Zhulan came out with the box containing the jade pendant. The emperor and Zhou Shuren were looking at each other. She saw the disgust in the emperor's eyes. Zhou Shuren had a wooden face and no expression, but she could guess that Zhou Shuren must be rolling his eyes in his heart at this time!
Zhulan put the box on the table with a smile in her eyes, "Your Majesty, the jade pendant has been found."
As he spoke, he opened the box and the jade pendant was lying inside.
The emperor took out the jade pendant and was silent for a while before pulling off his own jade pendant for comparison. He raised his head and saw Zhou Shuren. Thinking of Zhou Shuren's words, he coughed and silently stuffed his jade pendant into his sleeve.
Eunuch Liu looked left and right, but didn't look at the emperor. But he was thinking in his heart, I have been looking for it for so long, and it is right under my nose, and it has been there for so many years. It's really magical.
The emperor's mind was quick and he felt something was wrong. Zhou Shuren didn't know the origin of the jade pendant. Zhou Shuren's reaction couldn't be fake, so he had to ask carefully, "Where did this jade pendant come from?"
Zhou Shuren looked at his wife. He didn't spend much time with his mother. Instead, his daughter-in-law was always by her side. He really didn't know as much as Zhulan.
The emperor followed her gaze and said, "Yang Shuren, please sit down too."
Zhulan generously took the seat. She didn't leave just now in order to eat her own melon. "Your Majesty, this is a jade pendant left by my mother-in-law."
The emperor looked at the jade pendant of the woman from the direct line of descent, took a deep breath, looked at Zhou Shuren's face again, turned his head, and said, "Go on."
Zhulan had been looking for the jade pendant when she recalled her memories. They were all about grandma. She had a lot of memories, but her original body listened to her grandma too much and didn't use her brain much. She didn't remember much, so she didn't remember much. "Grandma got sick and passed away in a hurry. She didn't explain clearly and held the jade pendant unwillingly. We didn't dare to touch the jade pendant all these years, for fear that we didn't know whether it was good or bad."
The emperor thought of various possibilities, such as the Rong family wanted to live a peaceful life, so they concealed their surnames. He never expected that they did not explain clearly. It was hard to say, "Nothing was explained?"
Zhulan nodded, "Yes, it took some time to find the jade pendant. Grandma was a little excited when she grabbed the jade pendant, and she died with her eyes open."
I just recalled it carefully again, and it was true. The old lady was very unwilling to die and didn't want to close her eyes.
Zhulan couldn't stop complaining. It was such a big thing that she really couldn't sleep. The war had just ended at that time. The old lady was really unlucky.
The emperor was speechless for a moment, and then he instantly thought of himself. He was not young anymore. What if he didn't finish explaining it? No, no, he still had to be prepared. "Shu Ren, what's your mother's name?"
Zhou Shuren, "Sixth Lady."
He didn't even have a surname, which showed that his surname was hidden. What he remembered most was that people in the village called his mother Zhou Liu Niang, with her husband's surname added.
The emperor was also recalling the sixth daughter of the Rong family. No, no, there was no sixth daughter. In his memory, he only remembered the fifth. He thought of the coffin carried into the capital and touched the jade pendant. This was the hidden legitimate branch of his grandfather.
The emperor looked at Zhou Shuren expectantly, "Do you know anything else?"
Zhou Shuren racked his brains to recall the past. This copycat had to think hard. "I heard from my father that when he found my mother, she was ill. Later, she recovered. My father was not in good health again, so my mother stayed and they got married."
The emperor frowned. The fake belly in the coffin was made to be fake because they were afraid of being opened, but it was not discovered. The clothes and pillows were torn and rotten. The child, there was a child alive, staring at Zhou Shuren, "When were you born?"
Zhou Shuren exclaimed, what kind of question is this
It was the first time for Zhulan to eat watermelons so closely, and her eyes widened. Oh, could it be that Zhou Shuren’s last name is not Zhou, and he is not from the Zhou family
Zhou Shuren felt his wife's gossiping gaze and rolled his eyes in his heart. He could still enjoy watching the show so much at this time, but he didn't feel good because the show was about him. "Your Majesty, my father's health was not good, and it was difficult for him to have an heir. I was born a year after we got married. At that time, the village said that our ancestors blessed our branch and it was because my father had difficulty in having an heir that I was the only one. That's why people targeted our branch. Fortunately, I worked hard."
The Emperor calculated Zhou Shuren's age and found that he was much younger than him. Even though the Crown Prince was not as old as Zhou Shuren's eldest son, it was because he was young and acted stupid, and got married late!
Zhulan moved the corners of her mouth, calmed down and stopped watching the show, but finally interrupted, "People in the village say that my husband looks a lot like my father-in-law."
So there is really no melodrama, no conspiracy. My father-in-law's branch of the family is going to be cut off, and my father-in-law will not raise someone else's baby.
The emperor's eyes fell on Zhou Shuren's wife, "I heard that Yang Shuren is very good at painting people, please ask Yang Shuren to paint a picture for me."
Zhulan knew that she was going to paint her mother-in-law, which was a bit difficult. "I can't guarantee that the painting will be like her. My mother-in-law passed away a few years ago."
The emperor said he knew and said, "Just do your best."
Zhulan got up to draw the portrait. It was really difficult. It felt like a rip-off. It was so long ago. She was still a fake. Her memories were just barely enough. She was hesitant in some places when she started to paint.
In Zhoujia Village, Chang Zhi watched the coffins being buried one after another, and his heart, which had been vigilant all along, finally settled down. This year, his heart had been unsettled, and now it was jumping around a lot.
When Chief Zhou saw that the body had been buried, he withdrew his gaze and asked quietly, "What's going on? I heard that King Liang wanted to open your grandmother's coffin?"
Chang Zhi's face darkened again. "I don't know either. King Liang saw the patterns carved on my grandmother's coffin and wanted to take the coffin away. I said to open the coffin, but King Liang didn't say anything. However, I think King Liang's job was to find someone, maybe it was my grandmother."
Patriarch Zhou was a little dumbfounded. He thought of various possibilities and even conspired to believe that King Liang and Zhou Shuren had a grudge and wanted to destroy the feng shui of the Zhou family. Now, "Your grandmother was indeed strange back then. She rarely left the yard."
Changzhi asked quietly, "Patriarch, who carved the patterns on my grandpa and grandma's coffins?"
Changzhi is too young and he knows nothing.
The clan leader knew, "Your grandfather's coffin was carved by your grandmother. Her coffin was also prepared a long time ago. She must have carved it herself."
Changzhi felt confused and thought that there were many mysteries surrounding his grandmother. Hiding a box under the tombstone was not something that an ordinary person could do.
The clan leader saw that Chang Zhi didn't say anything, but he was anxious and worried that the entire Zhou clan would be finished, so he wanted to ask more, "What is King Liang's attitude?"
Changzhi came to his senses and said, "Maybe it's pretty good?"
The clan leader: "... Speak in detail."
Chang Zhi said: "In fact, I was quite presumptuous at that time, and some of the things I said deserved a beating. King Liang, well, King Liang is not polite to anyone. He was quite patient with me at that time, and finally left without saying anything."