After breakfast.
Yun Chu began to order people to pack their bags.
By noon, everything was sorted out. The family of four got on the carriage, left Pingxi Palace and headed towards Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing.
The two children were very excited and acted disobediently while sitting in the car. They raised the curtain and looked out.
At this time, a carriage drove past their carriage with the curtains open. Yun Chu saw a familiar face from the corner of his eye.
She immediately raised her head and looked carefully, and saw Yuan's increasingly older face.
Yuanshi seemed a little uneasy and did not notice her.
The two carriages passed each other quickly.
"That's the Gongsun family's carriage."
Chu Yi's voice rang in Yunchu's ears.
Yun Chu thought for a moment and understood.
I think Xie Shi'an had informed King Gongxi about Xie Ping becoming the crown prince's concubine.
King Gongxi did not choose to let Xie Ping become his spy. Instead, he used this incident as a handle to control the queen.
The Gongsun family's carriage quickly arrived at the gate of the palace.
When Yuan got off the carriage, Nanny Yin personally greeted her at the door and led Yuan towards Kunning Palace.
This was Yuan's first time entering the palace. She didn't know where to put her hands, where to look, or what she was thinking.
After a while, she walked to Kunning Palace and looked at the majestic palace. Her legs suddenly became weak and she couldn't help but ask: "Can you tell me, what is the reason why the Queen summoned me?"
"When you get in front of your Majesty, you can't call yourself me. You have to call yourself a commoner or a civilian woman." Nanny Yin walked to the steps of the main hall, lowered her head and said, "My Majesty, Mrs. Xie Yuan is here."
Immediately, Mrs. Yuan walked in with her head lowered, knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Mr. Xie Yuan, a commoner woman, comes to see the Queen!"
The Queen spoke calmly: "I will give you a seat and serve you tea."
Yuanshi sat down in a daze, her buttocks just touching each other, not daring to drink the tea, her head lowered, feeling uneasy.
"After the death of the fourth child, it was your eldest daughter, the Xie family, who guarded the mausoleum for the fourth child in the imperial mausoleum. The Xie family had to work hard without any credit." The queen said, "Now that she died unexpectedly, according to the rules, the court should allocate funds to the Xie family. Some pensions…”
"What?" Yuanshi raised her head suddenly, "Ping'er is dead?"
The Queen said quietly: "He has been dead for a while and has been buried."
Yuanshi's hands shook violently, and tears burst into her eyes uncontrollably...
At this time, Grandma Yin led a woman in from the door.
The woman wearing a rose-pink palace dress is Xie Ping.
When she first entered the palace, she was afraid of showing up in front of people. She was afraid that people would recognize her face.
But during this time in the palace, no one noticed her true identity, and she gradually felt relieved.
She walked into the hall and saw the Queen. She was about to speak when suddenly, a very familiar voice came to her ears.
"Ping'er...you are Ping'er!"
This sound was like a bolt of thunder striking down from Xie Ping's Heavenly Spirit Cap, causing her whole body to tremble violently.
She didn't dare to turn her head and said in a low voice: "I, I'm not, you recognized the wrong person..."
"You are!" Mrs. Yuan stood up from her chair excitedly and grabbed Xie Ping's shoulders, "Ping'er, you are our Xie family's Ping'er. Great, you are not dead!"
The queen's face darkened: "Here comes someone!"
The guards waiting outside strode in. Two guards held Yuan's shoulders, gagged her mouth, and dragged her out.
Yuanshi didn't understand what was going on at all, so she was locked in a side room.
As for Xie Ping, the guards also held down her shoulders and forced her to kneel on the ground.
"Very good, I and the prince were fooled by a little girl like you!"
The queen picked up the cup and smashed it in front of Xie Ping's face. The porcelain fragments flew and cut Xie Ping's face, causing her to almost faint from the pain.
"Empress, please spare my life..." Xie Ping cried loudly and crawled over, hugging the Queen's trouser legs, "I truly love His Highness the Crown Prince, and will never ruin His Highness' great cause, please..."
The queen was furious, raised her foot and kicked Xie Ping over.
Taking in the widow of his own brother would be a disgrace to anyone, let alone the crown prince of a country.
The prince has adopted the fourth wife's concubine as a concubine, and this Xie Ping's status is quite special. She is a descendant of the He family who was kidnapped back then. If anyone knew about it, the ministers at the Yushitai would definitely accuse the prince of being disloyal and unkind. Yi, instigating the emperor to depose the prince.
The prince is already mediocre. If this happens again, the prince's position will definitely be unstable.
"Tell me, who sent you to plot against the prince?"
The queen raised her foot, stepped on Xie Ping's chest, and asked coldly.
Xie Ping gasped and shook her head: "No, I didn't. I can't possibly harm the prince. Please spare my life..."
Halfway through her words, she keenly heard movement outside the hall.
She suddenly changed the subject, "I have always liked His Highness the Crown Prince, so I saved His Highness with my own life. I never dared to enter the East Palace... I don't know why I fell into the Crown Prince's favor for me. I I am greedy for this momentary pleasure, but I don’t know how much trouble it will bring to the prince... Madam, I was wrong, I can’t continue to make mistakes, I am willing to die, please do it."
She closed her eyes.
The queen narrowed her eyes.
How could a person who had just begged for life suddenly beg for death?
She suddenly realized something was wrong. When she looked up, she saw the door being knocked open and the prince stumbling in, protecting the woman who was paralyzed on the ground behind him.
"Mother!" The prince knelt in front of the queen, "Linglong, she..."
"Her name is not Wu Linglong, her real name is Xie Ping, she is your fourth brother's concubine, and a descendant of the He family!" The queen said one word at a time, "She was the one who killed the original Wu Linglong and designed a plan to sacrifice her life. The whole rescue scene is just to get into the Eastern Palace! Now that things have happened, you still have to protect this scheming bitch. Don’t you want your position as the crown prince?"
The prince raised his head: "As a prince, if I can't protect my own woman, then why should I be a prince?"
"you you!"
The queen was so angry that her head was swollen.
"Do you know that just because of this bitch, Chu Mo asked me for thirty thousand taels of silver!"
Xie Ping's pupils shrank suddenly.
Wasn't An Ge'er working for King Gongxi Chu Mo? Could it be that An Ge'er revealed this matter to King Gongxi?
So the queen invited her grandmother into the palace to confirm her identity?
Xie Shi'an...that's her biological brother, why would he do things so absolutely!
Xie Ping was trembling all over. Not only was she afraid that the Queen would kill her, but she also couldn't believe that she had been betrayed by her relatives...
"She must die!"
The queen spoke every word with murderous intent in her eyes.
The prince stretched out his hands to protect Xie Ping, raised his head and said, "She can't change this fact even if she dies. Why should the queen mother do anything that will affect the harmony between us, mother and son?"
Seeing his attitude of fighting to the end, the queen laughed angrily.
It seems that she protected her son so well that he lost his most basic vigilance.
