Zhong Jiu pulled a portrait out of his sleeve. "I don't know if it's her real face. Also, when she registered her name at the inn, she wrote the character 'zhu' (柱), the 'zhu' in 'pillar' (柱).
Fu Yunchen took the portrait, glanced at it, and then put it away. "Zhu Shi, there is such a surname in the Black Witch Clan. Now that it's confirmed that he's from the Black Witch Clan, the rest can be left to Long Qian."
...
After receiving the portrait sent by Fu Yunchen, Zi Wu recognized her at a glance.
Upon finding Long Qian, they reported, "Your Majesty, Zhu Yanrong has appeared."
Long Qian scoffed, "He's still alive."
Ziwu said, "He previously disguised himself as a woman and impersonated the king, swindling and deceiving people everywhere. Should we kill him?"
“No need. In two more months, the life-giving Gu in his body will take effect. If he wants to live, he will naturally crawl over.” Long Qian covered his mouth and yawned. “I should probably go back to Yunlong Mountain.”
"Is the King about to go into seclusion and sleep again?"
"Hmm. You stay here and watch over Huanhuan." Long Qian looked at his face and suddenly smiled, "Ziwu, your love star has set in."
"The Red Phoenix Star is moving?" Zi Wu looked bewildered.
Long Qian continued, "Your destined marriage has arrived."
Zi Wu looked slightly embarrassed. "How could that be? The Black Witch Clan has no women now, and the Red Witch left the Relic Continent a long time ago."
"Doesn't the Red Witch still have my aunt?"
"The king's aunt... I wouldn't even dare to dream of it."
"Thinking about it is futile. And Huanhuan, you're not allowed to have any funny ideas either."
"Your Majesty, I am not a pervert," Ziwu chuckled. "Why would I have designs on a child? Even if I never have a woman in my life, I would never do that."
“She’s a child now, but children grow up, they’ll grow into beautiful women! And she even has her brother’s features…” Long Qian’s eyes narrowed slightly. “Huanhuan can only be mine!”
"!!!" Ziwu was shocked.
However, upon closer examination of Long Qian's character, it is indeed something he is capable of doing. But those two are not pushovers either, so this is most likely just wishful thinking.
“As for the witch clan, they don’t have witches, but the human race has women everywhere,” Long Qian pointed out to him.
Zi Wu was stunned, and then the image of Redmi flashed through his mind subconsciously. "How...how is this possible?"
Long Qian said, "Why is it impossible? Even if you can't have children, it doesn't matter. There are plenty of women in the Wu tribe who have married but never had children."
"No, no, I don't want to cause trouble for others." Ziwu immediately erased the image of Redmi from her mind.
After reporting everything to Fu Yunchen, Zhong Jiu began packing his few belongings, preparing to leave the palace and return to the Zhong family in Jiuqu. Knowing that Hongmi wanted to see him and what she wanted to say, he deliberately avoided her and did not meet her.
Hongmi understood what he meant and didn't insist. She just asked someone to pass on a message to him: Take care!
...
Spring is here and flowers are in bloom; it's time to pick tea leaves again.
Mu Run was heavily pregnant and could not go to Chongyang Mountain, so she had to stay in the palace. She sent Hongmi to oversee the tea affairs.
Huanhuan and Tuantuan wanted to see how tea was picked, so they went along too.
As soon as Huanhuan left, Ziwu followed her.
Mu Run lay on the rocking chair, holding the memory bead in her hand, recalling her past memories.
At this moment, the bead is like a rainbow bead, containing almost every color, and it has stored almost all of her memories up to this point.
The most important thing for a person to live is memory.
If it were a blank body, inputting her memories would be roughly equivalent to creating a clone of her. Fortunately, only she herself could access the memories within this memory bead.
"What are you thinking about?" Fu Yunchen entered the hall and saw her holding a memory bead, with strands of white memories swirling inside.
Mu Run opened her eyes. "I thought about having a baby. In Jingyue County, Aunt An will help me give birth."
Mu Run looked at the bead in her hand and noticed a wisp of white inside. "Is this the color?"
"White represents pure memories."
"This is the first time I've seen white." Mu Run looked down at her belly. "At the beginning of life, everything is pure and flawless."
"Okay." Fu Yunchen reached out his hand. "I'll take you for a walk in the garden."
"Okay." Mu Run took his hand and stood up from the chair.
"What's been happening in the imperial court lately?"
"Nothing much. The main focus is still on clearing out the corpses. As for the other issues, Wu is now ruled by a corpse prince, and the entire Wu is practically a kingdom of corpses. Meanwhile, the Northern Jin Dynasty no longer has a court. Wherever the Chongyang Army goes, all the city gates are wide open, and the people inside the city line the streets to welcome the Chongyang Army."
"So, are you going to take over the Northern Jin Dynasty?"
“Of course,” Fu Yunchen replied, “It was decided long ago, but before we needed a legitimate reason to launch an attack, now it’s a freebie.”
"What about the Wu Kingdom?" Mu Run thought about the Wu Kingdom's crown prince, who had become a corpse king, and realized he might be difficult to deal with.
"The problem with the Wu Kingdom is that no one knows the strength of the Corpse King. Moreover, judging from those Corpse Generals, they all have some special abilities. For example, the Corpse General who was transformed from the Empress Dowager can become invisible, and others can control water and have the strength to lift ten thousand catties, etc. We don't know what special abilities this Corpse King has. Those who have investigated in the past still have no news."
"Could we learn something by starting with the palace servants who serve him?"
"Can."
Has Zhong Jiu contacted you again?
"No. He followed me because he was ostracized by his family. Although he was a direct descendant of the Zhong family, he was the son of the first wife. His second wife had three sons and was also extremely favored. He grew up through many hardships, experiencing everything from poison to traps and mechanisms. While he was wandering, the Zhong family never sent anyone to look for him, assuming he was dead. It wasn't until he learned that the head of the Zhong family had been bitten to death by his son, a zombie, meaning his father had been killed and turned into a zombie by his half-brother, that he rushed back and killed all the zombies in the Zhong family, including his father and his three half-brothers."
"Alas! Life is unpredictable. Well... now that he's the head of the Zhong family, you've lost a capable assistant."
Fu Yunchen said, "It's alright, we can just promote another one from Xin Hong. It's just that he and Yao Yao are destined to be apart, and it's possible that things won't end well for them."
"In large families, very few marriages go according to one's own wishes."
"Heh~ You seem to know quite a lot."
Even if you've never eaten pork, you've seen pigs run.
"Oh? What kinds of pigs have you seen? Tell me."
"It's all kinds of dramas, movies, novels, and gossip... Thinking back to the past, life was like paradise."
Fu Yunchen knew she was referring to where she came from.
"I hope that in the future, Huanhuan and the others will be able to find a partner who is compatible with them, according to their own wishes."
Fu Yunchen looked at her without saying a word for a long time.
Mu Run looked up at him. "What's wrong?"
"Our beginnings were not pleasant."
Mu Run paused for a moment, then said, "Actually, the ways in which partners meet are all different, but as long as they are heading in the same direction and are all on the same path to happiness, then that is good."
Fu Yunchen pulled her into his arms and sighed softly.
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