"Gu Qingyao is not my child."
She didn't sleep all night, thinking about many things.
“Brother, they conspired to deceive me.”
They really tricked her terribly, leaving her body exposed in the wilderness after her death, unable to die a peaceful death.
"Your Majesty, we don't know the truth of what happened back then, Crown Prince..." Jiang He suddenly felt a little reluctant. Was Gu Qingling A Yu's child? Most likely not.
If Gu Qingling is Ayu's child, how could the Emperor and Consort Rong tolerate Gu Qingling becoming the Crown Prince instead of Gu Qingfeng?
Things that seem shrouded in mystery, when considered from a broader perspective, will only have one possible outcome.
“The Crown Prince and the Second Prince should be my children, right?” Jiang Yu forced a smile. “Brother, I was indeed pregnant back then, and I truly endured the pain of childbirth.”
Seeing Jiang Yu's eagerness for approval, Jiang He suppressed the bitterness in his heart and said, "I also think that the Crown Prince and the Second Prince should be Her Majesty's children."
But after getting the reply she wanted, Jiang Yu became even more silent.
Jiang Yu's face was pale, and her eyes were somewhat vacant. "Brother, I want to find out whether Gu Qingling and Gu Qingfeng are my children."
Ultimately, Jiang Yu also had doubts, but she found it hard to accept.
She tried hard to recall the events of her childbirth, but she had no recollection of it. She nearly suffered a postpartum hemorrhage during childbirth, and when she woke up, Gu Qingling and the other two were taken to Lingxi Palace. Now that she thought about it, it all seemed too strange.
What a joke! If they weren't even blood relatives, how could there be any deep bond between them?
“Gu Qingling must already know Gu Qingyao’s identity,” Jiang Yu said again. “No one knows Gu Qingling better than me. After he realized it, he went to Gu Heng to expose the matter and watched helplessly as Gu Qingyao was imprisoned.”
Gu Qingling has always been a selfish, cold-blooded person.
"If what Your Highness says is true, His Highness the Crown Prince will certainly be on guard now, so what should we do..."
"No, Gu Heng will only tell Gu Qingling that he is my child."
A look of pain flashed in Jiang Yu's eyes. In her past life, she knew Gu Qingling's temperament, but she still protected him unconditionally. Her love was pure and sincere, but in the end, Gu Qingling ordered her to be executed.
Jiang He suddenly stopped in his tracks before leaving, "Ayu, what if none of those three were your children back then..."
Jiang Yu's nose was red, and she sniffed. "Then I must find that child from back then no matter what."
Whether the child lives or dies.
Jiang Yu dismissed everyone and sat alone in the room, stunned. Gu Qingyao's matter had hit her too hard, so hard that she couldn't recover for a while.
A moment later, sobbing began. Jiang Yu removed all her hairpins and buried her head in her knees. If these weren't her children, then perhaps her children were already dead.
He died in this grand scheme.
......
Jiang Yu didn't come out of the house until dinner time, and apart from her red eyes, she looked perfectly normal.
"Ayan, tell your mother what Master Meng taught you today."
Gu Qingyan also cooperated by recounting to Jiang Yu every word of what had happened in the Imperial Study that day. "Mother, you don't seem to be in good spirits today. Is something on your mind?"
"Your mother misses your maternal grandparents a bit." Jiang Yu picked up her chopsticks and put some food on Gu Qingyan's plate. "Eat more, Ayan. You've lost a lot of weight from practicing martial arts."
Jiang Yu ate her dinner with great relish, seemingly unaffected by the meal.
But after dinner, Granny Ling rushed back and said, "Your Highness, Granny Zhao from Lingxi Palace has jumped into the well and is gone."
Clatter—Jiang Yu's chopsticks fell to the ground.
"Consort Rong looked very sad, saying that she had threatened miscarriage and had summoned several imperial physicians to Lingxi Palace."
A few breaths later, Jiang Yu finally found her voice, "Did they say what the reason was?"
"They said it was because his good-for-nothing son had accumulated too much gambling debt and couldn't bear the burden, so he jumped into the well. I inquired and found out that he did it voluntarily."
Jiang Yu gripped the handkerchief so tightly it became deformed, and some things began to slowly surface.
Could Gu Qingyao alone have driven Zhao Mama to such lengths? Perhaps she feared Gu Qingyao would continue to blackmail her into revealing more information, so she took her own life.
"Find a way to send one of our people into Lingxi Palace. Also, make sure to deal with Zhao Mama's son properly."
Jiang Yu was unusually calm, but only she knew that at this moment, she saw these people as executioners.
Inside the Lingxi Palace.
Consort Rong's eyes were swollen like walnuts from crying, but she still felt a sense of relief.
The only person who stayed by her side and knew everything about her was Granny Zhao. Even the daily meals delivered to Gu Qingyao were done by Granny Zhao herself.
For this reason, Consort Rong never took care of Zhao Mama's son, because she wanted Zhao Mama to have a weakness that she could exploit.
Now that Granny Zhao is dead, apart from a few stakeholders, no one will know what happened back then.
"The Emperor has arrived!"
Gu Heng rushed over and was relieved to see that Consort Rong was alright. "Cen Hai, send someone to check if Zhao's son has been acting strangely lately."
Half an hour later, Cen Hai returned again. "Your Majesty, Zhao's son has been hiding from his creditors recently. The creditors are looking for him with knives every day. I'm afraid he wouldn't dare to come out even if he had ten lives."
Gu Heng nodded almost imperceptibly upon hearing this, "Cen Hai, you will be in charge of looking after the princess from now on."
Neither of them cared whether Gu Qingyao was comfortable in the dungeon; they were only concerned about keeping their past schemes secret.
The Marquis of Dingyuan's residence.
Jiang He sat in his study, the military newspaper on his desk never opened.
"Ayan, should I tell you that Empress Gu Qingfeng is not her biological child?"
Jiang He hesitated, wondering if this was the right time.
More importantly, if they were to use the idea that the blood of the Jiang family could heal wounds to test Gu Qingling, and once Gu Qingling and Gu Qingfeng figured it out, the entire Jiang family would be doomed.
He had to consider everything, including Ayu's capacity to handle it, and choose a suitable time to tell Ayu.
"I don't know how my uncle determined that Gu Qingfeng was not the Empress's biological child, but I think that this matter can only be discovered by the Empress herself, just like the matter with Gu Qingyao this time."
Gu Qingyan understood that his mother wasn't unable to accept it, but she just needed time. However, she had to personally investigate the truth.
Gu Qingyan seemed to have thought of something, and his mouth moved slightly, "Actually, the Empress Dowager has already prepared herself for the worst. From beginning to end, what she cares about most, and what she can't accept the most, is the child she gave birth to back then."
Jiang He twitched the corner of his mouth. The child from back then... Besides personally questioning the Emperor and Consort Rong, how else could they find that child from back then?
"Let's give Mother some time first."
Gu Qingyan lowered his head, truly envying the children his mother had given birth to...
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