These things were all told to her by Cui after Cui and Ji Lingyun got acquainted with each other, and listened to Ji Lingyun tell her bit by bit. When Cui's found the child in Anle Hall, the child was only three months old, and Ji Lingyun gave the child a milk name called Jilang.

She hopes that one day their mother and son will be able to return to her hometown. The Forbidden City is just a place for them to live, and this walled place is not their home. From here to the south, to the end of the empire's borders, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful, is their homeland. Maybe this wish will not be fulfilled in a lifetime, but as long as there is such a wish in my heart, life will not be so difficult.

At the beginning, Cui really couldn't understand how such a major event as a child's conception to birth could be concealed for so long in Nei'an Le Hall.

When she saw Li Qi, the head of Anle Hall, and Zhang Min, the eunuch who was moved from Qianqing Palace to Anle Hall to recuperate because of leg disease, she understood how Ji Lingyun's mother and son survived.

These two people have devoted almost all their efforts to saving this child.

Cui didn't know how Ji Lingyun got to know Li Qi and Zhang Min, but after she met them, she found that there was a strange and strong alliance between these people to protect and raise the child.

They did this not only because he was the only son of the current emperor, but also because the arrival of this child brought a lot of life and hope to these orphaned and crippled people.

In order not to leak out the child's affairs, Li Qi specially set up a room, saying that it was for Zhang Min to recuperate. Because Zhang Min is the eunuch in charge of bathing clothes and decorations in front of the emperor, everyone else has to avoid three points, so naturally no one will say anything.

Ji Lingyun hid in the back room of Zhang Min's house to give birth. This tough woman quietly experienced the pain of childbirth, and her hands almost tore the bedding without making a sound.

After giving birth, Li Qi and Zhang Min emptied the wardrobe again, spread the futon, and let Ji Lingyun hide in the child once there was any trouble.

In the beginning, babies will only eat, sleep and sleep, and there is basically no problem in doing so. There are constant people coming and going in the hall, but only a few people know about the existence of the baby, and they all choose to remain silent without exception.

But as the child grows older, sleeps less, and the voice becomes louder, it is too difficult to keep a single sound from leaking. And the appearance of Cui's just solves this problem.

She saw the right moment to lend a hand. Her courtyard was empty and deserted, and it was no problem to hide a baby. Therefore, during the day, Ji Lingyun often took Jilang to stay in Cui's courtyard, and only returned to Anle Hall at night after Jilang was asleep. Fortunately, Yoro has been very well-behaved since he was a child.,After falling asleep, he rarely cries in fright.。

The reason why they had to go back to Anle Hall at night was because Li Qi and Zhang Min didn't even trust Cui's completely.

Cui didn't mind their suspicions. She wholeheartedly wants to help Ji Lingyun raise this child, and her enthusiasm and dedication even surpass Li Qi and Zhang Min. As long as she thought that one day, Jin Ling'er would be full of horror and trembling to see this child appear in the Forbidden City, recognized by the emperor and the queen mother, and recognized by the world, her heart was extremely happy.

So she gave Ji Lingyun the best food in her yard to eat to encourage her to better secrete milk. Take your softest clothes and use them to make clothes for Jilang.

What she did made Ji Lingyun, who was in a difficult situation, very grateful and very close to her. After that, when Ji Lingyun's "ruffian" disappeared and her body "recovered", and she had to go to the royal private treasury to take a shift, she would put Jilang here and ask her to take care of it.

Cui Shi admitted that when she first started, she took care of Jilang, which was indeed more out of selfishness to take revenge on Jin Ling'er. But as she spent more and more time with Jilang, watching a warm and soft little life grow up little by little, showing great trust and dependence on you, Cui Shi felt that the ice in her heart began to melt.

Until then, her compound, like a crumbled and cracked earth, generated nothing but pain and anger.

And Jiro, like the first green shoot that emerged from this land, grew and was full of life regardless of it, so that the compacted land began to become soft and moist.

Sometimes, she almost forgets the purpose of helping to raise Jirou, and simply wants him to grow up well.

Five and a half years have passed. Just when Jilang was nearly six years old, Chen Jianjun knew about Jilang's existence.

It was Zhang Min who presented the matter of Jilang to the emperor. One morning, Zhang Min combed Chen Jianjun's hair, and Chen Jianjun saw that there was already a trace of white hair on his sideburns in the mirror, and he was very sad, lamenting that he had begun to decline, but no heirs had been born yet. Zhang Min thought that the time had come, so he pleaded guilty and told the emperor that you actually had a son.

Chen Jianjun almost immediately rushed to Anle Hall to recognize his son.

Jilang and Chen Jianjun's eyebrows and eyes are so similar, you can see at a glance that they are father and son. The emperor and the empress dowager did not hesitate to admit the identity of Jilang.

The next thing is not something that Choi can participate in. She waited in torment.

She waited for the news that Jiro had been named the crown prince. followed by Ji Lingyun's will to be named a concubine.

However, what she had hoped for most did not happen. Jin Ling'er's persecution of the imperial heir and concubine was not mentioned, let alone punished her.

Not only was Jin Ling'er not punished, Ji Lingyun, as well as those who participated in protecting and raising the prince, including Tian Ying, Zhang Min and Li Qi, disappeared from the palace one by one.

During that time, Choi closed his door and strictly forbade his cronies from having any information with the outside world. I don't know if it was the Queen Mother's instructions, or because Jin Ling'er didn't take her as a defeated general to heart at all, Cui's here was not affected.

Cui Shi breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time was ruthless in his heart, as long as the prince is still there, he can always see the day when Jin Ling'er falls! Even if the prince doesn't care about the suffering of his childhood, he can't let go of the revenge of killing his mother and not take revenge?

Who knew that after the prince fell seriously ill, he seemed to have completely forgotten the past. Under the protection of Empress Dowager Liu, the crown prince grew up day by day, grew into a gentle and elegant teenager, and grew into an imperial heir who was supported by the courtiers and admired by the subjects, but he was getting farther and farther away from the years of Anletang and Qianxi.

How could Cui be willing? What made her most resentful was that Jin Ling'er hit the prince with the idea again. She got a Ye Tongying to bewitch the prince, and the prince seemed to be confused by Ye Tongying's beauty. Those palace people who sprinkled and swept the courtyard and transported supplies all spread that Ye Tongying would soon become the crown princess.

Choi will never let this happen!

So she took the risk to lead the prince to the courtyard of Qianxi and told him the past. The crown prince was very shocked by this past, and it was hard to believe that his father was the accomplice in killing his biological mother, but Cui's narration and the scenery in this courtyard in Qianxi still evoked many memories for him, and he could not escape it.

The crown prince fell ill when he returned to the palace. Cui Shi heard the news at noon the next day. She knew her actions had worked.

Empress Dowager Liu saw that the prince's illness was strange, and personally interrogated Feng Hao and other small eunuchs who followed the prince, and learned that the prince had been led to Qianxi, so she knew that this was Cui's work behind his back.

The Queen Mother was very angry and ordered her henchmen to secretly go to reprimand and halve Cui's use in the past few months. Cui's supply was not abundant, and now it will be a few months of starvation.

Empress Dowager Liu felt that such a disposition was very merciful. The reason why she didn't deal with the Cui family ruthlessly was because of the kindness she had raised the prince back then. She was the only one left who protected the prince back then, and the queen mother didn't want to let this past be completely drowned, so she spared her for the time being.

What Empress Dowager Liu is most looking forward to now is that Chen Youcong can get better soon.

Chen Youcong, under the guidance of Zhang Weizhao, walked into the quiet room of the West Cross Courtyard. There are three rooms here, the main hall is against the north wall and the door is hung with the statue of Lao Jun, and there is a few cases on the side, where pen, ink, paper and inkstone are placed.

Chen Youcong first worshiped Lao Jun, put on incense, and then entered the room on the left.

Entering the door, Chen Youcong was stunned. He had never seen a room furnished like this.

The room was quite spacious, with a few cases in the center, and two low boxes on top of them, and the boxes were full of sand?

The sand is white and delicate, with a soft shimmer. The nearest sea is still hundreds of miles away from Beijing, and it is not known where the sand comes from.

But it was not the strangest thing to see sand in this room, what surprised Chen Youcong even more was that there were two one-person high shelves on both sides of the room against the wall, and there were all kinds of dolls on the shelves.

He took a cursory look and saw that the dolls were nothing short of strange. There are ancestors, Jade Emperor, Lu Dongbin, He Xiangu and other Taoist immortals, this is just that, how can there be Guanyin, Buddha and King Kong on another shelf? In addition to these Buddhist immortals, there are many secular characters, such as generals, soldiers, traders, farmers, and all kinds of animals, horses, cows, sheep, dogs, cats, and snakes, and even golden dragons, colorful phoenixes, and strange monsters that can't be named, snakes are not like snakes, dragons are not like dragons, and some have wings.

Chen Youcong was confused. His grandmother told him to let him come here every three days to follow Zhang Weizhao to meditate for half an hour to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, and said to the outside world that it was to pray for the queen mother.

He knew that he had a headache that had been getting worse recently, that he had difficulty sleeping at night, that he was not energetic during the day, and that he needed to calm his nerves through meditation. When people are demoralized, they are easily corrupted by evil spirits, and it is of course good to be able to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters through rituals.

But his impression of meditation and practice is always associated with scriptures and incense candles, and he has never heard of sand and dolls to ward off evil spirits.

He looked at Zhang Weizhao with suspicious eyes.