Wen Xiangyanyu

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Wen Ying followed King Jing up the stone steps in front of the main hall of Xingqing Palace.

It was the first time for him to stand here, looking at the majestic and tall palace in front of him, the morning light came into his eyes, and his eyes were calmer than ever.

After waiting outside the door for a while, the chief eunuch of Xingqing Palace came out and politely invited King Jing in. King Jing turned around and told Wen Ying: "You wait here for a while, I will go in and talk to Your Majesty."

Wen Ying nodded, but said nothing.

Prince Jing patted him on the shoulder, stepped forward and entered the door.

It is already the severe winter season, the eaves and tiles of the palace are covered with white snow, and there are new plum blossoms protruding from the corner of the wall.

Standing on the top of the stone steps in front of the main hall of Xingqing Palace and looking down, it is as if standing on a cloud, looking down on all living beings and looking down on the world.

Since the first two dynasties, this place has been the dormitory of the emperors of all dynasties. The people who live here hold the supreme power in the world and are admired and worshiped by all people. They are both human beings and gods.

Wen Ying stared down, not moving for a long time.

At first, he just wanted to get ahead.

Later, he desperately climbed up, not afraid of life and death, in order to become a supreme minister one day.

But today, when he is standing here, he is very sure that one day, he will be here to make everyone and all the people in the world submit to him.

Since there is an opportunity, he will never let it go.

Half an hour later, the eunuch of Xingqing Palace came out again and invited him in.

Wen Ying entered the door, lowered his eyes, knelt down respectfully and bowed to the person on the throne according to what King Jing had ordered before he came, "My subject, Wen Ying, greet Your Majesty."

The emperor's hands trembled slightly, he was supported by Prince Jing to stand up, walked down, and tremblingly said: "You raise your head,...show me."

Wen Ying raised his head, his eyes still calm, looking at the emperor in front of him.

The emperor stared at him intently, his expression greatly mourned.

He had met this person three years ago, when he personally ordered him to be expelled from the Imperial Prison and dismissed from his reputation, but he never thought that this person was actually his child, his flesh and blood, his own son , he didn't know until today, his son has been homeless for 20 years, he finally knows until today!

"Unbutton your shirt and let me see the birthmark on your heart." The emperor's voice was hoarse, already choked with sobs, and he was still trying his best to suppress it.

Wen Ying calmly unbuttoned his belt and pulled his clothes away. There were large and small battle scars on his body, but the bloody mole on his heart was very abrupt.

The emperor watched intently, tears streaming down his face in the end, anger, grief, regret, and self-blame all rushed up, making him almost unable to stand.

Just looking at this birthmark, he no longer has any doubts.

This person is indeed his own son who was exchanged.

Prince Jing supported the emperor's arm and persuaded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, take care."

After half a day, the emperor managed to calm down, wiped his tears, helped Wen Ying up with his own hands, patted the back of his hand, took a deep breath, and said bitterly: "You have suffered for the past 20 years, don't worry, the emperor will help you Seek justice."

King Jing's heart fell to the ground. His brother said that he had already recognized Wen Ying as his son.

Wen Ying's lips moved, Prince Jing nodded encouragingly, Wen Ying calmed down and changed his words: "...Thank you, Father."

Suppressing those sentimental feelings, the emperor's mind and reason were completely occupied by monstrous anger. He was the emperor of the Dacheng Dynasty, but he raised his son for 20 years in vain!That counterfeit took his son's position and enjoyed the glory and wealth for 20 years. His own flesh and blood were strayed out and lived and died several times. The father and son met but did not recognize each other!How hateful!

"Come here!" The emperor gritted his teeth, and ordered sharply, "Princess Huaying has entered the palace and asked her to bring her here quickly! Go to Fengyi Palace and ask the queen to come here immediately, then go to Yuwang Mansion, call Yuwang Come into the palace for me immediately!"

Hearing the word "Yuwang", Wen Ying's eyes moved, and soon they stopped.

Prince Jing was hesitant to speak, but he didn't tell the emperor directly that the village woman who had stolen the child was the Yun family daughter from Zhenbeihou's mansion back then.

Ling Qiyan lazily walked into the Xingqing Palace. He just got up when someone from the palace hurriedly came and said that His Majesty called him to enter the palace immediately. Ling Qiyan thought that he didn't seem to provoke anyone recently, so he didn't take it back. thing.

What he didn't expect was that there would be so many people waiting for him here.

The gloomy emperor, the embarrassing King Jing, the complicated eldest princess, the inexplicable Shen Shi, and even that poor scholar who hadn't seen him for three years and suddenly appeared!

Ling Qiyan suddenly opened his eyes wide, how could this kid be in Xingqing Palace? !

Wen Ying raised his eyes to look at him with a gloomy expression, as if he was looking at him, and there seemed to be something behind his eyes.

Ling Qiyan's heart skipped a beat for no reason.

Before he could ask, the emperor said sullenly, "Everyone is here, King Jing, you can talk to the queen and the others."

Both Ling Qiyan and Shen Shi looked at King Jing with doubts. King Jing cleared his throat and said concisely: "Qiyan is not the child of you and Your Majesty, sister-in-law, but the child you gave birth in the mountains of Jizhou back then. I was transferred. This Wen Ying is your child. I have confirmed the matter with the eldest princess. This child has the same birthmark as the first emperor and His Majesty. The person sent by the eldest princess to Jizhou has also sent the culprit who changed the child back then. The culprit here is the wife of the Orion family who took you in back then, and she has confessed, and now she is being held outside the palace, and you and His Majesty can interrogate in person."

Ling Qiyan froze in place in astonishment.

Shen Shi subconsciously blocked her mouth with a veil, so that she could not scream out, her eyes were red, her body was shaking, and she looked at Wen Ying suddenly.

"...Is this true? Is this really true? He is my child? My child has been transferred?"

Shen's voice was trembling, completely out of tune, Prince Jing sighed: "It's true."

Shen walked towards Wen Ying in a daze, slowly raised her trembling hand, touched Wen Ying's cheek, and asked him with sobs: "Are you my child? Are you my child?"

Wen Ying's expression was tense and he didn't make a sound.

Prince Jing whispered to Shen Shi: "This child looks like the late emperor, he is indeed your and His Majesty's child."

Shen couldn't bear it anymore, she covered her face and broke down crying.

For a long time, Ling Qiyan, who was called but ignored, opened his mouth with difficulty, and asked in a harsh voice, "He is the emperor's son,... what about me? What am I?"

The emperor's face became more and more gloomy, and before he could say anything, Shen suddenly turned around and stared at Ling Qiyan with murderous hatred in his eyes: "How dare you ask who you are?! What do you think you are?! "

No wonder, no wonder she couldn't get close to this beast, no wonder this beast didn't like her at all, she knew, how could she give birth to such an unfilial and worthless beast!It turned out that he was not her son at all!

Without giving Ling Qiyan a chance to speak further, Shen Shi gritted her teeth and ordered: "Bring that bitch in! I want to interrogate her personally!"

Soon footsteps came from outside the hall, Ling Qiyan turned around in a daze, and saw a woman in dusty clothes and disheveled hair was escorted in and knelt down on the ground.

She raised her head, looked around the people in the hall indifferently, sneered at the shocked and astonished eyes of the emperor, then quickly moved away, and finally looked at Ling Qiyan standing in the corner with a pale face, with complex scrutiny in her eyes color.

"It's you! It's you!!"

Shen Shi finally lost control and screamed, her anger was extremely extreme, her whole face was distorted, wishing she could pounce on Yun Shi who was kneeling on the ground.

Yun looked at her contemptuously: "So what if it's me? Shen Ruyu, have you been enjoying yourself all these years? How does it feel to raise a son for others?"

"How dare you! How dare you!! You bitch! Bitch!!!"

Shen shi scolded hysterically, Yun shi just laughed, the angrier Shen shi was, the more complacently she laughed.

"If you have time to scold me, you might as well reflect on why you are so stupid and easily ask me to change a child. This is because God can't see how pitiful I am. He favors me and gives me the opportunity. Even God is helping me!"

If this past event, which had been sealed for 20 years, hadn't been revealed now, she would have almost forgotten it, but seeing these people in such pain and anger, Yun felt extremely refreshed, and really felt unhappy about retribution.

Back then, when Shen came here with her maidservant in embarrassment, Yun herself was about to give birth, so she didn't go out easily, and when she saw Shen appearing through the window, her heart like ashes was once again ignited by anger. I almost bleed with hatred for all the sufferings I have encountered.

They had seizures at the same time that night, her child was born very quickly, Shen stayed up for half a day longer than her, the premature child passed out without seeing it, the maid was busy taking care of Shen, and did not care about the child at all.

It was Wen Liehu's aunt who gave birth to them, and that aunt helped take care of them afterwards. Mrs. Shen was unconscious all the time, and the child was crying from hunger. The aunt brought Mrs. Shen's child to Mrs. Yun, and asked her to help nurse the child. .

Almost at the moment when he took over the child, Yun made up his mind and switched the two children.

Shen was in a coma for a day and a night, and the doctor invited from the village woke her up with herbal medicine. When the child was handed back to her, it was already a different one, and no one noticed.

In the following month, the two women were confinement in different rooms, and they never saw each other. The Yun family fed the two children until Prince Jing brought someone to find them.

Shen's maid had come to Yun's house to pick up and drop off her child a few times, but at that time, Yun had just given birth, her face was disheveled, and she was wearing coarse linen clothes. Being outstanding made the maid mutter a few words to herself, but she didn't think much about it.

She doesn't know Yun Shi, she used to be just a low-level servant girl by Shen Shi's side, when Shen Shi went to socialize with young ladies from other provinces, it was not her turn to follow her, so she never met Yun Shi, this time she was lucky, At the end of her life, she escaped to the mountains with the protection of Shen Shi.

Until they were picked up, they never found out that the children had already been replaced.

Hearing Yun's almost crazy laughter, the emperor finally regained his sanity from the shock, and looked at Yun's eyes with countless complex emotions.

This woman used to be a cinnabar mole in his heart, which he never forgot. He blamed himself countless times for not protecting her well. He thought she would have passed away long ago. Invite eminent monks to perform deeds for her, light eternal lamps for her, and pray for her.

But she was actually still alive. Not only was she alive, but she also stole his child and became such a crazy, cold-blooded, unreasonable lunatic.

Today's Yun family has long lost the all-powerful beauty she once had when she was crowned in Beijing. Although she is still beautiful, she has faded away from everyone and has become vulgar. The ferocious smile on the corner of her mouth makes her look even more detestable.

The emperor looked at her, as if the shadow that had been hidden in his heart for many years disappeared at this moment.

"Why do you want to change my child?"

The emperor's voice was cold, no longer the warmth of the past.

Yun's laughter faltered, stung by the emperor's eyes, she suddenly raised her voice, and said excitedly: "Why should I change your child?! Of course I want to take revenge on you! You ungrateful and ungrateful person, you You owe me! You owe me! I should be the queen! My child should be the prince! Back then, my father and brother, and all the families in my Zhenbeihou’s house were convicted because of you! You killed my whole family! You abandoned Me! You owe me your entire life!"

"Not long after I ascended the throne, I rehabilitated the Zhenbei Hou Mansion and restored your sisters' identities. I sent someone to look for you. I don't owe you anything." The emperor reminded her in a cold voice, suppressing his anger. .

Yun laughed wildly: "What a way to restore my identity, what a way to send someone to find me! The lives of my father and brother! The lives of all the men in my Zhenbeihou Mansion! The lives of my grandmother and mother who hanged themselves, can you return them?" Me?! You can find your queen and son, but why can’t you find me?! I was kidnapped and sent to the bandit’s den. I lived in darkness for so many years and was tortured to the point of dying. Where were you? !"

The emperor's face was ashen. The Zhenbeihou's mansion had indeed suffered on his behalf. At that time, he was leading the army at the border, and was framed by the second prince's group. That battle caused heavy losses to the court's soldiers and horses. Zhenbeihou took the initiative to take the blame for him. Originally, it was just a matter of dismissal, but under the careful design of the second prince's faction, in the end, the Zhenbeihou Mansion was accused of collaborating with the enemy and treason, and all the men in the family were killed.

Although not long after he ascended the throne, he had rehabilitated the Zhenbeihou's mansion, returned to the mansion, released the female family members who had been slaves of the officials, and allowed them to adopt a boy from the collateral line of the Yun family to inherit the title, but in the end, the Zhenbeihou It is indeed because of him that the government is in such a catastrophe.

He did indeed send someone to look for Yun Shi, but they only found a corpse that was completely unremarkable.

It was not only Yun Shi who fell into madness, but also Shen Shi. She stepped forward, slapped Yun Shi hard on the face, and said angrily: "You still want to come back? Why do you come back?! You have already married a woman , gave birth to someone else’s child, why do you dare to come back?! The people sent by His Majesty didn’t find you, to tell you the truth, it was Bengong who asked someone to get them a corpse and tried to make them think it was you! Gong just wants you to die outside! Don’t even think about coming back and fighting with Bengong in this life!”

Immediately, a bright palm print appeared on Yun's face. She raised her hand and wiped it fiercely, and spat at Shen: "I'm not doing well, so don't even think about it! You deserve it! If you didn't do it yourself Don’t let me down, your son might come back early, this is retribution! Retribution! You deserve to raise my son for me! Why don’t you think I just strangled your son? I just want him to live and suffer! I want him to do it from an early age. A villager in the mountains, he has lived a hard life all his life! This is your greatest retribution!!"

Shen was so angry that she wanted to vomit blood, and wanted to beat Yun, but King Jing hurriedly asked someone to pull her away, and Yun began to laugh again, with tears streaming down her face, laughing while crying, hatred and joy in her eyes alternately.

"You don't have to say that you are so wronged," the princess, who had never said much, suddenly said in a cold voice, and reprimanded Yun, "When Prince Jing took people to look for the queen and the others, if you really wanted to come back, Daddy You can show up and ask Prince Jing to bring you back, but at that time you were already married and had a child, and you were afraid that His Majesty would dislike you and would not want you again, and you were guilty of changing your child and dared not come out, I was wrong ?"

Without waiting for Yun's rebuttal, the eldest princess said contemptuously: "But you are still not reconciled and restless. Not long after, when you heard that His Majesty rehabilitated the Beihou Mansion for you, you abandoned your husband and son without hesitation. You don’t leave a cent of the money that the king left for you, but you took it away with your husband and children, how cruel you are!”

"If you want to come back to Beijing alone, without letting others know that you were married and had children, you can use His Majesty's guilt to enter the harem. His Majesty will at least give you a noble concubine, and maybe you will be replaced by a queen in the future. You The biological son who was exchanged for the queen can also be snatched back and raised by himself, isn't that what you are planning?"

"It's a pity that you were born without that life. On the way back to Beijing, you met a bandit again. You were robbed to the bandit's den, and you will never be free again. If I hadn't sent someone to investigate what happened back then and rescued you, I'm afraid You can’t get out of that bandit den until you die, but what does this have to do with Your Majesty? It’s all your fault.”

"If you hadn't been so ignorant, if you hadn't changed your majesty's son, and brought your husband and son back to Beijing after rehabilitating, your majesty would definitely compensate you. Your husband might be able to find an official position, and there is such a thing as the Marquis of Zhenbei. With the backing, you can be rich and worry-free for the rest of your life, who can you blame for living like this?"

"You're talking nonsense!" Yun shrieked and interrupted the eldest princess angrily, "I didn't! It's all your fault! You owe me! You deserve it! You deserve it!!"

Being pierced by the Eldest Princess every sentence, Yun became completely angry, cursing hoarsely, cursing the emperor, cursing the empress, cursing all of them.

Ling Qiyan stared numbly at the farce in front of him. He couldn't hear a word of Yun's crazy words, and his mind kept buzzing. Everyone's faces seemed to have become blurred. Clearly, only the dark and speechless eyes of Wen Ying who was standing beside the emperor looked at him.

"enough!"

The sudden voice broke into the hall abruptly, and everyone followed the prestige. The frowning queen mother was helped in by Xihua, her eyes slowly turned around, and she asked the emperor in a deep voice: "What happened, are you all here?" Here, why don't you tell me?"