zChapter 1150 - A Shrewd Plan (2/2)
“That’s right! In this world, only I know how to plant and air-cure this kind of tea, if you like it, I will let you have some when you leave.” She raised her head and looked at Chunyu Ling, saying again: “Recently, scouts reported to me based off your portrait and said that you are now the first daughter of Zong Sui’s old General Chunyu An, your name is Chunyu Ling. So, how does the Zong Sui General treat you? Is it much better than the Feng manor?” Her gaze was sincere and she asked the other party very seriously: “I heard that Zong Sui’s General Chunyu only has one wife and one concubine, his wife gave birth to his first daughter and third daughter, and the concubine gave birth to the second daughter and a son. The old General treats the first daughter very well and that third daughter was also spoiled by him since young. After she grew up, she married Zong Sui’s Second Prince Li Jian, and currently as Li Jian entered the imperial palace, she became the Empress of Zong Sui. You are the blood related sister of the Empress. With this, you mother and daughter pair would not be treated badly in the manor, no one would dare to show any bad attitude towards the birth mother and blood related sister of the Empress.”
In these few sentences, she explained the situation in Chunyu manor clearly. Chunyu Ling also understood these things, it was just that she was always thinking about the affairs in Da Shun all these years and did not think deeply about the General’s manor. She truly did not think that place was her home, but it was only until she returned to Da Shun, did she understand that her home no longer existed here as well.
“Do you know who I am?” Chunyu Ling did not talk about the Zong Sui General’s manor but went straight to the main topic. The two of them did not beat around the bush, once Feng Yuheng spoke, she asked about the comparison between Chunyu Ling’s present and past situation, and Chunyu Ling also asked this after the other party pointed out that she was the first daughter of the General’s manor.
Feng Yuheng smiled, “Your appearance changed, your voice changed, but I can still recognise you with one look. In the northwest mountains in the past, I came, you left, we even had one sentence of interaction. Unfortunately, it was too short, and unexpectedly, we still have to chance to drink tea together many years later. What do you think, isn’t fate really strange?”
Chunyu Ling nodded. “That’s right! It is very strange, I did not expect that you who said that you would take revenge for me was actually so capable. Who…… exactly are you?”
“Shouldn’t you be asking how your mother died?” Feng Yuheng looked at her, shaking her head slightly, “Who I am is not important, I came from some place very far away, I am only someone who you did not know at all in the past. I feel that the misunderstanding between us should have stemmed from Mother. You married Bu Cong, returned to Da Shun, and appeared in my line of sight a few times like that, your goal is definitely not to make friends with me. I can see the hatred in your eyes, but I do not understand where this hatred came from. Thinking about it over and over, it should be over Mother, only that matter was outside of the plans, something which happened out of my control. I searched for you for many days but was unable to find you at all. I almost lost myself in helplessness and fear. But, the real Feng Yuheng, the relationship between us should not be like this, right?”
Chunyu Ling was stunned, “the real Feng Yuheng”, this method of address was so special. The relationship between the two of this should not be like this? Then what should it be like?
Feng Yuheng was still speaking, “In the end, I still think that in this world, only you and I can truly communicate with each other, our bodies and souls have a certain bond and relation, we have the exact same memories of the past, even if our identities are tied to opposing countries now, we should be the closest sisters and friends in this world. Unfortunately, you harbour a misunderstanding against me, and I do not know how to explain this misunderstanding, such that the two of us are at this point, such a twist of fate!”
She waved a hand in dismissal, expressing that she did not want to talk about it anymore, with regards to the Feng family, with regards to Yao Shi, she fulfilled everything over so many years and never thought she owed anyone anything. For many things, it was not as if people would believe them if she said them, unless it was witnessed with their own eyes. But Yao Shi was already dead, who could Chunyu Ling meet?
“I buried Mother in the desert at the southern border, it is beside an oasis. I choose the best place and there is someone keeping watch every day.” She told Chunyu Ling, “When Mother passed away, it was at the southern border. With such hot weather, it was impossible to transport her back to Da Shun, so we could only bury her locally. Everyone in the southern border knows about it, including her and Feng Jinyuan becoming husband and wife again after divorce and bringing a fake daughter there to pretend to be Princess Ji An. Chunyu Ling, if you have such intention, I will secretly send people to escort you to the southern border. Go there and gather information, the citizens will not lie to you.”
Chunyu Ling’s eyes lit up, “You will send me to the southern border?”
“You want to go?”
“I want to!” Her tears flowed out, “If everything I heard in the tea house recently is all true, then, thank you for everything you did in the past. I want to go to the southern border to see Mother’s grave, if you did not lie to me, then please do something for me once more, let me stay in the southern borer and accompany Mother! I do not wish to return to Zong Sui again, I do not wish to stay in that place for another day, I do not have any family there, the people I call Father and Mother, none of them are my family, I want my true family, I’m begging you.”
Feng Yuheng agreed to Chunyu Ling’s request and after keeping Chunyu Ling to eat a meal together, she immediately arranged for people to send her to the southern border, sending an eagle letter to the people who stayed back at Lan Province, asking them to welcome her properly.
Sending Chunyu Ling away, the first reason was to allow the other party to go to the southern border and understand the truth clearly, the second reason was Feng Yuheng’s personal reason, and the scheme that she had thought up together with the Sixth Prince Xuan Tianfeng. Sending Chunyu Ling away, she did not believe that Bu Cong would not appear, this time, they would completely eradicate the remnants of the Zong Sui faction left in Da Shun!