novelraw Chapter 1729 - 1723: Letter from Qi Le
Chapter 1729 - 1723: Letter from Qi Le
Soon enough, Chen Xing returned to normal, carefully answering Wang Yongzhu’s questions.
The Alliance’s advertisements are truthful; what is presented is precisely what is available.
This birthing capsule technology is already quite mature and has been used for hundreds of years by the Alliance.
The only requirement for enjoying this technology is that the user must be a member of the Alliance. Because of Wang Yongzhu’s previous contributions, she has already become a member of the Alliance, so she can naturally enjoy this benefit.
However, her situation is slightly special, but for the Alliance, this is not a problem. Due to the Alliance’s vastness, many members will be in different star systems or special environments. When there is a need, the Alliance has a set of specialized equipment to preserve the things provided by the users, transport them to the nearest hospital, and place them in a birthing capsule.
It’s about whatever you can imagine, they can achieve.
Wang Yongzhu breathed a sigh of relief, about to ask a few more questions regarding how the child would be transported to her once born.
She also needed to figure out how to deceive Song Chongjin and Old Granny Zhang. How could she make it seem like she was pregnant?
Before she could speak, Song Chongjin pushed the door open and entered.
Holding a letter in his hand.
"Buzz~" The sound of interference suddenly interrupted Wang Yongzhu’s thoughts of Chen Xing, catching her off guard. She couldn’t help but turn pale, feeling a buzzing in her head, and instinctively pressed her temples with her hand.
Song Chongjin saw Wang Yongzhu’s condition and was startled, quickly walking to the bedside and tossing the letter aside, hugging Wang Yongzhu in his arms.
He asked repeatedly, "What’s wrong? Where do you feel uncomfortable?"
Luckily, the buzzing noise soon disappeared.
Wang Yongzhu raised her head to reassure Song Chongjin, "Nothing, just a bit of a headache earlier. Why did you return so early today?"
Song Chongjin looked at Wang Yongzhu worriedly. Seeing the color return to her cheeks, he felt slightly relieved. He prepared a cup of warm water for Wang Yongzhu and helped her drink while explaining, "Today I received a letter with Queen Ah Lan’s seal. It was delivered unnoticed to my desk. I’ve already sent someone to check if any strangers or anyone has entered or exited my study. Since it’s such a chaos out front, I decided to bring the letter home."
Wang Yongzhu, hearing this, got interested and asked, "Where’s the letter?"
Song Chongjin turned around, picked up the letter from the floor, and was about to hand it to Wang Yongzhu when something occurred to him, and he retracted it midway.
He said, "Qi Le is someone to guard against; I’ll open the letter myself."
He was worried Qi Le might have poisoned the letter paper.
Wang Yongzhu felt both amused and touched, watching Song Chongjin swiftly open the letter. A thick stack of paper fluttered down.
On the paper were written tiny scribbled characters.
Wang Yongzhu reached out and took the paper in her hand, pulling Song Chongjin along to look at it.
The letter straightforwardly introduced itself; it’s from Qi Le, his aunt, now Queen Ah Lan of Grasslands.
It explained how he was schemed against, forced to flee to the Grasslands with the Prince of the Grasslands to save his life. With no alternatives, he had to marry the Prince of the Grasslands.
Due to the Prince of the Grasslands having some affection for her, she became his third Princess Consort, yet became a thorn in the eye of the inner court, facing constant scheming and persecution.
To protect herself, she used countless tactics, eventually alerting the Prince of the Grasslands to several assassination attempts nearly costing her life, making things slightly better for her over time.
She initially wanted to send a letter to the Qi Family to tell them she was alive, but knowing her grandfather’s loyalty to Great Qi, she feared he’d be furious if he learned his daughter married a Grassland Prince, so she dared not tell them directly.
She secretly sent a few people to Chu State, planning to find other family members first, only to discover that upon arriving, the entire Qi Family had been exiled.
The only Qi Family bloodline remaining in the Capital City was Qi Huan, her cousin, who had been secretly bought and hidden due to Duke Weiguo’s influence.
When her people found Qi Huan, they already knew Song Hong, Qi Huan’s fiancé, had canceled the engagement and decided to marry someone else.
Qi Huan was still unaware, yet pregnant with Song Hong’s child.
Her people informed Qi Huan of this news, making her lose heart, unwilling to stay in the Capital City.
Thus, her people helped Qi Huan escape the Capital City, gathering information along the way about the Qi Family being exiled to the Northwest, traveling toward it, hoping to uncover where the Qi Family had been exiled.
Unfortunately, the news reached the other Princess Consorts of the Grassland Prince, who maliciously whispered to the Prince, saying she could be secretly sending grassland intelligence to Chu Kingdom.
At that time, the Grassland Prince was in crucial contention for the throne, naturally furious, and sent people to Chu State to bring back Qi Le’s people.
They located Qi Le’s people and intended to bring them and Qi Huan back to the Grasslands for punishment.
Qi Huan refused, declaring to live and die as a person of Chu State and wouldn’t leave it. She found an opportunity to escape by jumping into a river.
The Grasslanders couldn’t swim, so they shot a few arrows into the water, assuming she drowned when she didn’t resurface, and reported back.
However, Qi Le knew Qi Huan was adept at swimming, offering a slim chance of survival if she did jump into the river.
Following these events, life became unbearable for her on the Grasslands, making it impossible to investigate her family’s exile location in the Northwest.
Later, Chu State and the Grasslands went to war, putting her in an awkward position; despite her concerns, she had to endure until the war ended, with the Grassland King ailing, ready to appoint the Grassland Prince as the new king.
She tried persuading the Grassland King in various ways to stop the war, and to avoid affecting his succession, he agreed.
She knew if she held power, finding the Qi Family and Qi Huan would be achievable.
Thus, she deliberately courted favor with the Grassland King, succeeding over the years and becoming Queen Ah Lan of the Grasslands.
She never forgot her family and Qi Huan; over the years, as she gained authority and resources, she never stopped searching for them.
Later, she discovered the exile location, but the Qi Family suffered severe losses on the journey, leaving only a few survivors near a military camp, beyond her people’s reach.
She did learn that after Qi Huan jumped into the river, she survived, was rescued downstream, and ended up in Jing County, giving birth to a son, sadly passing afterward.
Afterward, Song Hong took the child, and there was no further news.
Qi Le constantly worried about the child, particularly after learning years ago that all Qi Family members had died. On this earth, only she and this child, whose fate was unknown, carried the Qi bloodline.