"I can't see the birthmark here. I didn't remember it when I was brought out. The first time I heard it mentioned was from the woman who bathed me at the foster home. I was too young to tell what it looked like then. Later, when I was being hunted and the master took me in, I realized that the birthmark was increasingly resembling two daffodils."
The emperor touched the birthmark on Qingning's right arm with a trembling hand. It really looked like two daffodils. The emperor murmured to himself, "Daffodils, daffodils, Zhen'er, is it really you? Is he really our son? Zhen'er..."
The emperor muttered as he touched his hair, then turned to face Qingning. He looked up at the young man who was half a head taller than him and touched his snow-white hair again. His hands began to tremble even more. "Thirty years old? Who said that? Even Yunling Mountain Master can't do anything about it?"
Qing Ning smiled bitterly, "Because the poison was given to me from the moment I became pregnant, it seeped into my body bit by bit. Not only me, but even I, if poisoned, would not survive for more than five years."
The emperor closed his eyes and tears came out. That's right, Zhen'er passed away two years after her son's "death". Looking at her three-year-old son who was soaked in the lake and was unrecognizable, Zhen'er cried heart-wrenchingly.
The emperor calmed down and looked up at Song Chengze, "Sixth Brother, since you brought the person here, I believe you have already investigated the whole process. There is no need to waste time talking to me. Tell me, who did it?"
Qingning helped the emperor sit back in his chair, put on his clothes, walked to the emperor's side, and began massaging his head. After a while, the emperor felt the heavy and turbid air in his head gradually dissipate, and his whole body became much clearer.
Song Chengze said solemnly, "What I'm going to say is just speculation at the moment, but it's pretty close to the truth. I've already found the person who prepared the poison for the late Empress Dowager. If your health allows, you can see me later."
The Emperor raised an eyebrow, carefully examining this son, who had been neglected since childhood. He had to admit, the Sixth Son was the most handsome of all his sons. He never approached anyone, and good things were never seen. For a while, he seemed to be the Crown Prince's tail. It felt like a blink of an eye, and this son had grown up so big that he couldn't even remember how he grew up.
Song Chengze said this and looked up at the emperor, "I also ask your Majesty to forgive me for my innocence. What I am going to say next involves the late Empress Dowager. I really am..."
"I know what you're worried about. It's alright. Her son and I are standing here, so why should I be afraid of you? I'm just telling you this: if she were still alive, who knows what the situation would be like in the harem today."
When Song Chengze heard the emperor say this, he breathed a sigh of relief. The emperor believed Qingning.
"Yes, the late Empress Dowager's act was probably the work of Empress Jiang, and the Crown Prince is also aware of it."
The emperor was surprised, "Does the prince know?"
"Yes, not only did he know, he was also a participant in the entire process. He blamed the late Empress Dowager for Empress Jiang's untimely death. After dealing with Qingning's matter, after the late Empress Dowager passed away, he transferred this hatred to her only relative, Zhou Yu's biological mother."
The emperor carefully considered the relationship between these people, and nodded after a long while, "Yes, the former princess of Prince Shen's Mansion is her cousin. Go on."
Song Chengze said, "Empress Jiang must have hated you and the late Empress Dowager, but she had no other choice. After Qingning was born, she kept thinking about how to deal with him. Later, does your father still remember the maid who served the late Empress Dowager, who later became Consort Zhuang?"
The emperor obviously didn't remember this person. He thought for a long time, and after Song Chengze reminded him, he said, "That's right, she didn't give birth to the child."
"Yes, she had an older sister. After hearing about her story, she blamed it all on the late Empress Dowager, believing that she was the one who killed her sister. And it was Empress Jiang who got the medicine she prepared and secretly gave it to the late Empress Dowager."
"Can she make medicine?" asked the emperor.
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