In Love With My Fierce Farming Wife!
Chapter 1135 - 1047: Sacrifice to Heaven

Chapter 1135: Chapter 1047: Sacrifice to Heaven

That day had been wildly fun, but after returning to the palace, Su Pan’er, though exhausted, found herself unable to sleep.

Outside, the constant sounds of fireworks exploding and firecrackers popping off raced through the air, illuminating the window sill with flashes akin to lightning.

Su Pan’er’s eyes widened as she gazed outside, quietly thinking.

Qin Yi suddenly stirred and opened his eyes, "What’s wrong? Why aren’t you asleep yet at this late hour?"

"I’m thinking about something."

Su Pan’er also turned over to lie flat on her back, blinking in the darkness.

"Are you thinking about my foster mother being sent away?"

He mimicked her posture, lying flat on the bed with one arm wrapped around her waist, his large hand gently caressing her rounded belly, the other hand pillowing his head.

"Why would I think about her, such a person..."

Su Pan’er scoffed coldly, finding it rather amusing, "Although you were brought up by the kindness of the Qin family when you were young, that guard also gave five hundred taels of silver to the Qin family. Five hundred taels to raise you is a bargain for the Qin family members, no matter how you slice it."

"But then again, your foster father took the silver and kept his promise to bring you home, and he even withstood your foster mother’s pressure, not only providing you with food and drink but also teaching you to read so your future wouldn’t be cut short. You really should be grateful to him."

"It’s just that, the person you should be grateful to is your foster father, yet he stubbornly stays in his hometown, enduring hardships and refusing to come to the capital. On the contrary, that woman who struts around all day long, eating your food, drinking your drinks, using your things, feels as though the money comes from the wind, and everything is her due."

"In her eyes, there’s no you!"

Despite being a harsh reality, it was the truth.

Su Pan’er had never discussed with Qin Yi matters about his foster father and mother, not because she didn’t want to, but because she hoped Qin Yi would come to realize the key point on his own.

"Yes, there’s no me in her eyes..."

This realization brought a bitter smile to Qin Yi’s lips.

"When I was little, I never once fed on her milk. Later on, when she looked at me, there was hatred in her eyes. I thought it was because of the hardship she endured during my birth, almost costing her life. She hated me, and so I tried all the harder to please her, offering my sincere heart in front of her eyes."

"After I learned about my own origins, I still respected her. Do you know what I can’t accept? I can’t accept that I offered my sincere heart only to have it trampled into the mud. Now that I sit on this supreme throne, I thought she would look up to me a little more. But up to now, today... until today..."

Only today did he realize, no matter how outstanding he was or how filial, that stone-hard heart couldn’t be warmed!

She hated him!

When he read hatred in her eyes towards him, his child’s heart shattered into pieces, every fragment splitting open.

"Ha, what am I to say to you?"

Instead, Su Pan’er gave a cheeky smile and poked his forehead firmly with a finger, "You want to make up for the regrets of your childhood, to find the affection of parents. But in the end, she is not your birth mother, so how could you find it?"

Qin Yi fell silent.

After a long while, he laughed, "Yes, she is not my birth mother. My birth mother has long been buried beneath the ground. I’ve been looking for the wrong person..."

Su Pan’er didn’t speak but instead embraced him comfortably.

Qin Yi nestled his head into her shoulder and didn’t lift it for a long time.

Su Pan’er gently embraced him, "Why not, after the New Year, we go find your biological mother’s remains and have them buried together with the late emperor. How about that?"

"Find them?"

Qin Yi suddenly looked up at her, his bright hawk’s eyes gleaming in the darkness.

"Yes, find them."

Su Pan’er nodded firmly, sincerely adding, "Your mother died unjustly back then, and now, even though the culprit has been executed, it is only right for you, as her son, to retrieve your mother’s remains. Even the ministers at court will praise your filial piety and won’t oppose you."

The mother of Qin Yi had been the young sect leader of the Valley of Ghosts, and even though years of contention between the sect and the Imperial Court had dissolved into nothing, her remains were still interred in the wilds, her bones unburied in the Qinling, not resting within the Imperial Mausoleum.

However, Qin Yi had never initiated any talk about this matter, as if every civil and military official in the court had "forgotten" it just the same. If she wasn’t mistaken, Su Pan’er thought, those old ministers in the court surely would not agree to inter his mother’s remains in the Imperial Mausoleum. Even if the two sets of remains were indeed found, the resistance they would face to bury them together in the Imperial Mausoleum would be formidable.

"According to Old Cheng’s testimony, my mother died within the mountain of Deicide Mountain. Afterwards, he took me and hurried away, not having the chance to bury my mother’s body. It was the late emperor who later found her and buried her body on Deicide Mountain. But the late emperor has long passed away, and those who accompanied him then are also gone. Without an exact location, how are we to search?"

Qin Yi pondered deeply, clearly giving the matter serious thought.

This caused Su Pan’er to hold back a chuckle, "Don’t worry, even if Old Cheng doesn’t know the exact spot, he must have a general idea. We can slowly investigate and surely find the precise burial site."

"Exactly! Pan’er, you are so considerate to me, I had forgotten the matter, but you remembered."

Qin Yi joyfully embraced her, then quickly pushed her away, "No! I must go to Old Cheng right away to inquire, perhaps I can learn something more."

"Now? If you go over in the middle of the night, Old Cheng is sure to be resting."

Su Pan’er quickly dissuaded him, "Besides, today is New Year’s Day, who goes to ask about such matters in the middle of the night on New Year’s Day?"

"You’re right."

Qin Yi was a bit disheartened, but moments later brightened again, "It doesn’t matter, we can talk about it after the New Year has passed."

After so many years, what would a few more days matter?

In that moment, the gloominess that had pervaded before had dissipated, yet he recalled what Su Pan’er had just said, "You just mentioned you weren’t thinking about my foster mother’s matter, what were you thinking about then?"

"I was thinking about the corruption spoken of by the commoners."

The issue of corruption discussed by those commoners, it was almost as though someone had deliberately mentioned it within his hearing.

"You need not dwell on it too much, I know how to handle it," he said.

"I understand."

Such major concerns were naturally for His Majesty and the court ministers to worry over. What troubled her was that these people actually knew of their whereabouts. After all, their departure from the palace had been a spur-of-the-moment decision!

The next morning brought the complex Ceremony of Sacrifice to Heaven.

The Great Zhou Dynasty placed special emphasis on the Sacrifice to Heaven, particularly for the New Year’s ceremony, which was meant to plead for the people’s livelihood and pray for a good harvest, thus it was even more significant.

The sacrificial platform was set up on the Inquiry Moon Platform, signifying a ceremony "under the open sky."

The Sacrifice to Heaven’s arrangements were exquisite and meticulous, with seven divine seats covered in temporary tents made of sky-blue satin. The offerings were abundant, and all was meticulously ordered. Jade, silk, whole bulls, whole sheep, wine, fruit, dishes, and numerous other offerings came in endless supply. The vessels that held the offerings and the various ritual implements used were diverse and dazzling to the eye.

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