Soon, a young monk led Han Lie into a meditation room.
The Empress Dowager of Daxia was dressed in plain clothes, sitting upright on the meditation bed with her eyes lowered.
Han Lie walked into the Zen room and quickly looked around. Seeing that there was no one else in the room except the Empress Dowager, he immediately turned around and closed the door.
When the Empress Dowager heard the sound of the door being locked, her eyes widened in shock.
"Why do you want to lock the door?" the Queen Mother asked in a cold voice, feeling a little tense.
Han Lie's face was filled with excitement, his eyes moist. He stared at the Empress Dowager and said in a trembling voice, "Hui'er, open your eyes and take a good look at me!"
"Look who I am?"
At this time, outside the Zen room, Liang Chaozong and Yao Jinse squatted under the window, listening to the sound furtively.
Both of them had expressions that looked like they were eating a big melon.
In the delivery room, the Empress Dowager was so shocked when she heard Han Lie's words, "Your name is Aijia Hui'er?"
"Are you an old friend of mine?"
Han Lie's eyes were red and tears welled up in them. He suppressed his emotions and took two steps towards the Queen Mother.
"Hui'er, come closer and take a good look at me. It's me!"
Han Lie suddenly changed his tone to a gentle one and said slowly, "Miss, your fingering is wrong again."
The Empress Dowager's face suddenly changed and her hands trembled uncontrollably.
"You...you...you are Brother Changqing?"
"Are you Han Changqing?!"
The Queen Mother stumbled off the meditation bed, rushed to Han Lie, and grabbed his robe in an unruly manner.
Han Lie stretched out his hands and hugged the Queen Mother's shoulders: "Yes, Hui'er, I am your Changqing brother!"
"I recognized you at first sight this morning. How come you don't recognize me?"
"Open your eyes wide and take a good look at me!"
Han Lie excitedly grabbed the Empress Dowager's hand and placed it on his face.
At this time, outside the Zen room, Liang Chaozong and Yao Jinse looked at each other.
The two people communicated with their eyes.
Liang Chaozong: What’s going on?
Yao Jinse: If you ask me, who should I ask?
Inside the room, the Queen Mother held Han Lie's face in her hands, tears streaming down her face.
"You, how did you become the prime minister of Dai Viet?"
"Why have you been missing for over thirty years?"
"I thought you were dead! So many nights, I cried so hard that my pillow was wet in my dreams."
"You damn it! You bastard! You've made me suffer so much!"
The Queen Mother became more and more excited as she spoke, and she beat Han Lie's chest violently with her hands.
Han Lie didn't dodge or stop her, just let her hit him.
Suddenly, Han Lie staggered and almost fell down.
The Empress Dowager suddenly stopped moving, and then her expression became concerned.
"Are you okay? Sit down. You too, why didn't you hide when I hit you?"
The Empress Dowager scolded him and helped Han Lie sit on the meditation bed, then sat next to him.
Han Lie smiled with tears on his face, "Hui Er, I owe you this. Even if you beat me to death, I have no complaints."
The Queen Mother turned her face away. "You are still so smooth-talking. Tell me, how did you end up in Dai Viet and become the Prime Minister?"
Han Lie and the Queen Mother looked at each other, and their memories went back to more than 30 years ago.
Han Lie's original name was Han Changqing.
Han Changqing was born into a family of officials. He learned poetry, calligraphy, and the Six Arts since childhood and was also a carefully cultivated young man.
However, when he was a teenager, his family fell into poverty.
In order to support himself, he had to fend for himself.
Fortunately, he had learned the skills of playing the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting in his youth quite well, so he made a living by teaching people the six arts.
Han Changqing's piano skills are very superb, and he is also tall and handsome with extraordinary temperament.
Over time, his reputation spread, and everyone in the upper class of the capital knew that there was a young man named Han who was the best at teaching people to play the qin.
As a result, many wealthy families vied to invite him to teach their children to play the piano.
That year, the Jiang family wanted to find a piano teacher for their three daughters who were about to get married.
In this way, Han Changqing became the piano teacher of the Jiang family.
At that time, Jiang Hui, the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, was only sixteen years old and was just beginning to fall in love. She fell in love with the twenty-two-year-old Han Changqing at first sight.
Han Changqing fell in love with the lovely and pretty eldest daughter of the Jiang family at first sight.
On the surface, the two of them spoke and acted cautiously, but secretly they had already made a solemn vow to be together forever.
What’s even worse is that this young man and woman, driven by strong love and impulse, tasted the forbidden fruit.
Jiang Hui, who was only sixteen years old, became pregnant with Han Changqing's child, who later became his illegitimate daughter Yao Jinse.
In the meditation room, Han Lie held the Empress Dowager's hand and said, "That year, after they discovered our affair, they locked you up and tied me up and beat me severely."
"I was beaten half to death. Originally, your father and your eldest brother wanted to kill me, but they didn't want to dirty their hands."
"So, after they beat me half to death, they had a servant drag me out to the outskirts of the city in the middle of the night and buried me alive."
"That servant probably felt sorry for me and couldn't bear to kill me, so he threw me out to the countryside without burying me."
The Empress Dowager listened intently. Upon hearing this, she held Han Lie's hand tightly and asked, "What happened next? You were so badly injured, how did you survive?"
Han Lie continued, "Maybe it was my destiny. In the early morning, a carriage passed by, found me, and rescued me."
"And the man in the carriage happened to be a merchant from Dai Viet. So, I arrived in Dai Viet."
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