Chapter 9: Demon Stars Descend from the Sky
The crown prince Mu Ting, whether it is the mature way of governing the country in the court, the transparent art of checks and balances, or the outstanding military exploits on the battlefield, are all extraordinary, the world always says that Mu Ting is a natural king, and the first emperor Mu Xiao is very satisfied and valued by the prince he chose. However, in addition to the prince's achievements in cultural and martial arts, his deep relationship with the crown princess Qinglan is also a good story in the Xiqiong Dynasty and the people. The crown princess Qinglan is the daughter of the Ministry of Rites, born in a family of Wenchen, knowledgeable, virtuous and virtuous, and the prince is a childhood sweetheart. After getting married, the crown prince went out to fight and kill the enemy, and the crown princess set up a porridge shed and medical house in the people to treat the homeless, and the benevolence of the two was praised and admired by the people. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, in the second year after the prince and the princess got married, the princess was pregnant, originally Mu Ting thought that this was a blessing from God, but when the princess Qinglan was about to give birth, she collapsed due to dystocia, and she was dying after giving birth to a baby girl.
Mu Ting hugged Qinglan by the bedside and mourned: "Lan'er, don't leave me, Lan'er ......"
"Husband, can I take a look at our daughter?"
Mu Ting waved his hand and motioned for the nurse to bring the little county lord over, and he had the time to take a closer look at his newborn daughter, her watery eyebrows and eyes were carved out of the same mold as his wife, but ...... My daughter's eyes are actually red! Like two clusters of flames burning in the pupils.
"Husband, did you choose a name for her?" Qinglan's eyes were full of love and reluctance, and the strangeness of her daughter's eyes made her feel that her daughter was precious.
"I have never ......"
"Do you remember the day we first met?"
"How could I forget? That day you were stroking the piano by the lake, I heard such a good sound of the piano from afar, so I played the flute and walked towards the sound of the piano, and then I saw you, I knew what love at first sight was, and I ...... ten thousand years at a glance" Mu Ting looked at his wife who was angry, and it was even more heartbreaking to recall the past.
"Yes, the scene of that day over the years seems to be imprinted in my heart: the morning light is faint, the ripples are light, husband, let's call her Yunyi, okay?"
"'Yunyi', good, good, everything depends on you!"
"Marrying you in this life, Lan'er is enough to wish, but Lan'er is blessed and can no longer be by your side, so we must take care of our daughter in the future...... Let Yi'er stay by your side for me...... Husband......"
Before the words fell, the crown princess Qinglan died.
"Lan'er, Lan'er......"
The little lord seemed to feel his mother's departure, and he also howled and cried, and the nurse hurriedly coaxed her away. The imperial doctor and the palace people who knelt on the ground outside all advised the prince to mourn, but Mu Ting hugged Qinglan and refused to let go, crying until he trembled and couldn't help himself. It was also the first time that everyone had seen such a fragile and desperate side of the high-spirited and radiant prince.
After the funeral of the crown princess Qinglan, the Qintian supervisor was replying that the little county lord's birthday was in conflict with the crown princess, and the implication was that the little county lord had killed his mother, and coincidentally Mu Yunyi was born with a pair of red eyes, which was different from ordinary people, and was born for the demon star, so this rumor gradually began to spread in the palace. Although Mu Ting has never believed in celestial phenomena, but at this time he was overly sad, so the rumors that spread more and more in the palace finally planted a suspicion in his heart, and Mu Yunyi's eyes were too similar to her mother Qinglan, so Mu Ting always deliberately avoided his daughter.
The first queen knew her son's sorrow, but she took pity on the newborn child without a mother, and the father did not want to see her, so she brought the little county lord Mu Yunyi from the East Palace back to her palace to raise her, and ordered that the palace should no longer falsely spread the matter of the county lord's mother, otherwise he would be executed immediately, and the rumors in the palace gradually subsided.
Mu Yunyi has been smart and clever since she was a child, and the first emperor and the first queen love her very much, plus the longer she grows, the more she looks like her dead mother, and the emperor and queen couple have doubled their love for the crown princess in the past. But because of this, Mu Ting avoided Mu Yunyi even more, because when he saw her, he would think of his dead wife.
Mu Ting loved Qinglan alone back then, and he never accepted side concubines and concubines, and after Qinglan passed away, he never thought of marrying someone else as the crown princess, and there was no one in his heart who could replace Qinglan's position. But as the crown prince, it is also his duty to reproduce the imperial heirs and spread the branches for the West Dome, and two years later, he finally couldn't resist the pressure and wanted to remarry the crown prince and concubine. In a kind of list selected by the emperor and the queen for him, to everyone's surprise but reasonable, he chose Qinglan's own sister, the second daughter of the Ministry of Rites, Qingchun.
After the wedding, the two were also regarded as loving and respecting each other, and a year later, they had the imperial grandson Mu Yunduo. The candidate for the concubine chose the daughter of the Qing family again, whether it was because the royal family valued the Qing family, or because this Qing Chun was selected by the prince because of her similar appearance to her eldest sister, but if it was because of the similar appearance, why did the prince not be close to his daughter for many years? Thinking about it, the celestial phenomena of the year were a knot that the prince couldn't untie after all. Fortunately, the step-princess Qingchun is as gentle and kind as her eldest sister Qinglan, she knows the weight of her sister in the prince's heart, but she does not have the slightest grievance and jealousy, she knows her duties and duties as the crown princess, and she also knows that as a Qing family, she is burdened with the responsibility of family glory, so she tries her best to be a qualified "princess" but never wants to replace Qinglan, who has a deep sisterhood with her. As Mu Yunyi's aunt, she also really loves this child, when the prince is not in the palace, she often takes Mu Yunyi to the East Palace to take care of her, which also slightly makes up for Mu Yunyi's lack of maternal love since childhood.
Mu Yunyi rarely saw her father since she was a child, and her grandmother and aunt told her that the prince was busy with military affairs and wars outside, protecting the family and defending the country, so he rarely saw her. Although no one in the palace dared to mention the death of the first crown princess, Mu Yunyi still knew more or less about the rumors about her "mother", plus the portrait of her mother that she inadvertently saw in her father's study, it turned out that her eyebrows and eyes were so similar to her deceased mother, and after she gradually became sensible, she also understood that her father could avoid and alienate herself. She didn't resent her father, after all, it was all because he loved her mother too much, so how could she resent this affection?
Although Mu Yunyi is a pampered county lord in the palace, she has not liked piano, chess, calligraphy and painting like other royal nobles since she was a child, but is extremely obsessed with kung fu and the art of war. The first emperor saw that his granddaughter was so fond of dancing knives and guns, so he taught her all kinds of kung fu weapons, and later found that she actually had an amazing talent in swordsmanship and assassination, and later found the first knife in the West Dome He Yuan entered the palace, and He Yuan, who was originally arrogant, felt that it was ridiculous that he was called to teach a county lord, but when he saw Mu Yunyi practicing knives alone in the imperial garden, his eyes, slightly immature but very decisive killing actions, and his astute perception of all the surroundings- Because the next moment, her knife stabbed at her strange self, but He Yuan smiled after avoiding it lightly, and said to the emperor: "This girl, should be my apprentice." ”