Tian Mingwu knelt before the emperor and lowered his head to the ground, "Your Majesty, this letter is known only to Madam An Wan of the Besieged City and me. Madam An Wan has passed away long ago, and I am the only one who knows about it.
I had a brain injury and lost my memory before, and it was only recently that I remembered this letter after my brain injury healed, and I immediately brought it to Your Majesty."
Tian Mingwu was extremely nervous at this time. Although he had not read the contents of the letter, he could clearly feel the emperor's unconcealable anger when he saw the letter.
He was afraid that the emperor would have him beheaded if he was unhappy.
He had no memory of his past, and he was like a newborn calf, fearless of nothing. When he spoke to the emperor, there was always a trace of fear in his heart.
But since he recovered his previous memories, he knew that he was once just an ordinary farmer. The fear of officials is engraved in the bones of the people, so when facing the emperor again, he naturally has a little more fear and can no longer do the same as before.
After a long while, the emperor's voice finally sounded above his head.
"Qingming Tian, please stand up and talk. You are still sick!"
Tian Mingwu's hair was shaved off by Tian Anquan because he needed surgery, and it only grew a little bit after more than a month.
He usually wears a hat when he is at home, covering his entire head, so there is no sign of anything unusual.
But today he had to wear an official hat when he went to court, and the hat could not cover all the hair he had just grown. The parts that were not covered looked like a hedgehog, all blown out, which was really ugly.
After Tian Mingwu stood up, the emperor had already put the letter away and did not mention the letter again.
Tian Mingwu was bold enough to ask the emperor for leave.
He had to go back to Shangba Village in person to move An Wan's grave. It would take at least two months to go back and forth, even if he was as fast as possible.
He was a Beijing official and could not leave the capital without the emperor's permission, so he had to grit his teeth and ask the emperor for leave.
The emperor did not make things too difficult for him. He agreed after thinking about it for a while, but he did not grant him leave alone.
Instead, he was assigned a task, allowed to use his position to do personal work, and given three months to do both official and personal work.
The task was simple, practically like giving him paid leave.
However, the emperor made a request: An Wan's tomb could not be moved back to the An family's ancestral tomb, and a tombstone could only be erected in the name of Tian An's daughter-in-law.
Moreover, the fact that An Wan was the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Anguo could not be revealed to the outside world.
He had already discussed the matter of erecting a monument for An Wan with the An family. Since it didn't conflict with the emperor's request, he agreed without much thought.
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After Tian Mingwu took his leave, the emperor immediately sent for the crown prince.
The prince received an urgent summons from the emperor and hurried to the imperial study.
"Father, what's the matter? Why is it so urgent?"
The emperor did not explain much and handed the letter that Tian Mingwu had handed over to him on the table.
The prince didn't care about the sweat on his forehead because he was running so fast.
Open the letter and start reading.
After reading it, he was also shocked. "Is this news accurate? When did Father get the news?"
"Tian Mingwu just came up today." The emperor looked at the prince and said.
He also briefly told the prince about An Wan and Tian Mingwu.
"How true do you think the information in this letter is?"
The prince carefully read the contents of the letter, and after a while, he frowned and said, "I'm afraid it's all true."
The letter contained nothing but a list of names.
It was a list of children who had gone missing from various government offices in the capital, starting from the year An Wan was abducted and going back several decades. It also contained a list of children from various government offices that were about to be abducted.
The prince compared the list with the emperor and said, "The first few rows are all the names of the missing legitimate sons and daughters of each family that have been recorded by the government.
In the rows behind, some of the children listed there were not lost, but many of the children they had when they grew up were lost."
An Wan accidentally saw the list from the human traffickers when she was caught by them.
At first she didn't know what the names on the list meant, but after several twists and turns by the traffickers, she met many of the children on the list.
They all moved in the same circle in the capital, and everyone had seen them to some extent. She knew that those children were the legitimate sons and daughters of important families in the capital.
Children from aristocratic families are trained from a young age and they know a little about almost everything.
An Wan almost guessed it and knew that her abduction was not accidental, but she had been on the list from the beginning, and the other party had been eyeing her family for a long time, and this day would come sooner or later.
But she was very lucky. She escaped by chance and then accidentally fell into the river and was rescued by Tian Mingwu. At that time, she was afraid of being caught again, so she stayed at home all day and did not see any strangers except the three people from the Tian family.
An Wan had a photographic memory, and she had only glanced at the list secretly. Later, she became familiar with the Tian family, and took the opportunity of teaching Tian Mingwu to read to ask them to buy paper and pen. Only then did she write down the entire list, and waited until she had a chance to go back, and then she asked Duke An Guo to give it to the emperor, hoping that the emperor would send someone to rescue the children.
Because she was able to escape, many children helped her.
In An Wan's eyes, this list is just the names of children in distress, but in the eyes of the emperor and the prince, it has a deeper meaning.
The emperor snorted coldly, "Old Eight's move took a really long time.
Go check the names on this list and see how many ministers in the court have been succumbed to his threats and are working for him."
The prince looked at the names of the children on the list with serious eyes. They were all children of important officials in the court.
It turns out that many ministers' children have been kidnapped and sold in recent years, all because of the Eighth Prince. His goal is to use the children to force the ministers to work for him.
"Father, was it also the Eighth Imperial Uncle who kidnapped Yao'er and Achen?"
The prince couldn't understand, even though Yao'er and Achen were princes and princesses, even though his father loved them so much.
But being born in the royal family, one can only put the country first. The emperor father will not be threatened by him and compromise. Doing so is completely useless.
"Prince, please check these things out!" The emperor rubbed his forehead tiredly, waved his hand, and sent the prince away.
When he was the only one left in the imperial study, he put down his hand and murmured sadly, "Old Eight, Old Eight! Is it true that there is no true love in the imperial family?"
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Tian Mingwu didn't know what happened in the palace. He only knew that he had fulfilled An Wan's long-cherished wish.
He was finally able to go back and pick her up.
As soon as I got home, I started to make arrangements for returning home.
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