"Neither the emperor nor the prince will allow Su Zhiyao to enter the palace. The emperor has been constrained for many years by the power of the imperial relatives. He will not give the Su family another chance." Shen Qingwu shook his head.
"Wouldn't it be better to let the Su family and the prince completely turn against each other?" Chu Guannan asked.
The prince has always been cautious in state affairs. He would rather do nothing than make mistakes and leave room for suspicion. There is almost no way to bring down the prince in this matter.
The quickest way is to sow discord between the Crown Prince and the Su family.
He has set traps for the prince several times, but the prince has rarely fallen into them. If he reveals his cards now, it will be very disadvantageous to his future situation.
His mother's body was his biggest weakness.
He didn't want his mother to be restless after her death.
"Su Zhiyao has been badly betrayed by the prince. Once this matter is revealed, Su Cheng will definitely push her out to die. It is not worth it to risk a tragic life and provoke a ghost baby just to break off the engagement." Shen Qingwu turned over and lay flat next to Chu Guannan, looking at the tent above his head, and slowly stated the reason for his refusal.
Chu Guannan looked at her in surprise, "Ghost baby?"
"The child in Su Zhiyao's womb was murdered by his biological father, and the resentment is hard to let go, and now it has affected Su Zhiyao." Shen Qingwu said, "The ghost baby hopes to take revenge with his own hands. If others interfere, he will definitely vent his anger."
What she needs to do is not to stop the ghost baby from growing, but to give it a helping hand occasionally.
In the end, the prince wrote his own death step by step.
When facing people from the royal family, in order not to attract the attention of the demon clan, for Shen Qingwu, defense is safer than offense.
"Can you see ghosts?" Chu Guannan felt that the room was a little colder.
Shen Qingwu nodded.
If she wanted, she could see ghosts wandering the streets at any time.
There are also some under the grape vines in the Summer Resort.
Chu Guannan couldn't help but turn his head and look around, then asked curiously, "Is there anything in this room?"
"In a room where someone is, there are generally no ghosts as long as the owner doesn't cause trouble," said Shen Qingwu.
"Many times I can't help but wonder whether my mother's soul is still in the world. Over the years, I can often feel her presence, like an illusion." Chu Guannan looked at Shen Qingwu sideways.
Shen Qingwu was also looking at him.
She couldn't help but think about what she saw during the day. What kind of feeling is it to like someone?
After hearing Chu Guannan's words, she quickly came back to her senses and said seriously, "After so many years, she should have been reincarnated. Unless she had an obsession that she couldn't let go of and the ghost messenger didn't take her away, or her soul was forcibly captured and couldn't leave."
Having said this, she couldn't help but stand up slightly and clasped Chu Guannan's shoulders with both hands.
It's a pity that she still can't see his past and future.
All I could feel was the increasingly strong dragon energy emanating from him.
With dragon energy protecting his body, ordinary demons and monsters cannot get close to him at all. If she had not borrowed a human body and transformed herself into a human with her original form of white tiger, I am afraid that she would not be able to get close to him easily.
Likewise, what he said about being able to sense ghosts might not be an illusion, especially since his mother was related to him by blood and would most likely not be affected by dragon energy.
When Chu Guannan's mother died, she must have been very reluctant to let him go. She might have also accumulated a lot of resentment in her heart about being abducted into the palace and separated from her husband. This was indeed able to persuade the ghost officials to let her stay in the human world.
"Where is your mother's grave?" Shen Qingwu gave up exploring his future and realized that something was wrong.
"She has not been buried yet. She has been frozen in an ice cellar for so many years." Chu Guannan said.
"Ice cellar?" Shen Qingwu frowned in confusion.
"The Dog Emperor said that he couldn't bear to see my mother die in her prime, and he wanted to keep her in her most beautiful appearance forever. After her death, he didn't bury her, but put her in an ice coffin." Chu Guannan's voice became heavy.
"But in her last moments, she was so thin and haggard that she looked like an eighty-year-old woman. How could she be the most beautiful?" Chu Guannan laughed mockingly.
Shen Qingwu, "..."
Is there a conspiracy behind the emperor's actions?
Chu Guannan continued:
"My mother is in the imperial mausoleum, which is full of traps. Every year he takes me there to offer sacrifices, but the route is different every year, and the mausoleum where my mother is buried is also different. I'm not the crown prince, so I'll be blindfolded when I enter the mausoleum."
"In the third year, I dreamed of my mother. She was shivering from the cold, but she was still urging me to leave Kyoto as soon as possible and never come back."
"Before she passed away, she once said that she hoped I could take her back to Liangzhou for burial. But in my dream, she only urged me to leave as soon as possible and never asked me to take her with me."
Chu Guannan covered his eyes with the back of his hand.
He was leaving and taking his mother's coffin with him.
Shen Qingwu folded his hands on his lower abdomen, his fingers moving constantly. He waited quietly for him to finish before asking, "The coffin is in the imperial mausoleum, but where is the memorial tablet?"
"At the Great Buddha Temple." Chu Guannan's voice was a little muffled. "Since she couldn't enter the ancestral temple, the emperor lit a perpetual lamp for her at the Great Buddha Temple. She has a special person to serve her, and she enjoys the incense of the world."
Because of this matter, some ministers opposed it at the beginning, thinking that the emperor was doting on this favorite concubine a little too much.
But the emperor insisted on his own way, believing that the dead were the most important, so the matter was left unresolved.
Shen Qingwu's rapidly moving fingers suddenly stopped.
"Is there any problem?" Chu Guannan raised his hand and keenly noticed the changes in Shen Qingwu.
"Not sure." Shen Qingwu shook his head. "I'll go and see for myself when I have time."
Chu Guannan's throat tightened. "Do you have any doubts now?"
Shen Qingwu shook his head, "I have no direction. Let me take a look first."
"Okay." Chu Guannan's voice was hoarse.
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"Shen Qingwu, you are so shameless. Your mother is in such a serious trouble, yet you still have the nerve to come out and play." During the day, everyone went to the mountain stream to recite poems and paint to show off their elegance. Chu Zhiyou looked at Shen Qingwu with disgust.
"You're just a jerk who only remembers to eat and not to be beaten!" Shen Qingwu sat cross-legged on a rock fishing. He only glanced at the shameless person who came up to him to ask for a scolding, and did not take any action.
Wu Chunxiang stopped Chu Zhiyou who wanted to take another step closer with a cold face, "Sir, men and women should not touch each other, please respect yourself."
"A maid dares to block my way. Are you tired of living?" Chu Zhiyou raised his hand in disgust and pushed her into the turbulent river without mercy.
Wu Chunxiang was caught off guard, and the stones were slippery, so she lost her balance and fell into the river.
Chu Zhiyou pushed Wu Chunxiang into the water, and without hesitation, he quickly stepped forward and pushed Shen Qingwu who was sitting on the rock.
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