Orange pushed Lin Shiyin down on the bench, and the two palace maids hit Lin Shiyin with boards.
The entire Xiande Palace was filled with Lin Shiyin's screams.
Concubine De closed her eyes when she heard the screams. She knew that Song Youtang was warning her to take this as a warning.
As soon as Tang Che walked out of Xiande Palace with Ying Bao in his arms, he was stopped by the little palace maid who had just testified in the palace.
"The eldest princess stayed, and the slave Hongyou thanked the princess for her grace. If the princess hadn't given her money yesterday and asked the slave to find a doctor to cure her brother's illness, the slave would have been charged with the crime and prepared to die."
Hongyou kowtowed three times to Tang Che and Ying Bao.
Ying Bao got down from Tang Che's arms, helped Hongyou up, and smiled with crooked eyebrows.
[Fortunately, yesterday I saw that she had something to hide, so I asked Brother Sanzhi to help find out that there were patients in her home, and I helped her out, and she was willing to testify against Concubine De. 】
Tang Che was a little surprised, but it seemed reasonable, and his eyes towards Hongyou became kind.
"You entered the palace to support the family and treat your younger brother. You should not have to take the blame for others and die. Now that you have offended Concubine De, if you leave the palace, I can let you go home."
Hearing what Tang Che said, Ying Bao also nodded in agreement.
"No, Hongyou doesn't want to leave the palace. Hongyou is willing to accompany the eldest princess and serve her wholeheartedly to repay the eldest princess for saving her life."
Hongyou knelt down again, "Both of my parents are dead, and I only have one younger brother to take care of. This time, I have offended Empress Dowager De very severely. I am afraid that I will be settled by Empress Dowager De after leaving the palace. I have the courage to cling to the eldest princess. I hope The eldest princess will protect you, and Hongyou will be loyal to you!"
[He is a sensible person, and the loyal servant who comes to your door is not in vain. 】
Tang Che looked at Ying Bao in a deep voice for a moment, only to see Xiaotuanzi nodding to him with big eyes.
"In that case, just follow Ying Bao and serve him."
Hongyou quickly kowtowed in thanks.
Lin Shiyin was thrown in front of the Lin Mansion gate by Orange and other palace ladies, and the maids in the mansion quickly carried her into the mansion.
Lin Zhengyuan, Minister of the Ministry of War, and his wife saw their daughter entering the palace well and came back bruised and bruised. When they saw the eldest maid next to the queen, they were shocked and angry.
Orange first saluted the two of them, and then spoke.
"According to the Queen Mother's instructions, Miss Lin failed in her attempt to seduce His Highness the Fifth Prince. She was punished with twenty sticks and was never allowed to enter the palace. I also hope that Master Lin will discipline her daughter and not cause trouble again, otherwise she will cause trouble to the whole family." If it’s a big sin, it’s not good.”
Lin Zhengyuan nodded in reply with a sullen face. After sending the orange away, when he entered the door, he saw his wife holding Lin Shiyin and crying out of breath.
Lin Zhengyuan said coldly: "When Shiyin recovers from her injuries, she will send her back to her hometown to find a matchmaker and get married."
"Master, how could you do this?!" The lady was shocked.
Going back to your hometown means never returning to the capital. How can a girl whose natal family is far away in Beijing be treated well by her husband's family?
"Father, it's because of the daughter's incompetence in doing things this time." Lin Shiyin was even more unwilling and prayed, "Please father, don't send your daughter away. My daughter has a way to deal with the fifth prince. Just based on the fifth prince's feelings for her in the past few years, she will be able to defeat her again." Can you give your daughter a chance?"
Lin Zhengyuan looked at Lin Shiyin who was lying on the bed crying and seemed to be thinking about whether to give her another chance.
"Father, my daughter must marry the fifth prince before she recovers from her injury!" Lin Shiyin noticed Lin Zhengyuan's hesitation and her tone was almost pleading.
"In that case, I will give you another chance." Lin Zhengyuan's eyes were dark and unclear, "Remember, you are not the only daughter of mine."
After finishing speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and left.
Lin Shiyin's eyes were full of hatred. She pulled out the hairpin from her head and stabbed it to the edge of the bed, pinning it several times until it lost its strength.
"Tang Che! I will definitely make you regret treating me like this!"
At night.
A dark shadow appeared in Lin Shiyin's room.
The visitor glanced at the hairpin on her bed and the riddled bedside, picked up the hairpin and stabbed it into her neck quickly and accurately.
Lin Shiyin covered her neck and wanted to call someone, but she couldn't make a sound. She felt the hairpin piercing deeper, and reached out to pull off the black figure's mask, but the hairpin penetrated his throat.
Blood splashed on the man's face, and Lin Shiyin died with hatred.
"Everyone who dares to climb into the master's bed will die. You are not worthy of making the master regret it."
Wiping the blood on her face, she pretended that Lin Shiyin had committed suicide, and then left quietly.
Early the next morning, the screams of the maid serving Lin Shiyin successfully alarmed the entire Lin residence.
Ying Bao was frightened awake by Uncle Li Gui.
"Let Yingbao have a good sleep!" Yingbao rolled on the bed with a sad face, "Yingbao hasn't slept in for two days!"
[I finally got rid of the days when Master asked me to get up early in the morning to practice every day. As a three-year-old baby, I can't even sleep in! ah! I'm going to explode! I really want to shoot this evil uncle away! 】
Uncle Li Gui touched his nose guiltily: "Lin Shiyin is dead."
"I want to sleep no matter who is dead!" Ying Bao turned over angrily and covered his head in the quilt.
After a while.
Tang Ying sat up and looked at Uncle Li Gui's floating head with her messy hair on her head.
"Lin Shiyin is dead?! How did she die?"
"Guess~" Uncle Li Gui had a wicked smile on his face, his eyes were full of gossip, and he was talking to himself without waiting for Ying Bao's answer.
"It was the secret guard who killed him. Don't tell me. I have been wandering in this palace for ten years, and I have watched that kid grow up. He can actually raise an secret guard who has evil intentions for him. Wei, I asked the little devil in the palace all night, and it is said that the secret guard even disappeared the prince’s first wife, and my little prince brother has never touched a woman until now!”
【Wow go! Brother Sanzhi is so possessive! Hahaha, no wonder my uncle is so innocent! 】
Tang Ying listened with great interest, the gossip in her eyes almost spilled out, the corners of her mouth raised crazily, and she pretended not to listen and covered her little ears.
"Oh, I can't listen. I can't listen."
Yingbao shrank into the quilt, "Yingbao is still a baby, and the evil uncle wants to lead Yingbao into trouble."
Tang Fan raised his eyebrows and looked at the bulging quilt on the bed, and chuckled: "Still pretending? It's not time for you to fool that secret guard."
Tang Ying poked out half of her head from the quilt, and her exposed eyes were particularly bright.
Suddenly he remembered the majestic appearance of Uncle Li Gui and his second uncle in the court the day before yesterday.
"When you were showing off your authority in the court, you were not like this."
"I couldn't get into the human body at that time." Uncle Li Gui laughed dryly and floated in front of Ying Bao, "Thanks to you, little ghost, I can show off that power."
"Hmph, tell the truth, do you have a grudge against that old man from the official department?" Tang Ying narrowed her eyes.
Uncle Li Gui was silent for a moment: "Do you really want to know?"
Tang Ying nodded heavily and felt a little solemn in her heart when she saw Uncle Li Gui put away his laughter.
A wisp of black energy emerged from his fingertips and penetrated into the center of Ying Bao's eyebrows.
Ying Bao felt that everything in front of him was going backwards.
The scene changes.
Tang Fan was born to a maid in the cold palace. The emperor favored her after drinking and conferred the title of Talent. However, she was found to be pregnant after only a month, and was regarded as a thorn in the side of the entire palace's concubines.
However, the emperor never had an heir, so the queen protected her and gave birth to Tang Fan. Although he was the eldest son, he was given the name Fan, Tongfan.
His mother and concubine taught him day and night, and finally one day he showed his talent in front of the emperor and won his favor.
In the blink of an eye, the concubines in the palace gave birth to princes one after another.
His mother-in-law only let him sleep for two hours a day, and he was not allowed to go out to play with his peers at other times. At a young age, he could only imitate the calmness of adults with a sullen face.
One day, Tang Fan saw a kitten and couldn't help but take it back to his bedroom to feed it.
But the mother-in-law found out, beat him severely, and took the kitten from his arms to strangle him to death.
Tang Fan resisted his mother-in-law for the first time, snatched the kitten into his arms, knelt on the ground and begged his mother-in-law to let it go.
"Concubine, Fan'er will not miss his studies. Please don't kill it, it's only less than a month old."
Tang Fan's face was filled with tears. The fur on the kitten in his arms exploded, and it breathed at the woman. Its screams were full of fear.
The concubine took out a wooden stick and hit Tang Fan on the back until traces of blood seeped out of his clothes.
"You want to raise this beast, don't you?"
The mother-in-law had a gloomy face, "Can you protect her in such a huge palace? Back then, I was just a dispensable maid in the cold palace. She had no power and power in the palace, but she was favored by the emperor. After I became pregnant with you, you knew she had How many people want to kill me?!"
Tang Fan felt the kitten's heart beating wildly in his arms, and its body as big as his hand was trembling.
He said with a crying voice: "Fan'er knows that Fan'er has worked hard enough. Fan'er just wants to raise it and let it grow up safely."
"You can't raise it, because its life is not up to it."
The mother-in-law held his hand with a cold face.
The big hand hugged the small hand, placed it on the kitten's neck, which was as slender as fingers, and tightened suddenly.
The kitten was grabbed by the throat and struggled desperately. Its mouth was forced open, its barbed tongue was pinched out, and its four paws desperately tried to grab the two hands.
Tang Fan shook his head with red eyes, trying to get rid of the big hand: "No, Concubine doesn't want it! I won't raise it anymore, I won't raise it anymore! Let it go, Concubine, Fan'er doesn't want anything!"
When he saw that the kitten was about to die, Tang Fan opened his mouth and bit the back of the concubine's hand. Tears fell on the kitten, and he felt that the kitten in his hand had no heartbeat and could not even move.
The mother-in-law slapped him in the face.
"You actually bit your biological mother because of a beast! I didn't want you to become the prince, so that we, mother and son, can gain a foothold in the palace!"
Tang Fan stared blankly at the lifeless kitten in his hand. He wanted to cry but couldn't. He only felt that the roar in his ears was particularly harsh.
He is eight years old this year. He has lived according to the requirements of his mother and concubine for ten years. In these ten years, he has never had the fun of his peers. He is like a puppet controlled by his mother and concubine.
"If you didn't have the ability, you would be killed as easily as this beast. Even the sharp claws you extended when you struggled would not be able to scratch anyone!"
Every word of his mother-in-law was engraved on his heart.
He killed the kitten with his own hands, he was the one who killed it.
It was also at this moment that he clearly felt the fragility of life.
He held the kitten's gradually cold and stiff body and stayed on the ground like that all night.
