Chapter 402: Risk it all

Emperor Mingde's expression was extremely complicated, and he waved his hands. There was a wave of fluctuation in the air, and a shadow guard appeared silently, holding a rotten and tattered basket in his hands.

Although most of the basket has decayed after so many years, the workmanship and materials are still top-notch, and you can still vaguely see a bit of what it looked like back then.

What made Jiang Qianruo unable to suppress his trembling was that among the many fine patterns on the basket, there was a horizontal gap that disrupted the overall beauty and was incompatible with other carvings.

That was because she didn't hold her hand steady for the first time and cut a long slice with one stroke, ruining the workmanship of the entire basket, so she had someone take it off and put it up again.

Because of this, Zhong Lizhe touched her already swollen belly and teased the child inside, "Look! Your mother destroyed your little basket. She must have deliberately not given it to Yue'er. Wait for you You must give her a hard time when you come out!"

Because the two of them quarreled a bit about this sentence, she remembered it very clearly.

She had long since forgotten these memories, but she didn't expect that the moment she saw the basket, she suddenly thought of them.

"It...why? Why is it here?!"

A small basket, neither she nor Zhong Lizhe cared about back then. They ignored it after it was taken away. They never expected that it would appear in front of them in this way many years later.

"It was buried together with that family." The moment Zhong Lizhe saw the basket, he also remembered the past.

He was basically certain in his heart that Zhou Yue was probably their child, but he didn't know what he had gone through in the past and how he ended up living outside.

Jiang Qianruo shook her hands, took out Zhou Yue's jade pendant from her arms and handed it to Emperor Mingde: "I asked people to go to Zhou Yue's house to take this out. Zhou Liu said that when she picked her up, this jade pendant was It’s on you.”

"When I was a baby, when the Zhou family picked up Yue'er, they didn't know the situation and were worried that their enemies would find her, so they burned it when they returned home, leaving only this jade pendant for Yue'er to carry."

"She is definitely my child!"

Emperor Mingde took the jade pendant in his hand and rubbed it carefully.

After all, this is his first child.

He personally selected the material for this jade pendant and designed the shape himself. Even the word 'yue' on it was made by the craftsmen. It could be said that he was very familiar with this jade pendant.

But now, there are two pieces of this jade pendant.

"Zhong Lizhe, I want to recognize my daughter." Jiang Qianruo calmed down his complicated and excited mood and looked at Emperor Mingde calmly.

It had been a long time since he heard Jiang Qianruo call him that, and Emperor Mingde's mind was suddenly pulled back.

He was a little confused and helpless: "I also want to recognize my daughter. I haven't even met her yet. I don't know what the child looked like back then. I don't know what her character and temper are like. I don't know if the husband-in-law she found is good to her." Okay, I also want to hear her call me 'Father'."

"But now is not the time."

Things have already taken shape, and the big fish is about to take the bait, so he can't act in a hurry.

"Are you saying it's for the sake of the overall situation again?" Jiang Qianruo sneered.

"I fought this world with you. I don't think you have forgotten how many injuries I suffered and how many times I fought for my life for you. For the sake of your overall situation, you violated our oath; for the sake of the overall situation, I have never been in your hands for so many years. I handed over all my rights; for the sake of the overall situation, I stayed in seclusion and did not participate in the harem fight."

"In the end, my son died, and my daughter was replaced by someone who is not my biological child. Now that I have finally found her, you still want me to do it for the greater good?"

"Do you think I have a good temper?"

Jiang Qianruo's anger rushed to his head, and he kicked the table that Emperor Mingde had just slapped to pieces. He looked at Emperor Mingde with solemn eyes.

As long as this old thing dares to say 'for the overall situation', she, Jiang Qianruo, will dare to overthrow the Heart Cultivation Palace.

When the waiter outside heard what was going on inside, his scalp became numb and his whole body tensed up.

Eunuch Liu, however, was very calm with his hands in front of him.

"Father, you said the emperor wouldn't be angry later, so take it out on us..."

"Why are you so anxious? It's a good thing if there's any movement! If the two of you still don't say a word like before, then I'll have to watch your skin carefully!"

The little eunuch behind him looked at Eunuch Liu with confusion, wondering what a good thing this was.

However, Eunuch Liu relaxed his eyes and looked into the distance.

How can there be no quarrels between husband and wife?

If it is still like before, and the empress sees the emperor as if he is no longer a human being, then something serious has happened!

As the emperor's confidant, he knew the emperor's thoughts very well.

Regardless of what is said outside, the Emperor and the Queen are completely different from the bottom of their hearts.

Emperor Mingde looked at Jiang Qianruo's angry look and took two steps back as a reflex.

Huang Lao looked at him mockingly: "Why did you go back after wandering around?"

"Back then, when you were wearing patches and torn shoes and couldn't afford a tael of silver, you dared to go up and fight with a knife just because someone made fun of my junior sister on the street."

"Now that you are the emperor, you are so timid that you can't even make the decision when your own wife and children are wronged. I think what you do as emperor is so boring!"

"Junior sister, I think it's better for you to take your children and come back to Yaowang Valley with me. Then you can do whatever you want. Even if you want to turn Yaowang Valley upside down, I'll follow you. If you don't want to stay in one place, Well, then let’s take the kids around, it’s better to be free and happy than staying within the walls of this square courtyard.”

Emperor Mingde's eyes almost popped out of his head: "You are still so old and still don't give up! You dare to incite my wife to follow you in front of me, I will punish you!"

"Come on! Who is afraid of who? When we get underground, I will not only talk to my master about the things you have done, but I will also talk to the eighteenth generation of your Zhongli Che ancestors about you, an ungrateful and unfilial descendant!"

Huang Lao pinched his waist and was not afraid of anything. He looked like he was risking his life.

"Shut up!" Jiang Qianruo pushed the two men away like fighting cocks.

"I'll ask you again! Do you admit it or not?!"

Jiang Qianruo moved his wrist and looked directly at Emperor Mingde.

"Look at this jade pendant, it has two pieces! Before Xingyue went there, she gave her piece to Xiaoheng, and now there is another piece here in Zhou Yue. Don't you want to know why there are two pieces that are the same? Jade pendant?"

"Also, this basket was in the palace back then. Why is it here now? Maybe there was more than one nanny around you who was involved! You are rushing to identify the child before the investigation is clear. If these people notice, will they? Will it be harmful to the child?”

"When my senior brother personally tested the blood, the two drops of blood were fused. How can we explain this?"

"Besides, we are in Beijing now, and we can't escape. What's the difference if we admit it one day earlier or later? Don't you want to arrest those people from the previous dynasty quickly so that your children can live a peaceful life?"

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