This earth-shattering statement stunned everyone on the spot.
"What? Brother and sister?!!"
Emperor Mingde thought he had a strong ability to withstand pressure, but he didn't expect that there would be such news waiting for him.
"Yes! They are half-siblings! I accidentally discovered the relationship between Marquis Xuanping and Huiji, and only then did I know... Marquis Xuanping was actually the crown prince of the previous dynasty! And Zhongli Xingyue was originally a princess of the previous dynasty! They were both supposed to have the surname Xiao!"
"And the jade pendant that the princess had back then was also made by secret agents of the previous dynasty in the same style as the princess's jade pendant. The craftsman who made the jade pendant back then was one of their people."
"Ever since I learned about this, I've been feeling uneasy. I'm worried Huiji will silence me one day, so I secretly wrote down the evidence and all the secrets I've known over the years and placed them under the ninth floor tile in my room. If anything happens to me, I'll have the eunuch in Yeonbok Palace give the things I've prepared to Her Majesty."
Ji Changying was a little shocked. What about Xie Siheng...?
Emperor Mingde was somewhat skeptical. "Marquis Xuanping is from the aristocratic Xie family! When I entered the imperial city, the Xie family was the first to show me goodwill. Otherwise, I wouldn't have spared their lives. Xie Yuanyang's parents were very close. He was difficult to give birth to, and Marquis Xuanping's father even went to the palace to seek medical advice. And now you're saying their child is the crown prince of the previous dynasty?"
Nanny Lai raised her head and looked at them firmly. "I overheard them talking like this. I was afraid Huiji would know I heard it, so I didn't dare to act rashly for so many years. So I don't know if they were accomplices or if they were unaware of it either."
Jiang Qianruo and Emperor Mingde fell silent together.
Back then, they had their eyes on a young talent, a very outstanding child, for Zhongli Xingyue.
As a result, Zhongli Xingyue found them herself and said that she wanted to marry Xuanping Hou Xie Yuanyang.
Emperor Mingde did not like this person. When Xie Yuanyang was a child, he was very smart and cute.
But as I grew up, I became ordinary and indistinguishable from everyone else.
But unable to resist Zhongli Xingyue's pleading, the two got married.
If this is the truth, does Zhongli Xingyue know about her own life experience?
If I knew, I would still do this...
Jiang Qianruo and Emperor Mingde both felt a chill in their hearts.
After raising a child for so many years, if she knew the truth but still enjoyed everything they had given for her with peace of mind, then it would really not be worth it for them.
"Drag him away!"
Emperor Mingde seemed to have aged ten years in an instant. He waved his hand and no longer looked at Nanny Lai lying on the ground.
"Empress! You promised me before, please spare my relatives!"
Nanny Lai struggled to crawl to Jiang Qianruo's feet, but Emperor Mingde turned around and kicked her fiercely: "Get out!"
The kick hit her right in the chest. Nanny Lai curled up on the ground in pain, unable to utter a word. She only looked at Jiang Qianruo with sad eyes.
Seeing her like this, Jiang Qianruo felt uncomfortable. She moved her lips and said, "Nine clans, exile them."
Nanny Lai struggled to stand up and knelt on the ground: "Mother... Mother! Take care!"
When she was dragged away again, Nanny Lai did not struggle and looked like she had accepted her fate.
Emperor Mingde was furious: "Even if I kill them, I still won't be satisfied! Exile? Impossible!"
Jiang Qianruo softened her tone and reached out to hold Mingde's hand: "Think of it as I'm begging you."
This long-lost familiar feeling made Emperor Mingde's face tense. He stood there stiffly, not daring to move, for fear that he was dreaming.
"Although Huichun committed an unforgivable capital crime, she was right about one thing."
"If it weren't for her, I would have lost both my son and daughter. You don't know how shocked and embarrassed I was when I heard the news, but at the same time, I was genuinely happy."
"Our children, they are still alive!"
Jiang Qianruo choked up and sobbed.
At this moment, Ji Changying wished she could curl herself up into a ball so that she could leave here smoothly.
When Emperor Mingde saw Jiang Qianruo like this, he was moved and was about to hug her and talk to her about his true feelings. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a quail standing there with its neck tucked in.
He immediately looked over with an extremely strong, oppressive and unhappy look.
The moment Ji Changying felt this gaze, she suddenly understood.
She left Yeonbok Palace quickly and quietly.
Emperor Mingde looked at her like this and snorted in his heart. Then he hugged Jiang Qianruo: "I know, I feel the same as you."
Jiang Qianruo was held in his arms, and there was no ripple in her heart.
But thinking of Nanny Lai, she closed her eyes and grabbed the edge of Emperor Mingde's clothes: "So, don't kill them. Just consider it as a good deed for the children. Exile is not necessarily better than killing them directly."
Emperor Mingde was in a complicated mood. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether killing him directly would be more satisfying or more torturous.
However, seeing that Jiang Qianruo was rarely willing to treat him well, Emperor Mingde softened his tone and said, "Okay."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Qianruo immediately stood up straight and sat on the chair.
There was no trace of the tenderness she had just shown on her face. She looked at Emperor Mingde in a businesslike manner: "What are you going to do about the child?"
Seeing that she had returned to her old self, Emperor Mingde looked confused.
that's all?
He felt a sense of shame, as if he had been fooled, but it also seemed like he was just being too sentimental.
He sat on the other side with a sullen face: "I haven't thought about it yet."
After hearing the news, Emperor Mingde was filled with anger. He had not yet figured out the matter of Prince Ping.
The child whom he hated for so many years, ignored for so many years, and thrown aside for so many years turned out to be his and the queen's biological child.
How could he accept this for a while?
Accepting this child would be like slapping yourself in the face.
Don't accept?
How is that possible!
This is his and the queen's child!
This situation is really... How embarrassing is it?
Jiang Qianruo felt the same way as him.
Although she didn't do anything to King Ping for so many years, she also watched coldly from the sidelines for so many years.
Now suddenly tell her that this child is her biological child.
How can she face this?
Thinking of the strange and restrained atmosphere between them when they met Prince Ping in Liangzhou before, Jiang Qianruo felt as if his heart was being cut by the knife again and again.
A trace of confusion flashed in her eyes. After breaking up with Zhong Li Che, she always felt that she had wasted half her life in this imperial city for the sake of her children, but in the end, neither of the two children was hers.
So what is the meaning of her persistence over the years?
——
Ji Changying left the palace quickly. The carriage and smoke were waiting for her outside.
"Has my second brother returned home?"
This was the first question Ji Changying asked when he saw Yanyun.
"The Second Young Master originally wanted to wait for the princess to go back together, but the Second Master was anxious to go home, so he had to go back with her. He said he was waiting for you at home."
"Okay! Go home!"
After hearing that Ji Mingxue had returned home, Ji Changying stopped talking nonsense and immediately ordered the carriage to set off.
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