Chapter 76: Tender Mother, This is Xiao Yu

Xiao Yu held the girl's restless little hand, brought it to his lips and kissed it gently.

Those dark eyes stared at the girl lying on his chest without blinking.

"As long as it's what Shushu wants, then it's fine."

Xiao Yu spoke with certainty.

But at that time, Yan Shu had not yet understood the deep meaning of his words.

It was not until two days later, when she heard Qingtao coming to tell her the good news, that Yan Shu learned that her mother had been taken to the Xiao Palace.

Yan Shu was overjoyed and wanted to go see him immediately.

So without even having time to put on her makeup, the little girl hurriedly took the sedan chair to the side hall.

Madam Hui had been waiting in the side hall for a long time. Although she knew that this was the Xiao Palace, she couldn't help but look anxious after not seeing her daughter for a long time, so she stood at the door and looked out.

About a quarter of an hour later, Madam Hui finally saw the sedan chair gradually approaching them in the distance.

Yan Shu naturally also saw Madam Hui leaning against the door, and immediately she was delighted, with curved eyebrows and a beautiful smile.

So as soon as the sedan chair stopped, Yan Shu hurriedly helped Qingtao down.

On the other side, Mrs. Hui also quickly came forward, wiping her tears.

When the mother and daughter were reunited, they both burst into tears.

Looking at her mother who had lost a lot of weight, Yan Shu suddenly choked up and threw herself into Madam Hui's arms.

"Mother!"

Smelling the familiar incense on A Niang's body, Yan Shu's tears immediately welled up in her eyes.

The heart that had been hanging in the air for many days finally settled down today.

Mrs. Hui's eyes were wet with excitement, and she hugged her daughter in her arms and cried silently.

Even Qingtao, who was following behind Yan Shu, felt tears in her eyes when she saw this scene, but she still tried to persuade her.

"Madam, Princess, it's so windy outside, be careful not to catch a cold. Let's go inside and talk."

After hearing Qingtao's words, Yan Shu raised her head from Madam Hui's arms and pulled her into the inner hall.

As soon as she sat down on the small couch, Yan Shu started hugging Madam Hui again and refused to let go.

After crying for a while, they began to reminisce about the past.

Madam Hui touched Yan Shu's hair lovingly and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief.

"That day, a huge fire broke out in the ancestral temple. I thought I would never see Shu'er again in this life."

Yan Shu was lying in Madam Hui's arms and acting coquettishly. When she heard this, she looked up in surprise, her cat-like eyes wide open.

"Fire? How could it suddenly start a fire? Is mother okay?" After saying this, Yan Shu looked around Madam Hui, fearing that she was injured.

Mrs. Hui smiled and shook her head, touching her daughter's fair little face.

"I was fine. Later I found out that the fire was deliberately set by someone just to get me out."

Madam Hui's departure from Yan Palace can be traced back to two days ago.

Two days ago, Xie Heng, as an envoy to the Kingdom of Xiao, returned home with Princess Qionghua.

Since the day Princess Qionghua returned to the palace, her words and actions have been like those of a madman. Not only could she not recognize people, she also cried and screamed loudly.

When King Yanwen and Queen Yan saw this, they were shocked and furious.

After careful questioning of the accompanying palace servants, it was discovered that Princess Qionghua was nearly sentenced to having her tongue pulled out by King Xiao at a banquet held to receive envoys from the Kingdom of Xiao.

On the way back home, Princess Qionghua suffered a panic attack and spoke insanely all the way, as if she had some illness.

King Yanwen was immediately furious.

He believed that Xie Heng, as an envoy to the State of Xiao, was not able to protect the princess, so he ordered Xie Heng to be imprisoned that day and was prepared to execute him in the autumn.

Madam Hui, who was still in the ancestral temple at the time, became extremely worried when she heard the news.

As the Grand Master of the Ancestral Temple, Xie Heng had helped her and her daughter Yan Shu a lot in the past.

Madam Hui naturally couldn't bear the fact that he was imprisoned.

But she is insignificant and has little influence.

King Yanwen would not listen to her plea at all.

Madam Hui really had no choice but to worry.

And in the middle of the night, a fire suddenly broke out in the ancestral temple.

At that time, the palace was in chaos.

The palace maids in the ancestral temple were busy putting out the fire.

When the fire broke out, Madam Hui was worried and unable to sleep at night because Xie Heng was imprisoned by King Yan. So she copied scriptures in the house and prayed for Xie Heng.

When I heard the palace servants shouting that there was a fire, I realized that the front hall was on fire.

But before she could escape, she saw several men in black sneaking into her house.

Mrs. Hui wanted to scream for help immediately.

One of the men in black immediately said that he was King Xiao's loyal warrior, and that he was ordered by King Xiao to take her to the Kingdom of Xiao to meet his daughter, Princess Chaohua. After saying that, he took out the token of the Kingdom of Xiao as proof.

When Madam Hui heard Yan Shu's name and verified the authenticity of the token, she did not question it at the time. When she was about to follow the Xiao Kingdom's assassins out of Yan Palace, she suddenly remembered Xie Heng who was still in the imperial prison. She immediately begged the assassins to take Xie Heng away with them.

Several assassins looked at each other and said that King Xiao had not given such an order, so they could not make the decision on their own.

But Madam Hui thought that if no one rescued Xie Heng this time, he would be in great danger.

She immediately knelt in front of those assassins, begging them to rescue Xie Heng. Otherwise, she could not be an ungrateful person and follow them to Xiao State.

How could the assassins dare to accept such a great gift from Madam Hui? They had no choice but to rescue Xie Heng and bring him back to the State of Xiao together with Madam Hui.

Yan Shu listened to her mother's story and was just about to feel relieved when she heard Madam Hui say that she was not injured.

When she heard that Yan Ruxue had gone crazy, Xie Heng had been imprisoned, and was brought to Xiao State by Xiao Yu's people, her eyes widened in shock.

"Yan Ruxue has gone crazy, what's going on?"

Yan Shu felt puzzled. After the reception banquet for the envoys that day, she was publicly ordered to be crowned the Queen of Xiao Kingdom. The envoys from the three countries returned to their countries with their princesses the next day.

Before that, Yan Shu had never seen Yan Ruxue again.

I didn't know that Yan Ruxue was actually crazy.

Could it be that he was frightened mad in the temple that day?

Yan Shu thought about it and agreed.

After all, Yan Ruxue, as the apple of the eye of King Yan Wen and Queen Yan, has been pampered since childhood.

The princesses are so delicate and precious, how could they have ever seen such a bloody scene?

First he was threatened with having his tongue pulled out, and then he saw Xiao Yu killing someone on the spot. I guess he couldn't bear it anymore and went crazy.

Madam Hui saw Yan Shu frowning, so she reached out and stroked her brows, saying gently, "God is watching what we do. Qionghua has done too many evil things, and this is a punishment from heaven."

In the past, Prince Yan and Queen Yan doted on their daughter like a treasure, and allowed Yan Ruxue to bully her Shu'er for many years, causing Shu'er to suffer so many years of grievances.

This time, the precious jewel in their hands suddenly went crazy, which relieved Madam Hui's years of hatred.

She touched Yan Shu's head at this moment, with a hint of heartache in her eyes.

When Madam Hui heard on the road that Shu'er had become the Queen of Xiao State, she did not feel happy, but was filled with sadness and heartache.

At that time, King Wei of Xiao asked all countries to offer beauties. In order to seek peace between the two countries, King Wen of Yan designated Yan Shu to marry to the State of Xiao and serve as a beauty to King Wei of Xiao.

But everyone in the world knew that King Xiao Wei was known for his debauchery, cruelty and ruthlessness.

If Shu'er entered the Xiao Palace, she would probably be humiliated in every way.

Madam Hui knelt before Prince Yanwen's palace, begging him to rescind his order. However, she knelt in the heavy rain for three days and three nights, until she fainted before the palace. Prince Yanwen never saw her, but instead indulged in revelry every night with Meiji, completely disregarding the mother and daughter.

After being sent back to the palace, Madam Hui fell seriously ill. When she regained consciousness, she cried every day. Later, she was powerless and could only watch Yan Shu being sent to the State of Xiao.

The mother and daughter were forced to separate, and Mrs. Hui became increasingly thinner and had no appetite.

Later, she heard that there was a palace coup in the State of Xiao, and the Crown Prince of Xiao killed the king to take the throne, and forcibly took Shu'er as his concubine. Madam Hui was even more worried, and she grew a lot of white hair overnight.

The Crown Prince of Xiao was ruthless and cruel, and he certainly wasn't a kind and benevolent ruler. If my daughter fell into his hands, I didn't know what kind of torture she would suffer in the future.

And even though she is now the queen, I am afraid she is suffering in her heart.

So Madam Hui could only feel sorry for her daughter.

Hearing Madam Hui's worried words, Yan Shu immediately shook her head, gently patted the back of A Niang's hand, and smiled comfortingly.

"Don't worry, mother. Xiao Yu is very nice to me. This time, I was able to see my mother because he promised me to bring her over." Yan Shu said, putting her fair little face on Madam Hui's arm, looking like a spoiled child.

Mrs. Hui looked at the little girl in front of her with rosy and plump cheeks, who did not look haggard from worry, and finally felt a little comforted in her heart. She said "That's good" twice in succession.

"Only when Shu'er is doing well will Mother feel at ease."

Yan Shu listened to her mother's gentle voice, touched her arms which were so thin that the bones were pricking her, and her eyes suddenly began to feel sore again.

"But my mother is not doing well at all..."

Not only did he lose a lot of weight, but he also had a lot more white hair.

"Have Queen Yan and the others been bullying you?" Yan Shu's eyelashes were moist. When she thought of the suffering her mother had endured in Yan Palace, her heart ached and she wanted to cry again.

Upon hearing this, Madam Hui gently wiped the tears from the little girl's face with a handkerchief. "That's not true. After that, I moved to the ancestral temple, and there were more and more women in the palace. She was already busy with her own affairs and had no time to deal with me."

"Mother is just worried about Shu'er, that's why she has a poor appetite."

Yan Shu sobbed and rubbed Madam Hui's arm aggrievedly.

"Mom, you don't have to worry about me anymore. I have to eat a lot every day and gain weight quickly!"

Seeing her daughter still looking innocent and bright, Madam Hui finally felt relieved and touched Yan Shu's little face lovingly and reluctantly.

For a while, the mother and daughter chatted with each other, as if they had endless things to say.

Yan Shu rested her head on Madam Hui's lap, playing with her fingers like she did when she was a child.

Madam Hui indulged her daughter's mischief as she did in the past, looking down at Yan Shu with eyes full of love.

"At first, my mother thought Shu'er would marry a gentle man like Xie Taizhu."

The two knew each other when they were young, and in Mrs. Hui's eyes, there was naturally a kind of friendship between them.

Xie Heng was handsome, well-behaved, and gentle to Ah Shu. Madam Hui had always thought that it would be wonderful if Ah Shu could marry Xie Heng when she grew up.

When Yan Shu heard this, she looked up in confusion.

"Mother, why do you think so?" Then Yan Shu seemed to remember something and looked at Madam Hui and asked, "Mother, you just said that Master Xie also came to Xiao State. Where is he now?"

Madam Hui was slightly stunned when she heard this. Just as she was about to answer, she heard the announcement outside the palace that "The King has arrived", and she immediately stopped talking.

When Prince Xiao came in, Madam Hui immediately knelt down and saluted.

"May your Majesty, Prince Xiao, be safe and sound."

Seeing Madam Hui bowing, Zhou Tong, who had been following Xiao Yu, hurried forward to help her up.

"Mrs. Hui, please get up quickly."

When Yan Shu saw Xiao Yu, she immediately stepped forward, took his hand, and walked towards Madam Hui, then acted like a shy and embarrassed little girl.

"Mother, this is Xiao Yu."

The young king's eyes changed slightly when he heard this. If you looked closely at his handsome face like white jade, you could see a rare hint of nervousness.

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