On the way back to Beijing, Molan's attitude towards the people around her was completely different from when she came to Sichuan and Yunnan.
When she left the capital for Sichuan and Yunnan, Molan had just become a princess. Even though she wasn't favored in the palace, her status as a royal princess made her arrogant and dismissive towards Gu Yankai, let alone the palace maids who served her.
This time, Guo'er and Li'er desperately tried to stop the prince from rushing in to capture Molan. Li'er was stabbed, and the wound to her stomach was so severe that she feared she would be unable to have children. Guo'er was thrown and hit the wall, knocking her unconscious.
It was the older palace maid who had pushed Li'er, causing her to rush directly into the soldier's knife. After Molan was found, she executed the older palace maid that night.
The imperial physician was invited to treat Li'er's injuries, and before leaving for Beijing, Li'er finally recovered. The bump on Guo'er's head also gradually subsided.
On the carriage back to Beijing, Guo'er served Molan rice and honey water. Molan thought of Guo'er and Li'er from the Sheng family in Youyang. Many years had passed, but she still remembered the taste of that bowl of honey water.
Closing her eyes and thinking back on the several times she had experienced life and death, Molan seemed to understand at this moment that there was affection and love between people, not just calculation and exploitation.
The princes following at the back of the carriage would sometimes stare intently at the princess sitting in the carriage in front. The prince glanced at the princes and said, "Father, that woman has hurt us so much, why are you still watching her?"
After a while, the prince turned his head and said to the prince, "That's your mother."
The prince sneered and said, "Father, don't think I don't know. My mother is not her at all, but a woman from another race."
The prince sighed deeply and said, "Back then, I deceived that woman and never brought her child home. I took the child she gave birth to away with her. You are not the son of a foreign woman."
The prince obviously didn't believe it. He turned his head away, sneered, and stopped talking.
He walked with heavy steps, still in shackles. The prince glanced at the carriage again and saw that the curtain had been lifted slightly. He immediately shouted hoarsely, "Princess, believe me, I really didn't swap our child."
The prince had underestimated women. He thought he had them completely fooled, but they were actually well prepared. He took the child into the palace, showed him around, and then took him back, but the woman wouldn't recognize her own child. Furthermore, the child had a foreign totem on him that couldn't be removed.
Everything started when the prince provoked a foreign woman. If he hadn't had that ambition and hadn't cheated others out of their iron ore, the subsequent events wouldn't have happened. He wouldn't have hurt the two women's hearts and turned his own son into a medicine man.
The prince later killed the foreign woman, fearing that others would know about his despicable deeds. But people leave their shadows and swallows leave their traces. There is nothing in this world that you can do without others discovering.
Gazing back through the carriage curtain for a moment, the princess recalled the pain of discovering the truth. Her son had been tortured by various poisons since childhood, until the prince killed the foreign woman when he was twelve. Once the foreign woman died, without the timed antidote, her son died with her.
When she found her son, there was only a pile of blackened bones scattered on the ground. How could a mother bear to see her own son encounter such a horrible thing? How could she not feel hatred for him?
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