Chapter 1464: 1459: Chu Heng is Kidnapped
Chapter 1464: Chapter 1459: Chu Heng is Kidnapped
Su Yingxue rubbed its head. “I understand, you’ve worked hard… In my past life, if I had been more capable, I would never have let you suffer like this.”
“Still talking about it! Pah!”
Little Ginseng rolled its eyes outwardly but inwardly felt comforted by her words.
Who doesn’t have a past life?
But in this life, Su Yingxue had given it enough security. Compared to being squeezed dry in its previous life, this time around, it could cultivate into a little girl in Medicine King Valley.
If Su Yingxue were a little more capable, it might even cultivate into a human to see how wonderful this outside world is.
Su Yingxue laid down for a while before getting up. She had her meal in the warm pavilion and quietly awaited Chu Yihan, waiting for him to finish discussing matters and come over.
With a look of anticipation in her eyes, Su Yingxue pulled him to sit on the soft couch and asked, “Hubby, do you still remember Rong Qing?”
“Rong Qing?”
Memories surged in Chu Yihan’s mind, and so did the doubts from the depths of his heart, “How did you come to know this name? He has never revealed his name in public.”
“I… I will explain to you another day. Just think, hubby, do you still have any connection with Rong Qing in this life? The two of you in this life…”
“In this life, I’ve only met him once.”
Chu Yihan didn’t care how strange Su Yingxue’s words were, he simply trusted her and answered.
When Su Yingxue figured it out, he then voiced his doubts, “You asking about Rong Qing, is there something you’re hiding from me?”
“It’s not really hiding, it just sounds a bit like a fantasy. I don’t know if you will understand… this matter of rebirth?”
Su Yingxue tentatively spoke out, but she saw that Chu Yihan was clearly stunned and had an expression of not knowing how to respond to her.
Su Yingxue massaged her temples. This matter, to ordinary people, would indeed seem far-fetched, and those who could accept it were probably not quite normal.
“Are you trying to say that you had a past life and have lived again in this life?” Chu Yihan asked calmly.
Su Yingxue nodded with difficulty, “To be serious, yes.”
However, she feared that Chu Yihan might not be able to accept it, even if he did accept it…
“Continue speaking, after rebirth, what else is there?” Chu Yihan was very calm, his handsome face serious, showing no hint of confusion or intention to mock her.
“It’s just that, after being reborn, I remembered this person Rong Qing. He might be related to our current enemy… and he might also be someone who has been reborn.”
Su Yingxue pursed her lips; she knew no matter how she put it, it sounded unbelievable and incomprehensible to people.
But that was the reality before her.
Her mother came through transmigration, which was strange enough.
She came through rebirth, which was also quite extraordinary!
That is to say, the unknowns… might be even more extraordinary.
Just like this Rong Qing, who might also have been reborn.
“In my memory, there indeed is a person named Rong Qing, and I also suspect that it is him. However, there is no proof at the moment,” said Chu Yihan, holding her hand with a somewhat solemn expression.
“What exactly is your connection with Rong Qing?”
“The Shadow Guards have gone to Beiling City to investigate. I need to wait for their reports to find out if there is a person named Rong Qing before confirming,” Chu Yihan replied.
He remembered as a child when traveling with the emperor to Jiangnan, he had met an envoy from Beiling City. Among the envoy group, there was an inconspicuous child who was five years younger than him, dressed in tattered clothes, starving nearly to death.
Feeling sorry for him, he had the palace guards save him and took care of him for a few days.
Later, when the Beiling City envoy came, claiming the boy was one of their slaves, he could only return the child to them.
Since then, he had never seen the child again.
But before the child left, he asked him for a name.
He said they, as slaves, had no names, but he didn’t want to die someday without a name on his tombstone, so he begged him to bestow a name upon him.
He thought it was simple enough and wrote down the character ‘倾’ for him.
At the time, the little slave was very happy, treasuring the name and keeping it close, saying that from then on, he would be called Rong Qing.
Chu Yihan did not dwell long on this matter; to him, it was but a trifle.
The affairs he dealt with as he grew up were numerous and complicated, which soon submerged this insignificant incident.
Had it not been for the matter concerning Mo Qi and Hong Lian, he wouldn’t have remembered it.
“Before the end, Mo Qi’s father wished to preserve a lineage for Mo Qi, leaving behind his first child. This very incident occurred while on a patrol, where that little slave was also present.”
As Chu Yihan spoke, he tapped his fingers on the table twice.
Su Yingxue pursed her lips in deep thought, feeling increasingly certain that Rong Qing truly existed!
If he too was a person reborn…
“Your Majesty! Something terrible has happened!”
Sun Wu rushed in frantically, stumbled over the threshold, and fell right in front of Chu Yihan and Su Yingxue, his face pale with fright, “Your Majesty, the Crown Prince has disappeared!”
“What?!”
“What!”
Chu Yihan and Su Yingxue stood up at the same time and hurriedly walked outside.
The palace was thrown into chaos, as Chu Yihan and Su Yingxue searched the entire imperial palace, but by nightfall, they had found no trace of Chu Heng.
The palace guards at the gates also conducted self-inspections, having been interrogated numerous times, but no one saw any unusual people entering or exiting, nor did anyone see Chu Heng leave the palace.
How could such a living child just vanish bizarrely within the imperial palace?
“Such formidable martial arts skills, to be able to abduct the Crown Prince from within the palace without anyone noticing!”
Su Hao, after searching all day and drenched in cold sweat, said.
Such a deed, perhaps only Chu Yihan in the entire Great Cheng Dynasty could accomplish, could it not?
Yet, this has happened right within his imperial palace – his son was kidnapped!
Vanished without a trace!
“Heng’er…”
Su Yingxue slid down from the Phoenix Throne, her strength drained, unable to get up as she collapsed weakly.
Chu Yihan held her in his embrace, comforting her with care, “Do not fear, Heng’er will be fine. I will lead people to find him; he will certainly be alright!”
“Heng’er!!!”
Su Yingxue couldn’t help crying out, unable to stay calm any longer; she had not anticipated that someone could abduct her son from within the imperial palace and leave not a single trace!
How could that be possible!
“Empress, do not grieve; I will certainly find the Crown Prince,” Su Hao said, not daring to delay, he knelt before Chu Yihan, “Your Majesty, please allow me to conduct another search, in Jiang Du City, to find the Crown Prince.”
“Go,” Chu Yihan gestured in consent.
Su Hao turned and left.
No one could fathom what was concealed in Chu Yihan’s profound eyes.
He did not show the same sorrow as Su Yingxue, but the oppressive aura surrounding him felt terrifying.
The night was deep.
A bamboo grove concealed the courtyard.
Hua Qingluo carried Chu Heng, soundlessly arriving at Xiao Yu’s place.