When they came out of the basement again, Qin Songmo and the others were covered in blood.
The sky that had been snowing when I arrived had cleared up at some point. The pitch-black night, coupled with the crystal-white snow, made the pitch-black night seem not so dark after all.
When the housekeeper saw several masters coming up, he immediately stepped forward and said, "Master, the ginger soup is ready. Please drink it before leaving."
It's freezing cold, and it's easy to catch a cold. A bowl of ginger soup is just right to ward off the cold.
Chu Huaiyuan glanced at the butler beside him, turned around, and went to the dining hall with the butler.
"My father is dying now. If you don't take action now, I'm afraid you won't have another chance."
After drinking a bowl of ginger soup, the coldness that had penetrated into the bones was dispelled.
Chu Huaiyuan put down the porcelain bowl in his hand and looked up at Meng Jiuan and the others.
They had been delaying this plan for years, thinking it wouldn't be too late to do it after the Chinese New Year.
But some people couldn't control their temper and took action first, which allowed them to take advantage of the situation.
Meng Jiuan was picking at the blood residue between his fingernails, and when he heard this, he turned his head to look at Shen Wangchen beside him.
"It's agreed that I should start first."
"I promised my mother that I would kill him with my own hands."
"Okay, I'll do it first, leaving you with a breath, and then you can kill him."
"...Also."
It was creepy to see two grown men sitting in a dimly candlelit dining room discussing a murder plan.
The conversation between the two was like children playing house, which was very funny.
As for Chu Huaiyuan, Chu Hong's biological son and the new emperor of Great Chu, his face remained calm as the two men discussed who would make the first move to kill his father.
Chu Huaifeng has been enduring everything these years, and so has he.
If the timing wasn't right, if he wasn't too immature, he wouldn't have let Chu Hong sit on the throne for so many years.
Looking at the half of his face reflected in the remaining ginger soup in front of him, Chu Huaiyuan looked a little dazed.
His mother said that his eyes were most like his father's, so she often covered the lower half of his face, looking at his face and thinking of him.
Fengyi Palace is very large, but also very deserted. My mother has been waiting for someone to come, but she never got to see that person even after her death.
......
When he woke up early the next morning, Li Shengyi was still a little dazed.
She looked at the birdcage beside the bed and thought she was dreaming.
Until the white parrot in the cage flapped its wings and shouted "idiot".
Li Shengyi jumped up from the bed, grabbed the birdcage, and pushed it in front of him, "Tangyuan'er?!"
"Stupid, stupid, stupid."
Familiar cursing voice.
Li Shengyi looked at the white parrot, his eyes gleaming with a bright light, "It's really you, you're not dead?"
"Dad! Tangyuan is back!"
Li Shengyi jumped out of bed with her bare feet and lifted the door curtain, and saw her father sitting in the outer room with a cup of hot tea in his hand.
Qin Songmo looked up when he heard the noise and saw his little daughter holding the birdcage with excitement. She was not even wearing clothes, and even her little feet were red from the cold as they stepped on the floor.
His pupils suddenly shrank, he put down the teacup in his hand and walked forward.
Taking the birdcage and setting it aside, Qin Songmo bent down, picked up his little daughter, and pinched her cheek. "If you catch a cold, don't cry and complain when you take the medicine."
"I will take away all your preserves then."
Wenliang's fingers touched the soles of his feet. Li Shengyi's feet were cold, and he couldn't help but curl up his legs because of the hot temperature.
When she was carried back to the bed, she heard Tang Yuan's voice again. She smiled so hard that her eyes curved, "Daddy, Tang Yuan is back."
Qin Songmo called for water, wrung out a handkerchief with his own hands to wipe his little daughter's feet clean, and then put on silk stockings for her.
Little by little, layer by layer, he did the dressing job very skillfully.
He didn't stop until he had put a jade necklace and a safety lock around his little daughter's neck. "Tangyuan'er is back. Are you so happy?"
Li Shengyi lowered his head to glance at the jade necklace around his neck. When he looked up again, his eyes were filled with smiles. "Happy! Just like when you're back, Shengyi is happy to see you when he opens his eyes."
"Your father is a man, not a bird."
Having said that, Qin Songmo raised his eyebrows, took her little hand and carefully washed and oiled her face.
It was not until the bun-style part that he gave space to Lu Xing.
"With His Majesty's passing, the winter hunt has been cancelled, and the envoys from Daliang will not be coming."
"New Year's Day is coming soon, is there anything Shengyi would like to ask for?"
Li Shengyi sat on a stool, his short legs shaking constantly.
She saw through the bronze mirror that Qin Songmo picked up a handful of pine nuts and came to the birdcage, feeding the pine nuts to Tangyuaner one by one, with a contented smile on his little face.
"I already have so much stuff, I don't need anything else."
"If Daddy really wants to give me something... Daddy, I want to go to Huguo Temple to see my grandmother."
Qin Songmo paused in feeding the bird.
His little daughter is greedy for money and even a little lustful. She can't help but take a second look at good-looking people.
But his little daughter is also the best little daughter in the world.
I thought she would say she wanted some jade, gold or something, after all, she couldn't walk every time she saw those things.
But what he didn't expect was that his youngest daughter proposed to go to Huguo Temple...
"Idiot, idiot."
The noisy call of the parrot came to his ears, and Qin Songmo regained his consciousness. When he saw the parrot opening its mouth to beg for food, he threw the pine nuts back into the brocade bag.
"Since you are so kind as to want to go to Huguo Temple, that's fine."
Li Shengyi wanted to go to Huguo Temple not only to see her grandmother, but more importantly, she wanted to meet the abbot of Huguo Temple.
In the original text, Qin Songmo often went to Huguo Temple to burn incense. Due to the author's concise description of this passage, most readers thought that he burned incense to pray for blessings.
But since she arrived, she has heard a lot of voices about her father, including some about her father's health.
After Lu Xing had combed her hair, Li Shengyi jumped off the stool and ran straight to her father.
The soft little hand held the other's cool big hand. Li Shengyi raised his eyes and met his gaze. "Daddy, no matter where Shengyi goes, Daddy will accompany Shengyi, right?"
Seeing his little daughter like this, Qin Songmo raised his hand to stroke her head, but was afraid of damaging her bun, so he could only withdraw his hand and nod and say yes.
After getting the answer he wanted, Li Shengyi became more aggressive and stretched out his little finger.
"Then make a pinky promise."
"If Daddy lies to me, I'll turn into a puppy and eat shit!"
Qin Songmo: ...
Qin Songmo had never played such a childish game since he was a child.
But when he saw the expectant expression on his little daughter's face, he still reached out his hand, "Okay, if Daddy deceives Shengyi, you will become a puppy."
Only after the father and daughter had stamped their agreement did Li Shengyi stretch his neck and shout outside, "Uncle Mingyue, prepare the carriage!"
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