Qingcheng was silent for a long time, thinking that if Queen Ling knew that Tao'er was the child of Emperor Nan'an, would she be harmful to him or use him to blackmail Junhu? She didn't want to be involved in right and wrong with her child anymore, so she shook her head firmly He shook his head and pretended to be ashamed and said to Queen Ling: "Mother, Tao'er was actually the daughter of a drunken and confused daughter with a hunter surnamed Ye!"
When Queen Ling heard this, her face was full of horror and she said: "This happened! No wonder Emperor Nan'an ignored your father's repeated pleas to separate from you, and you actually did this! Where is that Orion now?"
"He is dead!" Qingcheng wiped her tears and said with pain in her eyes.
"Dead! Killed by Shen Changge?"
When it was said that Qingcheng killed people, Queen Ling first thought of Shen Changge.
Qingcheng did not deny it, but kept her head lowered and said nothing. After a while, Queen Ling suddenly let out a sigh of relief, and a look of joy appeared on her face.
"Qingcheng, good boy! Can you swear to your mother that this child has nothing to do with Shen Changge and the Shen family?" Queen Ling suddenly said with expectation.
Qingcheng was puzzled, but couldn't resist Queen Ling's bright eyes. Finally, she lowered her head and sighed softly, then raised three fingers to the sky.
"I swear, Tao'er has nothing to do with Shen Changge or the Shen family!"
Before Qingcheng finished speaking, the smile on Queen Ling's face gradually turned deep. She hugged Ye Tao from Qingcheng's hands, then patted his chest and coaxed: "That's great, that Tao'er will be my Beilin from now on." The grandson of the king of the country, his surname is not Ye, but Li!"
"Queen Mother! No!"
Qingcheng was stunned when he heard this!
Queen Ling's phoenix eyes are narrow and narrow, and she is not angry but is proud of herself.
"Why not? Since his father is just an insignificant nobody, what's the problem if he takes his mother's surname from now on?"
"You can take my surname, but why did your mother say that he will be the grandson of the king of Beilin from now on?"
Qingcheng was terrified.
Queen Ling sighed and said helplessly: "Qingcheng, you don't know that since Yu'er passed away, your father has been ill, and those clan members who usually do nothing have started to take turns to attack, and everyone wants to Sitting on this throne, they wish your father would die immediately! If I hadn't married Yonghe to Qi Lu, the direct grandson of the Qi family, and the Qi family was in charge of the military and could listen to my orders with Ling Da Sima, your father would have been killed. The king and I have long been forced by those clan members to issue an abdication edict!"
"So serious? Why didn't anyone tell me?"
"Tell you, what's the use! At that time, you had just separated from Junhu, and you couldn't protect yourself. You don't know how hard it has been for me and your father in the past six months! But now everything is better, we have Wang Taisun , those people naturally don’t have to fight anymore!”
"But, why does it have to be Tao'er?"
"Only Tao'er is the most suitable. His biological father is nameless. Naturally, no one will get involved in the political affairs of Beilin Kingdom based on blood connection. Moreover, he is your father's grandson. He is connected by blood. Looking at the entire Beilin Kingdom, , who else is more suitable for the position of Crown Prince than him now?"
"But, Queen Mother, Tao'er..."
"That's enough. This matter is settled. I will tell your father now. I believe he will be very happy!"
In the 20th year of Tiangang, at the summer solstice, King Beilin, who had been in bed for more than half a year, suddenly appeared in the morning court and announced on the spot that Li Tao, the son of Princess Qingcheng of Beilin, would be the crown prince of Beilin!
As soon as the edict came out, the entire Beilin Kingdom was in an uproar. Many clan members and ministers were dissatisfied and felt that it was unheard of to establish a grandson as the crown prince. However, the King of Beilin thought that Princess Qingcheng was a husband-in-law, and the children she gave birth to were regarded as Li's family. On the grounds of descendants, he insisted on making Li Tao the grandson of the king.
Shortly thereafter, many clan members and ministers who openly opposed the establishment of a crown prince in the court seemed to have received some kind of warning overnight. The next morning, no one objected, and the uproarous matter of establishing a crown prince in Beilin came to an end for the time being. .
When things got to this point, Qingcheng became even more secretive about Li Tao's true identity. But in the dead of night, she often thought about letting a child with the blood of Nan'an royal family become the crown prince of Beilin. If the father and Junhu knew about it, How should they feel? If many years later, Nan'an Kingdom and Beilin Kingdom finally have a war, then they will really be fighting each other, father and son, or brothers!
But now all this has been beyond her ability. Now, King Beilin is weak and sick, and Queen Ling and the Chief of the Ministry of War, Ma Lingyan, control the government and are decisive in killing. Now all she can do is try her best to recuperate her father's body and let him live another ten or eight years. On the other hand, she is even more attentive in raising Li Tao. This child really carries too many responsibilities.
But as Tao'er grew up day by day, when Nuonuo called her mother, she would always inadvertently think of Zhi'er, that poor child who couldn't see with both eyes. How to teach him to call him stepmother, but she would always think of him. I wonder how the child who wants to call her mother is doing now
Luzhu should listen to her words and educate him well, but she doesn’t know if they will be bullied by Concubine Yuan Guifei, who is now in the spotlight and presides over the Sixth Palace because of her. Junhu now has his own son, will he still be able to do it? Do you still cherish Zhi'er, your adopted son, as you did before
Soon after Jun Hu said goodbye to her in Fenglingao, he announced to the world that he was separated from Li Qingcheng, the former princess of Beilin Kingdom. Immediately afterwards, the good news came from the Nan'an Palace that Concubine Yuan Gui had given birth to a son. The Holy Heart of Nan'an Emperor was very happy and named him Yue. A month later, he issued an edict to make his eldest son Junyue the crown prince of Nan'an.
Thinking about these beautiful stories now no longer makes her heartache as much as when she first heard about them in Qingyun Yaolu. From now on, she only wants to be with her father and Tao'er for the rest of her life, and she doesn't want to think about anything else.
In the year 225 of the Christian era, a major event occurred in the history of Zhongzhou. A shocking secret suddenly spread in the Dongyi Kingdom. The king of heaven, Chu Tiankuo, who was currently retiring in Shou'an Palace, turned out to be a fake. After that, the court All the royal families and ministers above unanimously asked Chu Yuheng, King of Dongyi, to give an explanation to dispel the doubts of the people. At this moment, the palace servants who had been serving the King of Heaven discovered that the King of Heaven who was supposed to be resting in the palace was missing. However, Under the bed there was a strange man who had been dead for a long time and was wearing the clothes of the King of Heaven.
At this point, rumors are spreading throughout the Dongyi Kingdom. Everyone is talking about the original crown prince change and the death of the late prince Chu Yujin. The edict was not issued by the Dongyi King himself at all. The current Dongyi King Chu Yuheng killed his father and brother. This Dongyi King The name is totally unfair!
After that, many old tribes of the late Prince Chu Yujin suddenly appeared throughout the Dongyi Kingdom. In the name of avenging their former lord, these people went around burning, killing, looting, and attacking the government offices. The entire Dongyi Kingdom was in chaos. King Chu Yuheng of Yi had no choice but to send heavy troops to suppress them, but these people often fled before the imperial army arrived. After the imperial army withdrew, they retaliated with more intensity.
The voices of spies were rising in the Dongyi court. Chu Yuheng sent the Department of Justice to conduct a thorough investigation. This investigation actually involved a major case of collusion between many humeral ministers in the court and generals. Chu Yuheng, who was already worried, was furious. Ordered all the people to be executed in Lingchi, and the nine tribes were wiped out! The entire Dongyi country is in panic and everyone is in danger!
Under the iron blood, the domestic spies were finally exposed, and the former prince's old troops also disappeared. Just when Chu Yuheng, the king of Dongyi, thought that everything was fine, a large number of Dongyi spies were suddenly caught in Nan'an. Emperor Nan'an was furious and ordered General Yu Zhen sent 500,000 troops to attack Dongyi Qiushuiguan.
Both the Dongyi Kingdom's border gates and the imperial court had just undergone a major change due to domestic spies. Most of the new border gate guards had no combat experience and could not help but retreat. Some state officials even began to open the city gates on their own initiative to allow Nan'an Kingdom's iron cavalry to kill them. Enter the Dongyi Kingdom.
It only took less than a year for Nan'an's army to fight all the way from Dongyi's border fortress Qiushuiguan to the Dongyi King's city. Aftershocks, 200,000 troops were deployed to surround the entire palace. Chu Yuheng, the king of Dongyi, knew that the situation was over. , locked himself and all the concubines, princes and princesses in Jianzhang Palace, and then a fire burned the entire Jianzhang Palace to the ground.
Aftershock was ordered by Emperor Nan'an to search for the so-called demon concubine of Dongyi Kingdom, Yue Guifei, in the entire Dongyi Palace on the day the city was destroyed, but in the end he only found a charred corpse! After the Emperor Junhu of Nan'an learned about it, he just ordered his son Su Chengzhi, who was less than five years old, to be brought to the city wall to bow three times in the direction of Dongyi Kingdom!
When Qingcheng heard about this, Yue Ruyi had been dead for more than two months. She secretly set up a spiritual place for her in the palace and paid homage to her in the morning and evening.
"As you wish, I hope that in the next life you will have parents who love you, old friends will accompany you, your husband will love you, and you will have children and grandchildren around your knees. May your life be as happy as you wish!"
Afterwards, there were only a few records in the history of Zhongzhou about the Nan'an Kingdom's annihilating battle against the Dongyi Kingdom. In the year 225 of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty, the Nan'an Kingdom captured Qiushuiguan, the border fortress of the Dongyi Kingdom. The following year, General Yu Zhen of the Nan'an Kingdom led his army northward and captured Yicheng, the capital of the Nan'an Kingdom. Knowing that he was defeated, Chu Yuheng, the last princess of the Dongyi Kingdom, burned himself in the Jianzhang Palace with his concubines and Wang's descendants. From then on, Nan'an The emperor ordered people to set up Yi counties in Yicheng, divide and rule them, and the Dongyi Kingdom was destroyed.
This year-long war to destroy the country did not bring much warning to the Beilin Kingdom, which had always been relatively peaceful. Under the temptation of power, the Ling siblings who controlled the government in the Beilin Kingdom at that time still took more of them. Focus on gaining power.
They intensified their efforts to kill dissidents, installed their own people in border fortresses and the army, and began to appoint nepotism in the appointment of ministers. Then they gradually took over the government and emptied the King of Beilin, who had been sick all year round, and imprisoned all the people who were nominally in Beilin. Crown Prince Li Tao and his biological mother Princess Qingcheng.
In order to protect himself, Fang Zhongtian, the prime minister of the Beilin Kingdom, wrote to the King of Beilin to pray for retirement and return to his hometown. The King of Beilin did not agree, but Queen Ling stamped a jade seal on the memorial on his behalf. This completely severed their long-term relationship. Feelings.
King Beilin requested that Fang Zhongtian be allowed to see them one last time before leaving the royal city. Queen Ling did not agree at first, but it was Princess Qingcheng who kept persuading her: "Mother, this Fang Zhongtian is just a civil servant, and he is as timid as a mouse. , there are no soldiers in hand, and the father wants to see him just because he cares about the old relationship between the king and his subjects. Now that the father's health is deteriorating, he also hopes that the queen mother will remember the twenty-year relationship with his father as husband and wife and let them see him one last time. "
After saying this, Qingcheng burst into tears and couldn't bear to kneel down. Queen Ling was moved by this and granted Fang Zhongtian permission to meet King Beilin.