Chapter 234 I am your grandfather’s father
Li Yang no longer had the coldness she had before. Like a wronged little girl, she pouted and cried, "Grandfather? Are you my grandfather?"
She had the best relationship with her grandfather since she was a child. Her grandfather was torn to pieces by a chariot for admonishing the tyrant. After entering the palace that day, he never returned home, and even his body was thrown into the dogs by the tyrant.
Could it be that when my grandfather had the chance to escape, it wasn't him who was torn to pieces by a chariot?
"Shut up, shut up, I'm not your grandfather." Wang Chen raised his head in surrender, "Your crying habit is just like your grandfather's."
How could it not be grandfather?
Apart from having no hair, he looks exactly like his grandfather, even the beard is the same. However, his grandfather is very clean and always keeps his beard extremely neat, so the man in front of him looks a little rough.
But Li Yang soon understood that this was the Great Wei Dynasty and the previous dynasty had already perished. In the eyes of the people of the Great Wei Dynasty, his grandfather was a remnant of the previous dynasty and should have fled. It was normal for a fugitive to not take care of himself.
It was probably because of the escape that my grandfather could not admit his identity.
She couldn't hurt her grandfather, so she stopped crying and wiped her eyes. "I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person. My grandfather has been gone for decades."
But then he heard Monk Wangchen say quietly, "I am your grandfather's father."
Grandfather's father?
Li Yang was stunned.
"Are you the former Emperor Jingde?" Shi Yu was the first to react, his eyes full of shock.
The previous emperor Jingde reigned for fifteen years and created a prosperous era for the Su Dynasty. Those were the best fifteen years for the people in the past hundred years.
However, when he was forty years old, he suddenly announced his abdication and disappeared from the public eye. Since then, the Su Dynasty began to decline.
Each generation of kings was inferior to the previous one, and eventually the country went to destruction. To put it bluntly, if it weren't for Emperor Jingde's abdication, there might not be the Wei Dynasty today.
Now, decades have passed. Who would have thought that he is still alive and working as a monk in Dajue Temple.
Wang Chen sneered, "I've been a monk for too long, and I've almost forgotten my past. I guess I'm the emperor you're talking about."
"How come you are still alive?" Li Yang's expression changed again, returning to his previous cold expression, even with a hint of resentment.
Wang Chen glanced at Shi Yu and sat down beside Li Yang's bed. "Old monk, you want to know why I haven't died yet. Maybe you want me to make amends for my mistakes before the King of Hell takes me in."
"How do you make it up?" Li Yang suddenly became hysterical, "How do you want to make it up?
They said that you abandoned your kingdom in your prime for a woman and lived in seclusion with that woman. The new emperor died only five years after he ascended the throne.
The young eldest grandson of the emperor is incompetent and refuses to listen to advice. In the end, he gives up and relies on treacherous ministers, allowing them to be in power. Your great-grandson is even worse than his father.
He was cruel, tyrannical, licentious, and committed all sorts of evil. He treated human life as worthless. My grandfather, your youngest son, was torn to pieces by your great-grandson.
Her grandfather, who had been a gentleman all his life, ended up with his body torn to pieces.
But all this started when the person in front of her abandoned his kingdom, how could she not blame him.
"Those in the Su family who disagreed with the tyranny died a miserable death. Those who assisted the tyrant and eventually fell into the hands of the late Wei Emperor also died a miserable death. Tell me, how are you going to make amends?
Can you bring my grandfather, my father, my mother, my brothers, and so on back to life? Can you bring back to life the millions of people who have been tortured by tyranny? Or can you wash away the shame I have endured for decades?"
Li Yang gritted his teeth at every word he said.
"Alright, alright, I've been hiding in that temple, cursing myself for decades."
He raised his hand and patted Li Yang on the back, coaxing her softly, "That woman is my queen, your great-grandmother. You can't call her that from now on.
I am an emperor, but I am also a husband. My wife is seriously ill, so I have to try to find some hope. I just regret that I didn't know where to go more clearly, nor did I arrange the country more appropriately.
Who knew that my son would die young, and my grandson and great-grandson would be such bastards? By the time I found the opportunity to return, it was decades later, and the Wei Dynasty had already been established.
What else can he do?
He couldn't kill the Emperor of Wei and let the world fall into chaos again. Wouldn't the people suffer more, and his sins would be even more difficult to wash away.
"Then where did you go? Why did you come back so late? If you had come back earlier, Grandpa and the others might not have died."
Perhaps it was because Wangchen looked like his grandfather, or perhaps it was because he had suffered for decades and finally saw his elder, Liyang threw himself into Wangchen's arms and cried like a helpless and wronged child.
"Grandfather waited for you his whole life. When the country was in trouble, he sent people everywhere to look for you, but he couldn't find you. He thought you were gone."
Wang Chen listened to his great-granddaughter's crying and finally his eyes turned red, "Don't cry, don't cry, I haven't coaxed the younger generation for many years, no, you cry so much that I want to commit suicide.
If it really doesn’t work, you can hit me a couple of times to vent your anger. I didn’t mean to stay away from home, I just can’t find the way back…”
When the queen was seriously ill, he heard that there was a hidden miracle doctor in the Wumeng Mountains. He had a deep relationship with the queen, and seeing that the prince was able to govern the country independently, he abdicated early and took the queen to the Wumeng Mountains to seek medical treatment.
Who would have thought that one would accidentally enter a cave and find oneself in another world, and never be able to find a way out?
Fortunately, the place was full of spiritual energy, and the queen, who was originally exhausted, got much better. The queen had been trapped in the harem for a lifetime and actually fell in love with the life in the mountains.
But he was too seriously ill before and died after only three years. He was worried about the people in the country, so he looked for a way out of the mountain again. Finally, he got help from others and returned to the mortal world.
Who would have thought that three years in the cave would be thirty years outside, and everything and everyone had changed.
"The Su family's kingdom is gone, your great-grandmother is gone too, and I'm left alone, so I became a monk."
Wang Chen smiled bitterly, "Those people in the prison are no longer worth saving. I didn't know about you and your son before, and I only showed up now. I feel guilty about that.
I am still alive at this age, and you are still young, with two filial children. Live a good life. I know why you want to die."
He pointed at Shi Yu and said, "This kid is not bad. We won't treat him badly just because of Dong Zang's identity. Don't worry, I'm here.
I can’t make up for the loss of those who have passed away, but I can always take care of those who are still alive.”
Li Yang's tears welled up again as his worries were revealed. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled at you."
"Forget it. I'm a hundred years old. Why would I bother with a kid like you? Just talk to your mother."
He patted Princess Liyang's head, as if coaxing a child, sighed, stood up, and walked over to Shi Yu and Wei Qingyan. "I think you also have something to say to me. Let's go out and talk."
Several people followed Wang Chen out, leaving the space to the mother and her two children.
Jingzhe took people to deal with the corpse, while Shi Yu, Wei Qingyan and the other two sat down at the Eight Immortals Table in the main hall.
"Senior, do you hate the Shi family?" Shi Yu asked directly.
Wang Chen's eyes turned cold, "I know what you are worried about. Every wrong has its perpetrator. I hate Shi Dehou. The descendants of the Su family are not up to standard. It is fate that he took over the Su family's kingdom. I accept it.
However, he shouldn't have trapped the descendants of my Su family in that slavery, drugged them, and turned them into livestock just to show his benevolence."
Shi Dehou was the name of the late emperor.
"Drug?" Shi Yu suddenly clenched his fists.
"No matter how useless those grandsons of the Su family are, they wouldn't commit incest. He ordered them to be drugged and had people deliberately guide those bastards. As long as the child is left, there is hope.
Those brainless people actually believed that as long as their bloodline was passed down, the Su family would eventually rise again.
They don't think about the fact that even if that day really came, with the absurdities committed by the Convict Slave Corpses, how could the world possibly accept them? Well, they're just a bunch of useless people, let's not even mention them."
There was some anger on his face, and he sighed heavily. Then he asked Shi Yu, "But do you know where those children in the slave house ended up?"
Wei Qingyan's expression also changed, "Dark Guard Camp?"
"Yes, the healthy ones were thrown into the Dark Guard Battalion, and the useless ones were left to fend for themselves. As for the mature Dark Guards, they are now protecting the current emperor."
Monk Wangchen looked at Wei Qingyan and asked, "Do you think your father will be safe once those secret guards know his life story?"
"How do you know this?"
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