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

Hua Laoer's face was distorted with pain. "... My Lord, please let go. Listen to me... Last month, someone found this wet nurse and asked about what happened. This wet nurse is very old and she didn't have many days left to live, but she is not stupid. The emperor's concubine De Fei, who had been favored by the emperor for many years, turned out to be a descendant of the Nanyue royal family. The son of De Fei, Prince Qi, actually had the blood of the Nanyue royal family. Wouldn't the family of Minister Mei have committed the crime of deceiving the emperor? If people knew that she knew this secret, not only would she die, but her family might also be implicated. This wet nurse insisted that she knew nothing. After the group left, she left behind a She hid a letter in the wall. She hoped that if anything unexpected happened, she could use the letter as a bargaining chip to save her family members’ lives. Then, she died. She was old and died after being frightened, which could be considered a normal death. A few days later, the gang came again. They saw that the nanny was dead and her family knew nothing. Before the family could take out the letter to save their lives, they were all killed in an instant. The undercover of the Tiegu Gang who was in charge of that area thought that this murder case was very strange, so he went to check it out and found the letter. "

"Where is that letter now?"

"It's gone, it's burned!"

"You..." Cui Hongqi slapped him, "I read all the important information stored in the Tiegu Gang that day, and I didn't hear you say this news at all."

Hua Lao Er slowly turned his head and looked at him, "My Lord, I remember I told you just now that I got this news a few days ago. I haven't reported this letter to Du Zheng yet, and I didn't put it in the secret room, but in my room. Who could have expected that a fire would suddenly break out and burn everything..."

Cui Hongqi shook his body. "You are talking nonsense, aren't you? You are making up a story, aren't you?"

An unnoticed sneer flashed across Hua Lao Er's eyes, "The Lord seems to be very concerned about this Virtuous Concubine."

Cui Hongqi steadied himself and, for the first time in his life, felt a little overwhelmed.

But Hua Lao Er continued, "Every word I said is true. If you are interested in this news, you might as well find a way to take a look at the waist of this King Qi. All descendants of the Nanyue royal family must have a red birthmark on their waist, an eagle-shaped birthmark..."

Cui Hongqi could no longer hear what Hua Laoer said.

Lower back.

Ever since he could remember, he knew that he had a scar on his lower back.

Defei told him that he was scalded when he was one year old and knocked over boiling water out of mischief.

He never suspected that his mother would lie to him, and there were indeed marks of being scalded by boiling water.

Now that I think about it, it was my mother who burned me on purpose. The purpose was nothing more than to cover up the eagle-shaped birthmark that represented my identity as a descendant of the Nanyue royal family.

The sky outside had already turned dark, and Xiangxi Lake, shrouded in the night, was quiet and mysterious.

Cui Hongqi's heart could no longer be at peace.

There is actually blood of the Nanyue royal family flowing in his body?

His mother was actually the daughter of Helian Mingyue and the niece of the last King of Nanyue?

My maternal grandfather's family concealed my mother's background from my father, and they committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. If this crime is investigated, at least the entire five clans will be executed.

Although the Chen family has declined and no one is serving as an official in the court, there are still many people alive.

He remembered that his father used to dote on his mother, but why did his father stop coming to his mother's palace soon after he broke his leg? Was it because his father knew about his mother's life experience?

If this were the case, no matter how hard he tried, even if his legs were intact, his father would never make him the crown prince.

He is a descendant of the royal family of Nanyue, so how could he become the crown prince of the Zhenguo Kingdom?

Just like Cui Hongxiao. No matter how great his military achievements were, Lao Wu would never become the crown prince, so he never regarded Lao Wu as his enemy. Unexpectedly, he himself was just as lowly as Lao Wu.

Is that letter still there?

Who were the people who killed the wet nurse's family?

Why was this matter only brought up after so many years?

……

"Ah..." Cui Hongqi drew the sword from his waist and chopped frantically at the grass by the lake, startling a group of sleeping water birds.

His bloodshot eyes were red, flashing with endless despair and bloodthirsty cruelty in the darkness.

He waved the sword in his hand wildly, as if he wanted to destroy everything in the world.

Zixuan and Meng Nan had never seen him behave so badly and did not dare to step forward.

Not until all his strength was used up did he collapse to the ground like a balloon that had been deflated.

He looked up at the starry sky. Gradually, the stars seemed to turn into blood-red plum blossoms. His mother fell among the flowers and called him, "Son, my son..."

He limped and ran over desperately, stretching his little hand forward, but he could not touch his mother's hand.

His mother breathed her last right in front of him.

A meteor streaked across the sky and fell in the vast night sky.

Two lines of tears fell from the corners of his eyes...

***

Mei Xueer was in a good mood today. When she walked into the kitchen, Nanxing was busy.

With so many mouths to feed every day, Nanxing spends half of the day in the kitchen.

"Miss, why are you here? Get out now, the smoke is choking."

"Why is there so much smoke? Isn't the firewood dry? Bingzi can't even pick up a piece of firewood properly. I'm going to criticize him."

Nanxing was anxious and pulled her back, "Don't blame him. It rained a lot these days, it's not his fault."

"Oh, are you feeling sorry for me?" Mei Xueer put her face in front of Nan Xing.

"Miss, what are you talking about?" Nan Xing blushed slightly, "I'm just telling the truth."

"Nanxing, is your heart okay these past two days?"

Nan Xing was stunned for a moment, and her face suddenly turned red like Dongpo elbow, "Miss... you just know how to make fun of me. I have figured it out. This is not a disease at all..."

"Oh... is that so?" Mei Xue'er patted her blushing face with a smile, "Bingzi is a good man, don't be mean to him all the time."

"Miss, why are you speaking for him? In your heart, he is more important than me?" Nan Xing lowered her head and rubbed the corners of her clothes vigorously.

Mei Xueer sighed, "To me, both of you are very important, and both of you are people I care about very much. However, this is not a question of who is important and who is not. In matters of love, both parties must respect and understand each other, so that it can last. A man likes you and is willing to treat you well, willing to pamper you and spoil you, but as a woman, you can't always... How do you say that? Yes, you can't be arrogant because of your pampering. Relationships require mutual sacrifice, so that they can last and be sustainable. Do you understand?"

"Miss, I understand. I'm not stupid." Nan Xing nodded: "No one is born to give, and no one is born to be spoiled. It's just that I said I won't get married..."

"If you say that again, I'll beat you up!" Mei Xue'er straightened her clothes for her. "If you two can stay together forever, I'll be happy. Don't you think about it, besides that silly cookie, who else would want you? I don't want to keep an old girl by my side for the rest of my life."

Nan Xing pouted her lips all of a sudden, "Miss..."

Mei Xueer quickly said, "I was just joking... Well, speaking of you, I miss An Ran again. Her disease is not so easy to cure."

Nanxing was puzzled: "Why?"

Mei Xueer thought to herself that given Mei Jiayun's personality, the road to finding love with An Ran would probably be long and tortuous.

"Nothing. I was just wondering if she would cry when she returns to Beijing and finds out we didn't wait for her."

"Miss, Brother Jia has a carrier pigeon. Ask him to take a letter back to ask about Miss An's situation."

"Yes, how could I have forgotten? I will write the letter later."

Nanxing stood in front of the stove and picked up the spatula again, but then slowly turned around and said, "Miss, you know everything, why can't you handle a dog prince?"

After she finished speaking, she immediately regretted it, "I was wrong. I spoke without thinking."

Mei Xue'er was not angry, "Didn't you say, who is that? The Dog Prince! Since he is not a human, you can't measure him by human standards."

Nanxing burst out laughing.

Mei Xueer walked to the stove and sat down. "Look at you, you don't even have a helper to light the fire while you cook. Let me do it."

As a result, the fire in the stove went out quickly, and there was more smoke in the kitchen.

When Wen Bing came back with the firewood, he found Mei Xueer and Nan Xing both had gloomy faces and were sitting outside the door dejectedly.

Wen Bing put down the firewood and used the corner of his clothes to wipe the sweat off Nan Xing's forehead, "Look at you, how can you let the princess light the fire..."

Mei Xueer said: "It's okay, I can help..."

But the second half of Wen Bing's sentence was, "You know that the princess can light a fire, right?"

"Uh, okay, I'm leaving..." Mei Xueer couldn't help much and was fed dog food again, so she could only choose to disappear.

As soon as I walked into the yard, Wen Jia came over.

Before, Mei Xueer asked him to find out whether there were any dwarfs in the royal family of Nanyue, and he actually found one.