The old lady is reborn

Gong Qifang was brought back to the palace by the virtuous king, and Gong Yan was also brought back.

Although Gong Yan could no longer be called a human being, the Duke Dingguo, who was alone, was unable to snatch the throne from the virtuous king.

What was most difficult for Duke Dingguo to accept was that the virtuous king returned to normal shortly after his daughter Gong Yan's death.

The "hanging to death", the poisoning, the unbearable abdominal pain, it was as if they had never happened. Except for the death of his daughter, everything was normal.

The virtuous king himself did not understand what was going on. After returning home, he consulted the imperial physician, but nothing unusual was found.

People were also sent to search Gong Qifang's residence in Yunlan Temple inside and out, but no clues were found.

Although he didn't know what was going on, the virtuous king still felt a little awed.

After Gong Qifang entered the palace, the courtyard where she was settled was exactly the same as the one in her dream.

They come, the security.

After all, it is very different from the dream.

The Xianwang Mansion spread the news that Gong Yan was seriously ill. In the dream, both his mother and himself were "seriously ill" and then "incurable".

It's still the same, just with different people.

Not long after Gong Qifang was brought back by King Xian, Xiyue arrived.

He smiled confidently at Gong Qifang and said, "I said I would bring you back, right?"

Gong Qifang was silent for a moment: "I am not the only one brought back. Is the other matter also as you expected?"

Xiyue shook her head: "That's not the case. Our original intention was to welcome you into the palace as a princess.

He let her live, but demoted her to a concubine, and used her to blackmail Duke Dingguo, so that he would be the only one to bear the responsibility of exposing Duke Dingguo's true identity.

It would be best if he admitted that he was the only one who did it and then committed suicide.

After he took the blame and died, he let Gong Yan become seriously ill and die, probably three to six months later.

Welcoming you into the palace and making you the princess is just a way to conceal your true identity. The virtuous prince had long since become estranged from the Duke Dingguo and his daughter, and they are not of the same kind.

Therefore, what Dingguo did had nothing to do with the wise king.

I thought you would come to the palace honestly. After all, you don't want anything to happen to your cousin's family.

Unexpectedly, you told Duke Dingguo, and Duke Dingguo, who was concerned about his daughter, actually went to your place. He wanted to ask for everything clearly, but you originally wanted to use the power of Duke Dingguo to avoid entering the palace.

But what happened in the end? You still came.

It was just that the prince's inexplicable abdominal pain caused the whole thing to go awry. Gong Yan shouldn't have been allowed to die first.

But Duke Dingguo still cares about someone, his concubine, so he basically follows the original plan."

"Gong Yan was able to escape from the palace and go to Yunlan Temple. You let him go on purpose, right?"

Xiyue smiled and said, “I thought you were smarter than her, now that you’re here, this is really interesting.

Originally, I just wanted her to ruin the prince's business, but she couldn't do anything. She couldn't come up with any tricks, and she would only annoy the prince, and the prince would punish her.

But she didn't expect that her luck was bad, and she met the prince with a stomachache and lost her life. "

Gong Qifang deliberately asked: "So the prince's abdominal pain was really not your fault?"

"What nonsense are you talking about!?"

Xiyue seemed to suddenly remember something and said, "Do you know that the two little nuns you were with in Yunlan Temple are dead?"

Gong Qifang was surprised. When the virtuous king took her away, he asked the two of them to say goodbye to the abbess on her behalf. She hurriedly asked, "Why are you killing them?

Many of the conversations were held in the inner room. The two nuns were outside, just like the guards in your palace. What could they have heard?

He also thought that as long as they were not killed on the spot, the nun should be able to protect them.

"Was he killed by the wise king to silence him?"

"It's really funny to say that these two people somehow felt sympathy for Duke Dingguo and took the initiative to comfort him. They even recited scriptures to Gong Yan's corpse.

I don't know what angered Duke Dingguo, but he grabbed his neck with both hands and strangled him to death.

They both looked in disbelief before they died.”

Gong Qifang sat down sadly. She didn't expect that they would lose two lives.

"They became nuns, not sold themselves into slavery. How could Duke Dingguo kill them so easily?!"

Xiyue smiled with some contempt. He just thought she was smart, but her expression changed because of the death of two insignificant little nuns.

"The prince still wants to keep Duke Dingguo's life for critical matters. In these human-life lawsuits, the prince is doing him a favor.

It is said that two nuns tried to assassinate the prince, but were killed by the guards. "

"It's a fabrication and a disregard for human life!"

"You had already left. Those present were either the prince's men or Duke Dingguo himself. Everyone said so, so it must be true."

Gong Qifang: It was a favor, two lives saved, it was just a favor in a trivial way.

Got to give it all back.

"Do you feel sorry for them?

Since they came forward to comfort Duke Dingguo, they must have had compassion. Monks are compassionate. Since they are compassionate, you who are secretly happy about this are evil people.

It's so funny how things are in this world, the people they pity kill them.

You feel sorry for their lives and feel sad for them."

Gong Qifang remained silent.

She knew that there was one last part to their plan, which was after Gong Yan's death, when the truth had been revealed and the matter had gradually calmed down and faded from everyone's sight.

Then find an opportunity to "find out" that Gong Yan's death was caused by Gong Qifang, let himself bear the blame for their murder, and then get rid of himself.

Xiyue looked at himself as if he was looking at a fish that had been caught in a net, with a hint of pity in his pride.

Now that Gong Yan is dead, perhaps other accidents will happen to me, or I will have to bear other responsibilities, but I should be safe in the near future.

Gong Qifang thought of Song Ying. When she first saw her, she felt that Lady Protector of the Country was like a grandmother or a mother, but she was different because she was powerful.

He was beaten and scolded by his father when he was young, and was later murdered by him together with the wise king. In addition to hatred, there is also fear hidden deep in his heart.

Two powerful men are his enemies, and one of them is his father. Can he really fight for a way to survive for his mother, grandmother, cousin and himself?

When she was most confused, she even thought about whether she should take the initiative to do what they said and give them her life as compensation to satisfy them, so that they would let her relatives go.

But she still refused to give up. Lady Huguo comforted her after hearing this: “There are many people in this world who can defeat the strong with the weak.

If you can't beat them, think of other ways. Let them fight on their own. People with guilty consciences will easily start fighting each other."

Gong Qifang looked at Xiyue and said, "Instead of spending time staring at me, you might as well stare at the Duke Dingguo's Mansion.

The daughter of the Duke and his concubine is dead, and I'm afraid these two people will not let it go.

I have already entered the palace, what kind of trouble can I cause?"

Xiyue said, "You are quite self-aware." Then she turned and left.

Feeling a little uneasy after hearing what Gong Qifang said, Xiyue actually went to check what the Duke Dingguo's Mansion was doing now.

However, it was discovered that Duke Dingguo's concubine had been collecting beauties from various places some time ago, apparently intending to send them to Prince Xian's palace to win favor for his daughter.

I don't know why this matter stopped for a while, maybe Gong Yan himself was not happy about it.

But now this concubine is taking care of this matter again.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the first batch of beauties to be sent to the Xianwang Mansion. Xianwang was still very wary of the beauties sent by the Dingguogong Mansion.

After all, his precious daughter had just died. Who knew what kind of orders these beauties had received?

So he gave these beauties to some of his guards.

As for their respective endings, it depends on their respective abilities and luck.

But soon, the Duke Dingguo's Mansion sent a second batch of beauties. This batch was even more beautiful and dazzling than the first batch. Even the virtuous king couldn't help but say, "Where did they find these? It's amazing that they are so thoughtful."

Among this group of beauties, some began to serve him in bed.

Xiyue was so angry that smoke came out of her seven orifices.

The late emperor had suffered enough from Concubine Du, and he and his wife were deeply in love and supported each other. Naturally, he also hoped that the princes would live in harmony with their spouses and not favor one concubine over another.

Others’ affairs were not clear, but the Second Prince still tried to please them. At least he would not make such a fuss on the surface and select beautiful women to serve as his backyard.

But times have changed. Today, Your Majesty may prefer a prince who enjoys fertile land, beautiful houses, fine wine and beautiful women, rather than a competitor who works hard to govern the country and is not interested in women, and who also has royal blood.

But the concubine of Duke Dingguo seemed dissatisfied with the current progress and actually sent a third batch of beauties.

Now Xiyue no longer cares about Gong Qifang. He just asks someone to look after her and his attention is all on these beauties.

Although no one cared about her and the virtuous king did not come to her, the news that the virtuous king was going to welcome his real daughter and wife back to the palace from Yunlan Temple was still spread.

There are many different opinions and discussions.

Gong Yan had already offended many people over the years, and the virtuous king had also provoked her a lot, causing her to lose control of her temper and often speak and act in a way that was unbecoming of her. As a result, more and more people felt that she was not worthy of the position of princess.

Now there are reports that he is seriously ill and bedridden. Some people find this suspicious, while others find it gratifying.

Some people thought that people with such a hot temper as her were prone to illness, while others were waiting for the Duke Dingguo's Mansion to give an explanation for the switching of the two daughters.

Of course, there are many people who think that it is just that Ehuang and Nvying shared one husband, with the legitimate daughter being the wife and the illegitimate daughter being the concubine, which is also reasonable.

The steady and mature people kept their mouths shut and waited to see what the royal family's attitude would be.

At this moment, something happened in the Duke Dingguo's Mansion that surprised people at first, but seemed reasonable when they listened to it again, but then they thought it was wrong again.

Duke Dingguo wanted to make Gong Yan's mother, who had been a concubine for many years, his legal wife.

He had been divorced from Gong Qifang's mother for many years, so it seemed "reasonable" that this concubine was promoted to the position of legitimate wife. Didn't the Duke of Dingguo favor his concubine over his wife?

But I haven't taken this step for many years.

It was probably because the biological daughter took on the status of the legitimate daughter, so it was difficult to make the concubine the legitimate daughter. Otherwise, the relationship and status of the biological mother and daughter would be very strange.

Now the status of the legitimate daughter and the concubine's daughter will return to their original status, and Duke Dingguo has always favored this concubine's daughter.

At this time, the concubine was promoted to the legitimate daughter, and the concubine's daughter became the legitimate daughter. It was indeed the case that the concubine was favored more than the wife. If the original wife's legitimate daughter showed any sign of rising up, she would be suppressed immediately.

But when everyone thought about it again, they felt that it was not right. This concubine's daughter was the eldest daughter. If she became a legitimate daughter, she would be the eldest legitimate daughter. Wouldn't the original legitimate daughter become the second legitimate daughter?

Under the circumstances of keeping the order of seniority, the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children, which was originally clear, became confused.

The second legitimate daughter is the wife, and the eldest legitimate daughter is the concubine?

Is Duke Dingguo competing with King Xian?

Some people who were particularly well-informed about gossip said that this concubine, Gong Yan's mother, continuously sent beautiful women to Prince Xian's palace.

So what exactly is the Duke Dingguo's Mansion planning to do?

Wouldn't his own daughter be given to others as a concubine? In order to set a trap for the legitimate daughter who was about to return, so many beauties were sent to the palace. Was he even going to trap his own daughter?

The wise king didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

I think it's better for Duke Dingguo to be against him, as it makes it seem like the two sides have long been alienated.

Duke Dingguo brought his newly appointed wife to the Xianwang Mansion. He said he was here to visit his second daughter, but in fact he wanted to ask where his daughter Gong Yan's body was now? Was she buried?

The virtuous king just perfunctorily said: "After being married for so many years, it is natural that they have been buried in peace.

It is just not convenient to officially erect a tomb and a tombstone now. After all, she is only 'seriously ill' now. When it is appropriate to announce her death to the public, she will have to be reburied."

After hearing this, Duke Dingguo and his wife realized that they could not find out the location of their daughter's grave.

The wise king hurriedly sent them away.

The newly appointed wife of Duke Dingguo said, "Then shall I go see Qi Fang?"

The wise king ordered someone to take her away. What else could he do?

Gong Qifang once again met the woman who had always been hiding behind her father. From childhood to adulthood, she had suffered a lot from him.

But now they have a common enemy. But now the concubine still speaks in a condescending tone.

"After so many years of practicing Buddhism, he still came back to take away everything Yan'er had. It's called meditation, but it shows that he has never really calmed his mind."

Gong Qifang looked at her, still confusing right and wrong as usual.

Do not be afraid. The wicked are like wolves in the mountains. They are afraid to flee, only to be chased and eaten.

"Is there anything wrong, Madam Duke?"

"Don't you call me mother?"

"It doesn't matter to me, but I think this name will only make the Duke's wife sad. Aren't you afraid that your daughter will feel upset if she knows about it?"

Gong Qifang said this and looked around her, as if there was someone there.

The newly promoted Duke’s wife was silent for a moment, then glared at Gong Qifang fiercely, “If I knew that my daughter’s death was related to you, I would not let you go.

Whatever she has suffered, I will make you suffer a hundred times, a thousand times more."

Gong Qifang thought to herself: I didn’t do anything wrong in the past, but from childhood to adulthood, haven’t I suffered a hundred times or a thousand times?

Lady Protector of the Nation said, don’t be afraid.

"Why did you come here, madam?"

She lowered her voice and answered, "This is not the place to talk. Let's talk when you have a chance to go out recently."

"Now that I have entered the palace, I am afraid I will not be allowed to come and go freely."

"The virtuous king said that since you are back now, you should show up. He will go to the Rui Palace with you for a banquet soon."

The more I thought about this, the angrier I got. I told the couple about this to remind them not to cause trouble again.

Then he whispered to Gong Qifang, "We'll have a chance to talk about this again at the Rui Palace."