saw the sparse team of two or three hundred people I brought, he immediately laughed. I guess he couldn't bear to attack the entire army. If this really starts, it wouldn't be a battle between the two armies, it would be a massacre.

He immediately asked me to fight alone, probably because he wanted to fight quickly and go back and report as soon as possible.

At that time, I used a black veil to cover it with a white spear. Shi Liang could fight me with a big knife for nearly a hundred rounds, and then he gradually lost his support. He was frightened and had to order the entire army to suppress it. Of course, my more than 200 brothers could not defeat more than 2,000 regular troops, so he naturally fled in panic. Shi Liang took advantage of the momentum to chase after him. He didn't know that this was actually my trick to lure the enemy. After Shi Liang's two thousand soldiers and horses were lured into the valley by me, the roads in the front and rear were blocked by me with rolling stones, forming a force of closing the door and fighting dogs. As a result, his troops lost most of his troops and horses, and he was also caught by me.

But I didn't expect this to be the beginning of my nightmare.

Shi Liang is a general under Zhu Yuanzhang. I didn't want to kill him and make a grudge against Zhu Yuanzhang. How dare these hundreds of us provoke a hero named Zhu? I treat him with delicious food and drink, and hope that he can speak more good things for us in front of Zhu Yuanzhang when he returns.

Unexpectedly, Shi Liang was kind to the revenge. He secretly promised several leaders of my village a high-ranking official and bribed them. On the day I held a banquet to send him down the mountain, they impressed me by the wine. The man named Shi tied me and escorted me and even my flying knife to Zhu Yuanzhang. Some of the brothers in my village were killed by them as long as they resisted, and the others were surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang might have seen that I was outstanding in appearance, so he wanted to include me in his harem. I swear to death, but I had no choice but to cry all day long. They did not dare to force me too much because of my great strength. They just locked me with chains and sent troops to guard them day and night, but I finally got to their words. They drugged my meals. When I woke up in a daze, I saw Zhu Yuanzhang lying naked on me. I really wanted to bite him to death, but I was weak all over, and my hands and feet were tied to the bed, so I could only let him ruin it.

From that day on, I felt that there was nothing in this world that I deserved nostalgia. I was a person who was careless. So I started a hunger strike, hoping to die.

Ye Lingwen said here, crystal tears slid down from her face, and I could only silently hand her a tissue.

That day, due to the tight war on the front line, Zhu Yuanzhang never came later. He heard that I went on a hunger strike and sent an imperial physician to take care of me and passed me a message. If I died of hunger strike, the imperial physician and my brothers who surrendered from the village would be buried with me.

So I was desperate to die and could only live like a walking corpse. But in a few months, I became thin and haggard, and Zhu Yuanzhang gradually lost interest in me.

At this time, only the imperial physician accompanied me day and night and enlightened me. I thought he had to do this because his life and life were all my own, but later I gradually realized that he really wanted to help me recover and give me the courage to live again.

Whenever I feel depressed, he will appear by my side, chat with me, make me happy. Whenever I feel uncomfortable, he will prescribe me a prescription. With his company and care, I slowly walked out of the haze of pain and my body gradually recovered from the health.

As my body recovered, I returned to my former face. He was afraid that my beauty would attract Zhu Yuanzhang again, so he risked his life and secretly asked me to take the disguise soup he prescribed. After drinking this medicine for a while, his complexion began to turn dark yellow and his skin became rough.

Gradually I found that I fell in love with him completely. He was much older than me and must have a family. What's more, I had been included in the harem by Zhu Yuanzhang. But I still fell in love with him unexcitedly. When he told me that he was also alone, I completely lifted the burden in my heart and threw it into his arms. I knew that we were on a path of no return. Once we were discovered, we would definitely die. But when the two lonely hearts ignited the flames of love, everything would be burned. What's the precepts, the three obediences and four virtues are not worth mentioning, let alone I didn't plan to live without him!

After that, we were inseparable and took every opportunity to meet secretly.
Chapter completed!