Otoharu

Chapter 377 The Princess' Death
When Li Meier walked out of Mrs. Zhen's house, she deliberately looked around, and she saw a sneaky figure. She pretended to walk over casually, and when she passed by that person, she stopped his way and said: " Go back and tell your master, let him stop sneaking people to follow me, my aunt Zhen is willing to see her, let him come and visit in person."

The man's expression suddenly became a little embarrassing, and he was caught by someone, so he couldn't deny it anymore, so he could only obediently agree.

Li Meier's anger was relieved now, she thought about going home to pack up, and then take the boat back to the state capital at noon.

On Sun Zhongyuan's side, he soon received a message from his servants that he lived not far from the Li family's clan, and he would be there in a while after walking there.

Mrs. Zhengu also sent Qingyuan to wait outside, and when she saw him coming, she immediately invited him in.

Seeing Aunt Zhen, Sun Zhongyuan had a complicated expression on his face. He bowed to her and saluted, then got up and said, "Mrs. Zhen, how have you been all these years?"

"Young master, you are a disgraceful old slave. This old slave is just a servant and cannot accept your courtesy." Aunt Zhen looked at Sun Zhongyuan and sighed.

"Aunt Zhen, you have served my grandmother for most of her life, and my mother has been taken care of by you since she was a child. In my heart, you are a very respected elder. Naturally, you deserve this gift, or do you no longer treat me as a junior? It's gone." Sun Zhongyuan said with a rather desolate expression.

"Young master, why do you have to say that..." Mrs. Zhen couldn't help sighing again, looked at Sun Zhongyuan in front of her for a while, and then said with emotion: "Young master has grown up, and now he has grown into a big man. The empress dowager and the princess are still there, I must be very pleased to see you now."

Sun Zhongyuan's expression darkened, and his eyes couldn't help turning red. He grabbed Mrs. Zhen's hand and asked, "Nurse Zhen, you still refuse to tell me how my mother died?"

Mrs. Zhen's expression froze, she turned her head away from Sun Zhongyuan's eyes, and said with a sad expression, "Young master, I really don't know, no matter how much you ask me, I don't know."

Sun Zhongyuan was not forgiving, and his emotions became more and more agitated, "Grandmother has been tracking down my mother's affairs. Before she died, she had already tracked down some clues, but she went there before she could tell me. You were always with her. Serving by your side, how could you be ignorant!?"

Mrs. Zhen sighed again, and said helplessly: "What happened back then is already complicated and confusing. Although the concubine has been investigating for many years, there are very few things that have really been found out. I have told everything I know. Young master, you have grown up now and have a bright future, why bother to dwell on the past."

Sun Zhongyuan looked sad, and said with pain: "Aunt Zhen, that is my biological mother, how can I let go of it easily, if you don't want to tell me the truth, I won't force you, but I will definitely not give up the investigation, my mother will never give up. It’s so ignorant to die!”

Seeing Sun Zhongyuan's resolute appearance, Mrs. Zhen could only sigh again and again, and remembered the appearance of Concubine Mu holding her hand before she died.

"Ah Zhen, you must rot this matter in your stomach. No matter how Yuan'er asks you in the future, you must not reveal a word. I, Yun'er, died because of this matter. I don't want Yuan'er to follow in her footsteps again. ..."

Yes, one person has already lost his life for this secret, why bother to take the lives of more people?
After that, when Sun Zhongyuan left, Mrs. Zhen didn't say a word. When Sun Zhongyuan left, his face was full of grief and indignation, but he was powerless. He knew his Zhen mother.As long as she didn't want to say it, no one could get even a single word out of her mouth.

Sun Zhongyuan didn't stay in Zhangshui Town for long, but returned to the state capital non-stop. In order to come to see Mrs. Zhen, he had already asked for several days off from the academy. intervene.

On the boat back to the state capital, Sun Zhongyuan stood on the deck, looking at the boundless and vast sea, and couldn't help but recall the scene of his mother's death. In the morning, his mother still happily dressed up and went to the palace to visit his grandmother But in the evening, the servants in the palace sent back the cold body of his mother. The cause of death was that he slipped and fell into the lotus pond in the imperial garden and drowned.

This cause of death is really ridiculous. As a princess, my mother grew up in the palace since she was a child. I am not familiar with any part of the palace. How could she accidentally slip into the lotus pond, and the maid beside her at that time There was no one, why did she go to the lotus pond by herself, besides, the lotus pond is not a remote place, even if the mother really fell into the water, wouldn't there be no court ladies and eunuchs nearby to rescue her?
Sun Zhongyuan never believed that his mother had slipped and drowned, and neither did her grandmother. She investigated continuously for many years, but when she was about to find out the truth, she was already terminally ill.

Although Concubine Mu did die of illness, the death was too coincidental. Sun Zhongyuan had to suspect that his grandmother was also killed. Go on, maybe he will be the next to die, but he is not afraid, he can't just watch his mother and grandmother die in vain, he must continue to investigate until the truth is found out!

His father, the man who held the false title of son-in-law for many years, probably knew something, otherwise he would not have disregarded his objection and sent him to Yin County, a place far away from the capital, perhaps to protect himself Well, but he looks down on him from the bottom of his heart, such a cowardly man, how could his grandmother marry his mother to him back then, he has a new wife, new children, he can forget his first wife, but he only has A mother, he must not let her die in vain, he must investigate and find out!

Sun Zhongyuan firmly set the goal of finding out the cause of his mother's death. Li Meier, an outsider who was involved for no reason, boarded the boat back to the state capital before Sun Zhongyuan, and she planned to return the things that Sun Zhongyuan gave to Aunt Zhen Give it to him, even those that were given to me, and pay it back together. I always feel that those things are hot potatoes, and it makes people feel uneasy to keep them in their hands.She is not stupid, she has already realized that Sun Zhongyuan must have some secrets in looking for Aunt Zhen's grandmother, and it is better not to get involved in such a small person like her.

(End of this chapter)