Mountain and River Pillow

                                 Chapter 22

    Chu Yu looked at her quietly.

    When she first met Xie Jiu, she did not like her. However, now that she is looking at Xie Jiu, she has a lot of feelings coming up.

    In the previous life, Xie Jiu left in a hurry, perhaps because she knew that the later she left, the more she had to face this bloody reality, the easier it would be to grieve.

    The actual fact is that you can’t get the good side of a person if you don’t have much friendship with them.

    Chu Yu watched Xie Jiu and looked at Wei Ya quietly for a while, then slowly turned her head: “Do you know that the crown prince and the sixth prince are currently fighting for the throne?” ”

   The crown prince’s biological mother was born in the Yao family, while the sixth prince was born in the Wang clan of a great family, and was born of a real noble woman.

    Chu Yu didn’t understand why Xie Jiu said this suddenly, but she also knew that according to Xie Jiu’s nature, she would never say this for no reason. So she remained silent and listened patiently.

    Xie Jiu brushed her hand over the coffin and said calmly, “Your Majesty has the Yao family as the new noble, the Yao family’s daughter as the queen, and his son as the crown prince. The purpose is to balance. The sixth prince represents the clan, and the Yao family is the emperor’s sword. But is it appropriate to hand over the honor of a country to a sword?”

    “This question,” Chu Yu pondered, “should be thought of by the whole court.”

    “Then the prince will naturally think so too.” Xie Jiu lowered her eyes: “Two years ago, the Wang and Yao clan were fighting for the land in the west of Hexi, His Majesty asked father-in-law to make a decision, the crown prince had come to the Wei House, that night they seemed to have a big argument, and the crown prince left overnight.”

    “Later the land of Hexi belonged to the Wang family.” Chu Yu seemed to understand something, Xie Jiu nodded, with a cold look in her eyes: “This time the crown prince was the supervisor, Yao Yong was also on the battlefield. If this matter is the prince’s interference, have you thought of a strategy to deal with it?”

    Chu Yu did not speak.

    In her previous life, it was not the crown prince, or the sixth prince who ascended the throne, but the thirteenth prince, who was only two years old now.

    When the sixth prince ascended to the throne, Wei Yun brought his men directly into the imperial city, cooperated with Gu Chusheng and beheaded the sixth prince under the sword. Then assisted the youngest son of the queen to ascend to the throne. Since then, Gu Chusheng and Wei Yun fought with wisdom and courage until she died.

    She didn’t know what happened after her death, but she knew that before she died, the crown prince had long died. And the reason why the prince died was that he could not get rid of the relationship with one person——

    The Eldest Princess, Li Chunhua.

    She has already visited this person today. She is the eldest sister of the current emperor. She and the emperor grew up together, and have a great friendship. She has an accurate understanding of the holy heart, no one in the world can outperform her. She was widowed at a young age and had only one daughter. After being widowed, she simply raised many faces and spent her days in absurdity.

    In her last life, Li Chunhua promised her only daughter, Li Yuewan to the crown prince, asking him to be devoted to her daughter. The crown prince agreed, but kept cheating on her outside, and Li Yuewan was found pregnant, but she died during childbirth. Li Chunhua from then on turned to the sixth prince in anger, and from then on was bent on opposing the crown prince.

    Now the Prince has just engaged Li Yuewan, Li Chunhua still does not know the absurd things about the Prince, what if she knew?

    Chu Yu pondered – According to Li Chunhua’s temperament of loving her daughter like her life, knowing that the prince is doing those things outside, can he still be good?

    The person is about to lose her temper, there must be a reason to lose her temper, if the matter of the Wei family hits Li Chunhua’s hands at this time , everything will be smooth.

    Chu Yu straightened her thoughts, breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Xie Jiu, “I understand, thank you.”

    Seeing Chu Yu’s expression, Xie Jiu knew that she had found a way, nodded, and did not say much, her eyes fell on Wei Ya’s coffin, after a long time, she said hoarsely: “I’m gone, I won’t come back again. When you were alive, I did my best to be nice to you, and now you dead, I do not have any regrets in the next life…”

    She clenched her fist and trembled gently: “You and I will be husband and wife again.”

    After saying that, she turned around suddenly and walked out.

    She was born thin and selfish – Xie Jiu told herself – doing  everything for Wei Ya is the best she could give.

    Looking at Xie Jiu’s back as she left, Chu Yu couldn’t help but call out to her, “Xie Jiu!”

    Xie Jiu paused in her steps and turned around, the moonlight shone on her plain white figure, Chu Yu put her hands in her sleeves, gently.….

She smiled: “Girl, you are so beautiful.”

    Xie Jiu was stunned for a moment, and after a while,  she smiled away with tears in her eyes.

    “Yes,” she said in a clear voice: “My husband also said so.”

    “Go well.” Chu Yu nodded, her eyes full of seriousness, Xie Jiu lightly smiled: “Don’t worry, I will definitely live better than you in my life.”

    “That’s not necessarily true.” Chu Yu smiled and leaned on the promenade pillar, her look was flirtatious like a young master, her eyes were all gentle: “Believe it or not, in this life, you and I will live a very good life.”

    Xie Jiu did not speak, she quietly looked at Chu Yu.

    The woman’s comfort was gentle and silent, but full of strength . Xie Jiu was originally such a sensitive person, she was sensitive to the bad of others, and even more sensitive to the good of others.

    So she nodded, but said, “Thank you.”

    Chu Yu kept watch for half the night, and when she opened her eyes the next day, she quickly called someone over.

    Chu Yu still remembers the lover who the prince made Li Yuewan have a difficult childbirth – there is no way she can’t remember, not to mention that Gu Chusheng asked her to investigate this matter, what’s more, that lover was indeed too shocking, that lover was The prince’s cousin from the same clan, the daughter of the King of Qinghe, the eldest princess who was twelve years old, but was widowed early on.

    The crown prince had an affair as early as the age of sixteen with the county princess Yun Lan, this incestuous love lasted for ten years, and can not be described as not deep love. Chu Yu calculated the time, now it was the seventh year of friendship between the crown prince and Yun Lan, Chu Yu thought for a moment, then asked people to find the butler.

    “Does the Wei family have a small courtyard next to the county princess Yun Lan’s residence?”

    She opened her mouth to inquire. The housekeeper froze, but quickly reacted and busily said, “Yes, but it is in the suburbs, quite remote ……”

    Chu Yu nodded, unsurprised, but ordered: “Go to the treasury to get some incense pills, set up a fire in that small courtyard near the wall of the county lord’s residence, throw the incense pills into the fire and burn them day and night.”

    Although the housekeeper did not understand what Chu Yu was talking about, he still nodded and solemnly said, “I understand.”

    “Find another beggar, send a letter to the prince’s residence, don’t tell that beggar who you are, just let him send a letter.”

    Chu Yu then went to find a pen and paper, and wrote a love poem in the handwriting of Princess Yun Lan:.

    One heavy mountain, two heavy mountains, the mountains are high and the water is far away, people have not returned, Acacia Maple Leaf Dan.

    Married to Gu Chusheng those years, Chu Yu learned a lot of things, one of them, is to forge other people’s handwriting.

    She had someone send the trusted beggar to the Crown Prince’s residence, and when the crown Prince’s residence heard that it was sent by a beautiful woman, they immediately presented it.

    Chu Yu smoked some incense pills, then brought a large amount of gold and silver once again, and entered the door of the eldest princess.

    For the sake of gold and silver, Li Chunhua finally met Chu Yu.

    Chu Yu dressed in plain clothes, bowed towards Li Chunhua. The fragrance pill smelled strong, Li Chunhua instantly noticed the smell and said with a smile, “What kind of fragrance is this on Young Lady Wei, it’s really special.”

    “It is the Ten Days Incense.” Chu Yu stood up, brought the gift up, holding  the gift with both hands, she came to Li Chunhua and said with a smile, “The fragrance of this incense is strong, it can not be dispersed for ten days after being contaminated, it is specially made by the Wei House. I don’t use it often, but now I want to build a shrine in the suburbs of the city, so I had someone light the incense and burn it in the suburbs first, so I brought some scent here casually and made the Princess laugh.”

    Li Chunhua saw the silver and gave a face, but did not say anything more, but said: “The courtyard on the outskirts of the city, is it the one next to Princess Yun Lan? There was a spring banquet a year before, and it was there.”

    She did not seem to want to dwell on the topic of the Wei family for too long, she continued: “Yun Lan has never been fond of scents, if you smoked like this, Yun Lan May be extremely depressed.”

    “Not really,” Chu Yu smiled and rolled her eyes: “Women love all good things, the smell of this incense pill, perhaps the county princess even likes it.”

    “She also asked me for a few fragrant pills, I guess she wants to use them later.”

    Chu Yu said to Li Chunhua, as if she was talking about an insignificant matter: “Maybe, county princess Yun Lan is looking for a husband. After all, not everyone can be widowed for life.”