Traveling through the heavens from the prequel of the Lotus Lantern

Chapter 715 Late Affectionate Than Grass
Five days later.

Cheng Mansion, study room.

Cheng Shaoshang was sitting in the room, reading the book quietly. The study door suddenly opened a crack, and Cheng Shi and his son were seen poking their heads.

"Niao Niao, this doesn't look right. In the past few days, the Manchus of the Ling family have been raided, the three brothers of Ling Yi have been beheaded, the queen has been secluded in the Changqiu Palace since she asked to be deposed, and the prince has been demoted to the king of the East China Sea. How can she still be calm and composed? Read a book." Cheng Shi's face was filled with confusion.

"I think he's doing well. He's not crying or making trouble." Cheng Song stared at Cheng Shaoshang.

"What's good, that fourth prince abandoned Niao Niao for no reason. He is so cold-blooded and ruthless." Cheng Shaogong said indignantly.

Suddenly, Cheng Shaoshang's voice came softly:
"Father, brother, if anything happens to you, you can come in directly."

The three people immediately stood up straight, looked at each other, opened the door and walked in.

"Niao Niao, people like the Fourth Prince are not worth your grief." Before Cheng Song could finish his words, he was interrupted by Cheng Shi angrily:
"It's okay to ask what the fourth prince is doing. How old are you? You should learn to be more prudent and think about everything before you open your mouth."

He motioned to Cheng Shaoshang, who was still reading with a calm expression:

"Look at Nia Niao, how stable he is now."

Cheng Shaoshang put down the scroll in his hand, stood up slowly, and said:

"Father, I have taught you the cultivation methods these days. You must cultivate well. Don't fish for three days and dry the nets for two days. Although this method cannot guarantee that you will become immortals, it will definitely make you live longer. If so, Chance may allow you to embark on the path to immortality.”

After saying that, he bowed to Cheng Shi and walked out.

"Niao Niao, why don't you continue reading? Where are you going? My father will help you." Cheng Shi asked quickly.

"Go around, don't worry." Cheng Shaoshang's light words came again.

In a corner of the back house, Xiao Yuanyi and Qing Yuan saw Cheng Shaoshang from a distance, showing dignity and courtesy in his every move.

"Nujun, the young master is really completely transformed now. She is completely different from what we saw when we returned home. She has really grown up."

Xiao Yuanyi listened to Qing Yuan's praise, and there was no joy on his face. Instead, he looked slightly melancholy and said softly:

"In the past, I always hoped that she would be more stable, and more stable, but now, she is so calm, as if she has become a different person."

"Looking back now, the way she was aggressive and jumping up and down made me feel at ease."

"Qingqing, was it that I was wrong from the beginning? If I had not made strict demands on her, maybe she would not have been so infatuated with the Fourth Prince, or maybe from the time she was born, no matter what the obstacles were, I If we all take her with us, then she won’t have what she is experiencing now.”

Qingyan comforted her with a warm voice:

"Children always have to grow up. As a mother, who doesn't watch them go further and further away? After all, we can't accompany them all their lives. Sooner or later, they will have to walk together."

Not long after, Cheng Shu came to Xiao Yuanyi and said that Cheng Shaoshang suddenly asked someone to prepare a carriage, as if he was going out.

Xiao Yuanyi immediately took them to find Cheng Shaoshang, and then stopped her outside the gate of the mansion.

"Niao Niao, where are you going?"

Cheng Shaoshang turned around and replied:

"I'm going to Changqiu Palace to see the Queen."

Xiao Yuanyi asked suspiciously:
"After Empress Xuan was deposed, she asked herself to be banned from the Changqiu Palace. Now the palace maids in the Changqiu Palace can only enter and cannot leave. It's like a cold palace. What are you going to do?"

Cheng Shaoshang's eyes were calm:
"The more times like this, the more I should be by the queen's side. When my father and mother received military orders and rushed to the isolated city, they also left me at home."

"Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be fulfilled at the same time. Niao Niao understands it today and asks my mother to let me go to Changqiu Palace to fulfill the two words of loyalty and righteousness."

Cheng Shu saw Xiao Yuanyi fell into silence and said:
"You said that the queen needs someone to accompany her, but my eldest aunt has been in poor health these years, and she can't leave anyone. If you really want to leave, I will take care of your eldest aunt and never marry her." Cheng Shaoshang looked at her:

"My mother always said that I am stubborn and strong-minded. My cousin Sisi is not the same."

Cheng Shu took a step forward:
"Niao Niao, listen to my cousin, you will definitely find a son-in-law who will cherish you. Don't be angry about it and spend your whole life together."

Cheng Shaoshang raised his eyelids:

"Who said that a girl must find a husband and son-in-law in this life? I can find him if I want, and it doesn't matter if I don't."

"Cousin, your cultivation talent is excellent, and your cultivation has been on the right track. In the past few days, I have taught you the cultivation methods based on the physical constitution of my father and mother. I hope that my cousin will help me take care of you."

When she said this, she looked at Xiao Yuanyi:

"Mom, take care."

After saying that, he turned around and got into the carriage.

Xiao Yuanyi looked at the carriage going further and further away, seeming to realize something, with an anxious look on his face:
"She won't come back. She wants to stay in that cold palace forever. Hurry, prepare the carriage."

Outside the gate of the imperial city, Xiao Yuanyi looked at Cheng Shaoshang who was standing far away inside the palace gate. She was about to shout, but saw the palace door slowly closing, and she was inexplicably stunned.

At this moment, she finally had an empathetic experience.

Although her daughter had been abandoned by her for more than ten years, she never realized that it was abandonment.

He believed that he was forced to do so, and that keeping his daughter at home was more to protect her.

Therefore, she has always been asked to understand, but because of her stubbornness and constant inability to understand, I think she is not sensible enough and does not know how to take the overall situation into consideration.

However, at this time, Xiao Yuanyi never understood why Cheng Shaoshang could not forgive herself. Now she was also abandoned. She suddenly understood what it felt like to be abandoned, and the emotion of regret kept flooding into her heart.

Her eyes were red and she shouted heartbreakingly:

"Niao Niao, don't go. Niao Niao, grandma is wrong. Mom is sorry for you, Niao Niao."

Cheng Shaoshang stood there in silence, looking at his mother who looked like this for the first time in her life. She felt inexplicably, and a passage could not help but come to mind.

"Zi Yan, why do you think I can't get close to my mother?"

"Because you have been accustomed to suspicion, frame-up, favoritism, and unfairness since you were a child, even close relatives. Therefore, you need to express it absolutely definitely and directly, otherwise it will be difficult to be sure that this love is true."

"Furthermore, belated affection is worthless than grass. In the same way, no amount of love can make up for the past hurt."

She closed her eyes, shed two tears, and said silently:
"Wen Ziyan, I never thought that you would still be influencing me to this day."

Seven years later.

Changqiu Palace, Queen Xuan's bedroom.

Outside the screen, many royal maidens were kneeling, including Cheng Shaoshang and Huo Wushang. They all looked sad.

Xuan Shen lay on the bed with a breath of energy.

"Shen Xu, if you have anything else that you can't let go of, tell me and I will take care of it for you." Emperor Wen sat beside the bed and held Xuan Shen Xu's hand.

"I have lived for others all my life. It would be too boring to speak for others at this time. I have stayed with His Majesty for decades. I know that in His Majesty's heart, he is still the upright young man who likes to farm and study. If the world hadn't been in chaos. , if Emperor Ru was not cruel."

"Your Majesty wishes to live in the countryside for the rest of his life, then marry his sister Yue Heng, have a few children, work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and live an ordinary life."

(End of this chapter)