CH 12

Li Chao Ge carelessly grew up to be seventeen years old. When she was seventeen years old, ten miles of mountains moved, and Black Forest Village was affected by aftershocks.

The houses collapsed, the land was cracked, and the disaster was very serious but there were no casualties. 

However, following the earthquake, many beasts and poisonous insects came down the mountain and swarmed toward the edge of the forest. 

The villagers couldn’t live in the village anymore, and Li Chao Ge could only follow the villagers across the Black Forest and seek refuge in Rongzhou city.

That was the first time Li Chao Ge saw the outside world. 

The city gate of Rongzhou was noble and majestic, rising from the ground, with banners on the gates for hunting, armored with spears.

Seeing this, Li Chao Ge was completely shocked.

She obviously grew up in the black forest mountains and had never seen this place. 

But in Li Chao Ge’s heart, a strangely blurred picture suddenly emerged.

There was a big and majestic gate, with mighty soldiers near it, but that gate was taller and bigger than the gate of Rongzhou.

Where is that place? Why does she remember this picture??

Without waiting for Li Chao Ge to understand, the line into the city was queued up.

The guards interrogated the source and the village chief replied in front. 

As soon as Li Chao Ge looked up, she saw a portrait on the notice wall at the city gate.

The portrait said that the Emperor and the Queen returned from Mount Tai, and the queen worshiped queen Wende as a daughter-in-law. 

After that, she was suddenly moved and thought of her lost daughter.

The Queen was established as a queen of the country in the thirteenth year of Yonghui. 

There was nothing to regret in such a majestic life logically, but there was only one heart disease in Queen’s life.

In the twelve years of Yonghui, while the Queen was still a concubine, a mutiny occurred and the nobles fled Chang’an in a hurry. 

On the road to the south, Wu Zhao Yi’s eldest daughter, Li Chao Ge, the six-year-old Princess An Ding, was lost.

In fact, it was not lost but was left behind by Queen Wang. 

It was said that when the chasing soldiers were behind, Princess Anding stumbled behind the carriage of Queen Wang and Wu Zhao Yi. 

Queen Wang was afraid of being overtaken by the chasing soldiers so she cruelly cut the rope. The rope broke, and Princess An Ding fell behind.

How can a six-year-old kid survive when she falls into the hands of rebels? 

Everyone acquiesced that Princess Anding was dead, Wu Zhao Yi was in grief, and the emperor was also very furious.

He reprimanded the queen for being scorpion-hearted and soon abolished Wang’s position as queen.

In the second year, after the rebellion was solved, the emperor and his concubines moved back to Chang’an. 

In the same year, the emperor stood up against the court and established Wu Zhao Yi as his queen.

After Wu Zhao Yi claimed the title, the eldest daughter Princess An Ding arbitrarily pursued the title, and much wealth was added under her name.

Later, the younger daughter gradually grew up, and Queen Wu Zhaoyi finally came out of the pain of bereavement.

With the little princess, the unfortunate eldest princess seemed to have become a thing of the past, and no one in the palace mentioned her again for many years. 

Unexpectedly, during the ceremony, the thought evoked the pain of the Queen again.

After the Queen returned to the eastern capital, she ordered people to draw a portrait of Princess An Ding and sent it to various prefectures, and the edict was posted in the most conspicuous place. 

The poster also announced the name of Princess An Ding and her age at the time of loss, clothes, and accessories. 

The Queen offered a reward for the whereabouts of Princess An Ding.

She promised that anyone who provided information about Princess An Ding would be rewarded with thousands of silver coins as long as their news was verified to be correct.

As soon as the reward list came out, many people flocked to the list. However, after three years, none of the news about the princess was true. 

Gradually, people forgot about the news. 

Until Li Chao Ge was seventeen years old when she fled from the natural disaster, she stood at the gate of Rongzhou City and saw this portrait.

(Translated by Beauty Brute.)

She saw the words “Li Chao Ge” on the poster, and her dusty memory suddenly recovered. 

She remembered that she was not a mountain girl at all, let alone Brother Chao. Her name was Li Chao Ge.

Li Chao Ge was smashed by this knowledge, she was dull and thought about this for three days. Finally, she rang the drum in front of the government office.