I was a princess in ancient times

Ji Xinxue covered the complex expression on her face by holding up the teacup.

The hot tea was pouring down her throat, Ji Xinxue ignored her aching stomach, and looked at Su Xian without blinking, "May I know?"

"It's not a secret, why can't you know." The smile on Su Xian's face did not change, but dissatisfaction welled up in her heart.

She already felt sorry for Ji Xinxue's unreasonable disaster in her mother's womb, and because of Ji Xinxue's and Jia Wang's almost identical appearance, she loved Wu Wu.

Supporting her unhealed body, trying her best to teach Ji Xinxue was not only because of King Jia's request.

The longer she gets along with Ji Xinxue, the more Su Xian dislikes Mrs. Zhong.

No matter how bad Zhong Su was, she also served as a female official beside Princess Dekang for three years, but Xue Nu knew nothing about anything outside the palace.

The matter that caused Xue Nu to be placed under house arrest since she was a child is very involved, and Mrs. Zhong doesn't want to mention it.

When she first started to teach Xue Nu, Xue Nu didn't even know the family tree of Ji's royal family. Hearing the life of Taizu Emperor Wu Ning, she almost ate the teacup as a snack.

Su Xian didn't want to speak ill of Mrs. Zhong who had lived with Ji Xinxue for seven years in front of Ji Xinxue, and directly talked about the events of the year.

In the 11th year of Yanguang, at the beginning of the year, Emperor Yanguang suffered from a headache. Because of the headache, it was difficult to fall asleep, and his temper became more irritable and irritable.

Emperor Yanguang's favorite minister, Shi Mao, the governor of Yuanzhou, presented the "fairy" Taoist Zechuan.

The elixir refined by Taoist Zechuan could indeed alleviate Emperor Yanguang's headache, at least it would allow Emperor Yanguang to sleep peacefully for at least three hours a day, so that he would not be able to sleep at night.

Emperor Yanguang was not satisfied with this, and put pressure on Taoist Zechuan with the Taoist temple of Taoist origin and the lives of dozens of people.

Taoist Zechuan retreated on July 49th, before Emperor Yanguang's patience was completely exhausted, he died in his residence with a smile on his face, leaving a personal letter sealed to Emperor Yanguang.

The letter said that Emperor Yanguang's head disease was not a disease but a catastrophe. Taoist Zechuan was willing to use his 50 years of practice to ward off disasters for the emperor, but it was not enough.

The people who can really protect the emperor from disaster must be the emperor's blood relatives.

This blood relative must have not been tied to the world, and belong to Zhengyang like the emperor. Even with the help of Daoist Zechuan's skills, Pianyang cannot be a good medicine to resolve the disaster.

The so-called Zhengyang refers to the direct descendant of Emperor Yanguang, and it must be a boy who has not been born for more than three days.

According to the prescription at the end of the autograph letter, if Emperor Yanguang wanted to completely cure his headache, he had to have Taoist Zechuan's heart dug out first, dried and ground into powder in the way of concocting medicinal materials, and stored in a pure silver container.

Then when the cock crowed and dawn broke, dig out the heart of 'Zhengyang', smear the powder made from the heart of Daoist Zechuan, assist dozens of precious medicinal materials, boil the blood of Zhengyang for three days, and boil the medicine juice Boil it into a thick state, pour it into a mold made of sterling silver, and get six pills in total.

Emperor Yanguang only needed to take three pills to cure his illness.

Ji Xinxue drank the remaining tea in the teacup in one gulp, barely suppressing the increasingly intense feeling of vomiting, and the chaotic night when she was born appeared in her mind.

Crying to the midwife and wailing that he is a little lady, not a young man's Mrs. Zhong, rummaging through boxes and cabinets looking for colored beads of gold, silver and precious stones, and Li Nanny limp on the ground...

There was also Jia Wang who called him 'ugly thing' when they met, and when the midwife called him a little lady, the smile on his face suddenly turned into anger and disgust, and he turned and left immediately.

"I, yes, Saint, did you choose Yaoyin?" Ji Xinxue struggled to squeeze the words out of his teeth, which made him feel extremely absurd.

Su Xian looked at Ji Xinxue softly and lovingly, and lifted the teapot to pour new tea for Ji Xinxue, "You are not the only choice for a saint."

After reading Taoist Zechuan's handwritten letter, Emperor Yanguang not only didn't feel that the prescription violated human ethics, but was overjoyed, and he announced the prescription left by Taoist Zechuan in the court without hesitation.

At that time, apart from Mrs. Zhong from the Sixth Prince's Mansion who was pregnant, Qian Ruren from the First Prince's Mansion, the Fourth Prince's concubine and the concubine's accompanying concubine were also pregnant with Liujia.

Qian Ruren's elder brother was young and energetic, he couldn't hold his breath, and he was able to become an official in the court because of Qian Ruren's light. He had never seen Emperor Yanguang's thunderous methods, so he immediately scolded Zechuan as a monster and deliberately deceived him. The purpose of the sage is to separate the blood of the heavenly family and trap the sage into injustice. Please ask the sage to divide Zechuan's five horses into pieces and burn him to death.

Emperor Yanguang was furious, accused Qian Ruren's elder brother of cursing him to die early, and ordered Qian Ruren's elder brother to be punished a hundred times.

Qian Ruren's eldest brother was beaten to death in front of civil and military officials at the Great Court Meeting, and Qian Ruren's father and uncle were also imprisoned for treason.

Emperor Yanguang was so thunderous and furious that all the officials remembered the scene of blood flowing into rivers when Emperor Yanguang ascended the throne. They all swallowed the words of advice and smiled wryly.

If the sage is willing to listen to his persuasion, Dayu will not be seriously injured, and now even the small countries around him dare to provoke repeatedly at the border.

If it goes back 50 years, it needs to be uprooted.

After the courtiers shut up, the princes were even more unwilling to bear the charges of 'unfilial piety' and 'disobedience'. Under the inexplicable gaze of Emperor Yanguang, they took the initiative to ask Emperor Yanguang to use their children as medicine, so that the holy body can be stable. Dayu Guowei, they, including their wives and concubines, are all willing sons.

During this period, Qian Ruren from the eldest prince's mansion learned that his eldest brother was executed with a stick and his family members were imprisoned in Dali Temple. After eating two catties of red flowers, he dropped the child in his womb and smashed it to death on the stone lion at the gate of the palace.

Emperor Yanguang was furious, and ordered people to quarter the corpses of Qian's relatives in the marble prison, and then burn them to death.

Two months later, King Jia brought the guards of the palace to the Zhong Mansion. All the men in the Zhong Mansion were punished with a cane for [-] years, and all the female family members were punished with a cane for [-] years. Even Mrs. Zhong's grandmother did not escape.

Ji Xinxue let go of his hand, which was bled from too much force, and his voice was barely audible, "Why?"

Su Xian's voice was also lowered so that only Ji Xinxue next to her could hear clearly, "Liu Lang discovered that the Zhong family found several pregnant women with the same month as Mrs. Zhong, and they raised them in houses not far from the palace."

Without giving Ji Xinxue more time to react, Su Xian spoke again, her tone was as relaxed as she had been talking to Ji Xinxue about the genealogy of Chang'an nobles a few days ago.

"After half a month, Miss Zhong gave birth and gave birth to a baby girl. Liu Lang felt ashamed of the saint and knelt in front of the saint's hall for three days to plead guilty. After Liu Lang passed out, although the saint didn't see Liu Lang, he asked the guards to send Liu Lang back Palace."

"After Liulang woke up, he ordered people to move the baby girl born by Mrs. Zhong and Mrs. Zhong to the hospital. She stayed behind closed doors for half a month, and copied a hundred volumes of filial piety scriptures in blood to pray for the sage, and the sage was willing to see Liulang."

Ji Xinxue touched the sore corners of her eyes, her tentacles were as smooth and tender as cream, but not moist at all.

On the 20th day of his birth, there was a sudden light snowfall, and the oppressed courtyard was rarely lively amidst the exclamation of the young maid.

Mrs. Zhong, who was worried all day long and couldn't sleep at night, heard that someone was coming outside, and immediately asked Nanny Li to hide him.

Not long after, Mrs. Zhong, who was full of tears, hugged him again, and said intermittently, "Bao'er, you have a name. Today, the Zongren Siqing came to record your name, and you, Aye, named you Xinxue." .”

Su Xian took Ji Xinxue's movements into her eyes, and complex colors flashed across her eyes, which always had a faint smile, showing pity and relief, and finally all turned into a smile that seemed to never change.

After a brief pause, Su Xian continued to talk about the ridiculous things seven years ago as if nothing had happened.

Half a month after the baby girl of the Sixth Prince's Mansion was put on the jade plate, the companion of the Fourth Prince's concubine was born prematurely, also a girl.

Another half a month later, the fourth concubine, who had given birth at full term, had a difficult labor. She struggled for three days and three nights to give birth to a boy, but it was stillborn.

"Fourth prince concubine..." Are you okay now?

Su Xian easily understood Ji Xinxue's unfinished words.

The fourth imperial concubine suffered from severe illness, and passed away from a bloody collapse on the third day after giving birth.

The father of the fourth imperial concubine loves his daughter dearly, so he is lingering on the sick bed, so he can only resign as an official. The brothers of the fourth imperial concubine all leave Chang'an with the father of the fourth imperial concubine on the grounds that they want to serve their father.

Even the uncles of the fourth prince and concubine disappeared from the public's sight one after another.

Only the uncle of the fourth concubine had just been promoted to be the fifth-rank Taishi Ling, and he was lucky, thinking that the fourth concubine did nothing wrong, let alone implicate him, and refused to leave Chang'an no matter what, and fell into a faction dispute two months later. The whole family was exiled to southern Xinjiang.

In Su Xian's view, as long as Ji Xinxue is still King Jia's daughter, it is impossible for her to never see Emperor Yanguang for the rest of her life. The sooner she recognizes Emperor Yanguang's ruthless face, the better for Ji Xinxue.

So as long as Ji Xinxue asks, no matter how cruel the facts are, Su Xian will not hide anything from Ji Xinxue.

It wasn't until the sky completely darkened that the food delivered by the big kitchen had long since lost its last trace of heat, that Su Xian waved her hands exhaustedly, and let Ji Xinxue leave with a hoarse voice.

Ji Xinxue saluted silently before turning around and walking towards the door.

In his memory, it was Mrs. Zhong who used all her wealth to beg the midwife, and promised that her family would give the midwife a lot of money, so that the midwife concealed the fact that he was a boy and said he was a girl.

Long before Su Xian talked about what happened back then, Ji Xinxue knew that just because Mrs. Zhong was from the family of a low-level general, no matter how much she promised, she would not be able to buy off the nanny from Feilong Palace.

He and Mrs. Zhong were imprisoned for seven years, but the servants of the palace never neglected them. Rain or shine, they sent the things for the concubine and the young lady to the courtyard in the corner of the palace.Mrs. Zhong was even able to bribe people with spare money, and secretly sent letters to her natal family.

This is a very contradictory thing.

The palace has strict rules, and no one would take the risk of provoking King Jia's wrath and being killed with a cane for some small profits, and no one would spread the word for Mrs. Zhong outside the palace for some petty profits.

If the rules of the palace were not strict, his and Mrs. Zhong's responsibilities would have been divided up by layers of management, let alone saving some things, I am afraid that basic life would be difficult.

Only those who firmly control the palace can make extremely contradictory things happen naturally.

The concubine also has no reason to take great risks to be this good person, only... King Jia, his father in this life.

Ji Xinxue turned around in front of the door and looked in the direction of the front yard.

Three years ago, Mrs. Xu was pregnant, and the next year she gave birth to her sixth wife, Ji Baoshan, who became Xu Ruren.

Two years ago, Madam Fu, who had delivered his baby, slipped and fell into the pool and drowned. The news reached Mrs. Zhong through the servants of the palace, and Mrs. Zhong happily hugged him and cried for half the night.

Last year, Zhong Kan, who failed many times, finally passed the government test.

Could it be that there is already... the medicine to become Emperor Yanguang.

Was it two years ago, three years ago, or earlier?