Xia Houyi looked at his sister's angry look and suddenly wanted to laugh. Anyone who knew what happened to Princess Zhaoyun would probably think so. How could a royal princess be bullied into this by her husband and her husband's concubine?
Look, doesn’t this lose the royal dignity?
He sighed deeply, obviously not agreeing with his sister's point of view, and said: "The royal princess is just glamorous on the surface, and she is not omnipotent."
Xia Houshu was very surprised and puzzled by this. She has not had the opportunity to have much contact with the royal family since she was so old, but in her short-term understanding, all the people in the royal family seem to have an arrogance that is higher than the top.
Prince Zhao and his wife are like this, and so is Princess Mingjia. Most of them are bullies who use their power to bully others.
"Princess Zhaoyun is the only daughter of Empress Huixian and the youngest daughter of Emperor Hui. She has been peaceful, kind, and virtuous since she was a child, and was deeply favored by the emperor and empress. It is said that Emperor Hui once chose a consort for Princess Zhaoyun.
All the sons of the aristocratic families in the capital of suitable age were summoned to the palace for personal testing. All the major aristocratic families were guessing whose heir would be lucky enough to be Princess Shang, but no one expected that Emperor Hui would eventually marry her to Yuwen, who was still the eldest son of Prince Ling at the time.
Sheng." Xia Houyi said and sighed again, "The eldest princess Zhaoyun was so well protected that she didn't know that people's hearts are sinister, and it was impossible to predict that Yu Wensheng would be so heartbroken and crazy about replacing her child for the sake of the one she loved.
Otherwise, she could have sent someone to check Yu Wensheng's details before granting the marriage, and she would not have to wait until she was married to find out that Yu Wensheng had already been in love with him. Even if the marriage was a foregone conclusion, she did not have to sincerely make a mistake and end up in a trap.
That’s it.”
After Xia Houyi finished explaining, he glanced at Xia Houshu again and said meaningfully: "Also, do you think Yu Wenyi's death was accidental?"
Isn't it?
Xia Houshu looked at her brother's solemn expression and already had the answer in her heart. She originally thought this was the cruelest part, but she didn't expect that there would be even more cruel things. Yu Wensheng and Mrs. Xue, the loving couple, for what they called "
"Love", how many more sins have it caused?
"So...Yu Wenyi also died unexpectedly?" Xia Houshu's lips trembled slightly.
Xia Houyi nodded slightly and said: "Yu Wenyi was pushed into the lake and drowned."
Yu Wenyi was only about nine years old when she died. She was a beautiful little girl with a simple mind and innocence. She was pushed into the lake hard like that. She kept sinking, choking on the water, struggling desperately, and begging for help. Finally,
I watched helplessly as I was gradually submerged by the lake water mixed with dead branches and dead leaves...
Just thinking about that scene made Xia Houshu feel very uncomfortable. Some of the beliefs she had held for many years were like a mirror, shattered to pieces in an instant.
In this matter, she can no longer treat everyone in a normal way.
"Who did it?" Xia Houshu asked with difficulty, with a vague goal in mind.
In order to consolidate the status of his childhood sweetheart, the mausoleum prince Yu Wensheng did not hesitate to exchange for the eldest son born to Princess Zhaoyun, and also indirectly killed his childhood sweetheart's daughter. Now that Mrs. Xue has given birth to another daughter, in order to show his loyalty to Mrs. Xue
, it is not impossible to kill the daughter of Princess Zhaoyun...
Tiger poison doesn’t even eat seeds!
Xia Houshu closed his eyes, suppressed his anger, and asked: "Is he also the King of Ling?"
"Not this time." Xia Houyi frowned and said, "Princess Zhaoyun was worried and became ill after giving birth. She depended on her daughter all day long and was no longer willing to see Prince Ling. And Prince Ling felt guilty and did not dare to see her. They
The already weak relationship between husband and wife broke up. On the other side, Mrs.
She was killed one month after the birth of the second daughter Yu Wenyu. It is said that Yu Wenyi was playing in the garden with a group of maids and servants that day. She accidentally heard people passing by talking about what happened in Mrs. Xue's house. She was so young.
She just wanted to secretly visit her sister who was just one month old."
If the innocent and kind-hearted Yu Wenyi was killed on the way to see her sister, then the person who harmed her...
"Did Yu Wenyi be killed by Mrs. Xue?" Xia Houshu asked anxiously.
Xia Houyi looked very intolerable, but he had to admit that the truth was indeed the case.
"Princess Zhaoyun was injured after giving birth to twins and could no longer have children. In the following more than ten years, in addition to Mrs.
The broken heart that struck Princess Zhaoyun also made her condition worse." Xia Houyi said eloquently, "There is a saying that when a person's heart is weak, a snake swallows an elephant, and that's the case with Mrs. Xue. She actually lived in Lingdu.
She was already like Princess Ling. She had two sons by her side and her position was stable. However, she still expected her daughter to be treated like an eldest daughter, so she sent someone to trick Yu Wenyi out and pushed her in when no one saw her.
She fell into the lake. And she had just given birth at that time, and she was surrounded by many people who came to congratulate or compliment her. No one would doubt her at all, and everyone thought that Yu Wenyi's drowning was an accident."
In this situation, Princess Zhaoyun is probably the only one who believes that Yu Wenyi has been harmed. How devastated must she be to be continuously betrayed and hurt by her closest relatives and loved ones?
Xia Houshu originally thought that the noble birth of Princess Zhaoyun would make her luckier than most women, but he did not expect that her identity as a royal princess would become the beginning of her misfortune. Not only could she not make the decision about her own marriage, she could not keep her lover and children.
He couldn't even keep his position as the princess of the mausoleum. In the end, he had no choice but to convert to Buddhism and seek some comfort in the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha.
While sighing with emotion, Xia Houshu discovered a new problem and asked: "These things were all from more than ten or twenty years ago. They even hid them from the rest of the world. Where did you find out about them?"
of?"
Xia Houyi did not hide anything and said truthfully in his defense: "When I was following this clue to investigate, I met Princess Zhaoyun. No, she should be Princess Zhaoyun now."
Your Majesty is now her nephew, so as an aunt, Princess Zhaoyun should indeed be promoted to Princess Zhaoyun. However, she had become a monk ten years ago, so the imperial court's support for her still remained at the level of the late emperor.
The standard for making her the eldest princess.
While recalling the situation when he met Princess Zhaoyun, Xia Houyi said: "When she was so ill that she was in a trance, the old lady around her gave her a plan to become a monk, just to recover from her illness.
She came here to escape from Prince Ling’s control, avoid the eyes and ears of Prince Ling’s Mansion, and find a chance to find out the truth. She had been dormant for many years, but Emperor Tian finally paid off. Not only did she find the person who had exchanged children for Prince Ling, but she also forced him to sign the contract.
After obtaining a confession, he was placed under house arrest in the secret room of Shuiyue Temple and tortured every day to relieve his hatred. He also found the maid who pushed Yu Wenyi into the water. However, the maid was not so lucky. After signing the confession, she was executed in the same way.
No one in the whole family was spared."
What Princess Zhaoyun did was just to retaliate in kind. Xiahou Shu had no position to say anything, and it was hard to judge. But if he executed a whole family of children at once, that was not an ordinary battle, right?
"Don't Prince Ling and Mrs. Xue have any suspicion?" Xia Houshu asked.
"During the Dragon Boat Festival the year before last, the servant girl's family happily went to watch the dragon boat racing competition. The river bank was crowded with people, and a few children were impatient. They left the adults behind and went to the river. They were accidentally pushed into the river.
, the adults in his family jumped in to save him when they saw it, but none of them came up." Xia Houyi said this with a very dull expression, as if what fell into the river was not a living person, but a bunch of rice dumplings.
He paused and continued: "At that time, Princess Zhaoyun was in Shuiyue Nunnery, and the servant girl had been released by Mrs.
Prince Ling doesn’t know the truth about Yu Wenyi’s drowning, so he won’t cast doubt on Princess Zhaoyun. And even if Mrs. Xue becomes suspicious, she can only secretly worry about whether this is retribution.”
It seems that Mrs. Xue is not completely without secrets in front of Prince Ling.
Although Princess Zhaoyun's execution method of the servant girl's family was very cruel, it was very satisfying to her. But no matter how she dealt with those who had hurt her and her children, her son who was taken away would not survive.
She will get close to her, her dead daughter will never come back, and the hurt she suffered will never be healed. And can such a big thing finally come true on her own?
Xia Houshu couldn't help but feel worried and murmured: "Does Princess Zhaoyun just want to kill her enemies and murderers without telling the truth to the world? With the current power of King Ling and Mrs. Xue, she is living alone in a nunnery.
The eldest princess has no other help around her, how can she cope with it?"
"No, Princess Zhaoyun has her own plan." Xia Houyi immediately dismissed her worries, "Sending Yuwen Ke to the capital as a hostage is the first step of her plan."
"What do you mean by this?" Xia Houshu couldn't understand again, and he felt more and more that his brain was not strong enough.
Princess Zhaoyun knew about the dirty things done by Prince Ling, so she always knew that Yu Wenke was her biological son. However, Yu Wenke grew up next to Mrs. Xue when he was a child, and his mother was Mrs. Xue in his heart. How could he be willing to become
Princess Zhaoyun’s bargaining chip for revenge?
Xia Houyi glanced at her and said seductively: "Do you know why I went to investigate Yu Wenke?"
Xia Houshu shook his head. She always thought that he approached Yu Wenke to help her investigate Yi Wu's affairs. Now it seems that helping her was just a matter of convenience.
"Yu Wenke was less than ten years old when he came to the capital. In the past ten years, although King Ling would visit him every year when he returned to the capital to report on his duties, Mrs. Xue had never been to the capital because of her status. Naturally, she did not know about her son.
What do you look like now, how tall are you, and your temperament?" Xia Houyi said slowly like a storyteller, "Mother and son have not seen each other for many years, and it is only natural for people to say hello through letters, and the relationship gradually fades away. But she still has someone by her side.
She was the youngest son of Cheng Huan, so Mrs. Xue would naturally prefer Yu Wenkai. Over time, Mrs. Xue had the idea of abolishing the eldest son and establishing the youngest son as his heir."
"This idea coincides with King Ling's thoughts." Xia Houyi added.
In the Yuwen clan of Prince Ling, husband and wife are not husband and wife, father and son are not like father and son. There are hundreds of people in the house, and each one is better at planning than the other. The internal fighting will definitely be exciting, a real drama. And today, today
The intention is to reduce the vassal state, and he must be happy to hear about it.
Xia Houshu's heart surged when he heard this, and he quickly grabbed Xia Houyi's arm and asked: "After you said so much, does it mean that Yu Wenke also knows that King Ling wants to depose him as the heir apparent?"