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I looked at her quietly.

I couldn't even hear the sound of breathing in the hall, I only looked at her slightly bent eyes, the corners of which were a bunch of wrinkles, but her eyes were so gentle, as if the spring breeze caressed people's hearts.

is so gentle and leisurely, it doesn't even make people feel like they have any intense love.

So, after a while, I slowly spoke: "What?"

She looked at me with a smile, but instead of repeating the words as I thought, she slowly turned around and turned to the tablet she was still kneeling down to before—the unusually tall, broken tablet I had seen here the last time I came to the temple.

After taking a look, she turned to me again: "Your Highness is afraid that you haven't come to bow down to this tablet yet?"

“……”

After all, the word "Your Highness" still made my breath tighten, and I walked slowly over to her, and smelled a faint, sandalwood smell from her, which seemed warm, and then, I raised my head again and looked at the tall tablet.

"You're going to make me bow down to it?"

"Yes. ”

"Why?"

She looked at me with a smile: "As a daughter, shouldn't Your Highness bow down to her mother's tablet?"

……

There was another silence that could not be concealed.

It's just that at this moment, I was completely suffocated, I had no heartbeat, and I didn't even know if the sudden silence at this moment was that I couldn't hear anything, or if the surrounding Qiē was really quiet because of her words.

I don't know how long it took for me to speak, and my voice was so low that it didn't look like my own.

"Me, Mother?"

"Yes, the princess of Zhenguo, the former dynasty, is your mother. ”

After listening to her title of "His Royal Highness", after she asked me to kneel down and worship my mother's tablet, and then heard the title of "Princess of Zhenguo", I actually calmed down, breathed calmly, my heartbeat was calm, and even gradually recovered my five senses. I slowly turned my head and looked at the hideous cracks and mottled handwriting on the huge tablet.

Taking a deep breath, I walked over, knelt down, and kowtowed.

Then, I heard her whisper behind her: "Amitabha." ”

After doing this, I slowly straightened up, and took another look at the huge tablet before I felt a tingling pain in my chest.

Before, I knew that my mother had passed away, and I also knew that her spiritual position could not enter the Yan family ancestral hall, so whether I wanted to worship or confide, I had no way to take refuge, but I didn't expect that in the capital, thousands of miles away from Xichuan, in this solemn temple, my mother's tablet would be enshrined, which would give me the opportunity to compensate for the regrets over the years.

Obviously, I already knew that she had a close relationship with the royal family, Mingming, I already had countless speculations in my heart that I thought I was delusional, and Mingming, I knew that the world was impermanent, but it was still unbearable to really be in it.

My mother, Princess Zhenguo......

The mother of the Yan family......

What else is she who she is, I don't know, what else is her experience, I can't imagine?

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but reach out, and my trembling fingertips touched those mottled and hideous cracks, as if I could also feel the ups and downs of her life, and I couldn't help but count my nose and my eyes burned. I suppressed myself, stood up, and turned back to the Protector Mage—

"It's really rare to talk to the mage today. My mentor also understands that I have a lot of questions I want to ask, and I hope you can answer my questions. ”

She looked at me with a smile: "Poor Ni will try her best." ”

I couldn't help but be stunned.

I thought she would say "know everything and say everything", but I didn't expect her to say "try as much as possible", is she going to have any reservations at this time?

However, it was too late to care about her words at this time, and the protector slowly walked to the futon next to me, and I also sat down on the futon on this side. The two men sat still, raised their heads and looked at each other.

Her gaze is still gentle, and when she looks at me, she is like a loving elder, looking at her junior.

However, under such a gaze, I was a little apprehensive.

There are too many things I want to ask, too many mysteries, and all of them come to my mind at this moment, but I don't know how to speak, and I don't even know which one is the most important thing to ask. She looked at me a little at a loss, smiled and said, "If Your Highness doesn't know how to speak, it's better to let the poor nun speak first." ”

I looked at her, nodded, and said, "Okay, you say." ”

She looked me up and down for a while before she said slowly: "Actually, the poor nun has not seen Her Royal Highness the princess for many years, and she is about to forget her, but now when she sees Her Highness, it is as if she has seen her herself." ”

"Am I like my mother?"

"Not really. ”

"Then, why did the mage say that he was seeing her in person?"

She looked at me with a smile: "Your Highness, there is the shadow of the princess of Zhenguo," she said, her eyes became a little abrupt, as if she looked through my body again, saw something else, and said: "There is the spirit of the princess of Zhenguo." ”

I took a deep breath: "My mother, is she the last princess of the previous dynasty?"

She looked at me with complicated eyes and nodded, "Yes." ”

"However, I heard that after the Pei clan entered the customs and occupied the imperial city, all the royal families of the previous dynasty were killed. ”

"Yes. ”

"Moreover, he was killed by the last emperor, Emperor Er, that is, my grandfather. ”

"Yes. ”

"Then why didn't my mother die?"

She still looked at me, her eyes were extraordinarily pale, and she said slowly: "Probably, this is the destiny of heaven." ”

"Destiny?"

"Destiny will not stop her, nor will it stop this line of blood. ”

I frowned slightly, and I heard the Protector Mage say softly, "Your Highness just mentioned Emperor Er, that is, your grandfather, what is your impression of him?"

I thought for a moment and said, "The son does not say anything about the father, let alone the grandfather?"

She laughed, and then said, "Your Highness is cautious. Yes, the rumors and the records of the previous dynasty have a lot of complaints about Emperor Er, and everyone knows it, so I won't repeat it. However, even if he said it, Emperor Er himself probably didn't care. ”

"Oh?"

I raised my head to look at her, and she said calmly: "Although he inherited the mandate of heaven as the emperor, in fact, he should be a free and loose immortal, even if he was born in a prosperous era and in a rich family, he will be a generation of writers, music leaders, or, merry rangers, or, the world's best." It's a pity that he was born in the emperor's family, and he was born in such a troubled era. ”

For the first time at this time, I really heard someone talk about Emperor Er, my grandfather, and I felt very strange and novel, and she continued: "Therefore, his grace and grace became absurd, and his chic and elegant became perverse - he died in the country. ”

After listening to her words, I gradually understood.

To tell the truth, the hundred-legged insect dies but does not stiffen, such a big dynasty, ordinary people to be emperors, at most it is not good, but only such a talented person will really be ruined, extraordinary talent may bring great achievements in a certain field, in another field, it will probably bring a blow to ruin.

The Protector continued, "Actually, your grandfather didn't want to hold the throne all the time, he wanted to pass on the throne to someone else. However, his brothers were all killed in the previous succession, and he died of illness, and he was the only one of his peers, so he pinned his hopes on his heirs. ”

I hurriedly said, "That's—"

It's a pity that although he is romantic and collects beauties from all over the world, he doesn't have any heirs. ”

“……”

Because of this incident, he was worried day and night, and even began to ask for immortals, but not to cultivate the immortal body, but to refine the medicine, so that he could give birth to a son who would inherit the throne. ”

"So, was it born?"

The Protector chuckled, "I've been looking forward to welcoming your mother for ten months." ”

“……”

I couldn't help but chuckle too.

As you can imagine, my grandfather was disappointed at that time.

The Protector continued: "Although disappointed, he loves your mother very much, and as soon as she was born, she was named the princess of Zhenguo, which is a precedent that has never been seen in all dynasties, and he took her with him to raise her personally. Her Royal Highness Princess Zhenguo is versatile, and most of them have inherited your maternal grandfather. ”

I let out a long sigh.

Recalling the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poems, wines, and teas that my mother taught me, I only picked up her fur, but I also knew that I was higher than many people, and now I understand where her elegance and tranquility come from.

I said, "So, that's why, when the city was broken, my grandfather killed so many of his concubines and princesses, but he spared my mother alone. ”

The Protector looked at me for a long time, and finally sighed softly.

I couldn't help clenching my fists: "Even if she escaped her grandfather's killing, what about later?

The Protector smiled faintly: "This, probably also the destiny of heaven." The Pei clan broke through the capital, occupied the palace, and killed the sky in the dark, bleeding and drifting. When these people stepped on the blood that had not reached the instep of their feet and walked into the Taihe Palace, they saw a thin girl standing behind the mountain of corpses, above the main hall. ”

I couldn't help but get nervous.

"She was covered in blood, all over her face, in her hair, and it was up to her ankles. ”

“……”

But her eyes were surprisingly clean. ”

“……”

"Moreover, such a girl, not crying or making trouble, just stood quietly and looked at those who broke in with knives. ”

I held my breath and imagined that moment, imagining my mother.

Then the men put down their knives and knelt down. ”

My heart is going to stop.

The Protector looked at my constricted pupils, suddenly chuckled, and said, "Your Highness, don't be afraid. ”

I came back to my senses a little, and when I looked at her again, I felt a little like someone had just let go of my neck, and I gasped slightly, and then said: "When the mage said this, he understood so clearly, could it be that when the city was broken, the mage was in the palace?

She smiled and shook her head.

"Then, why does the mage know so well?"

"Because, there are people who sue the poor nuns. ”

"Who?"

"The first to put down the knife in his hand and kneel. ”

"Who is he?"

She smiled: "Naturally, he is too emperor." ”