Chapter 311 He Wants to Hide Them in a Sealed and Gorgeous Palace
The woman's voice was choked, but gentle as water.
Wen Xingluo's eyes were red, and he couldn't help but hug her, "Mom!"
Wei Ying bit her lip and turned her face away.
Sensing that she was in a bad mood, Wen Xingluo took her hand and said, "If I give birth to a child in the future, I will let her recognize my cousin as her godmother, okay?"
Wei Ying was stunned.
She looked at the girl's warm and sweet eyes, and the sadness in her pupils gradually disappeared. She said proudly, "I don't want to be a godmother! Wei Ning, according to our relationship, I should be the child's aunt!"
Wei Si laughed, "It should be my aunt."
Wei Ying firmly grasped Wen Xingluo's hand, "I will definitely be the best aunt in the world! I will give all the treasures in Xie Zan's collection to the child!"
Wen Xingluo curved his brows and hugged Wei Ying.
Looking over Wei Ying's shoulder, she saw Xie Zan standing not far away.
The young man pulled the golden Buddha amulet around his neck, not knowing what he was thinking, and just looked at his cousin's back tenderly.
After coming out of the main hall, Wen Xingluo came to the bedroom where Xie Xuchi lived.
The eunuchs were packing up.
Now that Xie Xuchi's injuries have mostly healed, Xie Zhe ordered him to move back to the East Palace.
The girl approached the young man standing under the eaves of the palace, "Your Highness the Crown Prince."
Xie Xuchi came back to his senses and looked at her gently, "Why is Ningning here?"
Wen Xingluo glanced at his white clothes, was silent for a moment, and suddenly said: "Or, should I call you, brother?"
Although it is early summer, the wind blowing through the palace brings a hint of coolness. The bronze bells hanging under the yellow glazed tiles tinkle, further highlighting the wabi-sabi silence of this place.
The gorgeous peonies in front of the hall have quietly withered, and a few white jasmines are hidden among the crisp green leaves, emitting a subtle sweet fragrance that penetrates into people's hearts, spleen, liver and gallbladder.
Xie Xuchi still had a smile on his face. "Madam Wei married my father, so it's reasonable for you to call me brother."
Wen Xingluo said in a very soft voice, "You know, that's not what I meant."
Xie Xuchi was silent.
Wen Xingluo continued, "In fact, I have always been very curious about why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was so polite to my mother when he first met her at the Zhenbei Palace. He even deliberately avoided her when she saluted, unwilling to accept her greeting.
"At first, I thought it was because His Highness disliked Mother that he refused to even accept the gift. But when I arrived in the capital, I discovered that His Highness not only corresponded with Mother frequently, but he even risked everything to block Xie Zhe's whip for Mother..."
She leaned over, as if to calm herself down, and picked a jasmine flower to play with in her palm.
After a moment, she looked intently into Xie Xuchi's eyes, "Has anyone ever told Your Highness that your eyes are very similar to my mother's?"
Xie Xuchi lowered his brows and closed his eyes. "Madam Wei and I just hit it off from the first sight."
Wen Xingluo smiled. "When Xie Zhe first visited the Zhenbei Palace, he ordered Pei Lin to bring five cups of fragrant tea to my brother and me. Pei Lin said that the tea was spiked with a potion that would cause a childless couple, except for Wen Rufeng's cup. Now that I think about it, it's really strange. If Xie Zhe intended to eliminate the descendants of the Great Wei royal family, why did he leave Wen Rufeng alone? Was it because he particularly admired Wen Rufeng's talent and appearance, or was it because Wen Rufeng wasn't my mother's biological child at all?"
The wind is blowing.
The summer breeze blew Xie Xuchi's white clothes, and his wide sleeves brushed the back of Wen Xingluo's hand. The snow-white color was exactly the same as the pure white jasmine in the girl's palm.
Wen Xingluo drooped his eyelashes.
If Xie Xuchi and Wen Rufeng swapped identities, then everything would make sense.
Xie Xuchi was not a man who was not interested in women. He had three or four concubines in the Eastern Palace, but he had no children in either his past or present life. However, Miss Wang, whom Wen Rufeng married, and Xu Miaomiao were both able to conceive.
Looking at the other members of the Wen family, Wen Ruyun and Wen Rulei stayed in the capital for two years but still had no children. In her previous life, Wen Yueyin was married to a minor official in the Zhenbei Palace and also had no children.
Because except for Wen Rufeng, their entire family was secretly fed the drug that would cause them to die without any one knowing by the people sent by Xie Zhe.
In her previous life, she thought Xie Xuchi asked to marry her because he liked her.
Now that I think about it, Xie Xuchi's attitude was more like a kind of protection for her.
Xie Xuchi... He had known for a long time that he and Wen Rufeng had been swapped.
As for Xie Zhe, no one knows his son better than his father. He knew all of Xie Xuchi's plans. The reason why he still agreed to the marriage was purely the most malicious mockery and ridicule of their Wei royal family.
"Xie Zhe..." Wen Xingluo's mind flashed with the man who rose from humble beginnings but eventually ascended to the throne. "He actually knew that mother was in Rongcheng a long time ago, right? He might even have been to Rongcheng before."
Xie Xuchi slowly reached out and picked up the jasmine flower in the girl's palm.
He said, "According to the information I've found, he already knew Madam Wei's whereabouts when he united with the princes to seize the throne. At that time, the capital was besieged on all sides, and failure was only a matter of time. I don't know what his feelings were for Madam Wei at the time. I only know that during that time, he left the army and, with a dozen or so confidants, concealed his identity and headed southwest."
"Perhaps he had considered bringing Madam Wei back to the capital, but for some reason, he ultimately didn't. He spent a month on the ship with Madam Wei. Madam Wei had been drugged and was unconscious, curled up in the dark cabin all day, completely unaware of who was sleeping beside her.
"When she regained consciousness, she fell into Wen Qingsong's hands—and Wen Qingsong didn't know that at that time, she was already pregnant."
Xie Xuchi pinned the jasmine flowers on Wen Xingluo's temples. His expression seemed to be both smiling and crying. "The child in her belly is me."
There was no need for him to say anything more, Wen Xingluo had already guessed what happened next.
She said quietly, "At that time, Concubine Zhang had already come to Xie Zhe's side and was also pregnant with his child. Xie Zhe hated those who were disloyal and betrayed their masters the most, but Concubine Zhang had betrayed her mother. Add to that his desire for revenge against the previous royal family...
"So, after you and Wen Rufeng were born, Xie Zhe had you swapped. He believed that taking a child away from its mother was the cruelest punishment for that mother."
Xie Xuchi lowered his eyes and looked at her.
The girl's face is as beautiful as a peach blossom, and the pure white jasmine on her temples adds a bit of innocence.
The little girl who should have been raised in the palm of her hand was the one who listened to these dirty and sordid past events.
He wanted to cover her ears.
He really wanted to cover Wei Si's ears.
He really wanted to hide them in a sealed and magnificent palace, and keep them as far away from the terrible devil Xie Zhe as possible.
But compared to Xie Zhe, he was so weak.
Xie Xuchi still had an expression that seemed to be both laughing and crying. His fingertips slid down the jasmine flowers and slowly stroked the girl's cheek, as if he was lovingly caressing a rare treasure that had been lost and then found again.
The little girl in front of him was his half-sister.
He said hoarsely, "I'm sorry for not being able to protect my sister and mother."
Wen Xingluo looked up at him, "When did you start to doubt your own background?"
"It started when I discovered I was infertile." Xie Xuchi smiled, his eyes gradually turning red. "I called him father for twenty years and obeyed his every word. To gain his love and approval, I even hurt Ah Yan. But, Ningning, it turns out that my father never loved me."
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