bookcurios Chapter 344 - Ten Thousand Horses
Chapter 344 - Ten Thousand Horses
"Yan'er, your mother still has 100,000 troops in the East Chu State. When you get better, they will all be handed over to you to lead. The right to choose whether to seize East Chu or not is all yours." After she finished speaking, she put half of the missing Panlong black jade into Feng Muyan's hand.
Looking at the half piece of black jade in his hand, Feng Muyan's eyes showed a light of disbelief. How could this be!
"Yan'er, now that the world is in chaos and the time has come, your mother will no longer hide it from you. In fact, there is no whole piece of Panlong Black Jade in the world, but two halves, and both halves are missing corners. When put together, the whole piece looks like it is missing a small fingernail."
"Then the piece you gave to Fifth Brother..."
"That piece is fake. When the Queen Mother passed away, you and Xuan'er were still young. She was afraid that people in the palace would harm you, so she made a fake jade, wrote it and the 106 Riders of Lanling in a note, and then placed the note in the most conspicuous place in the bedroom." Shui Mochen said with a long sigh.
The mother and son talked for a long time, and Feng Muyan finally solved many of the doubts in his heart, and also got a shocking truth.
It turned out that the person Shui Mochen had loved at first was Feng Moyu's cousin Feng Shaoheng. They fell in love at first sight and got engaged. Shui Mochen was already pregnant before the engagement ceremony. Coincidentally, Feng Moyu came to Feng Shaoheng's house as a guest not long after that. He saw Shui Mochen by accident and thought about her day and night and could not forget her.
Later, Feng Moyu asked Feng Shaoheng for Shui Mochen many times but failed to fulfill his wish, so he decided to kill him.
Since Feng Moyu ascended the throne, he has massacred and framed his brothers, leaving only Feng Shaoheng, who had never competed with him for anything. He was arbitrarily given the title of idle prince, and even few people in Nanyue Kyoto knew of his existence.
Not long after, Feng Shaoheng was killed and thrown off a cliff by the imperial guards sent by Feng Moyu, while Shui Mochen was forcibly married into the palace and made queen.
With national hatred and family feuds suppressed in her heart, and pregnant with the child of her beloved, she had to serve the murderer of her husband. The kind-hearted Shui Mochen became extremely terrifying. She could remain silent for a whole month or talk thousands of words a day, but every word was a lie. She secretly poisoned and killed all of Feng Moyu's born and unborn children.
Later, Feng Yixuan was born which distracted her from much of her hatred. She began to plant flowers and hug her child every day. She tried many times to leave the palace late at night when no one was around to contact and gather the 106 Lanling Riders. She accidentally learned that Feng Shaoheng was not dead, and her heart, which had been dead for a long time, came back to life.
After that, she often ran in and out of the palace. A few years later, she became pregnant again, but what bothered her was that she didn't know who the father of the child was because the interval between the two times of being pregnant was too short.
"Mother, does that mean you are still not sure now?" Feng Muyan asked with a cold face.
"No, Yan'er, you look more and more like him. Mother thinks you should be..." Shui Mochen lowered her head as she spoke. She herself felt that this reason was far-fetched. In fact, there must be some gap in her heart, otherwise she would not have told Xuan'er many things but not Yan'er.
Feng Muyan finally understood why his father turned a blind eye when Shen Yingjun poisoned his fifth brother. He was afraid that his father had already made up his mind many years ago.
"Yan'er, the emperor is always ambitious, including Feng Moyu. So he was the first to see the notebook after his mother faked her death and left the palace. He knew the secret in it and began to search for the Panlong Moyu and the 106 Lanling Riders."