In the middle of the night, A-Yao was still standing in the courtyard waiting for the cold.

After waiting for a long time and not seeing him come back, she simply walked out of the yard, intending to go to the front yard to have a look.

She just came to the front yard and saw that Su Yuyan was also there.

The two looked at each other and their faces sank at the same time.

Su Yuyan snorted coldly and sneered: "Your face doesn't look very good, but don't collapse your body in order to please the prince." ”

"If you want to break your body, you don't have this chance." Yao retorted.

"You ......"

Ah Yao met Su Yuyan's angry eyes and walked up to Su Yuyan.

"The account between you and me is not over yet!"

Su Yuyan gritted her teeth and glared at her, "I should say this sentence, slut, my mother and Ming Xuan's account, I will remember it for you first, I will definitely let your mother and daughter die a good death." ”

"You don't have that chance."

"Then we'll see."

After speaking, the two of them raised their eyes at the same time and looked out of the door.

Rong Qianhan got out of the carriage and entered the door.

Su Yuyan took the lead to greet him, "The prince has worked hard." ”

Rong Qianhan glanced at her and walked up to Ah Yao without saying a word.

"It's cool at night, what are you doing standing here?"

"Wait for the prince to come back."

"Next time, you don't have to wait here for this king." Rong Qianhan said distressedly.

"Hmm."

Rong Qianhan took A-Yao's hand and turned away, completely treating Su Yuyan as air.

Su Yuyan was not annoyed or angry, and the corners of her mouth were hooked proudly.

, you won't be proud for long!

In the room.

Ah Yao poured hot water for Rong Qianhan and asked him to wash his face.

"Lord Wang, have the Southern Xinjiang missions settled down?"

"Hmm."

"The southern Xinjiang mission has arrived, presumably the northern Huai and western missions are also about to arrive, right?" Yao asked.

"Southern Xinjiang is a vassal state of Dongli, so naturally it will arrive earlier than the other two countries, and the missions in Beihuai and Xilin should not be so fast."

Ah Yao let out an "oh" and didn't continue to ask.

Kyoto has an inn dedicated to hosting foreign missions, the Imperial Palace.

The Imperial Palace is the largest and most luxurious inn in Kyoto, with stunning kabuhimes and a variety of delicacies, and there were once missions who stayed in the Imperial Palace and did not want to leave.

"It's been a busy night, so let's rest early!"

"Are you better?" Rong Qianhan asked.

Her shoulders trembled at his question.

"This king just cares about you, and has no other thoughts."

"It's better."

"Sleep!"

……

The next day, Rong Qianhan brought the southern Xinjiang delegation into the palace to meet the queen mother and the emperor.

Ah Yao had nothing to do, so she went to the imperial residence.

On weekdays, the Imperial Residence is the same as a normal inn, if there is a mission to move in, it will not accept outsiders for a month in advance, and it will pack up and prepare for the mission to move in.

After the mission moves in, in order to ensure the safety of the ambassadors, there will be guards outside the gate of the imperial residence.

Ah Yao sat at the small tea stall opposite the imperial residence and drank tea, thinking about how to blend in.

She sat in the tea stall from morning to afternoon, and she didn't wait for the guard at the gate of the imperial residence to change shifts, and she was a little helpless.

Just as she got up to leave, she heard a familiar voice.

"Miss Yao."

She turned around and saw Li Yun, who she hadn't seen for a long time.

"Li ......" remembered Li Yun's identity, and she immediately changed her tone and saluted, "Ah Yao has seen the second prince. ”

"Everyone is an old friend, are you still so polite?"

She smiled.

Li Yun looked around and asked curiously, "Why are you here?" ”

Anyway, I have to ask about my mother, so it's better to ask directly!

"To tell you the truth, I want to ask the second prince for a small favor."

Li Yun smiled puzzled, "This is Kyoto in Dongli, what can I help you?" ”

"Only the second prince can help me."

"It's my pleasure to help you."

"Shall we talk somewhere else?"

Li Yun looked around, and finally turned his gaze to the imperial residence, "Why don't you go in and talk!" ”

"Okay."

Ah Yao followed Li Yun into the imperial residence and sat down on the second floor.

Li Yun poured her a cup of tea, "Your tea in Kyoto is more fragrant than the tea in our southern Xinjiang." ”

Without time to taste tea, she took out the jade hosta directly.

"Has the second prince ever seen this thing?"

Li Yun looked at the jade hosta, and immediately changed his face.

He stared carefully at the delicate lotus flower on the hairpin for a long time, and suddenly raised his eyes to look at Ayao opposite.

"How did you have this lotus hairpin?"

"Lotus hairpin? The second prince has seen it? A-Yao asked rhetorically.

Li Yun didn't answer, and took the lotus hairpin from her hand for a while.

"This lotus hairpin is specially made for one person, and it is her exclusive thing."

"She? Who is it? ”

The answer was already coming out, and Ah Yao held her breath and asked.

Li Yun raised his eyes, "Before answering your question, can you tell me where you got this lotus hairpin from?" ”

Now that she has a request for Li Yun, she can only tell Li Yun the truth.

"This lotus hairpin was found from the relics of a grandmother who was kind to me and did not even have a family member to worship after her death.

I wanted to help my grandmother find her family through this lotus hairpin, and when I learned that this thing was from southern Xinjiang, I dared to come to the second prince to inquire. ”

"Do you have a picture of that grandmother?" Li Yun asked.

"Nope."

Li Yun was like a deflated ball, and suddenly stopped talking.

She asked curiously: "Second prince, what's wrong with you?" ”

"The owner of this lotus hairpin is named Soho."

Soho again!

All the people and things seem to revolve around this woman named Soho.

She was suddenly filled with curiosity about Soho.

"Can the second prince tell me about this Soho?"

Li Yun looked at her face and chuckled, "To be honest, the first time I saw you, I felt that you were very similar to Soho, if she was still alive, I would treat you as her daughter." ”

Another person who said she looked like Soho!

How much does she look like Soho, so she will be said to be like Soho one after another.

"Soho is a strange woman, and she is a great hero of our southern Xinjiang, she ......"

Soho was born into a family of merchants, and when she was born, it was at the time of the fall of the Su family.

With her own strength, she made the Su family go from decline to prosperity and became the only imperial merchant in southern Xinjiang.

She has developed many strange things, which have been favored by southern Xinjiang and even other countries, and successfully exported her things to other countries.

Not only does she have a talent for business, but she also has her own unique views on politics.

It was she who made southern Xinjiang from a small war-torn country to a vassal country blessed by Dongli, so that the people of southern Xinjiang would no longer experience war and live and work in peace and contentment.

She also suggested that the emperor promote the concept of freedom of equality between men and women, and equality for all, so that southern Xinjiang can develop freely and harmoniously.

Although southern Xinjiang is small, it is a country rich in materials and has a very high happiness index.

Li Yun said a lot about Soho, and the more A-Yao listened, the more familiar she felt.

For example, Soho will make small things such as Yangzhou fried rice, fruit scooping, and sugar gourd.

My mother also did it for her.

"She's such an amazing woman." Ah Yao sighed.

Li Yun sighed faintly, "It's a pity that God is jealous of talent, but she died of dystocia, and the child went with her." ”

"Who did she marry? How could you die in childbirth? ”

"The person she married was my father."

Ah Yao's eyes widened, "She's the imperial concubine?" ”

Li Yun nodded, "When she married my father, my father was just a prince, and on the day she gave birth, my father happened to accompany my grandfather out hunting, and when my father returned home, he found that she and the child were gone." ”

Ah Yao was suddenly silent, and for some reason when she heard this, there was always a faint feeling of discomfort in her chest.

"She is the favorite woman of her father's life, since she passed away, her father has never married a wife, even if she is now the emperor, the queen's position has always been reserved for her, and every concubine of her father has her shadow."

"It's a shame." Ah Yao said regretfully.

Li Yun let out a long sigh of relief and returned the lotus hairpin in his hand to her, "Maybe the grandmother you know is an old acquaintance with Soho, and maybe you have received the favor of Soho to get this lotus hairpin." “

This lotus hairpin was given to Mama Zhu by her mother.

According to what Li Yun said, Na Niang and Soho are old acquaintances.

Could it be that my mother was taken to southern Xinjiang by someone who knew Soho?

After careful consideration, she raised her eyes and looked at Li Yun, "Second prince, do you have pen, ink, paper, and inkstone here?" ”

"Yes, in my room."

"Can you lend me one?"

"Yes, you can come with me."

"Okay."

A-Yao followed Li Yun to his room, drew the appearance of his mother with a pen, and came to Li Yun with the painted picture.

"Second prince, I drew the appearance of that grandmother, please take a look for me, have you seen her?"

"Hmm."

Ah Yao unfolded the painting in front of Li Yun.

When Li Yun saw the person in the painting, he was stunned again.

"She'......"

She saw Li Yun's reaction in her eyes and hurriedly asked, "The second prince has seen her?" ”

"She's Soho's maidservant, how did you meet her?"

"What's wrong?" Ah Yao looked confused.

Li Yun stared at the person on the portrait and said, "I once happened to see the portrait of the person who accompanied the funeral of Soho, and she was among them. ”

How so?

The mother is not only Soho's maidservant, but also buried Soho!

"Aren't you mistaken?" Yao asked.

Li Yun shook his head firmly, "I can't admit my mistake, at that time, Soho had a difficult birth, one corpse and two lives, and my father was angry, so everyone in the palace was buried with Soho, and she must be among them."

After Soho was buried, all her belongings were kept by my father, and I had accidentally broken into her room when I was a child, and I saw the portrait of the funeral attendant in her room, and I would never be mistaken. ”

Ah Yao was completely stunned.

What is the identity of the mother?

How did you avoid the funeral and take her to Dongli?

Too many questions grew in her heart, making it difficult for her to digest the news she heard for a while.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Li Yun asked in a low voice, "Miss Ayao, are you okay?" ”

She slowly came back to her senses and waved her hand at Li Yun.

"Where is your mother now? Can you take me to meet her? I wanted to ask what the hell was going on. Li Yundao.

Not to mention that he wanted to ask, she also wanted to ask her mother in person, what the hell was going on.

"My mother is not in Kyoto."

"Where's your mother?"

"My mother is in ......"

Ah Yao's words were interrupted by an abrupt voice, "Brother Yun." ”

A young girl walked into the door with cheerful steps, and when her eyes fell on Ah Yao, her face quickly changed.