Chapter 449: The Traitor: Bright Moon, Drinking Alone in the Autumn
Chapter 449: The Traitor: Bright Moon, Drinking Alone in the Autumn
Li Jinyu walked in a daze, his mind full of the words he heard tonight.
She had heard that her father had woken up, so she came to pay her respects. If Li Zhong was on duty tonight, this would not have happened. However, it was Wei Xuan who was on duty today. When she saw Li Jinyu waving her hand to indicate that she was only there to deliver soup, and also saying that her father had just woken up, she told him not to speak too loudly and could just go in by herself.
Normally, the old emperor was very tolerant towards his children, and he also said that if they came, they could come in directly without notifying them.
After all, he was in poor health, and sometimes when the princess and the prince came to visit him, they had just fallen asleep. Moreover, his children were not in good health, and he could not let them wait outside, so he said this.
It happened that the emperor and empress were chatting about the past at that time and did not hear the noise outside.
When Li Jinyu came in, she heard two people chatting. When she was about to speak to greet them, she heard the name Shufei.
She froze for a moment, swallowed back the words that were about to come out of her mouth, breathed lightly, and stood outside the screen listening.
Li Jinyu had always been suspicious about the death of her mother. Now that she heard about it, she naturally wanted to find out the truth. Her palms were sweaty with nervousness, for she was afraid to hear that it was her father and mother who had secretly harmed her.
but……
Li Jinyu's face was as pale as a ghost. She spat out a mouthful of blood and covered her chest with her hands in pain. It felt as if there were millions of ants biting her whole body, making her wish she could end her life immediately.
"Mother." She murmured these two words while coughing up blood, and two lines of tears flowed down her cheeks.
The mother whom she loved so much turned out to be the culprit who caused her to become what she is now. It was clearly her who supported her in learning martial arts, horse riding, and many other things that others thought were unreasonable and illegal.
Her skill with a whip was taught by her mother herself.
It was clearly she who said that her daughter should be such a lively, bright, heroic and heroic woman.
But her mother didn't love her and only accepted her existence out of helplessness.
Li Jinyu really wanted to die immediately, go to the underworld and ask that woman why she was so cruel.
Not long after she was born, a Gu was planted in her body. Could it be because she loved the emperor of Chen Kingdom?
She was willing to use her own flesh and blood for a heartless man who gave her to another man.
She curled up on the ground, sweating all over from the pain.
Why!
Why do you do this to her?
She obviously tried very hard, so why didn't she love herself a little? When she was a child, she loved Li Limu more than herself as a daughter. When she grew up... hehe... she didn't grow up. She didn't participate in her own growing up process.
Even the queen felt a little pity for her, but she, as a mother, wished she would die.
What is she planning?
Did she hope that her father would kill his own flesh and blood in order to survive, in order to achieve her goal of destroying his heart, or did she calculate that her father would love her and would rather suffer from the poison than kill herself.
Li Jinyu didn't know. She hugged her knees, trying to stop the trembling, but she couldn't. She wanted to cry out loud, but she couldn't. There was only a huge sadness in her heart.
Mother, Mother Consort, Madam Consort Shu, you have such a cruel heart!
Li Jinyu was found by a palace servant on night patrol. Seeing that she was covered in blood, he immediately went to find the imperial physician.
This was the most serious illness she had ever suffered. When the Queen heard the imperial physician say that she was in great sorrow and wanted to die, she immediately conducted a thorough investigation of her whereabouts that night.
Li Limu heard that she was seriously ill and was afraid that she would not survive the night, so he came to check on her. Seeing the exhausted queen, he hurried forward and said, "Mother, I will stay here. You should go and rest first. Even a strong body cannot endure this."
The queen shook her head and held Li Jinyu's hand tightly.
She was really worried about Li Jinyu, and felt a little guilty. She thought that if she didn't mention the past to the emperor, Li Jinyu wouldn't suddenly lose the desire to live.
The Queen made a very clear distinction: Shufei was Shufei, and Li Jinyu was Li Jinyu.
In the past, she had implicated Li Jinyu because of Concubine Shu, but when she saw Concubine Shu die, she was at a loss and cried for her mother. She pulled her clothes and asked Concubine Shu what crime she had committed. Even her hardest heart softened.
This child is not her mother. Not only is she filial to herself, but even though she is a younger sister, she behaves like a little adult and always takes care of her older sister Li Limu.
The Queen and Concubine Shu were good friends at first, and she particularly liked Li Jinmu, her lively daughter. But after learning about those things, she didn't know how to treat Li Jinyu.
There is no doubt that she loves Li Jinyu very much and almost treats her as her own daughter.
But her own daughter suffered so much, all because of her mother.
Gradually, the queen distanced herself from Li Jinyu.
Whenever she was in agony from the poisonous insect attack, the queen would always remember her former appearance in fine clothes and riding a horse, hunting with a bow, and happily serving her the barbecue she had roasted herself.
Facing Li Limu's persuasion, the queen said softly: "I am worried about her, so I will stay here to watch over her. She has endured so many days, and one more night won't make a difference."
No matter how others persuaded her, the queen stayed with Li Jinyu and told her many embarrassing things that happened in her childhood.
The queen herself didn't expect that she still remembered these things after so many years.
"Jin Yu, whether it's your father or your mother, we all love you very much, but due to some reasons, we don't know how to express it."
"You have to live well, better than anyone else."
"Your father just woke up. Your mother didn't dare tell him about this, fearing that he wouldn't be able to accept it. Jinyu, you have been a good child since you were young. If you are bad enough, how can you let your father accept the old sending off the young again?"
"Your father and the other ladies in the palace are all old. They don't have the energy to endure the pain of being pierced by thousands of arrows."
The childless concubines in the palace all liked these princesses very much. They would either prepare delicious food for them or embroider sachets and clothes for them. They treated them as their own daughters.
The emperor eventually could not hide this matter. When he woke up in the middle of the night, he noticed that the palace maid looked a little strange. After he lost his temper, Wei Xuan told him about this matter.
When he heard that Li Jinyu was seriously ill and the imperial physician said he might not survive the night, he struggled to get out of bed and no one could stop him.
When the old emperor came, he saw Li Jinyu lying quietly and pale on the bed. He almost thought that Li Jinyu was dead.
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