"How is this possible?!" If King Guangling hadn't always lived in seclusion, and wasn't the kind of dandy clan that was always merciful, he would have suspected that the baby boy Meng brought to him was his own flesh and blood who accidentally wandered away!
The problem is, he can't remember that he had such a romantic relationship outside!
"And this child really doesn't look like me at all!" King Guangling didn't take a close look at the baby's appearance before, because this child was here to die for his real youngest son anyway, so what else was there to care about
At this moment, looking at the results of the bloody recognition, he quickly stepped forward, took the swaddling clothes from the wet nurse's hand, and looked at it carefully, "This is definitely not Gu's heir... Then how could it be?" !”
He stared at the golden basin not far away with wide eyes, and felt at a loss for a moment.
However, the Shu sisters on Danqi all showed sweet smiles: "Prince Guangling, it seems that I and my sister have indeed wronged you. Please don't take offense!"
As the imperial concubine spoke, she put her hands on her waist meaningfully and made a salute, but her body did not leave the throne at all. She said softly, "After all, we sisters have nothing to do, so it is inevitable to cause trouble in this kind of matter." Confused!"
"No... it's nothing." King Guangling replied a little distractedly, "Now that the bloodline has been proven... I... I'm going to resign? The child is young and immature. I'm afraid that his crying has offended His Majesty and two others. How pure is your empress?"
The newly born child originally fell into a drowsy sleep due to the hassle of entering the palace. However, when the "little prince" was stabbed, didn't he wake up in pain
At this moment, he was grinning and crying loudly. He didn't know whose family Meng brought this child from. He probably came from a pretty good family and was very strong. His cry was so loud that it shook the entire palace.
The Shu sisters and Emperor Xuan Jing had been living in emptiness for many years, and were not used to this kind of "liveliness". Listening now, their eyes showed a bit of boredom, but they had no intention of embarrassing Prince Guangling, and said with a smile: "Well done, Your Majesty. .”
When King Guangling saw that Emperor Xuan Jing also nodded, he quickly bowed and hurriedly left with the two wet nurses holding the children.
When he crossed the threshold of the palace, he breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that no matter how strange the result of blood recognition was, this test was finally passed!
Who knows, at this moment, a pair of hands stretched out from beside him, snatched the baby from the arms of the wet nurse who was holding the "little prince" behind him, and threw it into the pond outside the railing without any explanation!
The pond was about half an acre in size. It should have been frozen and covered with snow this season, but it was most likely arranged by the Shu sisters. A hole several feet in size was cut out in the ice, which was just right for the baby. , fell into this hole!
"!!!!!!!!!!!!" King Guangling and the two wet nurses behind him were shocked by this scene!
After a while, he yelled and glared at the person who threw the baby, "You... you are so brave!!!"
"Oh, how did you make him run out?!" Before he could continue his attack, a palace official dressed as a female official rushed out of the palace, hurriedly asked someone to hold the man down, and quickly gave him to King Guangling. Li, explained over and over again, "This is the chamberlain serving Sasou in the back hall. I don't know what happened, but something has been a little abnormal since the past two days! In the past two days, I have beaten many people in the palace for no apparent reason. They should have been sent out of the palace." Yes, it’s just that the empress wanted to serve him for many years and she couldn’t bear it, so she asked him to be locked up in a room at the back and have people deliver him food and medicine three times a day. She planned to continue using him as an errand after waiting for him!”
"In the end, I don't know who the hell released the person at this moment, and actually made the little prince suffer such injustice!"
"My lord, don't worry, I'm going to call someone to go down to the pond to save the little prince!"
"Little Prince Jiren will be fine if he has his own destiny!"
This palace was very articulate, and King Guangling, who was not very responsive when speaking one sentence after another, could not get in the conversation at all. When she finally paused, King Guangling couldn't help but jump to his feet: "Bastard! How old is Gu's heir? What season is this?! Are you still nagging here?! Why don’t you hurry up and save people?!”
"Didn't you hear? Why don't you hurry up and save the little prince?!" The palace man followed his good advice and immediately scolded the palace servants standing in the corridor, "If the little prince makes a mistake, let's see how the queen punishes you!"
When those people heard this, without saying a word, they took off their coats and jumped towards the pond. Some of them jumped very close, because the ice at the edge was too thick to enter the water. They also got up and stomped hard a few times to break the ice. , sink yourself.
Those who jump farther and smash through the ice directly into the water take a deep breath and dive down as if to search for traces of the baby.
A dozen waiters crowded into the pond like dumplings, searching for it as if they were feeling for needles. This situation seemed busy, but King Guangling waited in the corridor for a long time against the wind, and what he waited for was a young chamberlain who finally emerged from the water holding a swaddle and said with surprise: "The little prince has been found!"
Heifeng changed his face and said with a sad face, "My lord, my condolences, the little prince... he has..."
What was finally handed to King Guangling was a cold, pale face. The small face still maintained an expression of struggling and crying, and the young brows were full of confusion.
Prince Guangling accepted the swaddling clothes in a dull manner. It seemed as if the imperial concubine had walked out in person, and asked about her passing in surprise. It also seemed that Zhaoyi was scolding the "not normal" palace servant, and wanted to pass the imperial staff and kill him on the spot. He killed him with a stick to make amends to the "little prince"; and it seemed that someone persuaded Zhaoyi, on the grounds that the Chinese New Year was about to come, and it would not be good to see blood in the palace; and it seemed that... comfort, promise, vague threat, imperial concubine Covering her mouth with a proud smile, Zhaoyi's tone was gentle, but her eyes were cold...
Until I returned to Guangling Prince's Mansion in a daze, the Meng family steward who was guarding here hurriedly came up to him and asked: "Your Majesty, how are you?"
He choked up and said, "The little prince is gone!"
"No more?" Manager Meng was a little surprised by his lost expression. Didn't the "little prince" sent to the palace plan to have the Shu sisters kill him early on
He is not the heir of King Guangling at all. Why does King Guangling look like his own dead son
He cursed in his heart, but still expressed comfort on his face, "My lord, don't be sad, the Duke and the others have already made arrangements. After a while, the little prince will be able to return to you!"
"The two empresses first told the imperial doctor to let Gu and the little prince confess their kinship with blood, confirming that they were biological father and son, and then they had the little prince's swaddling clothes thrown into the ice cave..." Who knew that the words were about to end. After falling, I heard King Guangling trembling slightly and saying, "When the child was picked up, he had no breath! On the way back, Gu... Gu opened the swaddling clothes and looked at it. There were bruises on his chest. It was clear... that he had been forcibly pressed. He drowned at the bottom of the pool!"
The steward was startled and gasped!
But it's not that the baby boy who replaced the real little prince died miserably, but rather: "The Shu sisters are really vicious! This is the news that the little prince is dead!"
Obviously, the two sisters had already expected that Meng would not let the real little prince enter the palace to take risks, so they took advantage of Emperor Xuanjing's favor to force King Guangling to agree to blood recognition, and they tricked and confirmed in public that the baby boy was the daughter of King Guangling and Meng. Gui Huan's identity as his own son, and then he killed the child in public. In this way, it was natural to announce that the male heir of King Guangling and Meng Guihuan was dead!
Even if the real little prince is alive, how can he regain his identity
"Didn't you say before that the servant who happened to have a baby in the palace had ulterior motives and exchanged the civet cat for the prince?" King Guangling asked uneasily, "This method..."
"I used to think that the Shu sisters could at best kill directly. There was no part of recognizing relatives with blood. You would have been bitten to death and deceived by the people below." The steward frowned and said, "How did you expect that they would do this? This Things are in trouble now... No, I have to go back and report it!"
When the death of the "little prince" caused an uproar in Chang'an, Queen Meng's handwritten letter was worthy of being delivered to Sheng Weiqiao.
Meng Guiyu helped deliver this letter, and Meng Guiyu's letters were naturally included.
Because he really hoped that Sheng Weiqiao would not go to Chang'an, Meng Guiyu spent a lot of money this time. Not only did he remind her that the Shu sisters already knew about the relationship between Rong Shuihe and Huan Guanlan, and planned to pretend not to know anything about it, but also reminded her that the Meng Everything he knew about the recent trends was revealed, except that he didn't say clearly, "I'm in charge of everything in Chang'an. I'm very good, so you can rest assured and go north."
"Where did the sisters know this news?" His confession coincided with what Xuan Yu Feng said to coax Sheng Weiqiao, which made Sheng Weiqiao completely put aside his suspicion of his aunt, frowning and thinking, "Could it be that someone under Mi Zhen's command Something went wrong?"
Xuan Yu Feng's words came true, and the shock in her heart was even greater than hers. At this moment, she was also puzzled: "Based on Mi Zhen's carefulness, how can anyone who knows this secret give him a chance to betray?"
Moreover, "the Shu sisters have no children. The emperor is getting older and they cannot have children themselves. It is the time when they are in urgent need of an heir. It is impossible to believe such words without any basis. There must be enough evidence to convince them. Only then will you believe it!”
"Aunt, do you think there might be something wrong with the Huan family?" Sheng Weiqiao guessed, "I don't know about the other members of the Huan family, but Huan Yehe, the head of Jingshu County, has known about the relationship between Mi Zhen and her grandfather for a long time. .”
Xuan Yu and Feng Shi also doubted Huan Yehe: "It's very possible... Oh, what did Mi Zhen do to find her in the first place? What can a girl's film do? Even if it's to send Duke Huan's coffin back to its roots, anyway, at this moment There is no way to bury him openly, so why not find a feng shui treasured place on Tortoiseshell Island or Nanfeng County to bury him first, and then after the big things are accomplished, wouldn’t it be nice to move the coffin in a glorious manner!"
"Fortunately, we already know the news now, so we won't be completely unprepared." Sheng Weiqiao felt depressed, but now that the matter has come to this point, it is useless to sigh blindly, so she can only comfort herself, "Besides, the Shu sisters are not planning to break up with Mi Zhen for the time being. Po Lian, he is obviously worried about having no children and is just trying to get away with it."
Xuan Yu Feng said: "The key is that what happened to Duke Huan back then was really their work. Can you be sure of this secret? If not, just to support this reputation, I think they might still want to follow him." Mi Zhen can explain it clearly or something... turn the hostility into friendship; if so, even if Mi Zhen is willing to forgive them, do you think they will believe it?"
Sheng Weiqiao breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Well... Mi Zhen and I won't be going to Chang'an for the time being anyway, let's let it go for a while! Aunt, please read the Queen's letter again. She said that Zheng Guogong instigated Gao Qieyi to collude with Ruru. I don’t know at all! This was said in front of the Queen Mother. According to her understanding of Zheng Guogong, doesn’t it sound like a lie?”
"Zheng Guogong is not very nice to the Queen, and he doesn't look like a real father." Xuanyu Feng has always been suspicious, and immediately said, "Who knows if he deliberately acted it out to show the Queen?"
Gongsun Xi, who had remained silent, interjected: "Besides, the queen is also the legitimate daughter of the Meng family. Even if she is on good terms with the empress, she may not take advantage of her friendship with her to design such a major matter that affects the survival of the family. Misleading. So I’ll just listen to what I’m saying, and I don’t necessarily have to take it seriously.”
Sheng Weiqiao glared at him angrily, pointed at the letter and shouted: "You are a vigilant person! But explain it clearly to me: the queen said that Zheng Guogong didn't know that Gao Qieyi went to Western Xinjiang and his actions in Western Xinjiang... If I believe it Yes, what will be the result?"
Before Gongsun Xi could answer, she said to herself, "Because of Mi Zhen's position, I would not admit that the Meng family colluded with Ruru at this moment! How could the queen not know this? She also wanted to explain this matter specifically. Isn't this right? Is it unnecessary?"
Gongsun said happily: "Maybe I'm afraid that you will use it as evidence in the future?"
"Then she should excuse the entire Meng family, saying that this matter has nothing to do with the Meng family, and that no one in the Meng family knows anything about it!" Sheng Weiqiao sneered, "But she mentioned Zheng Guogong... Do you think that in the Queen's mind? , Zheng Guogong is more important than the entire Meng family, so important that the queen doesn’t care if the Meng family is suspected, but she must clear her name for Zheng Guogong?!"
She darkened her face, "I know you are loyal to Mi Zhen and like to think twice about people and situations, but can you have some brains?!"