Chapter 192 Empress? Impossible!
When Yun Zhao returned to her room, Yun Xuan saw that she looked happy.
Curious, she smiled and asked, "Zhaozhao, why are you so happy? What happened that made you so excited?"
"Daddy, this is a secret between Zhaozhao and Grandpa!"
Yun Zhao put her index finger to her lips and smiled, her eyes crinkling.
Everyone was a little confused, but only Xu Zhenbang understood what she was laughing about.
"Our Zhaozhao is such a smart child!"
Xu Zhenbang reached out and ruffled Yun Zhao's hair, and couldn't help but sigh.
"Zhao Zhao is smart, but that's because Daddy and Mommy are smart, that's why Zhao Zhao is smart~"
Yun Zhao tilted his head, which immediately made everyone in the room laugh.
"Grandpa, please put my cousin down! Zhao Zhao wants to check on him and see how he's doing!"
Yun Zhao beckoned to Xu Zhenbang, who quickly stepped forward and placed Xu Zhiqian on the bed.
Wei Mingyu immediately remembered what Yun Zhao had said before.
"I remember Zhaozhao saying before that babies don't sleep excessively for no reason. I think she said that before..."
Mrs. Wu often falls asleep while holding the baby, even more so than Xiao Jin. Could she be sick?
Yun Zhao climbed onto the bed and quietly took Xu Zhiqian's pulse.
A moment later, a solemn expression appeared on Yun Zhao's face.
"Zhaozhao, how is she?"
Xu Zhenbang then realized something was wrong.
If it's just an illness that hasn't been treated along the way, it will eventually show on the surface.
However, Wu Lianzhen did not notice that the child was sick along the way, which was not normal.
Yun Zhao glanced around but didn't speak directly.
The Wei family members naturally understood and immediately stood up.
"Then we'll head out first."
"Thank you for your help!"
Xu Zhenbang clasped his hands in thanks to the Wei family for their understanding.
Once only their own family members were left in the room, Yun Zhao finally spoke.
"Grandfather, my cousin Qian'er has probably been poisoned."
"Poisoning?!"
Xu Zhenbang was taken aback.
Then, Yun Zhao added, "Just like my younger brother."
"What?! Hiss!"
Yunxuan suddenly propped himself up and sat up, his face turning deathly pale from the pain of the injury on his back.
"Father, be careful! Father, Zhao Zhao is about to tell you something, but you must stay calm and not get agitated!"
Yun Zhao quickly pressed Yun Xuan back down, then took out a Heart-Protecting Pill from the small pocket on his chest and fed it to him.
Yunxuan took a deep breath and calmed himself down.
"Tell me, Father can handle it!"
For the sake of his wife and daughter, he had to persevere no matter what!
"That day, our house was ransacked, and that commander of the Imperial Guards wanted to humiliate my mother."
Zhao Zhao clung to his leg, crying for mercy, which attracted a crowd of onlookers.
Only then were we able to escape this calamity. On that day, the people surrounded us, and we could only be temporarily detained at Dali Temple.
It was cold there, so Zhao Zhao snuggled in her mother's arms, and her mother was holding her younger brother.
At that time, Zhao Zhao had only learned a little bit at the manor, and seeing that her younger brother was not doing well,
He took his younger brother's pulse and suspected he had been poisoned. He then immediately took his mother's pulse, but discovered...
As she spoke, she looked up at the two people in front of her.
One was her mother's biological father, and the other was her mother's husband.
In her past life, they were both murdered on their way to exile. She believed that the two of them were definitely not the murderers who killed her mother!
"But we discovered that my mother's body seemed to have been hollowed out; her pulse was weak and feeble."
But she's holding on, knowing that just one serious illness could completely break her!
In her past life, her poor mother and younger brother were exiled to Lingnan.
On one hand, she was suffering from the pain of her daughter not recognizing her, and on the other hand, she was worried about her husband who was far away in Jiangnan.
In Beijing, he also suffered humiliation at the hands of Yan Jing.
She thought that perhaps in a few days, her mother's body would not be able to hold on.
The thought that her mother in her past life might have been exhausted both physically and mentally because of her refusal to acknowledge him made Yun Zhao's heart ache!
"Xiao Yi, she..."
Even Xu Zhenbang would find it difficult to bear.
Not to mention Yunxuan, who was seriously injured.
He clutched his chest, his face filled with self-reproach.
"It's all my fault. As a husband, I didn't even know how to treat my wife and children properly... I'm so ashamed of them!"
"Father, it's not your fault!"
Yun Zhao looked at the two of them firmly, biting her lip and holding back her tears.
All of this is the fault of those behind the scenes!
“Father, I think the matter concerning Mother and my brother must be related to the fact that you have been wronged this time!”
My mother's body was hollowed out by drugs; she suffered severe bleeding during childbirth.
When someone is weak, they certainly cannot directly nourish their body, and that person...
However, the medication made her mother appear to be getting better, but in reality...
It's draining my mother's body, using up all her future life essence.
"Forcing her frail body to stay upright is what makes Mother so cold in winter! This was premeditated!"
"Outrageous! The physicians in the Prince of Jin's residence are imperial physicians; how dare they treat the Princess of Jin like this!"
Enraged, Xu Zhenbang turned around and slammed his fist on the table.
With a "crack," the table couldn't withstand his force and shattered into pieces!
"And what about your brother?"
Compared to Xu Zhenbang's fury, Yunxuan was much calmer.
"The poison my brother was in is very likely a type of poison called 'Yao Xun' (夭荨).
This poison is specifically designed for young children; when taken in small amounts over several days, it can make them drowsy.
Ultimately, like urticaria, it can take a child's life; prolonged poisoning can lead to illness.
Even if the poison is neutralized, it will still affect young children, potentially causing them to become mentally disabled!
"In other words, someone was specifically targeting your brother, even though he was fortunate enough to survive the poisoning."
It will also make your brother mentally challenged; the goal is to ruin your brother.
But why is it that you, or rather Ling Xuerou, have been in the Prince's mansion for the past five years?
Why wasn't she poisoned? And Qian'er didn't live in the Prince's mansion, so why was he poisoned?
It's not that Yunxuan is malicious, but the person behind the scenes doesn't even spare infants, so why would they spare an older daughter?
"As to why my cousin was poisoned, we'll probably have to ask Fourth Aunt and Old Madam Xu."
Yun Zhao looked up at Xu Zhenbang.
"We can't ask about that for now, lest we alert them."
After calming down, Xu Zhenbang naturally realized the seriousness of the matter.
"Yes, but I think Xue'er wasn't poisoned. It's more likely because..."
The person behind the scenes already knew that Xue'er was not her father's biological daughter.
After learning that his younger brother had been poisoned, Yun Zhao also suspected Ling Xue Rou.
However, Ling Xue Rou's rebirth time was not much earlier than hers, and it didn't match the time when her brother was poisoned.
That means that the younger brother also died of poisoning in his previous life.
Based on this calculation, there is only one possibility.
The person who poisoned her already knew that Ling Xuerou and Yun Zhao had been switched at birth, so she did not harm Ling Xuerou.
"Therefore, he is targeting the bloodline of the Prince of Jin's family."
“Father, there’s something you don’t know: on my way to exile, there were two groups of people chasing me.”
Yunxuan: !
"Could they be my elder brother?! No, even if my elder brother thinks I pose a threat to the throne..."
That would only kill me and Xiao Jin. And who would be the other group?
With one blow after another, if it weren't for the Heart-Protecting Pill, Yunxuan would probably have vomited blood long ago!
"I have a rough guess about one group, but the other group has come twice before."
They're supposedly assassins, sent by the Empress and the Qi family to kill us.
"Father, think carefully, does the Empress have any grudge against our family?"
Upon hearing this, Yunxuan was stunned.
"Empress? Impossible!"
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