Li Ting and Leng Bing packed their bags and rode back to the capital at top speed.
After returning from Mingzhou, Xiao Sheng stayed in the palace.
Xiao Ding miraculously recovered and returned to his normal life.
They've just been working harder and are better at showcasing themselves than before.
Qianmian took the small cloth bag that Zhao Yunshu's wet nurse had hidden back to the East Palace and handed it over to Xiao Sheng after he returned.
With a mix of trepidation and excitement, Xiao Sheng opened the cloth bag.
The bag was filled with all sorts of strange little trinkets, which I immediately liked and played with in my hands.
Xiao Sheng suddenly thought of Li Xingran. Would she like this kind of thing?
Qianmian saw it and said, "Little master, this must be an item that children like to play with. It was made by the master himself."
Hearing Qianmian's words, Xiao Sheng became sad again.
At that time, he could have spent more time with her, but he complained that her voice was unpleasant and noisy, and that all she did was tell him to be obedient and to study hard in the future.
Looking back now, it was probably because they were worried that he wasn't capable enough to hold onto his position as crown prince and would be bullied!
He was indeed bullied.
Between the ages of three and six, he became the subject of gossip and a useless prince.
If he hadn't heard Li Xingran's thoughts that day, he probably would have become an opium addict by now, being manipulated by others.
In the end, Zhao Yunwan persuaded the emperor to give him poisoned wine.
Now he has repented, he has learned skills from the Grand Tutor, and he has made many friends. He is praised by people, but the person who always thought of him is no longer here.
On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, he knelt before her tomb for a long, long time, but the empty imperial tomb contained only him, Xiao Ma'er, a few of her loyal servants, and a few crows perched on the treetops.
She had never even appeared in his dreams. How he longed to hear her call him "Sheng'er"!
She was poisoned to such an extent by that vicious woman Zhao Yunwan that she didn't even leave behind a portrait.
Xiao Sheng looked at these little trinkets, lay prostrate on them, and silently shed tears.
“Little master, your master will be very happy to see how much you have improved.”
"No mother would blame her child, especially since you are young and don't have the ability to distinguish right from wrong. Don't blame yourself too much."
“We have people now, and we will be able to avenge our master soon. You must hold back your grief. We will have to pretend for a while longer while we are in the palace.”
"I know that you have a thousand faces, but I just want to cry for a while."
"My mother must be very cold all alone in the imperial mausoleum. If I cry more, will she be able to hear me?"
The legendary bond between mother and child.
Since Li Xingran said there is a King of Hell, then there must be souls, hell, and reincarnation.
What's described in the book all exists.
He desperately wanted to ask Li Xingran to inquire with the King of Hell about how his mother was doing.
"Little master, as long as you are well, your master in heaven will not feel cold and will protect you!"
"Thousand Faces, has the Grand Tutor returned to the capital? Let's go to the Grand Tutor's house to deliver New Year's gifts while we can still leave the palace! We can't go out during the New Year holidays."
"Grand Tutor Li just arrived in the capital yesterday and accomplished several important tasks. Zhao Yunwan's situation is in complete chaos right now; I heard she broke quite a few rare treasures in the palace."
"Also, the New Year's gifts are ready," Qianmian replied happily.
What gifts did you prepare?
Qianmian took out the list from his pocket.
Xiao Sheng looked at it and felt that the gift was a little meager.
After all, what the Grand Tutor is doing now, on the surface, is helping the Li family take revenge, but in reality, it is also helping him.
“Add four more luminous pearls, four jade ruyi scepters, four coral sets, and two crystals from my storeroom.”
A thousand faces, wow, that's a huge investment.
"Thousand Faces, how come there are so many treasures in my storeroom? I never knew before."
“This is what the master left for you. All the rewards she received after becoming the Crown Princess and Empress were put into your private treasury.”
Xiao Sheng broke down in tears once again.
If he doesn't try his best and avenge her, she probably won't be able to rest in peace even in the afterlife.
Wiping away her tears, she said, "Thousand Faces, Little Horse, let's leave the palace!"
Inside Kunning Palace, Zhao Yunwan had already learned that the entire Ma family had been wiped out.
The Ma family's wealth was seized overnight by a wealthy merchant from Jiangnan named Huo Shan.
The key point is that Huo Shan has the mortgage contract from the Ma family.
The opium plantations managed by the Ma family for the Prince of Anle have all been destroyed.
The Yu family was impeached by the Censorate because of a woman named Fu Qing, which also uncovered many of the Yu family's dirty secrets. Several of the Yu family's sons who were officials in the court were laid off and their return to service was nowhere in sight.
Fang Qianqian had already gotten wind of the situation and absconded with the Yu family's property to the Great Liang Kingdom, where she found a powerful backer. Zhao Yunwan couldn't do anything about it.
The Yu family was wealthy, but Zhao Yunwan was a step too late and only managed to get some inanimate objects that Fang Qianqian couldn't take with her.
Nowadays, Zhao Yunwan is penniless and has suffered many losses, and the four major sects of the martial arts world are gradually severing ties with her.
Two imperial merchants from Jiangnan wrote to say that business was difficult this year and they didn't have much money to offer as tribute to the Empress, so they only sent 200,000 taels of silver.
This amount of money is not enough for Zhao Yunwan's daily expenses, not to mention that she also needs to buy various medicinal herbs to make many secret medicines.
Lu Dacheng stood aside, and upon learning of the current situation, he was also anxious and didn't know what to do.
It was as if someone was watching them; their actions and thoughts could be known in advance.
Looking at the mess in Kunning Palace, Zhao Yunwan made a decision.
"Teacher, we don't need that secret army from Nanchen Kingdom. We need to speed things up."
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