"Your Highness, the Empress has actually been unable to smell too many flowers since she was young. Her body can't stand it. Furthermore, she developed a chronic illness after giving birth to you. Therefore, the Imperial Physician long ago warned her that her body is special and that she should avoid any floral scents that make her uncomfortable. Otherwise, it will easily trigger a cough and aggravate her physical condition."
"But Your Highness likes flowers, so Her Majesty asked us to keep it a secret from Your Highness."
"Finally, the queen couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed..."
Ah Huan's body went cold: "Are you saying that I was the one who killed my mother?"
"No, that's not it!"
Matron Gong hurriedly explained, "The Empress is indeed seriously ill and can no longer hold on. It has nothing to do with Your Highness. On the contrary, it is because of Your Highness that the Empress has been able to hold on for a little longer."
"Your Highness, the Queen is truly worried about you."
At this point, Matron Gong burst into tears: "This is all my fault. If I hadn't given you advice back then, you wouldn't have to live such a tiring life. Your Highness, the only wish of the Empress is that you be well."
When Ah Huan thought of his mother, his eyes couldn't help but turn red.
But he still said stubbornly: "Even if my mother died of a serious illness, it would not be wrong for the Queen Mother to have me burned to death..."
"Who told you that it was I who set the fire?"
Empress Dowager Bai really didn't understand why she was so sure that it was her who sent people to burn her to death. Not to mention that she didn't have that intention, even if she really wanted her niece to be the queen, there was no need to burn her eldest grandson to death.
"I saw with my own eyes that Nanny Su arrived at my palace, and the fire broke out shortly afterwards." Ah Huan said coldly.
Empress Dowager Bai looked at Nanny Su.
Nanny Su looked bewildered.
At this moment, Matron Gong seemed to have thought of something, and burst into tears, saying, "Your Highness, you misunderstood! When the Empress passed away, Your Highness was very sad and locked himself in the palace, refusing to come out. I was really worried, so I went to find the Empress Dowager. Matron Su came to visit him at that time, but..."
"Your Highness, you were extremely emotional at the time, and you were drunk and mad, driving all the servants out of the palace. Soon after, the palace caught fire. I rushed in and saw you, Your Highness, drunkenly lying on the table, knocking over a candlestick, and igniting the wine, which caused the fire."
"I wanted to rescue Your Highness, but it was no use. Just as I was helping Your Highness walk out, I was knocked unconscious by a falling shelf. When I woke up again, one of my legs was broken and burned. Afterwards, everyone only found a charred body in the rubble, so everyone thought Your Highness was dead!"
After saying that, Nanny Gong quickly lifted up her trouser leg, revealing the leg that had been burned.
Ah Huan's eyes fell on her lame leg.
Even after more than ten years, her legs were still charred and ugly with scars.
The maidservant following behind Matron Gong also said at this time: "Your Highness, Matron Gong did not lie. When we discovered the fire, we also wanted to rush in, but the fire was too intense. Matron Gong's leg was almost burned. Before she fainted, she was still shouting to save Your Highness..."
Ah Huan still didn't want to believe it.
But when she saw the palace maids picking up the burned parts one by one and talking about what happened that year, she had to remember that she was indeed drunk and confused when she was burned.
When she woke up again, she was already at the frontier.
A large part of her face was burned. Later, she happened to meet Princess Yuchang, the imperial aunt she admired. After learning that the late queen had died and that someone wanted to kill her, and considering her virginity, Princess Yuchang weighed the pros and cons and decided to keep her by her side.
My original intention was to take her with me when I returned to Beijing later.
At that time, I will explain it to Emperor Wenyuan in person and see how to arrange her future identity.
But this delay lasted two years.
Then something happened: she fell madly in love with Yunxi...
"Ever since the princess gave me this pair of bracelets and said they were my mother's 'best friend', I've been having someone secretly investigate."
"The only people my mother would ever hear the word 'best friend' from are those she trusts the most, or those she considers close to her. And there are only two such people: Aunt Xu and Princess Yu."
"Princess Yu Chang has a free-spirited and resolute personality, which is a perfect match for my mother's. Therefore, on the battlefield back then, one civil and one military, they were considered the late emperor's two favorite 'female generals.' And Aunt Xu, needless to say, is more like a sibling to my mother than a best friend."
"Following the two of them, I found out that around thirteen years ago, a young girl suddenly appeared beside Princess Yuchang. She was always with her and was very popular with her. Princess Yuchang even took her to meet my mother, but I can't find out much about the girl."
"Until one day, Princess Yu Chang fell seriously ill for some time, and the girl disappeared inexplicably. After that, Princess Yu Chang's personality changed drastically, and soon she returned to the capital from the border fortress under various pretexts..."
"So, I had someone investigate Princess Yuchang's movements after she returned to the capital. Only then did I find out that the places Princess Yuchang frequented after her return were the former queen's residence before she entered the palace, as well as her parents' home."
"Over the past decade, the family of the late queen has been promoted openly and covertly. While everyone's attention is on other princes, Princess Yu has allowed the family of the late queen to secretly win over officials and military power..."
When Ah Huan heard what Yang Zhao said, he couldn't help but look up.
It turns out that she was exposed because of a pair of bracelets and a few words!!
Looking at Yang Zhao's calm and slow manner, she couldn't help but curl her lips in self-mockery: "You really are just like your mother!"
"I'm her daughter, so naturally I look like her."
Yang Zhao replied.
Ah Huan was stunned for a moment, then laughed something uglier than crying: "You win, you can kill me or chop me up as you please."
"lose?"
Yang Zhao looked at her calmly: "Princess, are you going to give up so easily?"
Ah Huan was slightly stunned.
"What's the meaning?"
"Is the princess willing to be schemed and toyed with like this for more than ten years, and then die as a scapegoat?"
Ah Huan understood what she meant at this time.
She was unwilling to accept it, but...
"Princess, do you feel that you still can't help loving him in your heart? You even don't know whether you should believe us or continue to believe in him?" Yang Zhao looked at her and said.
Ah Huan's pupils shrank slightly.
Because it is.
Yang Zhao cut his finger with a knife and said, "Princess, why don't you try my blood?"
"Can your blood cure the poison?"
"You'll know if you try it!" Yang Zhao didn't hide it and stretched out his hand.
Ah Huan looked at her bleeding finger.
She glanced at Empress Dowager Bai and Matron Gong standing at the cell door, and finally opened her mouth...
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