Summary of the previous chapter: Wei Jinzhong came suddenly in the middle of the night and promulgated the imperial edict of Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youxiao, ordering Li Qinghan to enter the palace tomorrow and live permanently in the Yiluan Palace...
"!" Ma Xiaoquan slapped Wei Jinzhong and knocked him to the ground, "You shameless old man, do you believe that I've cut off the things you didn't clean now?"
Wei Jinzhong covered his old face, looked at Ma Xiaoquan angrily, and shouted: "Ma Xiaoquan, you dare to hit me, I am here to deliver the decree. If you hit the person who delivered the decree, what crime should you do?"
"It's your mother's fault." Ma Xiaoquan stepped forward and kicked Wei Jinzhong hard in the face.
Wei Jinzhong rolled on the ground and said, "Why are you still standing there, beat him?" Wei Jinzhong roared angrily.
After receiving the order, several eunuchs immediately surrounded Ma Xiaoquan in a circle.
Ma Xiaoquan twisted his neck, released his feet, and said, "Wei Jinzhong, do you really think these men of yours are my opponents?"
Wei Jinzhong rolled over and climbed up, hiding behind a tall eunuch, and said: "Ma Xiaoquan, just wait, I will tell the emperor exactly what happened. I can't beat you, I will let the emperor punish you, you
Wait!"
After saying that, Wei Jinzhong ran away like a lost dog.
...
Mrs. Ma stepped forward and saw no one around. She shook her head and sighed: "First-generation head of the family, you have made a big mistake this time."
Ma Xiaoquan sneered: "Wei Jinzhong is just a eunuch, what? He can also climb mountains?"
Ma Tong stepped forward and also sighed: "First-generation head of the family, you don't know something. Our Emperor Tianqi is very obsessed with his mother."
Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "I know, let's call that woman Ke Yinyue."
Ma Tong nodded: "Yes, and this guest Yinyue, I heard that he had a fierce fight with Wei Jinzhong recently."
Ma Xiaoquan took a breath, looked at Ma Tong's serious face, and hurriedly and secretly operated the data device in his body to check it.
After such a check, Ma Xiaoquan took another breath of cold air.
Why were you so busy beating people that you forgot about Ke Yinyue and Wei Jinzhong having a meal together?
Ma Xiaoquan slapped his head hard, shook his head and said: "I was negligent...but I will not give up, sister-in-law...she must not enter the palace!"
Mrs. Ma said: "First generation head of the family, do you have any good ideas?"
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head and sighed: "There is no way at the moment, but I want to see the emperor before Wei Jinzhong goes back to report!"
"How are you going?"
Ma Xiaoquan thought for a moment and said: "Time is urgent, I can only sneak in..."
"What, sneaking in? First generation head of the family, do you want to sneak into the imperial city?"
Ma Xiaoquan spread his hands and said, "What if I go in one door after another?"
Mrs. Ma said: "Don't you have a small token issued by the emperor? You should be able to use that token, right?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled bitterly and said: "This token is only available during the day. It is already dark now and the token cannot be used."
Ma Tongdao: "Otherwise, I will go with you, and we will take care of each other."
Ma Xiaoquan looked at Mrs. Ma, who nodded and said, "Don't worry, Ma Tong's martial arts is very strong. There will be no problem in letting him accompany you."
Ma Xiaoquan nodded and said to Tong Ma: "Okay, Uncle Tong, let's get ready now."
"good!"
...
Under the back wall of the main hall, Li Qinghan stood quietly.
Li Qinghan just heard the conversation between Ma Xiaoquan, his grandma, and his uncle.
"The first generation head of the family..." Li Qinghan kept chanting these four words, and his heart was filled with panic.
"Why does grandma call Ma Xiaoquan that way? Is he really the first generation head of the family?"
Li Qinghan shook his head, hurriedly ran back to his boudoir, opened a drawer, and took out a yellowed book from the drawer.
Li Qinghan flipped through the contents of the book page by page. Finally, when he turned to the third to last page, Li Qinghan stopped.
"The first generation head of the family...Ma Xiaoquan...age...more than a thousand years old...recorder...son: Ma Zheng."
"A thousand years old? A thousand years old?" Li Qinghan closed the page in surprise, "If it is true, then isn't the current Ma Xiaoquan of the Ma family already... more than two thousand years old... Why?
Possible, how is this possible?”
Li Qinghan shook his head desperately, threw himself on the bed, and buried his face in the quilt.
In his mind, the image of Ma Xiaoquan slowly emerged: his appearance, his words, his actions... and that time when he massaged his sprained foot...
If all this is true, if that Ma Xiaoquan is really the first generation head of the family...
Thinking of this, Li Qinghan's face suddenly felt hot.
"No...impossible." Li Qinghan sat up and shook his head, "Absolutely impossible. If this person is the first generation head of the family, then where is the former Ma Xiaoquan? Where is the former Ma Xiaoquan?"
Li Qinghan jumped out of bed and paced back and forth in the boudoir.
"Ask grandma... No, no, even if grandma knew, she wouldn't tell me..."
"Then ask Uncle Tong... No, Uncle Tong, like grandma, won't tell..."
"Hmph, then just ask Ma Xiaoquan directly... Oh, no, Ma Xiaoquan will definitely not admit it..."
"Ah, what should I do, what should I do?" Li Qinghan scratched his hair in frustration.
"If it really doesn't work, I'll check it out myself, but... I'm going to the palace tomorrow."
At this point, Li Qinghan's mood suddenly dropped.
"It's such a pity... It's such a pity... If... if you give me some more time, I will be able to investigate thoroughly... God,
Why do I, Li Qinghan, have such a miserable life... Why did you take my husband away, why did you make me a widow at such a young age, why? Why exactly?"
As he talked, Li Qinghan shed tears sadly.
Li Qinghan raised his head and looked at the crescent moon in the night sky. He suddenly remembered the poem in the book of filial piety: "Four lives of reincarnation, four lives of brightness, four lives of cause and effect, four lives of love, four lives of destiny, four lives of calamity, four lives of final success."
Thousands of years of love.”
"If there are really four lives, will I be one of them? If so, I hope I am..."