The man who was kneeling and burning paper was so frightened when Xiao Yao questioned him that he trembled. He immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed, saying in a trembling voice: "This slave deserves to die, this slave deserves to die, please spare my life..."
Xiao Yao frowned deeper when he saw the way she smashed her head.
"Who are you and why are you burning paper here? Do you know that burning paper is strictly prohibited in the palace?" Xiao Yao said in a deep voice.
The man knelt on the ground, shaking like chaff, and didn't say a word for a long while.
For some reason, Xiao Yao looked familiar to her, and immediately said: "Raise your head."
The man shuddered and finally slowly raised his head.
Through the moonlight, Xiao Yao finally saw this man's face clearly.
"Aunt Lin, why is it you?" Xiao Yao asked in surprise.
This Aunt Lin was the personal maid her mother brought into the palace when she got married from the Liu family. In the past two years, she was not in good health. The queen felt sorry for her and found a yard for her to recuperate. Many things changed.
Let someone else do it.
Xiao Yao didn't expect to see Aunt Lin here.
The old woman was stunned, staring at Xiao Yao for a moment, and then shouted: "Your Highness, Fourth Highness?"
Xiao Yao stretched out his hand to help the person up from the ground and said, "It's me."
The person Xiao Yao called Aunt Lin suddenly started crying and clutched Xiao Yao's sleeves tightly.
"Your Royal Highness, I finally see you, woo woo..."
She was crying so hard that she couldn't speak coherently.
Xiao Yao helped her sit down on a chair in the yard, and waited for her to become quieter before asking softly: "Why are you here?"
With tears in her eyes, Aunt Lin choked and said, "I, I miss Miss, I really can't help it, so I wanted to come here to see her."
The young lady she spoke of was none other than the queen.
Xiao Yao raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, and said softly: "I know you miss your mother in your heart, but private burning of paper money is strictly prohibited in the palace. If it weren't for me today, have you ever thought about the consequences?"
Aunt Lin wiped away her tears and gritted her teeth and said, "The worst case scenario is death."
Xiao Yao was speechless for a while, then said: "Don't do this again."
Aunt Lin grabbed Xiao Yao's sleeves, stared into Xiao Yao's eyes, and said, "Your Highness, Miss, she is in good health, why did she suddenly become so seriously ill?"
Xiao Yao frowned: "Aunt Lin, there are some things you shouldn't say nonsense."
"I'm not talking nonsense," Aunt Lin said quickly, "Miss has always been in good health. It's impossible that she suddenly got such a serious illness and died in less than a year."
Xiao Yao's voice became a little deeper: "Aunt Lin!"
But Aunt Lin seemed to be crazy and continued: "Don't you feel something is wrong?"
"The young lady has always been well, but since that woman in the folk died, the young lady suddenly became ill. Forget it, the young lady's symptoms are exactly the same as that woman's. They are all coughing. How could it be such a coincidence?"
She clutched Xiao Yao's sleeve tightly and said, "Your Highness, it's that woman. It must be that woman who harmed the young lady."
Xiao Yao's temples felt a sudden throbbing pain, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You mean Concubine Shu? Concubine Shu is already dead, how can you harm your mother?"
"She is dead, but her son is not dead yet!" Aunt Lin said in shock, "It must be her son who took revenge for her and harmed the young lady, it must be."
Xiao Yao felt that all the hairs on his body were standing on end, and his scalp was numb.
After a while, he asked with difficulty: "You said, Concubine Shu has a son?"
A woman from the common people, whose origin is a mystery, but she is deeply favored by the emperor.
She came and left quickly, like a ray of breeze, coming and going without leaving a trace.
But now someone told him that Concubine Shu had a son?
But Aunt Lin came over mysteriously and whispered: "Yes, he is older than you."
Xiao Yao: "...what?"
"You don't know, right? The young lady didn't know it at first." Aunt Lin said softly, "Thanks to the prince, the young lady knows the truth, otherwise she would have let that little bitch succeed."
Xiao Yao's mind was buzzing and he murmured: "Is there anything else about the prince here?"
"You all think that this woman just appeared out of nowhere, but you don't know that she had an affair with His Majesty many years ago. Others don't recognize her, but the prince does. This Lou Shulan is clearly the third prince.
Xiao Yan’s biological mother!”
As soon as Aunt Lin spoke, it was like a huge thunder exploding on Xiao Yao's head, making his eyesight go dark.
Aunt Lin was still nagging: "That woman, knowing that her background would only be a drag on her son, was so cruel that she refused to recognize the third prince. She was indeed cruel. In order to climb up, she even refused to recognize her own son.
.”
"The vixen from the common people, I don't know where he learned the tricks, and he was so obsessed with His Majesty that he didn't even look at the young lady for many days." Aunt Lin gritted her teeth and said, "Seeing that she is getting more and more favored, there is no guarantee that she will not be favored in the future.
The son is more valuable than the mother, so the third prince came to the throne. How could the young lady tolerate someone like Xiao Yan threatening His Highness's status? Her wishful thinking was too early."
Xiao Yao's head was buzzing and his eyes were bloodshot.
He looked at Aunt Lin and said, "So, the queen mother killed Concubine Shu?"
Aunt Lin: "I can't keep her."
After saying that, he smiled again and said: "His Royal Highness the Prince had an idea. He found things used by tuberculosis patients from somewhere and made that bitch contract tuberculosis unknowingly. No one would have thought that she would die.
On us."
Xiao Yao raised his hand and pinched the center of his brow, his raised hand trembling unconsciously.
"So, the mother's illness is probably caused by the third brother...the third prince noticed the cause of Concubine Shu's death and took revenge?"
"How could he know? He can't possibly know." Aunt Lin rambled, looking a little out of her mind.
She let go of Xiao Yao's sleeves, stood up and ran over there to burn paper. She didn't know what she was talking about, but she could only hear intermittently: "Miss... I'm wronged..."
Xiao Yao sat there for a while, until the blood all over his body was cold, then he slowly stood up.
He walked slowly towards Aunt Lin, stared at her for a while, and said softly: "Aunt Lin, please don't let anyone else hear these words today."
Aunt Lin paused while burning the paper, and then continued to talk to herself.
Xiao Yao continued: "I know, you are not crazy."
"I've kept what you said in mind. And your family, I will help you take care of it." Xiao Yao felt his throat dry and sore every time he said a word, but he had to continue: "Aunt, these
What you say must be absolutely absolute and cannot be heard by anyone else.”
After saying this, he seemed to have reached the limit of his patience, got up and walked out.
In the yard, Aunt Lin burned the last piece of paper in her hand, stood up, and walked towards a well in the corner with a dull expression.
She stood by the well for a while, and then jumped straight in!