Xia Houyi nodded, rubbing his smooth chin and thinking about it carefully.
After a long time, he suddenly said: "Yu Wenke is no longer the child who was less than ten years old and had no power to tie a chicken. On the contrary, he has a very deep city, is good at dancing, has many faces, is very good at disguise and management, and his behavior is the same as when he was young.
Although he was in the capital, his eyes and ears were stationed in the palace of Prince Ling in Lingdu, and there were many loyal supporters around him. After learning about Prince Ling's plan, he began to fight back overtly and covertly. He was afraid that he would be pampered.
Yu Wenkai is no match for him."
Xia Houshu expressed his understanding of this. After all, Yu Wenke left home and went to Beijing with his parents as hostages at a young age. This was a great achievement for the Ling Prince's Mansion, and it was also something that Yu Wenkai, who had been held in the palm of his parents' hands since childhood, could not compare to Ling.
The close followers around the king will not be unaware of this truth. Moreover, he is still the eldest son. From the surface, there is no reason for Yu Wensheng and Mrs. Xue to deprive him of his throne. But now the people he regards as his parents and brothers are behind the scenes.
After plotting against him and letting him know, how could he just let others take advantage of him without saying a word? His counterattack was just to protect his own rights and interests.
Thinking of this, Xia Houshu suddenly felt a little sympathetic to Yuwen Ke, and gradually understood where his inconsistent personality came from. She asked again: "Does Yuwen Ke know his own life experience?"
Xia Houyi thought for a while and said: "He doesn't know yet."
Xia Houshu sympathized with Yu Wenke even more. He was betrayed by his biological father as soon as he was born, and he still considered himself a thief and his mother for so many years. It was so unlucky that he finally got to the point where he was plotted against by his close relatives!
Xia Houyi did not notice the pity shown on his sister's face, and continued thoughtfully: "As far as I know, Mrs. Xue still doesn't know that Yu Wenke is not her biological son. If not, she will not give birth to her eldest son.
She was indecisive and undecided with her youngest son. After all, for her now, the palms and backs of her hands were all flesh, and she still felt guilty for Yu Wenke. But the idea of King Ling wanting Yi Si was very obvious. From then on,
From Yu Wenke's perspective, at most he suspects that he is not welcomed because he has been away from his parents for many years, and he will not doubt his own life experience."
"Then why do you suspect that he is not Mrs. Xue's son?" Xia Houshu frowned slightly. Even if the relationship between mother and son is not close, there is no reason to doubt their blood relationship, right?
Speaking of this reason, Xia Houyi also thought it was a coincidence and funny, so he said: "I met Mrs. Xue in Lingdu. At that time, she happened to be strolling on the street with her two children. It was a grand scene and it was difficult not to attract the attention of others. Honestly
Said Mrs.
Du, while Yu Wenyu inherited Mrs. Xue’s beauty. Mother and daughter were carved from the same mold, so Prince Ling loved them very much."
"Yu Wenke's appearance is not bad either," Xia Houshu couldn't help but interject.
Xia Houyi did not blame his sister for the sudden interruption. Instead, he said with a smile: "It is true that Yu Wenke's appearance is one of the best in the capital, but guess who he looks like?"
Generally speaking, a child either looks like his father or his mother. If Yuwen Ke doesn't look like King Ling, then he can only look like her biological mother, and her biological mother...
An idea flashed in Xia Houshu's mind: "Yu Wenke looks like Princess Zhaoyun?"
"That's right." Xia Houyi looked at his sister with admiration, "Isn't it strange that the child born to Mrs. Xue looks like the eldest princess Zhaoyun? Ordinary people have no chance to see the eldest princess, so they can't see anything.
The clues are coming, can't Prince Ling see it? Are His Majesty and the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty blind now?"
This is probably another sad part of this incident. So many people saw it, but no one told Yu Wenke, and they just watched the father and son kill each other.
Xia Houshu dug out some clues and said hesitantly: "So you are following the emperor's order to investigate Yu Wenke?"
Xia Houyi admired his sister's Min Rui more and more, and nodded: "When Princess Zhaoyun got married, I was not yet born, so naturally I didn't have the chance to see her true appearance, so when I first came into contact with Yu Wenke, I didn't doubt him.
Life experience. But now His Majesty is her nephew, and there are so many old people in the palace. Anyone who looks at Yu Wenke's appearance has to suspect that there is something fishy here."
Sure enough, there must be something sparse in every hundred secrets.
The mausoleum prince Yu Wensheng probably never dreamed that he risked beheading and even indirectly killed Mrs.
Princess Yun Chang. And this accident became one of the evidences against him in the future.
Back then, Princess Zhaoyun and Mrs. Xue were on the same page, and one was a full-term birth and the other was a premature birth. No one dared to lie and claim that the wet nurse accidentally reported the error, right?
I'm afraid that every time King Ling returned to Beijing to report on his duties in the past few years, he would be unable to eat or sleep at night when faced with Yuwen Ke's face, so he would pretend to be drunk and delirious.
It’s not that I won’t report it, it’s that the time has not yet come.
Xia Houshu suddenly felt happy in his heart.
"You don't have to be too happy too early." Xia Houyi suddenly poured cold water on her again, "There was suspicion in the palace, so I was asked to investigate privately. I also reported the information I found truthfully, but so far,
I didn't get any feedback, so I can't figure out what Your Majesty is thinking. And as far as I know, due to the obstruction of Prince Ling and Mrs. Xue, Princess Zhaoyun has never contacted the palace in these years. Every time the palace sends
People who gave her gifts or visited her could only look at her from afar in public to confirm that she was fine, without knowing that she was actually controlled by others."
After listening to his words, Xia Houshu couldn't help but be in awe of this royal princess who lived a useless life in the first half of her life, and praised: "Under such circumstances, she was still able to find out the truth back then, and even killed some of her enemies.
, it’s really respectable and admirable!”
Xia Houyi didn't know how to answer, so he could only sigh: "This is probably because women are weak by nature, but mothers are strong. Yu Wenke was replaced, but after all, he can still see him again from time to time, but Yu Wenyi can never survive again
, so she has to stand up again no matter what."
Xia Houshu nodded in agreement, and then asked: "Since you have met Princess Zhaoyun, it means that she is not completely unable to escape. Now she chooses to stay in Lingdu, perhaps for the next step of revenge. In addition,
Does she have anything else to say or anything to entrust you with?"
Xia Houyi fell into memories again. When he went to Mianxiang Mountain to visit his master, he secretly sneaked into the capital of Ling. He tried his best to get rid of the eyes and ears of the king of Ling, and sneaked into Shuiyue Temple under the cover of Fuxi, and saw the whole body.
The plain Princess Zhaoyun. Compared to Mrs. Xue, who is similar in age and has a smooth life, Princess Zhaoyun is obviously much older and haggard, but the majesty and calm temperament of the royal princess seem to be engraved in her bones and blood.
He was not at all damaged by the difficult situation he was facing.
She looked very peaceful, but in fact she was very sad and cautious. After learning his identity and purpose of coming, she only highlighted the key points and did not mention anything else.
Xia Houyi frowned deeply, shook his head and said: "Princess Zhaoyun does have a bigger plan, but she didn't reveal it, so I couldn't ask directly. And I feel that there seems to be a master beside her, but she has never shown up.
.I tried to track her for a while, but in the end I still couldn’t catch up. I think the other party should be Princess Zhaoyun’s secret guard, so although she can’t come in and out freely, her life is not in danger for the time being.”
Xia Houshu had also heard of the term secret guards. The royal family would equip their valued adult princes and married princesses with secret guards in order to protect them. Princess Zhaoyun was a direct princess, and she and the Prince of Ling were given royal gifts.
marriage, so it makes sense to have a secret guard.
"Actually, I can see that she doesn't trust me that much." Xia Houyi added, "When I went to see her, she asked many questions about the past of her parents when they were young and some relatively private relationships, openly and secretly. Whenever I
If she is a fake, or she doesn't know about her parents' affairs, it will arouse her suspicion. So she is willing to tell me the truth back then, just for the sake of her grandfather and father. Otherwise, given her identity and situation, she would not be able to tell me the truth at all.
Maybe she should pay attention to me, a junior who has never met me. As for the palace, she doesn’t seem to think about it that much, and even has a bit of hatred."
"Hate?" Xia Houshu was very surprised by this answer. She could understand that Princess Zhaoyun had been tortured for a long time and had built up a heavy psychological defense after being scarred with wounds, but she could not understand why she would be so angry with those in the palace.
There is hatred. It stands to reason that Princess Zhaoyun is a legitimate princess, and her mother was once the queen of the middle palace. With her as the dividing line, the people sitting on the throne for the three generations above and below are all close relatives with whom her blood is thicker than water.
She should be much stronger than many concubine princesses. And since she grew up in the palace, shouldn't she have deep feelings for the capital and the palace? Why does she hate it?
"This is actually quite understandable." Xia Houyi saw through her thoughts and explained patiently, "Princess Zhaoyun was only seventeen years old when she got married. She was young, ignorant and innocent, and she also had feelings for Prince Ling.
What she expected. For more than twenty years, she was trapped alone in the Lingdu Palace and Shuiyue Temple. She experienced the dangers of people's hearts, but had no way to turn to her. The palace and the capital were her former home and the
A distant hometown. But in these years, in the home and hometown she regarded as her home, no one noticed her plight and saved her from misery. How could she not complain or hate? "
When he said this, Xia Houshu could understand.
She was forced to stay in Boyunguan at the beginning. Although she had the meticulous care and close companionship of her master and the senior sisters, as she grew up, knew her identity, and understood the reason for being raised in Boyunguan, she also
She had felt abandoned, and even complained about everything. When the wind blew in the mountains, she asked for the wind; when it rained, she asked for the rain; when it snowed, she built a snowman in the cold yard and then fought with it. No one was around.
Tell her why it is you.
If her parents hadn't picked her up in time, kept her by their side, carefully cared for and taught her, and made her feel loved, the resentment in her heart might have grown wildly and one day she would have hurt others and herself.
It is said that a person's good or evil can sometimes be determined by just one thought.
One thought becomes a devil, one thought becomes a Buddha.
Her former resentment was soothed in time, so she became a relatively clear and cheerful person today. Princess Zhaoyun was not so lucky. All the innocence and good expectations she had when she was young were lost in those conspiracies, deceptions,
He was exhausted by betrayal, injury and loss, so he developed a hard heart that wanted revenge at all costs.
This is probably what it means to be sad more than to die. Only in this way can she plan her plans without any distractions and make those who have bullied and trampled on her pay the price.
Xia Houshu believed that as the true purpose of Prince Ling and Mrs.
His revenge will also be exposed, and sooner or later the truth will be revealed to the world.
At this moment, she secretly hoped that Princess Zhaoyun could fulfill this big wish.
As for what the Yuwen family will do next, she and Xia Houyi, as outsiders who know the truth, can't get involved. It's better to just wait and see what happens and see who will have the last laugh.