Chapter 592 Are you worthy of me, you bastard!
Jiang Yubai had been so busy in the past year that he was exhausted. When he suddenly saw Xu Yu looking at him in a leisurely and carefree state in the wilderness, he was so angry that veins popped out on his forehead and he wanted to bite Xu Yu to death on the spot to vent his anger.
Xu Yu didn't expect Jiang Yubai to come.
Xu Yu turned his gaze and saw the person sitting opposite the old man and talking. He breathed lightly and whispered, "Zhizhi, that person must be the King of Lingnan."
Although he was wearing plain clothes that made it impossible to tell his identity, he looked three points like Jiang Yubai, and he could sit face to face and chat with the old man, so his identity was obvious.
Sang Zhixia hadn't expected to see the most distinguished person before even entering the Lingnan capital. She was stunned for a moment and said, "Then we..."
"It's no problem."
Xu Yu placed the two fruit branches on one shoulder and held Sang Zhixia's hand, saying, "Just proceed as usual. Don't be nervous."
Xu Yu and Sang Zhixia pretended not to notice and walked to the front. When the old prince was talking about something, he was laughing with emotion. When he turned around and saw the perfect couple coming together, his smile became even wider.
"I guess these are my nephew and niece-in-law whom I have never met?"
The old man said with a smile: "They are all useless youngsters. Why does Your Highness honor them so highly?"
"Yu'er, Xia girl, why don't you come over and pay your respects to the prince?"
The old man revealed the old prince's identity in one sentence, and Xu Yu and Sang Zhixia stepped forward to pay their respects.
The old prince quickly had someone stop him and said gently, "When you're out and about, there's no need to worry about so many etiquettes. Just say hello."
"Your late father and I were childhood friends. You should call me uncle. There's no need to be so formal."
Xu Yu lowered his head and said that etiquette cannot be abolished.
The old prince said with a smile, "You must be unfamiliar with me after not seeing me for so many years. When you were a kid and went with Yu Bai to catch the fish I raised and grill them for dinner, you weren't so restrained."
Jiang Yubai strolled forward, hooked his arm around Xu Yu's, and sneered, "What can I say? You tricked me into catching my father's fish, then you didn't eat a single bite yourself, causing me to suffer from hunger for days. And you, my father, are still holding a grudge against me?"
"Am I helping you hold a grudge?"
The old prince said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "You are involved in everything."
Jiang Yubai relied on his thick skin and was not afraid of being laughed at. In a few words, he brought up some trivial things that happened many years ago. In the midst of jokes, he erased the invisible identity barriers, leaving only the ease of meeting old friends again.
The old prince looked at Xu Yu with satisfaction, and when he saw that he was still holding Sang Zhixia's hand, a trace of unknown grief quickly flashed across his eyes.
"Husband and wife live in harmony, helping and supporting each other. This is very good."
As the old prince spoke, he took off the jade pendant from his waist, split it in two, and handed it to Xu Yu and Sang Zhixia respectively. "I came here in a hurry today and didn't have time to bring anything good. This pair of mandarin duck pendants was the princess's dowry. After the princess passed away, I am the only one who wears them."
"It's just right that I'm giving it to you now."
The relics of the deceased old princess, such things are beyond description of value.
Xu Yu and Sang Zhixia were about to decline the gift, but the old prince said, "It is a gift from an elder, so we cannot refuse it."
"To see the younger generations living in harmony is what the princess would want to see even in her grave. Are you unwilling to even give your uncle a little face?"
"Since it's given by the prince, just accept it."
The old man sighed softly, "Keep it well, and don't let the prince and princess down."
Nowadays, few people remember the former Princess of Lingnan.
Apart from the old man, probably no one knows that the King and his wife of Lingnan were deeply in love, and their love could not be broken even in life and death.
If it weren't for the princess's righteousness, then...
The old man gestured to Xu Yu and Sang Zhixia to clean up first with mixed emotions. After the old prince's expression calmed down a lot, he whispered, "It's been so many years. Has the prince never had anyone to serve him?"
"Uncle Xu."
The old prince smiled bitterly and said, "How dare a student like that? Living one more day would be a further betrayal. I..."
"Your Majesty, this is wrong."
The old man disapproved and said, "The princess sacrificed her life for the sake of giving the prince a glimmer of hope."
"Now that the prince is healthy and his former child has grown up, if the prince is truly grateful, he should take better care of himself. Otherwise, he will be betraying the princess's friendship."
The old prince laughed at himself and said no more.
The old man felt a little sad when he saw that his student, who was once full of vigor and ambition, had a head full of gray hair in middle age and looked even older than himself.
What a twist of fate...
Jiang Yubai came here specially, naturally he had something to say to Xu Yu.
Sang Zhixia found an excuse to take Xu Yanran and Xu Jinxi to deal with the fruit branches they had brought back. Jiang Yubai slowly exhaled, bumped Xu Yu's shoulder and said, "Xu Yu, do you know how my mother died?"
Xu Yu paused, shook his head and said, "I don't know."
When the accident happened, he and Jiang Yubai were too young.
What I remember are some insignificant fights from my youth, but the key point is that I was completely unaware of it.
Jiang Yubai wasn't surprised either. He just squinted his eyes and said, "It took me many years to find out."
"Back then, my father was assassinated and falsely accused of colluding with foreign enemies and being a traitor. My mother was also imprisoned in the Imperial Clan Court. At that time, my father's injuries were already very serious."
“But they were stopped, and no one came to heal them.”
The seriously injured old prince's life is hanging by a thread. Before the matter is thoroughly investigated, he may lose his life in prison.
Despite her repeated pleas, the old princess still failed to get a royal physician or life-saving medicine, and was even accused of making a fuss out of nothing.
Then……
Jiang Yubai said coldly, "In order to find the imperial physician to treat my father in time, my mother stabbed her heart with a hairpin eight times in a row. She bled to death and almost died."
Xu Yu's pupils suddenly contracted and his breathing stopped.
Jiang Yubai said with red eyes, "My mother died in a horrible way. Seeing that the situation had become serious, the people from the Imperial Clan Court dared not intervene any further. So they reported it to the late emperor and invited the imperial physician to help my father."
In other words, the old prince's life was bought with the life of the old princess.
If the old princess had not died tragically, the people in prison would not have been able to receive medical treatment, nor would they have lived to see their innocence cleared.
Then things got out of control.
Although the old prince was cleared of the suspicion of treason, he had suffered a severe blow and was charged with several serious crimes. Even if the late emperor knew that he was framed, it was too late.
The late emperor was afraid of the overwhelming pressure from the harem and the former court, so he had to make a compromise. He made an exception and appointed King Hui, who was once the most likely to be appointed as the crown prince, as a fiefdom king, and enfeoffed him in Lingnan, and he was not allowed to leave Lingnan without an imperial decree.
Jiang Yubai said subtly, "The late emperor knew that my father was wronged, and also knew that my mother's death was unjust, so he showed great leniency in the fiefdom and forbade my father to set foot outside Lingnan. In fact, it was more like another kind of protection. Otherwise..."
Given the situation back then, King Hui's lineage would have been extinct long ago, and there would be no lineage of King Lingnan today.
Xu Yu had never imagined that the past could be so tragic. He was silent for a moment before he said, "Young Prince, that's all in the past."
"Gone?"
Jiang Yubai sneered, "Xu Yu, that's not going to work."
"My mother's tragic death, my father's injustice, decades of forbearance, and my father's current decrepit state—all of this was caused by this current generation. How can I accept this?"
"I can't get over it, can't you?"
Xu Yu pursed his lips and said nothing.
Jiang Yubai raised his eyebrows, crossed his arms, and said with a forced smile, "So, I'm obsessed with gaining power over the world, and I'm so exhausted from worrying about it that I can't sleep. What are you doing?"
Xu Yu: “…”
Jiang Yubai was surprisingly angry: "I have been waiting for you for so long, my eyes are almost piercing with longing, and you are having a lot of fun along the way?!"
"Are you worthy of me, you bastard!"
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