The old man used all his strength and did not let go until Xie Ping lost his struggle.
He bent down and probed the tip of Xie Ping's nose. He stopped breathing, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
But he didn't stop, and immediately put the body in a vegetable basket with cabbage piled on top, pushed the cart, and left the same way he came.
The old man's figure did not attract anyone's attention in the night. He walked to the edge of the Huling River in the back mountain, picked up the cabbage, and pushed it hard. The body rolled down and fell into the river, where it was quickly washed away. Walk away and lose your figure.
"exquisite!"
The old man covered his face and cried bitterly.
"Grandpa finally avenged you, my Linglong..."
He cried and sobbed, in agony.
He only had a son when he was forty years old. His wife left him as soon as the son was born. He raised his son by pooping and peeing, and married his son. As soon as his son got married, he rolled down a mountain and died. Finally, he kept the seed in his daughter-in-law's belly. He knelt outside her door for three days before her daughter-in-law agreed to give birth to the child. After giving birth to the child, her daughter-in-law remarried.
He raised his only granddaughter just like he did when he raised his son.
The granddaughter was very promising and found a good job in the imperial mausoleum, earning 800 cash a month. She was also introduced to him as a food delivery service for the imperial mausoleum. The lives of their grandfather and grandson gradually improved.
His only worry is that his granddaughter is taking care of the tiger in the imperial mausoleum, and he is afraid that the tiger will lose control and eat his granddaughter.
He never thought that his granddaughter would be killed.
He still remembered that day when he came to the imperial mausoleum to look for Linglong. A palace maid who was familiar with Linglong told him that Linglong had been brought back to the capital by the prince to enjoy his blessings.
Linglong has always been a sensible child. If he really goes to the capital, he will definitely send someone to inform him.
He had a bad premonition in his heart, so he went to Beijing specially, looking for connections, and asked someone to send a letter to Concubine Wu in the East Palace, but there was no reply.
When he returned to the imperial mausoleum in despair and asked the maid about the situation, he saw a body being fished out of the moat.
The corpse was beyond recognition, but he still recognized the shoes of the corpse. Those were the thousand-layer soles he had personally given to his granddaughter...
His Linglong was killed by an adulterer!
"Linglong, grandpa can finally go see you..."
After crying loudly, the old man took out the pair of thousand-leaf shoe soles from the vegetable basket, held them in his arms, and jumped down from the river.
With a pop, all traces disappeared into the night water.
The night is getting darker and darker.
The prince was still immersed in his own sorrow.
Until a palace maid hurriedly ran over: "Your Highness, it's bad, the concubine is missing!"
The prince wiped away his tears and stood up: "What do you mean by missing?"
The palace maid replied tremblingly: "The concubine asked the slave to light a fire. She went to pick fresh vegetables for His Highness, but she never came back... The slave has arranged for someone to look for her, but she has searched all over the imperial mausoleum and can't find anyone."
"Look! Keep looking!"
The prince roared, his voice completely broken.
But after searching for several days, no one was found, and he just disappeared.
Just like before, she suddenly appeared next to him, and now she suddenly disappeared again, taking away the child in her belly...
In just a short period of time, he lost too much.
The queen mother is gone.
Concubine Fang and her child were gone.
Linglong and her child are gone too...
What's left of him?
After the queen was buried, tranquility returned to the capital.
Brother Jue is now half a year old. He can crawl a little and giggles when teased. He is the happy apple of the family.
Chang Sheng officially began to enter the Imperial College, and was accompanied by Miss Qiu, the second daughter of the Minister of War.
Girls only go to school for half a day. They go to the Imperial College in the morning and learn painting at home in the afternoon. Xie Xian will come to study with her.
Brother Yu is becoming more and more motivated. He studies hard every day with Meng Shen, and is often praised by Mr. Wang of the Imperial Academy.
Yunchu heard that Chu Mo, the king of Gongxi who was thrown into the dungeon, went crazy for some reason during the burial of the queen and talked nonsense in the dungeon all day long.
Chu Yi suspected that Chu Mo was pretending to be crazy, so he specially invited several imperial doctors to diagnose and treat him. The results proved that Chu Mo was really crazy.
Judging from the degree of madness, it seems to be even more crazy than that crazy girl.
"Could a scheming person like Chu Mo be driven crazy by being stimulated?" Yun Chu looked at the man beside him, "Who could have done it?"
Chu Yi said slowly: "I checked and Chu Rui has been to the dungeon."
"Chu Rui?"
Yunchu was surprised.
The sick prince once relied on the woman's blood to survive. After saving the emperor, his health became even worse and he even went to the dungeon.
Chu Mo went crazy, was it Chu Rui?
What is the purpose?
"Does he want to regain the former crown prince's empire?"
Yunchu asked tentatively.
Chu Yi shook his head: "I don't know yet. I have arranged for people to keep an eye on him. There is nothing unusual in all aspects."
While the couple was talking, Manager Cheng came in with his head lowered and reported: "Your Majesty, Princess, Prince Zhuang has sent a wedding invitation from his residence."
Chu Yi took over the post.
Yun Chu took a look.
Chu Rui is getting married, and she is marrying the legitimate daughter of the Su family.
If she remembered correctly, the stable Su family should be the natal family of the current emperor's biological mother.
The Su family was far away from Kyoto. The family made a fortune through business. Although they worked hard to provide education for their children, over the years, only one person was admitted to the imperial examination and was not even qualified to go to court.
Although the emperor wanted to promote him, the Su family was so unsatisfactory that he couldn't be promoted at all.
If Chu Rui wants to compete for the throne, he should marry a daughter from a high family, not a daughter from a merchant family.
"My father gave him such a marriage, it should be surveillance." Chu Yi said quietly, "He saved his father, and his father gave him a reward, but he never really trusted him. From now on, his pillow People are my father’s best secret whistle.”
Yun Chu nodded.
After the fall of King Gongxi, Xie Shian disappeared for a while.
She arranged for someone to investigate and found that Xie Shian secretly returned to his hometown in Jizhou alone.
The Xie family members in Jizhou had already devoured the fields and Zhuangzi purchased by Xie Jingyu. After Xie Shian returned, he did not know what means he used to make those clan members return all the fields and Zhuangzi obediently.
She borrowed Xie Shi'an's hand to get rid of King Gongxi.
Some of King Gongxi's accomplices are still there, and Xie Shi'an probably won't dare to return to the capital again.
But she didn't think someone like Xie Shi'an would be willing to stay in a village in Jizhou.
Just as he was thinking about it, a servant came in and reported: "Princess, Xie Yuanshi wants to see you."
Yunchu took a sip of tea and said, "Bring her in."
Yuanshi has never done anything evil on her own initiative, but many of the things that happened in the Xie family happened under Yuanshi's nose. It's just that Yuanshi didn't know about it. Even if she knew about it, she would just turn a blind eye. Close one eye.
Yuanshi now bears all the sins of the Xie family, which are also the bitter fruits she planted herself.
