Chapter 990: Ah Zhu and her daughter recognize each other
Su Mingzhe originally thought that a hero like Qiao Feng would definitely not want to be inferior to others, let alone become a lackey of the imperial court.

However, he underestimated Qiao Feng's desire to track down the real murderer and avenge his parents.

Qiao Feng hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said:
"Sir, if you can tell me the real murderer and let Qiao Feng avenge his parents, Qiao Feng is willing to join the Imperial City Division and work for the court!"

Qiao Feng must have felt a little bit resentful about Su Mingzhe taking the opportunity to invite him to join the Imperial City Division.

However, he remembered that Su Mingzhe was a member of the imperial court, and it was rare for him to tell him so much information.

Then, he thought that if the Imperial City Bureau found out the truth and arrested the murderer, he would not be able to kill the murderer with his own hands and avenge his parents. This would probably become a great regret in his heart.

After much deliberation, he decided to join the Imperial City Division.

"Thank you, Brother Qiao, for your trust!"

When Su Mingzhe heard Qiao Feng's agreement, he was immediately delighted and waved for the head of the Imperial City Bureau, Eunuch Wei, to come over:

"Brother Qiao, this Eunuch Wei is quite powerful. He created a magical skill called [Sunflower Manual] and has reached the super high realm of being in harmony with nature. When Xiaoyaozi broke into the palace and tried to rob the secret martial arts in the palace, it was Eunuch Wei who led the imperial guards to fight him off."

"Eunuch Wei, Brother Qiao has agreed to join the Imperial City Division. I will return to Kaifeng and recommend him to the emperor, who will grant Brother Qiao the rank of Third Rank Hengban Zhengshi. From now on, the case of the Gusu Murong family's rebellion will be handled by you and Brother Qiao together."

"We obey your orders!"

Before coming out this time, Eunuch Wei secretly looked for Su Mingzhe for a fight.

As a result, he didn't lose a single move to Su Mingzhe.

Therefore, no matter what Su Mingzhe said at this moment, Eunuch Wei nodded in agreement without any dissatisfaction.

After Su Mingzhe introduced the two to each other, he said to Qiao Feng:

"Brother Qiao, Eunuch Wei knows everything that happened back then. You can ask him for details. The girl Ah Zhu you brought with you is also not a simple person. Her father was originally Duan Zhengchun, the King of Zhennan in Dali, and her mother was Ruan Xingzhu, the only daughter of the Duke of Jinghu in the Great Song Dynasty. Because of an accident, she ended up in the Murong family in Gusu. I am now going to take her back to Kaifeng Prefecture and notify her parents to come and reunite with her."

Ruan Jinghu was a great Neo-Confucian scholar in the Song Dynasty.

It was because he became famous at a time when the literary world was at its peak.

Great literary masters of all ages like Ouyang Xiu, Su Dongpo, and Liu Sanbian dominated the world, but as a result, Confucian masters like Ruan Jinghu did not even have the chance to leave their names in history because they lived too short.

Fortunately, people of the Song Dynasty were quite familiar with him and respected him.

When Qiao Feng learned that Azhu, the maidservant of the Murong family whom he had rescued, had such a noble status, he was also shocked.

However, in his opinion, these things have nothing to do with him anymore.

After all, he saved Ah Zhu purely because of his nature of "a great hero serves his country and his people".

At this moment, Ah Zhu was about to reunite with her parents, and he would only be happy for Ah Zhu and had no other sinister thoughts.

Before saying goodbye, Qiao Feng asked a question in his mind:
"Mr. Su, Qiao Feng has a question. Nowadays, most people in the martial arts world regard Qiao Feng as a scourge and a beast, and they want to get rid of him as soon as possible. Why do you treat Qiao Feng differently?"

Su Mingzhe originally thought that Qiao Feng was riding the wind and chasing the moon, and would not be psychologically bound by such worldly troubles.

As a result, Qiao Feng asked this question.

This clearly shows that Qiao Feng also began to doubt his own identity.

In order for Qiao Feng to stay in Song Dynasty with peace of mind in the future, Su Mingzhe decided to help him solve his doubts:
"Brother Qiao, I don't agree with what you said."

"For thousands of years, China has always followed the principle of 'if a barbarian is Chinese, then he is Chinese; if a Chinese is a barbarian, then he is a barbarian.' Although Brother Qiao's original parents are Khitans, Brother Qiao himself grew up in the Song Dynasty. So, in my opinion, Brother Qiao is a normal Song person. Unless Brother Qiao longs to live in Khitan, then just ignore what he said."

After resolving Qiao Feng's doubts, Su Mingzhe took Azhu away.

Qiao Feng followed Eunuch Wei to investigate the "Gusu Murong Rebellion Case".

As for Xue Muhua, the You brothers and others in Juxian Manor, naturally people from the Imperial City Bureau went to "disperse" them.

Ah Zhu's injuries were somewhat serious. Although Su Mingzhe had given her acupuncture several times after taking Pei Yuan Dan, and the injuries were no longer getting worse, she still needed to concentrate on recuperating in order to get better or even recover.

It was more than a hundred miles from Xingyang to Kaifeng. In order to take care of Ah Zhu, he could only walk thirty or forty miles a day.

In this way, after walking for four or five days, we finally saw the shadow of Kaifeng City.

The head of the Imperial City Bureau had already reported the matter of Ah Zhu to the Empress Dowager.

Following the suggestion of the Imperial City Administration, the Grand Empress Dowager asked Empress Dowager Xiang to adopt her as her daughter and conferred the title of "Princess Yuhu" upon her.

Yuhu County is the old name of the county seat of Ruan Xingzhu’s hometown during the Spring and Autumn Period.

After the Empress Dowager issued the decree, while preparing the Yuhu County Princess's mansion in Kaifeng City, she also ordered people to go to Yuhu County to notify Azhu's biological mother, Ruan Xingzhu, to come and recognize her as her relative.

What a coincidence.

In order to find his son Duan Yu, Duan Zhengchun brought Chu Wanli and others to the Central Plains. After hearing that his son was safe, he asked Chu Wanli and others to continue searching, while he came to Xiaojing Lake to reunite with his lover Ruan Xingzhu.

The Imperial City Bureau came to inform Ruan Xingzhu to go to Kaifeng to recognize her relatives. Duan Zhengchun was standing nearby and after hearing this, he naturally wanted to go along to identify and visit his daughter.

The departure of the two happened to avoid the 'Four Evil Men' who came to seek revenge.

After Duan Yanqing and Yue Laoer found Xiaojing Lake, they learned that Duan Zhengchun and Ruan Xingzhu had gone to Kaifeng City, so they could only leave in anger.

The two were destined to fail in their action.

When Su Mingzhe escorted Ah Zhu to Kaifeng City, he saw Duan Zhengchun and a beautiful woman looking at passers-by with a longing look in their eyes.

"Miss Ah Zhu, your parents have arrived."

Su Mingzhe turned around, lifted the curtain, and let Ah Zhu come out to see him.

Maybe it's the mother-daughter connection.

Ah Zhu stuck her head out of the carriage. Ruan Xingzhu, who was standing more than ten feet away, turned her head at the same time. The mother and daughter looked at each other, and both of them were trembling with fear.

"Duan Lang, I think I saw our daughter..."

Ruan Xingzhu looked at Ah Zhu nervously, and for a moment she was even afraid to step forward and recognize him.

Duan Zhengchun was decisive. He walked a few steps to the carriage, bowed and introduced himself, then asked:
"Sir, is the girl you are escorting in your carriage Princess Yuhu?"

At this time, the decree to confer the title of Princess Yuhu on Ah Zhu had already been issued.

There is nothing wrong with Duan Zhengchun asking this question.

Su Mingzhe smiled and bowed:
"Prince Zhennan, there is no need to rush. Miss Azhu is in the carriage. You can ask Madam Ruan to come and identify whether it is real or fake."

Regarding the news that Azhu is the daughter of Ruan Xingzhu and Duan Zhengchun.

As the parties involved, whether it was Ah Zhu, Ruan Xingzhu or Duan Zhengchun, they were all feeling uneasy.

I'm afraid this is just a dream.

When I woke up from the dream, my parents and daughter were still far away from each other.

Ruan Xingzhu suppressed her excitement, slowly got into the car, and saw Ah Zhu, who was pale and weak.

Seeing Ah Zhu's injuries, Ruan Xingzhu didn't bother asking for any evidence, and immediately couldn't stop her tears from flowing down:

"My poor daughter, who was the bastard who beat you so badly? I want your father to avenge you..."

(End of this chapter)