Chapter 165: Boundless Relatives
When he learned that Qiu Weiyu had been dead for a long time, instead of being relieved, Bai Ya felt even more confused and annoyed. He didn't even know where the anger was coming from, and maybe there were too many parts for him to be angry about.
What they told Bai Ya first was about the Queen Mother's illness. Could it be that all this was planned by the god of songs, Kinara? After all, she had been sick during her reign, before the colt had left her. Regarding this, Liu Shenghan also has doubts about this. Although it was about ten years ago when the identity of the "gods" was revealed in the Nine Heavens, the time for each of them to appear and exist was much longer than just ten years. What's more, the Queen Mother also admitted that she fell ill suddenly.
"That night, I finished the excerpt as usual." At that time, she said to the two girls, "I am so tired, so I will lie down at the desk and rest for a while." For a long time, I couldn't settle down. They are not convinced of me, the people's hearts are difficult to gather, the officials are unpredictable, and there is trouble up and down. There is a famine in the east city, a flood in the west city, and there is no time to be idle in and out of people. When I woke up, the night was still deep, the cold wind was blowing in through the window, the moon was sparse, and the shadows of the trees were swaying. I had an extra blanket on me, and I called the maid to come, saying that it was sent by my husband, and the movement was very light, and it did not wake me. I looked out the window and heard a melodious, distant singing voice. I suddenly felt a pang of sadness - there are people in the world who think that I am not worthy to be the king of a country, that is their business, and I will prove it to them. But to be a good wife and a good mother, I had a choice...... Now they have to put that on hold. β
"Singing?"
Liu Shenghan caught this information and asked further. She asked the Queen Mother when she had noticed the voice. Did it come out of nowhere, or was it a while, and whether it could be heard again after that? The Queen Mother said that she couldn't remember clearly, because in the dead of night, she could occasionally hear distant songs. But this time was different, although it was a soft, wordless chant, it had a strong penetrating power. It stands to reason that such a voice cannot come in like a loud song. She had heard it before, but she didn't pay much attention to it, after all, business mattered, and she couldn't go to the outside every day to study the sounds outside. Sometimes it is the song of people, which is pleasant to the ear, like the wailing of a hundred birds; Sometimes it's instrumental music, ethereal and ethereal, and it's sad and weeping.
When she gets busy, she can't hear clearly. But since that day, her health has deteriorated. All the doctors said that she was too tired and that she should pay more attention to her bedtime. But to put it simply, throw down the fold and go to sleep, who will do the work? Who will do the big and small things inside and outside? She had to continue working under intense pressure, which exacerbated her condition. By the time she left the palace, her illness had progressed to the point of almost no return. All the doctors can't help it, let alone cure the root cause, and even the standard can't alleviate it. It wasn't until the national teacher came that it wouldn't make her situation worse.
At this point, they all preferred to believe that the pony really had no way out, so they came up with such a way - to go to the dragon and ask for a clam. I don't know what he went through, but it's clear that he failed. Bai Ya hadn't had time to tell her about this yet, but if he had the opportunity in the future, he was still determined to consider the words and let the Queen Mother know about it. Now that she has considered the worst outcome, it can be somewhat comforting to talk about this matter in a little package.
Under the criticism, in the face of his wife's serious illness, the ridicule of the world, and the uncertainty of the unknown, these pressures fell on him, how can he be said to be an irresponsible deserter? It's strange to say that the national teacher appeared when he went to seek help from the gods, which naturally made it easy for them to think that these were all planned.
"Do you remember?" Bai Ya asked, "We also heard it when we were in the Moon Mountain...... Music. β
"Definitely. If you don't say it, I'll forget about it. Jun Aoyan frowned, "These two things must be related." β
Liu Shenghan agreed with their speculation. Because the reason why Kinnara became a national teacher was because she suppressed the monsters of Moon-eating Mountain, she got this position. She naturally has a way of suppressing and even controlling the Great Tengu, and it sounds reasonable to string the two things together and analyze them. There is no direct evidence at the moment, but she is afraid that she can't clear the suspicion.
"The princess is dead, what's the matter?"
ββ¦β¦ Maybe you remember the little prince. β
"Remember, what's wrong? Didn't he have an accident before the pony left? β
"Indeed, but ......"
According to the popular legend, the small wooden carving that the princess carried with her fell in a dangerous place, and the prince went to pick it up for her, and then fell off the cliff. As for why they went to the Moon Eating Mountain, it is said that it was the team of onmyoji in the palace who took advantage of the moonless night to subdue the tengu, and the two suffocated children did not know it, and secretly got into the carriage out of the palace and mixed into the team going up the mountain. That night, a thunderstorm suddenly fell from the sky, dragging out the cries for help from the two children.
It's incredible that two children climbed to the top of the mountain!
But what is even more incredible is what Liu Shenghan told Bai Ya next.
Someone saw with their own eyes that it was not the cliff that the little prince himself had fallen on.
- but the princess pushed it down.
Bai Ya thought he had misheard. How is this possible? At that time, the princess was just a child, a child who had just learned to walk for a long time! Thinking about it this way, how did two children, whose physical strength is obviously inferior to that of adults, move the idea of going up the mountain? I'm afraid there is another reason for this. The Queen Mother didn't know about this matter at first, and almost everyone explained it to the palace. After that, the princess also had a high fever because of the rain, and they simply did not have the time and energy to think about it.
The person who witnessed the scene of the little prince being pushed down the mountain at that time was a primary school apprentice. He was the apprentice of a certain onmyoji at that time, and went up the mountain to study with his master. His master was afraid of trouble and trouble, so he didn't teach him to tell the truth. But that scene hit him so hard that he had nightmares for days on end, and this scene kept repeating itself in his head. So he secretly entered the palace and told the queen and the colt all this. He didn't know where he got the courage, he was ready to be killed, he didn't expect the two monarchs to be so understanding. Far from embarrassing him, they told him everything he knew.
So the apprentice confessed. He also told what he saw at the time and how those onmyoji colluded. After that, Queen Qiu Ruoyun sent someone to send him outside the city so as not to incur the resentment of those people. As for whether what he said was true or not, the husband and wife also believed it.
"The princess is possessed by evil spirits" is the most credible statement, and the young apprentice said the same thing. In fact, those onmyoji can completely blame the "evil" things on the head of the tengu - maybe even the tengu did it. However, when the princess killed the prince, they were afraid that the queen who was in love with her mother would be angry and kill them all. What's more, doesn't this prove that this group of onmyoji has no ability, and they are all a group of wine bags and rice bags? Faced with the risk of ruining his reputation, he has the current flawless-sounding and widely circulated statement.
Not long after, the colt also left. Some say that he could not bear the blow of losing his son, and was so disappointed by the queen's incompetence that he left the palace; Others say that he left to find his son's body, or to find a cure for his daughter. Miao
Parent-child love is always talked about, but no one believes in love in the palace.
Later, Kinnara appeared.
She suppressed the tengu of Mt. Moon-eating and was officially canonized as a national teacher. Soon after, the princess died of a recurrent high fever. At that time, no one except the imperial doctor and the national teacher knew about this incident, and the imperial doctor also lost the memory of this incident soon after.
The queen was devastated.
She knew that her body would not last long, and her only daughter who could inherit the throne died like this. However, the national teacher told the Queen Mother that she had a way to bring the little princess back to life. Use the rejuvenating incense of Qianfu to make the body move; Then make up a tune based on the queen's memories of her daughter, knead it into the shape of a soul, and inject it into an empty shell. In this way, the little girl will be able to moveβlike a living person.
The queen knew in her heart that her daughter was dead after all.
How can moving be the same as coming alive? But she has no one else, no more. The people she loves the most, the people around her, the people who can be seen and touched, only the cold corpse in front of her is left. So she acquiesced to the method of the national teacher. When the national teacher cast a spell to make the lively little girl enter the queen's room, great joy poured over her fragile and heavy shell, and she almost did not survive.
Qiu Ruoyun realized one thing.
Since she looks like her own daughter, she speaks like her own daughter, and she moves like her own daughter.
Isn't that my daughter?
She deceived herself.
She lied to herself.
However, such a body cannot grow any longer. She immediately passed the throne to this "resurrected" child, and she and the national teacher assisted her. There is a limit to what she knows, what she can remember, what she has learned. But it doesn't matter, her greatest wish in the world is to see her children inherit the throne in peace and order, and govern this little Geshen country in an orderly manner. Although it was a little different from her original vision, in her lifetime, the scene finally came true.
Although pointless.
She can't lie for a few years, and her daughter, who has not grown up, will finally one day arouse suspicion. Although the national teacher has a way to let people ignore this problem for the time being, they will eventually die. It can't be said that she will die of old age, but she will always die of illness, and the national teacher's treatment of her is only a symptom but not a root cause, because the national teacher said that she had a heart disease. If the heart disease is terminal, there is no cure.
What to do after that, she had given up thinking about it. She thought too much and experienced too much.
She really doesn't have that strength anymore.
The dignified and majestic countenance was slowly supported by the soft foam, and the meaning of haggard was overflowing. One day, those bubbles will disappear, and this majestic image will collapse.
"So what? I've had a full life. She said.
Bai Ya listened to it and didn't make a sound for a long time. In the end, he just said lightly:
"I think she was deceived by the national teacher."
"We all know that she was deceived by the national teacher β most likely herself."
"But she can't wake up."
"She didn't want to wake up. The world that wakes up without her daughter. β
His Majesty died, a long time ago.