Chapter 474 Yu Chan'er, how well have you lived these years?
The old lady said with tears in her eyes: "It will be good if you wake up, it will be good if you wake up."
Gu Feibai relied on his strong will to survive the life-and-death situation again. He lay on the bed without much energy to speak.
Gu Yu stood aside and looked at him.
Most of the muscles in his body have atrophied, like a layer of skin hanging on bloody bones.
Gu Feibai was in his forties and in his prime. He should have been riding a horse on the grassland and shooting arrows every day, but he could only linger in bed.
The culprit still sits high in the temple, above thousands of people.
When she came out of Gu Feibai's yard, the old lady didn't say anything, but an invisible pressure enveloped Gu Yu's heart.
It is not difficult to kill the Holy One.
The difficult thing is how to kill the Holy Lord while saving his family and maintaining stability.
Pingsha handed a homing pigeon to Gu Yu.
Junze left a short line on it: Hua Jincheng belongs to the Queen Mother.
Gu Yu frowned.
No wonder Hua Jincheng's identity has never been found. It turns out that they were heading in the wrong direction all along.
She thought that the goddess was always related to Queen Jingde, so she kept searching for people related to Queen Jingde, but naturally found nothing.
What she needs to worry about now is that since the Queen Mother has returned to the palace, how can she bring Hua Jincheng with her?
Is it a provocation?
By now, Hua Jincheng must know the relationship between the fifth prince and Derong.
If the Queen Mother must protect Hua Jincheng, there is really nothing she and Junze can do to prevent the fifth prince and Derong from being exposed.
To take a step back, should we just let the Queen Mother control this secret?
Hua Jincheng's contact with the post-abolition Xu family in Yong'an Lane shows to a certain extent that Hua Jincheng is aligned with the Ninth Prince.
But the Queen Mother is obviously the eldest princess's adoptive mother, why would she choose to join the Ninth Prince's faction?
Is it because Queen Xiaomin had a difficult childbirth and was kicked out by the Holy Emperor? Is it because love gave rise to hatred?
This is just a guess. After all, Gu Yu has never met the Queen Mother and doesn't know what kind of person she is.
At night, Gu Yu had a strange and bizarre dream.
Dreaming of being in the ancestral hall, Gu Feibai said: "I crawled back to Kyoto from Sunset Pass. In order not to be recognized, I had to burn my face with fire."
Suddenly, Gu Feibai's burned face became unfamiliar.
She didn't know who that person was, but they both had burns all over their faces.
After dawn, Gu Yu recalled this dream and couldn't get back to her senses for a long time.
Since Uncle Fei Bai deliberately burned himself so that no one would notice his face.
So did Hua Jincheng deliberately burn himself in order not to reveal his true identity?
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On the day the Queen Mother returned to Beijing, the eldest princess went to the city gate in person to pick her up.
As a close minister of the Holy Emperor, Gu Yu also brought a pair of condor guards there.
To her surprise, she actually saw Junze coming with the fifth prince.
The Queen Mother's chariot slowly came into view, and the people who met the eldest princess stopped.
The eldest princess was very excited and strode towards the chariot.
Arriving in front of the chariot, the eldest princess knelt down and said, "Unfilial daughter Jingchan, please pay homage to your mother."
The eldest princess knelt down, causing everyone who came to kneel down and said: "Welcome to the Queen Mother to return to the capital."
The curtain on the Queen Mother's carriage was opened, and an old woman in plain clothes stepped out.
Gu Yu looked out of the corner of his eye, feeling surprised.
The Queen Mother was completely different from the Queen Mother she imagined.
She was dressed in plain clothes, with no other jewelry except for an ebony hairpin holding up her black and white hair.
She doesn't look like the queen mother of a country, but she looks like a simple monk.
The Queen Mother stepped forward, helped the eldest princess up, and said kindly: "Yu Chan'er, how have you been doing these years?"
A sound of jade cicada made the eldest princess sob. She hugged the queen mother and cried, saying: "Mother!"
This is the nickname of the eldest princess Jingchan.
Except for the Queen Mother, no one else called me.
It was the first time that Junze saw the eldest princess losing her composure. He stretched out his hand to stop the condor guards behind him to prevent them from disturbing her.
After the eldest princess had cried enough, the queen mother let her go and said dotingly: "Look at you, you are almost at the age of a grandmother, why are you still acting like a little girl?"
The eldest princess' eyes became hot again.
The Queen Mother glanced at Jun Ze next to her and said, "This is Ze'er, right?"
Junze stepped forward and saluted: "Grandma, my grandson wishes you well."
The Queen Mother said: "In the blink of an eye, you have grown so big in sixteen years."
The eldest princess quickly gave Jun Ze a hand and said, "Ze'er, let your grandma take a good look at you."
Junze stepped forward.
Not only Gu Yu was surprised to see the Queen Mother, but Jun Ze was also surprised.
His impression of the Queen Mother still remained sixteen years ago.
It’s the empress dowager who is full of gold hairpins and is graceful and luxurious.
Not this simple monk.
The Queen Mother said kindly: "Ze'er, grandma is old and her eyesight is dim. Lower your head and let grandma take a good look at you."
Junze bent down when he heard this.
The Queen Mother smiled and said: "You were the most naughty when you were a child, why are you so well-behaved now?"
Junze lowered his eyes and looked at the Queen Mother carefully.
The wrinkles on her face are a symbol of time, and she is a bit calmer than her peers.
There is a string of Buddhist beads hanging on his hand, which seems to be very pious.
Before Junze said anything, the eldest princess explained for him: "He is all pretending. After a while, his true colors will be revealed."
The Queen Mother said: "I live in the mountains and don't hear much about Kyoto affairs. Are you getting married?"
Junze could only say: "Not yet."
The eldest princess seemed to have started talking and said: "Mother, you don't know, I am almost worried to death about his marriage."
Junze called out helplessly: "Mother."
The Queen Mother smiled and said to the eldest princess: "Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings, so you don't have to worry."
Then he said to Junze: "If you have nothing to do, go to the palace and see your grandmother more often."
Junze quickly agreed.
At this time, the fifth prince walked out from behind Junze.
When the Queen Mother saw him, she hesitated for a moment, as if she was not sure who this person was.
The fifth prince lowered his eyes, stepped forward and said, "My grandson Jing Shang, please pay your respects to the imperial grandmother."
The surroundings were quiet for a moment.
Who doesn’t know how the fifth prince was born?
The fifth prince himself also knew.
The Queen Mother left Beijing for sixteen years for this reason.
When I came to take the Queen Mother back to the palace today, I did not arrange for the fifth prince to come over. The fifth prince insisted on following her halfway.
Junze and the eldest princess tried to persuade her on the way to no avail. The fifth prince repeatedly promised that he was not here to cause trouble, but just to see the legendary imperial grandmother.
Junze thought that the fifth prince and the queen mother would always meet. Instead of being in the palace and not knowing what might happen, it would be better to meet outside the city gate now.
Now seeing the fifth prince greeting the Queen Mother so seriously, Junze breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, doubts arose in my heart.
What is the attitude of the fifth prince towards the queen mother and the queen mother towards the fifth prince?