Big Moon Ballad

Although his childhood life was not affluent, he was strictly monitored.

On the surface, he seemed to be left in the depths of the cold palace to fend for himself, but there were guards around him, and he was not allowed to go out, and no one else was allowed to come in.

He was like an ominous thing, being tightly hidden.

If he was just a son of a certain clan, or an illegitimate bastard born of palace servants and guards, he probably wouldn't be able to receive that kind of treatment.

Zhao Guang told him that the first time he was able to break in, he sneaked in from the cave because of his youth. Before he sneaked in, he never thought that there would be anyone there.

Of course, everything is his conjecture, even delusion.

Li Ji lowered his gaze, no one told him since he was a child that he was the son of the former king of Eastern Wu.

Before being taken captive from the abandoned courtyard, he was isolated from the world and lived a ignorant life.He doesn't know the outside world or how other kids are raised.

So he didn't realize how abnormal his growing environment was, and he didn't doubt his own life experience, but he was a little envious of Zhao Guang after seeing Zhao Guang.

But when he returned to Soochow and was adopted by Dongfang Yi, he was already sensible, realized that something was wrong with his growing environment, and also realized that there might be some unknown relationship between himself and that palace.

He searched desperately for the woman who had died in childbirth the year he was born, and found a most horrific coincidence.

In the year he was born, the Queen of Soochow died after giving birth to a stillborn child.

Are there really so many coincidences in this world?

Li Ji didn't know.

After he returned to Soochow from the cloud forest, the former king of Soochow had died of illness, and he lost the chance to confront his possible "father" forever.Li Ji also asked Dongfang Yi in an insinuating manner, such as where the stillborn baby born to the queen was buried.

Dongfang Yi's expression was normal, and he didn't hide anything, and told him that he was buried outside the royal tomb in a cemetery dedicated to burying the descendants of the clan who died young.Li Ji asked Zhao Guang to visit, and indeed found a small tombstone there.

Because the prince died when he was born, he couldn't sequence his teeth, so neither his name nor his ranking was written on the tombstone, only a simple dharma name was written.

Zhao Guang searched the entire cemetery, but couldn't find a tombstone with the name "Zhao Ji" written on it.

Li Ji took a deep breath.

So, who is he?

Is he the queen's son, or an illegitimate son with a shady status?

Is his mother the Queen of Soochow, or a woman whose status is so low that the court cannot accept it?

Otherwise, Li Ji couldn't understand why he had such a childhood.

If he really has royal blood, the difference between him and Zhao Muren Zhao Guang is too great.

Li Ji sat quietly on the stone.

Although he had guesses in his heart, sometimes in the dead of night, he would think, was he really born of the same father as Zhao Muren and Zhao Guang?

Apart from the king of Soochow, how many people knew that there was a child hidden deep in the palace of Soochow?

Zhao Guang has a simple personality and doesn't have much insight. He was still young when he met him, and he always thought he was the son of a criminal minister, and he was locked there for some reason.After all, people who don't know the details of his life can easily think that he was imprisoned there.

Later, when Li Ji was adopted by Dongfang Yi, Zhao Guang went to ask Zhao Muren to forgive his sins.

From this, Li Ji can be sure that Zhao Guang never thought that there would be a blood relationship between the two of them.

After all, the royal family has always placed great importance on offspring, Zhao Guang's mother's background cannot be explained in a single word, the king of Dongwu still recognized this son, and Zhao Muren also made this half-brother the county king.

Zhao Guang probably never thought that there would be direct descendants of the royal family who would be left behind.

As for Zhao Muren...

Li Ji closed his eyes, feeling extremely complicated.

Zhao Guang doesn't know anything, but what about Zhao Muren?
I don't know if the throne has the ability to change a person, Zhao Muren is far more thoughtful and obscure than Zhao Guang.

Li Ji has always suspected that Zhao Muren knew the truth about his life experience.

Some secrets are only passed down from generation to generation among the kings. It is said that when the former kings of Eastern Wu were seriously ill, they called the prince to the palace alone to serve him.

Before his death, the former king should have told the new king of Soochow many things alone.

After all, in the future, Zhao Muren will be required to take charge of the country.

Is there any mention of him in it?
Li Ji clenched his fist on his knee slowly.It is said that when the first queen died more than 20 years ago, the prince was there.

Zhao Muren was in his early ten years old at that time, so his diary should be very clear.

So does Zhao Muren know that he has a younger brother?
Before the death of the former king of Eastern Wu, what exactly did He Zhao Muren say?

Li Ji still remembered that after he was adopted by Dongfang Yi, Zhao Muren summoned him once, gave him some things and said a few words of encouragement to him, and behaved as usual.

Zhao Guang rushed to him and called him "Second Brother", but Zhao Muren's expression remained unchanged.

In fact, Zhao Guang was called by Li Ji that day, just to try Zhao Muren.

But Zhao Mu was too deep in the city, and his indifference once made Li Ji wonder if he was wrong, and they were not related by blood at all.

If Li Ji's guess is correct, it means that he and Zhao Muren are brothers of the same father, mother and mother.

But Zhao Muren showed that they had nothing to do with each other.

Li Ji once suspected that he was thinking too much, until he heard Zhao Guang mention the matter, and noticed something strange.

"Second brother, do you know? I just found out not long ago that when I was young, I could often go to you secretly, but it was my elder brother who gave me the wind!"

Zhao Guang was extremely unfavorable when he was young, the first time he broke into the forbidden area was by accident, but it was no coincidence that he was able to enter every time after that.

With Zhao Guang's status and ability in the palace, it is not possible to bypass the hidden guards guarding the forbidden area every time.

But there is one person who can.

That is Prince Zhao Muren.

Back then, it was Zhao Muren who secretly helped Zhao Guang open the way, so that Zhao Guang could sneak in to find him.

But Zhao Muren himself never came to see him once.

Thinking of this, Li Ji felt mixed feelings.

He didn't know what Zhao Muren thought back then.Is it just to help Zhao Guang's younger brother realize his wish, or is it for...others?
Looking at the worried eyes of female officer Yao opposite, Li Ji said quietly.

"The relatives on my father's side are a bit complicated, and the relatives on my mother's side have all moved away. I also hope to see them one day."

When he guessed that he might be the son of the Queen of Soochow, Li Ji actually went to the Baili family.

But after learning that the only son of the Baili family died in the north in the early years, the head of the family was so desperate that he took his family back to the mountains and forests and became a hermit family.

Baili's family had already fallen, and he wanted to find his way to his mother's relatives, so he was cut off.

Besides, he didn't have the face to meet those people.

The defeat of Baili's family and the death of Queen Baili, and the person who caused the death of Queen Baili...

It's that kid.

Even if his biological mother was not Queen Baili, he was still the child who took the life of his biological mother.

Li Ji took a deep breath and looked at Ms. Yao, "My mother died because of me, and I don't have the face to go to my mother's relatives."

"Don't say that!" Ms. Yao couldn't bear it and interrupted him loudly.

Maybe it's because at the age of being a mother, she can empathize with it, and tears welled up in her eyelashes when she heard it.

"Don't say anything about dying because of you." Officer Yao grabbed Li Ji's sleeve, "Your mother must be very happy to see you come to this world safely."

"Otherwise she won't leave any relics for you."

Li Ji was silent for a moment, then nodded.

Not only did he leave a relic for him, because his name was given after birth, but his mother also made the last effort to embroider his name on the hairband.

"By the way," Miss Yao suddenly asked carefully, looking into Li Ji's eyes.

"Mr. Zhaohua, where is the hair tie your mother left you?"