Shu'er leaned on the side of the couch speechlessly, feeling that she had only cared about being free and easy for fourteen years, and had not accompanied her mother for a moment to fulfill her filial piety, and felt very guilty, and then thought that she was not an orphan without a father and mother at all, so she was so happy that she couldn't speak.

She looked at her mother, recalled her father she had seen when she was nine years old, and recalled that at the wedding banquet in Shu Palace, her "little brother in the family" witnessed her happy marriage, and couldn't help but be filled with joy and sorrow, and was full of emotion. It turns out that going around and around, walking all over the nations, and what you have lost, is such a tumultuous one!

Mixed tears swirled in her eyes, and Shu'er choked up and asked, "Mother, why did you never tell me that I was your biological daughter, my father, not King Song Huai, but Lord Dongfang?" ”

Lin Long took Shu'er's hand and said eloquently: "Shu'er, when you were a child, I never told you in person that you were my adopted daughter, and Ah Xing, Ah Die, and your Granny Lu never mentioned your life experience to you. You grew up in the Splendid Garden, and I never said that you were my adopted daughter, of course you are my biological daughter. Later, when you grew up, you liked to run out of the Splendid Garden to play, and I didn't stop you. Because I am just a grounded concubine, and you are not the prince of the Song Kingdom, and you are not qualified to compete with Liu Jing for the throne, the people in the White Jade Palace will not talk about your life experience for a long time, so I take it for granted that you will not hear any rumors. Besides, even if you hear rumors, you will definitely come and ask me. ”

Shu'er bowed her head and said: "When I was seven years old, I overheard the palace maid talking about it, saying that I was the child of Xiao Niangniang of Suhua Palace, and that I was actually born in Suhua Palace. But as soon as I was born, I killed Xiao Niangniang and Song Huaiwang, so Lin Niangniang of Splendid Garden saw that I was pitiful, so she sent someone to take me back to Splendid Garden for adoption. When I heard this rumor, I was shocked, and my brother also said that I was born in Suhwa Palace, so I believed it. I didn't ask my mother, because ...... I'm afraid that I'm estranged from my mother, I'm afraid that after I break this relationship, my mother will be estranged from me, I'm afraid that my mother doesn't want me...... I don't have a daddy...... If my mother doesn't love me......"

Her daughter's tears fell on the back of Lin Long's hand, she wiped her daughter's tears, and felt that Shu'er was still the little girl who liked to make her own decisions. Lin Long sighed: "You were actually born in Splendid Garden, and you were later taken to Suhua Palace, acted as Xiao Yi's child, and then were carried back to Splendid Garden." King Song Huai and I have never performed the gift of Duke Zhou, how can I give birth to you? That's why I took advantage of Xiao Yi, estimating that her childbirth day would be similar to mine, and in order to save the lives of your mother and daughter, I made this decision. I didn't tell you your life story directly, because you were still very young, I was afraid that after telling you, you accidentally leaked your mouth, and then told others, so how can we mother and daughter live safely in the Song Palace? My mother wants to wait for you to grow up a little more, and after my mother finishes her affairs in the Song Palace, she will take you back to Chu directly. Unexpectedly, if you miss it, you will almost miss it for a lifetime. ”

Shu'er nodded, although she blamed her mother for hiding it from her, but what her mother said was not unreasonable. Moreover, she really never asked her mother, how could her mother know that she had listened to the rumors?

Lin Long clenched Shu'er's hand and said, "After you disappeared, Liu Jing personally led people to look for you in Yudu for many days. Later, when he saw that you were nowhere to be seen, he ran to the Splendid Garden, knelt down in front of me, wept and confessed his mistake, and asked me to forgive him for his negligence, saying that no matter how long he spent and how much effort he put in, he would keep looking for it. While crying, he also said to me, you actually already know your life experience, could it be that because you know your life experience, you took advantage of the time to leave the palace and slipped away? ”

Shu'er shook her head and explained, "I didn't slip away with negative energy, but someone covered my mouth and nose with sweat medicine and threw me into the Jade River. When I woke up, I had already been caught by the fishman and caught on a merchant ship of the Zhuge family. I went with them to the state of Chu. ”

Lin Long raised his eyebrows: "This is not 'negative qi slipping away'?" From the Jade River to the Chu State, there is a waterway for about ten days, so don't the merchant ships stop for ten days? Hasn't anyone asked you, are you a child of the Song Kingdom? ”

Shu'er's head was lowered, like a puppy that had done something wrong, and she sat down.

Lin Long sighed and said, "That's it, you are still alive, and your mother is already content." ”

Shu'er asked, "I have been missing for many years, why hasn't my mother ever returned to Chu to find my father?" Why do you want to be grounded in this Song Palace to waste your time? ”

Lin Long's tone was very calm: "Shu'er, my mother is a stubborn person. After knowing that you had listened to the fake background, I stubbornly believed that you just slipped away in bad spirits. I want to stay in the Song Palace and wait for you to come back. If I go back to Chu State, I'm afraid that after you return to the Song Palace, you won't be able to find me. I wrote to your father that our daughter had been lost, and he immediately put down what he was doing and rushed to Song to see me. He also asked the forces of the Zhuge clan to look everywhere in the Song Kingdom, but none of us expected that you would go to the Chu Kingdom. ”

Shu'er held her mother's hand with her backhand, and her tears couldn't stop falling: "Fourteen years, mother, you have been waiting for me in the Song Palace for fourteen years!" ”

Lin Long also cried and said, "Your father saw that I was sad, so he had to let me have another child." I said that if I can't find my son, I won't give birth, but ...... After all, I gave birth to your brother and named him '愆', which means negligence, and I want to remind myself that it was my fault to lose my son. But at that time, King Song Huai had been dead for eight years, and I couldn't leave him in the Song Palace, not to mention, he was still a boy, and he should learn from his father how to be a man who stood up to the sky. So, I had to endure the pain and cut my love, and let your father bring your son back to Chu to raise her. ”

Shu'er was puzzled: "After my mother gave birth to her younger brother, she should go back to Chu with her father!" Why do you stubbornly stay in the Song Palace and wait for me to come back? What if I don't come back for the rest of my life? Will my mother be separated from my father and brother for the rest of my life? ”

Lin Long said: "When you come back, you will naturally have to wait." Moreover, the mother is the princess of the Chu State, and she is also the fine work of the Chu State. I was in the Song Palace, but I actually asked myself to be grounded and hide people's eyes. When people are in the palace, all kinds of news are known earlier than outsiders. The land of Chu has collapsed, and the disaster of the Seven Kings has been incomprehensible for many years, if the Song State wants to plot against Chu one day, I will immediately make the Song Kingdom in great trouble. Your father often wrote to me urging me to return to Chu, and in almost every letter he asked me when I was leaving, but I didn't agree. My reply has always been the same: there are only two possibilities for me to get back. First, the Seven Kings stopped fighting, unified the Chu State, reopened Zhaohuang, and second, Shu'er returned. Choose one of the two, otherwise, I will be old in the Song Palace for the rest of my life. "If you want to talk about "The Ups and Downs of the Nations" with more like-minded people, follow "Hot Network or rd444" on WeChat to chat about your favorite books with more book friends