After seeing Han Qingbo off, Xia Zhengqi immediately asked about the female doctor.
The Queen looked at Xia Zhengqi with joy: "Your Majesty, although we didn't bring Yin Xizi back this time, we did learn about the Yin family's past from her."
"Tell me quickly." Xia Zhengqi urged.
The Queen explained, "Eighteen years ago, when Prince Jing was in Qingzhou, his eldest son fell ill and he asked Yin Xizi's grandfather, Yin Heng, to treat him. However, the child's illness worsened, and he eventually died."
"Yin Heng claimed the child's blood vessels were abnormal, so medicine was ineffective. But King Jing believed Yin Heng had failed to cure him and was trying to justify his actions. That's how the feud between the two families began."
"Later, Yin Heng was beaten to death in the street by men in black. Yin Xizi's parents were hacked to death by bandits who broke in. The Yin family's home was burned to the ground."
"Yin Xizi luckily escaped the disaster and has lived in seclusion ever since."
"Yin Xizi believes that all this was done by Prince Jing."
[She doesn't need to think about it, it was clearly Prince Jing who did it.]
Xia Zhengqi sighed: "I didn't expect that this royal relative would be Prince Jing!"
"When I was little, I often played with Prince Jing, and we had a very deep relationship."
"He is a very sentimental person, and even when he grew up, he was particularly infatuated. How could such a person do such a heinous thing!?"
Xia Zhengqi's face was full of disbelief.
[That's actually true. He killed the Yin family in revenge because of his infatuation!]
Xia Zhengqi and the Queen were both puzzled after hearing their daughter's words.
[Back then, he had two concubines in his palace, Bai and Yang.]
Xia Miaoyuan nestled in Xia Zhengqi's arms, playing with his father's beard with his little hands while reminiscing.
[Ms. Bai was his wet nurse's daughter, Bai Liuyun. The two were childhood sweethearts.]
Hearing this, Xia Zhengqi suddenly remembered that his second brother Xia Zhengxuan had indeed married the wet nurse's daughter.
In order to get his daughter to talk more, Xia Zhengqi deliberately said, "I remember that Prince Jing's first son was born to his wife, Lady Bai."
"Then Bai is his wet nurse's daughter."
When Prince Jing and Bai fell in love, the Queen had not yet married Xia Zhengqi and was not very familiar with these circumstances.
The Queen asked curiously, "How could a wet nurse's daughter become the prince's principal wife?"
Xia Zhengqi sighed, "According to secular etiquette, this is naturally not possible. For a mere wet nurse's daughter, being able to become a concubine for the prince is considered a blessing."
"But the two grew up together and have loved each other for many years. The Second Prince loves Bai Liuyun so much that he wants to marry her."
"Back then, he tried every possible means to marry Bai Liuyun."
"When he first proposed to the late emperor that he marry his wet nurse's daughter, the late emperor nearly exploded with rage and scolded him."
"He refused to give up and begged the emperor again and again."
[Ah, this Uncle Jing Wang is really a love-brained person.] Xia Miaoyuan couldn't help but complain.
"The princess my father had chosen for him at the time was Yang Peixin, the daughter of Marquis Jianye."
"My father threatened to dethrone him and forced him to marry Yang Peixin."
"He refused to give in and instead threatened to die. He would rather die than marry Bai Liuyun."
[These father and son have really similar temperaments. One is as stubborn as the other. It depends on who is more stubborn!]
When Xia Zhengqi and the Queen heard their daughter compare Prince Jing and the late emperor to donkeys, their faces instantly turned black.
Xia Zhengqi: Be careful or your grandfather will jump out of his grave and scold you!
"Later, the Empress Dowager and the elders of the royal family came forward to mediate. Finally, they reached an agreement. Both sides took a step back. My father agreed to let him marry Bai Liuyun, and he also agreed to marry Yang Peixin. However, both women entered the palace as concubines."
"Alas, he was originally considered a favored prince of the late emperor, but he and my father fell out over the issue of marriage. Since then, my father has held a grudge against him and moved his fiefdom to the impoverished Qingzhou."
"But he is content with having Bai Yueguang by his side. He doesn't care about material possessions and lives a carefree life in Qingzhou."
The Queen asked, "Since she was married as a concubine, why did Bai become the principal consort?"
Xia Zhengqi smiled brightly: "Mother relies on her son to return."
"After marriage, he favored Bai Shi alone. In her first year in the mansion, Bai Shi gave birth to a boy. He promoted Bai Shi to be his principal wife, citing her merit in giving birth to his eldest son."
Xia Miaoyuan was amazed when she heard Xia Zhengqi recount the story of the Bai and Yang families. "Yes, yes, this is the reason why Yang cruelly killed Bai's son."
Was it Yang who killed the child?
The Queen and Xia Zhengqi were both stunned.
[I remember the book saying that Prince Jing's concubine Yang was driven mad with jealousy when she saw Bai give birth to a son and was promoted to principal wife.]
[She was a daughter of a marquis, and being on equal terms with a wet nurse's daughter as a concubine was already a disgrace. But the wet nurse's daughter actually became the principal wife. This was something she could never accept.]
She asked a craftsman to make silver needles as thin as a hair, then bribed the nanny who looked after the child to insert a silver needle into the child every day.
After the needles were inserted, the child developed a fever and began crying. Yin Heng diagnosed the child with abnormal meridians because the needles were moving randomly throughout the child's body.
Oh my God, what a vicious heart, actually sticking a needle into the baby's body.
The Queen and Xia Zhengqi were both horrified when they heard their daughter reveal the true cause of the child's death.
The Queen quickly gathered her thoughts and asked, "Then Prince Jing later made Yang his principal consort? Ever since I got married, Prince Jing's consort has been Yang."
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