However, the two of them had entered the Zhaoxue Nunnery, and Chu Yunxi felt a completely different atmosphere from last time, although the nunnery was still sparsely populated, there were still some outsiders, and there were no guards in civilian clothes around them. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info She asked the host only to know that the crown princess did not come to the nunnery today.

She and Yan Qingshuang were both puzzled, and the two of them took a short pause, and finally a teenage nun asked for her name, and claimed that an old nun named Gui Lin in the nunnery wanted to ask to see her. The two of them looked at each other, and they both felt that it was very strange, she had never known an old nun named Gui Lone, and even Zhaoxue Nunnery had only been here twice. Yan Qingshuang was afraid that there would be fraud in it, so she wanted to get up and accompany her, but the little nun was very stubborn and insisted on returning to the instructions of the old nun, and was only willing to take Chu Yunxi alone.

Chu Yunxi quietly glanced at her, Yan Qingshuang tacitly understood what she meant, deliberately pretended to give up, returned to the seat to drink tea, and soon after she left, she immediately turned around and caught up, quietly hiding behind the two.

The little nun took Chu Yunxi around and around to the most secret room in the nunnery. She carefully memorized the route along the way, beware of any changes. When she reached the door, the little nun invited her to enter on her own, folded her hands, bowed, and left.

Chu Yunxi felt strange in his heart, and couldn't help his curiosity, held his breath, and gently buckled three times on the edge of the door. Then he listened quietly, and there was a series of coughing sounds inside, and then a strange panicked voice with a little excitement sounded: "Please come in." ”

She hesitated, then slowly pushed the door in, vigilantly observing her surroundings until she was sure it was safe before cautiously stepping through the door. She deliberately closed the door and left a gap for Yan Qingshuang to snoop on.

As soon as she entered the house, she smelled a strong smell of Chinese medicine. The house is simple, with only two rough wooden chairs, a wooden table, teapots and chopsticks. Diagonally facing the door, there was a narrow bed, on which sat a man cross-legged, with a yellow and thin face, a monk's hat, white lips, a sickly face, and a cough. Chu Yunxi saw that she was a seriously ill old nun, and his nervous heart immediately let go of half of it, and saw that she was entangled in illness and pain, and felt pity, so he poured half a cup of half-hot white water from the pot on the table, walked to her and handed it over, and asked softly, "Master, do you want to see me?" I wonder what's the matter with you? ”

When the old nun heard her soft words, and looked up, tears rained down on her. Chu Yunxi was startled by her sudden crying, and asked in a bit of a panic, "Master, what's wrong with you?" ”

Lao Ni's lips trembled, and he couldn't speak. Chu Yunxi felt more and more weird, staring at her intently, vaguely feeling that his eyebrows and eyes were familiar, but it was difficult to spell out a complete image in his mind. After a long time, she shivered and said tremblingly: "Yunxi, it's me, you don't recognize me." As she spoke, tears streaming down her face.

After thinking about it desperately, Chu Yunxi still shook his head. The old nun cried loudly, suddenly hugged her waist, and cried: "I am Luochun, Yunxi." You're still alive, I didn't think I'd see each other again before I died. ”

The cup was knocked over, and the water splashed Chu Yunxi's hand, she was stunned, she didn't understand what was going on at all, and she suspected that she was hallucinating. She sat down, looked at her face in disbelief, and asked incessantly, "Are you Luochun?" Are you really Luochun? ”

She couldn't believe it, it couldn't be true. Luo Chun disappeared with Bai Qiao's death, and she thought that she had already been poisoned by Chu Xiaolian. A few years of separation, as if she has experienced a long period of snow, rain, wind and frost, mulberry fields and seas, the tragic fate of her once graceful and graceful torture beyond recognition, now she is like a bellflower about to send away the last season of flowering, about to wither in the north wind.

But when she saw the half-broken green bamboo hosta she took out of her arms, how could she not believe that the old nun in front of her was the Luochun who silently filled the vacancy of her mother's love in Bai Qiao's disheartened years? She held the half of the broken hosta tightly in her hand, the broken surface stabbed her palm, she seemed to feel the heart-rending pain when the cold hosta pierced her mother's chest, the grief hit her chest violently, she frowned, and cried uncontrollably.

Luo Chun touched her face with her hands that were as dry as tree roots, and the two cried at each other.

Chu Yunxi heard her soft comfort and suddenly asked, "Chun, how can you speak, who cured you, and also, how did you leave home in the nunnery, how did you escape from Chu Xiaolian's hands?" ”

There were too many puzzles on Luo Chun's body, and Chu Yunxi could hardly finish asking them in one go. Luo Chun wiped away her tears, and after regaining her composure, she sighed deeply and said intermittently: "I heard some of what the crown princess said when she came last time. When I heard that you were going to come to the Shoyuki Nunnery to offer incense, I was so happy that I didn't close my eyes for a few nights, and I wanted to see you from afar, and then I died quietly in the nunnery. I was afraid that the host would be suspicious, so I only said that I wanted to touch the nobility of the people in the palace and rush to my fault. While people were not paying attention, he stood at the door for a while, but heard that the crown princess was threatening you with your life experience. I know that you are a sensitive and delicate child, and I am afraid that you will be tortured to death by your own cranky thoughts if you believe the words of the crown princess. ”

Chu Yunxi rubbed his eyes and showed a hint of a smile. She leaned on her arms as if she was as coquettish as she was when she was a child, and said angrily: "Spring, sure enough, you still know me." Since you're still alive, why don't you come to me? I miss you so much, I miss you so much. Thank you, God, that my resentment has faded much with your presence. I just ask you to take care of your body quickly, so that you can stay with me for a long time. How could I believe the lies made up by the crown princess? ”

"Actually......" Luo Chun paused, gritted his teeth and said: "The crown princess has a sentence that is still right, you are not Chu Yilian's daughter. ”

"What?" Chu Yunxi was shocked, thinking that she was sick and confused, his hands grabbed her arm tightly, and he looked up into her eyes.

Luo Chun was shocked by the pain coming from her arms, and hurriedly explained: "But you are by no means the daughter of some lowly sinner she said she said. Your surname is Chu, you have an incomparably noble bloodline, and if your parents are still alive, you will have a more respectable status than they do. ”

Chu Yunxi was at a loss: "I don't understand what you're talking about, Chun, are you sick and confused." Why do you say that? How could my parents be someone else? ”

Luo Chun's tears fell, and he said sadly: "I'm dying, Yunxi." This secret was supposed to be kept from you for the rest of your life, but since the crown princess has this thought, I am really afraid that one day she will find out something and use it to make trouble, and I can't bear to see that you don't even know who the parents who gave life were. She gasped vigorously and said sadly, "In the Qingming season, on the day of life and death, Her Royal Highness the princess who died unjustly can't even get a trace of grief for her own daughter. What a pain she will be under the Nine Springs. ”

Chu Yunxi still couldn't understand her grief, and shook his head again and again.

Luo Chun took her in his arms, and the falling tears soaked her sideburns. Her voice went from hoarse sadness to softness and kindness. Chu Yunxi snuggled in her arms, as if listening to a distant story that had nothing to do with her: "Your surname is Chu, and you are an upright descendant of the Chu family. Your body not only has the blood of the Chu clan in your body, but also has the incomparably noble royal bloodline. Your father is not Lord Chu Yilian, he is actually your second uncle, and your father is the eldest son of the Chu clan who can inherit the title of the Chu clan - Chu Zhonglian. As for your mother, she looked down at her face, rubbed it gently, and said with a smile, "You are really similar to your mother, I don't know if you have ever seen the emperor, if he sees your face, will he be surprised, will he be puzzled, will he feel a trace of guilt and regret?" Princess Hanjiang is your biological mother. ”

Chu Yunxi said "ah", sat up, and said in horror: "You are talking about the sister of the current saint." The princess Hanjiang who withered before she left the cabinet? Since she is not married, how can she have a daughter, and how do you know about these palace secrets? Her eyes narrowed slightly, her body moved back, and she asked in a deep voice, "Who are you?" ”

Luo Chun smiled and said: "I am the lantern maid in the former queen's palace who passed away, and I was also one of her dowries back then. ”

"Empress of the Flower Dynasty? Are you the lantern maid of the Flower Palace? Chu Yunxi was suspicious in her heart, and whispered to herself: "I heard Sister Shangguan say that Empress Hua Dynasty died in childbirth, and soon after, Princess Hanjiang also announced that she died of illness, the time of death of the two is so close, is it possible that it is ......" She asked in horror, "There is another hidden reason for the death of the two?!" ”

Luo Chun nodded and said sadly: "They didn't die of dystocia and disease at all, but committed suicide." ”

Chu Yunxi covered his lips in surprise, fear hit his heart, and muttered, "That must have a lot to do with the emperor." Before and after the death of the queen, the emperor quickly eradicated the Qi family, presumably the queen was forced to commit suicide because of this, but what does it have to do with Princess Hanjiang? Why did she kill herself? She still called Princess Hanjiang in her mouth, but she still couldn't accept this ridiculous story in her heart.

"Do you remember the words on that painting? The sunset is slanting, and the autumn wind is cold. Tonight, the old man will not come, teach people to stand up the shadow of the sycamore. ”

Chu Yunxi meditated for a while, nodded and said, "I remember, it was a painting from my uncle's collection, in which a woman was leaning by the chai door, and two plane trees were planted at the door. ”

"That's right." Luo Chun closed his eyes and began to recall, "The paintings and words are all from your mother's pen. I still remember that autumn, when the courtyard of the paulownia hall was covered with golden sycamore leaves. I was ordered by the queen to send citrus to Her Royal Highness the princess, and I met Bai Biao for the first time at the gate of the palace. At that time, he was famous for his painting and poetry, and was recruited by the emperor to the Hanlin Academy, where he made calligraphy and painting to be recruited, and became the princess's calligraphy and painting gentleman. At that time, Bai Biao was in the prime of his life, full of pride and self-confidence in his gestures, he spoke eloquently, and his language was gorgeous and beautiful. The poems he recited casually made all the rivers and mountains lose their color. At that time, your mother was seventeen years old, and she was born with a charming and beautiful face, which made Bai Qiao, who has always been proud of her talents, fall in love at first sight. The princess is very intelligent, and she is quite spiritual in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and the two are also teachers and friends, talking about poetry and painting every day, and getting along well. The book of poems you are looking for in the Golden House is probably written by two of them. Bai Biao's admiration for the princess is very intense, and Her Royal Highness the princess is also quite tempted by him. At that time, Sister Dong'er often talked to me about this in private. Dong'er is the palace maid in charge of the Tonghua Palace, and she was originally my cousin. When the princess first entered the palace, there was no competent person around to take care of her, so the queen sent Dong'er to the princess. The queen is older than the princess, self-reliant since childhood, with a strong temperament, just like her eldest sister, the princess and her have a similar temper, and the two have a deep relationship, like sisters. Sister Dong'er is usually cautious and calm, unlike when I was young and fun-loving. ”

Chu Yunxi suddenly understood: "That's why you deliberately pretended to be dumb later, right?" ”

Luo Chun smiled slightly, and said with a yearning look on his face: "Yes, don't you know that when I was young, I was more crazy than Miss Lin and Biyin." ”

Chu Yunxi still couldn't believe Luochun's story, so he just followed her words and deduced: "Although Uncle Bai Biao is rich and talented, his background is only Shudi cloth after all, and the emperor will not agree to his only sister marrying him, and the uncle and the princess are also considered to be the right match, and it must be the emperor's facilitation." Maybe the two fell in love later, had deviant behavior, and had children, and then the uncle was defeated in a battle with the Tuoba tribe in the grassland and died on the battlefield. The marriage between the two was immediately extinguished, and the emperor forced his sister to marry someone else, but the princess was unwilling and committed suicide to follow. Am I guessing right? ”

Luo Chun smiled knowingly: "Yunxi, you are really smart, but there are always some unexpected things in this world, which you can't deduce no matter how smart you are." Things are generally what you say, but it is not entirely true, you underestimate the emperor's favor for Her Royal Highness the princess and his feelings for the queen's mother. ”

Chu Yunxi couldn't agree with her words: "Chun, you can see that my own sister does not hesitate to use me and persecute me, how much true love can there be between the children of the heavenly family?" The emperor married the queen in order to get the support of the Qi family, and the princess's marriage was just a bargaining chip for the emperor to consolidate his position. ”

Luo Chun shook his head and said: "No, it would be good if everything in the world was so natural, even if there were thousands of calculations, all kinds of plans could not be counted in people's hearts." When the emperor married the queen, the Qi family did help him to compete for the throne, but the emperor and the queen really loved each other sincerely, if it weren't for this, the queen couldn't commit suicide sadly, the emperor wouldn't have been sick for many years, and he didn't even want to mention it after he was established. The emperor and Princess Hanjiang have been dependent on each other since childhood, and the brother-sister relationship between them is very deep. The emperor is very concerned about the princess's marriage, and is willing to respect the princess's wishes, and the choice of General Chu is the princess's own decision. ”

"Why?" Chu Yunxi lamented, "Uncle has been depressed all his life, and he also opposes the eldest brother's entry into the office, he is most disgusted with Confucianism, he has been adrift all his life, and he refuses to start a family all for the sake of this princess." Since the princess admires her uncle's talent very much, why can't she bear to abandon him and choose her uncle, how can she bear to ruin his life?! ”

"At first I didn't understand either. Bai Biao is wild and uninhibited, and he is very popular with maids in the palace. She coughed a few times and continued, "And General Chu is the opposite, he is a wooden person, not good at talking, although he is superb in martial arts, but his poetry and articles are far below Bai Yu. He was ordered to guard the Tonghua Palace, and he generally cared for the princess, but he never said a word, nor did he express his heart to the princess. I can't figure out how such a boring person can compare to Bai Biao's humor and lotus tongue? At that time, many maids would compare the two in private, and they finally liked Bai Biao a lot. When I asked Sister Dong'er later, she told me that the princess was born without the love of her parents, so she longed very much for her future husband to be a towering tree to rely on, a majestic mountain to look up to. Bai Biao has a free soul that cannot be trapped by the world, he is a prodigal son, and he will not stay for a relationship for life, this kind of person can not become her lifelong dependence, she can only regard him as a confidant and brother, and cannot conclude a relationship with him and become a husband and wife. ”

Chu Yunxi sighed regretfully: "It's a pity that this princess miscalculated her uncle's determination. “

"yes." Luo Chun said regretfully, "Bai Biao's lifelong unmarried man really surprised me. The princess could not tell the two of them her choice in person, so she agreed that the two would send a picture scroll made by Sister Dong'er to her chosen husband on the night of the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Bai Biao must have been disappointed that night, the painting did not appear in front of him after all. The next day, the miraculous Bai Biao was drunk, and he spoke wildly in the palace and made some presumptuous acts, but the emperor was merciful and did not punish him, but only gave him money and let him go. When Bai Biao left, he did not take any of the possessions given by the Son of Heaven, but he had a rebellious temper and always acted unexpectedly, and some children had tempers. Before leaving, he angrily sneaked into the Chu Mansion and exchanged his imitation for the princess's love work to the general, which is the painting you saw. ”

Luo Chun's face suddenly changed when he said this, and he gritted his teeth and hammered the bed with his hand: "Everything was fine. But that woman, since that woman entered the palace, bad luck has come one after another, ruining the lives of the queen and the princess one after another. In that year, the grassland Tuoba tribe dedicated to the emperor a grassland saintess, just like the previous dynasty and relatives, as a symbol of the conclusion of a friendly alliance with the Central Plains Dynasty. At that time, the emperor was ostensibly patrolling the eastern capital of Luoyang, but in fact he was leading the elite to suppress the rebels. The queen was pregnant, so the princess went out of the city to greet the queen as a royal noblewoman, and saved the demonic woman named Wan Qingrou on the way to the outskirts of the city. She was seriously wounded, and the princess, seeing that she was pitiful, carried her into the carriage and fed her some water. But it was also thanks to the princess that she saved the woman and escaped the catastrophe, and when she woke up, she learned the identity of the princess, stopped her way in time for survival, and told her a shocking news: the envoy led the crowd to attack the family party, assassinated the holy woman, and seriously injured the family envoy Qizhata. Under the siege of thieves, Qizhata slashed and killed the envoys, and in a fit of rage, threatened to take the princess hostage. The princess was suspicious and tried to continue asking, but she was seriously injured and unconscious. She was suspicious, so she sent soldiers to investigate, and sure enough, as she said, the princess hurried back to the palace under the escort of the soldiers, and escaped. The Tuoba thieves failed to capture and plunder, so they went all the way back to the northwest along the road to send relatives, and then the northwest Tuoba invaded in the name of the innocent killing of the saint. ”

Chu Yunxi listened while thinking about it, his face was dark, and he said in a deep voice: "They deliberately chose to send their relatives when Chang'an was empty, that is, they wanted to use the name of sending their relatives to listen and conquer. Presumably, the killing of the saint was just a trick for them to direct and act on their own. ”

"Not bad." Luo Chun said a lot, her physical strength was exhausted, Chu Yunxi poured a glass of water and fed her to drink, and then stroked her chest to help her calm down, she rested for a while, and said: "After the princess returned to the palace, she was shocked, and it happened that the woman was rescued by the imperial doctor. The princess asked her how she knew these secrets, and she replied that she was the daughter of a wealthy family, and that she had been taken by the local magistrate and offered to Qizhatta as a concubine, who was fierce and tortured her in every way, and she fled repeatedly, and when she was captured, the torture intensified. In order to punish her, Qizhata even killed her parents in front of her. In order to take revenge, she made up her mind to compromise and pretend to be obedient to him. He trusts her day by day. With his acquiescence, she witnessed a conspiracy: the saint died under the knife of Qizhata, and Qizhatta also slashed and killed all the relatives team, and falsely claimed that she had been attacked, and ordered to kidnap the princess of the Central Plains and return to the grassland to be enslaved by the Great Khan. When she saw that Qizhatuo's poisonous plan had succeeded, she got a little carried away and lowered her vigilance, so she coaxed him to drink a glass of wine and took the opportunity to assassinate him. But Qizhata is really fierce, and he can still fight her after being drugged, and she stabbed him a few times and was also seriously injured, after he fell unconscious. She shouted that someone had assassinated her, and fled in the chaos, only to get her life back when she met the princess. ”

Chu Yunxi fell into deep contemplation, and guessed again: "What is this Wan Qingrou's ability to force the queen and princess to commit suicide, could it be that she is a spies and a trick to play a bitter trick?" ”

Luo Chun was stunned, shook his head weakly, and said, "No one doubted it at that time." Wanqing is delicate and pitiful, she is kind to people on weekdays, who would have expected her to be such a kind and evil person. ”

Chu Yunxi's heart was beating in horror when he heard this, his heart was turning over the river and the sea, and the waves were turbulent, and on the surface, he had to listen to her continue calmly: "The emperor urgently dispatched General Chu to send troops to meet Tuoba, and he agreed with the princess that he would hire him for this exploits, and ask the emperor for marriage when he won the victory, and marry the princess as his wife. The night before the army started, the two couldn't help but have a skin-to-skin relationship, and then there was you. Half a year later, the news of General Chu's defeat came, and the princess was in pain. Emperor Luan drove back to the palace, very shocked, and sent General Shi Lie, who was guarding the northeast, to support quickly, General Shi won a great victory, and the Tuoba clan was defeated and scattered. To add insult to injury, Wan Qingrou actually reported to the emperor that the queen had an affair with General Chu. The queen and General Chu were originally brothers and sisters, and they were also childhood sweethearts, and the Duke of Qi did intend to match them as husband and wife earlier. The emperor has always been worried about this, but he easily believed her bewitching rumors, and she also informed the emperor that the princess had a child of General Chu. The emperor was furious and questioned the queen, who was angry and quarreled with him. Originally, the emperor had a murderous intention against the Qi family, the Qi family did not support the emperor earlier, if it was not for the marriage with the queen, it would be difficult for the emperor to win the support of the Qi family, the eastern capital was in turmoil, and many Qi clansmen were also involved, which strengthened the emperor's determination to eradicate the Qi family. The queen was heartbroken in the face of the suspicion of her beloved, the opposition between her husband and her father, and she committed suicide after giving birth to a little princess. Speaking of the tragic part, Luo Chun couldn't stop crying and choked frequently, "As for the princess, how can the emperor let go of General Chu's child." The emperor scolded the princess for being incorruptible and shameful, and forced the princess to have an abortion, and the princess tried her best to hide it from the emperor and give birth to you. She and the queen knew that there was no other way but death, but they were worried that it would be difficult for you and the little princess to stay in the palace, so they ordered me and Sister Dong'er to send you and the little princess out of the palace on the day the emperor left the palace to worship the heavens. One was handed over to the younger brother of General Chu, that is, your second uncle Chu Yilian, and an uncle who sent Chang'an north to join the queen. The princess handed you over to me in the hope that one day the emperor would discover your existence, and because he mistakenly thought you were his daughter, he would open the net and save your life. Soon after I entered the Chu Mansion, I heard the news of the death of two people from the palace, and I knew that everything was over. ”

This life experience was too tragic, Chu Yunxi couldn't accept it, and shook his head desperately: "No, no, this is just your words, how can I believe it." ”

Luo Chun laughed miserably, and suddenly reached out and pulled down the clothes on Chu Yunxi's right shoulder, and the red plum that was as red as blood fell: "This plum blossom tattoo on your shoulder was given with your mother's blood and your blood, and it was stabbed by your mother's own hands." And the little princess, whose fate is as tragic as yours, has an orchid tattooed on her left shoulder. ”

"What?" A startled question suddenly sounded at the door, and when the two looked up, they saw Yan Qingshuang standing at the door with a pale face.