Chapter 48: Western Regions Ecstasy He Jing's biological mother is not Princess Jiayu...
"Min Qingliu...it's been a long time since anyone called me that."
"Sister, you still don't want to admit it?"
"All this... sin and suffering originates from you!"
"Why do you want me to go if you don't want to go?"
Min Shian pursed his lips and said nothing, then finally walked away.
He Jing's weak chuckle came from behind, like a ghost.
When she returned to the carriage, Min Shian's face was tense. She was not the sentimental person who would question herself, but at this moment her heart was a little shaky.
"Song Yanxuan, tell me, if I had been the one to go and marry, would Xiao Yuange have survived?"
"Wouldn't all this have happened?"
Song Sheng sighed softly and didn't directly answer her question. Instead, he said gently, "Your Highness, the practice of marriage alliances didn't start in this dynasty."
"Of the several princesses who were married off to foreign countries as recorded in ancient books, which one went willingly? They all did so for the sake of the country."
"As Your Highness said, if Your Highness were to go and marry, who could guarantee that the Northern Witch would remain peaceful? Who could guarantee that Xiao Yuange wouldn't die?"
Song Sheng's eyes were gentle and weary, and his voice was softer than usual because Min Shi'an was in a low mood. He continued to comfort him, "Your Highness, what has happened has already happened, so let it be."
After hearing this, Min Shian felt the knot in her heart suddenly lifted. She responded, "I never thought that Lord Song, who kills without blinking an eye, would be so good at comforting others."
"Your Highness is joking." Seeing that her mood had improved, Song Sheng's smile became more genuine.
After the carriage stopped, Min Shian blinked and glanced at the plaque of the Song Mansion, then looked at Song Sheng and said jokingly, "Sir, are you planning to let me walk back?"
"How dare I? There are still some details I haven't shared with Your Highness. Is Your Highness interested in hearing the story?"
Min Shian became interested instantly after hearing this and hurriedly followed Song Sheng to the study.
But as soon as he sat down, Min Shi'an suddenly thought that there was a big loophole in what he had just said about Hejing.
For example, He Jing is a daughter of the imperial family, and she is not allowed to go out of the main gate or the secondary gate. Unlike the princes or the sons of the imperial family, who can come and go freely, how can she meet the chivalrous hero Lan Mingyue?
How could he become the leader of the elusive assassin organization, Tuberose?
Thinking this way, she asked the question, and just waited to see whether Song Yanxuan would answer or not.
Song Sheng paused as he poured the tea, a little of it splashing onto his sleeve. He couldn't help but laugh and said, "How could Your Highness know? I'm going to talk to you about this later."
He poured the tea, and Song Chen, who was standing beside him, brought the tea and pastries to Min Shian, and then retreated with a tactful look.
Min Shian lowered her eyes and looked at the soft and sweet Poria cocos pastry. For some reason, even though it was the beginning of spring and the air was a little chilly, she felt as if she was in midsummer and was warm all over.
This was made by Song Yanxuan himself.
She couldn't tell the difference between the other foods, but this was her favorite Poria cocos pastry. The Poria cocos pastry made by Song Yanxuan had a richer flavor than those made by others.
"My Lord, are you treating me like a child?"
She still lowered her eyebrows and tried to maintain a normal voice, not wanting Song Sheng to see the obscure emotions in her eyes.
"No matter how old you are, if you're feeling down, eating your favorite food will always cheer you up. What do you think, Your Highness?"
Min Shian chuckled and agreed with him. He picked up a piece of Poria cocos pastry and started eating it, and did not miss the fragrant and mellow tea with a lingering sweetness.
This was also the tea brewed by Song Yanxuan himself.
In fact, Song Yanxuan often brewed and poured tea for her, but this time the tea seemed to be particularly delicious.
After seeing her eat several mouthfuls slowly, Song Sheng began to slowly explain the mysteries of Hejing and the Western Regions.
Min Shian was slightly interested at the beginning, then he became immersed in it, and then it was as if he was watching a woman's miserable life.
It turns out that Hejing's biological mother was not Princess Jiayu.
But, a sinner from the Western Regions.
More than a decade ago——
A family in the Western Regions that had been making incense for generations offended the princess. The princess was furious and issued an order bypassing the king of the Western Regions to exile the entire family and never allow them to set foot in the Western Regions again.
This punishment may not be a big deal to ordinary people, and it cannot even be called a punishment.
But for a family that has been rooted in the Western Regions for a hundred years, this undoubtedly destroyed the lifeline of their family.
However, under the king's authority, they had no choice but to do as they were told.
Also leaving the Western Regions was the tuberose, which disappeared overnight.
"Mingyue, take the young lady and go as far as possible!" A woman, her clothes torn and with no time to mend them, burst into tears and said with pain, "Let's go to Huailin."
"Walk!"
The young Lan Mingyue left with the bewildered young lady. No one knew whether the exiled family would suffer from the king's residual wrath. It was good to be able to preserve a bloodline.
Lan Mingyue had just arrived at Yuntong with the young lady when they accidentally got separated from her during the fight with the rampant bandits in the area.
The bandits were numerous and powerful, and Lan Mingyue could not defeat them with just two fists.
But as a strange fragrance came over, Lan Mingyue realized something was wrong and hurriedly held her breath, thus escaping the danger.
She watched as a group of men in black suddenly appeared and killed the bandits without leaving a single one alive. She immediately knelt down to thank their leader for saving her life and begged them to help her find her friends.
To her surprise, before her knees touched the ground, they were stopped by a gentle force. She stood up involuntarily, only to see a group of men in black kneeling down in front of her.
Only then did Lan Mingyue realize that the head of the family had once saved the life of the leader of the tuberose by accident. They had just met the head of the family, but he had refused their shelter.
And ordered them to find the lady and be loyal to her.
Lan Mingyue was dumbfounded and hurriedly told them that she was not the young lady, but the young lady's personal maid, and that the young lady had accidentally lost in the fight just now.
They immediately decided to go with Lan Mingyue to look for the young lady.
The young lady they had been searching for was now unconscious in a forest and was met by Prince Jiayu who came here to enjoy the scenery.
At this time, Prince Jiayu was not a prince, but a crown prince.
When the prince saw her beauty, he became evil-minded and ordered his followers to take the young lady away. Then, in order to avoid any disputes, he left Yuntong overnight and rushed back to Huailin.
That night, the prince was possessed by the devil and stretched out his evil claws to the still unconscious lady and took her for himself.
However, the Crown Prince's wife is a direct descendant of the Xie family and has a very hot temper. Because she is dissatisfied with this marriage, she is even more picky about the Crown Prince. Until now, the Crown Prince has not dared to take a concubine, and he would beat to death any concubine he saw.
Over time, the prince developed the habit of traveling and sightseeing. Of course, his real purpose was not to drink, but to stay away from fierce women and beautiful women.
But this time is different.
The young lady is so beautiful that she is still so charming even when she is unconscious. The prince dares not imagine how great it would be if this wonderful woman were awake and enjoying herself under him.
The prince immediately decided to take the person back and hide him.
Not even a mistress.
After the young lady woke up, she cried all day long, became thinner and thinner, and had to accept the humiliation of the prince.
She struggled at first, but was met with even more humiliation, so she learned to remain silent.
She also thought about dying, but then she thought of Lan Mingyue who was somewhere unknown, so she gritted her teeth and held on.
The good times didn’t last long, the young lady became pregnant.
No one knew about it at first. It was during a lovemaking session that the young lady suffered heavy bleeding from her lower body. The prince called the court doctor, who then confirmed that she was pregnant.
But the prince was in a hurry and was only concerned with treating the young lady, but he forgot that Ms. Xie was in charge of the household affairs of the palace, and it was hard for her not to know about this big move.
From then on, the young lady was exposed to the eyes of the Crown Prince's wife.
Naturally, the Crown Prince's Consort was bound to cause a big uproar, but family disgrace should not be made public. The Crown Prince's Consort was not even pregnant, but the Crown Prince's woman, who was not even a concubine, was pregnant.
If this gets out, not only will people laugh at her, but they will also sneer at her and question her incompetence as the female head of the Xie family.
The young lady thought that her life had come to an end, but she didn't expect that although the Crown Prince's wife was arrogant and domineering, she was not completely unreasonable.
The concubines who were beaten to death before were all low-class people who wanted to turn themselves into phoenixes, but the young lady was different.
The lady was forced.
The Crown Prince's wife did not make things too difficult for the young lady, but kept her under strict supervision. She announced to the public that she was pregnant and feeling unwell, and closed the door to visitors.
In this way, the Crown Prince's wife and the young lady kept to themselves and lived in peace for more than eight months.
On the day of delivery, the Crown Princess called all the doctors in the palace, and the young lady gave birth to the child after a narrow escape.
The Crown Princess took pity on the young lady and allowed her to choose a nickname for the child.
The lady refused.
The young lady hated this child and everything related to the prince.
Seeing this, the Crown Princess no longer forced him and took the child out.
That child was He Jing.
Afterwards, the young lady struggled to hold on, enduring the prince's insults every day. The prince's wife was kind-hearted after all, and seeing that the young lady wanted to live, she couldn't bear to take her life.
Even the Crown Princess didn't know why the young lady lived.
Until one full moon night, the bright moon came.
The young lady's eyes were filled with tears. This day had finally come. She finally saw with her own eyes that the maid who had accompanied her for the first half of her life and was like a sister to her was still alive.
After learning that Tuberose's influence has now spread everywhere, the young lady told her about the child. After all, the child came from the young lady's belly. After ten months of pregnancy, it would be unlikely to say that there is no emotion at all.
The child was innocent, so the young lady entrusted the child to Lan Mingyue and asked Lan Mingyue to take good care of the child.
When the Crown Prince was named Prince Jiayu and the whole family was overjoyed, the young lady died suddenly with a smile on her face in a room in an inconspicuous corner of the backyard.
Min Shi'an was in a daze for a long time after hearing this. Although Prince Jiayu was getting older, he became more and more greedy for beauty. Princess Jiayu was too lazy to pay attention to him, and his temper became more restrained as he grew older.
No wonder she felt that He Jing's bone structure was more like that of a person from the Western Regions.
I think not only his bone structure but also his skin appearance are similar to that of the stunningly beautiful lady.
Lan Mingyue's eyes appeared in front of Min Shian's eyes, and she suddenly understood. She finally knew why she felt that Lan Mingyue's eyes were familiar.
When she was young, she had seen such eyes beside He Jing at a palace banquet.
At that time, Lan Mingyue was He Jing's personal maid.
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