"Father, I know that you miss your mother and concubine and long for her to return to you, but the theory of reincarnation is too mysterious. Why should you sink like this and only add to your sorrow?" Liu Fan looked at his father and shed tears.
"I am the king of a country, the destined emperor. I said your mother would be reincarnated, so she will be reincarnated!" Liu Hongjing took out the portrait painted by Liu Huo, opened it with trembling hands, looked at the person in the portrait, and said, "
This princess has a beautiful country and a natural red mole. She traveled thousands of miles to Xiling. There must be some providence. Fan'er, can you bear to let your father be so disappointed? Because you can't see the lover you miss day and night.
, and secondly, can you bear to be betrayed by your closest relative?"
Listening to his father's words, Liu Fan's heart seemed to be being put into a frying pan and being tortured on both sides. He knelt down motionless and secretly shouted in his heart: "Mother! What's going on? Are my son and Lianyi really a bad fate?
?If you have a spirit, can you entrust your dreams to your father? Lianyi is not your reincarnation, no!"
"Report——" A guard rushed in from outside, breaking the terrifying silence in the room. Liu Hongjing raised his head and listened to the guard's report, saying that someone outside had brought news about Princess Dongling.
"Princess?" Liu Hongjing staggered and almost fell. Liu Fan got up to help him, but he threw him away. The eunuch waiting outside hurriedly came in to help him and walked out of the inn. Liu Fan also followed out with confusion.
In the courtyard, Xiao Zhu and Mengmei scholar Jiang Feng were standing next to a carriage. When they saw the emperor coming out, they hurriedly knelt on the ground to pay their respects.
"Where is the princess?" Liu Hongjing asked in a trembling voice.
"The princess died that day, and the common people buried her body on Qiling Slope outside the imperial capital." Jiang Feng reported back.
Liu Hongjing seemed unable to accept this fact and was speechless for a while.
"Father! Don't listen to his nonsense! They and the prince are all in the same boat, working together to deceive my father!" Liu Huo ran over and said.
"Your Majesty, please be patient. The princess's bones are now buried at Qilingpo. Your Majesty can go and verify her identity in person." Xiaozhu knelt on the ground and said coldly.
Liu Fan glanced at Xiaozhu and saw that her face was peaceful and calm. He thought that she must have settled the matter and was confident, so he continued to remain silent.
"Pass my message and set off for Qilingpo quickly!" Liu Hongjing shouted. The eunuchs hurriedly retreated and prepared their carriages and horses.
When the army and horses arrived at Qiling Slope, it was already early morning on the third day. Liu Hongjing traveled day and night, and he was tired and angry. When he got off the carriage, he looked sleepy and tired, which made Liu Fan feel a little heartbroken.
"Father!" Liu Fan reached out to help him, but this time he was not pushed away by his father.
Jiang Feng and Xiao Zhu took everyone to a new tomb. Liu Hongjing stood in front of the tomb and ordered people to dig it in a trembling voice.
After a while, a thin coffin appeared in the loess. Liu Hongjing ordered people to carry the coffin out and open the coffin for autopsy.
The coffin was opened, and a young woman's body was sleeping inside. Because of the cold weather, the body showed no signs of death. The woman's starry eyes were tightly closed, her face was beautiful, and there was a little cinnabar between her eyebrows, as if she was sleeping.
When Liu Fan looked at her, his heart felt as if he was struck by lightning, because the woman's appearance was clearly that of Luo Lianyi!
"Xi'er! I'm late -" Liu Hongjing looked at the woman in the coffin, squatted down, gently pressed his fingers on her cinnabar, and shed tears.
Liu Huo watched from a distance, his eyebrows furrowed into knots, but this woman had a strange identity, and he didn't dare to go over to see what was going on.
"Xi'er! How can you be buried in such a deserted place? I will postulate you as the first-class virtuous concubine of Joan of Arc and bury you in the imperial mausoleum." After Liu Hongjing finished speaking, he fainted.
"Father! Father!" Liu Fan hugged his father and saw that his face seemed ten years older, and his temples had turned completely white in just a few days.
The princess's body had been covered with a gorgeous brocade quilt and carried into the carriage. Liu Fan carried his father into the dragon chariot. His heart was agitated. He secretly looked at Xiao Zhu, who only blinked slightly.
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On the way back to the imperial capital, Liu Huo lagged far behind and whispered to Eunuch Tong: "This matter is fishy, there must be fraud."
"The corpse must be fake!" Eunuch Tong squinted his eyes, his eyes gloomy.
"Before the corpse is buried, we must find out what's going on." Liu Huo gritted his teeth.
"Yes!" Eunuch Tong accepted the order.
After Liu Hongjing regained consciousness, he remained silent because of his grief and tired look. When he was approaching the imperial mausoleum, a eunuch came to report: "Your Majesty, the mage who has saved the wise concubine has arrived."
"Yeah." Liu Hongjing struggled to get off the carriage.
"Father, you'd better not go down, take care of your dragon body." Liu Fan knelt down to stop him.
"I took one last look at her." Liu Hongjing said sadly.
"Father, you look at her to express your sorrow. If my mother and concubine are alive in heaven, they will definitely not feel at ease. You should go back to the palace and leave the matters here to your son." Liu Fan said.
Liu Hongjing looked up at the sky and called out sternly: "Xi'er——"
Liu Fan looked at him and his heart was as sharp as a knife. Losing a partner is the greatest pain in life.
"Father, please go back to the palace. I beg your father to return to the palace. This princess is just a coincidence. She will not be the reincarnation of the mother-in-law. Father, please don't be sad anymore." Liu Fan begged, hugging his father's legs.
"How can there be such a coincidence in the world? She must be my Xi'er!"
"No, Father, if she is a mother-in-law, God will definitely appreciate your love and send her to you. She has no chance to see Father, so that's definitely not the case." Liu Fan just wanted to alleviate his father's grief, but he didn't care.
Right or wrong, just make it up.
Liu Hongjing fell silent, seeming to believe a little.
"Father, no matter whether she is alive or not, after all, a dead person cannot be resurrected, so you should let her rest in peace in the earth, return her ghost to the underworld, and then be reincarnated. You have given her too many favors, and I am afraid that you will kill her instead.
, it’s not conducive to her reincarnation." Liu Fan said.
"Is there such a thing?" Liu Hongjing hesitated.
"My son, I also occasionally heard my master say that if a person with a low status is forced to have wealth, he cannot afford it. If the princess is destined to be a low status and cannot enjoy the emperor's favor, my father's posthumous title will be harmful.
"Fuck her." Liu Fan made up all the time, but he cursed himself ten thousand times in his heart, how could Lianyi be a bitch? She is the richest destiny, and she should enjoy his lifelong love.
"Then I shouldn't posthumously make her a virtuous concubine?" Liu Hongjing frowned.
"I think we should bury her with the ceremony of a princess. After all, Princess Dongling has not met the Holy Emperor, and her body is pure and pure. She will go better with the ceremony of a princess."
"Okay, I will follow your advice and go back to the palace." Liu Hongjing thought for a while and agreed to Liu Fan.
After watching his father's chariot leave, Liu Fan turned his attention to Liu Huo, who was looking at him from a distance. Liu Huo came over on horseback and sneered: "His Royal Highness put on a good show."
"Brother Emperor, what do you say?" Liu Fan also replied coldly.
"Hmph! I have clearly seen the princess with my own eyes, how could she be buried in that wilderness? Where did you get the fake corpse? You can fool the emperor, but you cannot fool me!" Liu Huo said.