The general went to the palace for a long time and had not come back for a long time.

The eldest lady was waiting for the right side to see no one, and was a little worried, so she took her maid to the palace, intending to find the third prince's biological mother, Concubine Lian, to find out the news.

Unexpectedly, the general came back shortly after the eldest lady left.

As soon as he entered the door, he ordered Uncle Lian to help him prepare the horse, and he was about to go far away immediately. Then, he ordered someone to ask Chen Muye and Shen Muzhi to wait in the study.

When Chen Muzhi arrived, Chen Muye was already there.

The general sat behind the long desk and was writing quickly. His frown was obviously in a bad mood.

Chen Muzhi stood beside his second brother Chen Muye, thinking about the scene when his father-in-law came in the morning, thinking whether Dayuan had made a big move?

If this is the case, can the words my father said in the morning still count?

Thinking of this, Chen Muzhi also became sad.

Soon, the general put down his pen, picked up the letter paper and blew it dry, then folded it up and put it in the envelope. When he was stamping the fire seal, he spoke to the two brothers, "Something happened on the front line, I will leave later, and it may take a long time to go." As he said that, the fire seal was also stamped. The general put down the envelope, looked up at the two brothers, his eyes swept over Shen Muzhi, and fell on Shen Muye. Suddenly, he sighed: "April, you are already eighteen, not too young, you should know what to do. Although I am not at home, it does not mean that I don't know what you have done. I don't want someone to write to me in the court one day, saying that I am arrogant because of my merits and form a clique for personal gain!"

Chen Muye's expression suddenly changed and he hurriedly defended: "Father, I..."

The general didn't give him a chance to defend himself. After waved his hand and signaled him not to say much, he turned to look at Chen Muzhi and said, "What you promised you in the morning may be slow. Recently, Dayuan is restless, and a big war may happen. You will be over at this time, and it will be unsafe. Wait until this storm is over."

Chen Muzhi's guess just now became reality, and he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but he could still distinguish between priorities and urgently. So he nodded and responded.

The general looked at the two of them again, then got up and walked around the Chang's case, walked up to them, looked at them, and said earnestly: "You are not young anymore. Your elder brother and I are often not at home, and we still have to rely on you two in the future." As he said that, he stared at Chen Muye with a deep look.

Chen Muye was so depressed by him that he did not dare to look at him at all.

The general didn't say anything more, and asked Chen Muye to leave first and then gave Chen Muzhi a wooden box.

Chen Muzhi held the box and looked at his father who seemed to have grown older all of a sudden, and asked in confusion: "Father, what is this?"

The general looked at the box and showed a look of memorial in his eyes: "This is something left by your biological mother. He originally planned to give it to you when you become an adult. However, this time I go, it will probably take a long time to come back, so I will give it to you first!"

When talking about the biological mother, Chen Mu's heart was filled with many complex emotions.

He had never seen his biological mother before. It is said that she passed away just after giving birth to him.

My father never mentioned the situation of his biological mother before him.

And no one in the mansion seems to know the specific situation of his biological mother. It is mentioned occasionally, at most it can be described in three words: vixen.

He looked at the wooden box in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and asked his father: "What kind of person is she?"

The general was stunned. He looked at the boy who grew older and looked like her. He smiled slightly and said softly: "She is a very beautiful woman." After saying that, he paused and added another sentence: "My heart is beautiful."

Chen Muzhi held the wooden box, and the complex emotions in his heart did not decrease much because of his father's answer, but became more complicated.

After a moment of silence, he couldn't help asking again: "Where is she from?"

The general was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, with a little more apology in his eyes, and replied: "I don't know either."

Chen Muzhi looked up at his father in surprise, surprised by this answer.

He suddenly wanted to ask, am I your child?

However, after lingering in my mind for several rounds, I still didn't have the courage to ask.

...

...

The general left before the eldest lady came back. After Chen Muzhi held the wooden box and said goodbye to his father outside the door with his second brother, the two walked back together.

After seeing the wooden box in his arms, Chen Muye asked, "What is this?"

"I don't know either." Chen Muzhi replied without thinking. This is indeed the truth. He hadn't opened the box yet, so he naturally didn't know what it was inside.

But Chen Miye hears it, but this is not the case.

He glanced at the box and asked again, "What my father gave it to you?"

Chen Muzhi nodded.

Chen Muye's expression couldn't help but change slightly.

At this time, Lin just called Chen Muye to go over, so he walked away. Chen Mu's man carried the box back to Qingjiaoyuan.

Back in the room, he placed the wooden box on the table and sat down next to the table.

The wooden box was placed quietly on the table, but he didn't want to open it.

When he was a child, at the beginning, he didn't know his life experience, but he just couldn't understand why the eldest lady disliked him so much. Later, after gradually learning the truth from other people, he would cry at night for a long time, and he couldn't understand why the eldest and second brother's mothers were around and why his mother was not there.

At that time, he didn't understand what death meant.

Later, Uncle Lian and the others often talked about the stories of gods who were tall and high. In the stories, those gods often had great power, could move mountains, fill seas, summon wind and rain, and could also bring back life.

Uncle Lian and the others also said that gods and immortals usually live in the mountains, in the clouds and mist.

More than once, he secretly left home, trying to go deep into the mountains outside the city to find the powerful gods in their mouths. But every time, he would be found without going to the gate of the city.

Later, when he was a few years older, he probably understood that the immortal living in the depths of the white clouds in Uncle Lian and the others were just some legends.

I also understand that the so-called death means that we can never meet again.

Later, he accepted the fact that he had no mother and learned to calmly face the fact that the eldest lady didn't like him.

But at this moment, this mother, who had never appeared in his twelve years of life, was placed in front of him.

The expectations that had to be put down in the past turned into pieces of stones, pressing down on his heart, making him unable to raise the courage to open the box in front of him.

Time passes by bit by bit.
Chapter completed!