Everything seemed to have returned to calm, and no news came out of Kyoto except that Ma Tianjiao and her entire family were executed.
Situ Xiu ordered Eunuch Hai to inquire about the news from the palace to find out whether there had been an in-depth investigation into the incident involving the two princesses. From the conversation that night, Ma Tianjiao was definitely not the mastermind.
Eunuch Hai replied: The godsons could not get any information, so the empress did not reveal the matter to anyone.
"Forget it, why bother with so much? If the enemy comes, we will fight him with our soldiers and if the water comes, we will block it with earth. I am strong enough, and these people in the dark will be exposed sooner or later."
"Or maybe I'm just too suspicious. The Empress has already dealt with the person behind the scenes, and the masked man last night might be the Empress, or a master close to the Empress. After all, the Empress is not just an emperor."
Situ Xiu's thoughts suddenly became clear.
However, he suddenly thought of another way to find out who was behind the scenes.
Thinking of the last time the empress fought with someone in the palace, he felt that there was something fishy about it. If he wanted to know, he needed to ask Eunuch Hai, who had decades of experience as a eunuch in the palace.
"Eunuch Hai, how much do you know about the Empress?"
Upon hearing this, Eunuch Hai said in a deep voice, "Your Highness, I have been staying in the palace all my life and don't know much about the Empress' affairs."
"Just tell me what you know."
"Yes, I heard that when the Empress was young and before she ascended the throne, in her twenties, she challenged the heirs of the three major sects: the Saint Maiden Sect, the Rakshasa Sect, and the Netherworld Temple. She fought one against three and defeated all three within ten moves, shocking the world."
"Then the Empress challenged the elders of the three major sects, but no one was a match for her. From then on, the three major sects declined the Empress's challenge, believing they could not win."
"At that time, the Empress was young and full of vigor. She traveled to Daluo and Taiyin, defeating all the masters in the world. Whether they were young or old, they were all defeated by the Empress. The whole world was once again shocked."
Oh my god, so stylish... no, so showy, so domineering?
Situ Xiu's mind flashed with the scene of the empress defeating all the heroes in the world by herself, reaching the peak with her own strength, standing on a high mountain, with her hands behind her back, gazing at the mountains and rivers in the distance.
"Xiu'er, this is the world I conquered for you..."
Oh my god, I'm so fucking touched.
Smelling it makes me excited, seeing it makes me cry...
"After traveling through the three kingdoms, the empress returned to the Great Sage Capital with supreme glory. The current empress had no choice but to pass the throne to her..."
Hearing this, Situ Xiu felt something was wrong and interrupted, "Wait, what do you mean by having to pass the throne to her?"
"Your Highness, the empress is not the eldest princess." Eunuch Hai said.
"Ah, I still have my period?" Situ Xiu was stunned for a moment. He had never known about this.
Eunuch Hai nodded and said, "The royal family has always upheld the eldest son over the youngest, but the empress's generation broke this rule. The former princess was naturally unwilling to accept this, and on the day the empress ascended the throne, a coup d'état took place. The result was obvious: the former princess failed, and all her followers were executed."
"The former eldest princess was also imprisoned in the Dali Chamber and is not allowed to leave for life."
"Hiss! My aunt is not dead???" Situ Xiu took a breath of cold air. What a crazy move.
Eunuch Hai nodded. "The Empress was merciful and did not kill the former eldest princess. The remaining two princesses were also settled in Kyoto. Until now, the Empress has been on the throne for 25 years."
In his 40s?!
But the empress looks like she is in her 20s. It turns out that people who practice martial arts can stay young.
No, my focus should be on the Empress's enemies.
Situ Xiu frowned, and suddenly remembered that what he wanted to ask was about enemies, but the empress's style was strong and domineering, and it seemed that she had enemies all over the world.
It's terrible.
He thought for a moment and asked, "Um, where did the previous empress go?"
Situ Xiu guaranteed that he had never seen his grandmother.
"I don't know about this." Eunuch Hai shook his head.
Situ Xiu frowned, thinking of his own birth, and asked, "Then my father, you should know, right?"
"Ah! Your Highness, you have no father." Eunuch Hai said.
Situ Xiu was confused.
I... I was picked up, damn, I told you, the Empress was so cold to me and didn't like me...
It turns out that everything is here, dear mother, where are you...
"The empress drank the water from the Mother and Child Spring and gave birth to three princesses and you." Eunuch Hai added.
Situ Xiu was just feeling a little emotional, but when he heard this, his emotions disappeared instantly and he was stunned.
Mother and Child Spring?!
Drink water to give birth to a child.
Isn’t this the product of the Kingdom of Women in Journey to the West?
Does this world have it too?
No wonder, no wonder there are more women than men. He thought that the world was going to change in some way, men would gradually disappear, and only women would be left in the world.
Now he thought about it carefully, the reason why there are so many women is because of Zimu Spring, and the reason why there are so few men may be that Zimu Spring can also give birth to men, but most of them are women.
Take him as an example. Among the empress's four children, there was only one son, which fully proves that there are more girls born in this world.
This is different from Journey to the West. The Zimu River doesn't only give birth to girls, there's also a chance of giving birth to boys, and women don't become crazy and agitated when they see men...
This explains why there are fewer men and their status is lower...because children can be born without men.
Wait, could this be another reason why men have a low status?
Situ Xiu suddenly had a bold idea. Was it because giving birth to a boy was considered a shameful act, just like the ancient ideas in his previous life that women had to give birth to boys?
If that was the case, he found the reason why the empress treated him coldly and disliked him.
One is his identity as a man, and the other is the shame of having a boy.
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