0p0 Chapter 188 Abnormality
Chapter 188 Abnormality
As dusk fell, Yi Qing's men were all killed.
"The smell of blood is too strong. I'm afraid it will attract wild animals. We need to leave quickly."
After killing the last man, Qiao Xi clapped his hands and walked up to the old man, "Do you want Chen Shan to carry you?"
The old man's eyes were red, his hair was messy, and his beard was tangled.
Qiao Xi felt distressed when she saw this.
Chen Shan was a perceptive man. As soon as Qiao Xi finished speaking, she squatted in front of the old man.
Knowing that the old man would refuse, he said, "Your Majesty has something important to do. I will carry you and walk faster."
The old man who wanted to show off had to swallow his refusal.
Qiao Xi is the queen now, so things that require her to handle personally are naturally not trivial matters.
He couldn't delay her.
Qiao Xiyi squatted down in front of Zhou Huiyue and said, "Your Majesty, please come up."
Zhou Huiyue ran in the mountains for several days, her legs were already weak and her feet were covered with blisters.
In addition to what Chen Shan had just said, he also lay on Qiao Xi's back.
The group walked quickly out of the mountain and buried several people killed by Bu Mo and his men on the way.
One of them was the old man’s secret guard.
Ever since Su Heting organized the rebel army, he chose that man to follow the old man.
The old man used to be confused and prone to getting into trouble, and the secret guards worried about him a lot. After getting along with him for a few years, they naturally had a special relationship.
After putting the man into the pit with his own hands, the old man helped fill the soil and bury the man.
Zhou Huiyue saw the old man's sadness and felt sad.
When she was carried on Qiao Xi's back again, she whispered to her, "I'm sorry. I was so angry before that I didn't take good care of you."
If she had not entered the Buddhist temple and had been a good queen, the prince would not have died. If the prince had not died, Qiao Xi would not have suffered all those years.
Qiao Xi said calmly, "Your Majesty has not wronged Qiao Xi. On the contrary, she has done Qiao Xi a favor."
Your Majesty is sorry for your two sons.
The queen remembered what she had not finished saying, so she did not say anything else.
After the group left the mountain and rested for a while, Chenshan bought two carriages in a nearby town and headed straight for the capital.
Qiao Xi escorted them for three days. After meeting up with the Xinjiang Northern Army that came to support them, he was ready to leave with Xiaoman and a few others.
The old man didn't ask what she was going to do, but just said, "Are these enough for you?"
Qiao Xi smiled, "That's enough."
There are advantages to having fewer people, and it is not easy to be noticed.
If Su Heting hadn't insisted, she wouldn't have to bring Xiaoman and the others with her. She already knew Wuan's whereabouts very well in her previous life.
The old man had a vague guess, but he didn't say anything more. He told Xiaoman and the others, "Take good care of Xibaoer and come back soon."
Xiaoman and others agreed.
Qiao Xi and Zhou Huiyue nodded slightly and rode away.
Looking at the figure running away in the blink of an eye, Zhou Huiyue asked anxiously, "Dad, is Qiao Xi blaming me?"
Qiao Xi never called her mother-in-law from beginning to end.
In fact, what she wanted to ask more was whether Su Heting blamed her.
The attitude of the daughter-in-law represents the attitude of her son to a certain extent.
The old man comforted her, "She feels sorry for He'er, you should be happy."
Zhou Huiyue thought about it and agreed.
But, "She used to be Yu'er's fiancée, and they had a very good relationship. Now she's married to He'er..."
Have you really forgotten Yu'er completely?
How could two people with such a good relationship just forget about it? But if she didn't forget, how could she live a happy life with He'er wholeheartedly?
Zhou Huiyue felt complicated for a moment.
He hopes that Qiao Xi can remember the prince, so as not to let the prince down for his years of devotion.
He was also worried that she still had feelings for the prince, which would be unfair to Su Heting.
The palm and back of the hand are in a dilemma.
She sighed deeply, "My daughter is confused, Yu'er is no longer here.
I, as a mother, have failed in my duty, so how can I ask Qiao Xi to live in the past? It’s better to forget it. I just hope that she and He’er are doing well.”
Yu'er is already dead. No matter how heartbroken she is, it will be of no use. She cannot affect the relationship between He'er and his wife anymore. She has already felt sorry enough for He'er.
The old man had not yet told her about the prince's resurrection, and he had no plans to tell her for the time being.
Zhou Huiyue has been with Yi Qing for many years, and I'm afraid Yi Qing has already figured out her temper. The old man is worried that if she knows this secret, Yi Qing will notice it.
Although Su Heting has ascended the throne, he has not yet truly wielded imperial power. If someone discovers the secret of his rebirth after death and uses it to make a fuss, it will be very detrimental to the stability of the Dayou Dynasty.
In order not to cause trouble for Su Heting, he had no choice but to let Zhou Huiyue down.
Judging from Qiao Xi's attitude just now, it was obvious that she didn't intend to tell Zhou Huiyue.
But the old man couldn't bear to see his daughter suffer, so he reminded her, "Both of them fell from your body, and they are brothers of the same mind.
You neglected Yu'er in the past, and now you can take this opportunity to make up for what you owed Yu'er to He'er. This child has suffered so much."
Zhou Huiyue felt so heartbroken that she could hardly breathe when she thought about Su Heting's childhood experiences.
She nodded with tears in her eyes.
After a moment, he finally asked his uneasiness, "Dad, will He'er blame me?"
"Strange or not, aren't you his mother?"
The old man said earnestly, "Hui'er, Dad is not a competent father, so I am not qualified to teach you.
But now we still have a chance to reunite as a family, and from now on we should all try to do our part, okay?"
Zhou Huiyue was silent for a moment, then looked towards the capital and nodded heavily.
She is no longer Queen Zhou, but Su Heting's mother. A mother's duty is to love her children.
The Imperial Palace in Beijing.
Liang Shi walked lightly to Su Heting and said, "Master, someone from the Zhou family secretly went to the Qiao family."
The Zhou family he was referring to was the family of Grandma Jinhua's son and daughter-in-law.
Previously, the emperor was always worried that Qiao Xi would recover his memory, so he took the trouble to lure the four members of the Zhou family to the capital, and used Wang Junjie to set up a plan to let Qiao Xi rescue the Zhou family.
Given the friendship between the Zhou and Qiao families, the emperor believed that Qiao Xi kept the Zhou family members around him, so he threatened the lives of the Zhou brothers and sisters and forced the Zhou couple to become the emperor's spies to follow Qiao Xi.
Unfortunately, Qiao Xi saw through the plan early on. Although she saved the Zhou brothers and sisters for the sake of Grandma Jinhua, she also kept the whole family in the Second Prince's Mansion on New Year's Eve.
Knowing that they were exposed, the Zhou couple told the truth to their children. The Zhou brothers and sisters were furious and took their parents to apologize to Qiao Xi.
But Qiao Xi didn't see them.
Although they were threatened by the emperor, it was true that they betrayed her whereabouts.
After that, the Zhou brothers and sisters asked to see Qiao Xi several times, but Qiao Xi sent them away.
I didn't expect them to come again today.
Su Heting didn't even raise his eyelids. "What's the matter?"
Liang Shidao said, "It was Zhou Lin, the son of the Zhou family, who went there alone. He said that he saw a eunuch in the bookstore yesterday, secretly meeting with another person in the bookstore. In their conversation, they mentioned the Empress and the Ghost Army..."
After learning what his parents had done, Zhou Lin moved out of the Second Prince's Mansion with his parents and sister.
He was originally going to return to his hometown in northern Xinjiang, but when he learned that the imperial court was holding an imperial examination, he stayed and rented a yard outside for his family to live in.
Zhou Lin usually goes to the bookstore to copy books to supplement his family income. Yesterday, he went to the bookstore to hand in a book and overheard the conversation.
But because he was afraid of being discovered, he was far away and did not hear much of the content. He only recognized that the eunuch had delivered gifts to the Second Prince's Mansion on behalf of Prince Yong's Mansion.
Zhou Lin felt guilty towards Qiao Xi. Remembering the vicious expression on the eunuch's face when he mentioned Qiao Xi, he was worried that they were trying to harm Qiao Xi. That's why he went to Qiao's house, hoping that Qiao Chengwang would pass on the message to Qiao Xi so that she would be on guard.
Su Heting put down the red brush in his hand and asked, "Prince Yong's Mansion?"
Liang Shi nodded, "I have confirmed with Zhou Lin that the eunuch is indeed from Prince Yong's Palace."
The eunuchs of Prince Yong's Mansion met with someone and mentioned Qiao Xi and the ghost army?
Su Heting frowned slightly and ordered, "Go check, that eunuch is from the master of Prince Yong's Mansion."
After Liang Shi left, he came back half a day later and said, "He is a close confidant of Prince Yong."
After pondering for a moment, Su Heting ordered, "Prince Xuanyong, enter the palace."