"Madame Leng?"
thump!
Ji Kang knelt on the ground and said, "This slave deserves to die."
Emperor Yongxi frowned and said, I just mentioned Nanny Leng in the cold palace. Why should Ji Kang die?
"You tell me yourself."
"I am guilty. Nanny Leng was a second-class maid to the late Emperor and Empress. I overheard it by accident and was nearly silenced, but Nanny Leng spared me."
"Oh" Emperor Yongxi had a faint expression. This was not something he should die for, so Ji Kang must be hiding something from him.
"Last time, I was ordered by the Emperor to investigate, and I wanted Nanny Leng to help me. Although she is in the cold palace, she can't hide many things from me. Moreover, she told me that the Emperor's biological mother is someone else."
Ji Kang lowered his head to the ground, sweating profusely, and felt that he was going to lose his life.
Emperor Yongxi clenched his fists, and Bei Lingyao's words rang in his ears again.
"Bring Nanny Leng here for me."
Emperor Yongxi said, waving his hand again, "You don't have to go."
He called out the secret guards and asked them to secretly bring Nanny Leng to the Taiji Palace.
Nanny Leng was brought over quickly. Although she was about the same age as the empress dowager, she already had white hair and a face full of wrinkles.
Even if the Queen Mother were standing here, she wouldn't be able to recognize him.
"This servant pays homage to His Majesty."
When Nanny Leng was brought here, she was already prepared.
It can be said that she has been waiting for this day for a long time.
It’s not that I haven’t thought about looking for Emperor Yongxi before, but Emperor Yongxi was not easy to approach, and when Emperor Yongxi was born, his body was white and clean, without even a birthmark or mole.
Don't believe her just based on her one-sided statement.
Moreover, Nanny Leng had always been hesitant in her heart. She was Empress Yuan's person. Before Empress Yuan died, she was arranged to stay in the cold palace, so she escaped the empress dowager's reckoning.
Emperor Yongxi was born to the Empress Dowager, so he was also the grandson of the Jiang family and had a close relationship with Empress Yuan.
After all, Empress Yuan is her biological mother, adoptive mother, and aunt.
But if Emperor Yongxi was born to someone else, although Empress Yuan was his legal mother, she lacked the blood relationship.
well!
Nanny Leng sighed, "I had intended to take this matter to my grave. After all, the Empress Yuan has been very kind to me. Although the Empress Yuan asked me to reveal my background to the Emperor as soon as possible, revealing the Emperor's background would affect the relationship between the Emperor and the Jiang family."
Nanny Leng continued, "I am a servant of the Jiang family. Although I faked my own death and escaped, I still have relatives in the Jiang family."
"Who is my biological mother?"
Emperor Yongxi didn't want to listen to Nanny Leng's nonsense.
Nanny Leng's expression changed, a bit complicated, "The Emperor's biological mother is Concubine Wan, the most favored concubine in the harem besides Concubine Li, but that was before the Empress Dowager entered the palace.
After the Queen Mother entered the palace, Concubine Wan was sent to the cold palace for the crime of plotting to murder the royal heir in the Queen Mother's womb.
But one time, the late emperor was drunk and went to the cold palace to visit Concubine Wan. Afterwards, a fire broke out in the cold palace. Although Concubine Wan was rescued, she was badly burned and her appearance was ruined.
Concubine Wan was so shocked that she committed suicide.
The Empress Yuan's wet nurse took Concubine Wan's pulse and found that she was pregnant.
At that time, the Empress Dowager was pregnant for more than a month in the palace, exactly one month longer than Concubine Wan.
Empress Yuan was in poor health and had originally accepted the Queen Mother's idea of entering the palace to give birth to a child, but she learned that the Queen Mother had already had an affair with the late Emperor.
The Empress was angry, but she endured it.
However, the Empress Dowager relied on her pregnancy and favor to always make the late Emperor dissatisfied with and even scold the Empress Yuan.
Perhaps out of sorrow for the dead, the Empress swapped the children of Concubine Wan and the Empress Dowager.
"Where are Concubine Wan and the child?"
Emperor Yongxi didn't want to believe it, but a voice in his heart told him that this was his life experience.
He also breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately it was the prince.
Ji Kang didn't even need to say anything. He let out a silent breath, and the heart that had been hanging in his heart finally settled down.
As long as the emperor is a prince, there is no problem.
If it weren't for the bloodline of the previous emperor, that would be a big problem.
All of them who knew about it are doomed.
Nanny Leng had a complicated expression. "Concubine Wan died in childbirth, and the child born to the Empress Dowager was sent to the Jiang family. At that time, Empress Yuan's eldest sister-in-law was about to give birth, and because Empress Yuan's eldest brother had no children, the Duke was very dissatisfied.
The child born by the empress dowager was secretly sent to the Jiang family. The eldest sister-in-law of the empress dowager drank the drug to induce labor and gave birth to a daughter. When they were put together, they became twins, a boy and a girl.
But when the child was five years old, he fell into the water and died. The Empress Yuan's eldest brother accused the Empress Dowager's younger brother of murdering his nephew, but the Empress Dowager's younger brother denied it. Does Your Majesty remember this?"
Emperor Yongxi was shocked. He was only five years old at the time and naturally didn't remember it.
But as the grandson of the Jiang family, how could he not know?
Because of the loss of their son, the two brothers of the Jiang family had a huge falling out and were fighting each other. It was the late emperor who mediated the dispute.
This is how the Jiang family had two dukes in its family.
The eldest brother of Empress Yuan inherited the Duke's Mansion, and the younger brother of the Empress Dowager was also granted the title of Duke.
Emperor Yongxi didn't know how to react for a moment.
"Where is Concubine Wan's body?"
"Concubine Wan's surname is Rong. She was once the daughter of a second-rank river governor. She met with disaster due to the flood in Luzhou, and the Rong family fell into decline afterwards."
Emperor Yongxi was stunned. He had read the archival records.
Unexpectedly, the river governor Rong Kai was actually his grandfather.
After Emperor Yongxi ordered the secret guards to secretly send Nanny Leng back to the cold palace, he ordered someone to investigate the Rong family's affairs.
There are also Nanny Leng’s relatives in the Jiang family.
And the incident of the Queen Mother drugging someone.
Half a month later, everything was presented before Emperor Yongxi.
The Rong family lived in Luzhou. After the governor of the river died, the Rong family returned to their hometown to mourn.
Then Concubine Rong in the palace was banished to the cold palace and died.
Rong Jieyu's brother was a Jinshi and had once been a fifth-rank Tongzhi, but he was in poor health and was disheartened, so he stayed in his hometown to open a school and never went to Beijing again.
By now, the Rong family had dwindled to a small number, and Concubine Rong's brother had also passed away.
The head of the household was Rong Jieyu's nephew. Because he had offended local officials, he was constantly suppressed and failed the academy examinations many times, not even passing the examination to become a scholar.
Emperor Yongxi immediately sent people to investigate the local government.
At the same time, he took Ji Kang towards the Cining Palace.
The Queen Mother was very happy to see the Emperor coming, but when Emperor Yongxi said, "Please give your son an explanation."
The Queen Mother's face darkened. "Explain? What explanation? I just don't want Bei to be the Queen. What's wrong with that?"
Emperor Yongxi did not expect that the empress dowager would still be so tough at this time.
"When Queen Mother drugged Bei and Lin Puyu, did she ever think about her son?"
Although he had no affection for Bei at first, he just thought that she was suitable to be the queen and abided by his father's last wishes.
He even spread the word and did not hide the fact that he wanted to make Bei the queen.
What the Queen Mother did was undoubtedly like slapping him in the face and throwing dirty water on him.
But at that time, his mother was still acting in front of him and felt sad for him.
Thinking about it now, Emperor Yongxi's face looked unusually ugly.
"This matter has passed. Bei is now your queen and pregnant with an heir. What else do you want to do to me?"
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