37, return to Chu Palace
Mo Yu shook his head, didn't speak, and ate with his head down. The world she has been exposed to since childhood is both simple and direct. Whoever is good to her, she is good to whomever she is, and whoever treats her badly, she will return it a thousand times and a hundred times. She couldn't understand Su Tian's persistence, knowing that the Chu Palace was like a bloody mouth, she couldn't wait to swallow him whole, and insisted on going back.
She pushed the empty bowl, grabbed the small package at her feet, and said angrily, "I'm leaving." ”
There was no sound behind her for a long time, and when she couldn't help but want to look back, she heard Su Tian say in a suppressed voice: "Okay, I don't want to be outside, just go back to Yuntai, I will ask someone to light up here and wait for you every night." ”
Hearing this, Mo Yu became more and more angry, is it so difficult to say "Don't go"? She stomped on a pair of shoes and ran out of the house, down the trail down the hill.
Su Tian watched her run away, unable to say a word, covering her mouth with her palms, and blood oozing from between her fingers. He didn't have much time left, and the more promises he made, the greater the disappointment. The medicine stone can't cure his illness, and Nuan Yu can't save him, and the breath of life is dissipating from his body little by little until it disappears completely.
On the way down the mountain, it was pitch black. Mo Yu walked a few steps, reached out and touched the sleeve of his shirt, only to find that there was no fire fold. It turned out that the night road was so dark, she was used to someone lighting the lamp for her, and she was used to someone opening the tent at night to see if she was sleeping well. She knew what Su Tian was doing, she just pretended to be asleep, so that he could cover her forehead with her cold fingers, and try to see if she had a fever again.
She stopped and said to herself, just go back and take one last look. Anyway, it's already decided to go, and there is not much difference between leaving tonight and leaving tomorrow morning.
The two palace lamps emitted a dim yellow light, which could only illuminate an inch of land under their feet. Su Tian walked out of the cloud platform, and the night wind rolled up the hem of his clothes and slapped on him. The woman dressed in the palace costume bowed down and bowed to him, but no one dared to reach out to help him. After tonight, he is Lord Ling Yin, who is the noble status of the Chu State, and no one can even look at him directly except for the King of Chu.
Xuannu is gone, and the people who dare to support him are no longer by his side.
Mo Yu hid behind the tree and watched Su Tian walk step by step to the purple gold soft sedan chair. He lifted the sedan curtain, stopped his movements, and glanced blankly in the direction of the descent. The shadow of the tree swayed, he didn't see anything, sighed helplessly, lowered his head and was about to get into the sedan chair.
As soon as the man sat down in the sedan chair, a small figure, out of nowhere, rushed out of nowhere and rushed straight in front of him. The guards of the Yuntai were all secret guards trained by Su Tian himself, so the palace people who greeted him were all defenseless, until they saw the person rushing into the sedan chair, and then they remembered to pull her out in a hurry.
"Su Tian, I'll go with you, I'll follow you wherever you go." Mo Yu burrowed into Su Tian's arms, his body pressed against his chest. She doesn't have a homeland, and she doesn't have any ideals, so let's take Su Tian's country as her own country, and Su Tian's ideals as her own ideals.
Su Tian was pressed by her chest, and he was sullen for a while, but the heavy touch made him reluctant to let go of his hand, so he kept hugging him tightly, and a smile bloomed at the corner of his mouth, first a shallow smile, and then a hearty laugh. He had always been moody, and this was probably the first time that he was so blunt and obvious that he was happy.
The soft sedan chair carried two people, taking advantage of the night, to enter the palace of the king of Chu.
The king of Chu was already terminally ill, and he could only barely maintain his diet every day, and he could not manage the government at all. After Gongzi Yu was assassinated, there was only one young Gongzi Han, who was the heir of the King of Chu. Gongzi Han is only seven or eight years old, and he can't deal with any national affairs, everything depends on the hard work of the Empress Dowager Zhaoxiang.
Entering the palace of the king of Chu, the entire palace was filled with a strong smell of medicine. Su Tian bowed at the door of the palace of the king of Chu, and was about to lift the curtain and go in. On the other side of the curtain, there was an unexpected force, a small hand with pale knuckles, holding on to the curtain and refusing to let go.
"Childe, the minister Su has come to meet the king, please let me in." Su Tian knew that it was Gongzi Han on the other side of the curtain, and comforted him with a pleasant face. But no matter what he said, the little hand just wouldn't let go.
When he was in a dilemma, Mo Yu quietly walked to Su Tian's side and grabbed the little hand through the curtain: "Little brother, aren't you afraid of the dark inside?" What are you unhappy about, tell your brother, okay? "Gongzi Han is the same generation as Yun Jiang, and he can also be called Su Tian's cousin.
As soon as these words came out, the child in the curtain cried out loudly, crying and shouting: "Cousin, I don't know, I really don't know anything." My father didn't give me any Yugui, I don't know anything......"
Su Tian and Mo Yu glanced at each other, Mo Yu's face was inexplicable, but Su Tian's expression changed greatly. The royal family of Chu has a jade gui rewarded by Zhou Tianzi, which is only the size of a pigeon's egg, but it is polished with a unique piece of beautiful jade, which is very precious. This jade has only been passed on to the eldest son, and over time, it has become a symbol of succession to the throne.
It seems that someone has already come here to ask Gongzi Han about Yugui's whereabouts. The king of Chu has no other sons, but the king of Chu has brothers, brothers and sons, and these people, as long as they get Yugui, are eligible to inherit the throne.
Mo Yu saw that he was crying more and more fiercely, reached out and patted the back of his hand, and comforted him softly: "Okay, okay, don't be afraid, my cousin is here, and those people don't dare to come." ”
After persuading for a long time, Gongzi Han came out from behind the curtain and threw herself into Mo Yu's arms, snot and tears rubbed against her. Su Qian shook his head helplessly, Mo Yu knew that he was pitiful, he had been clothed and fed since he was a child, but I am afraid that no one really cared about him, patted him on the back and comforted him. At first, it was just coaxing children, but gradually it also brought true feelings.
Childe cried enough, and raised his head with sobs, and his Jiao pattern brocade clothes were wrinkled. He looked at Su Tian embarrassedly and whispered, "Cousin." Su Tian nodded slightly, he wouldn't say anything to coax a child. Gongzihan looked up at the ink rumor again, and called out happily and cordially: "Cousin-in-law." The child had a simple mind, and when he saw Mo Yu, he did not shy away from coming with Su Tian, just as if they were husband and wife, and most of the men and women he usually saw in the palace were husband and wife.
At this call, Mo Yu was a little uncomfortable, and blushed and defended: "I'm not your cousin-in-law." The words sister-in-law slid across her mouth, feeling so strange that people couldn't help but want to read it again.
Su Tian added with a smile: "Not yet." ”
appeased Gongzi Han, met with the King of Chu, met with the Empress Dowager Zhaoxiang, and summoned officials of all sizes...... As soon as he returned to Shouchun, Su Tian hardly had a moment to spare. Empress Dowager Zhaoxiang specially allowed him to live in the palace so that he could discuss state affairs with the king of Chu at any time. However, everyone knows in their hearts that this is just a pretext, and the person who really handles political affairs is the Empress Dowager Zhaoxiang. As she enters her old age, she will face a new turmoil.
Mo Yu has been following Su Tian's side, and from their conversation, he gradually understood the ins and outs of Yugui. The son of the king of Chu has not been prosperous, and he has already given Yugui to his son Yu in his early years. When Gongzi Yu's body was sent back to the Chu State, it was Lou Zhao who handled the funeral matters. At that time, the body was seriously decomposed, and it could only be determined from the clothing and utensils that it was indeed Gongzi Yu. But Lou Zhao obviously didn't find Yugui either, since the King of Chu was seriously ill, he had found an excuse to enter the palace more than once, and asked the Empress Dowager Zhaoxiang and Gongzi Han about Yugui's whereabouts.
"Could someone have taken it in advance?" Mo Yu asked Su Tian quietly.
"It shouldn't be, that thing has the mark of Zhou Tianzi, ordinary people take it, there is no way to sell it, it is useless. The only possibility is that when Gongzi Yu died, he didn't take Yugui with him at all. Su Tian was also puzzled, "But, how could he not carry such an important thing with him." ”
If Yugui can't be found, in case the king of Chu suddenly dies, Gongzi Han will not be able to justifiably ascend the throne. If the other clan nobles were not convinced, the state of Chu could fall into an even worse division situation than the state of Qin.
Yugui's matter is in a hurry, so he can only slowly find a way to find it. Another thing that Su Tian faced was that the eldest princess of the Qin State was about to arrive in Shouchun. What etiquette to use to greet the winning poem has also become a difficult problem.
The last time Ying Shi came to Shouchun, he was a hostage on behalf of his younger brother, and he didn't need to go out of the city to greet him. But this time, Ying Shi announced with great fanfare that he was coming to the state of Chu to make peace, and according to the etiquette of harmony, he should be appointed by the king of Chu to meet him ten miles outside the city.