The Full - Moon Banquet
At Chen Time (7 - 9 a.m.)
Even after a month, Zhao Shuning had just managed to break free from her own thoughts. Looking at this tiny body, her heart couldn't help but wail. Was she going to relive all the things she had experienced back then?
But this time, it was obviously different. Here, there was no father or mother, no elder brother, and she hadn't even seen her master. Staying in the swaddling clothes all day, she had no idea what was going on outside.
It wasn't until today, when the wet - nurse swayed her bosom, making Zhao Shuning feel dizzy. She felt a sudden urge to vomit. If she could have a second chance, she would never drink the wet - nurse's breast milk again. The taste was simply unpleasantly strong.
Amid the sounds of gongs and drums, Zhao Shuning's mood began to clear up. At this moment, her body couldn't move, but her perception of the outside world was surprisingly sharp.
The wet - nurse handed the baby in the swaddling clothes to a woman. This beautiful woman was extremely good - looking, and one could still see a bit of heroism in her eyebrows. Zhao Shuning naturally liked this beautiful woman very much, because she was the biological mother of this body she currently occupied—Ye Qingluan. Zhao Shuning really liked her surname.
Coincidentally, Zhao Shuning used to only know that her name was Ye Ling. She had a younger brother named Xingchen. She still remembered that her parents had entrusted her younger brother to her before they died. But when it came to recalling what her biological parents looked like, she couldn't remember a single thing.
Ye Qingluan gave her a sense of familiarity. She liked this woman. When Ye Qingluan held the baby, the tenderness in her eyes was so touching.
Originally, Zhao Shuning was at a loss about everything happening outside. But then, a gentle - looking woman holding a baby appeared in front of her. From the greetings of the servants, Zhao Shuning knew that this gentle woman should be Concubine Liu from the side courtyard. It was said that Concubine Liu was good at embroidery, gentle - natured, and very much in Lord Luo Hao's favor. But after seeing her today, Zhao Shuning only had about a six - point impression of this woman.
Although Liu Yuan was gentle, she protected the baby in her arms very well, and others couldn't see the baby's face clearly. Presumably, this was also a poor - fated child. Although Zhao Shuning was just a baby lying in bed all day, from the occasional discussions of the maids guarding her, she knew the general situation. The child in the side courtyard had been born for so long, but Luo Hao didn't even know what the child looked like.
It was said that after this banquet, the baby in her arms would be secretly executed. She wondered how cruel Luo Hao could be to do such a terrible thing to his own daughter.
"My lord, take a look at Qiuqiu," the woman said, stepping forward with the baby in her arms.
But Luo Hao didn't even look. He took Ye Qingluan's hand and went to greet the guests.
They showed no expression, but in the swaddling clothes, Zhao Shuning's mind went blank with a loud noise, as if something had exploded in her head.
Qiuqiu? And her father's surname was Luo?
Luo Qiu? Could the baby in that woman's arms be the legendary Luo Qiu, the first beauty on the Kyushu Continent, who was so beautiful that she seemed to be from another world and became a legend?
No way!
Couldn't be!
Look at the attitudes of these people. Didn't they know who they were offending at this moment?
Wait! Luo Qiu was still a child? Did that mean the place she was in was Ruoqiang more than five hundred years ago?
Looking at the clothes of the people around her, Zhao Shuning was sure.
Luo Feiyan. That was her name. It seemed that she was destined for an ordinary life, as no one in later generations had ever heard of Luo Feiyan.
While Zhao Shuning was thinking about how to get on good terms with Luo Qiu, grow up with her, and ask her about the secrets between her and the master back then, just thinking of the master made her feel reluctant. She wondered how the master was now and if he knew that she had come more than five hundred years ago.
At this moment, Zhao Shuning, or rather Luo Feiyan, was extremely nervous. So, she had no interest in watching the fireworks show that everyone was excited about. Her eyes kept drifting towards the baby in Liu Yuan's arms. But at this moment, she found that Liu Yuan was also staring straight at her. This look was far from the gentleness Liu Yuan had shown before.
As soon as uneasiness welled up in Luo Feiyan's heart, she felt the whole world tremble. Immediately afterwards, Ye Qingluan protected her and quickly carried her to a platform a few meters away.
With the sound of fireworks and firecrackers, suddenly, no less than a hundred black - clothed men rushed into the four sides of the Marquis's Mansion. Luo Hao immediately arranged his men and concentrated on dealing with the enemies.
The black - clothed men were very skilled in martial arts. The more Luo Hao fought with them, the more he felt something was wrong.
"What's going on?"
"People from Loulan?" Luo Hao couldn't help but glance at the baby in Liu Yuan's arms. How dare the people from Loulan break into the Marquis's Mansion of Ruoqiang so openly? Where did they get the courage?
Unless... someone had leaked the strange situation of the birth of Qiu'er in the side courtyard of the mansion, which had attracted the people from Loulan to come and snatch the baby. You know, although Luo Qiu with the Loulan mark was a disaster star in Ruoqiang, in the eyes of the people from Loulan, she was the hope of Loulan. So, they had taken such a big risk to sneak into Ruoqiang and break into the Marquis's Mansion. Was there a traitor in the Marquis's Mansion?
Luo Hao didn't have time to think about it too much. There was another cry of pain from behind. Luo Hao looked and saw that somehow, Liu Yuan and Ye Qingluan had bumped into each other. Without any preparation, Ye Qingluan felt a numbness in her hand, and the baby in her swaddling clothes fell. Fortunately, Liu Yuan used her body to catch the baby, so the baby wasn't seriously hurt.
"Sister, are you okay?" Liu Yuan quickly asked.
Ye Qingluan didn't care about the pain in her arm. She didn't have time to think about who had attacked her just now. She quickly went to check on Luo Feiyan's condition.
"Sister, this is your child," Liu Yuan said, stepping forward with the baby in her arms. She lifted the small quilt, and the red lotus between the baby's eyebrows was shining brightly.
Although a sense of uneasiness flashed through her heart, with the black - clothed men approaching continuously, Ye Qingluan didn't have time to think too much. She quickly took the baby and protected it in her arms.
"Return our daughter of destiny of Loulan!" someone among the black - clothed men roared. The next moment, the black - clothed men split into two groups. One group attacked the baby in Ye Qingluan's arms, and the other group rushed towards the baby in Liu Yuan's arms.
Luo Hao's body moved instantly and he was by Ye Qingluan's side. A look of disappointment flashed across Liu Yuan's eyes. Sure enough, at this moment, Brother Hao still chose that woman. But they would regret it sooner or later.