"We failed, our family was destroyed!”
Thinking of the exterminated Li family, Empress Dowager Li's expression turned crazed as she grabbed Zhu Weichu's hand and scolded him harshly.
"Zhu Zhenglong did it on purpose, he did it on purpose! He schemed to lure us to seize power and then take the opportunity to destroy the Li family!”
In the face of this unreasonable mother, Zhu Weichu was expressionless, knowing that she had gone crazy.
"Mother, you have been blinded by power. Should I die? If General Li hadn't rushed into the sea of fire and risked his life to save me, I would have been dead already. How could you be so ruthless!”
“……”
Zhu Weichu's questioning caused Empress Dowager Li to quieten down, and a hint of conflict flashed across the depths of her turbid eyes.
* Cough cough *
Perhaps it was because he was too excited just now, but there was a piercing pain in his chest.
He coughed violently and felt a sweet taste in his throat. A few strands of blood flowed out of the corner of his mouth.
She spat out a mouthful of blood and felt her life force draining away rapidly. Her vision gradually blurred.
Was he going to die?
Empress Dowager Li was very calm. Ever since she fell ill fourteen years ago, she had been tortured to the point of collapse by her illness. She had long wanted to die.
However, before he died, it was necessary to tell Zhu Weichu the secret that had been sealed for a long time. It could also be considered as making up for the debt he owed over the years.
Empress Dowager Li thought it through and said weakly,""Weichu, you're not my biological child, and you're not Zhu Zhenglong's biological child.”
As soon as these words came out, Zhu Weichu, who was about to call the imperial physician, seemed to have been struck by lightning. He turned his head and stared at Empress Dowager Li with a gaze as sharp as an eagle.
Disbelief, fear, and lingering fear!
Zhu Weichu knew very well that although the soldiers and subjects left behind by his father, Emperor Hong Wu, were very loyal, so loyal that a summoning order could make them swallow their guns and commit suicide without even blinking.
However, these people were all loyal to their father. They respected him more than they were loyal to him. They were also loyal to him in accordance with their father's will.
If he did not have the bloodline of Martial Emperor Hong, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Zhu Weichu panicked. Firstly, he was afraid of losing his power. Secondly, he was worried that he would not be able to realize his dreams.
"You lied to me. Tell me, are you lying to me?”
"I'm about to die. Would I lie to you?”
Seeing Zhu Weichu's intense reaction, Empress Dowager Li seemed to have regained her senses. She struggled to sit up and leaned against the headboard of the bed. She began to speak clearly about the past in her memories.
"You know what? Flower Planting Island wasn't called Flower Planting Island before. It was an island where our Li family had lived for generations. We've been living here for more than a hundred years.”
"The ancestors of the Li family went out to sea to do business and accidentally discovered this paradise. Then, they settled here. Before the Ming Dynasty perished, natural and man-made disasters continued. The ancestors could not bear it and returned to the Ming Dynasty to rescue the refugees. The number of people on the island gradually increased from a few hundred to more than five thousand. They lived a life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset.”
" However, ever since Zhu Cihuan, the Yong Prince, fled to the island with dozens of civil officials and eunuchs, everything changed. They schemed for power, and our ancestors couldn't resist the temptation of power. They supported Zhu Cihuan to ascend the throne and was conferred the title of King Zhennan.”
"It was nothing at first. It was equivalent to the thousands of people on the island having an emperor. It was no different from a miniature country.”
"It wasn't until Zhu Zhenglong Caiying, the sixteenth year of Hongwu, that earth-shattering changes occurred on the island.”
"Zhu Zhenglong is a very strange person. He has been mediocre since he was young, and he was the same in the first sixteen years of his ascension.”
" The change happened on the Double Ninth Festival in the sixteenth year of Hongwu. Zhu Zhenglong, who was introverted, seemed to have become a completely different person. He often said irrelevant things. He also recruited a lot of capable people from overseas and brought back a few indestructible iron warships from somewhere.”
"He popularized education and taught knowledge that even the great scholars could not understand. He called it science and took out a large number of firearms that he had never heard of before. He established the Ming Dynasty's Imperial Army and Imperial Navy and planned to return to the country.”
"Everyone on the island supports Zhu Zhenglong, including my father, because that mountain-like warship can easily crush enemy ships. The Qing army can't stop the guns that can fire continuously.”
" I'm pregnant in the 18th year of Hongwu. Zhu Zhenglong is very happy, and so am I. A mother is valued by her son. I hope it's a son…"
"But God played a joke on me!”
Empress Dowager Li's expression was bitter as she said in a low and hoarse voice,""The child is born. It's a daughter!"
"In order to seize power, my power-hungry father and brother colluded with the midwife to brutally strangle the baby girl and brought you back to deceive everyone.”
Shocking!
After hearing this unknown inside story, Zhu Weichu was shocked.
Was there such a cruel person in the world? He could even kill his newborn granddaughter and niece?
"Do you find it hard to believe?”
Tears streamed down Empress Dowager Li's face as she thought of her daughter who was strangled to death in front of her. She could no longer control the sorrow that she had been suppressing for a long time. She covered herself with the blanket and wailed.
Zhu Weichu did not know what to say and did not comfort her.
There must be something hateful about a pitiful person. She watched her daughter being strangled to death without saying a word and chose to continue making mistakes. She was not a good person either.
"Who am I?"
Zhu Weichu only wanted to know who he was and who his biological parents were.
"I don't know, I really don't know, because my father picked you up from the beach.”
At the mention of the mystery of Zhu Weichu's identity, Empress Dowager Li stopped crying.
"All the women on the island who are pregnant and waiting to give birth are recorded, so you can't be the descendant of the people on the island. My father suspects that the ship your parents were on might have hit a reef and sunk around Flower Planting Island.”
" But after searching around, we found nothing. No ship sank in the waters around Flower Planting Island.”
"It's very strange. A baby who has just been born a few days ago can't survive in the wild at all.”
At this point, Empress Dowager Li sighed,""Descending from the sky, without a root or source, you might be the son of an immortal!”
The son of an immortal?
Zhu Weichu did not believe it and suspected that Empress Dowager Li was hiding something from him.
However, just as Zhu Weichu was about to ask, Empress Dowager Li stretched out her hand and caressed his face, reminding him with a kind smile.
" I'm going to die. Everyone who knows the secret is going to die. Weichu, you should forget this secret too. Be the emperor well. The hope of restoring the Ming Dynasty is on you…"
Pa da ~
Her skinny arms fell on the bed. A relieved smile hung on Empress Dowager Li's face as she stopped breathing.
Zhu Weichu did not know whether to cry or rejoice, because the only person who knew the secret was dead…
But who am I?
With this question lingering in his mind, Zhu Weichu felt like his head was about to explode.
Just as Zhu Weichu was racking his brains and unable to find an answer, the seal in the depths of his memory loosened a little, and a very unfamiliar memory gushed out…
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