Chapter 552: The Emperor's Identity Is Revealed
"Ahem, ahem, ahem!" Her loud cough made Qiao An feel sympathy, after all, Qiao An had studied with the owner of the medicine house for a while, and she knew that this woman was suffering from hard work.
"Mother, mother!" The little girl who was following the woman saw her mother coughing, and her face turned pale with fright, and she began to cry.
Qiao An immediately listened to the woman's pulse, and found that the woman's body was very weak, and she said, "Help me help your mother to go to the house to rest." ”
Joan bought medicine for her, and the woman thanked her as she struggled. said that he was going to get up and work in the fields, and at lunchtime, a child about eight or nine years old came back with a disgraced face.
"I met Mrs. Zhang today, why didn't my grandfather recognize us? Mother? This kid cried bitterly, and when he heard this, Shen Qiaoan knew that they were actually Zhang Che's family.
The woman tearfully told Qiao An about her tragic fate, and Shen Qiao An realized that Zhang Che had left many years ago, and before leaving Lijiahe Village, Zhang Che was a bitter man, he read poetry and books, and thought that he was a stone to mend the sky.
He swore to his wife that he would not come back if he didn't look like a dog, and after Zhang Che left, the conditions of the Zhang family gradually improved, but the old lady heard that Zhang Che had done something bad outside, lest he be dragged down, and for about ten years, he didn't see Zhang Che come back, so he simply drove out their mother and son.
Before this, Zhang Taigong hated Zhang Che very much, and now who knows whether Zhang Che is dead or alive? Qiao An Dao made his intentions clear, but he didn't say that Zhang Che was the emperor, let alone explain his purpose to the point.
She vaguely proved that she took them to recognize Zhang Che, and it was strange to say that this woman's illness was quickly cured, and the group traveled day and night, and soon arrived in Zhongjing.
Qiao An couldn't help but feel sad when she saw their happy appearance, the woman in front of her was only a young man of twenty-five or sixteen years old, but because of the burden of farm work and life, she had a premature age, and this woman looked at least ten years older than her actual age.
"Mother, how beautiful Dijing is, I want to stay in Dijing and live with my father in the future, and never go back." The older child looked wistfully at the scenery outside the carriage.
Joan gave him something to eat, but he didn't eat it, and asked him why he didn't eat it, she swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Mother said that you can't just ask for what others give, how can you ask for something from strangers without labor?" ”
"We're not strangers." Joan took the child's hand, "In the future, I will help you." After all, that woman has a sensitive heart, and she was wondering what Zhang Che had done along the way, so that someone came from Zhongjing to take her to a flesh-and-blood reunion.
She was still hesitating whether she should believe it or not, and whether she should follow Qiao An into the city, but she knew that Shen Qiao An was a good person! She's willing to gamble.
The most important thing is that she married him at the age of thirteen, and now it has been eleven years, and in these eleven years, she has worked hard to bring up a bunch of children, and she dreams of leaving her hometown.
And today, the dream has come true! But she felt vaguely uneasy, and that uneasiness grew a lot stronger.
In the evening, Shen Qiaoan took this woman named Cuiping to see Li Zhongxuan, "Tomorrow, my husband will take you and your children to see your husband, and the result will be undecided at that time, but you can rest assured, I see that you can stay if you like Zhongjing." ”
When she heard this, she was terrified, "Liu Che must be in prison, right?" You tell me, right? Is that right? The peasant woman grabbed Li Zhongxuan's hand, and Li Zhongxuan shook his head silently.
She was suddenly relieved a lot, and after a while, she became nervous again, "Then, he must have a sweetheart, she stopped his wife and remarried, and she has abandoned our mothers and children, right?" The woman burst into tears.
"Cuiping, he didn't, the mystery will be revealed tomorrow, I advise you, you have a good rest tonight! Didn't you want to meet your father a long time ago? The right time and place have arrived, and all that is needed now is to wait. ”
"You promise! You promise me! My husband didn't commit adultery, he wasn't imprisoned, and he didn't stop his wife and remarry, okay? She looked at Li Zhongxuan for help, Li Zhongxuan didn't react evenly, she looked at Qiao An again.
At this moment, Shen Qiaoan felt that she had become an executioner, why bother, she wanted to see the other party's wound cut open? Qiao An said arbitrarily: "Brother Zhongxuan, don't let them meet, okay?" ”
He gave Cuiping hope, and Cuiping worked hard to raise the child after he left his hometown, she dreamed of being with him, but after tomorrow's meeting, wouldn't everything be shattered? That cruel scene made Qiao Anxin feel painful just thinking about it.
"Nope! Miss Shen, I know this is my only chance to meet him! I haven't seen him in eleven years, and now I'm going to see him anyway! ”
When Shen Qiaoan heard this, he swore and promised: "First, he didn't stop his wife and remarry after he soared, and now he is still a bachelor!" Second, he didn't go to jail, and I promise you, so you can sleep in peace. ”
That Cui Ping burst into tears and laughed, and finally went to sleep, watching Cui Ping leave, Li Zhongxuan and Qiao An hugged each other tightly, from their poor people, they saw the impermanence and variables of time, and felt that they should cherish the present.
On the second day, it is the Double Ninth Festival, and the emperor wants to hold a banquet to worship his ancestors, although Zhang Che hates these behaviors, and even wants to avoid these red tape festivals in the eventful autumn, but this is the ancestral family law of the emperor's dynasties, and it cannot be canceled in one or two sentences.
Therefore, early in the morning of September 91, he enshrined the dogwood in front of the ranking of the ancestors and ancestors, and then respectfully retreated.
"Your Majesty, you have to go to the Taihe Hall to pray for blessings." An old eunuch led the way in front of Zhang Che, the fake emperor was most afraid of these red tapes, but he could only do it hard, and after about a quarter of an hour, he arrived at the Taihe Palace.
The shaman and the shaman arrived, dressed in black, decorated with colorful feathers and bells, dancing strange and exotic dances, with a lottery holder in front of them.
The celebrant next to him looked at it, smiled and shook the one in his hand to the civil and military officials, "Good luck, thousands of generations!" "Long live the crowd, and the voice of the Asaga is so loud.
Next, the witch retreated, and there was a performance from the Teaching Workshop Division, Zhang Che didn't want to watch it at all, but the show had been arranged, and he was bound to sacrifice time to watch the performance today, so he continued to watch hard.
A white-faced scholar held a cloud board in his free to love you dance, the scholar tapped a round ball behind him, this huge ball is a performance prop, he knocked on the side, and said: "Magu dedicated his birthday, I would like to congratulate Your Majesty!" ”
The ball behind it opened with a bang, but several people appeared inside, and everyone looked at it and saw a peasant woman holding two obviously frightened children, who were curled up timidly, and their bodies were trembling.
The peasant woman was obviously frightened too, but the next moment, her eyes were fixed on Zhang Che's face, and Zhang Che gradually got up, her shocked voice trembling.
"They, how did they end up here?" Zhang Che seemed to see a ghost, his body swayed and staggered, and the eunuch next to him hurriedly supported the emperor.
"Your Majesty, are you alright?"
"Thief!" A sarcastic voice next to him entered the ears of the false emperor and everyone, "But you see who I am?" The sorcerer just now threw away the white jade, and he wiped the oil paint on his face with his sleeve, although he couldn't clean it, but at this moment, the face with clear eyebrows was recognized by many old ministers.
"Emperor, Emperor?" Today it was really Li Ghost who met Li Kui, and the true and false two met in the imperial court.
Li Zhongxuan also appeared, he stood with his hands in his hands, staring at the two men. Zhang Che gradually approached the false emperor, and Zhang Che looked back at his children and his wife next to him.
His wife was disheartened, as decadent as a falling rose, and her eyes that had lost their luster stared blankly at Zhang Che, she shouldn't have come!
She thought he had done something great, but she didn't expect him to take away the emperor's throne, which was done by a rebellious minister and thief, and as a rural woman, she was also ashamed of him.
"Big sister!" Seeing that the woman was about to fall, Joan hurriedly stepped forward and supported the swaying man.
"Let's go." The woman turned back in despair, taking the boy's hand with one hand and the girl's hand with the other. The boy was older, and his face flushed because his father had done such a shameful thing.
The girl was a little younger and didn't know much about the situation, so she asked her mother in a childish voice: "Mother, why don't we get close to Daddy?" It turns out that my father is the emperor, so I don't want to go. ”
"Huilan!" The woman grabbed the girl's hand, "Hurry up!" He's not your daddy! "They are leaving, and Shen Qiao'an has actually settled a way out for them, as long as the woman is willing to stay in the imperial capital, Qiao An will let her help the old owner take care of the affairs of the medicine village.
They broke up, went their separate ways in front of everyone, and still forgot about each other! Shen Qiao was in great pain, but there was nothing he could do.
"Oh, it's not a coincidence, it's time for money! Madame, don't be in a hurry, let's see where Madame is from, and what is the noble reason for going to the palace? The one smiled and waved at the guard next to him.
The two guards approached, and the woman saw that these two guards were extremely strong, and she was obviously not their opponent, so she hurriedly put down the child and prepared to choose a way to escape.
"Phew! Where to go! The guard held his spear and attacked them angrily, and although it was a bluff, the woman was indeed frightened.
"Let them go!" When Shen Qiaoan arrived, she roared angrily. But at this moment, her voice was quickly drowned out in the boiling voices, everyone was whispering, and the woman was very emotionally broken the moment she saw the emperor.
As for the emperor, the moment he looked at this woman, his face also changed, but the two of them did not say much, which inevitably made the old minister and a group of people dissatisfied.
An old minister stood up, folded his sleeves and said: "If you come, you will be safe, now you can ask on behalf of everyone, where are you from?" Why here? What about the purpose? ”
"I'm from Lijiahe Village!" The woman looked at everyone pleadingly, and saluted everyone, "I have nothing to do with him, I lost contact many years ago, this child is a wild seed, not his flesh and blood, the child is innocent, please don't connect the nine clans!" Let the children go, and if you want to kill them, they will come at me. ”
When Joan heard this, she was very bitter, and this poor woman did not hesitate to give them the title of "wild seed" in order to save her own children.
Everyone looked at each other, but the old minister spoke, "How can this be?" "He seems to be in command of the people, and he seems to be advocating for the people.
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