Chapter 33 The Secret
Xiao Zhen took a deep breath. In his previous life, he never doubted Xiao Yue's life experience until his death. In this life, he sorted out the things of his previous life over and over again, and gradually discovered that there were actually many unsolved mysteries in his previous life.
The biggest mystery is that ten years after his parents' death, the imperial court began to hunt Xiao Yue!
In the years before that, he was the only one being hunted by the imperial court.
No one took Xiao Yue seriously, not to mention that Xiao Yue disappeared right after the incident at the Princess's Mansion. Afterwards, a group of beggars in the capital fought for territory and killed several people. The government also arrested a group of people. A jade token with the Princess's Mansion logo was found on one of them. The beggar admitted that he had snatched it from a little beggar, who was frozen to death on the street that winter, and his body was collected by the government.
From the Jinyiwei to the local government offices, everyone conceded that Xiao Yue was dead. He was just a useless concubine. Not to mention that he was dead, even if he was not dead, he could not cause any trouble even if he had the courage.
Therefore, during those nine years, no one verified the authenticity, nor did anyone doubt Xiao Yue.
Starting from the tenth year, the Jinyiwei suddenly began to secretly search for Xiao Yue, and even ranked first on the secret flower list.
In his previous life, he always thought that he was the one who implicated Xiao Yue. After all, before this, he had been hiding behind the scenes, and many things were left to Xiao Yue to do, so he moved his base from the Central Plains to the Northwest.
In this life, he was reborn and thought back to his past life. He felt that some things might not be that simple, especially the relationship between his parents. Although he lived in the capital for eighteen years in his previous life, he was still a young boy at that time, rebellious and willful, and he did not spend much time with his parents.
In this life, he re-examined the relationship between his parents with the eyes of an adult, and finally came to the conclusion: unless his father, Prince Consort Xiao, was a scheming and good at disguise, he would never do such a thing as keeping a concubine and having a child with her.
If his father really had this intention, he would not have fallen into the trap and ended up not even knowing how he died.
After thinking all this through and combining it with the events of his previous life, Xiao Zhen was certain that the princess and her husband must have a secret!
In their previous life, they were killed before they could tell him the secret. In this life, since they are still alive, Xiao Zhen must pry the truth out of their mouths!
Of course, he didn't really want to jump off the building and start a new life. He cherished life more than anyone else.
Sure enough, he was just pretending, and the princess couldn't help but tell the truth.
Xiao Zhen didn't look back and still stood in front of the window.
Princess Jiayi was so frightened that her face turned pale and she wanted to rush over to pull him back.
Prince Consort Xiao quickly stopped her and said in a low voice, "Don't force it. You can't scare someone who jumps off a building. You have to coax them. Let me do it..."
Xiao Zhen: Do you think I won’t be able to hear you if you lower your voice?
Prince Consort Xiao said in what he thought was the gentlest voice: "Ah Zhen, dear, the wind is too strong outside, quickly close the window, dear, come to Daddy."
Princess Jiayi: "Come here, mother has candy, lots of candy."
Xiao Zhen: I can’t stand it anymore, I might as well jump down.
"Since Xiao Yue is not my father's illegitimate son, then who is he?"
Princess Jiayi subconsciously covered her mouth and looked at Prince Consort Xiao for help.
Prince Consort Xiao leaned close to her ear and said, "Now that it's like this, tell him everything."
Princess Jiayi nodded, took a deep breath, and said to Xiao Zhen, "After all, he is not a stranger. He is your cousin, your biological cousin."
The big stone in Xiao Zhen's heart suddenly fell down. So that's it, so that's it!
He has many cousins, both distant and near, blood related and non-blood related, but he only has one biological cousin, who died ten years ago.
He turned around slowly: "Zhao Yuan? He is Zhao Yuan?"
Princess Jiayi whispered like a child who had done something wrong, "Yes, he is Zhao Yuan."
Xiao Zhen thought for a moment and said, "You're lying to me again. Zhao Yuan was already three years old when he died, and Xiao Yue is only twelve this year."
Princess Jiayi quickly explained, "We changed it. We changed his birthday."
Xiao Zhen asked again, "Since Zhao Yuan is in our house, who is the child who drowned in the lake?"
Princess Jiayi sighed, "As you know, your uncle lost two sons in succession, and it was with great difficulty that he finally had Zhao Yuan. He naturally raised him like a treasure, and not many people have actually seen Zhao Yuan.
But just as your uncle left, Zhao Yuan almost fell to his death. The Crown Princess found out that someone had tampered with the situation, and the person who wanted to harm Zhao Yuan turned out to be that bitch Sun.
The Crown Princess hid Zhao Yuan in a water cart and sent him out of the Eastern Palace. She ordered Sun to be strangled to death, and Lu was an insider. In order to cover up the truth, the Crown Princess first arranged for Zhao Yuan to fake his death, and then committed suicide with Lu. The child who died was Sun's godson.
That bitch gave birth to two daughters but no son. I don’t know who told her that raising a boy with good fortune would bring in a male offspring.
She had harbored evil intentions long ago and deliberately picked a child who looked like Zhao Yuan. The Crown Princess asked her to send the child away. Although she sent the child away, she named the child Zhao Ying. Haha, can anyone have the surname Zhao?
Even if what happened later had not happened, the Crown Princess would not have left that child in the world.
By the way, of your uncle's two sons who died young, at least the second son's death was related to Sun. At the time, Concubine Lu was already eight months pregnant. Huixin knocked her to the ground, and the child died shortly after birth."
The Huixin mentioned by the eldest princess is Princess Huixin, the elder sister of the two daughters left by Emperor Xiaokang.
These two daughters, Princess Huixin and Princess Huiming, were both born to Consort Sun.
Xiao Zhen understood. No wonder the princess, her aunt, had always ignored her two nieces. It turned out to be because of these reasons.
Xiao Zhen finally walked back to his parents from the window as if to show his favor. Prince Consort Xiao and the eldest princess both breathed a sigh of relief. The eldest princess reached out and wanted to grab her son's arm. Xiao Zhen hurriedly took a few steps back. Prince Consort Xiao chased after him and put his arm around his son's shoulders. This time Xiao Zhen did not dodge and let Prince Consort Xiao hug him.
"Does Xiao Yue know about this?"
Having said that, Xiao Zhen thought in his heart that Xiao Yue didn't know.
Princess Jiayi: "I know, and I don't know."
"What do you mean?" Xiao Zhen asked.
This time it was Prince Consort Xiao who spoke up: "Xiao Yue was precocious. We thought he would forget his childhood memories as he grew older. But when he was six, the palace invited a troupe to perform an opera. That day, they were performing "March Spring," which told the story of the emperor's grandson meeting a village girl on his way to enjoy the spring. As he was watching, he suddenly said that he remembered someone calling him "Little Prince."
He also said that he remembered someone calling his mother "Niangniang".
Your mother and I were so shocked at the time that we had to make up a story. We said he was born in a theatre troupe. His mother was a Qingyi who played the role of the Queen in the troupe. When he was a child, he played the role of the little prince on stage. Later, your father didn't want him to be stranded in the theatre troupe, so he took him back.
Xiao Zhen's voice was cold: "So he believes it?"
Prince Consort Xiao sighed, "He believed it at first, but a year later, he no longer believed it. He said, 'I don't like operas, so how could I have given birth to him with a woman from the opera troupe?
Then he asked if his biological father was someone else?
In desperation, I had to say that his biological father was my friend, and his wife was too strict, so I had to raise him.
He then asked, "Isn't that person's family's threshold higher than the princess's mansion? If you can take me into the mansion, why can't he?"
Isn’t it because I was born in a drama troupe that he doesn’t want to recognize me?
Alas, what can I say? I can't say anything. Fortunately, he never mentioned this matter again. "
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