Chapter 398 Extra 5: Zhaohua (Caution)

A person's luck in life is probably clearly priced.

Chu Zhaohua felt that all her luck seemed to have been used up in the first half of her life, so she could not steal much peaceful time in the second half of her life.

She had planned to spend her whole life with the Bodhisattva, but she never expected that she would encounter troubles if she became a nun with her hair uncut.

First, not long after she came to Jiangnan, she found out that she was pregnant. Unfortunately, the evil creature was a stubborn person. She drank such a large dose of abortion medicine that the baby didn't die, and instead caused her body to suffer some damage.

Later, perhaps it was the natural maternal love of a pregnant woman that influenced her emotions, as if there was always a force stopping her. She wanted to take action but always gave up at the last moment.

So she gave birth to the child and had him thrown into the palace.

Her good nephew killed the father of this evil creature, so he should be his father for a few years. Whether he lives a good or bad life, or lives or dies in the future, it has nothing to do with her.

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The Sheng Kingdom probably felt that the eldest princess had suffered too much injustice when she and her cousin Jialan were young, and must have too much resentment towards the royal family in her heart, so she never returned to Beijing.

Therefore, shortly after the beginning of spring the following year, Marquis Wuyang of Sheng State came to see her.

He wanted to produce something called Phantom Fragrance in the Yu Kingdom, under the guise of making money, and also to create some civil unrest in the Yu Kingdom, so as to cause chaos in the entire court, but without causing any substantial blow to the Yu Kingdom.

Marquis Wuyang underestimated her after all.

He thought that when she was in Jialan, she would at most be exposed to Jialan's ordinary poison techniques. Even if she had heard of Jialan's royal forbidden techniques, she would never be able to associate them with the bloody phantom.

This person is not trying to make money. He cannot conquer the city of Yu by war, so he wants to use some insidious and despicable methods.

So, she agreed.

In order to protect her territory without making any surprises, and to have enough time to try and error and figure out how to crack the thing, she had no choice but to agree.

She negotiated the terms with the Marquis of Wuyang. She took the initiative to help him choose a suitable place to produce the Bloody Phantom. In return, he would send the people in her hands to various countries.

Those women were ordinary people with miserable backgrounds, who had skills but no martial arts.

At first, Marquis Wuyang would follow and check every woman going to Sheng State, but after a long time, he finally relaxed as he could not find any evidence.

Although those women live like ordinary people on weekdays, they all have a poisonous insect in their bodies. These poisonous insects will temporarily control their thoughts and make them report back everything they see and hear on time.

Wu Yanghou doesn't care at all whether other countries' secrets will be leaked, so only Sheng's secrets are difficult to steal...

But fortunately, after years of planning, there is finally some information.

Fearing that he would not live long enough to see the evil fragrance erupt, Chu Zhaohua, after finding a way to crack the problem, had someone capture an adult, pregnant snow wolf and brought it back. He carefully kept the wolf by his side and fed it various medicines.

Later, the snow wolves gave birth to several cubs. She kept the strangest one that absorbed the most drugs and took good care of it.

What she didn't expect was.

At that time, the little girl from the Jiang family discovered her life experience in advance and returned to Beijing.

And her good nephew actually had something.

Not only did she find the little girl she had thrown into the Jiang family, she also wanted to acknowledge her as her own with great fanfare.

After hearing the girl's story, she felt curious and couldn't help but go to see her.

She witnessed her chaotic day.

From escaping back to the palace to sleep during the parade, to later trying to speed up the process and making her good nephew so angry that he jumped up and down, she seemed to be even more jumpy than she was back then.

She is indeed an interesting girl.

Therefore, when she offered sacrifice to the heaven, most of the process had been completed and the most important nodes had passed, and then she would appear in a grand manner.

The emperor's sister-in-law and her little nephew were quite wary of her.

Too.

Back then, she had designed a plan to separate the emperor's sister-in-law and her daughter. Just this point alone should have made them wary.

Moreover, not long after she left the palace, many palace maids and eunuchs who had gossiped about her died suddenly one after another. They didn't know the reason, so they were jealous... which was understandable.

This is no longer her home, so it is impossible for her to be sad.

Later.

Perhaps because he was in a trance, Chu Zhaohua felt that he saw the shadow of his past self in his little niece.

She took her to Yan Gui Lou, the only place in the capital that belonged entirely to her.

She is a brave girl.

She made up a story about how she was taken away, and not only was she not horrified, she even talked about whether she would kill her.

Perhaps it had been too long since she had opened up to anyone, so she couldn't help but half-truthfully chat with her about some of the past.

That girl was really carefree. She listened to her past as if it were a story, drank some unknown bubbling tea, and even ate melon seeds.

Really...

If it were the girl in the past, she would probably not be able to help but teach her a lesson.

As the conversation progressed, she could no longer control her emotions.

That girl... I don't know what I used, but it made her dizzy.

After waking up, she couldn't help but feel funny in her heart, and was actually glad that she was not killed that year.

It is already a pleasant surprise to meet a relative who can make her happy in the few remaining years of her life.

She originally wanted to give the snow wolf directly to her nephew, but she changed her mind and left it for her favorite niece.

She originally thought that if she didn't discover the secret of the Snow Wolf in the future, she would find a way to reveal it to her.

Unexpectedly, the girl was smart. Not only did she discover it early, she also immediately verified it with the little girl from the Jiang family.

They had developed a medicine to overcome the evil fragrance using the blood of the snow wolf several days earlier than she had expected.

People say that her niece looks like her aunt, and she thinks...she does.

This girl is different from her, but she is just as smart and strong as her.

By then, her body could no longer withstand the torture.

And her little niece seemed to be quite capable, and the others around her also had some stuff.

She thought, she had shouldered the responsibility of defending the territory for so long, so it wouldn't be too much to ask the younger generation to share some of the responsibility, right?

So when the evil fragrance broke out later, she detained the emperor's sister-in-law and demanded that the girl clear out all the hidden production sites of the Bloody Phantom within a month.

She had told her the address. One month was enough for so many people.

And her little niece did live up to her expectations.

That annoying thing was finally solved.

All the plans that Wuyang Hou had devoted his efforts to over the years ended in vain.

Dayu did not cause too much chaos, and Sheng State's plan to easily annex Dayu completely failed. Then the Marquis of Wuyang should... be beaten half to death by the Emperor of Sheng State, right?

However.

None of this matters anymore.

Those crises were over, and she no longer had the energy to protect this place.

So, she handed over all her hard work over the years to the little girl from the Jiang family.

She is good at using poisons and is also good at medicine. I think... it is most appropriate to entrust this hard work to her.

Dayu in the future, the world will eventually belong to the young people.

She left her palace dress to her sister-in-law and asked her to take it back to her father.

In the last few days, she...didn't want to be the Grand Princess anymore, she wanted to just be herself.

She returned to the small bamboo courtyard which she had not been to for more than ten years.

Jiangnan is the place where she and Zi'an have the most memories.

The bamboo courtyard was renovated together with her son when they were settled in love.

They had discussed that after they got married, they would come here every year to stay for a while.

But she never thought that after the bamboo house was built, he had been here, she had been here, but they had never been here again.

But it's fine now.

Zi'an was buried here by her.

Now, she can calm down and spend some time with him.

She won't commit suicide. She will live well until the day when God takes her life. When Zi'an sees her in the underworld, he probably won't blame her, right?

I don't know how many days passed in peace and quiet.

When he felt his body getting weaker, Chu Zhaohua never thought that he would meet his little niece whom he had not seen for a long time.

Her little niece brought her a lot of snacks and talked to her about many interesting things in Beijing.

When she was struggling to get out of bed, her niece took out two boxes and gave them to her, asking her to choose one.

My niece said:

"There are two things in the box on the left. One has a certain chance of saving your life and restoring your body to normal, but whether it works depends on your luck. The other thing can make you forget your past life memories. In the future, you can be yourself happily and have a happy life again."

"If you have no more ties to this world and don't want to go on living, I think the things in the box on the right will bring you some comfort."

Her little niece is really amazing.

She was able to get something that could save her life.

But... her luck had already been used up in the first half of her life, and she had lived enough.

For some reason, Chu Zhaohua turned his gaze to the box on the right.

For some reason, she felt that there must be something very important inside.

With little hesitation, she chose the right side.

She saw her little niece sigh, open the box, and take out a bright yellow scroll.

That is... an imperial edict.

"Girl, can you help me up?"

"hold head high."

Chu Youning helped her up.

She leaned against the bed and coughed twice, then carefully took the imperial edict and opened it bit by bit.

The first thing that comes into view is the final time and the imperial seal.

As words appeared before her eyes one after another, her eyes began to turn red and her body began to tremble rapidly.

Imperial edict.

It turned out to be the imperial decree granting her and Zi'an marriage.

The imperial decree was issued three days after she revealed her true feelings to the Empress Dowager.

No wonder.

No wonder the Empress' sister-in-law at that time had told her that she owed him many times, and always said that she was just a little short of it.

Now...she understood.

Her little niece is a smart one.

She said nothing, quietly closed the door and walked out, leaving the world to herself.

Chu Zhaohua couldn't remember how many years it had been since she last cried, but this time, she couldn't hold back.

She tightly grasped the imperial edict in both hands, tears... silently fell, wetting the somewhat old imperial edict and staining the ink on it.

After that day.

Her spirits inexplicably improved.

She was able to get out of bed again.

She went to see all the Jiangnan scenery in her memory and wrote a letter of condolence to each of her old friends.

She tried all the delicious food she had eaten with that man in Jiangnan.

Last day.

She wore the wedding dress that an ordinary bride would wear, a brocade crown and a red robe. She read the imperial edict in person in front of the man's grave and married him.

No matter how many years they were apart, they...finally became husband and wife.

There was only one witness at the entire wedding, but Chu Zhaohua felt inexplicably satisfied.

later.

She attended the banquet with her little niece.

Before entering the new house with flickering candlelight, she turned her head to look at the well-behaved girl and said, "Thank you, my little niece. I wish you all the best in your life."

"Okay, then Ningning wishes that aunt and uncle will be together forever and become a normal couple with a happy marriage in the next life."

The door of the new house closed slowly.

The wedding candles burned all night.

The joyous sound of suona echoed outside the bamboo forest all night long. In his dream, Chu Zhaohua felt as if he had vaguely listened to the song of Feng Qiu Huang all night long.

When it was almost dawn, she saw the man.

The man, dressed in a bright red wedding gown, took her hand, his eyes filled with doting yet reproach.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

"Zi'an, we finally meet again."