"In the early years, because his mother was not favored, the prince was not favored either. However, many years passed, and until the emperor was over 45, he still had only one prince, the prince. That year, the prince was seven years old and finally caught the emperor's eye."
"A mother's status is elevated by her son's. Qin Zhaoxun's position rose rapidly because of this. Before the kidnapping, they had indeed lived a good life for two years."
"So, what exactly happened during that kidnapping?" Lin Chunhuan couldn't help but ask.
She slowly estimated the time. Even if the Crown Prince and the Marquis had more to say, it would probably be over by then. She didn't have much time left.
Now Lin Yimiao is no longer anxious. "Don't worry. If you don't start from the beginning, you won't be able to explain it clearly."
Having said this, Lin Chunhuan could only listen patiently.
"In the harem, a concubine without any background but with an heir to the throne is easily envied. The first to become jealous is Concubine Li. She has been in the palace for many years and has always been favored. Even the Empress has to give her some respect. Such a person will certainly not allow anyone to ride on her head."
"What's more, that person was once her humblest foot-washing maid, which led to the kidnapping."
Finally, when the topic of kidnapping came up, Lin Yimiao drank two cups of cold tea before slowly calming his trembling voice. "The prince cannot be killed. After all, he is the emperor's only son. But there are so many ways to destroy a person without killing him."
"Has Fourth Sister ever been to the women's prison?"
Lin Chunhuan was silent for only a moment before he understood. His expression turned grim. "Noble Concubine Li sent the Crown Prince to the Women's Prison?"
"No, she just used the little power she had from her mother's family to release five or six people. Each of them had been in the Heavenly Prison for more than ten years."
"After they came out, the first man they met... let's just call him a man, was the Crown Prince. I don't need to tell you what happened next, right?"
A female prisoner who had been in prison for more than ten years, the first man she saw after she was released from prison, just thinking about it, Lin Chunhuan felt a chill and shuddered suddenly.
Those desires that had been suppressed for many years, those darkness that had been suppressed deep in the heart for many years, suddenly erupted when facing a nine-year-old child.
Lin Chunhuan took a deep breath, suppressing the turmoil in his heart. "What about Concubine Li? Isn't she afraid of the emperor's investigation for doing this?"
"What are you investigating? The Crown Prince is still alive, isn't he?" Lin Yimiao sneered. "Besides, the Crown Prince wasn't even a Crown Prince at that time, and His Majesty wasn't sure he'd be unable to have children in the future. Plus, Concubine Li's father and brother were both powerful generals in the court."
"If we really want to blame someone, we can only blame the Crown Prince's bad luck for not being born from the womb of a mother as prestigious as Concubine Li."
There was really no need for Lin Yimiao to explain what happened later. As long as the matter was not dealt with seriously at the time, even if the emperor gradually realized that he could no longer have a son, he would not bring up the past again.
"That's still not right. If that's all, the prince would at most be resistant to women, disgusted, or even disgusted... but definitely not afraid of them. So, what else are you hiding from me?"
Hearing this, Lin Yimiao raised his head and looked deeply at Lin Chunhuan in front of him, his eyes were particularly deep, "I really underestimated you before."
"If you hadn't died so early in my previous life, maybe you could have really pulled me out of that quagmire..."
Lin Chunhuan had no intention of responding to Lin Yimiao's words. He just lowered his head and looked at the teacup in front of him.
Unfortunately, there are not so many ifs in the world.
Lin Yimiao also thought of this and laughed at himself, "Well, you are indeed very perceptive, and there is indeed more to the matter than that."
"In fact, the person who was kidnapped that day was not only the prince, but also Qin Zhaoxun."
In just a moment, Lin Chunhuan felt as if a ball of wet cotton was blocking her throat, making her throat sore. In the mission background, there was not much description about Qin Zhaoxun.
It only said that she was born in a humble family and committed suicide out of depression when the prince was kidnapped. Originally, Lin Chunhuan just thought that as a mother, she could not bear to see her own son suffer so much, so she committed suicide with the intention of dying.
But she never thought that Qin Zhaoxun, the mother, actually participated in the whole kidnapping!
"Are you thinking that Qin Zhaoxun committed suicide because he saw his son suffer?" Before Lin Chunhuan could finish her words, Lin Yimiao sneered, "Fourth sister underestimated Qin Zhaoxun."
"To have climbed from a foot-washing maid to the position of imperial concubine, and even to have safely given birth to a prince, Qin Zhaoxun's intelligence and methods, although not to say how brilliant, at least she is definitely not someone who will be easily defeated."
Lin Yimiao paused for a moment.
He took a deep breath and said, "Those lunatics, after finding out they were mother and son, forced them to..."
Even though he had prepared himself mentally before saying it, when he actually wanted to say it, Lin Yimiao found that he couldn't open his mouth.
"In short, neither Qin Zhaoxun nor the Crown Prince could accept this incident. Although the Emperor quickly found them, Qin Zhaoxun, unable to endure the torment in his heart, hanged himself in front of the Crown Prince. This is the root cause of the Crown Prince's fear of women."
"Cuckoo, cuckoo..."
After Lin Yimiao finished speaking, the last drop of cold tea in the teapot was poured out. Lin Chunhuan did not speak until the cuckoo's call was heard outside the door, and then he came to his senses.
"Your people are here." Lin Yimiao lowered his eyes and reminded lightly.
Lin Chunhuan said nothing more, stood up and walked towards the door. But before opening the door, she asked, "Big sister, do you think their mother and son have a good relationship?"
"What's the meaning?"
"Prince, will he miss Qin Zhaoxun? Will he pity her? Will he feel sorry for her? Will he understand every step that his humble mother has carefully planned for him?"
Lin Yimiao didn't understand for a moment, but still gave his own answer, "Of course, the Crown Prince has a special feeling for Qin Zhaoxun. He endured his disgust and wanted to marry into the Marquis' Mansion. Isn't it because he wanted to use the power of the Marquis' Mansion to bring Qin Zhaoxun's tablet to the imperial mausoleum?"
It is a serious crime for a palace concubine to commit suicide, but if she were in Qin Zhaoxun's original position, if she did not die, it would be a permanent stain on her son, so she must die!
But it is impossible to be buried in the imperial mausoleum.
Because of this matter, the Crown Prince and the Emperor had countless disputes during the 21 years that Lin Yimiao lived in the Eastern Palace. Shortly after her marriage to the Crown Prince, the Crown Prince was punished to guard the imperial mausoleum for three months because of this matter.
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