Chapter 166 The Real Princess Yan Ning
After Huo Xingzhi's carriage arrived at the house on the outskirts of the city, it went directly to the middle-aged woman's room.
In the side room, two maids were feeding medicine to the middle-aged woman.
After Huo Xingzhi and Bai Ze entered, what they saw was a woman with a distracted look and skinny body.
The woman was about forty years old, her face pale as a dead tree, her temples already gray, and her hair dry and sparse.
The most frightening thing was her eyes. They were dull and lifeless, like a dry pond, bottomless and without a trace of life. She looked completely dead.
When she looked at things, her eyes were blank, as if there was a thick fog between them. She was absent-minded, like a puppet.
Seeing Huo Xingzhi coming, the woman propped up her limp body and got up from the bed, babbling something as she walked towards him.
"Your Highness, she must have something to say, but her tongue was pulled out." Bai Ze said
Huo Xingzhi looked at the woman on the bed with a serious look. Seeing her miserable appearance, he felt as if something was gripping his heart tightly.
The woman's eyes seemed both strange and familiar to him.
"Have someone prepare paper and ink for her."
"Yes, Your Highness." Bai Ze quickly turned around and asked someone to prepare paper and ink.
A moment later, a maid came in with paper and ink and handed them to Huo Xingzhi.
Huo Xingzhi placed the paper and ink on the table and looked at the woman.
"Write down what you want to say on this piece of white paper."
When the woman looked at Huo Xing, her eyes were red.
She was trembling slightly as she walked to the table with the help of two maids.
Then he dipped his finger in black ink and wrote the two words "zhi'er" on the white paper.
Huo Xingzhi's eyes swept over the two words, and he was confused for a moment.
In the entire Dayan, there is only one person who can call him "son" like this, except for the emperor.
The eldest princess of Dayan in the past.
He hadn't heard that person call him like that for a long time.
Huo Xingzhi froze in place, turning his head to look at the middle-aged woman beside him in disbelief.
The woman looked at him with tears in her eyes, which made Huo Xingzhi feel very confused.
He just hoped that his guess was wrong.
The real Princess Yan Ning is not her.
Seeing Huo Xing's doubts, the woman wrote a few more words on the white paper.
'Zhi'er, I am Huo Yanning.'
'I am your aunt, you don't remember me.'
“No… Impossible!”
Huo Xingzhi's face turned pale and he looked at the woman in front of him in disbelief.
"How could you be her?"
His eyes suddenly turned red, and his dark eyes stared at the woman in front of him.
She really looks like her father.
It was definitely her.
But he was unwilling to accept that his aunt, who had loved him so much in the past, had become like this.
He walked step by step towards the woman and asked word by word: "Are you really my aunt? Are you really the eldest princess?"
The woman babbled and tears flowed from her eyes like pearls.
Huo Xingzhi just realized that her aunt who loved her when she was a child was still like this.
I don’t know when it started, but the aunt who loved him so much changed.
At the beginning, Princess Yan Ning loved him very much, but gradually she began to like Prince Qi and deliberately distanced herself from him.
He had always doubted Princess Yan Ning's identity. After all, her appearance and voice hadn't changed, but her temperament had.
The woman standing before him now was emaciated and had wrinkles all over her face because of the torture she had suffered in the underground prison. Even her tongue had been cut off, and there was no trace of her original appearance.
But now Huo Xingzhi observed carefully and found that she was indeed very similar to Princess Yan Ning.
Huo Xingzhi asked with a choked voice: "Aunt, are you really my aunt? I thought you were dead, but I didn't expect you to be alive."
The woman nodded repeatedly and started babbling.
Huo Xingzhi's eyes were red, "Great, you're still here."
The woman dipped her finger in black ink and wrote on the white paper: "Zhi'er, let me see my brother the emperor."
Huo Xingzhi nodded and ordered the two maids behind him to help the woman wash up.
In the night, the bright moonlight fell on the carriage.
The woman sat on the couch, carefully observing Huo Xingzhi's eyebrows and eyes.
She wrote word by word on the white paper.
"Zhi'er has grown up and looks more like your mother."
Huo Xingzhi bit her lip slightly and whispered, "Don't worry, auntie. I will personally get back what you've endured over the years."
The woman just smiled and said nothing more.
During the years she spent in the King of Qi's underground prison, she lived a life worse than death every day.
Now being able to get out of that place is what she has wanted in her life.
In the night, the sound of horse hooves can be heard.
The carriage soon arrived at the palace.
Emperor Showa was resting in the Hall of Mental Cultivation when the eunuch's voice was heard outside.
"Your Majesty, Prince Li requests an audience."
Emperor Showa asked, "What's going on with him?"
Wang Dequan said, "Your Majesty, I don't know, but there's a woman accompanying Prince Li, so it must be something important."
Emperor Showa frowned, got up from the couch impatiently, put on his clothes and walked towards the outer hall.
"Let him in."
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
When Huo Xingzhi brought the woman in, he saw Emperor Showa's eyes darken as he sat on the chair.
Emperor Showa's gaze fell on the woman next to Huo Xingzhi and he frowned slightly.
The woman was so thin that the flesh on her face stuck to her bones. She was as thin as a piece of paper and her former appearance could no longer be seen.
"Father." Huo Xingzhi bowed.
Emperor Showa frowned and asked, "Who is this person and why does he look like this?"
The woman babbled, but could not utter a single word clearly.
"What's wrong with her tongue? Why can't she speak?"
Emperor Showa gradually lowered his gaze to the woman's palm.
The woman's fingers were almost cut off, leaving only about four or five.
His hands were covered in blood and his wrists were bandaged with gauze. He stood in front of Emperor Showa, staggering.
"Why are her fingers like this?"
Emperor Showa asked, "Xingzhi, who is she?"
Huo Xingzhi said calmly, "Isn't the Emperor curious about her identity?"
"Her fingers were cut off in the underground prison of Prince Qi's palace, and even her tongue was cut out."
"Father, take a closer look. Who does she resemble?"
Emperor Showa narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the woman.
They look alike, very similar.
"Like Princess Yan Ning." Emperor Showa said firmly.
Huo Xingzhi said: "No, she doesn't look like Princess Yan Ning, she is Princess Yan Ning, the real Princess Yan Ning."
Emperor Showa: "How is that possible?"
"Back then, Yan Ning and Prince Qi made a huge mistake at my father's birthday party. Didn't I have her expelled from Yanjing City? How could she be here now?"
"How could he end up in the underground prison of Prince Qi's mansion and be tortured like this? What on earth is going on?"
Huo Xing said word by word, "The Princess Yan Ning your father mentioned is fake. She is from the Qin State."
"The King of Qi is also her child."
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