Chapter 56 The moonlight is beautiful tonight

Cheng Jiao did not interrupt Zi Nu's singing.

Feeling the emotions in Zi Nu's singing, there was a special kind of sentimentality in it that made Cheng Jiao look at Zi Nu with a gentle gaze.

A wonderful woman with a story.

"Turning around the red pavilion, lowering the beautiful window, shining on the sleepless. There should be no hatred, why does the moon always appear when we are parting?"

After Zi Nu finished singing the first verse, Cheng Jiao looked at Zi Nu's welcoming gaze and slowly began to sing again.

Zi Nu was delighted by the tacit understanding between her and Cheng Jiao.

Just like the tacit understanding I had with my mother when I was a child.

She started dancing and her mother hummed a tune which made her dance very happily.

Unfortunately, everything changed. My mother was confined to the old palace of Zheng State by the King of Han at that time.

She was still young at the time and didn't know why this happened. It was only later that she understood why her mother was under house arrest.

Han was one of the Seven Kingdoms in the Warring States Period. Her father was a prince of Wei State and was left in Han as a hostage to show that he had no ulterior motives.

Later, her grandfather, Lord Huai of Wei, was killed by King Xi of Wei, who made his son-in-law, her grandfather's younger brother, the monarch of Wei.

My father's brothers were secretly purged, some died and some escaped, and my father also began to flee.

Her mother just treated this as a story or a joke.

His father was not a good man. The purpose of marrying her mother was simply because her family was originally nobles who had fled from the State of Wei. After the family settled in the State of Han, they took Wei as their surname.

Therefore, her father often humiliated her mother's background, saying that she was not worthy of his status as a young master.

Her mother didn't know how her father died, but she only heard later that he was dead, and so he died.

When he fled, he took all the money and ignored them, mother and daughter.

At that time, my grandmother was the only one left in my mother's family. Her only son died of illness in the army. When my grandmother heard the bad news, she also passed away within a month.

Not long after, the then King of Han's sister, now Queen Dowager Le Ling of Wei, found that she had not received a letter from her grandmother for nearly half a year. She sent someone to inquire about her grandmother and learned that she had passed away. She was heartbroken for a long time.

At the same time, he also learned about his mother's situation, so he wrote a letter to the King of Han asking him to take care of his mother, out of gratitude for his friendship with his grandmother.

The King of Han at that time was concerned about the King of Wei, so he placed his mother in the cold palace (formerly the royal palace of Zheng), ostensibly as a punishment but actually as a way of taking care of her in secret.

Therefore, her life at that time was not miserable, but it was not very free.

Not long after, another woman and a boy who was younger than her and couldn't run came to the cold palace.

Listening to the conversation between her mother and her, she was a princess, the most favored princess of the King of Han at that time.

Her mother's affair with an outsider was exposed, and she was found out and confirmed to be the result of her mother's affair.

But there was never any hatred in her tone towards her mother, as if her mother had some difficulties.

When she was born, her father was not yet the King of Han. It was her father who took her mother by force.

At that time, her biological father was the son of an important official, and it was unknown what happened and he broke up with her mother.

Perhaps the important official wanted to be an important official in two dynasties, participate in the fight for the throne, and bet on her father.

But the truth no longer mattered to her.

Her mother was given poisoned wine, her biological father's family was exterminated, her husband was tattooed and exiled, and she was also imprisoned in the cold palace, along with her fatherless son.

Not long after, the fake princess died of depression.

At that time, the mother started taking care of the little boy.

The mother never told the boy about his mother, and a few months before her death, she told her some things and asked her not to tell anyone.

Later, when her mother passed away, she and the boy escaped from the cold palace and took their mother's surname together.

She was named Wuming from the Ji clan and the Wei family. Her mother often called her Xiao Zi when she was a child. Because she liked to wear purple clothes, her sisters called her Zi Nu, and the name has never changed since then.

She somewhat missed the days when she slept with her mother. At night, the moonlight shone through the window onto them. Her mother told her stories about the outside world, which were unforgettable to her. She always stayed up all night, fantasizing about becoming a female knight, traveling around the world, helping the weak and punishing the strong.

She clearly remembered that the night her mother left, the moon was just like it was tonight, very big, very round, and very far away.

Cheng Jiao's singing gradually stopped, and Zi Nu subconsciously continued. "People have joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, the moon waxes and wanes, this has always been difficult to achieve. I wish you a long life, and we can enjoy the beauty of the moon together even though we are thousands of miles apart."

She stared at the bright moon in a daze.

Confucius said, if you don't know life, how can you know death?

Is there an afterlife after death?

If so, where would my mother be? Would she be looking at the bright moon in the sky like me?

Cheng Jiao saw that Zi Nu was in a very low mood. He knew that it might be the lyrics that reminded her of her worries. He did not say anything, but just hugged Zi Nu quietly and accompanied her quietly.

"The moon is beautiful tonight, isn't it?"

After a long time, Zi Nu spoke softly.

Cheng Jiao looked down at Zi Nu's beautiful face and slowly kissed her.

"It is beautiful, just like you."

Zi Nu snuggled in Cheng Jiao's arms, and she seemed to have found the feeling of her childhood again. In her mother's arms, she felt so warm, safe and happy.

Han Fei was playing with the wine glass. Now only he and Zifang were left.

"Zifang, the moonlight is beautiful tonight, please have a few drinks with me."

"Obedience is worse than respect. Now everything is within Brother Han's expectations. I think tonight will be very good for us."

"Of course, I have faith in Brother Wei Zhuang's abilities. Zifang is as thoughtful as a god and as careful as a hair. His plan to lure the snake out of its hole is indeed ingenious. I admire and appreciate it."

"Brother stepped in at the critical moment, solved the mystery, and snatched food from Ji Wuye's mouth, saving grandfather from his predicament. There is no need to do this."

"Haha, Zifang, you are still as humble as ever."

"Zhang Liang was educated like this since he was young. His grandfather taught him all the time, and he dared not go beyond the rules."

Han Fei took a sip of wine.

"Do you know about the Treasure Pavilion?"

Zhang Liang hesitated and said, "I have learned a little bit about it. It seems that there is a conspiracy. The plot is very big. If it continues, it will affect the whole of Korea."

Han Fei smiled and said, "To be precise, it's the Korean nobles."

"According to some of the information I have investigated and analyzed, I guess that although Jubao Pavilion nominally belongs to Master Cheng Jiao, it is actually controlled by Ji Wuye."

"Zifang, you are right."

Han Fei shook his wine glass. He had his own ideas about the Treasure Pavilion.

"Brother, are you planning to take action against Jubao Pavilion?"

Han Fei placed the wine glass on the table, stood up, and looked at the Xinzheng Royal City from afar.

"I'm not going to take action and just let it develop. This thing is very tricky, but if used well, it might severely damage Ji Wuye and restore peace to South Korea. Chang'an Jun said something right, the nobles have sucked so much blood from the people, sometimes it's not a bad thing to let them go."

"Brother, how do you plan to use the Treasure Pavilion?"

"It's not the right time yet. Let's wait a little longer. I wonder what Zifang thinks of Chang'an Jun?"

Zhang Liang frowned. He had already looked up information about Cheng Jiao, but the more he looked, the more confused he became.

He was very surprised that the Cheng Jiao on the bamboo slips was almost not the same Cheng Jiao he had seen in person.

"Chang'an Jun, what this person did was almost purposeless. What puzzles Liang the most is that Chang'an Jun gave up his fiefdom and left Qin."

Han Fei smiled and said, "I don't understand either. He said it was to save his life and for a better future. Frankly speaking, I still don't understand the conversation with him that day. Tonight, after leaving Ji Wuye, I had a feeling."

"What does it feel like?"

Han Fei narrowed his eyes: "Jubao Pavilion is the work of Chang'an Jun Chengjiao!"

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