Chapter 242: Mother, I will also take good care of Ah Zhuo
The group left the carriage at the bottom of the slope and headed into the woods.
"The people we are visiting live in the forest?"
Deng Youning asked curiously.
Who can live in this place?
So weird!
“Ha~”
Li Tianzhuo chuckled, took her hand and walked quickly inside.
Just a few steps into the forest, a few fireflies appeared around.
Yingshi and Xiuming were both quite surprised.
This place also has a dreamy feel.
As they walked further and further away, there were more and more fireflies around them, making it as bright as day, without even turning on a lamp.
Yingshi blew out the lantern in her hand and quietly admired the beautiful scenery in the forest.
Soon, Li Tianzhuo pointed to a huge tree and told them that they had arrived.
"Your friend is a tree?"
Deng Youning was still a little disappointed.
Li Tianzhuo did not answer in a hurry. He knelt in front of the tree and laid out the wine and food he had brought.
Only then did he raise his thin lips slightly and explain, "My mother is buried here."
Deng Youning and the other two were even more shocked.
The queen of a country was buried in the forest? !
"Her whole life, from birth to death, has been imprisoned."
"So after her death, she didn't want to be buried in the imperial mausoleum where even her soul would be imprisoned."
"She said that if she lived another life, she wanted to be a tree, so my father chose this place for her. The imperial mausoleum is just a cenotaph."
"She likes crowds, and in order to prevent others from knowing that the queen was buried here and not coming here to play, she deliberately didn't even erect a tombstone."
"When I was young, my father would always bring me to visit my mother and instruct me to learn to bury him here after a hundred years."
Deng Youning listened quietly to Li Tianzhuo's narration.
She knew that if Li Tianzhuo's mother were still alive, his parents would definitely spoil him and make him the happiest child in the world.
There would be no need to suffer so much like now.
She knelt down beside Li Tianzhuo and took his hand.
"Mother, this is Ningning. She is the one I will protect for the rest of my life. She is also the most important person to me. Tonight, I am bringing her to pay my respects to you, mother."
Deng Youning was caught off guard. She was not ready to meet Li Tianzhuo's elders.
"Mother, don't worry, I will take good care of Ah Zhuo."
Deng Youning assured Queen Zhuo.
Li Tianzhuo was somewhat surprised by the way she addressed Queen Zhuo.
She just called out the word "mother" like that? !
"Ningning, you..."
Li Tianzhuo hesitated to speak.
"Huh? What?"
Deng Youning herself hasn't realized it yet.
"without."
"My mother told me that she likes you very much and said that you are her chosen daughter-in-law."
Li Tianzhuo said mischievously.
Deng Youning's cheeks flushed red and she shyly buried her face in his chest.
The laughter and playfulness of the young couple soon made the quiet forest lively.
It also disturbed those hiding deep in the woods and forced them to come out.
Emperor Nan Xin and General Su appeared before them silently.
Yingshi was the first to discover them, and she was so scared that the lantern in her hand fell down.
Li Tianzhuo and Deng Youning confirmed that the person who came was indeed Emperor Nan Xin, and they stood up vigilantly, their breathing began to become rapid, and they stared at him carefully.
"Tian'er, I knew you would come to see your mother."
Emperor Nan Xin seemed to be here to wait for something to happen.
If he hadn't come here, he really didn't know how to see his son.
"what you up to?"
Li Tianzhuo protected everyone as if he was facing a great enemy and stood in the front.
Seeing his posture, Emperor Nan Xin frowned and his heart ached.
Seeing this, General Su advised: "Your Majesty Prince Changle, His Majesty really misses you, you can't be so heartless."
"He is the heartless one. He wants to separate Ningning and I." Li Tianzhuo did not waste his time and directly retorted.
Emperor Nan Xin sighed helplessly, "If I agree to let you be together, you will come back and be your Prince of Changle. She will no longer be the Princess of Dongji Zhenguo, but can only be your Princess of Changle. How about that?"
This is his bottom line.
Li Tianzhuo glanced at Deng Youning, her eyes were firm and unwavering.
"Emperor Nanxin."
Deng Youning took a step forward and performed the Dongji salute to Emperor Nanxin.
"Although I love your son, I am not someone who would give up everything for love."
"The civil strife in our Dongji has just ended, and the new emperor has ascended the throne. There is a lot of work to be done, and the surrounding countries are eyeing us covetously."
"As the princess guarding the country, You Ning must be worthy of this title."
"For me, the people of Dongji come first. What does it matter if I sacrifice my love for them?"
"Besides, Ah Zhuo doesn't want to be the King of Changle at all. He was very happy when he was the commander of the Silver Dragon Guard in Dongji. Your Majesty Nan Xin, you can't force him to stay by your side under the pretext of loving him."
Deng Youning was not afraid at all. Even though the other party was Emperor Nan Xin, he directly and boldly confronted him.
Emperor Nan Xin snorted and glanced at Li Tianzhuo, "Is this also what you think?"
Li Tianzhuo: “Exactly!”
You can't have your cake and eat it too. He knows exactly what he wants.
The emperor has countless sons, but Ningning only has her.
Emperor Nan Xin smiled softly and prepared for the next good show.
He discussed it with Si Wang last night.
At this moment, countless arrows shot from all directions.
Everyone tried to dodge by doing what they could.
The arrow was not only aimed at Li Tianzhuo, Deng Youning and others, but also Emperor Nan Xin.
"Your Majesty, be careful!"
When the arrow was about to hit Emperor Nan Xin, General Su pushed him in time and avoided the arrow.
"Father, Sixth Brother, you are all here, so I can save a lot of trouble!"
A voice like that of a king came from not far away, and then countless men in black jumped out from all directions and surrounded them.
Li Tianzhuo and Deng Youning looked at each other, their hearts in their throats.
"I bribed Eunuch Cai and heard that my father will come to pay tribute to Empress Zhuo tonight, and only General Su will be protecting him."
"But I didn't expect that tonight there would be a buy one get one free promotion, and I also met you, my sixth brother."
"After I send you and your son off to accompany Queen Zhuo, and then I get rid of that useless elder brother, the throne of Nanxin will be mine alone!"
The king's laughter was hearty, and it didn't seem like a play that he had agreed to play with Emperor Nanxin. It seemed like they were going to turn the fake play into reality.
Emperor Nan Xin looked panicked, knowing that he had miscalculated.
"Fourth Brother, are you going to kill your father and seize the throne?" he asked loudly.
"It's dark here, and there's no one around. How would anyone know that I killed you?"
It seemed as if the king was laughing heartily, as if he would be able to send them off today.
Last night, when he went to Zhuohua Palace to see his father, his father's words really chilled him to the bone.
However, his father gave him a new task, which was to lead a team of soldiers to disguise as bandits and come to the Fantasy Forest tomorrow to kidnap the emperor.
Emperor Nan Xin knew that Li Tianzhuo would definitely visit Empress Zhuo, so he wanted to prepare people in advance and stage a drama in which the father risked his own safety to save his son.
Unexpectedly, Si Wang was really obedient and indeed brought the soldiers given to him by the emperor, but he did not come here to disguise himself as a bandit.
Instead, it was the Bloody Dongji Prince Jun Wenci who rebelled, killed his father and Li Tianzhuo, and took the throne himself.
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