Shu Moyun recalled the past, her expression turning slightly cold. She looked so much like Cang Xuan.
"Li Cuihua and I are both time-travelers. I saved her just because of this."
"I originally thought that since we were from the same place, we could help each other out so that she could live a better life in this world. But I never expected that she had set her eyes on my jade pendant long ago. In order to snatch it, she even designed a scheme to push me off the cliff."
"I was very lucky. There was a big river at the bottom of the cliff. After I fell off, I landed in the river and drifted downstream. By chance, I was rescued by a ship of the Wang Merchant Guild. They recognized my former identity. Knowing that they had frequent contacts with the Qiangyou and Northern Barbarians, I had an idea. I pretended to be crazy and exposed my ability to make mechanism weapons and hidden weapons, which aroused their greed. I managed to make them move me to the villa on Jiutang Mountain to make mechanism weapons for them to sell to other countries for profit."
"I couldn't find any evidence of their contacts with other countries before. I really have to thank them for giving me this opportunity. They had no idea that I had engraved a hidden pattern on each hidden weapon to convey information. And I was just waiting, waiting for a chance to be rescued. Whether it was Yun Jian or someone else, I believed that as long as there was someone who still remembered me, they would surely follow the clues to find me and rescue me. By then, the Wang family's secret activities would be exposed one day."
After hearing Shu Moyun's experience, Su Yuanyuan admired her to the core.
It turned out that Aunt Shu had been pretending to be crazy from the very beginning. Taking the opportunity of making mechanism weapons and hidden weapons for the Wang family, she searched for evidence of the Wang family's collusion with the enemy to save her own life. What a strong and tough-minded person she was!
She had been laying the groundwork for a full five years. In terms of patience, no one could match her. Five years later, she finally waited for the chance to be rescued.
No wonder the Wang family regarded her as a thorn in their side and wanted to get rid of her. If such a woman were the queen, the Wang family might have ceased to exist long ago.
Shu Moyun asked, "Girl, where is the 'Su Qingyu' you mentioned now?"
Su Yuanyuan came back to her senses and said, "She was somehow driven out of the Pingyang Marquis Mansion and cut off all relations with them. And because she crippled the Prince of Jin's leg, she was forced to submit to the Crown Prince and became one of his concubines."
Shu Moyun's eyes narrowed. She murmured, "The Crown Prince? Girl, tell me more about the current situation in Shengjing City."
Su Yuanyuan was still trying to digest the identities of Shu Moyun and Cang Xuan, but she still explained it to her.
After learning that the current queen was a woman from the Wang family, the Crown Prince was her son, and Wang Chongling served as the Crown Prince's tutor. There were also three other princes, the Prince of Jin, the Prince of Huai, and the Prince of Xuan. The color drained from Shu Moyun's face, and she sat there in a daze.
Noticing that Shu Moyun's mood was a bit off, Su Yuanyuan tentatively called out, "Aunt Shu? Aunt Shu? What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"
Shu Moyun came back to her senses and smiled. "It's okay. I'm just a bit tired."
The smile on her face looked full of exhaustion and disappointment in Su Yuanyuan's eyes. For some reason, a feeling of sadness welled up in Su Yuanyuan's heart.
Forget it. Anyway, Aunt Shu was just a poor woman who had been framed and forced to live in exile, unable to reunite with her son. And Brother Yun Jian was also a poor person who had never had his parents' company since childhood.
Brother Yun Jian never mentioned this to her. Maybe he was also dissatisfied with the person on the dragon throne and didn't want to admit that he was his son.
She was still wondering why the black halo between Brother Yun Jian's eyebrows was so thick. It seemed that he still had the idea of fighting to the death with his biological father and being a rebellious villain.
Why should she care about these things?
Su Yuanyuan let go of the knot in her heart that Cang Xuan still had some secrets from her. She raised the wooden rabbit in her hand again. "Aunt Shu, now I should return Xiao Ba to you."
But Shu Moyun didn't take the wooden rabbit from Su Yuanyuan's hand. Instead, she wrapped the girl's hands with her bony and slightly cold hands.
"You can freely exchange puppet silk in the warehouse, which means that Xiao Ba has already recognized you. When I separated it from my body, I set a procedure. Only those who are truly recognized by Xiao Ba can get points and use the points to exchange for the Heaven-type poison. I can still heal people without Xiao Ba, so I don't need it anymore. You are kind-hearted and young. It can play a greater role in your hands."
"But..." Su Yuanyuan was about to say something anxiously, but Shu Moyun said, "Just take it. Consider it as a gift from me."
Seeing that Shu Moyun was insistent, Su Yuanyuan didn't refuse anymore. Then, Shu Moyun helped Su Yuanyuan tie the wooden rabbit around her neck again.
"From now on, you are the owner of Xiao Ba." Shu Moyun smiled.
After Shu Moyun said this, Su Yuanyuan heard Xiao Ba's cheerful voice in her ear: [Little Yuanbao, Xiao Ba will still bother you from now on!]
Su Yuanyuan showed a bright smile and tightened her grip on the wooden rabbit.
Great! From now on, she was the legitimate owner of Xiao Ba!
"Girl, remember, what we talked about just now is a secret between you and me. My origin and the existence of Xiao Ba. Don't mention these things to anyone else. A man is not guilty, but his treasure is. I hope you can understand this truth."
Su Yuanyuan nodded seriously. Just then, there was a knock on the door. Outside, Wang Yue's voice came: "Master, Miss Yuanbao, lunch is ready."
Su Yuanyuan looked at Shu Moyun. The latter nodded slightly. The girl got up and opened the door, inviting Wang Yue in. The aroma of food filled the whole room. Feeling the freedom at this moment, Shu Moyun's eyebrows and eyes softened a bit.
After having lunch, Shu Moyun went to sleep. Wang Yue stayed by her side to watch over her. Su Yuanyuan sat in the yard, stroking the hunting dog beside her while looking absent-mindedly at the mountains in the distance.
At this time, she heard the sound of horses' hooves and wheels rolling over stones. Su Yuanyuan looked up and saw Cang Xuan riding on a horse, followed by a fairly spacious carriage galloping towards here.
Su Yuanyuan stood up, her eyes always following Cang Xuan's figure. In her eyes that could see the fortune, she saw a halo like a thick cloud surrounding Cang Xuan's eyebrows.
During the free medical consultation in Shengjing City a few days ago, she thought that the halo was black. But today the weather was clear and the sun was shining brightly. In the bright sunlight, she clearly saw that the edge of the halo was tinged with a faint purple.
It wasn't black at all, but purple that was so thick that in the gloomy sunlight, people mistook it for black!
Purple, the purple qi coming from the east, symbolized the ultimate good fortune in the world. People with such a halo were either the great masters like Confucius and Mencius who were widely respected for thousands of years or - the emperors sitting on the supreme throne.
The purple on his eyebrows was even thicker than that of the current emperor!