RMACAUH Chapter 68
by VolareHe had always wanted to know the answer, although he said he didn’t care, why did his mother treat him like this?
Why did she say that even if the throne didn’t belong to Feng Xiao, it wouldn’t be his turn? He shouldn’t covet the throne. So that was it!
All his perceptions were overturned and rebuilt, and then overturned and rebuilt again. It would have been better not to know the truth at all.
“I always regarded you as my mother…”
Empress Chen looked at him coldly, “Now that you know the truth, stop this meaningless struggle! This throne does not belong to you. Return to where you should be, never set foot in the capital again, and be your idle prince. Isn’t this the best result and favor for you?”
Chen Guogong looked at his daughter with a broken heart, feeling estranged for the first time. He could no longer find the appearance of his daughter in front of him. She could be the mother of a country, the legal mother of the current crown prince, but no longer the daughter of the Chen family.
“How could you?” Chen Guogong almost couldn’t bear the blow, and the whole person was tottering. If Chen Minghui hadn’t supported him in time, he might have fallen to the ground.
“Favor?” Feng Yue’s eyes dimmed: “No, I think it’s alms. Do you think that even though I’m not a royal descendant, you gave me the title of a king, which is already a great favor?”
“Isn’t it?”
“I’ve called you ‘Mother’ for more than twenty years. Shouldn’t even a dog have feelings?” Speaking of his sadness, Feng Yue’s tears gathered in his eyes, and the pain was unbearable, falling with the tears.
“When you brought me into the palace, did you ever think about whether all the decisions you made later were fair to me?! You might as well have told me from the beginning, Feng Yue, you are just a dog we raised. You must abide by your mission, protect the royal family, protect the Jiangshan of Da Yuan, but you can never covet this throne!”
“Why? Why…”
Empress Chen’s eyes were red, and she still couldn’t bear it: “It’s not that I have no feelings for you at all. I just hope you will be obedient and keep your place. If you want your biological parents and siblings to be safe.”
“What do you mean by this?” Feng Yue became a little sober.
“Don’t you want to know who your biological parents are?”
“They are still alive?”
“That’s right.”
Feng Yue pursed his lips tightly, and after a long time, he asked: “Besides the condition of withdrawing troops, what other conditions are there?”
“This palace has already said, never return to the capital.”
Chen Guogong sighed and couldn’t help but smile sadly: “Bai Zhen, you are really good! Very good, very good, this trick really cuts off the Chen family army’s retreat. What a ruthless method!”
Empress Chen sneered: “Isn’t it you who forced me?”
Chen Guogong looked up at her with tears in his eyes, “Since you have confessed the truth today, then this old minister may as well tell the Empress a secret.”
“This palace is all ears.”
Feng Minghui looked solemn: “Father…”
Chen Guogong raised his hand to stop him, and said to himself: “Your child with Guan Shaojin is still alive.”
The smile on Empress Chen’s face gradually stiffened until it disappeared completely. Her face was full of disbelief and pain: “No, it’s impossible. I clearly saw it with my own eyes… You personally killed him in front of me!”
“Not only is he still alive, but he has been well by my side and Minghui’s side for so many years, but you and the emperor joined forces and almost killed us all in Yanling!”
“You’re talking nonsense! No… impossible! How could my child… Where is he? Where is he?!”
Empress Chen no longer had the elegance and dignity of the past, and the tears blurred the delicate makeup on her face, making her so embarrassed in front of people again after so many years.
“Four years ago, when I came to the capital, I asked you once if you wanted to see him, have you forgotten?”
Empress Chen’s heart tightened, and she suddenly remembered.
——A Sui also returned to Beijing with us, would you like to see him?
Every time Chen Guogong returned to Beijing, he would ask her this question.
A Sui has returned to Beijing.
A Sui has grown taller.
A Sui is brave and good at fighting, and is a pillar of the country.
A Sui has grown up now…
Do you want to see him?
Empress Chen remembered everything yesterday, and tears filled her eyes, and her heart ached like a knife.
Every time, every time, she refused to meet.
“Why do you treat me like this?!” Empress Chen questioned her father, crying heart-breakingly, “Why?!”
Chen Guogong asked her calmly: “Do you still remember how your mother died?”
“Isn’t it during the return trip to visit relatives, she was ambushed by enemy troops?”
Chen Guogong smiled: “Your mother’s whereabouts were extremely cautious. Except for a few of us, even the soldiers in the army didn’t know she was going back to Beijing to visit relatives. How did the enemy troops know?”
Empress Chen’s expression gradually distorted: “You mean, there was a traitor among us?”
“It’s Guan Shaojin!” Chen Guogong said in a deep voice: “He informed the enemy troops, wanting to capture your mother as a deal. Your mother would rather commit suicide than be manipulated by them. By the time we found her, the blood in her body had already drained. Her last wish was to let me and your brother protect you well, and not let you feel guilty for life because of her death.”
“No, impossible! Impossible!! You’re lying to me!!” Empress Chen roared in collapse, her voice hoarse.
“We held your mother’s funeral with extreme grief, and ambushed in secret for a year, finally waiting for Guan Shaojin to send a letter to the enemy troops, and caught him in the act! At that time, the evidence was conclusive!”
“A Jin couldn’t have done this, you know him, he’s not, he’s not that kind of person!”
“Empress, if this old minister tells half a lie, may I be struck by lightning and die a horrible death. Besides, there were many people present at the time, how could he be wronged?”
“So you killed him?”
“You have always thought that we were coercing you, and killed your husband and son in order to protect the Chen family army, but you are my daughter! We father and daughter have lived together day and night for nearly twenty years. How can you not know what kind of people my brother and I are? Why, over the years, is there only hatred left in your heart, and you haven’t come back to your senses to think carefully about the reason?”
“I don’t believe it!” Empress Chen’s expression became more and more distorted: “If the truth is like this, why didn’t you tell me earlier? Why did you hide it from me until now?! You lied to me, I don’t believe it!!”
Chen Minghui said angrily: “In order for mother to leave in peace, we have concealed it until now! Mother was afraid that you would not be able to withstand the blow, so before her death, she kept begging me and father to keep this secret. If we can hide it for a lifetime, we will hide it from you for a lifetime.”
“As for that beast named Guan, I killed him!” Chen Minghui’s eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and said: “When he was discovered, he even threatened me and my father with you and the child in your womb, saying that you loved him deeply, and there was his flesh and blood in your womb. If he died, you would definitely hate us!”
“He killed mother and still wants to threaten us!” Chen Minghui said sadly, clutching his fists tightly because of the suppressed emotions, trembling all over, “I would rather you hate us for a lifetime, I also want to kill him!!”
At this moment, all the beliefs and persistence of Empress Chen completely collapsed. She let the tears run rampant on her face in embarrassment, unable to accept such a result at all, her expression trance, and she walked out of the tent with staggering steps.
The snow flakes smashed on her face, and the coldness that eroded into the bones when it melted pricked her skin. She regained her senses slightly, but saw that the tall and jade-like youth was standing outside the tent, looking very familiar.
Upon closer inspection, there was still the shadow of that person.
Chen Suian looked at her with a complicated expression, his face full of resistance. Empress Chen squeezed out an awkward smile, stretched out her hand to him, wanting to touch his head, wanting to say sorry to him.
Who knew that Chen Suian defended her like a flood beast, quickly retreated, and roared at her: “Don’t even think about it, I will never recognize you as my mother in this life!”
After saying this, Chen Suian turned around angrily and ran away.
Empress Chen took the carriage and returned to the city.
That night, it snowed heavily, and the atmosphere seemed to be sealed by the icy world.
Feng Yue sat alone in front of the bonfire in the wilderness, numbly adding firewood to it, a layer of snow fell on his head and shoulders, melting into water and wetting his clothes without noticing it.
Grandpa Yuan came over with an umbrella and reminded him: “Your Highness, it’s late, the snow is too heavy, why don’t you go back to the tent first?”
His former firm belief had now completely collapsed, and Feng Yue looked up at Grandpa Yuan with helplessness.
“I am not a royal descendant.”
Grandpa Yuan hesitated.
“Chen Guogong is not my maternal grandfather, and the emperor is not my biological father, but he still made me the King of Guangling. Thinking about it this way, doesn’t it suddenly feel like he treated me pretty well?”
Grandpa Yuan reached out and brushed the snow off his shoulders and head, with a trace of heartache in his tone that was hard to hide, “You are the King of Guangling, and also the hero of Da Yuan. This alone far surpasses the identity of a royal descendant. No matter who you are, you are you. Don’t completely deny yourself because of an identity.”
“In both my past and present lives, I feel like a joke!”
“You have done very well. You are in the midst of the game, and you are just an ordinary person. How can you be a match for a predetermined fate?”
“My destiny?”
“But how a person’s destiny is, depends on how he chooses.”
“Really?”
Grandpa Yuan nodded: “Yes, Your Highness doesn’t have to worry. When you wake up after a sleep, you will naturally know how to choose.”
“I am not a royal descendant. You also know, right?”
Grandpa Yuan did not deny it.
“You are the Empress’s person, why do you still stay by my side? Sometimes I really can’t understand you.”
Grandpa Yuan said: “I am not the Empress’s person. Staying by Your Highness’s side is also what this old servant is willing to do. When the time comes, Your Highness will naturally know the reason.”
“What time?”
Grandpa Yuan just smiled and reminded him: “Your Highness, the wind and snow are heavy. Go back to the tent and rest. You came to the capital this time with extremely firm beliefs and determination. You must live well and go back, return to the Princess and the young heir, and reunite the family.”
That’s right, he still has Xiaofeng and Yiner. He can’t be decadent and depressed here.
“Thank you, Grandpa Yuan, for your advice. This king knows.”
Feng Yue kicked a few snowballs and buried the bonfire, got up and followed Grandpa Yuan back to the tent to wash up and sleep.
Perhaps he was too distraught during the day, Feng Yue’s head was very dizzy after lying down, and he was exhausted, so he fell asleep quickly.
When he woke up the next day, the events of yesterday still felt like a huge rock weighing heavily on his heart, but the helplessness and grief were gone.
Grandpa Yuan brought hot water to serve him to change and wash up. When he walked out of the tent, he saw Chen Suian standing in the wind and snow, looking at him hesitantly, “A Yue…”
Feng Yue smiled at him with relief: “Why don’t you come in and find me?”
Hearing this sentence, Chen Suian’s heart that was hanging in the air instantly fell into his stomach, and he put his arm around his shoulder as usual, “Grandfather told me to come and find you to have breakfast together. I saw that you hadn’t gotten up yet, so I didn’t come in to disturb you.”
“Then let’s go.”
“Hey!”
The two walked side by side in the snow towards the main tent.
On the way, Chen Suian secretly looked at him, hesitating to speak.
Feng Yue was most annoyed by him like this, “If you have something to say, just say it.”
Chen Suian said with guilt and unease: “A Yue, I just found out about these things, if you feel unhappy and have resentment in your heart, then hit me and scold me, after hitting and scolding me, we are still good brothers, okay?”
Feng Yue sighed, “What do I resent you for?”
“I, I don’t want to be her son either.”
“Yeah, I can see that.”
“You can really see that? You really don’t blame me?”
Feng Yue said helplessly: “What do I blame you for? Why are you thinking more than I am? Now my identity is very awkward. In the past, I could use the identity of a royal descendant legitimately, but now, I don’t even know what my identity is.”
“But the people of the world recognize you, you are the Third Prince of the current dynasty, the King of Guangling, the young general who recovered the four northwestern provinces. So what if they deny it? If they deny your identity, you are no longer you? But in my eyes, you are Feng Yue!”
Chen Suian’s words made a warm feeling surge in Feng Yue’s heart. He finally understood the meaning of Grandpa Yuan’s words.
Having reached this step, he couldn’t retreat even if he wanted to.
Even if he is not a royal descendant, he is still the King of Guangling, and he has to do this, without any change.
The wheel of fate is too huge, like a snowball, it is no longer something that human power can stop, but the wheel is turning with everyone.
Together with Chen Suian, they came to the tent. Chen’s father and son and Luo Hansheng were all there, waiting for him to come. The breakfast on the table hadn’t been touched yet.
Seeing Feng Yue’s first glance, Chen Guogong stood up a little nervously, at a loss, “A Yue…”
Feng Yue smiled at him: “Grandfather, you don’t have to wait for me. The breakfast is going to be cold. You are old, and eating cold food is not good for your health.”
When Chen Guogong, a man of iron and blood, heard this sentence, tears welled up in his eyes, and he smiled knowingly: “Hey, grandfather will eat now, you come and sit too!”
Several people had breakfast together, and went to the temporary training ground as usual to practice.
Chen Minghui specially found an opportunity to practice with Feng Yue for an hour.
After practicing, Chen Minghui handed him a kettle with wine in it.
The two ate wine to warm their bodies, and walked in the nearby mountains for a while.
Chen Minghui slowly said: “Yesterday, your grandfather didn’t sleep all night, and he was thinking about your affairs. He was worried…”
“Worried that I won’t recognize him anymore?”
“A Yue, your grandfather values you very much, whether you are… this feeling is still there.”
Feng Yue exhaled a cloud of white mist and sighed: “You don’t have to worry, I have thought it through very clearly. In fact, it doesn’t matter whether I am born to the Queen or not. Some things have reached this point, and cannot be changed, nor can they be changed. What we came here to do, we still have to continue to do it.”
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