Chapter 51

Recalling those years, Li Gou suddenly had vicissitudes in his eyes, "...the little old man led people to search for half a year!"

He glanced at her aggrievedly, "Little old man's level has been declining since then~"

Ye Qingluan thought: I guessed it~
She winked at Li Gou encouragingly, "No matter how deep you hid, you were still found by Mr. Li later!"

Only then did Li Gou feel relieved, "Yes, yes, I was finally found by the old man!"

Ye Qingluan lowered her eyes halfway, "...but after you found it, you concealed it and didn't report it."

Otherwise, how could Wuniang become his daughter?

Li Gou's face darkened, "...Yes. That's her begging me, I'm soft-hearted, so I just..."

Ye Qingluan raised her eyes suddenly, "She and Mr. Li are also old acquaintances! Otherwise, how could Mr. Li be soft-hearted and willing to bear this disaster of losing his head!"

Li Gou was speechless, opened his mouth, and tears welled up in his old eyes again.

"Xi Niangzi doesn't know something, and I owe her..."

Ye Qingluan raised her eyes quietly: "How do you say?"

Li Gou sighed deeply, "...Because she was persuaded by the old man when she entered Taoism back then!"
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It turned out that more than 20 years ago, when the current sage Li Zhi came to the throne, the imperial court sent a group of royal children to the old place of Xiliang to worship their ancestors.

——After the imperial family of the Tang Dynasty won the world, in addition to respecting Lao Tzu Li Er as their ancestor, they also respected Li Hao, the great ancestor of Xiliang (one of the sixteen countries in the Eastern Jin Dynasty), as their ancestor.

Li Zhi's move is to let this group of royal children replace him to tell the ancestors, and now he will inherit the Li family.

Xiliang is remote and full of Hu and Han people. No one dares to control this group of royal children when they get there, so they all have fun.

The beautiful Hu girls who are good at singing and dancing, or the mixed-race girls who are married to Hu and Han, became the prey they scrambled to collect.

It's just that even though they are all descendants of the royal family, the blood relationship is different after all, so the identities of the sons, heirs, and princes are naturally different.

Some high-status ones dared to accept women openly and took them back to Beijing; some low-status ones, or being cautious, would not accept them openly, but secretly figured out a way.

And since the Li family is known as the descendant of Lao Tzu Li Er, each palace basically has several temples dedicated to them, and these temples have become their best reason—they called these temples in the name of accepting the new female crown , Collected the candidates they were optimistic about.

Naturally, these newly recruited people had to be registered with the Chongxuan Department, and then formally issued a degree certificate.

Therefore, Li Gou is the most familiar with the events of these dragon sons and grandchildren.

And if a girl's family is unwilling, it is inevitable that Li Gou and the others will come forward to persuade them.

That's how Wuniang's aunt was half persuaded by Li Gou, half frightened, and followed her to Luoyang.
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When Li Gou said this, his eyes turned red with shame.

Ye Qingluan held back his sobs and asked, "Which temple?"

Li Gou was startled, and began to hesitate again.

Ye Qingluan growled, "Say! Otherwise, I can't help you!"

Li Gou closed his eyes, "Luoyang...Happy Rain View!"

Ye Qingluan raised her eyebrows.From the name, it is not clear which royal palace enshrined it for the time being, unlike the "Qingliangguan" which is so obvious.

"...She resisted the most fiercely back then, so I was the most impressed. When I learned that the female crown who fled privately was her, my conscience was quite disturbed."

"But at that time, I didn't know why she fled privately. Besides, it was only reported by Xiyu Temple that someone had fled privately, and it was not reported by the Wangfu. So I didn't think at first that her privately fleeing would be related to the Wangfu."

"But when I found her, I didn't know that she was...pregnant with Liujia."

Ye Qingluan also gently closed her eyes, "Where did Mr. Li find her?"

Li Gou sighed, "She has fled back to Xiliang... When we found her, she was in Dunhuang."

It's no wonder...it's said that Ye Luo returns to his roots. When a person encounters unbearable pain, his instinctive thought is to go back to his hometown, go home.

When Xiliang was first built, its capital was in Dunhuang.

The corners of Ye Qingluan's eyes are also moistened—from Luoyang to Dunhuang, how much perseverance does it take for a woman who is pregnant with a child to cross half of China alone!
Li Gou was a little choked up, and he sighed several times before he could continue, "...When I found her, she begged me not to let anyone know that her child is of royal blood."

"She said that because she is a female crown, this child is destined to bear infamy. And if the people in the palace know of the existence of this child, they may not hesitate to kill the child in order to preserve that person's reputation..."

"She said that she regretted bringing this child into the world, that she regretted giving this child the most noble bloodline, but making her bear the most bleak life experience..."

Li Gou wiped his nose with his sleeve, "She was dying at that time! How could I be cruel and refuse her?"

"After she gave the baby to me, she just, just..."
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Rao is an outsider, and it was more than 20 years ago, but Ye Qingluan still couldn't help but shed tears along with it.

What Wu Niang's mother experienced back then, she herself did not have the same state of mind today!
"Then, what about that scar..." She sniffed hard, "If I were her, since I don't want people to know that Wu Niang is that person's child, why should I imprint Wu Niang?"

Li Gou opened his mouth, "...Actually, she didn't mean that! She was dying at the time, and she was sad that she couldn't grow up with her child, so she hoped that her child would be blessed by gods and Buddhas. So she left the incense for her child Scar, that means entrusting the child to the gods and Buddhas."

Ye Qingluan was also stunned.

That's right, she was in Dunhuang at that time, a place where the light of ten thousand Buddhas shines everywhere...

Li Gou sighed deeply again, "It's just that she was dying at that time, and her mind was no longer clear. She suddenly smiled at me and said, 'He came to see me...Look, he is smiling at me'..."

Ye Qingluan could only grit her teeth, "She still remembers that person in her heart?!"

Li Gou said slowly, "Yes..."

Ye Qingluan took a deep breath and swallowed back her tears.

"The incense scar is in the shape of a hibiscus flower, so it has something to do with it, right?"

"Alas..." Li Gou sighed again, "After all, she still couldn't let go of that person, so when she was unconscious, it was not ordinary incense sticks that were picked up on the fire, but one of hers. Hairpin..."

"The head of the hairpin is a hibiscus flower..."

Ye Qingluan lowered her head, "Was that hairpin a gift from that person? Or is it their token of love?"

Li Gou closed his eyes tightly, "...Yes."

Ye Qingluan's heart skipped a beat.

Wu Niang has been careful to cover up her scars with flowers over the years, so no one has discovered it.But on the day she got married, she voluntarily gave up hiding...

On that day, the house of Cui was full of guests!Countless people witnessed the hibiscus scar between Wu Niang's eyebrows!
 The third update at noon~
  
 
(End of this chapter)

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