Chapter 48

Yunxiang Palace.

The Queen Mother was watching her son bring something to her from the fiefdom. Although her son's people had not come to Beijing yet, this thing was delivered to the palace first, which showed her filial piety towards her.

"This red coral ornament is beautiful, so put it in the most conspicuous place!" The Queen Mother said, pointing to the red coral ornament in the box with her hand painted with red coral.When Concubine Li and the others come to pay their respects tomorrow, she has to let them take a good look at the things that Ye'er respects her.

The palace maid hurriedly took out the ornaments from the box and placed them in the middle position on the shelf in the palace.

A palace maid wearing a pink dress walked into the palace, blessed the Queen Mother in the palace, and reported: "The Queen Mother, Your Royal Highness has come to pay your respects."

The Queen Mother frowned slightly, she was busy looking at what Ye'er gave her!How can I have time to see this king?

She said impatiently: "Just tell him that Ai Jia is feeling a little unwell today and it is inconvenient to see him. Since Ai Jia knows about his filial piety, let him go back!"

Among the late emperor's princes, she disliked the third prince the most. Although he seemed to have the most docile and kind temperament, and seemed to have aloof from the world, she just couldn't like the third prince.

When he was young, the mother-in-law of the third prince was thrown into the cold palace. He was treated harshly and bullied by the palace people. Although she knew it, as the queen of the middle palace, she never cared about it.

"Yes." The palace maid was blessed and withdrew from the palace.

At the entrance of Xiangyun Palace, Fengchengjue stands like a bamboo in the doorway.

The palace maids who came and went would salute him, then secretly look at him after doing so, and leave with a blushing face.

His Royal Highness, Jue Wang, is the best-looking among these princes. He has a gentle temper, and anyone who sees him will fall in love with him.

"His Royal Highness King Jue." The palace maid who went to report came out, raised her eyelids and glanced at King Jue, and said blessedly, "The Queen Mother is not feeling well and it is inconvenient to see His Highness. The Queen Mother said that she knows that His Highness is a filial person. Please Your Highness will go back first."

Is it inconvenient to see you, or is it because you don’t want to see me?Most likely I don’t want to!Fengcheng Jue knew this, and smiled and said, "I understand."

King Jue turned around and left Xiangyun Palace. As dusk fell, no one in the palace allowed him to have dinner, but he did not intend to leave the palace immediately.

"Where are you going, Your Highness King Jue?" Xiao Chunzi, the young eunuch who was following him, saw that he didn't seem to be planning to leave the palace, so he bowed his head and asked.

King Jue said warmly: "I want to visit the Qinglian Palace where I live with my mother and concubine. If you have anything to do, go ahead! I am familiar with this palace and will not get lost."

Xiao Chunzi thought that King Jue was going to Qinglian Hall to remember his biological mother. He didn't know how long he would have to sit there. If he followed him, he would not be able to eat tonight.

"My servant really has something to do! Since the prince is familiar with the palace, and there is no need for my servant to lead the way, I will go and get busy."

King Jue took out a few gold leaves from his sleeve pocket, handed them to Xiao Chunzi, and said, "Go!"

Xiaochunzi's black grape-like eyes lit up, and she hurriedly stretched out her hands to take it. She kept bowing and thanking him: "Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward."

King Jue smiled, turned and left.

Xiaochunzi happily put the gold leaf in her mouth and bit it, then took out her purse and stuffed the gold leaf into her purse.He thought to himself: "This King Jue is not only kind to people, but he is also very generous! If King Jue comes to the palace next time, I will have to be smarter."

Feng Chengjue arrived at the Qinglian Palace all the way and looked at the door hung with cobwebs, feeling a sense of desolation in his heart.When he pushed the door open, the door, which had not been opened for a long time, made a long sound, and dust fell from the door.

He raised his hand and waved, stepped over the high threshold, and walked in.

The courtyard is desolate, overgrown with weeds, and the lotus pond on the left has long dried up.

He crossed the courtyard, opened the door of the main hall and walked in. The hall was filled with spider webs.He brushed away the spider webs with his hands and stood in the hall looking at the dusty dormitory.

He seemed to see his mother-in-law again, wearing a smoky blue palace dress, sitting on the Arhat bed facing him, smiling and waving to him.

His eyes turned red, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, the concubine sitting on the Arhat's bed disappeared.

He took a deep breath, walked to Arhat's bed, brushed off the dust with his hands, and sat on it.

The Qinglian Palace used to be so magnificent, but now, with all the people gone and the buildings empty, it has become such a desolate scene.

His mother-in-law was the daughter of General Pingxi. She entered the palace one after another when she was 17 years old.Two years later, she had him, and she was named a noble concubine second only to the queen, and was deeply loved by her father.But when he was eight years old, a letter broke all peace.A letter written by the mother's childhood sweetheart was passed into the palace, but was intercepted by the father.After reading the letter, his father became furious and concluded that his mother and concubine had an affair with that person.Not only did he kill the man, he also sent his mother and concubine into the cold palace.

He also fell out of favor in front of his father and became his most hated son.Because he was hated by his father and no concubines were willing to raise him, he had been raised in the Qinglian Palace by his wet nurse and a maid brought into the palace by his mother's concubine.

In those years, they suffered a lot of contempt. A prince who was not favored and whose mother and concubine were relegated to the cold palace. In this palace, not only his brothers and sisters bullied him, but even the servants in the palace dared to bully him.Those days were very difficult. It wasn't until he left the palace and built a mansion that things became easier.

King Jue sat in this palace for a long time and remembered many things from the past.

By the time we left the Qinglian Hall, the moon was already in the sky.

He took advantage of the moonlight and headed towards the direction of Leng Palace.

He walked to the high wall on the west side of Leng Palace, dug through the grass, saw the familiar dog hole, and said with a smile, "I didn't expect this dog hole is still there."

His mother and concubine were thrown into the cold palace. He missed her very much, so he often wandered outside the cold palace, and then he discovered this dog hole.He also sneaked into the dog hole to see his mother-in-law. The first time he went in and saw his mother-in-law, the mother-in-law was shocked.Knowing that he got in through a dog hole, he scolded him and refused to allow him to get into the cold palace through a dog hole again.

But he didn't listen. Whenever he felt wronged and missed his mother and concubine, he would sneak into the cold palace to see her.This behavior continued until he was ten years old, when his mother-in-law contracted an illness and died in the cold palace.

When my grandfather learned about it, he gave money and asked people in the palace to transport the body of his mother and concubine out of the palace for burial.

Every time he returned to Kyoto, he would go into the palace and sit in the Qinglian Hall for a while, and then come back to the cold palace to have a look.

When he was young, he would crawl into dog holes, but now that he is older and knows some martial arts, this high wall can't stop him at all.

He took a leap with courage, jumped over the high wall, landed firmly on the ground, and walked to the small courtyard where his mother and concubine once lived.

As he walked, he found that this cold palace seemed a little different from before.

(End of this chapter)

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