Chapter 169 Women in the Cold Palace

The old eunuch was stunned for a moment, and stared at the fifth prince with all her might: "Your Highness?"

The young eunuch holding the lantern shouted angrily: "What are you looking at? This is the fifth prince of the current emperor, and this is the little princess of the current emperor!"

The old eunuch immediately smiled and said: "I just guessed that these two must be the young masters, the original fifth prince and the little princess! I pay my respects to the two young masters."

He said and bowed.

"But the two young masters, this is the cold palace, and the people living in it are all guilty. It's really not a place for you to come."

Although the old eunuch's face was flattering, her attitude to stop the few people was still firm.

"Even if she is a criminal in the cold palace, you can't beat her like this!" The fifth prince said angrily.

The old eunuch smiled grimly: "Young master, you don't understand this. Those people in the cold palace are used to making trouble. Occasionally, they are whipped to curb their temper. The two nobles should hurry back!"

[Damn it!] Xia Miaoyuan couldn't help cursing in her heart when she heard this.

[You wicked and smoky old slicker! You think we are still little kids, so you don't take us seriously? Damn it, if I don't deal with you today, I'm not Princess Anguo!]

Xia Miaoyuan's face turned red with anger, her eyes were bulging, and she shouted in a baby voice: "Bad guy!"

The fifth prince was also full of anger, and after hearing his sister's voice, he was even more indignant.

He stared at the old eunuch and shouted angrily: "This matter today, Your Highness will take care of it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he pushed the old eunuch away angrily and strode into the house.

Seeing the reaction of the fifth prince, Li Ma, Yingxue and other followers followed suit and forced their way in.

Several people walked into the house. Although they knew that this was the cold palace and were mentally prepared, they were still shocked by the scene in front of them. There

was a moldy smell in the house, and everything was broken and dilapidated.

There was a small earthen kang in the corner of the room. Although there was a kang, the room was very cold, and it was obvious that there was no fire to heat the kang.

The walls in the house could no longer be seen in their original color, and they were all black and yellow. The window paper was tattered and patched to prevent the cold wind from entering through the holes.

Looking elsewhere, there was a wobbly wooden table and a broken chair with the red paint worn off.

On the table was a bowl of vegetable porridge that looked like pig food.

This scene was disgusting to the servants, such as Li Ma and Yingxue, let alone the pampered Xia Miaoyuan and the fifth prince. Looking

at the kang, a woman was shivering, wrapped in a dirty quilt.

The woman had a sour smell, her hair was messy, and her face was rough and yellow.

Although she looked so ugly, it was not difficult to see from her eyebrows that she must have been a beauty before she was banished to the cold palace.

The woman lowered her head timidly, but she seemed to be in a conflicted mood. She wanted to see the people who came into the room, so she squinted her eyes and looked at them.

"Who are you? I am the fifth prince. Don't worry, tell me if the old man has beaten or scolded you. I will seek justice for you!" The fifth prince said righteously.

After hearing the fifth prince's words, the shivering woman seemed to be touched. She slowly raised her head and asked softly, "Are you... the fifth prince?"

"Yes, I am the fifth prince!"

The woman's eyes suddenly lit up, and she suddenly threw away the quilt, climbed to the edge of the kang with her hands and feet, and stared at the face of the fifth prince.

The people in the room were all scared.

Several followers in particular were so frightened that they trembled all over. Many people who were locked up in the cold palace for many years became mentally ill later. Is this woman crazy too?

Is she trying to attack the fifth prince?

The eunuch holding the lantern hurriedly protected the fifth prince behind him.

The woman didn't care about anything else, and still stretched out her body and stared at the fifth prince's face.

When her eyes touched a red birthmark on the left side of the fifth prince's lower jaw, she actually screamed: "Ah! It's you!"

Then, the woman covered her face tightly with both hands, buried her head, and cried silently in a weird posture.

[Wow! Why is her reaction so big! ] Xia Miaoyuan was in Yingxue's arms, opening her mouth in surprise.

Suddenly, Xia Miaoyuan felt an idea flash.

[Could she be the fifth prince's biological mother?]

The fifth prince was also startled when he heard his sister's inner voice.

In fact, just now, when this woman stared at him stubbornly and shouted that nonsense, he also thought of this question.

His sister had said before that her biological mother was a concubine of low rank, and Concubine Jiang Gui snatched her away from her biological mother.

"You..." The fifth prince pulled away the little eunuch in front of him, stretched out his hands to help the woman up.

He looked directly at the woman with innocent eyes, and said gently: "Were you my father's concubine before?" The

woman's eyes were already red from crying. She wiped her tears, nodded slightly, and dodged her eyes, as if she didn't want to look the fifth prince in the eye.

"Tell me, tell me! Tell me, right?" The fifth prince asked frantically.

"I used to be Zhou Baolin." The woman answered in a low voice.

[Zhou Baolin!] Xia Miaoyuan was stunned.

[I remember, it's Zhou. The fifth prince's biological mother's surname is Zhou!]

The fifth prince held the woman's shoulders tightly and asked word by word: "Then did you give birth to a child nine years ago?"

The woman's eyes slowly met the fifth prince's expectant eyes, and suddenly burst into tears.

"Yes! Yes!" She cried loudly.

The fifth prince couldn't hold it in any longer, tears fell like beads from a broken string, he asked in a crying voice: "Is it you? Is it you?"

Xia Miaoyuan was stunned by the scene in front of him.

[Oh my God! Xiaowu, he actually knows the secret of his life experience? ]

[Ahhhhhh! I always thought he was stupid, but I didn't expect that he knew everything and was just pretending to be stupid! ]

[Oh my god, I suddenly feel that I have underestimated Xiaowu. Oh no, it’s the fifth brother.]

[I will never call you a little fool again, nor will I secretly call you Xiaowu in my heart.] Xia Miaoyuan thought of this and stuck out his tongue.

The followers in the room were already confused, and had no idea what the fifth prince was doing.

"Your Highness, do you know her?" The eunuch holding the lantern looked puzzled.

The fifth prince ignored him, but held the woman's face and said solemnly: "Don't be afraid, Jiang Qiqiu is dead. What happened back then can be vindicated."

The woman's eyes widened in shock, and then she laughed up to the sky as if she was venting years of grievances.

The fifth prince hugged the woman, and the woman also stretched out her arms and hugged him tightly.

The people in the room were all stunned.

"What's going on?" Li Ma looked at Yingxue.

Yingxue shook her head in confusion: "I don't know."