Chapter 422 Not a Tyrant
"Twenty-three years ago, I was deliberately switched at birth. Since then, I have grown up in a remote countryside. Another child came to live with me, and I was reunited with my family last year."
"Today I saw Nangong Qionghua and found that she looks very similar to the fake daughter living in my house. If they stand together, they look like sisters."
Jiang Yunxi told the story of himself and Jiang Chenyu.
"Oh, is there such a thing?" The empress sat up straight with an unfathomable expression on her face.
"That's why I asked the empress about Nangong Qionghua." Jiang Yunxi explained why he asked.
The empress looked at her with an unfathomable smile on her face and said frankly, "Twenty-three years ago, that baby girl was buried by me after she was born."
Jiang Yunxi was shocked, "Buried, buried..."
"That's right, I buried her alive. But you said there was a woman who looked very similar to Nangong Qionghua. Could it be that the child was taken away from her back then? That's quite interesting!"
There was a chilling smile in the empress's eyes, and a low, intimidating chill emanated from her whole body.
She wanted the baby to die, but someone rescued her.
This is going against her.
Jiang Yunxi stared at the empress. For a moment, she couldn't figure out what kind of person she was. "Why did you bury a baby alive?"
She didn't use a questioning tone, just asked calmly.
Because she didn't know what happened back then, she couldn't say anything to the empress until she understood clearly.
"If you don't like me, just bury me alive. There's no reason why." The empress's tone was extremely arrogant, as if she didn't care about other people's lives at all.
Jiang Yunxi: “…”
"You should go." The empress sat up. She wanted to know if the child was still alive.
"Empress, please think carefully about what happened a month ago." Jiang Yunxi said and turned to leave.
Left the bedroom.
She looked at the peach tree in the garden. When she came in before, she thought it was strange. She didn't expect it to have been drinking human blood. No wonder it looked so weird.
She stared at the peach tree for a while before leaving.
Eunuch Qi personally sent her back to the palace. He had a keen eye. Miss Jiang met the empress, and she was still alive even though she was not cured today, which showed that she was extraordinary.
Otherwise, the empress would never let her leave alive.
"Miss Jiang, if you need anything, just go to Eunuch Wang and tell him that it was me who asked you to do so. He will arrange everything for you." Eunuch Qi said with a smile.
"Eunuch Qi, don't walk at night tonight. You may die at the worst and become paralyzed at the least." Jiang Yunxi could see the goodwill conveyed by the other party.
Although this kindness was only because she escaped from the Empress's bedroom alive.
"Thank you Miss Jiang for the reminder. I will keep it in mind." Eunuch Qi expressed his gratitude quickly. Did she see that he was going to be in trouble?
Jiang Yunxi didn't say anything else but returned to the yard where he lived.
When she went in, Zhan Beiyuan was sitting in the pavilion with a Phoenix guqin on the stone table. Was he playing the guqin?
"Can you play the piano?" Jiang Yunxi walked over quickly.
"No." Zhan Beiyuan said truthfully. He really couldn't play the piano. He had only played with knives and guns before and had never touched the piano.
Jiang Yunxi sat down next to him, "So what are you doing?"
Zhan Beiyuan withdrew his hands from the strings, "How about you entering the palace?"
"I asked first, so you answer first." Jiang Yunxi stared at him intently. His back just now was very similar to the back of the man in white clothes and silver hair.
Could it be that Zhan Beiyuan is the other party?
Thinking of this possibility, her heart skipped a beat.
In fact, she had suspected it before because there was a special fate and bond between them.
"Looking at this Phoenix Guqin gives me a very strange feeling, as if I have played it before." Zhan Beiyuan's bony fingers touched the strings.
This guqin once belonged to Jiang Yunxi.
If he had played it before, would they have known each other in that life?
"Then you have to think about it carefully. Maybe we knew each other in my first life." Jiang Yunxi said with a smile.
Zhan Beiyuan: "..."
He tried to think about it, but it wasn't in his memory.
Jiang Yunxi told him everything that happened after entering the palace, including Nangong Qionghua and the others, as well as her inquiries with the empress.
"So Jiang Chenyu is from the royal family of Xuanyue Kingdom?" Zhan Beiyuan frowned. He didn't expect that she had such an identity.
"It is very likely that she is the baby that the empress wanted to bury alive twenty-three years ago." Jiang Yunxi was almost certain.
"But why would someone send her to the Duke of Ying's Mansion in Tenglong Kingdom? Could it be that they were afraid that the Empress would kill her again, so they sent her far away? Or maybe there was some other purpose?"
Zhan Beiyuan had a thoughtful look on his face, and for a moment he couldn't understand the intention of the person who swapped the child.
"Maybe both possibilities are true. Even if it's for Jiang Chenyu's safety, why has it to be the Duke of Yingguo's Mansion?" Jiang Yunxi looked thoughtful.
"As for our purpose, we still have to start with the Empress. I've heard that she's bloodthirsty, but she's definitely not a tyrant."
"If she was a tyrant, she wouldn't be sitting firmly on the throne of empress now, so she wouldn't bury a baby alive for no reason." Zhan Beiyuan analyzed the situation.
As the god of war of Tenglong Kingdom, naturally the emperors of the other four countries knew him.
The empress has the worst reputation among the five emperors, but it must be said that she manages Xuanyue Kingdom quite well.
"You're right." Jiang Yunxi praised with a smile. Although she met an arrogant and bloodthirsty empress today, she couldn't judge her character now.
"Does she really have a strange disease?" Zhan Beiyuan asked.
"I've seen it with my own eyes. The disease is real. But the fact that the empress lived for over a hundred years makes me quite curious. I can't see that she is an abnormal person." Jiang Yunxi felt that this empress was very mysterious.
"Have you sensed the scent of a dismembered corpse?"
"Speaking of which, it's even stranger. When I reached the palace gate, I could still sense the scent of a dismembered body, but once I entered the palace, there was no scent of a dismembered body."
Zhan Beiyuan was surprised. "Could it be covered by something in the palace? That peach tree?"
Can the peach tree fed with blood really keep the empress young?
There must be something else.
"It's possible. Next time I will take a good look at the peach tree. There should be some mystery behind it." Jiang Yunxi said. She couldn't touch the peach tree directly today.
The empress wouldn't let her move either.
"Should we go to Prince Jing's Mansion?" Zhan Beiyuan asked.
"Go." Jiang Yunxi had a smile on her lips. She wanted to know whether Prince Jing's Mansion knew about Jiang Chenyu's replacement.
At dinner time.
Jiang Yunxi told everyone about entering the palace. For a moment, everyone was extremely curious about the empress. Putting aside her bloodlust, she must be an emperor with means and strategies.
Otherwise, just because she lived for over a hundred years, outsiders would probably say that she was an alien and would not allow her to rule Xuanyue Kingdom forever.
Yet, she sits firmly on the throne.
"This palace is quite mysterious. It can even cover up the smell of corpses. I want to go and explore it at night." Qian Heng looked eager to try.
"I'm going too, I'm going too." Lingci said with blinking eyes.
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