klisemfg Chapter 656: Already the King of Lanhai at the age of 3?
Chapter 656: Already the King of Lanhai at the age of 3?
Li Qingluo noticed that something was wrong with him and quickly held Duan Rongshi's face, full of concern.
Duan Rongshi couldn't help but rub his face in her palm: "I just miss you."
"Luo'er, please don't leave me again, okay?"
He wanted to hug her tightly, but considering the baby in her belly, he could only hold her carefully.
Li Qingluo blushed slightly.
"Why are you acting more and more like a child?"
"Ashi, is there really nothing else happening?"
She even felt a little uneasy: "Is there another woman in your backyard?"
"Ashi, has someone given you a concubine?"
"If this happens, I won't let you off!"
After experiencing the pain of his master, Li Qingluo understood more clearly what "cherish" meant.
Cherish the people in front of you.
Cherish the true love that others cannot obtain.
Cherish those who are sincere to you.
She was not worried that Duan Rongshi had changed his mind.
But I have also heard a lot of storybooks, and there are those stories about people who seek favors by doing merit, but all they ask is to send their daughters to the lord's backyard.
Duan Rongshi is in his prime right now, and I'm afraid many of his powerful generals have already started to think about it.
Duan Rongshi was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Whoever dares, I will chop them into pieces!"
He tapped Li Qingluo's forehead lightly with his fingers, his tone serious.
"Luo'er, I, Duan Rongshi, will never be a heartless man in this life."
"If I ever do something like this, it must be because someone else has taken over my body, not me."
"Then you can just kill me."
Li Qingluo chuckled.
"You're so hard on yourself."
"Of course I believe you, but you've been so nervous tonight, so I started to think too much."
Duan Rongshi: "It's because I dream about you every night."
"And now that you're back, I thought it was still just a dream."
"Luo'er, promise me."
"From now on, nothing will be more important than you, including me."
"Stop risking your life for others."
"I don't want to be alone anymore... This is a nightmare!"
Li Qingluo gently patted Duan Rongshi's shoulder and comforted him: "How could it be just one person?"
"Now that you have me, you have family on my side."
"Besides, you have your own bloodline and your own children."
"Ashi, you... Hey! He's moving again!"
Li Qingluo was surprised and immediately pulled Duan Rongshi's hand and put it on her bulging belly again.
"Do you think he knows that Daddy is right next to him?"
"Today's movement will be greater than in the past."
Duan Rongshi opened his eyes wide in disbelief: "Really?"
Li Qingluo: "Of course it's true."
"Ashi, do you want a daughter or a son?"
She asked seriously, staring at his face.
Duan Rongshi replied without thinking: "Daughter."
"It's okay to be like you or like me."
Li Qingluo: "Let's just be like you."
"Like you, I am like my mother."
When talking about their mother, they smiled at each other.
"If Mother knew, she would be very happy."
Li Qingluo: "I wonder if Mother still comes back to visit us occasionally."
"Maybe Mother has gone to a better place?"
"But Ah Shi, speaking of my mother, there's one thing I haven't gotten an answer to!"
"Did you know that Anar and my mother look 70% alike?"
"And the Queen of Loulan and my mother are somewhat similar. Are they both of Lanhai bloodline?"
Duan Rongshi was not surprised.
Although he had never seen Anar and the Queen of Loulan, he had actually guessed it after Nangong Di asked Li Qingluo for their portraits to take to the Western Regions.
"Luo'er, do you want to hear the story between me and Lan Hai?"
Li Qingluo nodded quickly: "Yes! I want to know how you became the King of Lanhai!"
Duan Rongshi first glanced at the food on the table, then held her hand and said, "Eat your fill first, then I'll tell you slowly."
"Eat."
Li Qingluo was indeed not full yet.
He quickly took a few more bites, then wiped his mouth and said, "Just tell me. If you don't, how can I eat anymore?"
Duan Rongshi patted her head and stopped teasing her. He finally spoke slowly, "When I was thirteen, I came to the border."
"The master who taught me martial arts at that time was the one my mother left for me when I was young."
"He said he was my master, but for many years he had been with me as master and servant."
"If I showed him any respect, he would distance himself from me even more. So, I got used to being distant from him."
"Luo'er, I envy you and Mr. Nangong for getting along so well, like real father and daughter."
"Maybe it's because of my personality, so it's hard for me to get really close to anyone."
"Besides you, there's no one else I can truly open my heart to and talk about these past events with."
"But when I was thirteen, I wasn't like that. I still had a bit of youthful innocence."
"My master brought me to the border with the army. When we were resisting the Western Regions Army, he deliberately took me away from the army and headed towards the foot of the Kunlun Mountains."
"On the way, he confessed his true identity to me."
"It turns out that he is not from the Central Plains."
“But they are not from the Western Regions.”
"He is from Lanhai."
"They are the descendants of the guards that my great-grandmother brought with her when she came to the Central Plains."
"The Nalanhai Kingdom is located at the junction of the Western Regions and the Central Plains. It is a tiny country at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains. It is so small that neither the Western Regions nor the Central Plains look down on it or pay any attention to it. For hundreds of years, it has never belonged to either side."
"And they have survived comfortably in the cracks for no less than five hundred years."
"But by the time of my great-grandmother, the royal family and the Lanhai people had become very rare."
"My grandmother was the eldest daughter of King Lanhai. In order to find Lanhai's life, she traveled thousands of miles alone to the Central Plains."
"Seeing the prosperity of the Central Plains, she was envious and devoted herself to studying, but she also accidentally fell in love with a man from the Central Plains."
"But she never forgot the heavy responsibility she shouldered. So, after unexpectedly becoming pregnant, she still got married and gave birth to my grandmother. Then she faked her death and escaped back to Lanhai Country."
Li Qingluo was shocked when he heard this.
I was surprised in my heart and thought: My great-grandmother is really decisive and straightforward. She is an admirable woman.
Love affairs may have a place in her heart, but compared with the national responsibility and the burden on her shoulders, she can more decisively choose the path she really should choose.
She is worthy of being the eldest princess.
I just feel sorry for my grandmother.
She lost her mother at a young age. Although it was heard that her stepmother treated her well and even raised her to be a noble lady who was the most outstanding in Nan'an, her grandmother went to the Eastern Palace, and her stepmother's own two daughters, because they were the sisters of the Crown Princess, married two people with more impeccable family background, character and even family style.
Later, my grandmother died of illness in despair due to the late emperor's indifference and confinement in the cold palace.
Is it also because there is no one in her family to support her anymore?
Duan Rongshi seemed to know what Li Qingluo was thinking.
He rubbed Li Qingluo's back without pausing, but continued, "Later, a coup d'état took place in Lanhai. After much hardship and time, my great-grandmother regained the imperial power and ascended the throne of Lanhai."
"Because of her injuries, she could only give birth to a sickly son."
"By the time she wanted to come and see her grandmother again, she had already died in the Chu Palace."
"She regrets it deeply, but it's too late to make amends."
"So later on, we sent trusted people to stay with Mother and Emperor Chu."
"My master is the guard who grew up with my mother, so he always considered himself a servant."
"Later, he took me to Lanhai Country and met my sickly great-uncle."
Li Qingluo: "The sickly uncle? Is he still alive?"
Duan Rongshi: "He is no longer alive."
"But he was indeed still alive back then. Since he was born when my great-grandmother was only thirty-six years old, he was frail from childhood."
"But I was fed with medicine all the time, so I lived for quite a few years."
Li Qingluo: "What happened next? What happened?"
Li Qingluo: "He passed the throne to me."
Li Qingluo opened his mouth slightly, looking surprised.
"You were only thirteen years old and you were already the King of Lanhai?"
"Ashi, you're really good at holding it in! You've never told me such a thing!!"
"you--"
Li Qingluo felt a little angry, but also more curious: "But why was it not passed on to the Chu Emperor's children, or even the Chu Emperor, but to you?"
"After all, my mother is a daughter, and the Emperor of Chu is a son. Does the Lanhai Kingdom really not value sons more as heirs who can inherit the bloodline?"
Duan Rongshi: "Let me answer your questions one by one."
"First, the Lanhai Kingdom doesn't prioritize boys over girls. Because the royal family has had queens for several generations, they value ability over gender."
"Secondly, because my master took the initiative and brought me back to Lanhai Country."
"Back then, my great-grandmother sent guards to protect my mother and Emperor Chu. Each of them brought a martial arts secret manual."
"Whoever first teaches a master will be able to return to Lanhai Country."
"Later, I went."
Li Qingluo thought of the princes of Zong Zheng clan and shook his head in disgust.
As expected, no one can compare to her, Ah Shi!
Li Qingluo found it very strange, as if he was listening to a story.
She asked many more questions, such as whether Lanhai Country was beautiful and the customs and culture of Lanhai Country.
Duan Rongshi patiently answered them one by one: "It's beautiful there."
"The picturesque scenery and paradise on earth as rumored are nothing more than that."
"As for local customs and practices, the people there are simpler, more persistent, honest, and kinder than those in the Central Plains..."
"Luo'er, I'll take you there to have a look."
"If you want, we can live there for a long time..."
Li Qingluo replied to him drowsily before falling asleep: "Okay."
"Let's go and take a look at that otherworldly Lanhai..."
Soon, the sound of her even breathing reached Duan Rongshi's ears.
After carefully placing her on the bed, Duan Rongshi gently kissed her forehead and lips.
"We have a long way to go."
"From now on, it won't just be Lanhai Country. There will also be mountains and rivers, beautiful mountain and river scenery...anywhere you want to go, we'll go together and see it slowly."