My Lord, the princess doesn't want you anymore.

Cui Hongqi's whole body was trembling, his hands were shaking, and his voice was no longer as calm as usual.

No one knew that under the mask, the face was completely distorted.

Hua Lao Er held his breath and said, "My Lord, I..."

Cui Hongqi loosened his grip, trying to suppress the trembling in his heart. He gritted his teeth and said, "What else do you know? Tell me!"

"Ahem... Also, there are some trivial matters that happened in the capital recently..."

Cui Hongqi interrupted him: "I'm asking what else you know about this Defei?!"

He slowly loosened his grip, and Hua Laoer continued, "And there was something that happened even longer..."

It turned out that more than 40 years ago, when the wife of Minister Mei was still unmarried, she was met with a gangster while out. Fortunately, a young couple rescued her and saved her innocence and life, and escorted her back home. Mrs. Mei's family was very grateful, but the couple left without even having a meal, and refused to say who they were, only saying that their surname was Helian. Mrs. Mei's family was not a big family, and she didn't know many things about the court, so she didn't think much about this surname.

After Mrs. Mei married Minister Mei, she told her husband about this past event. At that time, Minister Mei was just a small doctor in the Ministry of Personnel. When he heard the other party's surname was Helian, he remembered that the king's surname of the Nanyue Kingdom at that time was Helian. However, he was not sure that the couple must be from the Nanyue royal family. After all, there were people with the surname Helian even in the Zhenguo.

Minister Mei loved his wife very much and felt that his wife’s benefactor was his own benefactor. He thought that no matter who the benefactor was, he must find the benefactor and find a way to repay the favor.

After searching for a year, he finally found them. The couple was indeed from the Nanyue royal family. The man was Helian Mingyue, the younger brother of the Nanyue king.

Doctor Mei had been promoted to the position of Vice Minister of Personnel, so he wanted to go to Nanyue to thank his benefactor in person. However, Mrs. Mei was already seven months pregnant, so Doctor Mei wanted to wait until she gave birth before going.

As luck would have it, the emperor happened to send him on a business trip south at this time, to the border between Zhen and Nanyue, only two days' drive from the capital of Nanyue.

When Mrs. Mei learned about this, she wanted to go with her husband and continue south together after he finished his business.

Minister Mei naturally refused, but Mrs. Mei insisted on going, saying that after giving birth, she would have to take care of the child and might not be able to leave the house. The doctor also said that the fetus would be more stable at six or seven months, and that she should move around more before giving birth to facilitate delivery. The journey to South Vietnam was not too bumpy, so she could just treat it as a trip and be back in a month at most.

Minister Mei had no choice but to agree, thinking that she would still have three months to give birth.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived in Nanyue, they happened to encounter a sudden civil strife in the Nanyue royal family. Minister Mei asked his wife to wait at the inn. When he found Helian Mingyue, Helian Mingyue and the princess were fleeing, accompanied by a nanny holding a baby who was only a few days old. Because they swore to support the king of Nanyue, the rebels sent many assassins to hunt them down.

The Helian couple knew they could not escape the disaster, so after learning Minister Mei's identity and the purpose of his trip, they entrusted their baby to him and begged him to help raise their child who was only a few days old.

Minister Mei was a man of loyalty and did not want to abandon his benefactor, so he wanted to take them to Zhen Kingdom for temporary refuge. But Helian Mingyue and his princess were unwilling to do so, saying that they could not leave the King of Nanyue to live alone, and that they could not escape at all, as there were too many assassins who would soon catch up with them.

In desperation, Minister Mei held his benefactor's child in tears and swore to them that he would raise the baby as his own.

Helian Mingyue and his wife then smiled with relief, and with great reluctance to part with their child, they committed suicide in front of Minister Mei.

The nanny also wanted to go with her master, but before Helian Mingyue died, she told her to stay with Minister Mei and raise the child together.

Minister Mei and the nanny took the child back to the inn, packed their things in a hurry and rushed back to Zhenguo.

After getting on the carriage, Minister Mei told his wife the whole process.

Mrs. Mei burst into tears. She was a mother herself, and she couldn't bear to see her child suffer. She felt even more heartbroken when she saw the baby's mouth opening and closing, completely unaware of the dangers of the world.

Due to excessive grief and the days of running away, she suffered a miscarriage on the way and lost the baby.

After returning to Zhenguo, the couple announced that not only did they fail to find their benefactor, but the woman's baby was also born prematurely.

Minister Mei and his wife named the baby Mei Yuan, raised her as their own daughter, and decided to keep the truth from her forever. Therefore, apart from the couple, the two servants who accompanied them, and the nanny, no one knew the child's true origin.

Of course the nanny wouldn't say anything, and those two servants were people they trusted very much.

When Mei Yuan was sixteen, Minister Mei was promoted to Minister Mei.

That year, Minister Mei attended the palace banquet on New Year's Eve with his family. It was the first time that Mei Yuan saw the dashing, young and handsome Cui Qimo, and her face blushed immediately.

She wants to marry the man she loves and have children for her.

Later, she got her wish and became Concubine De, one of Cui Qimo's two most favored women in the harem.

One year after entering the palace, Concubine De gave birth to a prince, who is today's Prince Qi, Cui Hongqi.

But when Cui Hongqi was four years old, he broke his leg while riding a horse. Soon after, Concubine De also died, and the cause of death is still unknown.

When Concubine De died, Minister Mei and his wife were extremely sad and felt guilty towards their benefactor. In addition, the emperor's attitude towards Minister Mei also changed, so the couple resigned from their official positions and returned to their hometown. Soon after, he died of illness in his hometown.

The Chen family has declined since then.

This is the end of Hua Laoer’s story.

Cui Hongqi listened motionlessly, his handsome figure revealing an overwhelming shock.

He just stood there, motionless.

After an unknown amount of time, he asked, "Since the person is gone, how did you know?"

"There is no secret in this world that can be kept secret forever."

"Where is that nanny?" Cui Hongqi asked.

"That maid later entered the palace with Mei Yuan and served her. The harem was full of open and covert struggles, and the fights between women were vicious and vicious. In order to protect her master, the maid died in the palace within a year of entering."

Cui Hongqi seemed to have some impression. It seemed that when he was young, he seemed to hear his mother say that there was a nanny who died in vain in order to save Cui Hongqi who was still in her belly.

"Where are the two servants who went to South Vietnam with Minister Mei and Madam Mei? Are they still alive?"

Hua Laoer shook his head. "When Minister Mei retired and returned to his hometown, they followed him. Minister Mei and his wife died of illness one after another, and these two were very loyal, so they followed him."

Cui Hongqi had an impression of this incident. When his grandparents passed away, he went back and remembered clearly that the housekeeper in the mansion and his grandmother's personal maid had all followed their master.

He was impressed by the loyalty of these two people at that time. He never expected that they would hide such a secret until their death. They took the initiative to die in order to reassure their master that "no one in this world would know the young lady's life experience anymore."

"How did you find out?" Cui Hongqi asked again.

Hua Lao Er answered honestly: "Before going south, Madam Mei was about to give birth, and the mansion had already prepared a wet nurse. After Mei Yuan was brought back, this wet nurse became her wet nurse. The wet nurse accidentally heard the conversation between Minister Mei and Madam Mei, and only then did she know about these things. She also knew that the matter was of great importance, so she kept her mouth shut. After nursing Mei Yuan for a year, she left the mansion and returned to her hometown to protect herself..."

"Where is she now?" Cui Hongqi grabbed Hua Laoer's collar.