Chapter 403 The Xie Family’s True Bloodline is Close at Hand

Jiu Yue struggled to get up from the ground, rolling and crawling.

Her miserable face showed the only joy in the past few days.

"The princess is finally saved."

She endured the pain in her hips and legs and limped along at the end of the group.

With every step she took, drops of blood dripped from the wounds on her body to the ground.

Shen Zhao, who was sitting in the sedan chair, heard Li Yuwan's regretful voice again.

[She was clearly a noble daughter of the Xie family, but she was lost outside the capital due to the civil unrest that year.]

[By some strange coincidence, she was found by a couple who raised her until she was six years old and then sold her to the imperial palace.]

[This is a ridiculous plot. Back then, Xie Yuheng was lost in exchange for her. To protect Xie Yuheng, Duke Xie took him back to the Xie family and pretended he was the newborn child of his wife.]

[Both babies were less than three days old at the time, and given the chaotic situation at the time, Duke Xie's Mansion hadn't disclosed to the outside world whether his wife had given birth to a boy or a girl.]

[Everyone naturally thought that Lady Xie had given birth to another baby boy.]

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, the Xie family secretly sent only a small number of people to search for the baby girl's whereabouts.

[Later, those people discovered something, and for the sake of the overall situation, the Xie family stopped looking for her.]

[It's really pitiful. ]

[How much punishment must have been endured to get these scars all over his body.]

When I saw this scene, I felt deeply moved. This girl from the Xie family was truly pitiful. She was never able to recognize her biological parents until her death.

[I hate that I know the plot clearly, I know the identity of the Xie family girl clearly, but I can't tell her. I can only watch her slowly fade away in the deep palace.]

Shen Zhao's sedan chair was at the back, with Li Yuwan in front of her and the little palace maid at the back behind her.

She was shocked when she heard Li Yuwan's voice.

The palace maid behind him turned out to be Duke Xie’s biological daughter.

It was so close, but Duke Xie and his family never knew about it.

Lady Xie, Duke of Kyoto, rarely appears in public, but everyone in Kyoto knows her as a believer in Buddha.

The place she went most often was the temple. Whenever she appeared in public, she was always dressed simply and held a string of Buddhist beads in her hand.

In the past, Shen Zhao couldn't understand why Lady Xie was so fond of worshipping Buddha.

Now she understands.

Shen Zhao lifted the curtain on one side of the sedan chair and looked back.

But the palace maid was following the back of the team with great difficulty, and a look of extreme pain appeared on her face with every step she took.

She must have injured her leg. Shen Zhao noticed that the hem of her skirt was slowly being stained by the blood inside.

Moreover, her embroidered shoes were covered with blood, which was slowly sliding down the uppers of her shoes.

So much so that when she walked, she would leave behind a very faint bloody outline of her footprints.

"Stop the sedan!"

As soon as Shen Zhao finished speaking, the sedan chair stopped.

Immediately, a eunuch asked nervously:

"Is your Majesty feeling unwell?"

Prince Zhong is the emperor's adopted son and is highly valued by the emperor.

We can't let anything go wrong in their hands.

Shen Zhao opened the curtain of the sedan chair, and Jiu Yue followed.

She stopped in a hurry, feeling very anxious.

[Why has Prince Zhong's sedan stopped now? The princess is in imminent danger. I just want to return to her right now.]

[The emperor's sedan chair is still moving, but as a servant, I cannot pass over Prince Zhong's sedan chair to chase it.]

"What should I do? I'm so worried about the princess's safety. If I'm not there, and she's unconscious, what will happen if those people fabricate a story about her deceiving His Majesty?"

Chen Zhao looked at the anxious Jiu Yue, who seemed to feel no pain in her body at all and was only worried about the princess.

Chen Zhao said to Jiu Yue, "Come up."

September was stunned.

I also heard, "The king is now well again, and I feel very uncomfortable being cramped in this sedan chair."

"Since you are a loyal protector and you are so injured, I will allow you to ride in this sedan chair to the Ten Thousand Buddha Hall."

Jiu Yue said hurriedly in panic:

"I am fine. Your Highness, your body is precious. You must not give up your sedan chair to me."

A hint of gratitude flashed through Jiu Yue's heart. She often heard the palace servants talk about how kind Prince Zhong was and how well he treated his subordinates.

And how he was willing to offend the powerful in the court for the sake of the soldiers under his command.

He even got wet in the rain together with the third son of the Xie family and the homeless soldiers, using the sky as a blanket and the ground as a bed.

Just now, she saw Prince Zhong lift the curtain on one side of the sedan chair and look back at her.

Given Prince Zhong's kindness, he must have been unable to bear to see her in such a wounded state, so he got out of the sedan chair himself and let her, a servant, ride in it.

This made her feel respected and treated as a human being.

Apart from the Sixth Princess who treated her as a human being, the only other person who treated her as such was the Prince Zhong in front of her.

Ever since she was sold into the palace by her parents, she has been a tool with no dignity, no freedom, and nothing.

All that awaited her was endless labor and careful service.

Once you make a mistake, you will be beaten and punished, and even face the risk of death at any time.

In her third year in the palace, she caught a cold at a palace banquet as a punishment the day before. That day, she endured a high fever and served the ladies from aristocratic families who came to the palace to attend the banquet.

His mind was burned and he was unconscious, so he accidentally spilled the wine on a noble lady.

That day she was punished by being dragged out and beaten to death, but it was the Sixth Princess and Lady Xie, the wife of Duke Xie, who spoke up to save her.

Jiu Yue's eyes flashed with tears. She sniffed her sour nose and said:

"I am very grateful for your kindness, Your Highness, but I cannot ride in this sedan chair. Please get in, Your Highness."

Prince Zhong was injured no less severely than herself. How could she feel at ease sitting in that sedan chair? Moreover, her life was worthless.

She had not planned to live today. As long as the princess was safe, she would be at peace even if she died.

She could never repay the princess for her kindness over the years in this lifetime, and could only wait until the next life to work like a slave to repay the princess for saving her life and recognizing her.

Blood ties are so wonderful. Lady Xie once saved her own daughter with her own hands.

Shen Zhao thought with emotion, looking at Jiu Yue's persistence and trembling legs.

The voice said with some command:

"You sit down when I tell you to. Are you refusing to obey my orders?"

Jiu Yue sighed deeply. She knew that although Prince Zhong seemed to be cold and mean to her, he actually just wanted her to sit in the sedan chair.

"This servant...thank you, Your Highness."

The words she wanted to refuse turned into thanks. She would always remember Prince Zhong's kindness to her.

Now the princess could not wait any longer, so she could only get into the sedan chair with a guilty mood.

Xie Yuheng, who had already followed the old emperor to the Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas, stood on tiptoe to look out.

He whispered:

"Brother Chu, why hasn't he come yet? Could he be feeling unwell?"

Just as he was looking around, a sedan chair was carried into the yard.

Xie Yuheng hurriedly went up to him with a smile on his face and was about to call him Brother Chu.

The curtain of the sedan chair was lifted from the inside.