Chapter 350: The Dead Are Gone (5)

Seeing Kanxue guarding the mausoleum here, he knew that the Queen Mother Shengci couldn't do without Kanxue's service during her lifetime, so she deliberately left her last words before her death, ordering her to be martyred. Later, he felt that the burial of the living was too cruel, so he ordered the burial of the stone man instead, and the original martyr was changed to the mausoleum. Kanxue was thus saved from death, but he had to stay in this royal tomb for the rest of his life, accompanied by the tomb of the Queen Mother of Shengci.

The life of the mausoleum keepers is hard and monotonous, which is not tolerable to ordinary people. The mausoleum keepers who live in the stone chamber of the mausoleum are even more miserable, separated from the dead by a wall, and have nothing to do every day except sprinkling, chanting, and memorials. In particular, the stone room is built underground, there is no human population, it is cold and damp all year round, and it does not see the light of day all day long, even men can't stand such days, let alone a girl who is like a flower and jade.

What made him most sad was that this girl named Kanxue had been a maid in the palace for ten years, and she would be twenty-five years old in one year, and it was time to leave the palace! Not long before this, the Queen Mother of Shengci kept saying that she wanted to find a good family for her, but in a blink of an eye, she left her last words to be martyred. Even if he was saved from martyrdom, he was doomed to wither in this royal tomb......

He knew that the Queen Mother of Shengci was picky and strong, and it was not easy to gain her trust, and Kanxue must be an extremely considerate and good girl. And in this royal tomb, his good impression of her accumulated into shame and pity, and he was too lonely to guard the tomb here, so he came to the stone room every day to talk to her to relieve her boredom.

Eventually, the two lonely men found comfort in each other, and he fell in love with her, and sinful things took place in this place where the heart should be purest and abstinent, and defiled the resting place of the fathers and fathers.

But he didn't regret it, he was madly obsessed with seeing the snow, and after less than two months of getting along, he finally understood why the fastidious Queen Mother would also prefer her, she was gentle and considerate, understanding, like a gentle drizzle in spring, cool, fresh, moisturizing things moisturizing him silently, and she gave him a taste of another taste.

He got married at the age of fifteen, and it has been five years since then, and there are so many ladies in the harem that they are extremely boring compared to watching the snow, and no one can win his heart like her. The original hard life of guarding the tomb flew by quickly because of her, and before he knew it, he had to return to the court after the three-month period of guarding the tomb expired, and she still had to stay.

Because he had just taken power at that time, he was struggling to face the court and courtiers, and he didn't have the courage to take her back to the palace immediately. He couldn't stand the accusations and insults of the courtiers, scolded him for changing his orders, scolded him for being sanctimonious, scolded him for being unfilial and unjust, and scolded him for being in the royal tomb and the maids guarding the tomb. He must maintain the reputation of a wise monarch and maintain his future path to kingship.

So, he promised Kanxue that for two years at most, when the death of the Queen Mother Shengci was forgotten, and when he really sat on the throne, he would come to take her back. And he really did! He missed her so much that he didn't even wait for two years before he could begin to plan how to get her into the palace. He thought of countless methods, including fake death, substitution, and identity change......

But when he personally went to the royal tomb to pick up the snow back, he found out that the snow had given birth to a child in the royal tomb! A baby girl!

The tomb is sparsely populated, and the mausoleum keepers in the tomb are even more isolated from the world. She actually gave birth to this child alone!

Because of the difficult conditions, although the child was ten months old, he was still a small lump, with a thin yellow face, sparse hair, and frostbite on his fingers. He was already the father of two children at the time, and he was even more guilty when he saw this child, so he immediately decided to change his plan, rearrange the identity of Kanxue, and take their mother and daughter into the palace.

But he didn't expect that Kanxue refused, she felt that she had insulted the sanctity of the royal tomb, and was sorry for the trust of the Queen Mother of Shengci, so she chose to stay to atone for her sins. But the stone room was bitterly cold, and she felt sorry for the child after all, so she begged him to bring the child back to the palace. He couldn't persuade her, and he knew that he was guilty, so he had no position to persuade her, so he had to take the child back and let Kanxue continue to stay in the royal tomb.

After returning to the palace, he didn't dare to tell the origin of the child, so he had to make up a reason, saying that after going to the royal tomb to worship, he occasionally heard the baby crying on the way back to the palace, thinking that the ancestors and ancestors appeared to bless him, so he brought the child back.

He personally named the child "Che'er", raised her in the queen's palace, and gave her the best care. Because he only had two young sons and no daughters under his knees at that time, he also loved Che'er very much, but because of his reputation, he never dared to admit that this was his biological daughter, although he treated Che'er closer than any child. Even the queen never doubted Che'er's identity, seeing that this child Yuxue was cute, and she was loved by the king, she also treated her very well.

Within a few years, Kanxue died of illness in guilt and self-blame, and he transferred all his thoughts about Kanxue to Che'er, treating her better and closer. Because he is worried about Che'er, he has to go to the queen's palace for four or five days every month, even if he is busy, the palace people say that he has a deep love for the queen, and his love has remained unchanged for more than ten years since he got married. Of course, because his wife treats Che'er as his own, he is indeed grateful to her and respects her.

It's just that he didn't expect that he cared about Che'er, but he still ignored it. Che'er and the crown prince Yuan Zhen were raised under the queen's knees, and grew up together since childhood, he saw that Yuan Zhen loved Che'er very much, and thought it was a brother and sister relationship, but he didn't expect that the two became the love of men and women.

When he found out that the relationship between the two was not ordinary, it was the queen who brought the original truth to ask him to marry him in person. The queen's original intention was that Che'er had a special status and was deeply favored by the king, and if the two truly loved each other, they should justifiably ask for marriage. And Yuan Zhen really came to show him his heart, he was shocked and angry, reprimanded the queen, and ordered Yuan Zhen to be tortured and severely beaten with a board.

Yuan Zhen lay down for a month before he could get off the ground, so he ordered Che'er to be placed under house arrest and the two were not allowed to interact with each other again. Who knew that these two children were stubborn tempers, one threatened not to marry Feiqing, and the other claimed that Feijun would not marry. In order to maintain his prestige as a king and father, he couldn't tell the truth, so he forced Yuan Zhen to marry the crown princess, and sent Che'er to another palace to continue house arrest.

After a whole year, it was not until the crown princess was pregnant that he felt that the situation was slowly subsiding and took Che'er back to the palace. originally planned to arrange for Che'er to marry as soon as possible, but the two children quickly rekindled their old relationship, and even took an extreme way, wanting to blackmail him in the way of "raw rice cooked and matured"! Fortunately, he found out in time and didn't let the two children make a big mistake.

In desperation, he had no choice but to tell the original story of the year, which also completely hit the two children. Yuan Zhen was the most satisfying of his three sons, Wen Taowu was strategic, and he was also quite insightful about political affairs, and he was most pleased to be able to put the throne in the hands of Yuan Zhen. But since the truth was revealed, Yuan Zhen has been in a slump since then, and he has become obsessed with women, and he is not as diligent in political affairs as before. Not to mention Che'er, who washed her face with tears every day, and had a serious illness because of it.

What really made him decide to send Che'er away was in the thirty-third year of his reign, when someone came to assassinate the crown prince Yuan Zhen. The main messenger never found out, it was nothing more than his other two sons, but there were not many killers, only four or five, and one of them was a woman.

Although Yuan Zhen is decadent, he still maintains his vigilance, and his own skills are also very good, but he couldn't succeed in the right way, and the female killer's martial arts were too weak, but he was captured by Yuan Zhen himself. But what he didn't expect was that just because the female killer looked a little similar to Che'er, Yuan Zhen was greatly stimulated, and after getting drunk, he actually raped the female killer......

didn't even let go of a female killer, once it got out, it was a palace scandal, which caused great damage to Yuan Zhen's reputation as the crown prince. It was also this incident that made him truly realize that if he didn't take measures to completely cut off the feelings of the two children, the prince he had worked so hard to cultivate would be ruined. This is the child he is bent on handing over power, and he must not be ruined because of this deformed relationship, let alone let this royal scandal leak out and harm their father and son!

One is his most important son-in-law, and the other is the illegitimate daughter he has loved for more than ten years, who to abandon, there is no doubt - he chose to send Che'er away. It's not just about marrying her off, but about marrying far away, so that she and Yuan Zhen will never have the chance to meet again, only in this way can the two children completely forget the past and start over.

At the beginning, he wanted to accept Che'er as a righteous daughter openly, and then marry her out by marriage, marrying Chu and Yan. But after thinking about it, he had a few concerns:

First, he has always had ambitions to unify Kyushu, if Che'er marries as a princess, in case several countries fight in the future, Che'er will become the other party's handle to blackmail Ningguo, which will not only make him in a dilemma, but also endanger Che'er's safety.

Second, although the matter between him and Kanxue was extremely hidden, there were also a few eunuchs who served closely and knew the inside story, because he felt guilty back then, he did not kill these people, some have returned to their hometowns, and some have no traces. It's okay if Che'er has never had an identity, but once she has an upright identity, will she attract the attention of people with a heart, so as to track down what happened to him in the royal tomb back then? Will this affect his good reputation, which he has worked hard for more than 30 years?

Third, if you really want to send Che'er to another country, she will definitely have children in the future, that is his own grandson, is it possible to inherit a throne? If Che'er marries as the princess of Ningguo, no king will be stupid enough to set up a prince close to Ningguo as the crown prince, in case the power is controlled by Ningguo in the future. But if Che'er marries out as an ordinary person, the child she gives birth to is very likely to be favored. At that time, as long as he secretly helps, his own grandson may be the next King of Yan and King Chu!