Chapter 123 The past

　　Being on the road at night was truly a troublesome matter. Moreover, the condition of the roads in the ancient times was not very good. The jolts of the carriage plus the heavy load on their minds made Gu Xiran and Shu Huan had no thoughts of sleeping. It was just that sitting with their eyes open till dawn was also very difficult to bear. In the end, Gu Xiran laid a thick piece of clothes on his lap to let Shu Huan close her eyes for a moment.

　　She felt an inexplicable sense of security as she pillowed on his legs. She felt sleepy, but suddenly she vaguely heard the sound of crying. It sounded a bit creepy in the middle of the night. She was immediately awake, sat up and turned her puzzling eyes at Gu Xiran.

　　Gu Xiran raised the curtain a bit and asked the driver on the outside, "Who is crying?"

　　The driver listened intently and said, "Answering second young master, the cries came from the carriage behind us. Presumably, that person thought of eldest young master and felt sad."

　　Inside the carriage behind them were concubine Yun and mother Du. One wouldn't have much of a deep friends.h.i.+p with Gu Xitian; the other had never met Gu Xitian. Even if they wanted to cry, they wouldn't pick this moment to cry.

　　The two listened carefully. Hearing that the cries didn't slow down but got more intense instead, they quickly called the driver to stop the carriage.

　　Their carriage was at the forefront. The moment they stopped, the carriages behind them also stopped. When they got out the carriage, they saw that Du Qiu was already in the carriage where mother Du was at and he asked her about what the matter was.

　　The cries continued and mother Du apparently didn't answer.

　　Shu Huan and Gu Xiran walked to the carriage and looked inside through the half-opened curtain. They saw mother Du and concubine Yun holding each other as they cried miserably. They were puzzled.

　　"What had happened? Why are you crying?" Shu Huan couldn't help but ask.

　　Only now did mother Du raise her head and looked at her once. She wanted to answer, but she couldn't stop a sob from coming out first. She had to cover her mouth to not lose too much composure.

　　This…

　　Shu Huan looked helplessly at Gu Xiran and found out that he was looking pensively. She couldn't help but get startled and suddenly a thought emerged in her head. She immediately frowned and was lost in her thoughts.

　　In the end, it was concubine Yun who suppressed her cries first. As she wiped mother Du's tears, she knelt and called, "Mother…"

　　The word "mother" made everyone look at each other in dismay. Even Ji Danqing who had just gotten off the carriage was stunned.

　　Shu Huan had guessed a bit that it would be like this, but when she heard this sorrowful and affectionate calling of concubine Yun, she was still dumbfounded. Until when she had been taken back into the carriage and the carriage had began to move did she implore, "Truly don't know how they were able to recognize each other…"

　　It was not like mother Du hasn't seen concubine Yun before when living at the resort. They had even chatted with each other a few times, but at that time she (SH) didn't see that they had any telepathic connection at all.

　　She muttered while in deep thoughts, "Could it be that concubine Yun had a token with her or a birthmark on an easy place to identify?"