This doesn't look normal.
However, Yang Zhao didn't bother to find out anything.
She was about to salute.
Emperor Huichen on the bed waved at her: "No need to bow, come here."
Yang Zhao raised his eyes to look at Qi Feng who was standing beside the bed, and then looked at the man in black clothes and mask beside him.
Her gaze lingered on the man for a moment.
He then retracted his gaze and nodded, then walked to the bedside of Emperor Huichen: "Your Majesty, do you have any other instructions?"
"sit."
Emperor Huichen gestured to the round stool in front of the bed.
After Yang Zhao sat down, Emperor Huichen gestured to Qi Feng, and Qi Feng and others left, leaving only his personal eunuchs.
"Did you know about Princess Yu being crowned as a princess yesterday?"
Emperor Huichen asked.
Yang Zhao nodded: "I've heard about it."
"What are you dissatisfied with? If you have any dissatisfaction, you can tell me."
Yang Zhao: “…”
What could she be dissatisfied with?
When Emperor Huichen saw Yang Zhao's expression, he knew that she obviously didn't know that the title was given to her. Emperor Huichen did not explain, but asked his personal eunuch to bring a slightly larger mahogany box.
"A Zhao, open it and take a look."
Yang Zhao still didn't quite understand what Emperor Huichen meant.
He glanced at Emperor Huichen before opening the box.
But soon, her expression changed slightly, and she subconsciously picked up an exquisite gold lock in the box. The words, patterns, and style engraved on it were exactly the same as her mother's.
Isn't this her mother's?
There’s more.
There are also many women's belongings and portraits inside.
One of the paintings shows a man and a woman who look very similar.
Yang Zhao recognized her at a glance. The woman above was her mother, because there was a beauty mole at the corner of her mother's eye, which made her original appearance even more beautiful.
"Your mother and I are twins, a boy and a girl."
What?
Yang Zhao, who was still staring at the portrait, suddenly raised his head.
Looking at the Emperor Huichen in front of her, who had white hair, wrinkles all over his face, and now looked like a corpse... she unconsciously lowered her head to glance at the portrait in her hand.
If her mother were still alive, she would be just over 40 years old!!
As for the Emperor Huichen before him, some people would believe that he was in his eighties or nineties.
How could they possibly be from the same generation? Not to mention twins...
"Don't believe it?"
Emperor Huichen looked at the portrait in Yang Zhao's hand, and thought of his current appearance. A smile appeared on his pale lips. "To be honest, sometimes when I look in the mirror, I doubt my memory. However, I am indeed your mother's brother, born from the same womb."
Or younger brother?
Yang Zhao was shocked because this was simply too explosive.
Her mother... turned out to be the twin sister of the Emperor of Qi.
How is this possible?
Her mother clearly said that she was an orphan...
"Our Qi royal family has a secret that no one in the world knows. Today I will tell you everything," said Emperor Huichen.
Yang Zhao subconsciously wanted to refuse.
"A Zhao, this matter is related to you. Or rather, it is related to all the children your mother gave birth to."
"Whether you want to know it or not, you have to know this."
Emperor Huichen waved to his personal eunuch at this point. After the eunuch left, Emperor Huichen spoke again, "Before you came to Qi, you should have investigated our royal family, right?"
"Then you should have discovered that almost half of the royal children of our Qi Kingdom will die young, and those who survive will have some physical problems to a greater or lesser extent. As they age, their physical problems will become more and more serious, and ultimately they will die before the age of thirty."
There are indeed not many surviving princes in the royal family of Qi State, and most of them are in poor health.
Otherwise, it would probably not be Qi Xue and Qi Feng's turn to switch identities and jump around.
"So what does this have to do with my mother?"
Yang Zhao's heart couldn't help but tense up. Could it be that her mother's death... was also related to some secret of the Qi royal family?
Before her mother died, she seemed to be thirty...
"Could it be that the royal family of Qi...all have genetic diseases?" She heard about genetic diseases from her mother.
The so-called genetic diseases are engraved in the blood of family members and passed down from generation to generation, but the chance of offspring getting the disease will gradually decrease with the passing of their other half.
But according to what Emperor Huichen said.
This genetic condition does not seem to be fading, but is becoming more and more serious.
If that's the case, then her eldest brother only has four years left?
No, it should be said that the three of them only have a few years left...
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt depressed.
Emperor Huichen adjusted his sitting posture slightly, suppressing the sweet taste in his throat before speaking, "I'm not sure what you mean by genetic disease, but since the founding of Qi, no emperor has lived past the age of thirty. So, when the Imperial Master conducted a celestial divination, he learned that all descendants of the Qi royal family are cursed."
curse?
Yang Zhao, who was upset just now, was stunned for a moment.
So... the secret of Qi is that all descendants of Qi are cursed?
The corners of Yang Zhao's mouth twitched slightly.
Emperor Huichen continued, "The Imperial Master calculated that the only person who could break the curse on our Qi royal family was the twin princess born to the Imperial Master's granddaughter and the royal family."
"And that princess is your mother."
Hearing this, Yang Zhao's mouth twitched again. She finally understood a little bit. What her mother said back then was so ridiculous that it left her speechless.
This is obviously the Imperial Master's statement paving the way for his granddaughter.
The previous emperor believed this? Is there something wrong with his brain?
"Do you also think that this is a story fabricated by the Imperial Preceptor for his granddaughter?" Emperor Huichen seemed to see through Yang Zhao's thoughts and smiled. "Father didn't believe it at the time, but apart from believing the Imperial Preceptor's words, there was no other way. It was just a matter of taking in another concubine, so Queen Mother entered the palace."
"Soon, the Queen Mother became pregnant."
Emperor Huichen spoke in detail, as if telling a story: "Soon, Father discovered something miraculous. As Queen Mother became pregnant, Father's physical discomforts really began to subside. Not only that, but the health of the other royal children was also gradually improving. The most obvious example was the eldest prince, who had clearly died at the time. But as soon as the news of Queen Mother's pregnancy came out, he suddenly came back to life."
This is simply a miracle.
In such feudal ancient times, this can indeed prove the "curse" mentioned by the national teacher.
As a result, his pregnant mother suddenly became the most precious concubine in the Qi harem, and the national teacher was also given more attention.
"Later, everything turned out just as the Imperial Master had predicted. My mother truly gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. The oldest member of the Qi royal family truly survived at the age of thirty..."
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