After Su Yue left, Su Li lay on the bed, his heart filled with mixed emotions. Even though he wasn't sleeping on hard, sour straw bedding, he didn't sleep a wink that night. It felt like a dream; he even wondered if he was already dead, if this was something that happened after he ascended to heaven. He pinched his thigh hard, almost howling in pain, before he was convinced that he wasn't dreaming.
However, I still felt a deep sadness in my heart. Why didn't my wife live to see this day, when we had such a wonderful life? If she were still alive, they would be living together as a large family, how happy they would be!
Like Su Li, Su Heng and the other two also had a sleepless night. They were moved by their father's legendary experiences and the fact that they were able to reunite with him after more than ten years, but also regretted that their mother could not enjoy the happiness of family life now.
The next day, when Su Heng went to court, he encountered Dong Zhen at the palace gate. Dong Zhen had two big dark circles under her eyes and almost staggered when she took a step.
"Lord Dong, what's wrong with you?"
Su Heng asked with concern, and Dong Zhen sighed and waved her hand, saying, "I don't know what's wrong with me these past two months, I keep having nightmares, and I can't sleep well every night."
Upon hearing this, Su Heng felt a little embarrassed, recalling what Chuanwen had said about whether Dong Zhen's father would appear in his dreams. It turned out that he really had appeared in his dreams.
Dong Zhen's nightmares were indeed about his father. He couldn't quite remember the specific details of the dreams after waking up, but he always woke up in a fright, feeling lingering fear, as if his father had been cursing him in the dream.
Dong Zhen had just remarried his mother a few days ago, and Chuanwen brought it up again, so he didn't tell Su Heng that he had dreamed of his father, for fear that Su Heng would laugh at him for doing something unfilial and being appeared in his father's dream.
Su Heng didn't say anything more, but he was a little distracted in the court, thinking about how to dig out Dong Zhen's father and return him to him, and also how to make Dong Zhen believe that the one buried in his Su family ancestral grave for more than ten years was Dong's father!
The emperor noticed that Su Heng was distracted, so after court, he summoned Su Heng to the Ganlu Hall. He initially thought Su Heng was distracted because of something in the Little Liang Kingdom, but after asking, he saw Su Heng's indescribable expression, which made him even more curious.
Finally, Su Heng said to him, "I reunited with my father yesterday."
Okay, so what?
The emperor was confused at first, and it took him a while to realize, "Weren't your parents long ago?"
The emperor's gaze tightened as he stared at Su Heng. So, could this person in front of him be a ghost?
Understanding the emperor's suspicious gaze, Su Heng: ......
Su Heng recounted his father's story, and the emperor nodded repeatedly to indicate that he understood. "So, your father isn't dead, you've made a mistake, your father just got lost and has been wandering around until now?"
Su Heng nodded. Although the emperor found it hard to understand how disoriented a person must be to get so lost, he was still glad that Su Heng's father no longer had an examiner. Otherwise, if the Great Jin had taken in such a person, his ministers would have had another oddball. He might not even see Su Heng at court every day because Su Heng might have gotten lost all the way to the city gate!
The emperor looked at Su Heng, who seemed reliable in everything, and sighed that Su Heng's mother must have been a very wise woman, otherwise Su Heng, who inherited half of his father's blood, could not have been so reliable!
However, the emperor was puzzled. After more than ten years, he was finally able to reunite with his father, whom he thought was dead. Shouldn't this be a cause for celebration? Why was Su Heng looking so gloomy?
this......
Su Heng made a request to the emperor: since his father was not dead, the person they took back to bury must be someone else's. Therefore, he asked the emperor to allow him to go to the mortuary where his father had lived to check which family had lost the body.
The emperor then realized that his beloved minister Su had another father buried in his ancestral grave!
However, this is a minor matter and Su Heng doesn't need to go there; he can simply give the order. But it might be difficult to find, since more than ten years have passed, and people who can't find it will probably assume it was burned to the ground.
Su Heng wasn't too worried. There must be records of all the corpses entering and leaving the mortuary. As long as he found the records from that year, he could have an excuse to ask Dong Zhen. This was also a way of finding out the clues, so it wouldn't arouse Chuan Wen's suspicion.
Su Heng returned from the palace at noon, just in time for lunch at home. However, the house was empty.
At this moment, Su Yue was strolling around the streets with Su Li and a few others, and Chuan Wen, a bystander, was also among them.
Over the past year, many changes have taken place throughout the capital, especially along that wide main street, which has become quite magical.
Not to mention the streetlights on both sides of the street, the goods in the shops are more abundant and diverse than before, with exotic utensils, local specialties whose names I don't know, and a dazzling array of clothes and decorations, making people's eyes dazzled.
What is that?
Su Li pointed to a person riding a bicycle and asked curiously, and Su Yue then gave him a brief explanation.
What is that?
Su Yu pointed to an ice cream shop employee serving ice cream to a customer and asked Su Yue for more information. Then, they each bought an ice cream.
"So sweet!"
Wow! It's so refreshing!
The group let out a satisfied sigh. Little Black and Little Red quickly licked their ice cream clean and then pointed at the shop, excitedly calling out to Su Yue, "Auntie! Auntie! I want more!"
Su Yue was worried that the two little ones would get a stomachache if they ate any more, but after looking at their healthy little bodies, she still bought them one more, reminding them, "This is the last one, eating too much will give you diarrhea!"
Despite their boundless energy, the two little ones are quite well-behaved, especially after their father told them to behave and be obedient before they left, or he would tie them up at home to guard the house. As a result, the two little ones are even more obedient to the adults.
What is that?
Before they had taken more than a few steps, Aoki pointed at someone and asked Su Yue. Su Yue looked over and saw a person wearing a hat with a mini fan spinning rapidly under the brim of the hat.
Su Yue then gave them another explanation.
Every time Su Yue explained this to them, she would proudly say, "This was all done by Wen Yatou and those female students!"
Then Chuanwen would once again be subjected to the god-like gazes of Aoki and others. Several times, Aoki wanted to prostrate himself in worship on the spot.
Su Yue took them to buy those hats, and when Su Li heard the price, he almost threw the hat he was holding away!
A hat costs ten taels of silver!
Su Yu and his companions were dumbfounded; this was enough for them to eat and drink to their hearts' content for a year!
They looked around and saw that there were quite a few people wearing such hats on the street, and couldn't help but marvel at how many rich people there were in the Great Jin Dynasty!
Chuanwen didn't feel the price was too high. Scarcity drives up prices, and if the government didn't buy them, where would the money for construction come from? Besides, these weren't necessities. If you could afford them, you could buy them for fun. Ordinary people didn't need to buy them; they weren't edible or drinkable.
Su Yue paid the money so readily that Su Li was astonished. Five hats cost fifty taels of silver, and his daughter paid for them without batting an eye. How rich must his daughter be?
The group strolled around until midday, then went to Xianhelou Restaurant for lunch.
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