HCB Chapter 234 The Person My Mother Trusted Before Her Death
Chapter 234 The Person My Mother Trusted Before Her Death
After Helian Kuangmo left, Zhai Rongyu turned around and began to examine the palace.
Sinking Star Palace...
She didn't believe it was a coincidence.
Zhai Rongyu took out the tear, turned it around in the hall, and the teardrop was slightly hot towards a certain spot.
She followed the direction of her tears and walked into the inner room.
Sure enough, there was an elderly woman inside, carefully wiping something, her movements extremely slow.
Upon hearing footsteps, she immediately turned around and knelt down, not daring to raise her head: "This servant greets Your Majesty."
Zhai Rongyu didn't speak; her attention was drawn to the portrait behind the old woman.
The woman in the painting looks remarkably like her; at first glance, one might mistake it for a portrait of herself.
However, the woman in the painting is dancing, so it couldn't possibly be her.
Zhai Rongyu stared blankly at the eyes of the person in the painting, then raised her hand to touch her own eyelids.
It really does look like it...
This must be my mother.
She stared at a line of small characters next to the portrait and murmured to herself, “The bamboo flute and the new moon are just like those of yesteryear, but the person is no longer the same.”
She sneered.
Helian Kuangmo was truly trapped in his own romantic illusion.
Hearing the sound, Yun Gu looked up, her eyes unfocused as she stared at a certain spot in the void.
She is not His Majesty.
"Who are you? And how did you get in?"
She stood up hastily, touched Zhai Rongyu's shoulder, pushed her towards the door, and said in a low voice, "Get out of here quickly before anyone notices! If His Majesty finds out you trespassed into Chenxing Palace, you'll lose your head!"
Zhai Rongyu looked at Yun Gu and pulled her back, "Granny, there's no need to worry. It was Helian Kuangmo who sent me."
She spread her five fingers and waved them in front of Yun Gu. Seeing that Yun Gu didn't react at all, she realized that Yun Gu was blind.
"Your Majesty?" Yun Gu released her grip, somewhat stunned. "Ever since Miss Jiang left, Your Majesty has forbade anyone to enter Chenxing Palace. Why did you allow you in?"
"Who are you anyway?"
Judging from her voice, she seems quite young.
She even addressed the emperor by his given name, suggesting she was of extraordinary status.
"Miss Jiang?"
“It’s the woman in this portrait, Jiang Jiusheng.” Aunt Yun reached out and gently touched the portrait, then stroked the frame with a kind expression.
[My mother's name was Jiang Jiusheng.]
Zhai Rongyu didn't answer her, but instead asked Yun Gu, "Since Helian Kuangmo doesn't allow anyone to come in, why are you here?"
As if recalling some memory, Yun Gu smiled gently, "Miss Jiang came to Nan Sang alone. I was originally assigned by His Majesty to serve her, but who knew that Miss Jiang is such a kind-hearted person, treating me like a sister."
Yun Gu lowered her head, her expression somber.
"After she left, I specifically asked His Majesty for permission to stay in Chenxing Palace and clean it every day, so that we could at least fulfill our master-servant relationship."
[She was my mother's former maid.]
Zhai Rongyu carefully examined Yun Gu.
Judging from her appearance, she did not have a congenital eye disease.
[This should be due to human intervention.]
Zhai Rongyu had some guesses in her mind, "Your eyes, were they harmed by Helian Kuangmo?"
Yun Gu looked up and clutched the hem of her dress, suddenly feeling a little nervous. "I went blind from crying myself; it has nothing to do with His Majesty."
Seeing that she wouldn't tell the truth, Zhai Rongyu didn't press her for details.
She opened her palm, and a tear welled up. Seeing the face reflected in it, she confirmed that Aunt Yun was indeed Xiao Yun's head nanny.
"Xiaoyun asked me to come and see you."
"Xiao Yun?" Yun Gu paused, then reached up and touched Zhai Rongyu's sleeve, gripping it tightly. "Xiao Yun, isn't she already..."
“She is dead,” Zhai Rongyu nodded. “To be honest, I am a Taoist priest. Xiaoyun couldn’t let go of you before the ritual to help her pass on to the afterlife, so she asked me to come and see you. Once she got your news, she could go and be reincarnated in peace.”
Yun Gu suddenly became agitated, and tears fell from her dry eyes.
"That silly child, Xiaoyun..."
"Now that you have the opportunity to be saved, you should go as soon as possible. Why are you still worrying about this old man and delaying your future..."
Zhai Rongyu held her words in her tears. When Xiao Yun heard the news and heard Aunt Yun's words of concern for her, she immediately burst into tears as well.
Ghosts don't shed tears, they just wail and moan.
"My lord, thank you." Zhai Rongyu heard Xiao Yun's voice transmission, "The old woman is still alive and seems to be in relatively good health. With that, I can leave in peace."
Zhai Rong nodded.
She saw Xiaoyun walking into the ritual array she had drawn earlier, through the gate of rebirth.
"Miss, how is Xiaoyun now?" Aunt Yun asked.
She had heard that if a ghost wanders the human world, it will suffer inhumane punishment once it is caught by the ghost messengers.
Xiaoyun had such a hard life before she died; it would be too painful if she couldn't find peace even in death.
Zhai Rongyu closed the Gate of Rebirth, dissipating the magic array.
"Don't worry, Granny. I just told her your news. She has already gone to be reincarnated."
After hearing this, Yun Gu finally breathed a sigh of relief and bowed deeply to Zhai Rongyu.
"On behalf of Xiaoyun, I thank you, young lady."
Zhai Rongyu helped her up, saying, "No need to be so polite, Granny. This is Xiaoyun's good fortune."
Just as she was about to wipe away her tears, she saw Yun Gu's face and remembered that Yun Gu had seemed to want to save her life, and suddenly changed her mind.
“You have a kind heart, and even in your distress you still think of helping others. I will help you this once and let you see the light again.”
Before Yun Gu could react, she felt as if a tear had fallen into her eye. Then she heard a clear bell ringing. She blinked, and a blurry scene appeared before her eyes.
She stretched out her hand and saw her ten fingers gradually becoming clear.
"I...I can see now..."
"I can see!"
Yun Gu stared excitedly at her hands, then shook them – it wasn't her imagination!
Zhai Rongyu suddenly groaned, pressed his chest, and steadied himself.
[The Wu family's protective spells are indeed powerful.]
[I only used a bit of the Hunyuan Bell's healing function, and yet ten percent of my spiritual energy was forcibly absorbed.]
This is something we must not be careless about.
Yun Gu turned her head and saw Zhai Rongyu's face clearly, and was stunned, "Miss Jiang..."
She rubbed her eyes and looked more closely, only to realize that the woman in front of her only looked very much like Miss Jiang, but was not her.
"Who...who are you...?"
Zhai Rongyu smiled at her and pointed to the portrait, saying to Yun Gu, "Thank you for taking care of my mother in the past, Granny."
"Mother...you're Miss Jiang's daughter?!" Yun Gu stared at Zhai Rongyu in shock. After calming herself down for a while, she asked her with tears in her eyes, "What's your name?"
"Zhai Rongyu".
"Alright, alright." Yun Gu nodded, wiping away her tears. "That Minister Zhai is truly devoted to you, Miss. Marrying him will fulfill your wish."
Upon hearing her say this, Zhai Rongyu knew that Yun Gu must have been someone her mother trusted during her lifetime.
Otherwise, as a Nansang person, he would never have spoken up for his father.
"Does the old woman know why this palace is called the Palace of Sinking Stars?"