"After the Empress killed two people at the palace gate, the Emperor also died the next day. The Crown Prince was only concerned with revenge and was unwilling to succeed to the throne."
However, he registered the heir of the Prince of Yan under the Empress's name, so that he could inherit the throne, and you became a minister assisting the state.
All important matters of state are decided by you; even the new emperor and empress listen to you.
At the time, she was just a woman confined to her home, and all she knew about the affairs of the court were rumors circulating outside.
But if the news spread throughout the land, it must be true, which is why she chose to seek refuge with Prime Minister Li.
“Prime Minister, my daughter’s extraordinary encounter is a blessing from Heaven, and Heaven has sent her to help you. Our children will surely have great fortune in the future.”
She always felt that having memories of her past life was a blessing, and that these memories could help Prime Minister Li.
Li Heng sized her up.
The matter of rebirth is mysterious and profound; he had lived his entire life and only heard of it today.
His confirmation was that Xie Jinyao was very fortunate; not everyone could escape from the slave quarters and even gain memories of their past lives.
Perhaps it was because even God approved of what he wanted to do that Xie Jinyao came to his side.
However, his ultimate goal was to sit in that position, not to serve as the regent.
"Are you sure Ye Zhen doesn't know these things?"
Ye Zhen has been ahead of him in several recent events, and he suspects that Ye Zhen also knows about the developments in his previous life.
Xie Jinyao was very certain, "She was always under the control of drugs, and the only people she could contact were the two old women who guarded her. She never left that Taoist temple until she died."
If she knew about her past life, she would have reclaimed her identity long ago.
Instead of using such a roundabout method to seek revenge against the Ye family.
That makes sense.
But there is another possibility: Ye Zhen knows that Xie Jinyao is still alive, and he deduced the course of events in the previous life based on Xie Jinyao's actions.
Therefore, Li Heng asked Xie Jinyao about her escape from the slave quarters and learned that she had stayed with a farmer's family.
He then summoned a man in black and said, "Check on the condition of that mother and child, and let Ye Zhen and the Crown Prince know that they are in danger."
The Crown Prince and Ye Zhen are both hypocrites who are most unwilling to implicate the innocent. The fact that they sent people to rescue Xie Jinyao means that they had already set their sights on her.
Xie Jinyao understood his intention and also thought of something extremely important, which made her feel a chill run down her spine.
She remembers that when she first regained her memories, they felt unreal and she was afraid of forgetting them, so she wrote them down.
If Ye Zhen and his group had been monitoring me from the beginning, wouldn't all the things I wrote have fallen into their hands?
What advantages do I have left?
Looking back now, she realized how foolish she had been, but she dared not tell Li Heng about her stupidity. She was thinking of finding an opportunity to dig out the paper and destroy it.
Li Heng didn't notice the change in her expression; he was lost in his own thoughts.
The masked man who harmed Ye Zhen in his previous life must have been a member of the royal family. The Crown Prince did not remove his mask and reveal his identity in order to protect the royal family's reputation.
Only members of the royal family could have the Empress personally visit the palace gates, but there were only a handful of people in the royal family.
The Prince of Ning is dead, so the Prince of Yun should be next in line. But the Prince of Yun is crippled, while the masked man has normal legs and feet.
Furthermore, given his temperament, if the emperor were to die and neither of his two sons had any chance of succeeding him, he should have seized the throne, but instead he allowed the crown prince to support the heir of the Prince of Yan to succeed to the throne.
Could it be that the Crown Prince's power far surpasses his own, and he was afraid of the Crown Prince, which is why he did not seize the throne in time?
The fact that the Crown Prince did not object to him being appointed as a regent minister shows that the Crown Prince was unaware of his intentions.
He also wondered why the Crown Prince would choose the heir of the Prince of Yan, given that there were many members of the imperial clan.
The Prince of Yan was the emperor's uncle, and his fiefdom was the barren northern lands. The Princess of Yan was not happy and only gave birth to the Prince of Yan's heir when she was middle-aged. This was the only son the couple had.
He used to keep a low profile and hadn't come to the capital for many years. It seems he still needs to send someone to the Prince of Yan's fiefdom to investigate and see if there's anything suspicious.
Thinking it over like this, Li Heng felt like his mind was a complete mess.
Instead of figuring out the previous confusion, they had even more doubts.
He had no choice but to return to his study and slowly sort things out.
But the person who went to Shuanzi's house brought back bad news.
When Xiao's men took Xie Jinyao away, they knocked out Shuanzi and his mother. However, Shuanzi's mother had previously suffered a head injury, and the beating caused her head problems.
All the family's money was used to treat Xie Jinyao's injuries. Shuanzi borrowed money from all around but still couldn't raise enough for his mother's medical expenses, so he had to go hunting in the mountains, where he was killed by wild animals.
When the villagers found the body, most of it had been gnawed by wild animals. Shuanzi's mother couldn't bear the shock and jumped into the river as well, but the current was too strong and the body was not retrieved.
Li Heng asked suspiciously, "Is he really dead?"
The guard nodded. "Shuanzi's appearance wasn't completely ruined. We can clearly see that it's him. All the men in the village helped go into the mountains to look for him, so it can't be wrong."
"What a coincidence?"
Li Heng murmured something, about to ask another question.
Another attendant reported, "Master, several officials from the Dark Chamber have gone there. They say Li Shiling has been exposing their private matters and they want an explanation from you."
Today, Xie Jinyao has given me a whole bunch of headaches, and now I have to clean up the mess from the day before.
Li Heng's temples throbbed uncontrollably. He could no longer think about the matter of Shuanzi and his mother. He ordered his guards to keep an eye on Xie Jinyao and then dismissed her.
Xie Jinyao was unaware that Li Heng had sent people to secretly watch her. She had also heard about the deaths of Shuanzi and his mother, and felt a great sense of relief.
Their deaths prove that Ye Zhen wasn't after her; otherwise, given Ye Zhen and Xie Tingzhou's character, they wouldn't have let the mother and son die.
Previously, in order to get the mother and son to treat her injuries, she promised to marry Shuanzi and even had physical contact with him.
If the Prime Minister knew, he would probably be displeased; once a person dies, those things will be forgotten.
Xie Jinyao stroked her belly, praying that there was a child inside her, and fell asleep peacefully.
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