I just want to rob you of your luck

After the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, she returned to her Shoukang Palace. She instructed Nanny Fang beside her to investigate the birthday gift at Prince Kang's Palace in private.

Li Cheng found Lin Yan'er with a bad expression. This time he asked Lin Jiu'er directly in front of Lin Yan'er: "Is your grandmother's surname Fang?"

Lin Jiuer didn't expect that the Queen Mother actually knew her grandmother. In her memory, Wu once told her that her grandmother's surname was Fang.

It’s just that the original body doesn’t seem to have any impression of his grandmother.

She nodded in confusion: "My grandmother's surname is indeed Fang."

When Lin Yan'er heard this, she thought of something and her face turned pale instantly.

She looked at Li Cheng in panic: "Your Highness."

Li Cheng didn't want to discuss this matter here, so he said, "Let's talk about it when we get back to the palace."

Just as they were preparing to leave the palace and return home, Nanny Fang came over.

"Your Highness Prince Kang, the Queen Mother has some questions that she asked me to ask. Can I talk to you alone?"

Prince Kang naturally recognized Nanny Fang. She was the Queen Mother's trusted nanny and the nanny who watched him grow up.

He nodded and followed Nanny Fang to the side.

"The Queen Mother would like to ask who created the Hundred-Year-Old Longevity Painting that Prince Kang's Mansion sent today?"

Li Cheng didn't expect that the Queen Mother actually wanted to ask this, and he certainly wouldn't hide it from his royal grandmother.

Thinking that the Queen Mother had also guessed that Lin Yan'er was lying, it might even affect the Royal Grandmother's good mood for celebrating her birthday.

Li Cheng said a little embarrassedly:

"This centenary painting was made by Lin Jiuer, the concubine of my king and queen."

Nanny Fang nodded. She knew what the empress dowager was thinking. It seemed that this Lin Jiuer was most likely the descendant of the empress dowager's close friend.

"I wonder where this Miss Lin Jiuer is now?"

"She also entered the palace today and is beside the princess."

When Aunt Fang heard this, she was delighted. She didn't expect that the girl was actually here.

"Can this old servant take her to see the Queen Mother?"

Li Cheng nodded: "Of course."

"In that case, then there is nothing to worry about. Your Highness can take the princess back first. I will arrange for the palace carriage to take Miss Lin back later."

Li Cheng was a little curious at first and wanted to go along to see what was going on, but when he heard this he thought it would be the same if he went back and asked, so he agreed.

Nanny Fang came over and said to Lin Jiuer kindly, "You are Miss Lin Jiuer, right? The Queen Mother wants to see you. Come with me."

Lin Jiuer saw that the old lady had no ill will towards her, so she nodded obediently and left with Aunt Fang.

Lin Yan'er was in a state of tension today because she was wearing clothes with a bright red peony pattern.

Now she found out that King Kang seemed to have guessed that she had lied about the birthday gift being from her, and she suddenly felt short of breath and began to sweat all over.

Li Cheng initially thought she was pretending to be pitiful and didn't want to pay attention to her, but Tinglan noticed something was wrong and quickly said, "Princess, what's wrong with you?"

Lin Yan'er's body trembled slightly. She looked at Li Cheng and said weakly, "Your Highness, I feel so uncomfortable..."

As he said this, he fell to the ground.

Li Cheng realized something was wrong, and quickly hugged Lin Yan'er in panic: "Yan'er, what's wrong with you? Don't be afraid, I'll take you to see the doctor."

After Lin Jiuer arrived at the Empress Dowager's Shoukang Palace, the Empress Dowager looked at her for a long time without saying anything.

She looked so much like her that she was almost instantly certain that this was the granddaughter of her close friend Fang.

"Child, is your grandmother's last name Fang?"

Lin Jiuer nodded a little stiffly: "Your Highness, my grandmother's surname is Fang."

The Queen Mother frowned when she heard her self-proclaimed name: "Why do you call yourself a slave? Which mansion are you working for now?"

Fang's family and the Empress Dowager's family were both large families in the south. The two families had a good relationship, and Fang and the Empress Dowager had been best friends since childhood.

Later, Fang fell in love with a scholar from an ordinary family and broke with her family in order to marry the poor scholar.

Fortunately, the scholar was very hardworking and won the imperial examination, bringing Fang to Kyoto, while the empress dowager was selected to enter the palace.

That number one scholar was Lin Jiuer’s maternal grandfather. He rose from an ordinary editor in the Hanlin Academy to the position of Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

At a palace banquet, Fang met her former friend, the Empress Dowager, who was only a noble concubine at the time. The two were very happy to meet in Kyoto and get in touch again.

Later, Lin Jiuer's grandfather was implicated in a corruption case in the Ministry of Revenue. All the male members of the Wu family were executed, and the female members were demoted to slavery.

By the time the Queen Mother found out about the Wu family's affairs, Fang could no longer bear the sight of her husband and son being beheaded, so she committed suicide.

The Queen Mother knew that Fang had a son and a daughter. She sent people to investigate and thought that the whole family had died. She was very sad about it.

Fang did not seek help from the Queen Mother for fear of implicating her, and the Queen Mother regretted not being able to help preserve Fang's bloodline.

When the Queen Mother saw the embroidery today, she immediately thought of Fang.

Lin Jiuer didn't know that her original grandmother and the Queen Mother were close friends. She just saw that the Queen Mother seemed to be very familiar with her grandmother and had a good relationship with her.

She didn't know whether the lower the heroine's luck was, the better her luck would be. Her arrival really changed the trajectory of her previous life, because in her previous life, she did not follow him into the palace to attend the Queen Mother's birthday banquet.

There was not even any record of her embroidering the Hundred Years of Longevity Picture, so the Empress Dowager didn't even know of her existence until her death.

In short, she felt that this was a good opportunity to speed up the task.

"Your Highness, I am the concubine of the Concubine Kang. After my sister married His Royal Highness the Prince Kang, I followed her to the Prince Kang's mansion as a maidservant."

The Queen Mother was a little surprised when she heard this: "Isn't Princess Kang the legitimate daughter of Marquis Anding? Then you are also the daughter of Marquis Anding? Is your mother now the concubine of Marquis Anding?"

Lin Jiuer nodded: "That's right."

She looked fragile, clutching the corners of her clothes with both hands, looking like a frightened deer.

Speaking of which, this child is a daughter of a marquis, and her mother is also from an aristocratic family. What a pity, if her grandfather had not been convicted, how could she live so cautiously.

But what about the Anding Marquis's Mansion? How could they treat a concubine's daughter as a maid? She was even given as a dowry to the Kangwang Mansion.

Although this is not the first case, they are all shady tactics used in the harem, which shows that the mistress of Marquis Anding is not an easy person to deal with.

"Don't be afraid, kid. I'm close friends with your grandmother. I just wanted to ask you how you and your mother have been doing these years."

This is simply a gift from heaven! Lin Jiuer's eyes instantly turned red and she started to show off her acting skills.

She knelt down with a plop and choked up, saying, "My Queen Mother, I'm fine. I've served Princess Kang since I was a child, so I'm used to it. But my mother has been tortured by the Marquis's wife in the Marquis' Mansion. Please save her!"

When the Queen Mother heard this, she was old and couldn't bear to see this poor child, so she quickly said, "Good child, get up quickly and take a seat. If you have any grievances, just tell me directly and I will take care of it for you!"

Nanny Fang hurried forward to help Lin Jiuer up, and pulled her to sit below the Queen Mother.

Lin Jiuer didn't say much about her situation. She believed that the Queen Mother would definitely investigate it thoroughly.

She only talked about Wu's situation in the Marquis' Mansion, and what she said was all true.

The empress dowager was silent for a while after hearing this. Fang had only this one daughter alive, so she had to take care of her.

"Afang, go to the Anding Marquis's mansion today and tell him to make Wu his concubine and give her the monthly allowance and treatment she deserves. And at the same time, warn the Marquis's wife not to abuse Wu casually."

After all, Wu's father was a criminal, otherwise the Queen Mother would have wanted Marquis Anding to make her a concubine.

Lin Jiuer looked at the Queen Mother with sparkling eyes, and then knelt down to thank her: "Thank you for your grace, Queen Mother. My mother is gentle, so I feel relieved."

The Queen Mother asked Nanny Fang to help Lin Jiuer up.

"Don't kneel down so easily, kid. There are not so many rules here. You are a filial and good child. Today I only ask for grace for my mother. Is there anything you want to ask for yourself?"