If I were born again, I would marry a strong but short-lived husband.

The new emperor of the Yong Dynasty, who had been on the throne for less than three years, suddenly passed away, shocking the entire dynasty.

Fortunately, King Zhenbei was in the royal capital at this time, and he suppressed the unrest in people's hearts.

The emperor died young, leaving behind only a newborn son.

You can't let your youngest son ascend the throne.

All officials knelt and begged King Zhenbei to ascend the throne.

In the entire Yong Dynasty, Prince Zhenbei is the most suitable person now.

Some people also suggested inviting back Empress Dowager Qu and the Fifth Prince from Jiangnan, but these voices were quickly drowned out.

Queen Mother Qu and Prince of Jiangnan have no military power, so how can they compete with Prince of Zhenbei?

The King of Zhenbei did not obey, but supported the youngest son left by Feng Chuankai to be the emperor.

Yao Xinling asked Prince Zhenbei to be the regent to assist the young emperor in his growth.

When the court ministers thought about it carefully, they realized that there was no difference between the Prince of Zhenbei being regent and the Prince of Zhenbei being emperor.

"King Zhenbei, thank you for coming in time." Yao Xinling's face was a little pale. She lowered her eyes and looked at her son in her arms. The light she once had finally returned to her eyes.

"Five years later, I will let him abdicate to you, and then I will take him away." Yao Xinling said.

She could actually ask King Zhenbei to ascend the throne now, so that she and her son could have a worry-free second half of their lives.

But this is not what she wants.

Ever since she was deprived of control of Chuantun and forced to marry the emperor and become empress, she knew that power was important.

She wants to use these five years to build her own kingdom.

"What do you want?" asked King Zhenbei.

Yao Xinling smiled and said, "Tianhe City, in these five years, I want to restore the commerce of Tianhe City. After five years, you will allow me and my child to leave."

"Okay." King Zhenbei agreed.

He also knew the importance of Tianhe City after it opened up to sea transportation, which would be beneficial to the Yong Dynasty.

Yao Xinling knew that Feng Chuanjin would definitely agree.

Talking to smart people never takes too much time.

"Is he really Feng Chuankai's son?" asked King Zhenbei.

Yao Xinling smiled and said, "Whether it is true or not, I will not be an enemy of the prince, nor will I become an obstacle to you."

Feng Chuanjin nodded slightly, "Take care, I will take my leave first."

The turmoil in the Yong Dynasty gradually subsided under Feng Chuanjin's suppression.

On behalf of the young emperor, he issued an order to imprison the Prince of Zhennan in the imperial mausoleum, and the title of prince was inherited by the eldest son of the Prince of Zhennan's mansion.

This rebellion was quelled as quickly as possible.

When Prince Zhennan, who was taken to the imperial mausoleum, learned the result, he had no idea what was going on. It was obvious that it was his queen and the prince who framed him.

He cursed loudly, but no matter how furious he was, he would have to stay in the imperial mausoleum for the rest of his life.

Even though he threatened to commit suicide and demanded to see Princess Ye, Princess Ye only gave him a divorce letter.

Neither life nor death will see him again.

Prince Zhennan never saw his wife and children again until his death.

This is something.

When Queen Mother Yao calmed down from the grief of losing her son, the political situation had already been completely controlled by Feng Chuanjin.

She came to see Yao Xinling.

Yao Xinling had already finished her confinement. She handed the baby she had just breastfed to the nurse and said, "The emperor has fallen asleep. Take him to the bedroom first."

"I am relieved to know that my mother is in good health." Yao Xinling stood up and saluted to Queen Mother Yao.

Queen Mother Yao looked at her with cold eyes, "The Emperor's death has something to do with you."

Yao Xinling was stunned. "Grand Empress Dowager, are you too sad and hysterical?"

When Empress Dowager Yao heard the title of Grand Empress Dowager, her face darkened slightly.

"I have been wondering, the emperor has been practicing martial arts since he was young, and his body is not weak, how could he suffer from physical damage so easily?"

"You arranged for Concubine Li to be here. Her aphrodisiacs are not just for aphrodisiacs, right?"

"You are already the queen, what else are you not satisfied with?"

Queen Mother Yao understood all the coincidences and hated Yao Xinling to the core.

Yao Xinling still had a faint smile on her face, "Aunt, what you want may not be what others want."

She never wanted to be a queen, and even less did she want to be trapped in this palace.

"So you colluded with Prince Zhenbei to kill the emperor!" Queen Mother Yao said in a shrill voice.

Yao Xinling sighed, "I didn't, aunt, don't let your imagination run wild."

"You want to use the young emperor to control the government and let Feng Chuanjin become the regent. Haven't you two already..." Queen Mother Yao could not think of any reason why Yao Xinling would collude with the King of Zhenbei.

Yao Xinling said coldly, "Mother, the emperor now only has the emperor's only bloodline, do you still want to let his reputation be tarnished?"

To question her chastity is to humiliate Feng Chuankai.

Queen Mother Yao's face was stiff.

When Yao Xinling was pregnant, the King of Zhenbei was still in Northern Xinjiang, so it was impossible for the two to have an affair.

The reputation of my only grandson cannot be tarnished.

"Aunt, please go to the palace." Yao Xinling said.

"What did you say?" Queen Mother Yao was furious.

Yao Xinling's lips curved, "Didn't you suggest the same thing to the Empress Dowager at the beginning? The Empress Dowager is still in the palace now."

"Don't worry, I will choose a palace with elegant scenery for you."

Empress Dowager Qu went to the temporary palace in Jiangnan. The news of Feng Chuankai's death had already been sent to Jiangnan, but there was nothing else except a letter expressing regret.

Whether it is Queen Mother Qu or the Grand Queen Mother, as long as they are alive, they probably won't want to return to the royal capital.

"Do you think you can bring me down in this way?" Queen Mother Yao asked angrily.

Yao Xinling sighed, "Aunt, I never thought so, please don't misunderstand me."

Empress Dowager Yao regretted letting her niece enter the palace. She thought Yao Xinling's intelligence would make the emperor obedient.

Unexpectedly, she lost her son's life.

Empress Dowager Yao was very unwilling to accept this. She summoned the ministers and told them that it was the Prince of Zhenbei and the Queen who colluded to kill the Emperor, and asked the ministers to punish them.

However, without any evidence, how could the ministers believe it easily?

Yao Xinling asked someone to treat Empress Dowager Yao, saying that the Empress Dowager had developed hysteria due to the grief of losing her son, and it would be best for her to leave the palace to avoid being reminded of the past.

Soon, she sent Queen Mother Yao to a palace a hundred miles away from the royal capital.

"Your Majesty, the woman in the dark room of the Cining Palace... is still alive." The palace maid came to report to Yao Xinling.

Yao Xinling frowned. She knew that Empress Dowager Yao was cruel and ruthless, but she must have hated the fact that a woman had been tortured for so many years.

"Send him out of the palace." Yao Xinling waved her hand.

She had no grudge against that woman, but she had been tortured for many years. It was said that she had been raped by beggars before, and was given medicine to induce abortion when she became pregnant. Over the years, her body had been damaged.

Song Xiuzhi never thought that she could leave the palace alive.

She squinted her eyes and looked up at the blue sky. The sunlight stung her eyes and made tears flow.

"Where did this beggar come from? He's so dirty." Someone passed by her, pinching his nose in disgust.

"I am the wife of the second young master Lu of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. If you take me to the Lu family, he will reward you handsomely." Song Xiuzhi grabbed a passerby and wanted someone to send her back to the Lu family.

"What Zhenguogong Mansion? It turns out he is a lunatic."

"I don't know where this madman came from. He didn't even know that the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion had been confiscated."

Song Xiuzhi's pupils shrank.

The Duke Zhenguo’s Mansion was ransacked?

So where did Lu Heng go? Didn’t he become a powerful prime minister like in his previous life?

Song Xiuzhi picked up the steamed bun that someone had thrown on the ground and ate it up voraciously.

She can't die!

She finally managed to get out of the palace. She wanted to survive because she still had a daughter.

Lu Heng will definitely teach his daughter well, and they are waiting for her to come back.

She found a job as a laundryman, and while doing so she inquired about the news in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.

Only then did I know that the entire Zhenguo family had been exiled and Lu Heng's whereabouts were unknown.

There were so many people, she didn't know where to find them.

Lu Heng is such a talented person, how could he be unknown and lost in the crowd in this life?

Why is it different from the previous life?

Is... is it because Lu Heng didn’t marry Shen Suian?

Song Xiuzhi thought carefully about what was different, and it seemed that it started when Shen Suian wanted to cancel the engagement.

"Auntie, what about the eldest master and mistress of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion? Were they also exiled?" Song Xiuzhi asked hurriedly.

Shen Suian will not have a good ending in this life!

This thought made Song Xiuzhi feel better.

"You are talking about the former Commander Lu, right? Oh, he has nothing to do with the Zhenguo Mansion. He is a prince of the Southern Dynasty and is now the regent of the Southern Dynasty."

"I have already brought my wife and children back to the Southern Dynasty."

Song Xiuzhi's face turned pale and blue, and her mind went blank.

Lu Yuan... Lu Yuan again...

She was killed by Lu Yuan in her previous life, but Lu Yuan did not become the regent at that time.

"Mrs. Song, do you know anyone from the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion?" the lady asked.

Song Xiuzhi shook her head, "I...I don't know him."

She stood up in a daze, picked up the clothes she had just washed, but suddenly her foot slipped and she fell into the river.

The water was up to her head.

The suffocating feeling of being drowned in the previous life came over me again.

She struggled desperately, but no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't stand up.

"Help……"

Someone tried to hold her hand, but Song Xiuzhi shook it off forcefully.

"What's wrong with this person? She keeps shaking her hands away. How can we pull her up?"

"Hurry, she's floating towards the center of the river."

When everyone finally rescued Song Xiuzhi, they found that she had already died.

Lingnan, thousands of miles away.

A little girl in coarse clothes, with a dirty face, was working hard to pull wild vegetables in the field.

She suddenly felt empty in her heart, and she stared at her black little hands in a daze.

Since she was very young, she dreamed that she lived in a big house and that she should be a rich lady.

But since she was sent to Lingnan to live with her grandparents, she had endless work to do and was hungry every day.

Everything in her dream was too far away from her.

She doesn't even have parents.

But in the dream, there was a handsome father and a beautiful mother...

"You stupid girl, hurry up and dig some wild vegetables. Do you want to starve tonight?" came the angry voice of my great-grandmother.

The girl lowered her head and continued digging wild vegetables.

She hadn't had a dream for a long time, and it seemed that even the dream she had was just a figment of her imagination.

……

The news of Feng Chuankai's death and the young emperor's ascension to the throne reached Suzhou.

"He died just like that..." Shen Suian sighed.

Everything that is happening now is completely different from the previous life.

"I should go home." Feng Yuanjia was a little reluctant.

"My brother is already the Prince of Zhennan, and my mother allowed me to return to Yunzhou."

Shen Sui'an said, "Stay a few more days. It doesn't mean you have to wait until I give birth to the baby before going back."

"Then I'll tell my mother to stay for another month." Feng Yuanjia said immediately.

"Yuanjia, there is something..." Shen Suian hesitated.

"This time when you return to Yunzhou, Ayi's uncle wants to go with him."

Feng Yuanjia was startled for a moment, then she understood what was going on, and her pretty face suddenly flushed.

"Originally, the prince should have gone with him, but the prince can't go to Yunzhou easily now, for fear of causing misunderstanding." Shen Sui'an explained.

"You are about to give birth to a child, how can you let the prince go on a long journey?" Feng Yuanjia said immediately.

Shen Sui'an added, "Ayi's status is different. He is the emperor, but he may not return to the capital in the future. Do you..."

"Sister Shen, are you worried that I want to be the queen and that I will have conflicts with him in the future because of this?" Feng Yuanjia chuckled, "Being the emperor is so tiring, I just want him to live a long life.

Of course Shen Sui'an knew that Feng Yuanjia wouldn't mind, but he had to say it out loud.

"I'm also looking forward to becoming your sister-in-law in the future." Shen Suian said.

"Then...Empress Dowager Ruan in the palace, would you like him to be with me?" Feng Yuanjia asked in a low voice.

"The Empress Dowager loves Ayi so much that she would be reluctant to oppose him," said Shen Sui'an.

There's no point in opposing it, Fu Jinyuan will block all obstacles for his brother.

Feng Yuanjia smiled sweetly and placed her little hand on Shen Sui'an's belly, "Sister Shen, didn't you say that it's time for delivery? Why haven't you given birth yet?"

Shen Sui'an had a headache. "Yes, Doctor Zhou also said that there has been no movement in the past few days."

"Hiss, it feels like a big fat boy." Feng Yuanjia said in a low voice.

Afraid of being heard by Fu Jinyuan.

Fu Jinyuan firmly believed that this was his daughter.

"The prince said it was a fat girl." Shen Sui'an said.

Feng Yuanjia tutted in disdain, "I bet five taels, it's a boy."

"Good news!" Banjian walked in with a smile on his face.

"Princess, Shi Qing just said that General Ruan escorted the King of the Western Regions back and exchanged eight cities with the Western Regions. The King of the Western Regions immediately regretted his decision after returning to the Western Regions and sent troops to fight General Ruan. Unexpectedly, Second Uncle Ruan led troops in the rear to break through their royal city."

"Most of the cities in the Western Region have now been conquered by the two uncles of the Ruan family."

Shen Sui'an's eyes lit up with joy, "Really?"

"Really, really. The prince asked Shi Qing to tell you the good news. I guess the prince will be back later."

so good!

Ruan Xiuyuan's leg was damaged by the Western Regions, and now his leg has been avenged.

"This King of the Western Regions was captured really well." Feng Yuanjia was also happy.

Shen Sui'an stood up and said, "It's a great day today, the whole house will give you a reward!"

"What reward? I want one too." Ruan Zhaoxia walked in.

"They are your second uncle and third uncle. They conquered half of the Western Regions." Shen Sui'an said with a smile.

Ruan Zhaoxia's eyes lit up, "Great!"

"Then Brother Zhao can open his business in the Western Regions," said Ruan Zhaoxia.

Feng Yuanjia teased her, "You haven't married Zhao Jiuling yet, why are you thinking about him now?"

Ruan Zhaoxia was embarrassed by what she said, and reached out to tickle Feng Yuanjia, "I want you to say it, I want you to say it."

Shen Sui'an was amused by them.

As I was laughing, I suddenly felt my stomach tighten.

“……”This feels a little familiar.

"Banjian, go, call the midwife over, I think I'm about to give birth."

These two girls who were playing were so frightened that their faces changed and they froze in place, not daring to move.