Chapter Seventy-Nine: Everything Is Fate
"Countless times I wake up in the middle of the night and face the beautiful concubine in my arms, I have the illusion of intruding into other people's lives. I always felt that I was only fifteen years old, and I was still living in that dark and damp prison, and in the dark night when I couldn't see my fingers, as long as I paid attention, I could still hear the sound of the silly girl trembling in the dark night when she was frightened by the ghost. ”
"I have fought in the north and south, and I have walked through countless mountains and rivers, and every time I see a place that amazes me, I think of her, and I remember that I once promised someone to take her all over the world. She trusted me so much, she never doubted what I said to her, she had been waiting for me to get out of prison, for me to take her away, but I watched as those people took her away from me.
"She kept looking back as she was taken away, I don't know if the meaning of that look was in the hope that I would open my mouth to save her or if she had expected to never come back so she said her final goodbye to me, she kept looking back at me, but she didn't say anything the whole time. I watched her leave step by step, and I felt the urge to take her away desperately, but I couldn't, the queen hurt me so far, and I was unwilling to leave like this, so I didn't save her......"
Perhaps the biggest helplessness in life is that when everything is in the past, no matter how much that person's heart wants to redeem, it can no longer change the ending of the story. More than forty years have passed, and the scene of her being taken away is still clear as if it had just happened, Yuan Kejin trembled forward and stretched out his hand to stop those people, but as soon as he moved, he was immediately pulled back to reality.
"I have been galloping on the battlefield all those years, not because I am belligerent, but because only the pleasure of bloodlust can paralyze my remorse, so that I do not have to live every day with the painful memories of watching her being taken away. I tried my best to expand my territory, but the greater my power, the more lonely my heart became, I don't know what the purpose of my struggle is, to take revenge on the queen? Or is it for those materialistic pleasures? It seems to be both, but it doesn't seem to be, and I don't know what I'm living for. ”
"It wasn't until the fifteenth year after her death that I led my troops across the border of Angola and came across a carriage going to visit relatives at the palace of Anwang." A trace of tenderness resurfaced on King Hua's face, and he suddenly asked Yuan Chengcheng: "Cheng'er, do you believe in fate?" ”
"Life?" Yuan Chengcheng didn't know why she suddenly remembered the scene when she and Huangfu Yehan fell off the cliff, if she hadn't met the assassin at that time, or Huangfu Yehan hadn't decided to go to the Hou Mansion that day to steal the spiritual seat, or if they didn't choose the same path at the same time, they wouldn't have met, and they wouldn't have to bear so much sadness, these ...... Is it all fate?
"Yes, fate, everything is fate!" Yuan Kejin's firm tone became unconsciously gentle because of the recollection of the scene at that time, "The carriage broke down halfway, just blocking the direction of the army's advance, and when I sent someone to help her repair the carriage and was about to send her away, she lifted the curtain to thank me." Can you imagine? After fifteen years of loneliness, when I was hopeless in life, I saw her again in a very casual moment! ”
Yuan Chengcheng looked at his father in astonishment, according to the calculation of time, his father should have met his mother, how could he bump into her again? Isn't she dead? If she hadn't died, how would the queen mother have been favored by her father?
"Two unrelated people, whose lives and deaths have been separated by fifteen years, but they were born with the same face, and I can't think of any other explanation than numerology reincarnation. I invited her to join me, and she hesitated but agreed, and from the moment I helped her into my carriage, we never separated again. ”
Yuan Chengcheng had already understood what her father meant, her expression darkened, it turned out that her mother was born with a face exactly like that person. Although she believes in numerology, she is still a little skeptical about the theory of reincarnation, is the queen mother really the reincarnation of the little palace maid? Or did it happen that the resemblance was made a stand-in for that person by his father?
"I took your queen mother to hide in the palace, one by one to complete the things I promised her, the Empress Dowager Xiaocheng was extremely dissatisfied with me taking your queen mother into the palace, but she forgot that the reason why I called her the queen mother was originally to take revenge, the more she didn't want to see me, the more I wanted her to see. I have abolished her niece's throne and made your mother queen. The people in the palace were extremely dissatisfied with your mother's fact that she became the queen of the kingdom at a young age, and joined forces to exclude her. Your queen mother is smart and competitive, so she will naturally not be bullied. ”
"Maybe it's fate! Back then, the people in the palace joined forces to bully her, but no one supported her, so that she was wronged to death; Fifteen years later, your mother ascended to the throne, and none of the people who bullied her back then ended well. There are many people who blame your mother for being vicious, but if the people in the palace are not vicious, who can live? It's just the jungle! ”
This gorgeous palace was once inhabited by all kinds of beautiful women, the new queen ascended, this group of palace concubines were killed one after another, even if they really have their own sins, but after all, they have been with their father in those years, but when they died, they only changed their father's sentence "The weak eat the strong", this is the king is ruthless, and the king is like a tiger?
"You seem to be a little unhappy with my attitude." Yuan Kejin had expected her daughter to have this reaction, she was too soft-hearted, which was the advantage she had the easiest advantage in exchange for the favor of men in the world, but it was also the weakness that she had the most difficult to adapt to in this crisis-ridden court life.
"I just don't know if you love my queen mother because you like the days with her or because she helped you vent the resentment you have hidden in your heart against the Huawang Palace!" Yuan Chengcheng bravely looked directly at Yuan Kejin, and her accusatory gaze made Yuan Kejin have the illusion of seeing Yuan Tingguo in a trance.
"Do you think I love your queen mother because I use her as a stand-in or even a tool?"
Yuan Chengcheng stared at his father sideways and did not speak, and her silence was somewhat acquiescing.
"You are really mother and daughter!" Yuan Kejin suddenly had a feeling of being speechless, "Do you know? Your queen mother and even your sister have questioned me with the same gaze, but the difference is that I only told you about the past and not about them! ”
"The queen mother and sister used to doubt you like this?" Yuan Qingcheng was taken aback, the relationship between the queen mother and her father has always been very good, could she also be aware of her father's thoughts? There is also a sister, she has not returned to the palace once in ten years since she got married, is it also because of this incident?