The princess looked at Gu Xin with an unfathomable gaze, her thoughts unreadable.
Gu Xin's words were like a large stone thrown into a calm lake, creating ripples.
Everyone turned to look at Master Bai, who remained the same, sitting with his head bowed, his fists clenched tightly.
"Your Highness, why don't you ask Second Master Bai, or Second Young Master Bai, to see who the deceased really is? Is it Bai Jiachang, the third son of the Prince of Donglin?" Gu Xin added.
"No, it's impossible. Master, say something! Say something!" Madam He walked up to Master Bai, took his hand, and pleaded.
But Master Bai's hand subconsciously recoiled.
Mrs. He was stunned on the spot.
Third Madam Jiang's gaze toward Second Master Bai seemed to be poisoned, as she stared at him fiercely.
"Second son, what exactly happened?" Seeing that her usually gentle third daughter-in-law had become angry, the princess could no longer care about anything else and asked.
"Mother, I..." Master Bai found it difficult to speak about this.
He wanted to deny it, but the situation before him was that Gu Xin seemed to know something, and his son seemed to know it too.
“Grandmother, let me say it!” Bai Shijun looked at Second Master Bai with a complicated expression and said.
"Shut up!" The princess glared at Bai Shijun. Usually, she doted on her eldest grandson, the son of her deceased eldest son, and treated all her other children the same.
As the saying goes, the youngest son and the eldest grandson are the lifeblood of an old lady. The princess was born in the countryside, and like many old ladies in the countryside, she loved her eldest grandson the most.
Bai Shijun gave a self-deprecating laugh.
“Your Highness, forgive my bluntness, but this should have been a private matter for your Donglin Prince’s Mansion. However, since three lives have been taken, I have no choice but to get involved. You asked Second Master Bai, but he knows nothing. Only Second Young Master Bai knows these things. You told Second Young Master Bai to shut up. Do you want to hear about this from me?” Gu Xin said.
The princess glanced at Gu Xin, then looked at Master Bai.
Now she realized that this was not her second son, but her third son; the one lying down must be her second son!
From a young age, it was easy for these two brothers to impersonate each other. However, when they did something wrong, the third brother would be exposed after she scolded him with a stern face. The second brother wouldn't be exposed, but once the third brother was exposed, the role-switching would fail.
So now she realized that the living person in front of her was her third son, Bai Jiachang, the third son of the Bai family.
“Grandmother, besides our own family, Princess Xinxin and her people are here on orders to investigate the case, so there are some things I’m not afraid to say,” Bai Shijun spoke again. “I am the eldest son of the second branch of the Donglin Prince’s Mansion, and my father is the second wife, Madam He. But my father is Third Master Bai. Do you know why, Grandmother?”
As soon as he said this, everyone looked at Master Bai in horror. Now that his identity had been revealed, this Master Bai was actually Master Bai, the third son of the Bai family, Bai Jiachang.
Although Bai Laosan had guessed it in his heart, he still couldn't believe it when Bai Shijun said it out loud.
He thought that only he and his second brother knew about this, but he didn't expect that the child would find out.
He never imagined this would happen.
Even before, after the death of the King of Donglin, he thought that his second brother wanted to become the heir and had a dispute with the King of Donglin, which led to the murder. He even thought that the memorial requesting the title of the King of Donglin was forged by his second brother.
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