Chapter 62: It’s All Wrong in the End (Two Chapters in One)

Nie never thought that one day her most beloved son would question her in person for an outsider.

According to the rules set by our ancestors, the family will be divided after both brothers get married?

The palace belongs to Zhao Tinghan, the Liang land belongs to Zhao Tinghan, the sacrificial land belongs to Zhao Tinghan, and 70% of the family property left by ancestors belongs to Zhao Tinghan, and the remaining 30% belongs to other brothers.

The more brothers there are, the less each person gets.

There are only two brothers, Zhao Tinghan and Zhao Tingxuan, in the royal palace of this generation, and Zhao Tingxuan can get the remaining 30% alone.

The properties of Prince Liang's Palace seem to be a lot, but if we remove the palace, Liang land and sacrificial fields, and then take away 70% of the remaining things, how much will be left?

At most, the amount that Zhao Tingxuan could get was only a few hundred thousand taels.

These hundreds of thousands of taels, if placed in any noble family in Beijing, would be enough to cause those unfilial descendants to fight each other when the family property was divided.

Even in Prince Liang's Mansion, hundreds of thousands of taels are a huge sum of money.

Nie also thinks so.

In her mind, as a woman, she should obey her father at home, obey her husband after marriage, and obey her son after her husband's death.

After King Liang died, she only had her two sons to rely on.

But Zhao Tinghan had not been raised by her side since he was a child, and he was not close to her. Moreover, Zhao Tinghan was a sickly person and his time was running out!

Can she still rely on such a loser?

Of course not!

She also has a son, and she also has Zhao Tingxuan.

Zhao Tingxuan grew up under her careful care, but King Liang was only thinking about the sickly boy far away in the capital, and was dissatisfied with Zhao Tingxuan in many ways. Later, King Liang would rather give the command of the personal guard to Zhao Yunnuan than to his son Zhao Tingxuan.

This made Nie very dissatisfied.

However, at that time, the palace was ruled by Prince Liang, and no one could refute the decisions made by Prince Liang, and certainly not Nie.

Therefore, she kept all these dissatisfactions in her heart, and as time passed, these dissatisfactions and resentments accumulated more and more.

Until the death of King Liang, many things happened in the palace. Her adopted daughter, whom she had never looked at before, actually teamed up with a monster who was found from nowhere to drive rats and make her look bad in public. Zhao Yunnuan, the daughter who should have been well-behaved and obedient, insisted on letting Zhao Tinghan come back to inherit the throne. Not only did she ignore her younger brother who grew up with her, she even placed her mother under house arrest.

If Nie could hide her dissatisfaction in her heart before, now, she no longer wants to suppress it. Just now, Zhao Yunnuan not only grabbed her hand and forcibly took her pulse, but also threw and hit her in front of her. This is a humiliation to her!

Just at this moment, Zhao Shiqing arrived.

Nie never regarded Zhao Shiqing as her own daughter. In her eyes, Zhao Shiqing was not even an adopted daughter. At most, she was a little beggar picked up by King Liang from outside.

However, King Liang reported Zhao Shiqing to the clan house. Zhao Shiqing was registered in the clan house. Regardless of whether she was a princess or not, she was a daughter of the royal family. This was beyond doubt. It was an honor that the famous daughters of the Nie family could not obtain no matter how hard they practiced music, chess, calligraphy and painting.

So no matter how much Nie disliked her, she never made things difficult for Zhao Shiqing.

However, today, when she saw Zhao Shiqing, she thought of the rats in the dungeon. Nie hated it. If it weren't for Zhao Shiqing, she wouldn't know what Nie Qionghua had done. If she didn't know, she would still be the dignified and noble Princess Liang.

It was because of this adopted daughter that she fell from the clouds to the dust. She became a sinner who invited a wolf into the house. She became a laughing stock. She had no face to face her family. She even lost her dignity in front of her children.

All of this was because of this adopted daughter. If it weren't for her, what Nie Qionghua did would not have been exposed.

Those things are over and done with. People cannot live in the past forever. King Liang and his three children had long forgotten Aying. In their eyes and hearts, there was only that adopted daughter.

If they can, why can't she?

They forgot about Aying, and as a mother, she should blame herself for Aying's death?

Why?

This is not fair!

The moment he saw Zhao Shiqing, Nie's indignation burst out, and he grabbed something and threw it at Zhao Shiqing.

It was not until the thing fell to the ground that she realized it was a brass incense burner, big enough to smash Zhao Shiqing's head!

Nie was frightened for a moment. She was just a weak girl in the backyard. She had never even killed a chicken in her life. Even if she had ten times the courage, she would not dare to kill anyone.

But what is the adopted daughter saying?

He said that she wanted to kill him, and that he should be grateful to his master.

But it was such nonsense that not only made Zhao Tingxuan stand on her side, but also questioned his own biological mother for her!

Fairy!

Just like her master who looks like a foxy girl, they are all demons!

Yes, why did she only think of it now? This little adopted daughter has been a goblin since she was a child.

With a face somewhat similar to Aying, she first bewitched King Liang, and then Zhao Yunnuan and Zhao Tingxuan, making them and everyone in the palace treat her as their darling.

She was only four or five years old at that time, but she was already able to bewitch people. She was a natural-born vixen and a natural-born enchantress.

If it wasn't a goblin, how could it attract those rats?

Thinking of this, Nie was furious. She pointed at Zhao Shiqing and said to Zhao Tingxuan, "I am your mother. I carried you for ten months and gave birth to you. Don't you trust me and trust an outsider? Would I kill someone? Would I? Oh, oh, oh, I will give her my life as compensation. Will you be satisfied then? I will die, let me die!"

As she spoke, Nie struggled and hit the bedpost. The rosewood bed was very sturdy.

The maids quickly hugged her from behind. Zhao Tingxuan knelt straight on the ground and slapped himself in the face several times: "Mother, it was my fault. Please hit me and calm down."

Zhao Shiqing looked at the scene in front of her and suddenly felt very bored. She turned around and walked out.

Ling Bo was waiting outside. She hadn't followed in, but she had heard the noise coming from inside. She looked at Zhao Shiqing with a worried look on her face: "Second Miss, we..."

Zhao Shiqing greedily breathed in the air outside. In Suining Palace, even the air was thin.

"I don't know where the little demon has gone. Let's go and look for him." Zhao Shiqing spoke in a relaxed tone, and even his steps were relaxed.

Ling Bo followed behind, with more and more worry in his eyes.

The second young lady talks the most, but now she says nothing. This shows that the second young lady has something on her mind. She is unhappy, very unhappy.

Zhao Shiqing walked quickly and came to a corner of the garden where there was a large stone as smooth as a mirror. Zhao Shiqing sat cross-legged on it, looking up at the bird's nest on the tree, lost in thought.

Behind this big rock is a small courtyard.

When she first entered the palace, she lived in this small courtyard.

At that time, her eyes had not yet recovered, and she could only sit under the big tree in the yard every day and talk to the birds.

Until one day, she heard a very nice voice. It was Zhao Yunnuan. From then on, she had a sister in this world.

Later, she had a father and a second brother, as well as the legendary elder brother, and the mother who was very cold to her.

Children are sensitive creatures. She could feel that her mother didn't like her. However, in the following ten years, although she kept her distance from Nie, Nie still firmly occupied the position of mother in her heart.

Perhaps it was because in her memory, she had never lived in a normal family. Her worldly life was the days she spent with her master. Although her master was ten years older than her, she was also an unmarried girl. They were master and apprentice, sisters, and friends, but not mother and daughter.

Therefore, for Zhao Shiqing, Nie's status as a mother is irreplaceable. The maternal love that Zhao Shiqing understands is the one that exists in storybooks, and the maternal love that she has seen with her own eyes is Nie's love for Zhao Tingxuan.

Even though there was a glacier between Nie and Zhao Shiqing, in Zhao Shiqing's subconscious, her mother was Nie.

This concept has accompanied her growth and has been deeply engraved in her mind.

However, just now, her consciousness was disrupted, and she suddenly had an idea:

If her biological mother were still alive, she would definitely not treat her like Nie did, at least she would not hit her with a brass incense burner.

Not to mention that he just randomly picked up something and threw it at Zhao Tingxuan, if it was Zhao Tingxuan, would Nie also pick up the incense burner and throw it at him?

No assumptions, definitely not!

The little demon came running from somewhere, jumped onto the rock, and found a comfortable position to lie down on Zhao Shiqing's crossed legs.

Suddenly, a little moisture fell on the tip of Xiao Yao's ear. She raised her little head and said, "It's not raining."

Ah, the little demon saw that it was not raining, it was her bad master who was raining.

The little demon stood up, stretched, raised his front paws and placed them on Zhao Shiqing's shoulders, stretched out his cute little tongue, and gently licked away the tears on her face.

[Silly boy, stop crying. The cat is here, so you don’t have to be afraid.]

Zhao Shiqing smiled and scratched her neck. "Silly cat, when we get back to White Crane Mountain, I'll take you to see your mother. She must have given birth to another cub. Let's take one home to raise, okay?"

Little Demon: [No, no, no, you heartless little thing, you want to find a new cat again, the kind that makes cats angry and hard to coax! ]

Zhao Shiqing raised her hands in surrender: "Okay, okay, it's my fault. I won't look for a new cat. I'll find you a son-in-law later."

Little Demon: [Big liar, you still want to find a new cat, cats hate you! ]

Zhao Shiqing laughed heartily, jumped off the stone, ran into the sunshine, and hooked his finger at the little demon who was still clinging to the stone: "Come on, I'll take you to Changchun Palace. You haven't been to Changchun Palace yet, right? Coincidentally, neither have I. Let's go see the world!"

A man and a cat ran towards Changchun Palace. The sunlight stretched their shadows into long and slanted shapes. Sometimes the man was in front and the cat was behind, sometimes the cat was in front and the man was behind, and sometimes the two shadows overlapped.

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In Changchun Palace, Zhao Yunnuan and Zhao Tinghan already knew what had just happened in Suining Palace. Zhao Yunnuan was about to go out to look for Zhao Shiqing, but before she walked out of the hall, she saw Zhao Shiqing running in happily.

Zhao Shiqing was bathed in sunshine, his forehead glistening with sweat.

"Sister, let me see big brother. Big brother, are you feeling better? Wow, this Changchun Palace is so big and gorgeous. Oh my god, are those lamps inlaid with night pearls? So beautiful!"

Zhao Shiqing was like a country bumpkin coming to the city. He would marvel at every decoration he saw, which made Zhao Tinghan and Zhao Yunnuan smile at each other.

Zhao Tinghan smiled and said, "Just take whatever you like."

Zhao Shiqing's eyes flickered. "Really? Can I really take anything I like?"

Zhao Tinghan laughed: "Of course it's true, you are my sister, even if you want the stars in the sky, I will climb up the ladder to pick them for you."

Zhao Shiqing: "Brother, you are so smart. You don't need to climb a ladder. You can just fill a basin with water and give me the stars."

The three siblings laughed heartily, as if they had always been together all these years, with no separation and no barriers.

After finally calming Nie down, Zhao Tingxuan hurried to Changchun Palace. Before he even entered, he heard laughter coming from inside.

There are boys and girls. The girls are the eldest sister and the youngest sister. The male voice must be the eldest brother.

My brother laughed heartily and it seemed that he was in much better health.

That’s great.

Zhao Tingxuan was overjoyed and walked quickly into the hall.

As his figure appeared at the door, the laughter in the hall stopped abruptly.

Zhao Yunnuan was still blaming him for not going to the city gate, but when she saw him coming, she turned her face away.

Zhao Shiqing lowered her head and picked out her favorite preserved fruits from the box. She took one piece for herself and put the other one into her sister's mouth.

Only Zhao Tinghan's eyes fell on Zhao Tingxuan. He smiled and said, "Second brother? You're so tall now. If you were walking on the street, I wouldn't recognize you."

Fourteen years had passed, and when he left, his younger brother was still in his mother's arms.

Zhao Tingxuan's nose felt sore, he lifted his clothes and knelt down: "My younger brother greets you, elder brother. I was unable to leave the city to welcome you back today. It's all my fault. I was inconsiderate and incompetent."

Zhao Tinghan got off the Luohan bed and, supported by Denghua, walked to Zhao Tingxuan and helped him up with both hands. "We are close brothers, so there is no need to be so particular. You didn't go because mother was ill. Over the years, you have been filial to our parents on my behalf. I am the one who should be ashamed."

Zhao Tingxuan felt ashamed and regretful. In fact, at the beginning of the day, when he saw his mother faint, he did think that she was seriously ill. But later, his mother woke up, crying and pulling his sleeves tightly. At that time, he could actually leave, but his heart softened. He couldn't bear to leave his mother, so he stayed and stayed with her, thus missing the time when his eldest brother entered the city.

Thinking about it now, he really did something wrong.

Although he was not trained to be the crown prince, he grew up in the palace. How could he not understand the basic etiquette and rules?

When his eldest brother returned to Liang, he did not go to meet him. When his eldest brother arrived at the city gate, he did not go to greet him. Each of these things was a mistake that would be condemned by thousands of people.

He clearly wanted his elder brother to come back, but even he himself couldn't explain why he had come to this point and done so many wrong things.