Liu Shu chased Liu Jing back to the city, and a team of wealthy merchants from the Chu State came to the Nancheng Market, not only bringing many rare treasures and southern Xinjiang delicacies, but also hiring a juggling troupe to attract popularity. For a time, the market was bustling with people.

Liu Shu and Liu Jing were originally not far apart, but she was curious to see the juggling for a while, and she couldn't help but look at the gorgeous convoy of wealthy businessmen of Chu State for a while, and before she knew it, Liu Jing was gone. Liu Shuzheng felt that the world outside the palace was new, and before he had time to panic, suddenly a forty or fifty-year-old aunt behind him grabbed her.

She looked up and saw that the aunt was very familiar, as if she had seen it in the palace, thinking that it was a palace person who came out of the palace in civilian clothes to protect them, smiled at her, and said, "I can't find my brother, let's go back to the Ling Mansion!" ”

The aunt smiled too, but she didn't smile very well. She still pulled Liu Shu and said, "I'll take you to Ling Mansion." ”

Liu Shu looked dizzily at the bustling bazaar, which stretched all the way to the gate of the southern city. Because she had just returned from the Peach Blossom Creek outside the city gate with her brother, she recognized the way out of the city. She led the aunt and asked puzzledly, "Aren't we going to Ling Mansion?" How do you want to get out of town? ”

The aunt replied, "There are too many people in the city, it's not safe, let's take a shortcut from outside this city gate, and we will soon reach Ling's mansion." ”

Liu Shu let out an "oh" and asked, "Auntie, which palace are you from?" ”

The aunt paused and said, "Suhua Palace." ”

Liu Shu suddenly felt cold all over, and subconsciously broke away from the aunt's hand. "Where are there palace people in Suhua Palace?"

The aunt suddenly pulled Liu Shu hard, took out a handkerchief from her cuff, and covered Liu Shu's mouth and nose with a handkerchief, Liu Shu struggled hard for a moment, but gradually lost his strength and consciousness when he yelled.

The woman carried Liu Shu on her back and walked towards Peach Blossom Creek. On the bank of Peach Blossom Creek, nine miles of peach forest, deep in the peach forest, is the joint burial mound of King Qi Ai and Queen Qi, where people are inaccessible and lonely.

The woman put Liu Shu down gently, and seeing that she was sleeping soundly, she couldn't help but sigh: "Little princess, don't blame your aunt for being ruthless, but this is the order of the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother." It's only because you shouldn't have been separated from Your Highness, otherwise we wouldn't have had a chance to attack you today. Regardless of whether you heard any rumors or not, you shouldn't have ventured into Jinghe Palace to be so rude to the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother earlier. The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager have always pitied you for being a little girl, and there is no threat to the Song royal family, you could have grown up in the Splendid Garden peacefully, but you have loved to contradict them since you were a child, and you have often gone to Suhua Palace to wander recently...... Knowing the truth really doesn't do you any good! ”

The murmuring of the Peach Blossom Creek is not deep or turbulent for adults, but for a seven-year-old child who cannot swim and is unconscious, it can be like a vast ocean, with rough waves.

The woman was about to throw the sleeping Liu Shu into the water, when she saw a wooden plank the size of a human figure running down the river. The woman showed a little kindness, fished out the plank from the water, put Liu Shu on the plank, and let Liu Shu lie flat on the plank and float away. Looking at the girl who disappeared into the sunset, the woman whispered a wish: "I hope you can float into the Jade River, be picked up by the merchant ships that come and go, and never return to the Jade Capital of the Song Kingdom." ”

******

When Liu Shu woke up, he felt shaky. She sat up in a daze, feeling that her clothes were damp, and fortunately she had covered an old cotton coat, which was quite warm. She had never been on a ship, she did not know the structure of the ship, she got lost in the dimly lit cabin several times, and she did not know where she was, until she finally found the stairs and climbed to the deck, only to find herself on a large ship.

The air on deck was fresh, and there was no damp and shabby smell of the cabins. She saw a bright crescent moon in the dark sky, surrounded by endless, dark waves.

Another bright thing was a flickering oil lamp hanging on the deck, under which sat dozens of people, men, women, and children, and in the middle sat an old storyteller, telling stories with his eyebrows fluttering.

Liu Shu was in a dream, and he couldn't hear the old man's voice clearly, so he walked over and sat among the people, who listened attentively and didn't notice that a female doll had joined.

The storyteller said: "Let's see that King Song Huai and the female assassin fought fiercely, and the guards in the Ning Kingdom Palace had already been beaten by the female assassin and fell to the ground, no one stepped forward to protect King Song Huai, and the envoys of various countries were stunned and stunned. Although King Song Huai was strong in martial arts, he was still stabbed in the arm by the female assassin with a hosta, and blood was sprinkled all over the hall! ”

Everyone exclaimed, and the storyteller waited for everyone to finish their discussions, and then continued: "It's too late, it's fast, King Song Huai actually used a trick to capture the old man, and then a grappler, and captured the female assassin alive on the spot. He asked the female assassin who her name was, and the female assassin replied aloud, 'Qi Guo, Xiao Yi! The crowd shouted again. Xiao Yi of Qi is none other than the youngest daughter of King Qi Ai, known as 'Princess Yi' by the people of the rivers and lakes, the only descendant of the Qi royal family who was left behind after the destruction of the Qi Kingdom! There is a poem: 'The golden sword and iron horse go south, wanting to win the Kyushu chess in the world.' Stepping through the land of Qi and Wei, the jade did not see the mourning princess. That's what it means to be Xiao Yi of Qi Kingdom! ”

Hearing the name of "Xiao Yi", Liu Shu held his breath and listened more carefully. After days of searching, this is the story she wants to hear...... A story about her birth mother!

She heard from the storyteller that her father imprisoned Xiao Niangniang in the White Jade Palace because she had the appearance of a country and a city. Later, King Song Huai gradually fell in love with this princess of Qi Kingdom, so he married her into the palace with a national gift. But in fact, before the princess of Qi came to Song from Chen State, she was already pregnant with someone else's child without knowing it. After she knew that she was pregnant, she tried to escape and fled to the state of Chu, but was chased back by King Song Huai on the bank of Chu water. Poor King Song Huai, although he recovered his beloved and continued to imprison her in the White Jade Palace, he unfortunately fell into her lovesick Gu poison and didn't know it. In the months of the Chen and Song wars, King Huai of Song drove a personal expedition, repelled tens of thousands of Chen troops, and expelled the forces of Chen from the Song State, but unfortunately died of poison in Zhao State. And the princess of Qi who was imprisoned in the White Jade Palace also died in childbirth. She gave birth to a daughter, who is the princess of the current Song Kingdom, surnamed Liu Mingshu, taking the meaning of "forgiveness, forgiveness", hoping that she would not blame her mother, and sacrificed the family of three and the mother-daughter relationship in order to avenge the loss of the country.

The storyteller continued: "The princess of the Song Kingdom is seven years old and is fostered in the splendid garden of Lin Long, the ninth princess of our Chu Kingdom, I am afraid that she still does not know her background. And in this world, I am afraid that only Xiao Yi, the princess of Qi who has returned to the Nine Heavens, knows who the biological father of this seven-year-old girl is! ”