amaotonovel Chapter 954: Under some kind of curse?
Chapter 954: Under some kind of curse?
The next day, Xie Shang did not rush to attend the morning court, but asked Wuxin to deliver the memorial to Kunning Palace. He got up before dawn to review the memorial sent overnight.
Jiang Fenghua knew that he had only slept for two hours, and she actually felt a little sorry for Xie Shang. She got up early and went to the small kitchen to make breakfast for him herself. The couple was busy with their own things and lived in harmony.
Gongsun Lan waited until dawn before coming slowly. She still felt a little uncomfortable when she reached the door. She didn't know why she felt depressed when she saw Xie Shang and Jiang Fenghua doing that. After returning to her room, she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. She was thinking about all kinds of things in her mind. In fact, she knew that their affairs had nothing to do with her.
"Miss Gongsun." Jiang Fenghua just came back from the small kitchen and saw her wandering outside the door.
"Empress." Gongsun Lan said lightly.
Jiang Fenghua had a faint smile on her lips, "The emperor is working in the room. Miss Gongsun, are you here to see the emperor?" Looking at the distraught Gongsun Lan, she deliberately tested her.
Unexpectedly, Gongsun Lan blurted out, "I'm looking for the Queen."
Jiang Fenghua paused, the smile on his face growing deeper. "Miss Gongsun is here to talk to me about setting off for the Ghost Realm."
Gongsun Lan said, "I remember now. I once saw a flower ornament like the one between your eyebrows in a book. It's a curse."
Jiang Fenghua said, "Miss Gongsun means that I've been cursed, which is why I've inexplicably grown red spider lilies."
"I don't know. Perhaps you're cursed, someone's trying to harm you, or maybe it's something else." Gongsun Lan continued, "It's rumored that Lycoris radiata is the flower of hell. It's a flower born from the accumulation of resentment. When the Queen discovered the mark between her eyebrows, did anything else happen?"
Jiang Fenghua thought about the dream she had. The woman in the dream kept asking her to kill Xie Shang. She didn't know why. Sometimes she really had an urge to kill him, but she controlled herself. She didn't have such deep hatred for Xie Shang. In this life, she just wanted to sit firmly on the throne and protect her children. If Xie Shang really died, it would not be good for her.
Now she just wanted to know who had a grudge against Xie Shang and who wanted to kill him.
"Queen Jiang?" Gongsun Lan called out to her when he saw that she was silent.
Jiang Fenghua came back to his senses and said, "Thank you, Miss Lanlan."
"Just call me Lanlan." Gongsun Lan felt that she was too distant, and she became more and more curious about why such a strange thing happened to Jiang Fenghua.
Jiang Fenghua added, "Lanlan didn't have breakfast, right? I personally prepared some meals that the emperor likes. Let's eat together in the room."
Gongsun Lan didn't hesitate and followed Jiang Fenghua to sit at the dining table. Xie Shang asked as usual, "What did Lanlan say to the Queen just now?"
Gongsun Lan didn't hide it and told him about the "curse". He then said, "Xiao Shang told me some things about the ancient Yinchuan Kingdom. I speculate that if the ancient Yinchuan Kingdom really existed, it might have been cursed. Even if dynasties changed, it's impossible for the entire country to disappear completely. The Lycoris radiata between Queen Jiang's eyebrows is a curse. There's a record in a miscellaneous notebook that the way to break the curse is to eliminate the resentment in one's heart..."
Xie Shang said, "Isn't it because of the secret technique that brought the ancient Yinchuan Kingdom back to life?"
"There are indeed many people in the world who seek immortality and eternal life, but all their efforts are in vain. Queen Jiang's experience is indeed a lucky one, enlightened by God. Rather than believing in some secret technique for rebirth, I believe it is a curse. The flower between Queen Jiang's eyebrows is the best proof of this."
Jiang Fenghua suddenly felt a little nervous. If it wasn't the secret of rebirth that brought her here, then what was the reason? Xiao Shang has been looking for the truth behind his coming here, and Zhang Yumo is the same as them. Why did it become a curse? Was it a curse cast on her by the person in her dream?
Jiang Fenghua said, "Lanlan and I will go to the Ghost Realm first. Maybe we will know what is going on when we get there."
She planned to take Zhang Yumo with her.
Xiao Shang was brought back home by Xiao Yu yesterday. As a man, he is not suitable to live in the palace.
After discussing it for a while, they still had no idea. Xie Shang had a lot of state affairs waiting for him to deal with, and now he couldn't go anywhere, so he sent secret guards to protect Jiang Fenghua's safety.
He said, "Let's wait until the rain subsides before setting off. I'm waiting for your news in the palace."
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Jiang Fenghua's carriage stopped at the gate of Jiang Mansion. She did not get off, but asked Aoxue to invite Zhang Yumo out.
When Zhang Yumo saw Jiang Fenghua, she herself was surprised and quickly bowed, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. Why don't you come in when you return?"
Gongsun Lan and Jiang Fenghua rode in the same carriage. She said, "I won't go in. Sister-in-law, go back to your room, pack up, and leave the capital with us!"
Zhang Yumo was puzzled: "Where are you going outside Beijing? I won't go. I promised your brother that I would stay at home to take care of Xiaochu." The last sentence was an excuse.
Jiang Fenghua didn't want to beat around the bush with her. "I know you're no longer my sister-in-law. At least in your heart, you've never admitted your feelings for Jiang Jinyan, nor have you ever admitted that you're Xiaochu's mother. You've also been secretly working for the Zhang family."
Zhang Yumo was stunned and a little nervous. "What is the Queen talking about? I don't understand."
"I know you understand." The reason why Jiang Fenghua was so cold to her was entirely because she had indeed been helping the Zhang family under the banner of Jiang Jinyan, and she was holding the dowry that Old Madam Zhang had given her. This money was hers, and the Jiang family had no right to ask about it. However, it was too much of a betrayal for her to use the dowry left by Old Madam Zhang to her granddaughter to calculate and manage everything.
She sent people to secretly investigate all of this.
The current Zhang Yumo seems to be a completely different person from the previous Zhang Yumo. She is selfish now, but she used to be a talented woman with a clear distinction between love and hate.
Jiang Fenghua stared at her face and suddenly thought of what Gongsun Lan said. Could it be that she was also cursed? But there was no Lycoris radiata flower on her forehead!
Zhang Yumo felt uneasy when she looked at her. She clenched her fingers tightly in her sleeves. She put one hand on the mark on her other wrist, which was almost exactly the same as the flower ornament on Queen Jiang's forehead.
She didn't know what was going on.
It was impossible for Zhang Yumo not to follow the Queen's orders. After several struggles, she finally made up her mind to leave Shengjing with Jiang Fenghua.
Gongsun Lan saw this and said, "You have a grudge against her!"
"No." Jiang Fenghua replied.
"Then why do you have such a cold face?" Gongsun Lan asked again.
Jiang Fenghua has been looking for the answer. Even if Zhang Yumo lived a new life like her, she would still be kind, but why did her personality change?
Zhang Yumo's abnormal behavior made him look like someone who was cursed.