Finally settled down.
After washing away his fatigue and eating a delicious meal, Li Chenan no longer felt sleepy.
Walking in the heavy snow in the courtyard, looking at the red lanterns hanging in the corridor, he felt a little enlightened for a moment.
It’s almost Chinese New Year!
This is my first year in this world!
It's a pity that although there are many people in this house, relatives are not there.
The year without parents around seems to be a lot less interesting.
Wen Boyu sent someone to secretly send his family to Shuzhou and settled in Chongqing Mansion.
The place where they live is not bad, but it is a foreign land after all, and they are strangers.
For an old scholar like my father, he will probably miss his hometown where he has lived for most of his life even more during this Chinese New Year.
My sister Li Qiaoxi, the woman named Jiang Hui who originally lived in the west courtyard, and my half-brother Li Chendong are all with their parents, so I guess they can relieve some loneliness.
He has seen a lot of the secrets hidden in the Sihei Tower in the Imperial City.
He already knew that his mother Ding Xiao'e's name was not Ding Xiao'e, her name was Siqin, and she was originally the personal maid of Queen Lu.
But the time when she disappeared from the palace was not the day when Queen Lu's son disappeared, nor was it the day when Queen Lu was murdered.
She disappeared on the third night of October in the third year of Zhaohua...that is, the night when Shangchehou Mansion and Meiyuan were destroyed!
So Li Chenan concluded that he was not the eldest son of the emperor!
But where did my mother go that night?
There is no information from the Imperial City Division, because the Imperial City Division has never paid attention to a palace maid.
If he is really not the eldest son of the Li family...then his life experience is either related to Shangchehou Mansion, or to Princess Yun'an in Meiyuan.
The intelligence from the Imperial City Division showed that Princess Yun'an and Princess Qiao Zitong were not buried in the Plum Garden, and they escaped through the secret passage in the Plum Garden.
They went to the Imperial City Division through that secret passage!
Changsun Jinghong sent Wang Zhengjinzhong to secretly send them out of Kyoto two months later!
Wang Zhengjinzhong said that the place to be sent was Suyang County, Qianzhou, on Lingdong Road, but when he was ordered to go again the next year, the small courtyard was empty.
Princess Yun'an and Princess Qiao Zitong are missing!
When they were sent to leave Kyoto, Princess Yun'an was already pregnant. Their child should have been born in the summer of the fourth year of Zhaohua. If the child was still alive, he would have been nearly twenty years old.
Obviously, he is not the son of Princess Yun'an.
In the end, there seems to be only one possibility -
He is the son of someone who was lucky enough to survive in the Chehou Mansion.
Regarding this matter, Li Chenan did not send anyone to investigate, because he was going to Shuzhou soon and would know as soon as he asked his mother when he saw her.
How much does Xi Wei know about this matter?
He probably doesn't know.
Li Chenan frowned slightly. When he got into the car and waited for the mansion, his whole family was wiped out due to Xi Wei's plan!
If he was really the descendant who got on the bus and waited in the mansion... Xi Wei would obviously not leave him as a troublemaker.
According to Xi Wei's methods, Guangling Li Mansion may have been completely killed by him.
But now, with his help, I have become the regent of Ningguo... Should I go to Xi Wei to settle the debt when I boarded the carriage and waited in the mansion?
The Imperial City Division has not known Xi Wei's whereabouts for so many years.
In the files of the Imperial City Division, there are only a few words about Xi Wei, mostly around the time of the fall of the Yong Kingdom.
Very few people know Xi Wei’s true identity.
Ji Tai should have known about it, but he died.
Shang Di also knew it, and he died too.
Miss Xiao was Xi Wei's daughter... Xiao Mantou, the former master of Wanxi Zhai, must have known about it, but she still died.
Now it seems that the last person left to see Xi Wei is Brother Hua Man Ting Hua, but he has left Kyoto, saying that he is traveling in the world, and he doesn't know where he will go.
Xi Wei......
Li Chenan couldn't say he hated Xi Wei, whom he had never met before, because he didn't remember the incident of getting on the bus to wait in the house, and there was no one in his life who was related to getting on the bus to wait in the house.
From Yan Jidao's words, it seems that the old man's original intention was to avenge the country, but then it seemed to become contradictory, so that he seemed to be pursuing a way to govern the country.
Perhaps it was because of his transformation that a group of highly intelligent people like Shang Di followed him.
Just like the words of Shang Di relayed by Yan Jidao——
Those who uphold righteousness and stand for the light are all Xi Wei!
Okay, don't think about it anymore.
It would be best if the Imperial City Secretary could find Xi Wei, but if not...
Li Chenan walked up to the pavilion with lanterns in the corner of the yard.
If he can't find it, he must be very old and won't live for many years.
…
…
Xiao Baozi sat in the pavilion.
She held her chin with her hands and was looking at the red snow under the light of the lantern.
Li Chenan walked in, sat next to her, and suddenly smiled——
What a bloody plot!
If you are a descendant who got on the bus and waited in the mansion, the person next to you is the daughter of your enemy.
Then there should be an unforgettable love, followed by a heart-breaking separation.
Then there was a fight.
In the end... the one who wasn't the protagonist died.
So he performed a heart-stirring old-fashioned story about life and death that can make many girls cry.
If you want to add some spice to this story, you should let the woman next to you give birth to a child for yourself.
When this child grows up, he will seek revenge on himself as his father.
"Why are you giggling?"
Xiao Baozi tilted his head and looked at Li Chenan in surprise. Li Chenan touched his nose and said, "...Why don't you go home now? I'm happy."
Xiao Baozi raised his eyebrows and looked at the snow outside the pavilion.
After pondering for a moment, he said: "In the past, Wanxi Zhai has become lively at this time."
"What's a fun way to do it?"
"My disciples grind flour, steam buns, and make dumplings...we gather together, there are many people, the smoke is hot, everyone talks, laughs, and fights, it's very lively."
Xiao Baozi suddenly took a deep breath, "Actually, we are all poor people, we are all women, and we have grown up. At that time, we were homesick..."
"Some people know where home is."
"There are also people who know who else is in the family, they just don't know what they look like now."
"We were all brought to Wanxi Zhai by our master. Everyone has different reasons, but we have one thing in common."
“That’s where everyone’s family is, they’re all miserable!”
"Some lost their parents early, some were sold by their parents because they were poor, and some were not welcomed at home because they were girls, etc."
"It's just one word after all, poor!"
"So we cherish food very much and care about those fields."
"The joy and excitement during the New Year are actually just to cover up the desolation in my heart!"
"From the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to the first day of the first lunar month, we all spent time together."
"When the master was alive, he said...this is the Chinese New Year, the happiest time for family reunion."
"At that time, I thought I was an orphan too, so... I ignored some things."
"For example, the master will put one or two extra buns for me, and for example, the master will always put an extra pair of bowls and chopsticks on the table, saying that... it is for those who have not gone home."
"For example, Master will spend every New Year's Eve with me."
"Her face is half happy...and half sad!"
After saying this, Xiao Baozi turned to look at Li Chenan, "I'm thinking that if I live alone with my child in the future, I won't have that kind of sadness on my face!"
"...why?"
"Because the child's father is in his heart, that's enough!"
"What exactly is your name?"
"What I mean is that if the child finds me in the future, I don't even know his mother's name. Doesn't this make sense?"
Xiao Baozi's face turned slightly red.
She glanced at Li Chenan.
Get up.
Walk towards the small building on the opposite side.
"Who said you are the child's father?!"
Li Chenan laughed.
Xiao Baozi suddenly turned around, with a sly look in his eyes: "Are you still practicing martial arts tonight?"
