The little princess' mind was read, and the court and harem were eating melons

Li Qingyi: [What about the second melon? Is it related to his daughter? ]

System: [Yes, the second melon can be summarized as selling daughters for fame. However, the daughters that Tong Lianzhong sold were all born to his concubines, a total of three, the oldest is only seventeen years old this year, and the youngest is only fourteen years old this year. Now they have become concubines in the backyards of some powerful people in Beijing. ]

System: [Host, don’t be fooled by Tong Lianzhong’s awful attitude towards the Seventh Princess and Wang Xuan. He also treats his own daughters badly. He has evaluated the value of each of them. Now he keeps saying how a lady should be, but in fact, he has secretly invited Hua Niang from the Chunlou to teach his daughters born to his concubines.]

[The concubine daughters of the Tong family do not go out for social activities. Only the legitimate daughter is occasionally taken out by her mother. This is also due to her mother's strong request. Otherwise, Tong Lianzhong would not let his legitimate daughter go out.]

[That’s why, except for the occasional banquets held by the Tong family to entertain guests, the concubines would have a chance to show up in public. Normally, most people in the capital would not even remember that the Tong family had concubines.]

[Although the legitimate daughter was protected by her mother, at her father's request, she learned some lessons on women's virtues and training, and was good at women's work. She also had a reputation in the capital for being well-behaved and virtuous.]

The system said this, paused, and seemed to see something, and uttered a sigh.

Li Qingyi: [What's wrong? ]

System: [Tsk, host, Tong Lianzhong also had his concubine daughters’ feet bound, and two of his daughters died young because of this. However, the daughters he sold happened to stand out from the crowd with their three-inch golden lotus feet... No, sometimes our system really cannot understand your human aesthetics. What is so good about bound feet? ]

Li Qingyi: ...

Even Li Qingyi did not expect to suddenly hear such news.

Foot binding, or foot binding, was something Li Qingyi carefully confirmed after she regained her memory and realized that she was living in ancient times and that the palace she lived in had a lot of overlap with the Forbidden City she had visited before - at least there was no such custom around her.

It is said that in ancient times, foot binding first spread from the palace to the common people. Therefore, there was no such custom in the palace, and concubines and princesses all had natural feet. So Li Qingyi naturally thought that this bad custom did not exist in the era she lived in.

Later, Li Qingyi felt more at ease when he learned that this world was not a parallel time and space created by a real historical turning point, but a more fantastic world derived from the novel.

After learning that the original author of the novel was Wang Xuan, I felt even more at ease - Wang Xuan also didn't like foot binding, so she probably wouldn't write about such disgusting things in her works.

Unexpectedly, the appearance of Tong Lianzhong today hit her hard - do you think it didn't?

No, as long as there are people willing to "appreciate", there will always be people who will act for their own benefit.

Li Qingyi admitted that at that moment, she had the intention to kill Tong Lianzhong.

Unlike Li Qingyi, although there were a few female officials in the Da Ning Dynasty, the majority of the officials were men. At this time, when they heard about the so-called foot binding, most officials had a lukewarm attitude.

Some officials even became curious - are these three-inch golden lotus really that beautiful?

As for the misunderstanding between the system's words, they didn't really care. After all, judging from the system's past performance, it was obvious that it was a non-human being. Isn't it normal that it cannot understand human aesthetics?

Only a few women frowned when they heard this.

A female official who had been standing aside and watching moved when she heard this, as if she wanted to step out and say something.

But before she could take action, her colleague beside her pulled the person back. The two looked at each other, and the colleague who pulled the person back shook his head slightly.

Female officer: “…”

I almost forgot that they should pretend they couldn't hear anything at this time.

Even if we want to impeach Tong Lianzhong, it shouldn't be done at this time.

Tolerate!

Li Qingyi grabbed the emperor's hand and unconsciously exerted force. His whole body was shaking slightly, and it was obvious that he was very angry.

emperor:"……"

Ah this.

The system also noticed Li Qingyi's emotional changes, paused, and asked worriedly: [Host, are you okay? Don't be angry, it's a pity to get sick! This Tong Lianzhong can even kill his own flesh and blood in order to climb up. It's not surprising that he did anything. Host, why don't you think about how to reveal his true face and save his children. ]

[At least, the girls from the Tong family are innocent.]

[However, under Tong Lianzhong's brainwashing, his daughters have now become tools for the Tong family to gain benefits. If Tong Lianzhong gets into trouble, not only those who are still in the Tong family, but those who have already entered the family's backyard will probably not sit idly by and wait for death.]

[I know that the host may feel uncomfortable when I say these things, but don’t you humans also like to say ugly things in advance? ]

Li Qingyi closed her eyes and stopped looking at Tong Lianzhong. She seemed to feel that even looking at him at this moment would make her feel so nauseous that she wanted to vomit.

She turned her head and fell into the emperor's arms, closing her eyes and looking at nothing.

Li Qingyi: [Next.]

System: [Host, how about we take a break before eating? ]

Li Qingyi: [Say.]

System: […Okay, this most expensive melon is actually quite simple to summarize.]

[Tong Lianzhong is a Tatar spy and a twin. After replacing his twin brother's identity, he took over his identity and entered the Daning court. ]

Li Qingyi: ...

Officials: ...

emperor:……

Even the official who was arguing with Tong Lianzhong suddenly got stuck at this moment.

After a brief silence, Li Qingyi slowly said: [Xiao Ba, you are right.]

System: [huh? 】

Li Qingyi: [It is expensive for a reason. 】

System: [Is that so?]

The emperor and all the officials nodded in their hearts: That’s right, the previous two melons are not as shocking as this one.

As for the first two, they just thought that Tong Lianzhong was not a good person, and the last one was not even a Daning person.

The system then said: [In fact, Tong Lianzhong is from Daning, but when he was young and didn’t remember anything, he was separated from his family. He was kidnapped to the Tatars by mistake, and was rescued by the Tatars. By mistake, he returned to Daning as a Tatar.]

[The reason why the fake Tong Lianzhong returned to Daning was that the Tatar spy hiding in Daning had seen the real Tong Lianzhong. He also happened to have seen the fake Tong Lianzhong and thought that Tong Lianzhong had betrayed the Tatars. In the end, he found out that he had recognized the wrong person. It was just that the two looked a bit similar so he made a mistake.]

[Then, for various reasons, the fake Tong Lianzhong came to Tong Lianzhong with the help of others, secretly imitated and learned Tong Lianzhong's preferences, habits and handwriting, and then directly killed Tong Lianzhong and took his place.]

Li Qingyi was silent for a longer time this time, and then asked: [So, does he know that it is his brother? ]

System: [There is no clear textual explanation for this, and I cannot judge from my emotions whether he knows this.]

Li Qingyi: […Is that so.]

Whether we know it or not, isn’t this a…tragedy?