Chapter Nineteen, Lonely Tomb
"Something has passed, so don't mention it."
The King of Xizhou reminded lightly.
Su Chen tactfully suppressed all the questions. After the two of them silencedly finished the cup of tea, and the first conversation between the father and son ended in a bland manner.
For Su Chen, the past two days, it was like a world-changing change. His identity was too fierce. He felt a little unreal and suspected that this was just a dream.
When he came to his private house, the four big words "Second Young Master's Mansion" in front of the door made him even more aware. Looking back, whenever he passed by such a yard, he would be very cautious, for fear that if he did something wrong, he would be beaten and scolded by the master inside.
He remembered that once he went to run an errand for Butler Li. He passed by the garden and stepped on mud. When he passed by a gardener's yard, he dirtyed his door. The gardener was a famous gardener hired by the royal family for money. He locked him up at that time and asked him to clean the yard. In fact, cleaning the yard was an easy job for Su Chen, but this delayed Butler Li's errands and was beaten and scolded.
Su Chen walked into his yard, and the work was busy in the sky, planting trees and watering flowers. People were cleaning everywhere. Even on the roof were two gardeners cleaning tiles, and some servants were busy carrying things into the house.
"Put it gently, that will break."
"That one is here. This is the potted plant I have picked for a long time. The young master must like it."
A maid was directing everyone to work, her face filled with a happy smile. She was the maid named Xianglan of the chef, and now she has become Su Chen's personal maid. Su Chen handed over all the matters in the yard to her.
Seeing Su Chen come back, Xianglan excitedly came up to meet her.
"Young Master, do you like these bonsai? I plan to put them all in your room."
Su Chen smiled and nodded, responded, "Like"
Then he asked, "Are the things I want ready?"
"Everything is ready. I have sent someone to send it to the carriage. You are the master now, don't do anything by yourself."
Xianglan reminded her playfully, but Su Chen disagreed and knocked her on the head, feeling that she had become the master, Xianglan was even more excited than him.
Su Chen left the yard again and headed to the horse house.
As soon as he entered the horse's house, the familiar and pungent smell immediately came. Su Chen rubbed his nose and saw Sun Da who was feeding the horses in the stable. He was wearing a new coat today.
When Su Chen came to find him and asked about his father, Sun Da saw that he was pitiful and insisted on giving him a cotton coat. At that time, Su Chen did not dare to take it away. The new coat that Sun Da was wearing was sent by him by Xianglan.
Sun Da's reaction was still so slow. After a while, he found that behind him was Su Chen, the upstart of the royal palace.
"Oh, the second young master is here, I'm paying homage to the second young master." Sun Da was panicked and was about to kneel down and kowtow.
Su Chen stopped him and smiled and said, "Do you have time to accompany me to a place?"
“Yes, of course.”
The carriage prepared for Su Chen was already waiting outside the south gate of the royal palace. The person who pulled the carriage was a tall yellow horse picked by Sun Da himself, also known as the "Bone-Turning Dragon". In the past, only the little prince would use it when he went on.
The most noble horse in the palace is the two jade lions of the night. The horses are all white and have no trace of discoloration. It is said that they can travel thousands of miles a day. These two horses are mainly used by the King of Xizhou.
In addition, there was a more powerful carriage in the palace before, known as the "Double Snow Wheel Boat", which was the luxurious carriage that Su Chen and Xue Yao were riding in.
In addition to being spacious and luxurious, the carriage can be stuffed with a bed inside, the biggest feature is that the two snow leopards are pulled. It is said that these two snow leopards eat dozens of kilograms of raw meat in the palace every day, and a special animal tamer is hired to tame it.
The owner of this carriage is the most noble woman in the palace, the princess. These two snow leopards are the gifts given to her by his brother, Marshal of the Frost Kingdom.
Such a precious carriage princess was easily lent to Xueyao, an envoy of the Palace of Eternal Life who was not as good as hers, and was eventually lost.
Su Chen and Sun Da got on the carriage, and they sat in the carriage together. Outside the carriage were two royal coachmen responsible for driving.
Sun Da made some noise before getting in the car, and he really didn't dare to sit with the young master. Later, Su Chen forced him to get in the car and settled down.
Half an hour later, the carriage drove to a hillside outside the suburbs.
Su Chen asked the coachman to wait at the foot of the mountain. He was carrying a bag of dark paper and Sun Da was holding a jar, and the two went up the mountain.
A lonely grave stands halfway up the mountain. The grave is deserted and covered with weeds, and it seems that no one has taken care of it for many years.
Su Chen and Sun Da dialed open the low grave, put the jar brought by Sun Da in, and buried it in the soil.
After doing all this, Su Chen sat quietly in front of the tombstone, while Sun Da was busy weeding and taking care of the grave.
This is the tomb of Sun Da’s comrade-in-arms Su Sanbao, and it is also the fake father Su Chen, who has been a 16-year-old man who has almost never met.
The urn brought by Su Chen was Su Chen's adoptive mother. She died at the hands of the little prince. Even without the little prince, she couldn't hold on for long. Perhaps it was because she knew she couldn't live anymore that she dared to tell this secret rashly.
Su Chen lit a ball of dark paper, burning it while talking to himself.
"I thought it was you two who harmed me. If you didn't give birth to me, you wouldn't have such a sad life. If you didn't provoke others, I wouldn't be targeted. I blamed you for so long, but I didn't expect that I was harming you all the time.
If it weren't for me, you might have a lovely son who would accompany you to grow up safely. Maybe he would accompany the little prince to study, get a fame, or practice martial arts with a master and become a sergeant. Even if he did nothing, he would at least be with you, help you with laundry and do chores, and follow your father to play with fancy moves.
I didn't understand why you were so indifferent to me before, but now I understand. It turns out that in your eyes, I am a killer, who killed your children and husband. If it were me, I might be even more indifferent than you, and even wanted to kill him."
Su Chen burned the dark paper in his hand, opened a pot of wine, poured half a pot in front of the grave, and drank the other half a pot himself.
"My father, your child was sent to a farmer's house outside the city. I asked someone to look for it, but sixteen years have passed and the farmer's family has moved away. But don't worry, if I can find him, I will definitely not treat him badly."
"I owe you what I owe you, I will not be able to pay it back in this life. I will be willing to repay you as a cow or a horse in the next life."
"But mother, the little prince stabs you, I will definitely get it back for you!"
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When I returned to the palace, it was dusk.
Su Chen was stunned as soon as he returned to the yard.
There was a row of servants standing at the entrance of the courtyard, some holding jewelry, some holding swords, guns and sticks, and even a few beautiful maids, dressed very coolly and were throwing their eyes at him.
"What's going on? You're also doing this?"
Xianglan happened to come over and Su Chen asked in surprise.
"Young Master, you are finally back, the butler is here!"
Chapter completed!