Time travel is risky, and love requires caution

From the Spring Festival Gala at the beginning of the year to now, including the time spent on the road and recuperating, nearly half a year has passed, and it is already autumn.

However, the seasons in Southern Mirage do not change much, and the mountains are still lush and green.

Ling Qiqi's poison had been mostly removed, and her body had recovered a lot, but she still had some underlying illnesses. She was weak, had a bad stomach, and had to be very careful about what she ate. In addition, her voice could no longer recover, it was deep and hoarse, and in today's words, there was a graininess in her voice.

However, Ling Qiqi felt that it was nothing that her voice had changed. She thought it was quite sexy, and it was convenient for her to disguise herself.

Du Jingshan has now changed from a doctor to a cook, taking careful care of Ling Qiqi's diet every day.

Since Ling Qiqi met the witch doctor, their relationship has grown rapidly and they are now very close. Ling Qiqi often acts like a spoiled child and asks her aunt to tell her all kinds of "gossip" about her mother's past. Every time, one of them tells the story with great emotion and the other listens with great interest.

Ling Qiqi's personality is pretty typical. Sometimes she's an extroverted loner, and sometimes she's an introverted social person. In short, she's both a homebody and a playful person.

The witch doctor often lamented that Ling Qiqi was nothing like her mother. Her mother was extraordinary, gentle on the outside but strong on the inside. On the surface, she looked gentle and considerate, but deep down she was stubborn and even a little obstinate.

Ling Qiqi felt that she agreed with the witch doctor's evaluation of her mother, otherwise her mother would not have used the entire country as a dowry and then asked to be sent to the cold palace.

From the perspective of Du Jingshan, who was watching from the sidelines, it seemed that Ling Qiqi's temperament might be inherited from her aunt.

Having heard a lot of gossip about her mother during this period, Ling Qiqi gradually gained a more accurate understanding of some of the truths of that year.

Judging from the time when the Wujin Kingdom was destroyed, the reason why her mother asked to be sent to the cold palace is self-evident.

Originally, my mother married Beiwei to protect the safety of her motherland, but in the end, her country was destroyed and her family was ruined. It's a pity for this Feng Shui treasure land of Wujin Kingdom.

The Wujin Kingdom was originally called the Yahe Kingdom, located in the southeast of Wushan Mountain. Generations of people have worshipped the divine bird Bifang and used the Bifang bird as the national totem.

Bifang looks like a crane but is not a crane. It has green feathers and red stripes, two wings and one foot. Its white beak spews fire and its wings produce smoke when it flaps.

The jade pendant that Ling Qiqi inherited from her mother was engraved with the one-legged mythical bird Bifang, while the one engraved on her aunt's jade pendant was just an ordinary two-legged crane.

Bifang, also known as the Fire Crow, is an ancient mythical bird. Although it is not as important as the Phoenix, it is also very famous. According to legend, it once served as a chariot guard for the Emperor of Heaven and fed on flames. Because it knew the sufferings of the mortal world, it spread fire to benefit the world. Therefore, it was worshipped as the God of Fire by the Crow Kingdom, and the country's name also came from this. Bifang is both a symbol of divine power and a symbol of the ruler of a country. The national surname is Bi.

Because the two words "Yahe" are difficult to pronounce and write, the surrounding people gave him another nickname "Wujin". Later, this nickname became more and more famous and spread more and more widely, while Yahe's name was forgotten.

The reason why the nickname "Wu Jin" was used is because the Yahe Kingdom possessed two wealth codes, Wu and Jin. Wu refers to graphite, which is what we call coal today, and Jin refers to gold. The Yahe Kingdom not only had rich coal resources, but also a gold vein.

At that time, the world was not divided into three parts. It was composed of many small countries and tribes scattered everywhere, each operating on its own, fighting for supremacy and the law of the jungle. To put it bluntly, the big fish eat the small fish, and the small fish eat the shrimp.

The Yahe Kingdom was the most special one among them. It had a small territory and a small population. Although it was extremely rich, it had no military combat power. It was like a rich man who was powerless.

As the saying goes, "Wealth should not be exposed, wealth should not be shown, and noble people should not walk alone." When more and more people learned the origin of the nickname "Black Gold" of the Crow Kingdom, it attracted the envy of neighboring countries and became a fat shrimp that everyone was eyeing.

The Yahe Kingdom was initially robbed on a small scale, but gradually the thieves became more and more daring, and eventually it turned into an organized robbery.

Once one person gets a great bargain, others will rush to follow suit. If you don't grab the bargain, you'll lose out.

The Yahe Kingdom was repeatedly invaded, and the people suffered terribly. After several battles to defend the country, countless soldiers were killed and wounded, and the princes and grandchildren also died one after another. The royal power could not be continued, and the country was about to fall apart. When the old king was dying, he entrusted the Bifang jade pendant, which symbolized the royal power, and the lives of the people of the Yahe Kingdom to the only remaining royal bloodline, the little princess Bi Ziwei, who was Ling Qiqi's mother.

In order to buy a glimmer of hope for her people, the young Princess Yahe decided to marry Beiwei, who was ranked high in national strength at that time, and was willing to be his concubine. She only asked Beiwei to send troops to protect her motherland from foreign invasion and allow her people to recuperate. Yahe was willing to pay tribute every year.

For the Beiwei Kingdom, this deal was not a loss at all, as it legitimately owned the black and gold mines, so they happily married the young princess of the Yahe Kingdom.

At first, Beiwei State fulfilled its promise to protect Yahe State, and Yahe State also transported coal, gold and stone to Beiwei in a steady stream. Beiwei had sufficient military funds, which laid a solid economic foundation for its later annexation of other countries.

But when the rabbit is dead, the dog is eaten. After the Beiwei Kingdom became the dominant power, the Yahe Kingdom, like a stray dog, would naturally be skinned and eaten.

The Northern Wei Kingdom originally wanted to persuade the king to surrender, but everyone, from the princess to the people, had faith and integrity and refused to remove the country's name and submit to Northern Wei.

Beiwei saw that soft tactics didn't work, and was afraid of being criticized for being unfaithful if they used hard tactics. So they used a sinister trick and poisoned the water source of Yahe. After all, Beiwei wanted the mines, not the unruly people. Countless Yahe people were poisoned to death, and Beiwei claimed that it was a plague that was spreading and there was no cure, so they could only blockade and isolate and wait for the epidemic to subside.

As everyone knows, what happened later: the Yahe state was destroyed and has now become a county of Beiwei. The Wu and Jin mines have been abandoned for some unknown reason.

Previously, Ling Qiqi had asked Qi Qing to collect and investigate her mother's background. She learned that her mother was from the Yahe Kingdom and had doubts about the plague destroying the country. Judging from the results and objects of the profits, it seemed very much like a political conspiracy of Beiwei.

But before, she only regarded herself as an outsider and looked at this matter very neutrally. In every change of dynasty in history, such things as abandoning the donkey after it has done its work are inevitable. Her father and mother have different positions, so naturally they will end up parting unhappily, or even become enemies.

But now that she had confirmed the truth from her aunt, she felt differently. She actually sympathized with her mother. How much despair her mother had gone through, if it were her, she might not be able to do what her mother did.

The jade pendant in Ling Qiqi's hand suddenly became heavy. She thought her mother left it to her just to leave her a memory, but she never expected that what she was left with was the pain of the destruction of her country and her clan, as well as the hatred of being entrusted to the wrong person.

Yes, I trusted the wrong person. If my mother had married the Ninth Prince instead of the current Emperor Beiwei, I wonder if the Crow Kingdom would have faced the same fate.

From her aunt, she even learned about a triangular emotional entanglement between her father, the Ninth Prince and her mother.