"Okay, okay." Concubine Tong smiled. "But I can't see you. What about your mother? How is she now?"
"..." There was silence for a moment. There was confusion in Chang'an's eyes. She opened her mouth but no sound came out, as if she suddenly couldn't speak.
"Why aren't you talking?" Concubine Tong continued to ask, "Why are you all silent, Xuan'er?"
"Mother, my son is here." Bei Mingxuan looked at Chang'an, "Gu Chang'an, my mother is asking you a question?"
When Chang'an saw Concubine Tong's reaction, he guessed that she probably didn't know about her mother's death for so many years, and the Queen Mother must have deliberately concealed it.
"Yitong," the Queen Mother advised, "you need to rest now. When you feel better, you can see anyone you want. I will then let her into the palace."
Concubine Tong sighed and agreed despite being reluctant, "Chang'an, tell your mother when you get back that Yi Tong missed her."
"Yes." Chang'an could only agree at this time. She didn't know why Concubine Tong didn't know about her mother's death, and she couldn't bear to see her sad about it.
Chang'an and Bei Mingxuan walked out of the palace together.
The two did not start talking until they got into the carriage and drove some distance away from the palace gate.
It was Chang'an who spoke first. There was a faint smile on her lips, and there was a hint of insight hidden in her cold eyes.
"You are in such a hurry to enter the palace. Did my father ask you to do that?"
Bei Mingxuan, who was originally resting with his eyes closed, was stunned. He didn't know how Chang'an knew the truth.
Was it because he had insight into the whole matter, or did he simply think that his father would be worried if she entered the palace?
Although he had some guesses in his mind, he also had the intention of testing her. "The Queen Mother urgently summoned you. Didn't you just see it? My mother was framed and almost lost her life."
"Really?" Chang'an said coldly, "Bei Mingxuan, I've been summoned to the palace by the Emperor, so it's natural for my father to be worried. As for your affairs, I'm not interested.
Also, you and I will inevitably meet frequently in the future, after all, we are to cooperate. If Changan asks you something and you don't want to answer, you can choose not to say anything.
But! Don’t lie to me, otherwise… one wrong decision will lead to both you and me losing everything and being shattered to pieces.”
After speaking, Chang'an turned and looked outside the carriage.
Bei Mingxuan curled the corners of his lips, a trace of embarrassment that he himself was unaware of flashed across his face, and he glanced at Chang'an.
To his surprise, Chang'an's expression was very calm, without any displeasure on his face.
Bei Mingxuan raised his eyebrows, thinking about what Chang'an had just said, that Gu Qingfeng was anxious and worried, but when he thought about it carefully, he was worried too, otherwise he would not bother to go to the palace.
But at this moment I feel like I'm being ignored, and this feeling is very unpleasant.
The more he thought about it, the more dissatisfied he became. Bei Mingxuan reached out and pinched Chang'an's small chin, saying in a teasing tone, "Why didn't you rush into the palace because I was worried?"
Chang'an was forced to look at Bei Mingxuan and make eye contact. Especially after seeing the seriousness in his eyes, Chang'an made a gesture to escape.
"Look at me!" Bei Mingxuan commanded in a low voice, "Answer."
After a moment of silence, Chang'an raised her red lips, a smile slowly blooming on her lips, but it did not reach her eyes. "Bei Mingxuan asked myself, our friendship is not that deep, so I dare not have any expectations. This is reasonable."
Bei Mingxuan nodded, smiled, loosened his grip, and let go of Chang'an.
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and leaned against the car wall.
After a long time, when Chang'an thought he would not speak again, Bei Mingxuan suddenly spoke.
“When I was six years old, my mother was confined to Anxi Palace.
After being under house arrest, she didn't know where she got the news from, but she learned that General Qingfeng had returned in defeat, and then she began to worry about your parents.
In the same year, Princess Qiuya gave birth to you and died of complications during childbirth.
At that time, the imperial physician said that my mother was in poor mental condition and could not be stimulated, so he found a reason why Princess Qiuya could not visit and told it to my mother.
But I couldn't do this all the time, so I started imitating your mother's handwriting. Later, I began writing letters to my mother in your mother's handwriting."
"You don't know my mother, so how could you write in that voice?" Chang'an wondered. "Aunt Wanxin said that my mother and your mother practically grew up together, and they were close friends. They knew each other so well that the truth would be revealed if they weren't careful."
"It's not that I'm completely unaware. I often saw your mother when I was a child." As he said that, Bei Mingxuan suddenly opened his eyes and quickly moved in front of Chang'an, with the tips of their noses almost touching.
"Guess how I managed to prevent Mother from getting suspicious."
Changan wanted to hide, but there was nowhere to hide. This distance, coupled with Bei Mingxuan's deliberately lowered voice, actually created an atmosphere that made people blush. "No, I don't know."
He looked directly into Chang'an's eyes, slowly moved away, took out the pot of wine from his waist and drank it in one gulp, then changed his sitting position to lying on his side and continued, "Every time I only write a few words, sometimes it's [Be well, don't worry, protect yourself], sometimes it's [Live well], and there are many such words.
So until now, my mother has always believed that Princess Qiuya is still alive."
"Your mother must have been blind for a long time. Otherwise, she wouldn't have reacted so naturally after we returned to the Queen Mother's residence." Chang'an confirmed, "It was the Queen who did it."
"Yes, the medicine was prepared by the Queen herself. It's a chronic poison. The long-term accumulation of poison caused blindness.
My mother lost her sight three days ago. However, neither the Queen Mother nor my mother told me. So, I will pretend to know nothing.
"He was blind but didn't report it to the Emperor, which means that the Queen Mother and your mother were looking for an opportunity to trick the Queen. So, was today's poisoning incident a setup?" Chang'an said, and suddenly stopped talking. At this moment, she seemed to have thought of something and turned to look at Bei Mingxuan.
Bei Mingxuan looked at Chang'an and said, "The poisoning was planned long ago. It's just that you were suddenly summoned by the Emperor because of the imperial edict... Mr. Qingfeng was worried, so the poisoning was brought forward, which led to the unexpected encounter in the Imperial Study."
When Chang An realized that the poisoning was a setup, he guessed that Bei Mingxuan and the Queen Mother were worried about him and that was why they had found an excuse to break into the Imperial Study. "So, Imperial Physician Liu was cooperating, and the poison in the tableware was his doing."
"No. Imperial Physician Liu is my father's man, and the condition he diagnosed is true.
Only then will Father believe that my mother was truly poisoned. Su Xi personally applied the 'Lin Lie' drug and fed it to my mother herself."
“Since your mother’s blindness was caused by the Queen.
Then when she saw your mother waking up and being blind, she must have guessed that she was being set up by your mother and the Queen Mother.
But she could say nothing and could only accept this harsh poison."
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