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    129: Masked Prince Consort & Straw Princess (Thirty-three)

    Su Yan turned to look at him and asked, “Why are you here again?”

    Gu Chengling ignored her, walked quickly to her bedside, and quickly touched her sleeping point. Su Yan fell asleep before she could ask anything. The only thought in her mind was that Gu Chengling was so hateful!

    Gu Chengling pulled the quilt for her, slowly sat on the edge of the bed, looked at her calm face, and said slowly:

    “There are some things I have wanted to tell you for a long time, but I was afraid that you would hate me. If I don’t tell you now, I’m afraid I will never have the chance.”

    He told Su Yan a story: Fifteen years ago, Princess Mingfang of the Wuye Kingdom went to Tianyong to get married, and the two countries became friends. The entire Tianyong Kingdom celebrated together and held a grand banquet for the arrival of Princess Mingfang.Since Emperor Tianyong already had a queen, Princess Mingfang was named a concubine, with a status second only to the queen.

    Because she was from the Nightless Kingdom, everyone in the palace was quite wary of her and did not dare to have too much contact with her, but she did not care and ran to the Queen’s Palace every day, rain or shine. The Queen had to come into contact with her, but never had a deep friendship with her.

    The queen has a son and a daughter. The prince Si Tingmo is just four years old, and the princess Si Ting Jiaxue is ten years old.Emperor Tianyong was in his prime, but he had few heirs. Except for the princesses and princes born from the queen, he had no concubines in the harem.Everyone suspected that the queen was unscrupulous and deliberately persecuted other concubines. Even the emperor was a little suspicious. If the queen’s mother’s family, the Xie family, was not powerful, she might not be so secure in her position as queen.

    In the third month after He Fei came to Tianyong, she fainted in the Queen’s Palace for some unknown reason. After checking her pulse, the imperial doctor found that too many toxins had accumulated in He Fei’s body in a short period of time, so she suddenly couldn’t bear it and fainted.Because the incident happened in the Queen’s Palace, the Queen’s Palace was searched first. The Queen had a clear conscience and allowed people to search, but unexpectedly something was found in the Queen’s Palace.

    The well water in the backyard contained poison that could cause birth control, and even the spices burned in the temple were poisonous.The concubine who is sleeping with her will definitely come back to the Queen’s Palace the next day to express her gratitude. Even if she doesn’t drink the tea in the Queen’s Palace, even if the incense enters her body, it will still have the same effect.At first glance, this matter was framed, but the emperor was worried that he had no chance to seize the Xie family’s pigtails, so he took advantage of this incident and took away the queen’s right to manage the harem, thereby suppressing the Xie family.

    The concubine also attracted the emperor’s attention because of this matter, and gradually became favored.

    The emperor and empress had already had a bad grudge over this, but soon news came out that a nobleman was pregnant, and the emperor became even more dissatisfied with the empress.The queen was depressed all day and finally fell ill.The emperor rushed to the palace to visit. Perhaps he remembered the friendship between the young couple, or because he had given enough power to the Xie family. From then on, the emperor and empress restored harmony.

    Ten months later, the nobleman gave birth to a healthy prince. The emperor was very happy, but he was poisoned and died after entertaining all the officials. After a thorough investigation, it was found that the sobering soup that the queen served to the emperor was poisonous. The queen could not explain for a while, and her palaceHowever, the eldest maid in the palace “exposed” the queen at this time, saying that the queen was uneasy because of the previous neglect. At this time, other princes were born, and she was afraid that the emperor would not pass the throne to the legitimate prince, and she was resentful of the emperor, so she poisoned the emperor.

    Such a flawed statement was actually used by someone to convict the Queen.The King of Qi held great power and had some ambitions for the throne before the emperor died. Now he couldn’t bear it anymore. In the name of “eliminating the traitors”, he not only killed the queen, but also killed the whole family of the queen’s mother, the Xie family, which had been noble for hundreds of years. Kyoto was flooded with blood.

    After this incident, the legitimate prince born by the queen had no chance to take the throne. In the end, the prince born by that noble man who was less than a month old succeeded to the throne. King Qi proclaimed himself the regent and became the power behind the scenes of Tianyong Kingdom.

    When the new emperor succeeded to the throne, the princes and daughters born from the queen were driven out of the palace and established mansions outside the palace.Si Ting Jiaxue, who was only eleven at the time, and Si Ting Mo, who was five years old, were dependent on each other. The servants they served were all scheming people, and the royalties issued by the palace were withheld by them. The two of them ate one meal at a time, and all the food was cold and rotten. Si Ting Jiaxue went to make trouble several times, but was kicked out every time. The life of the prince and princess was not as good as that of ordinary people.The regent wished that they would one day starve to death in the palace, so how could he help them?

    There was really no other way, so Si Ting Jiaxue had to find an embroidery job and work day and night, otherwise the two of them would starve to death.If she didn’t have so much embroidery work, she would still do laundry for others, and her delicate hands were tortured into shape.

    When Si Tingmo was six years old, he went to a medicine shop as an apprentice. Fortunately, he was smart and learned quickly, so the old doctor reluctantly kept him.

    Once he fell from the clouds, there were naturally many people who would add insult to injury. The playmates who used to coax him now had a different look. They would always mock him when they saw him, call him a “bitch” one by one, throw sweet-scented osmanthus cakes on the ground to give alms to him, hit him with stones…

    Six-year-old Si Tingmo has learned to be patient. When others humiliate him, he can even laugh, as if he was born with a smiling face.He tried to resist, and he was even able to knock down those who humiliated him one by one, but all he got in exchange was to be pushed to the ground by those strong servants and beaten to death by those people. In the end, he had to make his sister cry and work harder to afford his medical expenses.

    At that time, little Si Tingmo was thinking that one day, he would make those who had insulted him and his sister worse than death!

    No matter how difficult it was, the two siblings still managed to survive five years. On the day Si Ting Jiaxue got married, she suddenly told him that she was getting married.Si Tingmo suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. After learning that she was going to marry an old man who was nearly forty years old, he tried his best to stop her and even had a big quarrel with her. Si Ting Jiaxue could not persuade him, so she apologized to him during dinner in the evening, saying that she had figured it out and that marrying was indeed not a wise move. Since he did not agree, she would not marry.

    Si Tingmo breathed a sigh of relief, but he slept for three days after that night. Three days later, Si Ting Jiaxue was already married, and there was no room for change.

    Si Ting Jiaxue only wanted revenge. She married a lustful but powerful general. Only he could check and balance the regent.

    Si Tingmo always remembered what Si Ting Jiaxue said at the beginning: “If I didn’t marry him, why should I find out the real culprit who murdered the queen mother and the Xie family, just spend the rest of my life doing embroidery and laundry, and the rest of my life being a medicine boy? PhotoPrince Zheng is becoming more and more murderous towards us. If we don’t find a backer, no one will know about our brother and sister even if they die in the house!At that time, who will redress the grievances of the Queen Mother and rehabilitate the Xie family?”

    A month later, the eldest prince, who had long been forgotten by the world, died in his mansion, and there was no such person in Tianyong Kingdom anymore.

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