Li Fengqi clenched his fists and spoke in a low voice. He suppressed the flood of emotions and turned them into a calm question: "Then what's going on with this blank tablet?"

"This is your brother." The old princess twirled the beads: "When I gave birth, I found out that I was pregnant with twins. After you were born, your brother was born because he had been holding it in the belly for too long.

I'm out of breath." She moved the beads in her hand faster and faster: "Because they are twins and one of them is stillborn, it is unlucky, so we did not publicize it to the outside world."

Li Fengqi wanted to continue asking, why is there no inscription on the tablet?

However, seeing her shoulders trembling and her thin body crumbling, he couldn't bear to ask any more questions.

He closed his eyes, looked at the tablet enshrined on the Buddhist altar, and said in a solemn voice: "I understand."

The old princess did not look back, but whispered: "I have been unable to get over this hurdle these years. Every time I see you, I think of your dead brother. I know that I failed to fulfill my duties as a mother. You can blame me or hate me.

No matter what, I deserve it all."

"Mother... treats me very well." Li Fengqi subconsciously touched the peace charm around his waist and retorted in a harsh voice: "My son has never had any complaints."

He recalled that when he was very young, every time he acted coquettishly with his mother, her mother would always tell him with a calm expression that men should not be coquettish. He would occasionally envy other mothers' gentle and affectionate treatment of their children, but then he fell seriously ill and his father was away.

In the house, his mother took care of him with no clothes on and restless nights. When his father came back, his illness was cured, but his mother collapsed.

Later, his father told him in private that his mother had a weak temper and was not used to talking about many things, but she didn't care about you.

From then on, Li Fengqi gradually accepted the fact that his mother was different from others.

He had many doubts, but he never complained about her coldness.

The old princess paused while twisting her beads, and put her palms together: "Don't take other people's words to heart, just remember that you will always be your father's proudest child."

"I understand." Li Fengqi knew that there would be no other results if he asked again, so he no longer insisted. He looked at the two tablets on the Buddhist altar, clasped his hands and bowed three times before leaving.

After he left, the old princess's straight back bent down. She staggered up and walked to the Buddhist altar. Her fingers gently brushed the three words "Li Huaiqu" on the tablet, and said in an inaudible voice: "Huaiqu, I tried my best.

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Li Fengqi went in for only a moment and then came out.

Ye Yunting heard the sound of the wooden wheels rolling over the ground, and stood up to meet him. However, seeing his face was heavy, he did not say anything and followed him back to the main courtyard.

Li Fengqi didn't say a word on the way. He didn't know what he was asking about the past and whether he had an answer. But he knew from his expression that it must not be a pleasant thing, so he brewed a pot of tea and put it in his hand, walking softly.

Prepare to exit and leave him alone.

When I walked to the door, I heard the person behind me say: "If you have nothing to do, sir, please sit with me for a while."

Ye Yunting paused for a moment, then turned around and sat down opposite him, rolled up his sleeves and poured him a cup of hot tea.

In the mist, he heard Li Fengqi say: "I have another name, Hanzhang."

Ye Yunting didn't understand why he suddenly mentioned this, but he still nodded and said: "Yesterday I heard the old princess call her, was it the word "wangye"?

Li Fengqi shook his head: "It's another name."

Fengqi was named by his father, but Hanzhang was named by his mother.

His father called him "Fengqi", but his mother always liked to call him "Hanzhang". He was used to having two names when urinating. People around him didn't know clearly and only thought "Hanzhang" was his character. He never

I explained it to someone.

"What kind of situation do you think would lead a mother to give the name that was originally given to another child to his brother?"

What he said was a bit convoluted, and Ye Yunting understood it only after he calmed down, but he had not heard that King Yong'an had any brothers or sisters.

"Maybe it's for nostalgia?" He actually wanted to ask if the brother was no longer alive, but felt it was too abrupt, so he changed to a euphemistic way of saying it.

Li Fengqi shook his head: "If this is the case, wouldn't that unnamed brother be too pitiful? If the mother loves this child very much, how could she bear to do this?"

When a person dies, not even a name can be left behind, not even a name can be engraved on the tablet. How tormenting must it be for a mother?

Ye Yunting was slightly frightened, but he still said truthfully: "Maybe it's the dead child. He can't have a name."

Li Fengqi's hand holding the tea cup tightened, and then he laughed, his eyes filled with sadness: "You are right."

No name can be engraved on the tablet because there cannot be a name.

The old princess gave birth to a pair of twins, and one of them was stillborn, which was unlucky. Therefore, according to custom, the dead fetuses could not be buried and no memorial tablets could be carved. Even the names that had been chosen long ago could not be used.

Gave it to another living child. Only in this way can we prove that this dead child has been here before.

Li Fengqi lowered his eyes, almost convinced that what Han Chan said was true.

That day Han Chan came to look for him and said that he was not the biological child of the old prince, but that his biological parents were killed by Li Zong's father, Emperor Xianzong Li Qian. It happened that the old princess was pregnant with Liujia and was about to give birth, and the old prince

So she took him in as a newborn and raised him as his own son. Although he did not provide any actual evidence, he listed many doubts and asked him to go to the old princess for verification to find out the truth.

Han Chan said to him at that time: "Li Gan's position was not right, and Li Zong followed in his footsteps. This Beizhao country has long been like a ship that is decaying and about to sink. If the prince is willing to cooperate with me, with the power of you and me, it will be easy to change the dynasty. It will be done."

After that, I will tell you your life story, and you will be the emperor and I will be the prime minister."

The doubts mentioned by Han Chan happened to coincide with some of Li Fengqi's speculations. Although he was dubious at the time, he rejected his proposal because of Li Zong.

Li Zong was his younger brother who he had protected since childhood. There was no way he would betray Li Zong just because of Han Chan's words and illusory life experience and hatred.

Han Chan walked away at that time, only saying that he would regret his choice today.

Later, he was poisoned by someone, and Li Zong took advantage of the fact that his veins were damaged by the poison and could not move, so he was imprisoned in the palace and tortured to death.

Every move Han Chan made was forcing him to give up Li Zong. At the same time, it was also reminding him that there was something hidden about his life experience.

Li Fengqi had never figured out that during Li Zong's three years in office, he showed no sign of being afraid of him. He didn't believe that Li Zong's disguise could hide it from him. Now Li Zong suddenly attacked him. He was poisoned and weak.

The reason, but it is more likely that Han Chan said something to him. And the thing that can provoke Li Zong to attack him immediately is likely to be related to his life experience.

He lowered his eyes and recalled the known clues.

Neither the old prince nor the old princess were sticklers. Assuming that he really had a twin brother who died after birth, with their characters, they would never burn the child's ashes and abandon it for ridiculous reasons such as "unlucky".

In the wilderness. What's more, if they really did such a thing, with the power of the palace, such scandal would never be leaked at all, let alone be exposed to the still young him more than ten years later.

I heard about it from the sidelines.

Then there is only one reason for them to do this, and that is to deceive others.

There were no twins at all, and he was not the biological child of the old princess. In order to hide his identity, they had to perform such a scene to make everyone believe that the old princess had really given birth to a pair of twins.

One unfortunately died young.

So the old princess gave him the "Han Zhang" that she had taken long ago, so the old princess chanted sutras to the unengraved tablet every day.

This is a mother's last memory, or confession.

Li Fengqi was so immersed in his thoughts that he didn't even notice that the tea in his hand was getting cold.

Seeing that he was about to bring the herbal tea to his mouth, Ye Yunting raised his hand to stop him, took the tea cup over, and handed him another cup of hot tea.

"Actually, Your Majesty, you can think in a good direction," his voice was light and calm, and his pair of dark eyes were clear, seeming to see through Li Fengqi's unspoken heart knot: "The child's name contains the parents' wishes, if this

The name was carefully chosen by the mother, and she gave it to another child, perhaps in the hope that the child could carry this wish and live a good life."

Li Fengqi had never heard such a statement before. He was stunned for a long time, but memories of his childhood flashed through his mind. After a long time, he drank the tea in one gulp and looked a little relieved.

"The eldest son sees things more clearly than I do."

He remembered the last words the old princess said.
Chapter completed!