Chapter 198: Aboveboard

"Dad said in the letter that someone bribed a master to deceive the late emperor and told him that the soon-to-be-born empress would have a purple star in her belly and that she needed to go to the temple to chant sutras and pray for the purple star for nine days before the birth.

The conspiracy of those people was to try to scare the Empress into giving birth prematurely in the temple, and then take the child away."

Wasn’t the late emperor’s empress an old fairy?

Jiang Youning suddenly perked up. She sat up straighter and didn't even drink her tea.

She only knew that the old fairy had lost her child, but she never imagined that there was such a story behind it.

"After Daddy had discovered such a big thing, Mom knew that Daddy was a dangerous person, so she packed up all the cash in the house and hid it under a big locust tree. She also spent the money to buy a set of clothes from a beggar.

She made me dirty and mixed me with the beggars so that I could get out of the city first.

I didn't think much about it at the time. Mother said she would go to the palace gate to pick up Dad, and then our family of three would be reunited.

But... I waited outside the city for three days, until I watched someone drag my mother's body out of the city and finally dump it in a mass grave."

Having said this, Ah Qi wiped away his tears with his sleeve, with a deep hatred in his eyes.

"Later, the Queen's child was indeed lost, and I thought the matter was over... until last night."

"Last night my aunt and uncle had a quarrel over the lack of money and the consideration of selling the last house they owned.

During the quarrel, my uncle brought up what happened that year.

The person who arranged the murder of my parents was so cruel. After they killed my parents, they used money as an inducement to lure my aunt's family.

My aunt went to stay at the temple in advance, and then took advantage of the chaos to pretend to be a midwife and help the empress give birth. Later, with the help of those villains, she successfully took the child away through a secret passage and gave it to a palace maid who had been arranged to wait outside the temple.

"Sixth Miss, how could your aunt and the others...how could they step on the corpses of my parents to make money against their conscience!!!"

Ah Qi's pupils were red at this moment, and his usually peaceful eyes were filled with ferocity and murderous intent.

Jiang Youning tilted his head and looked at Ah Qi for a long time, then slowly said: "Why do you suddenly want to tell me this story?"

Ah Qi suddenly became more awake.

He looked into Jiang Youning's bright eyes, which then dimmed after a few seconds.

"I'm sorry, Miss Six, I just said something wrong.

It's so painful to keep these words in my heart. If I don't find someone to talk to, I will not be able to sleep day or night.

And... I just had a little selfish thought in my heart. I even wanted to use you to publicize this matter so that my aunt and her family would get the punishment they deserve.

If Miss Six gets angry, I will never appear in front of you again."

Jiang Youning stood up, looked at Ah Qi and smiled:

"That's nothing, I can understand why you think this way.

But...we are just partners. You tell me stories and in return I pay you money.

I saved you today, and this story is my reward."

"I see."

The light in Ah Qi's eyes dimmed a little.

Jiang Youning walked to the door step by step, but finally stopped. She did not turn around:

"Gong Shang, if you want your aunt to receive the punishment she deserves, I will give you a chance.

Tomorrow, I will take you to the palace to meet the current Queen Mother. Whether you can seize the opportunity depends entirely on you. "

She stopped talking and strode out of the yard.

Ah Qi's eyes lit up instantly. He got off the bed and kowtowed three times in the direction Jiang Youning left.

Back in the yard, Chuntao had already prepared the bath water. Jiang Youning sat in the bathtub, stroking the flower petals prepared by Chuntao, and asked Tongzi to play a song for him. In an instant, he forgot all the messy stories.

Just after getting up from the bathtub, Jiang Youning's eyes fell on the clothes rack, and suddenly he sat back down, picked up a soap bar beside him and threw it at the rack.

"Ahhh! You bastard! Who allowed you to spy on me while I was bathing!!!"

"Openly and aboveboard! Openly and aboveboard!"

The little glutton corrected her without hesitation, and flapped his wings to land in another place.

"Beauty! Beauty! Beauty is so pretty!"

"So white! So beautiful! So flat!"

???

So flat? ?

Feeling offended, Jiang Youning felt a fire burning in his chest.

"You pervert! I'm going to pluck your feathers and roast and slice you tonight!"

"The beauty is so fierce! So fierce!"

The little idiot realized that Jiang Youning was really angry, so he ran away quickly.

The bird flew away.

Jiang Youning stood up, wiped the water stains off her body, and picked up the bellyband that Chuntao had prepared for her.

It is red, with an inch of simple and elegant orchid embroidered on it.

Her eyes fell on a red rope on the bellyband, and her eyes froze instantly.

The neglected memory once again flashed through my mind.

One day, when Chuntao was embroidering a bellyband for her, she found that a red rope was missing, so she asked Chuntao to rummage out a random rope from the cupboard.

She thought the red rope was okay, so she agreed to let Chuntao use it.