Chapter 520 [Lifeline]

However, something unexpected happened to the maid.

Xin Chong was not angry when he was stopped by Yang Wanyi. Instead, he praised Yang Wanyi for her true nature. He gave Yang Wanyi the first-place exquisite jade pendant and said frankly that she was the real first-place winner.

Seeing the other party so calm, Yang Wanyi, who had angrily tried to stop him, felt embarrassed. She stuffed the second place prize, the pomegranate gemstone hairpin, into Xin Chong's hand and fled.

Xin Chong was left looking at the girl's hair accessories in his hand, at a loss.

From then on, Xin Chong and Yang Wanyi became close friends.

The eldest son of General Weiyuan, who no longer liked to attend various banquets hosted by aristocratic families, began to follow this young talented girl from the capital.

Later, Yang Wanyi's adoptive mother Li Qin took her out to worship Buddha. On the way, they encountered bandits, and it was Xin Chong who rescued them.

At the age of sixteen, Xin Chong followed General Weiyuan to fight in the war. Three years later, he returned victorious and made great military achievements. He then proposed marriage to the family of the Imperial Censor.

In the third year of their marriage, Yang Wanyi gave birth to their eldest son Xin Che, and the following year gave birth to their second son Xin Cheng. In the year when Xin Chong was awarded Marquis of Zhaoping for his military achievements, their third daughter Xin Ningyu was born.

Whenever Empress Dowager Yu saw Yang Wanyi's face at a palace banquet, she would be stunned because her eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to her own.

Being suspicious by nature, she began to investigate Yang Wanyi's identity and secretly performed a blood test to prove her kinship.

As the champion of palace fighting, Empress Dowager Yu still had some means. She followed the clues and found out that the daughter of the Imperial Censor, Yang Wanyi, was adopted, and her real identity was the second baby girl that she had someone get rid of that year.

However, the Empress Dowager's strongest assistant, Doctor Qi, who had been following her all the way, was no pushover either. He refused to let the Empress Dowager find out that he was the one who had switched the baby girl and saved her.

Empress Dowager Yu was not afraid that Yang Wanyi's true identity would be exposed at this time.

After all, the previous emperor had passed away and her son was the emperor, so no one dared to hold her accountable for deceiving the emperor.

What is more important than this is that Lady Yang Wanyi, the wife of Marquis Zhaoping, is the flesh and blood of the late emperor. The three children she gave birth to still have the blood of the late emperor flowing in their bodies and are of the royal family.

So when she saw that Xin Che, the son of Marquis Zhaoping, was both civil and military, invincible on the battlefield, and deeply loved by the people, she became uneasy.

He was afraid that Xin Che would seize the throne from Emperor Qingning.

After all, Xin Che is also of royal blood. He is the grandson of the late emperor and the nephew of Emperor Qingning.

Even though she knew that Yang Wanyi was the second baby girl she gave birth to that year, the Empress Dowager never treated Yang Wanyi as her own daughter.

Instead, he regarded Yang Wanyi's family as enemies who were trying to seize his son's throne.

Her son is her lifeblood. She worked hard to get her son to this position and would never allow anyone to take it away from him.

Therefore, when Empress Dowager Yu saw Emperor Qingning being castrated by this martial arts master with a scimitar, she completely collapsed.

The Queen Mother yelled excitedly, but her hands were handcuffed behind her back and she couldn't break free: "How could you turn my son into a eunuch?!"

No one paid any attention to her.

The martial arts master who castrated Emperor Qingning threw away the scimitar in his hand in disgust and said to the martial arts masters behind him, "Send someone who knows medicine to stop the bleeding. We can't let him die so easily now!"

Someone immediately came with a medicine box.

Being castrated in front of so many people, Emperor Qingning was tortured both physically and mentally and had fainted.

The people who treated him forced Emperor Qingning to wake up.

Emperor Qingning was dying, with his eyes half open.

"You still haven't written the abdication edict, so you can't faint."

The martial arts master stuffed the brush into Emperor Qingning's hand, lifted him up and made him sit up.

"Write down all the persecution you've inflicted on the Zhao Palace, the Xin Family Army, and other loyal officials over the years."

"You should know exactly what you did, right?"

Emperor Qingning feigned death, holding his pen still. A medical expert immediately gave him a needle in the acupuncture point, forcing him to concentrate: "Don't faint until you finish writing."

"Write down clearly what time it was, who was sent, and how they harmed Prince Zhao's Mansion and the Xin family army. If you don't write it down clearly, I'll give you another shot."

Emperor Qingning was forced to pick up the pen reluctantly and wrote down with gritted teeth what he had done to the Chaowang Palace.

"Where are my 50,000 imperial guards..." Emperor Qingning was really puzzled. Wasn't this palace his territory? Why was there no response from heaven or earth when he cried out to the heavens?

Could it be that Prince Zhao's Palace has already taken control of his entire imperial city?

How is this possible?

Xin Che twirled the black jade ring on his hand and glanced up at the half-dead Emperor Qingning: "Since you are curious, let Xia Su come and tell you in person."

Soon, Xia Su, the commander of the military, was escorted into the banquet hall by two soldiers from the Xin family.

Xia Su looked dejected: "Your Majesty, the capital has been surrounded by rebels."

"The number of rebels: 100,000."

This number sounded like a thunderclap in the ears of Emperor Qingning, waking him up.

Emperor Qingning and the Empress Dowager were both incredulous: "One hundred thousand? Where did you get so many people?"

Hou Xiaoxiao chuckled when she heard this: "The number of signs of Yuelai Escort Agency in the capital and surrounding areas is 50,000."

"He Lin and the errand boys under me have all been professionally trained."

"Put together here and there, and it's just a matter of sprinkling a hundred thousand dollars."

This sentence made the Queen Mother and Emperor Qingning open their eyes wide again: "Aren't you and He Lin sworn enemies?"

Hou Xiaoxiao laughed out loud: "Yeah, the fact that you still think so proves that our acting is very similar."

Xia Su's face was miserable as he continued to speak to Emperor Qingning, "Furthermore, a 200,000-strong army suddenly appeared from the western snowfields and directly controlled the entire west and southwest."

"Two hundred thousand?!"

Emperor Qingning was on the verge of collapse: "This is more than the military strength of my entire Dasheng. Did you hear it wrong?"

Xin Che spoke slowly, "Two hundred thousand troops, three years is enough to gather them."

He saw that Jiang Lili looked a little sleepy.

It’s getting late.

Emperor Qingning's abdication edict and confession had already been written, and he was completely numb, like a puppet whose soul had been taken away.

Given the Xin family three years, they were able to keep a low profile to such an extent.

He should not have followed the late emperor's will and should have killed the man decisively.

Emperor Qingning threw his brush to the ground, his expression dejected. "The writing is already done. Shouldn't you release the Queen Mother? If word gets out that Prince Zhao's palace broke its promise, the world will laugh at it."

"uncle."

Xin Ningyu rolled her eyes and suddenly thought of a clever plan to make the mother and son fight each other: "Grandma, is there something you haven't told you?"

uncle?

Xin Ningyu calls himself uncle? !

Emperor Qingning originally thought that he had been numbed by the various reversals today, but the moment he heard the word "uncle", his pupils still dilated uncontrollably.

"Who are you calling uncle?"