After the emperor finished speaking, Li Chaoge was in a trance for a moment. She traveled all the way to Luoyang, and ambushed in the palace ahead of time, just to hear this sentence. She naturally knew that she was Li Chaoge, and she had planned every step ahead. However, the cold plan feels completely different from actually hearing her father say her name.
She fought and robbed all her life in her previous life, but she never heard her father call her, my son Li Chaoge.
Li Chaoge's eyes suddenly felt sour, she blinked quickly, pressed back the tears, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Is this true?"
"Of course it's true." The emperor looked at her with a smile, and the more he looked at her, the more she seemed to resemble her. Although Li Chaoge was still young when he was lost, the contours of his eyes, lips and chin were exactly the same as when he was six years old, but they had grown and become more beautiful. Both he and Tianhou are good at literature and history, but not martial arts. I didn't expect the eldest daughter to have such a talent and acquire a good skill. The emperor asked: "How have you been all these years? Where do you live in Jiannan? Have you ever been wronged?"
The emperor seemed to be pulling Li Chaoge to have a long talk, and the servant was worried about the danger in the dense forest, so he had to remind him: "Saint, the black bear has just been killed, and there may be its companions nearby. The saint and the princess reunite after a long time, so you might as well go back to the palace and talk slowly. "
"Yeah, look at me, I saw you so excited that I forgot about Tianhou." The emperor was in high spirits, pulling Li Chaoge to go back, "Tianhou has missed you very much these years, if she knows you are back, I don't know what to do. How happy. Let's go back and tell the queen."
The emperor was overjoyed and wished he could take Li Chaoge to see the queen immediately. Seeing the emperor's high spirits, the attendants all bowed their heads silently.
The emperor was dazzled by joy, but is this really Princess Anding Li Chaoge? If according to what she said, she lived in Jiannan these years, why did she appear in Zigui Palace today
Pei Ji'an mixed in the crowd, quietly watching this scene happen early. He had originally made up his mind that Li Chaoge would never be allowed to stand out in this life, but seeing her recognize her biological father, Pei Ji'an felt sour for some reason.
It is true that Li Chaoge was a female devil in her previous life, but she has to be admitted that she is a very capable person. She was lost when she was young, abandoned when she was a teenager, and she has been seeking the approval and love of her relatives all her life. It's a pity that she was born in the emperor's family, a place destined to have no love.
Pei Ji'an sighed softly, thinking that's all. Now that he is reborn, it is only fair for Li Chaoge to be reborn. The two of them died together in the previous life, she killed his lover and family, and he also ruined her life and career, so it was even. In her previous life, she had been unable to ask for it. In this life, as long as she can prevent Empress Wu from proclaiming emperor, let Li Chaoge be a princess who is safe and happy all her life.
However, Pei Ji'an would not be included in her wishful thinking. He didn't love her in the first place, and being entangled with her for half of his life in the previous life was torture. In this life, both of them let go and found another lover.
The attendants didn't quite believe that the woman in front of them was really the lost princess, but they couldn't stand the emperor's letter. They didn't dare to say more, they followed the emperor silently, and escorted His Majesty and the "princess" back to the palace. Pei Ji'an followed in the crowd, retreating silently, keeping away from the front.
The emperor dragged Li Chaoge to the front, talking constantly along the way. Pei Ji'an didn't want to attract Li Chaoge's attention, so he naturally avoided it whenever he could.
In fact, he knew that Li Chaoge would never stop there. She is a very persistent person, and what she believes will never change. She fell in love with him at first sight in the previous life, but in this life, she may not be willing to let go. However, this life starts again after all, Pei Ji'an can pretend not to know the previous life, and try to avoid the two meeting each other. After the sage announced the marriage decree, everything would be settled.
Pei Ji'an purposely stayed behind the crowd, and when he was stalling for time, he happened to see Gu Mingke. Pei Ji'an was slightly taken aback, and only then remembered that his cousin followed him out.
Pei Ji'an couldn't help frowning. My cousin has always been weak and coughs when he walks in the wind. My aunt has put a lot of thought into this. With Gu Mingke's body, how could he ride a horse
Pei Ji'an steered the horse to Gu Mingke's side, and asked in a low voice, "Cousin, why are you here? Are you in good health?"
Gu Mingke shook his head and said lightly, "It's okay."
Pei Ji'an stared at Gu Mingke's cool and graceful side face, his eyebrows tightened. Due to being outside, Pei Ji'an couldn't say it clearly, so he could only remind him secretly: "Cousin, you are weak and sick, and you should take a good rest. When you rode over just now, did you encounter a black bear? That bear is fierce and savage, and it is extremely dangerous. You How did you bypass the black bear and come here?"
Gu Mingke thought for a while, and said honestly: "I was riding a horse, and I passed it naturally. It didn't attack me, maybe, it didn't see it."
When Pei Ji'an heard this, he was afraid and angry again, so he couldn't help but sullen his face, and said seriously: "Cousin, fortunately, you were lucky this time, and you were not discovered by the black bear. But you may not have such good luck next time, cousin, you have to Be careful."
When Gu Mingke heard this, he smiled inexplicably. He turned his head and looked at Pei Ji'an quietly with black and white eyes that shone brightly: "You too."
There was nothing wrong with this sentence, it was just that my cousin cared about him, but Pei Ji'an felt inexplicably uncomfortable when he heard it.
Pei Ji'an nodded slowly, and he didn't know why he hesitated: "Okay. Thank you cousin for your concern."
The emperor hurriedly dragged Li Chaoge back to Zigui Palace, looking like he wished he could give birth to wings and travel thousands of miles away. After the emperor returned to the palace, he didn't even have time to arrange his clothes, so he hurriedly asked, "Where's the Queen of Heaven?"
"The Queen of Heaven is in Qianqiu Hall, talking with Mrs. Pei."
The emperor didn't pay attention to the last name the maid said. He turned his head and anxiously looked for Li Chaoge's figure: "Chaoge, follow me quickly, your mother is in Qianqiu Palace."
Li Chaoge was riding on the horse, and did not dismount for a long time. She held the rein in her hand, and her fingers unconsciously pinched the rope, almost breaking it. But this day will have to be faced sooner or later, Li Chaoge pinched his palm hard, quickly got off the horse, nodded and said: "Okay."
The palace lady was wondering why there was an extra woman in His Majesty's traveling team, but when she heard Li Chaoge's reply, she was startled. Who is this woman, how dare she speak to His Majesty in such a tone? But the emperor didn't seem to care at all, patiently waiting for Li Chaoge to approach, and then he personally led the way and took her to Qianqiu Palace. The maid bowed her head and kowtowed, respectfully sending the emperor away. The sound of many footsteps passing by her, at this time the maid suddenly woke up, when the emperor called Tianhou just now, he used "your mother".
Mother? Could it be...
In Qianqiu Hall, Tianhou was chatting with Mrs. Pei, the maid hurriedly entered the hall, knelt down and said: "Your Highness, Your Majesty is back."
"Oh?" Tianhou was surprised, so fast? She stood up naturally, and as she walked towards the gate of the palace, she asked, "Is your majesty safe this journey? You came back so soon, presumably you hunted a rare and exotic beast?"
The maid was about to reply when the emperor's voice came from outside. When the maid heard this, she immediately knelt down and respectfully put her hand on her forehead: "See Your Majesty."
Mrs. Pei also quickly saluted. The emperor strode across the threshold and said cheerfully: "Tianhou, I have great news to tell you!"
Tianhou hadn't seen the emperor so happy for a long time. She was surprised, and went up to meet him and asked, "My concubine sees His Majesty. What did Your Majesty hunt to make you so happy?"
"It's not a prey." The emperor walked into the palace, only to find that Mrs. Pei was there. He was surprised and said, "Madam Pei is here?"
Mrs. Pei stepped forward to salute the emperor. The Pei family had a high status, no one dared to neglect after entering the palace, logically at the gate of the palace, after the emperor heard the report from Qianqiu Palace, he should know that Mrs. Pei was there.
But he didn't notice. What is it that occupies the emperor's mind and makes the emperor ignore the Pei family? At this moment, Mrs. Pei discovered that there was a woman following the emperor. She looked young, but her eyes were bright and clear. When she looked around, she even carried a murderous look.
It doesn't look like a palace official, but like a female bandit leader somewhere. But her appearance was outstanding, for a moment, Mrs. Pei felt a strong sense of familiarity, but when she thought about it again, that feeling disappeared again.
Mrs. Pei intuitively felt that she had neglected something very important. Before Mrs. Pei could figure it out, the emperor had already said softly and bluntly: "Mrs. Pei, I have something to say to the Queen of Heaven. Mrs. Lao sends my greetings to Prime Minister Pei on my behalf. I will invite Mrs. Pei to play chess in the palace some other day."
Mrs. Pei immediately said: "Thank you Saint for your concern. I am resigning as a concubine, please stay with Saint and Empress."
Usually, the emperor gave three gifts to the Pei family, but this time, after Mrs. Pei offered to leave, the emperor didn't want to keep her, so he let her go out. When leaving the hall, Mrs. Pei and the girl passed by. The girl's expression was indifferent, and she didn't look sideways. Mrs. Pei felt a chill for some reason.
After leaving the hall, Mrs. Pei held her pounding heart and was puzzled: "What's wrong with me?"
In Qianqiu Hall, after Mrs. Pei left, the palace servants also retreated one after another. Soon, only the emperor, queen of heaven and Li Chaoge were left in the hall. Tianhou glanced at the emperor, and said with a smile, "Saint, what do you have to say, and why are you so solemn?"
The emperor waved to Li Chaoge and said, "Chaoge, come and meet your mother."
Tianhou was originally smiling, but when she heard the name, she froze for a moment and froze.
What did the emperor just say? Chaoge
Li Chaoge stepped forward slowly, knelt down with his hands together, and firmly kowtowed to Tianhou three times: "Mother."
This kneeling is for the mother who gave birth to her and raised her, and also for the king who knew her and used her in the previous life. Everything about her was bestowed by Empress Wu, her body, her hair and skin, her status as a princess, her arrogance in Luoyang, and her privilege over the imperial court.
Without Empress Wu, there would never be Li Chaoge, the commander of the Demon Suppressing Division in the future. But in the end, she killed Empress Wu and her biological mother.
Li Chaoge never regrets what he has done, a man dares to act bravely, she killed the man, what's the use of being hypocritical afterwards? But in her heart, she was tortured all the time.
Her feelings for her father are regret and curiosity, while for her mother, she feels deep guilt.
Ever since she was reborn, she had always wanted to plead guilty to her mother in person. In her past and present lives, Li Chaoge, the only person she was sorry for was her mother.
When Tianhou heard the familiar yet unfamiliar name "Chaoge", her heart was turbulent, and her eyes immediately became moist: "Are you... Chaoge?"
"Yes." The emperor looked at his wife who had always been strong and burst into tears, and he felt sad, "I went hunting in the back mountain, and I met a bear on the way. Knowing that she grew up in Jiannan, she was separated from her family when she was six years old, and she is sixteen years old this year. She is exactly the same as Chaoge."
All the courtiers and attendants suspected that the woman was pretending to be a princess, but the emperor and the empress believed it without much doubt. The child was born by them, and the hidden blood relationship cannot deceive people. When Tianhou saw Li Chaoge, she instinctively had a strong intuition that this was her eldest daughter.
In the twelfth year of Yonghui, her daughter was lost in the chaos.
Li Chaoge was still kneeling on the ground, with his forehead firmly pressed against the ground. Tianhou wiped away her tears, quickly helped her up, held her arm and looked carefully.
The Queen of Heaven carefully scanned every detail of Li Chaoge's face, and after a while, she said to the emperor: "Like, when Chaoge was young, his eyes were raised and there was a tear mole under his right eye. Saint, do you remember, at that time you I also worried that Chaoge would have a mole of tears, and when he grows up, he will be troubled by love, trapped by love, and shed tears at every turn. I didn't expect that when I grow up, I am not a person who loves to cry."
The emperor was surprised when he heard this: "Did I say these words?"
"Of course I did." Tianhou gave the emperor a blank look, pulled Li Chaoge and said, "Fortunately, you didn't answer his words. A woman's life is not easy at all. If you still have to be trapped by love, it will be too difficult."
Li Chaoge lowered his eyes, not knowing how to answer the question. In her previous life, she was not very good at getting along with her family. She also knew that she grew up without her parents, and her relationship was already unfamiliar. If she was cold, how could mother and daughter get close? However, there are some things you can't do if you don't want to.
She has never acted like a baby since she grew up. She was raised by the old man Zhou as a sack since she was a child. When she fell, she got up by herself. How could she cry and scream for pain? She never felt that she needed to be pampered, she could do what a man could do, and she could still do what a man couldn't do.
Rather than waiting for others to give her things, Li Chaoge prefers to get them by herself.
If you don't speak, then don't speak. Tianhou pulled Li Chaoge to look at him, but Li Chaoge just stood quietly and let her watch. After all, Tianhou is not an ordinary woman, she quickly calmed down and said, "It's good to be back. You have been away from the palace these years, and my brothers and sisters miss you very much. You go and change your clothes first, wait a while, I will Tell the prince and Chang Le to come over, you brothers and sisters have a good talk."
Li Chaoge nodded, and responded firmly: "Okay."
Soon some palace servants stepped forward and led Li Chaoge to change clothes. After they went out, Tianhou and the emperor sat on the couch and said with emotion: "She must have suffered a lot in these years living among the people. I think her hands are full of calluses."
The emperor did not pay attention to these. He was so happy that his daughter was found, why would he pay attention to other details? The emperor sighed: "After all, she grew up among the people, and her temperament is different from the girls in the capital. She can only listen honestly when she speaks, and she doesn't even have a scene. But she said that she was adopted by a knight, and she practiced martial arts since childhood. No wonder."
When Tianhou heard it, her eyebrows twitched slightly: "Oh, practicing martial arts?"