Chapter 397 Mother and Son Reunion 2
This sudden good news made Zhaohua unable to hide his joy, and he immediately stood up to greet her.
She stood at the palace gate, looking forward to it.
Not long after, she saw Xiao Jingheng leading a small person and walking towards her from afar.
Cheng Yu was much more handsome than she had seen in portraits before.
Zhao Hua couldn't help but tear up after just one look.
She almost trotted all the way to greet the emperor, but her eyes were only on Cheng Yu.
Xiao Jingheng knew that she was happy, so he took her hand and held it with Cheng Yu's little hand.
"Zhao'er, our son is back."
Cheng Yu stared at Zhao Hua intently.
He felt somewhat familiar with Zhao Hua, but he could no longer recognize him.
But he could easily tell from Zhaohua's clothes that
This person was the Queen of Qi Dynasty, the mother who gave birth to him after ten months of pregnancy.
So he followed the rules and greeted Zhaohua respectfully:
"Your son pays respects to your mother."
My son...
These two words were like thorns, piercing the softest part of Zhaohua's heart.
In front of her, Cheng Huan called himself a son and Ruoxin called herself a daughter.
Chenghuan called her mother and Ruoxin called her mother.
But Cheng Yu followed the rules and called himself her son.
Zhaohua felt sad, and felt that she owed her child too much...
But Xiao Jingheng smiled and said: "Our son has been well educated and knows the rules."
Yes, I know the rules...
But this rule is between the emperor and his subjects, and should not apply between mother and son.
Zhao Hua was filled with mixed feelings, but he still had to force out a flawless smile, gently stroking Cheng Yu's hair and said:
"Chengyu has grown into a grown man now."
Later that day, Xiao Jingheng sat in Zhaohua Palace for a while.
When it was time for dinner, he said:
"Today I am in a good mood, and I have an appointment with Prince An to drink tonight to celebrate. Zhao'er, will you come with us?"
Zhao Hua smiled and shook her head, "Chengyu just came back, I want to spend more time with him. Ruoxin will come back and meet her brother, so it's not good to leave."
Xiao Jingheng said, "Well, I'll come to see you tomorrow."
After she finished speaking, she touched Chengyu's cheek lovingly, and kissed Zhaohua on the forehead. Then she left with a look of joy in her eyes and brows.
After the mother and son saw him out of the palace, Zhaohua took Chengyu's hand and took him to the east side hall.
Everything in the side hall was carefully arranged by Zhaohua in the past few days.
She didn't know what Cheng Yu liked, so she said:
"Son, take a look at the layout of this room and tell me if there is anything you don't like. I will make some arrangements for you."
Cheng Yu said obediently: "Everything is fine, thank you mother."
He accepted Zhaohua's feelings completely.
Whether it was the layout of the room, the arrangement of the palace maids, the style of the clothes, or the pajamas made by Zhaohua himself,
He always said yes to everything Zhaohua asked him.
It is said that mother and child are connected by heart. Even though Chengyu refused to say anything, Zhaohua could clearly feel his loss.
So later on, Zhaohua simply stopped asking him these questions.
Instead, he dismissed his attendants and sat alone with Cheng Yu in a side hall. He hugged him and whispered:
"Chengyu, tell me, do you still miss your father and mother?"
Hearing this, Cheng Yu's expression changed for a moment.
He didn't say anything, but nodded vigorously.
Zhao Hua hugged him tighter and said softly:
"My dear child, I know that the Chen couple have been taking good care of you since you can remember, and you have a deep relationship with them. Now that you have suddenly left them, even if you enter the palace and see wealth and luxury everywhere, it cannot offset your longing for them."
Cheng Yu looked up at Zhao Hua.
After a long while, he finally gave up the rules and said timidly: "But the emperor's uncle said that I am the son of my father and mother. After entering the palace, I can no longer mention my father...adoptive father and adoptive mother. Will the queen mother not blame me when she hears me miss them?"
"Silly child." Zhao Hua rubbed Cheng Yu's hair and couldn't help laughing, "If you don't miss your parents who have been with you day and night and treated you like their own flesh and blood, then you are unfilial. An unfilial child, even if he abides by the rules and knows the etiquette, is not a good child."
Cheng Yu nodded in confusion and said, "I feel that my mother is very different from my father. When I see my mother, I feel inexplicably close to her. But when I see my father, I feel... "
"There's still a long time to go, there's no rush." Zhao Hua interrupted the child's next words and said, "Mother promises you that if there is a chance in the future, I will definitely let you meet your adoptive parents, okay?"
Cheng Yu nodded repeatedly, his eyes sparkling, and his voice rose an octave without him noticing, "Okay!"
As he said this, he smiled knowingly.
This was the first smile Cheng Yu showed after entering the palace.
However,
This was also the first lie Zhaohua told Chengyu.
The next day, when Xiao Jingyan was about to carry out his secret plan to take down Jiang Muye's head, he heard a piece of news from the emperor.
It turned out that since he went to Hengzhou to pick up Chengyu, Xiao Jingheng had already sent people from the Anbu to take action in Zhuyin.
He couldn't wait even a day longer and wished to separate Jiang Muye's head from his body immediately.
On the second day after Chengye's full moon ceremony,
Jiang Muye's head was also placed in a gilded brocade box and sent to the emperor.
As today is the day of the ceremony to worship the God of Agriculture, Xiao Jingheng will lead the princes and nobles out of the palace to the Altar of the God of Agriculture on Mount Li to offer sacrifices to the God of Agriculture and hold a ceremony of personally tilling the land.
This round trip would take at least three to five days.
If he waited until he returned to the palace to deal with Shang Yang, even if Jiang Muye's head was kept on ice, it would probably be destroyed by then.
Moreover, Shangyang had plotted so many things against Zhaohua, and Xiao Jingheng also wanted Zhaohua to get rid of his anger with his own hands.
Therefore, before leaving the palace, Xiao Jingheng gave the brocade box to Zhao Hua, asking her to "give" it to Shang Yang, and sent her off when she was most desperate.
Regardless of whether Shang Yang was a spy from an enemy country or not, as long as she entered the palace, she would always be a member of the imperial harem.
As the queen, Zhaohua naturally had the responsibility to deal with the concubines who were found guilty.
Therefore, when the emperor was leaving the capital in the afternoon of that day, Zhao Hua had Shang Yang brought back to Zhaochun Palace from the torture chamber and changed her into clean clothes.
Later, when she went to Zhaochun Palace, she saw Shangyang had changed into new clothes and was sitting lifelessly on the warm seat, looking at the sunset clouds dyed red outside the window with cloudy and empty eyes.
She was wearing a shirt embroidered with corals.
Her skin looked whiter than snow, but her body was covered with scars and her face was filled with loneliness.
But she can no longer find the innocent image she once had.
Hearing the door open, Shang Yang turned around lazily.
When her eyes met Zhao Hua's, she was stunned for a moment, then smiled silently and murmured softly,
"Song Zhao, you win."
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