After the hero goes crazy

Chapter 367

A strange thought quickly passed through Yao Shouning's mind, and she vaguely felt that she was about to catch an important message——

But the next moment, when everyone in the Yao family stepped into the courtyard, Mrs. Liu asked:
"Father, Shouning, what are you doing?"

The hint of inspiration that was about to be captured was suddenly broken by Liu Shi's voice, she raised her head in a daze, and saw the family members who had returned.

"Father, mother..."

Yao Hui and his wife, Su Wenfang, etc. were all staring at Liu Bingzhou and Yao Shouning curiously. She called her parents, then remembered the thoughts in her mind before, and turned to look at Liu Bingzhou:

"Grandfather, this wooden branch..."

"Shou Ning'er."

Liu Bingzhou ignored the returning crowd, but took a deep look at Yao Shouning, and gently called her name.

With irrepressible joy in his eyes, he waved to Yao Shouning, motioning her to open his palm.

The branch of the damaged magnolia tree fell back into her hand, she was startled, Liu Bingzhou grabbed her palm and held the branch tightly.

"Grandfather?" She was a little puzzled.

Liu Bingzhou clearly asked her to find this bud, and now that she finally found it, why did her grandfather hand it back to her?

Before she could ask her, Liu Bingzhou said:

"This is your key to lead the way. Take it with you. In the future, it will lead you to the right time."

Liu Bingzhou was in a good mood and confessed.

His words had a lot of mystery, which made Yao Shouning stunned for a moment, and subconsciously clenched the branch tightly. When he was about to ask what Liu Bingzhou meant, he turned around with a smile, and looked at Liu Shi and the others:
"You are back."

Yao Ruoyun and the others had a lot of things they bought while shopping. When Liu Shi heard the words, she nodded indiscriminately, and then asked curiously:

"Father, what are you guys doing? What did Shouning just drag the stone lock?"

Speaking of her daughter, she showed a headache.

Yao Shouning looked extremely embarrassed at this time, her hair and clothes were all wet, and there was a gray and black mark on her shoulders from pulling the stone locks earlier.

In her hand, she held a branch that she broke off from nowhere, which made Liu Shi frowned:
"Shou Ning, you—"

Today the youngest daughter is wearing a brand new dress, which was specially tailored for her by Liu Shi after she learned that Yao Shouning had an appointment with Lu Zhi. I don't know what happened today, but she went home early and made this look.

"Did Shouning go to the Bailing River?"

Su Wenfang who was at the side saw Liu's mouth twitching, so he hurriedly asked.

He interrupted Liu Shi's accusation, which eased her irritable temper and returned to her senses. When she heard the word 'Bai Ling Jiang', her heart tightened again.

"Correct."

Yao Shouning nodded, and looked at Liu Bingzhou hesitantly, but saw that he stretched out his hand to smooth his long hair, took out another wooden hairpin from his cuff, and tied up his white hair again.

Grandfather seems to have been prepared for a long time!
Everything that happened tonight seemed to be in his expectation, as if she and Shizi came back from the Lantern Festival and found that Yao Wanning was pregnant, and even found the wooden branch... everything was under his control.

And all of this should have been foreseen by him in Yingtian Bookstore back then.

Thinking of this, Yao Shouning couldn't help but become more curious about the rumored bookstore, and yearned for it.

And when she was yearning for it, the withered branch in her hand seemed to glow with vitality, and a bud the size of a grain of rice quietly emerged from the branch.

She didn't notice it, but Liu Bingzhou had been with this thing for many years, but she was keenly aware of the sudden change in the branches.

He glanced down, with joy in his eyes.

Back then, he tried to change history and intervened in the matter of the blood mosquito Gu. In fact, he was very afraid that he would mess up the secrets and ruin the hard work of his predecessors. Now it seems that many things are still going according to their destiny.

Liu Bingzhou breathed a sigh of relief, seeing Yao Shouning looking at him hesitantly, as if he couldn't make up his mind, he couldn't help but nodded to her with a smile.

She already had an idea, now that Liu Bingzhou affirmed her, she made up her mind even more.

"Father, yours—" Liu was careless and didn't notice the eye contact between her daughter and her father, but she saw her father's loose hair, and found that the wooden hairpin he used to tie it up was no longer what it used to be. Branches of familiar wood.

I don't know where the wooden branch came from, but as far as Liu can remember, he never leaves him and cherishes it very much.

Before Liu Bingzhou spoke, Yao Ruoyun suddenly remembered something:

"Did Shouning fall into the river?"

"What?" His words diverted Liu's attention.

The mallow on the side suddenly widened his eyes and spoke quickly:

"I heard someone on the street say that a young man and woman jumped into the river to die in love..." She was halfway through her words when she suddenly realized something. She folded her hands and tightly covered her mouth.

"Someone died for love?" Yao Shouning asked curiously.

At this moment, the expressions of Liu Shi and the others were a bit strange, and Yao Shouning belatedly realized that the man and woman that Dong Kui said was "died for love" might be himself.

"It's not like this, it's not like this..." She quickly waved her hands and explained:

"My son and I got into the water, but we didn't die for love."

"What's going on?" Yao Hui's face became a bit serious when his daughter said this.

During the Shangsi Festival tonight, the family heard rumors that a man and a woman jumped into the river to die in love, which almost angered the "river god" of Bailing River.

Everyone spread the rumors well. After Yao Shouning and his son left, the Liu family and others heard the rumor that a young lady of a certain family had a private life-long contract with a poor scholar, but her parents objected, so she decided to meet and die in love.

At that time, the Yao family still listened to it with great interest, but they did not expect that the person who "died for love" in the rumors would be their own daughter.

"..."

Yao Shouning looked helpless and sighed:

"Alas. In fact, I am going out with Shizi tonight, in order to find the trace of the 'River God'..."

Liu was surprised and said:
"Didn't you go out to play with the prince?"

"Actually, it's mainly to investigate the 'River God'. I want to get rid of the brand on my sister." Yao Shouning said honestly.

Liu Shi was speechless for a while, and after a while, he said:
"That rumor..."

"That's right." Yao Shouning struggled in his eyes. He was having a headache, how could he tell his family about his sister, when he suddenly heard a 'click' sound, which interrupted her thoughts.

Everyone's attention was diverted.

"Ah! What a pity." Mallow exclaimed softly.

I saw the lantern that Su Wenfang was carrying fell to the ground, the lamp stand broke, and the lamp oil flowed out and soaked the paper on which the picture of the beauties was drawn.

He had a look of regret on his face, and when he saw everyone turning their heads to look at it, he hurriedly bent over to pick it up, and sighed:
"I'm sorry, I'm used to going to bed early, and I'm a little excited tonight. At this time, I'm not in a good mood, and I can't hold the lamp."

When Mrs. Liu heard the words, she quickly suppressed her anxiety, and asked Madam Cao to prepare some hot water and distribute it to everyone's rooms, and asked Su Wenfang to go back to rest first.

Su Miaozhen also saw that his father interrupted Yao Shouning and the others' chat on purpose, and guessed what his father was thinking.

Yao Shouning's trip with the prince tonight must have uncovered something, which was related to Yao Wanning and belonged to the Yao family's privacy. Su Wenfang interrupted Yao Shouning's words because he wanted to give the Yao family a chance to speak.

She wasn't stupid either. Seeing Yao Shouning rushing back tonight, he couldn't hide his anxiety and was in a mess when he came back, something must have happened.

Thinking of this, Su Miaozhen also said:

"Is Qingchun tired too?"

"I don't..." Su Qingchun said stupidly, before he finished speaking, he was pinched by his sister, and he let out a soft cry of pain:
"what!"

"Qingchun is tired, go back to the room first with me." Su Wenfang glanced at his daughter approvingly, then looked at Liu Bingzhou apologetically:

"Father, I'm sorry, Qingchun is weak, I'll take him back to rest first."

Liu Bingzhou nodded, looked at Su Miaozhen softly, and then said:

"Go, you have been playing for a long time, take a rest early."

The three members of the Su family turned and left, and Yao Shouning couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief when only the Yao family was left.

"Let's talk in the house."

Yao Hui vaguely sensed that something serious had happened, so he sent Mong Kui and the others to prepare tea, and when everyone entered the room, Liu's face was pale.

She is not a keen and meticulous person, but when it comes to Yao Wanning, her intuition is unusually prepared, and she asked before she was seated:

"Did something happen to Wanning?"

Everyone had just returned, and the room was still a little deserted. Liu Shi could only feel a chill from the stool beside her, driving away all the joy brought by the original lantern festival.

Yao Shouning glanced at his grandfather as if asking for help, but saw that he was just looking at him with a smile, with an encouraging expression on his face.

She bit her lower lip.

Yao Wanning was already three months pregnant, and sooner or later she couldn't hide her belly.

Instead of waiting for everyone to find out that there are gossips in the family, it is better to tell Liu in advance that the family can make arrangements early.

At this time, there were no outsiders in the family, she took a deep breath and said:

"Last November..."

She started talking about it when the 'River God' entered Yao's house in November last year.

When Liu Shi heard her talk about the old events of last year, she was a little anxious at first, and was about to speak, but was stopped by Yao Hui holding her hand.

Yao Shouning had already said these words, and there must be deep meaning in mentioning them again now.

Knowing that his wife was irritable and caring, he was a little impatient, so he patted the back of her hand and motioned her to sit down and listen first.

"...The prince promised to get rid of the 'river god' for me that night, so he came to our house in the dark."

She started with the two people entering the illusion, and mentioned that in the illusion, she saw the river and the river lantern in the river. Among the two lanterns she picked up, each of them seemed to have written a letter to her family. She guessed from the words, It should be a family letter written by a woman to her husband.

Mrs. Liu was reminded by her husband, so she forcibly suppressed her inner anxiety. After hearing this, she was shocked, afraid, regretful and doubtful.

After the incident happened that day, she thought it was a thief in the house, but after listening to Yao Shouning's mention, she realized that the evil spirit had entered the house, and with the help of the eldest son, she drove the evil spirit away.

But Yao Shouning didn't mention the details at that time, nor did he say that she and the prince had entered the illusion.

Hearing her bring up this matter again at this time, even though she had mentioned it in one word, Liu Shi could still imagine that it was extremely dangerous at that time.

The crown prince was injured because of this, and her daughter seemed to have hurt her hand a little more seriously - but before that, Yao Shouning's hand was cut by a sword in the general's mansion, and she thought her daughter was naughty and accidentally opened the wound and reopened it. Bleeding, and said a few words about her.

At that time, she had a lot of headaches because of Yao Wanning's recovery and the "burglar" at home, and her husband and Su Miaozhen's siblings were imprisoned, she was so upset that she couldn't care about these trivial things at all.

Even the day before, she had lost her temper because her daughter was 'disgraced'.

Now thinking of all the past, Liu's heart was full of regrets, but she didn't know how Yao Shouning's mention of this matter had anything to do with today.

"Since then, I have always felt that the river and the lantern are a reminder." Yao Shouning said this, and Yao Ruoyun finally realized:

"So you are meeting with Shizi tonight because you want to find clues?"

"Yes." Yao Shouning nodded.

"Have you found it?" Liu asked anxiously.

As soon as she finished speaking, the rest of the Yao family also showed anxious expressions.

Yao Shouning was silent for a moment, and the others in the room did not dare to speak out.

Just in this instant, the air suddenly became oppressive.

Liu's eyes were red, and finally couldn't bear it any longer, and urged:

"Shouning, tell me quickly."

"Found it." Yao Shouning said dryly.

Liu Shi was overjoyed, and was about to speak, when she heard her continue:

"When Shizi and I walked to the river today, we found someone holding the same lantern as the one seen in the river that day."

She omitted the incident of meeting Chen Taiwei and went straight to the point:

"So we walked along the river bank and saw a stall selling lanterns. Many people in the river put wishing lanterns. My son and I went down the river and picked up one of them—"

When she said this, she paused for a moment.

Yao Hui subconsciously turned his head to look at his wife——on Yao Wanning's matter, Liu's intuition was extremely keen. At this moment, she realized something was wrong, and her face turned pale.

But she still wanted to know the truth, so she forcibly restrained her inner impulse, and did not urge Yao Shouning aloud.

After a while, Yao Shouning said softly:

"We turned on the lotus lamp, which is made of folded letters..."

Liu asked calmly:

"What was written in the letter?"

When the matter came to an end, she reversed her previous anxious posture, and only held on to the armrests of the chair with both palms very hard, and her white joints revealed the fear in her heart.

Yao Shouning took a deep breath and said:
"Since the last parting in my dream... I have been pregnant for three months..."

Her voice was crisp and sweet, like gold and jade striking each other, but the moment Liu Shi heard that she was "pregnant" in three months, she was struck by five thunderbolts.

"You mean, you got the same lantern as in the illusion that day?" Yao Ruoyun's voice came from afar, seeming a bit ethereal and unreal.

"Yes." Liu Shi heard Yao Shouning respond.

"The handwriting is very familiar..."

When Liu Shi heard this, she couldn't bring it up in one breath.

A terrible premonition flooded into her heart, and she could only hear Yao Shouning's voice saying back and forth:
"Three months of pregnancy...three months of pregnancy...three months of pregnancy..."

Her intuition, which was not very keen in the past, played an unexpected role at this time. Liu thought in her heart: when she 'saved' Yao Wanning, it was after the winter solstice. in november.

Counting the time, where is there anything I don’t understand?
In recent days, she has noticed that her eldest daughter seems to be more and more silent, and she only thinks that she is worried about the brand of "River God", and doesn't think of anything else.

In the past, she favored the eldest daughter and neglected the younger daughter. After Su Miaozhen and her younger brother came, she was influenced by evil spirits and became estranged from Yao Shouning. However, subconsciously harvested the eldest daughter.

……

Today's festival, everyone went out happily, but the unlucky student Yao Wanning had to be at home alone, separated from everyone, it was not quite right in itself, but Mrs. Liu didn't notice it at all.

Thinking about it carefully, she is always making wrong choices. She seems to have done a lot, but she doesn't seem to understand the two daughters.

It started with her, and now it is her two daughters who are suffering the consequences.

Liu's mind went blank, and her body limply fell to the ground.

In her last impression, she heard Yao Ruoyun shouting in panic:
"Mother, mother!"

Then unconscious again.

……

After the conversation that night, it ended with Liu Shi fainting on the ground.

She knew that Yao Wanning was three months pregnant, so she couldn't bear the blow and fell ill.

The next day when Yao Wanning heard the news, when she came to see her, she held her daughter's hand and looked at Yao Wanning's stomach without saying a word, just shedding tears.

The Yao family hired a doctor and spent a lot of money, but nothing improved.

A month passed by.

On this day, Lu Zhi was entrusted by the princess and came to Yao's house.

He didn't come alone, he also came with a doctor invited by the eldest princess from Jinzhou to treat Liu's illness.

In addition, he also sent a lot of medicinal materials to take care of Liu's body.

Since the flood, there was a shortage of doctors and medicines in Shendu City, but with the help of the General's Mansion, Liu's illness did not lack medicines.

It was inconvenient for Lu Zhi to enter, but standing outside, he could smell the strong smell of medicine in the room.

He greeted Mrs. Liu, conveyed the words of the eldest princess, and received a response from Mrs. Liu who was as angry as a silk.

When Yao Shouning came out, his face was full of sadness. His face was thinner, his chin was pointed, and his eyes seemed bigger.

Lu Zhi glanced at her, feeling a little distressed.

Before he had time to speak, Yao Wanning came out.

She has been pregnant for four months, her belly is showing slightly, when she saw the prince, she smiled and nodded slightly.

For some reason, when Lu Zhi, who was fearless before, saw her, he felt inexplicably afraid in his heart—as if he didn't dare to be disrespectful in front of her.

"Shouning, mother said that the room smells of medicine, so I want you to sit outside with the son."

She confessed softly, and Yao Shouning responded.

Everyone in the Yao family seemed to know that she was pregnant, she was generous, she held her stomach with one hand when she spoke, and her expression was calm, as if she was not embarrassed.

Lu Zhi took a peek at her, and saw that she was surrounded by purple light, as if she had an inexplicable dragon aura.

Yao Wanning turned her head, and the dragon aura wrapped around her body transformed into a shadow of a real dragon wrapped around her body, raising its head above her body, and the indistinct sound of the dragon's chant resounded through the world, scaring the prince to shrink his head and dodge .

She smiled slightly, and there was a bit of majesty on that delicate face, as if she treated the prince as a child and didn't care about him.

"Come on, let's go out and talk."

Yao Shouning could see that Shizi was a little uncomfortable, so he tugged on his sleeve.

After the Shangsi Festival, major incidents happened in the Yao family, and the Liu family fell ill again. Although the prince said that he came a few times later, he never had a chance to talk to Yao Shouning.

After the two left the room, Lu Zhicai let out a long sigh of relief.

'call--'

He was panting too loudly, and his relieved expression was too obvious, which attracted Yao Shouning's attention.

Lu Zhi rubbed his face and whispered:
"For some reason, I always feel afraid to look your sister in the eye."

He had met Yao Wanning a few times before, and his impression was that she was a delicate and introverted woman, and he didn't think Yao Wanning was so scary, but now he felt that she had an indescribable majesty, which was very frightening.

Hearing this, Yao Shouning gave him a strange look, and belatedly realized a problem in his heart.

"Are you afraid of my sister?" She sniffed, wiped away the tears from her eyes, and asked in a low voice.

If it was before, the prince would definitely deny it because of his face.

But at this moment, for some reason, when he thought of Yao Wanning's face, he felt apprehensive, hesitated for a while, and honestly nodded and admitted:

"A little afraid of her."

He was the proud son of heaven, born in the royal family, his mother was the eldest princess who commanded a hundred thousand elite soldiers, and even Emperor Shenqi was afraid of him, and his father was from the Shenwu sect.

The seniors in the Shenwu Sect who are highly cultivated can only respect but not be fearless, but he feels awe when he is here with Yao Wanning, as if he does not dare to neglect her in the slightest.

"Were you afraid of her before?" Yao Shouning asked again.

"Before, I didn't feel this way before..." He hesitated, and added:

"I always feel that there seems to be a trace of dragon luck wrapped around her body—"

In the underground dragon veins, he accepted the inheritance of the fate of the country and carried the power of destiny, which combined with the luck of this world made him extremely sensitive to the power of the real dragon.

"Dragon Luck?" Yao Shouning's heart skipped a beat when he heard this.

The son's words undoubtedly further verified her initial guess: the child in her sister's womb may be the second emperor of the Daqing Dynasty, Emperor Tianyuan.

"En." Shizi nodded, looked around, leaned over to Yao Shouning's ear, and guessed in a low voice:

"Could it be that the one who overthrew the Daqing Dynasty, yes, was the child in your sister's womb?"

Xu Zhao of the Bianji clan 700 years ago predicted that the 31st generation of the Daqing Dynasty would die, and Yao Wanning was pregnant at this time, and the fetal appearance was extraordinary. This is not a coincidence that makes sense.

Lu Zhi wondered:
"Your sister is married to 'him' and is pregnant with—"

He didn't say what he said later, but Yao Shouning knew the inside story, so he naturally knew what he meant.

Yao Wanning is pregnant with Taizu's child, that is to say, "It's okay for Taizu to establish the Daqing Dynasty back then, but now he has a son and overthrows Daqing—" he gossiped:
"Isn't this using the other's spear to attack the other's shield?"

"..." Yao Shouning was originally frowning because his sister was pregnant and Liu's family was seriously ill, but at this time he was almost amused by the prince, so he couldn't help laughing and said:
"Don't talk nonsense!"

As soon as she smiled, the haze between her brows quickly dissipated, and she regained a bit of a girlish radiance, which made Shizi heave a sigh of relief.

"It's good to just smile. Just now, the circles of eyes were red, why were you crying?"

He moved his fingers, wanting to touch the girl's cheek, but he didn't have the guts to put his hands behind his back, fearing that he would lose his composure and do something irrational, and Yao Shouning would be displeased.

"I see you've lost weight..."

Lu Zhi looked at her pointed face with some dissatisfaction, and somewhat missed her cheeky cheeks and plump cheeks before.

At this time, after Yao Shouning lost the baby fat, his cheeks became more delicate, his facial features were brighter, and he was less charming than before, making him even more glamorous.

"I haven't slept well recently, I'm worried about my mother—"

When she heard Shizi's words, her eyes turned hot, and she said something in a low voice.

"It's okay, my mother asked someone to invite a doctor from Jinzhong. This person has extremely high medical skills and is very famous in Jin. He will definitely make your mother recover soon." The prince comforted her.

Yao Shouning forced a smile and sighed:
"My mother's illness is heart disease."

Mrs. Liu blamed herself and felt guilty, that's why her illness came like a mountain, and her heart disease needs to be treated with heart medicine. If this heart disease is incomprehensible, no matter how skilled she is, it will be difficult for her to recover.

Lu Zhi also understood this reason, but he couldn't see Yao Shouning weeping, so he said:

"Don't worry, we've tracked it down to this point, and we will be able to solve this matter one day."

She was not in a good mood, so she nodded when she heard the words, and suddenly turned her head to look at Lu Zhi:
"Did you really not notice the difference between my sister's pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy?"

She changed the topic quickly, Lu Zhi was taken aback for a moment, and said:
"the difference?"

He wasn't stupid either, he heard other meanings from Yao Shouning's words.

The two have gone through life and death, and the tacit understanding is very deep. With a move in his heart, he remembered one thing:

"You mean, after your sister became pregnant, her influence on me changed?"

Yao Shouning sniffed and wiped his tears with his hand.

She looked lovely in the rain with pear blossoms before, but now she wiped her tears the same way as before. Lu Zhi's eyes were soft and he smiled unconsciously.

"Yes." She nodded, pulled Shizi to the corner, and the two stood against the wall, whispering:
"I doubt that my sister changed history."

She mentioned the conversation she had with Nanny Shi that day, and then she mentioned the matter of Taizu with the Eldest Princess, but found that both the Elder Princess and Nanny Shi's memories of Taizu diverged within a few days .

Lu Zhi also knew about these things, but he hadn't connected this situation with Yao Wanning before. When Yao Shouning reminded him, he immediately reacted:
"You mean, your sister's pregnancy?"

"En." Yao Shouning responded, and said his own speculation:

"When I chatted with Nanny Shi that day, I didn't know that my sister was pregnant." Later, when I asked the eldest princess about Taizu again, it was on the night of her birthday, after talking with Yao Wanning.

At that time, she unconsciously "blessed" Yao Wanning, which indirectly changed the fate of her sister and made the child in her womb take shape.

Afterwards, I mentioned Taizu's heirs to the eldest princess, only to learn that in the "Historical Records of Daqing", Taizu never married and never had sex with women - but this is obviously not in line with the national conditions.

"After you went back that day, did you check the records about Emperor Tianyuan in the "Historical Records of Daqing"?" Yao Shouning asked.

Lu Zhi's lips moved. Before he could speak, Yao Shouning said softly with a determined face:
"You checked, but you didn't find any clues, did you?"

Shizi's heart stirred up waves, he didn't make a sound, just nodded silently.

This situation is clearly not right.

Emperor Tianyuan was the son of Taizu. Logically speaking, it is impossible to omit the life of such an emperor in the "Historical Records of Daqing". This matter is obviously different.

"If you go back and search today, you will be able to find out the origin of Emperor Tianyuan!" Yao Shouning became more and more confident.

Lu Zhi thought of a possibility, but he couldn't believe it.

The two of them had a tacit understanding, and by coincidence, one lowered his head and the other looked up. The moment their eyes met, Yao Shouning's voice rang in Lu Zhi's ear:

"I think the child in my sister's womb may be Emperor Tianyuan!"

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7K big update.

After Yang Kang, I had a cervical spine attack, and I felt dizzy every day. I felt that the code words were not in the state, so I have been recuperating. . .

Here I apologize to the children's shoes who are waiting for updates.

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