CHAPTER 825: CHAPTER 673: MOTHER AND SON REUNITED

The elderly lady was about to go down to find Yun’er, but when she heard the word "Mother," her body inexplicably stiffened.

She held the swaddling clothes, turned around dumbfounded, and her eyes flashed with endless confusion: "Yun’er?"

Cui Hu turned around, stared intently, and his body shook!

"Damn! Isn’t this—"

He was about to kneel immediately when Meng Qianqian grabbed him.

The visitor was none other than the Emperor of Great Liang.

The Emperor Liang was travel-worn, looking disheveled, and had even lost a shoe while running.

"Your Majesty, be careful!"

When he was about to rush toward the elderly lady, Cui Hu reminded him.

The Emperor Liang had already noticed the strange rock. He barely stopped at the crevice, eyes burning as he gazed at the tottering elderly lady.

Holding back the swelling pain in his throat and the excitement suppressed throughout the journey, he took a deep breath and said, "Yes, I am Yun’er. I am here, Mother. Come over quickly."

Cui Hu’s eyes widened.

The elderly lady looked at the bottomless abyss and then at the Emperor Liang: "Are you really Yun’er?"

"Of course I am!"

The Emperor Liang hurriedly took out a Peace Lock from his chest, "Look, this is the Peace Lock you put on my neck, I’ve been wearing it all along!"

Cui Hu was dumbfounded, whispering to Meng Qianqian: "Young Madam, isn’t this... the Peace Lock you and the Imperial Grandson brought from Great Zhou?"

The pair of Peace Locks looked identical but were indeed distinguishable between left and right.

Cui Hu observed closely; this piece was indeed the Peace Lock given by the Supreme Emperor to Lu Yuan.

The elderly lady’s eyes brightened slightly at the sight of the Peace Lock: "This is the Peace Lock I gave to Yun’er."

The Emperor Liang’s expression eased: "See, I’m not lying to you, please come over quickly."

The elderly lady chuckled: "Yun’er is here, I found Yun’er."

She stood up and walked toward the Emperor Liang.

Perhaps she had sat for too long; as she stood, her legs felt a bit numb, and her body wobbled suddenly.

Everyone was so scared their faces turned white, their hearts nearly jumping out of their chests.

"Mother!"

"Great-Grandmother!"

"Elderly Lady!"

All three exclaimed in unison.

"Coming."

Unaware of the danger, the elderly lady, holding the swaddling clothes, smiled and walked forward.

The crevice under her feet grew wider, earth and gravel falling away.

The three held their breaths, ready to leap into action at any moment.

Plop.

The swaddling clothes slipped from the elderly lady’s arms.

Cui Hu gazed at the collapsing rock, silently chanting: Don’t pick it up, don’t pick it up, don’t pick it up...

The elderly lady bent over.

"Ah——"

The Emperor Liang fell to the ground, exaggeratingly clutching his stomach, "It’s killing me with pain!"

"Ah!"

The elderly lady paused her action of picking up the swaddling clothes.

She stepped on the swaddling clothes, quickly striding toward the Emperor Liang.

As her feet crossed the crevice, the rock behind her collapsed with a crash, shattering and plummeting into the bottomless abyss.

Cui Hu broke out in a cold sweat!

You don’t get this kind of thrill even in battle!

Meng Qianqian let out a long breath, lifting her hand to wipe the sweat from her temples and neck.

The elderly lady reached the Emperor Liang and crouched down to shake him gently: "Yun’er, what’s wrong?"

Meng Qianqian cleared her throat and signaled to the Emperor Liang: "Your Majesty, that’s enough, you don’t need to keep acting."

The Emperor Liang clutched his stomach in pain: "It’s just... my stomach really hurts..."

Meng Qianqian: "..."

The Emperor Liang had been given croton seeds again.

He had spent a full hour running to the latrine in the temple.

When he returned to the meditation room, utterly exhausted, it was already midnight.

The elderly lady, who should have been asleep by now, was spirited enough to catch sparrows.

She sat upright, her hands resting on her knees, staring unblinkingly at the Emperor Liang: "Child?"

The Emperor Liang covered his mouth with a fist, coughing bashfully.

The elderly lady’s eyes sparkled: "Hurry and call me mother!"

It had rolled off his tongue earlier, now it felt a bit embarrassing.

The Emperor Liang was as awkward as a child.

Outside the ajar door, onlooking generals Shangguan Ling, Yu Zichuan, Cui Hu, and Tan’er stacked like a human pyramid, with heads layered one on another.

"What are you doing?"

A cold voice echoed behind them.

They turned around collectively, making a shushing gesture: "Shh!"

Lu Yuan raised an eyebrow: "You’ve revolted. Move aside. I want to listen too."

Everyone: "..."

Leaning on his identity as the Imperial Grandson and Grand Commander, Lu Yuan occupied the first position, shielding Meng Qianqian in front of him.

The young couple was on the front line of watching.

The Emperor Liang had been brought over by Lu Yuan today.

Lu Yuan had gone to the Imperial College to handle Meng Lang’s enrollment procedures and had encountered the Emperor Liang on a secret visit on the way.

The two initially planned to visit the elderly lady at the Governor Mansion, only to learn she had encountered trouble at the temple.

Lu Yuan quickly found Shangguan Ling, understood the general situation, and headed straight to the temple with the Emperor Liang.

The two arrived just after Meng Qianqian and Cui Hu.

After promptly analyzing the situation, Lu Yuan’s first reaction was a plan of self-sacrifice.

However, the Emperor Liang did not have the thick skin of the Miao King; to achieve a realistic and sufficient effect, he fed his own grandfather a bag of strong laxatives.

Meng Qianqian and the elderly lady’s tug-of-war allowed enough time for the medicine to take effect.

Thus came the scene witnessed earlier.

Cui Hu looked at Shangguan Ling with a questioning look: Is the Emperor truly the elderly lady’s son?

Shangguan Ling: You ask me, who do I ask?

Cui Hu pointed to Lu Yuan.

Shangguan Ling: ...If you want to die, go yourself.

Holding the sleeping Treasure Piggy in her arms, Qing Shuang approached the group, asking expressionlessly: "What gossip are you watching, I want to join."

They all said in unison: "Shh!"

Yu Zichuan made room for Qing Shuang.

Qing Shuang joined the group of onlookers.

Inside the meditation room, the Emperor Liang was at a loss, unlike an emperor.

Who would believe that this was the Martial Emperor, mighty in the southwest, without seeing it with their own eyes?

The elderly lady pouted: "Yun’er, why aren’t you calling me mother?"

"I..."

The Emperor Liang coughed lightly, glanced out of the corner of his eye at several conspicuous heads outside the door, wishing he could pluck them all.

...Except for his granddaughter-in-law and Little Piggy’s.

"Mother."

He earnestly called out once.

"So obedient!"

The elderly lady was extremely satisfied, "Why did it take you so long to find your mother?"

"Uh..."

The Emperor Liang opened his mouth.

Before entering the capital, he had already inquired about the elderly lady’s situation from Luo Shan, then verified it with Lu Yuan, knowing that the elderly lady was of advanced age, had fragmented memories, and was occasionally in a state of confusion.

Lu Yuan specifically instructed not to let the elderly lady be provoked.

Just as he hesitated over how to respond, the elderly lady spoke first: "I know, were you looking for me and only just found me tonight?"

The Emperor Liang was momentarily stunned and cautiously continued, "Yes, yes..."

The elderly lady smiled: "That’s so nice of you!"

The Emperor Liang was stunned again: "I... nice?"

The elderly lady chuckled, "You looked for me so long and finally found me."

"Ah, yes."

The Emperor Liang felt a mix of emotions in his heart.

He should have found her sooner.

The elderly lady pulled his wrist: "Yun’er, you’re so amazing."

The Emperor Liang’s eyes grew moist.