Chapter 240: Grafting

early morning.

It's sunny outside.

The room was pitch black.

There are no windows in the woodshed of the princess's mansion.

The door creaked open.

Nanny Yan weakly lifted her eyelids and saw only a beam of white light shining in.

A bit dazzling.

She didn't know how long she had been imprisoned, nor what year or month it was.

There is no time, no sun or moon in darkness.

It seemed like it had been closed for a very long time, but it also felt like several years had passed.

But the only feeling now is pain. It hurts all over my body, and it hurts so much when I move.

So she refused to even move.

The hot iron branded her body, and she wanted to die several times due to the pain. However, the eldest princess would not let her die, but she would not let her live comfortably either.

She has already confessed.

The explanation was still the same as in Jiangzhou, that is, the eldest princess's biological son died young, so Prince Consort Cao adopted a child from the clan.

As for the princess's deceased child, he was naturally taken away by the servants for disposal.

She held on tight and refused to let go.

She didn't dare say that she had abandoned the child and left him alive in the wilderness.

If the princess knew about this, she would tear her tendons and skin her alive, and the Cao family would not let her parents and brother go either.

Their whole family will die miserably.

But the eldest princess didn't seem to believe her and kept her locked up.

The light at the doorway grew brighter and brighter.

She felt someone being pushed in and falling beside her, making a whimpering sound.

It didn't take long.

Someone came in carrying a torch, and the fire lit up the whole room.

Through the flickering firelight, she could clearly see the two people beside her.

Gagging, masking, hands and feet bound, familiar hair bun, familiar clothes, familiar smell...

"Mother...sister-in-law..." Nanny Yan cried out in a lost voice.

The two people on the ground heard her screams and struggled hard, making whimpering sounds.

"Madam Yan, I said that I would let your family come to reunite with you. What do you think? I will keep my word, right?" Princess Yuqing's voice came from the door.

"Not only your mother and sister-in-law, but also your father, your brother, your husband, your son and nephew are here. They are right next door. Now you are all my people..."

Nanny Yan's body twitched. "Confess, I confess... I confess everything..."

In fact, King Jing had also interrogated him in Jiangzhou, and what the nanny said seemed to be true.

He didn't know whether to believe it or not.

So I handed the person back to my sister. After all, women understand women better. The old woman was not telling the truth.

Prince Jing ordered Nanny Yan's family to be taken away, and then he said, "Tell the truth, and I promise that no harm will come to your family."

"Your Highness's words are golden, must you keep your word?" Compared to the eldest princess, Nanny Yan trusts Prince Jing more.

A woman who has lost a child can sometimes go crazy and be scarier than a ghost.

"Princess Jiayue is the Prince Consort's biological daughter. She had her first child with a concubine, a woman from Madam Cao's family..."

Nanny Yan recalled the past as she spoke.

Princess Yuqing chose Cao Chong as her husband. Mrs. Cao and her son were very happy at first, thinking that God had finally opened his eyes and that their hardship had paid off.

Unexpectedly, before the engagement, the conversation between Princess Yuqing and Prince Consort Cao was overheard by Mrs. Cao. When she learned that the eldest princess had taken advantage of her son, she was so angry that she found a concubine for Prince Consort Cao, and that was how Jiayue was born.

When she was about to give birth, Princess Yuqing secretly went to a villa thirty miles away from the capital to give birth in order to hide her identity and create the illusion that the child was born prematurely.

Unexpectedly, a spy was ambushed on the way and was frightened. Many of his followers were killed or injured, especially the midwife and the imperial physician, who were seriously injured. They could only find someone to deliver the baby from a nearby village.

But what the princess didn't know was that the villa inside and outside had already been monitored by people sent by Prince Consort Cao.

The midwife was also bribed by Prince Consort Cao.

Even the concubine was taken in by Madam Cao and raised in a farmhouse near the villa, waiting for the moment when the eldest princess's child was born...

Feeding medicine, inducing labor, and grafting.

Nanny Yan saw that the eldest princess's face was terribly dark, and she was afraid that if she continued speaking, the princess would strangle her to death.

She pursed her lips, lowered her head, and tightly grasped the corner of her clothes.

Prince Jing's angry voice came from above, "How did Jiayue get born on time? Could it be that the prince consort had been having an affair with that concubine before marrying the princess?"

"No, no...it was Madam Cao who gave the concubine a labor-inducing drug...the little princess was born prematurely." Nanny Yan shivered.

Every time I think back on these things, I realize that I know too much and I break out in a cold sweat.

I always feel like my head is hanging on my belt.

King Jing then asked, "Were those assassins also recruited by Cao's mother and son?"

"Yes... they arranged it early in the morning."

"What about you? You're not my great-grandmother's person, so how come you were bought off by them?"

Speaking of this, she wanted to die because she had accidentally discovered Madam Cao's secret. "Madam Cao...she was cheating on me...and I caught her. She threatened me with my son and gave me a lot of gold and silver."

King Jing's eyes widened and he asked, "So Cao Chong might not be a member of the Cao family?"

I thought that life was not easy for an orphan and a widow, and Cao Chong was considered loyal and honest.

They are such dirty rats.

Yuqing also believed that she had done nothing wrong to Cao Chong. She had given Cao Chong a chance to regret, promised him that he could take a concubine, and supported her and his mother in the Cao family.

Even if it's just about getting what we need and exploiting each other.

I didn't expect that he would trick me.

Nanny Yan shook her head and said, "This...I don't know."

How could Mrs. Cao possibly tell her about such a thing? I'm afraid even Prince Consort Cao doesn't know about it.

Princess Yuqing had no time to worry about this troublesome matter. She only wanted to know about her daughter. She looked down at the person kneeling on the ground and asked, "Tell me, how did you switch my daughter? Where did you take her? Is she still alive?"

At this point, Nanny Yan became nervous, her back soaked with sweat. She bit her lips tightly, wondering how to say it so that Princess Yuqing would not cut her into pieces.

The eldest princess grabbed her collar and said quietly, "Why... don't you want to say it?"

"Speak, this servant says... I took advantage of your unconsciousness to switch the little princess with Jiayue, and then took the little princess to the pine and cypress forest ten miles south of the villa... and hung her on a tree..."

"Your Highness, all this was instructed by Madam Cao. I was forced to do it..." After saying this, Nanny Yan closed her eyes.

She knew that the next moment, the eldest princess's sword would pierce her chest.

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In the woods.

Hanging on the tree.

Newborn baby, very cold weather.

Damn bitches, how dare they...

Princess Yuqing felt dizzy, her legs went weak, and she fell straight backwards.

King Jing supported her and shouted to the secret guards, "Do you hear me? Find...find her for me. If she's alive, I want her. If she's dead, I want her body..."

"Wait... I will go there myself."

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