Chapter 275 Accumulating Blessings
Noticing her abnormality, Xiao Yuan immediately covered her eyes and held her in his arms, completely blocking her sight, "Don't look."
Shen Anan's body was shaking slightly, and her breathing was a little heavy. It's not like she had never seen a dead person before, and she had even killed someone with her own hands.
After returning to the carriage, Xiao Yuan held her in his arms and stroked her back gently. It took her a while to slowly calm down.
She suddenly came back to her senses, grabbed Xiao Yuan's sleeve tightly, and stared at him with her almond eyes, "You, you killed her?"
"No, she hit herself against the pillar and died."
Hearing this, Shen Anan slowly loosened his grip on his sleeve, as if he heaved a sigh of relief.
"An An, what's wrong with you? If you feel uncomfortable somewhere, I'll take you to the Imperial Hospital."
"No need." Shen Anan refused and smiled softly, "I was just a little scared by the scene just now. It's okay, I will be fine in a while."
She leaned in his arms and didn't want to move, so Xiao Yuan didn't insist and told Uncle Zhong to drive back home.
"Xiao Yuan." Shen Anan suddenly spoke in a low voice, "If possible, try not to kill anyone, okay?"
"Okay." He agreed without hesitation, stroking her back again and again, "Can you tell me what happened?"
Shen Anan paused, shook his head and said nothing.
She still remembers clearly what Wen Yin said at that time. He asked her to do more good deeds. She said that this life was all because of Xiao Yuan. Her sins would also become his cause and effect.
Shen Anan now believed it, and was even more worried that he would commit murder for her.
"Your first half of life was very hard, and I hope our second half of life can be perfect, so we all have to be good people and accumulate blessings for ourselves, each other, and our children."
The causes in his first half of life have led to the consequences today, so let's just say that cause and effect offset each other.
Xiao Yuan was slightly startled, then he hugged her tightly in his arms and said in a hoarse voice, "Madam is right, I will definitely keep it in mind."
The carriage fell into silence. After a long time, Shen Anan finally pulled herself away from Aunt Yang's death. "What did she say in the hall?"
"She said that the emperor forced his father to favor her, and that the mother was angered to death by her and the emperor. Chen Tian is the child she had as a result of his favor."
Shen Anan stepped out of his arms, her eyes widened in surprise, with disbelief in them.
Xiao Yuan chuckled, with a mocking look on his lips, "Don't you think it's ridiculous? In order to give Chen Tian a legitimate identity, he used me and even my dead mother."
They knew very well who Chen Tian's mother was, and Aunt Yang was just a puppet that the emperor wanted to use Xiao Yuan to bring to the court to give Chen Tian an identity.
Shen Anan frowned slightly, "How could it be? Even if the emperor wanted Chen Tian to be restored to his status as a prince, he would not destroy his reputation like this. He forced the concubines to have sex with him, causing the concubines to die of depression after being ill for a long time. Isn't he afraid of the officials and the people's comments and the censors' pens?"
Can he really do so much for Chen Tian?
"You think too highly of him." Xiao Yuan sneered, "He cares about that woman and Chen Tian, but he cares more about his throne. How could he be willing to destroy his reputation for Chen Tian? Besides, he has a thousand excuses. It would be enough to just say that Chen Tian is his own prince. Why would he do this?"
Even if it was said that Aunt Yang betrayed her master and slept with him, and all the blame was put on Aunt Yang, he would still be a famous king in history.
Shen Anan's pupils widened, "You mean, Aunt Yang lied and tricked the emperor before she died?"
"It should be so."
Xiao Yuan held her in his arms again and said softly, "Qing'an found out yesterday that she got married after leaving the palace, so I had some guesses. And today in the court, before she was hit and killed, she begged me silently to save her husband and son."
"I thought that she agreed to help my father because of her family's safety. But she also knew very well that my father was cruel and ruthless. She knew that even if she died, her husband and son might not survive. So she delayed time and tampered with their original plan. She wanted me to save her family."
Shen Anan listened to his calm and cold analysis, and her heart ached slightly. She remembered that when Aunt Yang came to her house that day, she suspected that there was something wrong with her and reminded Xiao Yuan.
And his excuse at the time was that, after all, he still had some feelings for Aunt Yang, so even though he knew that she might have problems, Xiao Yuan still went along with her and brought her to the Fengtian Palace.
Because he himself had no intention of preventing Chen Tian from restoring his identity.
"Maybe I'm not doing you a favor, but I have no choice but to do it for my family. I want to help you and avenge my mother, but unfortunately I am powerless and can only die in a violent way to throw a basin of dirty water on the emperor."
Maybe it doesn't hurt or itchy, but it is enough to disgust the emperor, making him toss and turn, unable to sleep day and night, and having his spine poked by the world! !
"Maybe." Xiao Yuan lowered his eyes indifferently.
In this game, no one can say who wins or loses.
The emperor got what he wanted, but was injured by the sharp blade in his hand. He should have been happy, but Aunt Yang's incomplete betrayal really made him feel upset.
"You still have me." Shen Anan gently hugged his waist and whispered.
Every time she said this, she had a sense of extreme familiarity, as if she had said it thousands of times before, but when she tried to recall it carefully, her mind was empty.
"Yes, I still have An An, and my wife." Xiao Yuan hugged her, his voice extremely gentle with a faint smile.
After returning home, Xiao Yuan had to go back to the study to work, but Shen Anan was in a hurry to go back to Wutong Garden and did not go with him.
Mo Xiang saw her hurriedly enter the room, but then stood there in a daze, and his eyes became more worried, "Princess, are you looking for something?"
"Yeah." She nodded, but she couldn't remember what she was looking for.
Mo Xiang wanted to speak, but she raised her hand to refuse. She stood in the room and tried hard to recall what she wanted to do when she came back in such a hurry.
Her eyes suddenly caught sight of the desk by the window. Her eyes lit up and she quickly walked towards the couch, pulled out a booklet from under the quilt, then walked towards the desk and told Mo Xiang to go out and guard it and not let anyone in.
She held the booklet, marking and writing, and sat there until the evening.
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In the following days, Xiao Yuan was very busy. There were ministers discussing matters in the study almost every day. He wanted to keep Shen Anan by his side all the time, but she refused.
Because she knew that those officials didn't like her to sit in on the proceedings, and at this critical juncture, she didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble for Xiao Yuan.
He stayed in the yard every day, holding the booklet in his hands, sometimes reading it, sometimes adding to it.
In the court, the debate about Chen Tian’s identity was at its peak.
Some people believe that as a prince, it is only natural for Chen Tian to trace his ancestral roots and be recorded in the royal genealogy.
But to be recorded in the royal family genealogy, it means that Chen Tian’s biological mother, native place, life story, and the time and place of his being favored must be clearly stated in the history books.
Those shameful filth will be exposed again in front of the world and recorded in history.
The emperor was unwilling to do so, and the court officials did not want their descendants to mention that they were notorious for assisting the king.
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