The fake daughter of a fallen ghost is reborn

Chapter 318 Finale

Marquis Zhongyong and Marquis Lin'an returned in triumph and brought back Huo Wuji who had been captured by the Northern Di. When they walked into Huajing in the cool weather of late autumn and early winter, the people lined the streets to greet them and the whole city was filled with jubilation.

The first thing to do after returning to the capital should be to meet the emperor, but when they were outside the palace gate, the two brothers stopped.

Now that the war is over, who knows what the emperor will do to silence them?

But outside the palace gate, the person who came to greet them was Shen Qingwei. Seeing Shen Chiyan coming back, he was very excited and knelt on one knee with his fist clasped: "Father!"

Shen Chiyan supported his shoulders and stood up, looking him up and down, with a look of satisfaction on his face: "Not bad, you are becoming more and more impressive now."

Shen Qingwei smiled and scratched his head. He then saw Huo Wuyou and Huo Wuji standing behind Shen Chiyan and urged them, "Why are you still standing there? Jianzhang Palace is waiting for you."

Jianzhang Palace?

The two looked at each other: When returning to the palace, they should first pay their respects to the emperor, so why would they be asked to go to Jianzhang Palace first?

Confused, they followed Shen Qingwei into the palace first. After all, they had just returned victoriously, and the emperor couldn't openly do anything against them at this time.

……

In Jianzhang Palace, the Queen Mother, Huo Zhiyu and Huo Wuhui had received the news and had been waiting there for a long time. Xue Zhiyi was sitting below the Queen Mother. Now that she was about to give birth, she could no longer move. She just held her waist and looked towards the direction of the Jianzhang Palace gate, anxious anticipation rising in her heart.

Chuizhu hurriedly ran in and said happily, "The eldest master and the Marquis of Lin'an are here!"

Hearing this, the empress dowager stood up with the help of her cane, her eyes full of excitement. Huo Zhiyu and Huo Wuhui couldn't wait to greet her at the door.

Two young men with similar features walked in. The erosion of northwest sandstorms and swords on the battlefield made them look a little gray, but with a bit of fierce murderousness after being stained with blood.

As soon as he entered the room, Huo Wuji knelt in front of the empress dowager. His voice was a little hoarse: "Grandma, I am unfilial and have made you worry for many years!"

The Queen Mother raised her hand, and her old hand carefully stroked Huo Wuji's face. She burst into tears: "It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back..."

Although the two brothers came back together, Huo Wuji had been away for several years. At this moment, they no longer cared about Huo Wuyou. They rushed up to him, hugged him, and cried together, almost unable to bear the longing.

Looking at his grandmother who had grown old unknowingly, and seeing Huo Zhiyu and Huo Wuhui who had grown much taller, Huo Wuji's eyes unconsciously turned red.

Seeing his empty left sleeve, Huo Zhiyu couldn't stop crying. Huo Wuji just touched her head and said, "Brother, it's okay. Ayu is already a grown-up girl. Why do you still cry so much?"

When she heard this, she cried even louder, like a cracked peach.

Only Xue Zhiyi stood up in a trance, looking at Huo Wuyou's eyes looking at her. She didn't know what she felt for a moment. She only felt that her heart, which had been floating in worry and longing, was now calm and stable. There was no excitement of reunion after a long separation, and it was so calm that even she was a little surprised.

But Huo Wuyou stopped at the door, and when she looked at Xue Zhiyi, her eyes were very confused... To be precise, she didn't expect Xue Zhiyi to be in the palace, and she didn't expect that she...

He belatedly realized that moisture welled up in his eyes and he ran towards Xue Zhiyi and stopped in front of her. He hesitated and stretched out his hand, but didn't know where to put it. It was the first time he felt so helpless in front of Xue Zhiyi.

"Awan..." His voice was filled with uncontrollable tears: "Why didn't you tell me?"

The excitement of looking forward to meeting each other turned into unspeakable guilt in an instant. His hand gently stroked Xue Zhiyi's earlobe, fell on the back of her neck, and gently embraced her, letting their foreheads touch.

Seeing the person he had been thinking about day and night so close to him, Huo Wuyou could no longer suppress his feelings and choked up: "I'm sorry, Awan, I had no idea..."

He had seen his mother when she was pregnant with A Yu and Wu Hui, and knew the hardships that women go through in childbirth. At that time, his father was always by his mother's side, taking care of her personally in every detail, but he missed those days, leaving A Wan to bear the whole thing alone.

Hearing him say this, Xue Zhiyi's heart also began to ripple. Originally, she was worried that Huo Wuyou would be hesitant and make trouble after knowing it, so she kept the matter secret for the time being. Now, asking him to accept this matter suddenly was indeed a bit too sudden.

She took Huo Wuyou's hand and placed it on her bulging belly. The ups and downs of his palm stunned Huo Wuyou. It was a feeling he had never had before... He was so aware that this was his blood, and also Awan's flesh and blood. It was created by them together and belonged to each other's hope.

At this moment, Xue Zhiyi's hand on the back of his hand suddenly tightened, and Huo Wuyou's heart also suddenly shrank.

Xue Zhiyi suddenly frowned, and his body unconsciously bent forward. He was holding Huo Wuyou's hand, and sweat appeared on his palms.

So when the two met, the first thing Xue Zhiyi said was: "Huo Wuyou, our baby seems to be about to be born..."

Huo Wuyou had just accepted the fact that Xue Zhiyi was pregnant, and before she could come to her senses, the baby was about to come...

He picked up Xue Zhiyi horizontally, his voice full of helplessness: "Call the imperial physician!"

The few people who were originally crying bitterly over their long-awaited reunion no longer cared about anything else and hurriedly asked someone to call the imperial physician and take Xue Zhiyi to the inner hall to lie down.

……

It gets dark early in early winter. As Huo Wuyou was restless, the crying of a child rang out as night fell.

Under the dim candlelight, the exhausted Xue Zhiyi had his eyes closed, his face was pale, his lips were chapped, and his hair was wet with sweat, hanging down at his temples in wisps.

"Awan..."

Huo Wuyou's gentle call woke Xue Zhiyi up suddenly. She opened her eyes suddenly, her breathing fluctuated. She looked blankly at Huo Wuyou, who was lying beside the bed with red eyes. She said in a hoarse voice, "Is the baby born?"

Huo Wuyou nodded and stroked her cold cheek with his fingers: "The child is healthy. I heard from them that it's a girl."

Heaving a sigh of relief, Xue Zhiyi's wet face showed a smile of relief, and his eyes became wet unconsciously.

This child had been through so much with her, and it was great that she was born healthy... That was her amazing daughter.

She said softly in a weak voice, "Grandmother has chosen a name. She said it's Mingyu, a very good name for both boys and girls."

"Okay, all good..."

Just like every time he used to play tricks on Xue Zhiyi's head, his fingers landed on her hair, but this time, his movements were as gentle as the breeze: "As long as it's our child, anything is fine."

The child was asleep when he was washed and brought in. He had just been fed by the wet nurse. The still somewhat wrinkled child lay quietly beside Xue Zhiyi, sucking his lips.

When they met for the first time, the two of them stared at the child's little face.

"Why do I look more like myself?"

Huo Wuyou rubbed Xiao Mingyu's soft little face, but Xue Zhiyi slapped his hand away. So he withdrew his hand reluctantly, fearing that his fingers, which had been roughened by swords, would scratch this tender face.

Xue Zhiyi smiled and said, "It's good to look like you, it's good-looking."

Huo Wuyou smiled complacently: "But if his mouth is more like yours, it will be nice too. He will definitely be a sharp-tongued person in the future."

Little Mingyu was humming in her dream. Xue Zhiyi looked at her and felt his heart filled with infinite satisfaction. She had been like this before, having come into this world with her parents' expectations, but unfortunately she was not able to enjoy it. Her Mingyu would carry all their expectations and live out her life regardless of wind or rain.

……

In the next few days, Shen Qingtang and Huo Zhiyu both came to visit Xue Zhiyi and Mingyu. The empress dowager loved them very much and often asked Chai Yue to hold the child in front of her, saying that Mingyu looked very much like Princess Yongning when she was just born.

Sui Yunlang, the foster father, came to visit happily with gifts. When he found out it was a girl, he was even more delighted: "A daughter is better. At least she won't grow up to be as annoying as Huo Wuyou."

However, more than ten years later, facing the female devil Huo Mingyu who was a hundred times more naughty than Huo Wuyou, Sui Yunlang wanted to slap himself a few times for what he said today. However, that was a story for later. As soon as he finished speaking, he was kicked by Huo Wuyou.

Shen Qingtang came quite frequently and had held Mingyu several times before the baby was one month old. She held Mingyu skillfully and never tired of whispering to the child. By the bed, Jiang Xu looked at the child in her arms with a tender expression on his face.

Xue Zhiyi looked at it and suddenly felt that something was wrong. She found that Jiang Xu's eyes seemed to be looking at Mingyu, but it seemed... he was also looking at Shen Qingtang who was holding the child.

She shook her head...It's not happening, don't think about it.

But in her heart, she couldn't help but have an inexplicable suspicion. As if possessed by some unknown force, she asked, "Brother?"

Jiang Xu did not respond to her, his eyes still on Mingyu, or Shen Qingtang.

He called again: "Brother?"

Jiang Xu finally came to his senses, his face still as serious as always, but his ears turned red unconsciously.

Xue Zhiyi pretended not to notice and said with a smile: "Brother, you haven't held Mingyu in your arms many times, right?"

Jiang Xu nodded stiffly and reached out to take Mingyu from Shen Qingtang.

However, Jiang Xu's movements became cautious, not the cautiousness when holding a child, but his hands tried to avoid touching Shen Qingtang, making his movements weird and guilty.

Shen Qingtang's movements were also very unnatural. She lowered her eyes, as if she was deliberately avoiding Jiang Xu. Even her movements were evasive, but her cheeks were turning red...

Seeing that the two of them made Mingyu cry out in pain, Xue Zhiyi said, "Give it to me first."

Shen Qingtang breathed a sigh of relief visibly, as if he had been pardoned, and stuffed the child into Xue Zhiyi's hands.

Xue Zhiyi said to Jiang Xu again: "Brother, stretch out your hand."

Therefore, although Jiang Xu's movements were still cautious, they seemed much more decisive.

Isn't this the way everyone holds their children?

Looking at the two people in front of her, neither looking at each other nor speaking, just standing there like wooden stakes, both with red faces, Xue Zhiyi finally understood: she and Shen Qingtang were probably destined to be sister-in-law.

……

After Chai Yue resumed her identity as Jiang Xian, Xue Zhiyi asked her if she had ever thought about her future path, such as leaving the palace, returning to the Jiang Mansion, and living the life of an ordinary person.

Jiang Xian gently shook Mingyu's hand for a moment, thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I'm already middle-aged, and I've established myself in the palace through years of hard work. Why should I start all over again outside the palace?"

She smiled warmly, "Now that my loved ones are by my side, everything is going smoothly. I think this is great. Moreover, when I first entered the palace, I was thinking that one day I would become a Shang Gong. When the time comes, I can retire as a Shang Gong, and it will not be in vain."

Xue Zhiyi smiled knowingly: Yes, everyone has their own future. Whatever you think is good, that is the best.

……

A few days after Xue Zhiyi gave birth, she learned the truth about the Yueling Pass tragedy. Huo Wuyou also learned what had happened in Huajing during his absence. When he learned that Xue Zhiyi had quietly rebelled against the emperor, after a brief moment of shock, he almost kowtowed to her... At first, he could not understand how Xue Zhiyi had persuaded the emperor, but he did not expect that this method of persuasion was so powerful that people could not refuse.

Things have come to this point, and some things should be settled. So one day, when Huo Wuji stood in front of the emperor, the emperor was shocked as if he had seen a ghost. He was so thin that he looked unrecognizable, and his face was full of horror. The fear was like the stench of the bedsores on his body, lingering around him.

Huo Wuji acted decisively, and the emperor died in the blink of an eye.