Appointing a General as a Concubine: Where Can General Xiao Escape?

After that separation, it was three years before Qi Minxiu had time to visit her in Qinshan. Two years later, she received an imperial decree and returned to the imperial city.

Back then, she was only a few years old when she found Qi Minxiu covered in bruises in a trap deep in the mountains.

Looking back now, he must have been too favored at the time, which brought him to his own death when he was still young.

Fortunately, the master had superb medical skills and brought the person back from the brink of death, otherwise there would be another prince who died young.

Xiao Mo recalled her past with Qi Minxiu, and subconsciously raised the corners of her mouth into a gentle and beautiful arc.

Shen Yun looked at her sideways, pursing her lips and suppressing a smile: "Miss, what's wrong? Are you thinking of something happy?"

She paused, withdrew her fingertips that were wandering on the screen, turned around and walked to the chair and sat down.

"Nothing. Tomorrow you will check the whereabouts of the maid who cleans the house, and then send someone to keep an eye on Lin and Xiao Xiang's every move."

"Yes."

"Go and rest."

After Shen Yun left, Xiao Mo tossed and turned in bed for a long time, unable to fall asleep. She thought that she might not be the only one who couldn't sleep tonight.

After thinking for a moment, she got up, put on a black coat and climbed out of the window.

In the east wing, there was only one room with candlelight flickering in the dark night. The lights were still on at this time. No one would believe that there was no ghost.

Xiao Mo stealthily climbed over the wall from the corner and came to the roof where the light was on. She removed a tile and looked down. Sure enough, it was Lin and Xiao Xiang talking.

"Mother, please give me some advice. Not only have we failed to achieve our goal, but we've also alarmed the Emperor. What should we do?"

Xiao Xiang paced back and forth in the room in annoyance, while Lin beside her frowned and remained calm.

“I don’t want to kill her, I just want her to lose her innocence. If he finds out, the emperor won’t punish her severely!

Mom, didn't you say you had everything arranged? Didn't you say Lu Huai had been taken into the room? How come the person who was found in the same room with Xiao Mo was His Royal Highness Prince Chen?

The Emperor loves him the most. If something happens to him in our Prime Minister’s Mansion, will Dad’s official position be affected?”

Lin supported the table with one hand, closed his eyes, frowned, and sighed heavily.

"Stop arguing. There's no evidence to prove we drugged her. Don't panic and let others see the clues."

Xiao Xiang nodded with red eyes: "Yes, this matter has nothing to do with us! Yes..."

"Have you dealt with the matter outside the city?" Lin's sudden question made Xiao Mo, who was about to leave, turn back.

Something outside the city? What was it? The maid who cleaned the house or the servant from her mother's family?

Xiao Mo swallowed and watched their subsequent conversation carefully.

Xiao Xiang walked over to sit down opposite Lin and nodded at her: "I asked Cuiping to do it. To be on the safe side, I will go and take a look in person tomorrow."

Lin raised her eyes and curled her lips thoughtfully: "Deal with it cleanly. As long as they are not there, this matter will never fall on us."

After hearing this, Xiao Mo on the roof smiled with satisfaction.

Just as she was about to put up the tiles and leave, Lin's vicious voice came from downstairs again.

"If I had known she would end up like this, I shouldn't have been so soft-hearted."

Xiao Mo's heart skipped a beat, and she looked at her with a somewhat stiff gaze.

Xiao Xiang poured a glass of water and handed it to Lin, asking, "Mother, since you were so favored back then, why didn't you kill her?"

Lin took a sip of tea and sneered with disdain and a hint of resignation: "If it weren't for her good uncle, do you think she would be alive today?"

Her eyes were dazed as she recalled the time when she was in charge of the inner courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

More than 20 years ago, it was obvious that she and Xiao Wenbo met first, but because of her status as a concubine's daughter, even if she entered the family first, she could only be a concubine.

She was dissatisfied as to why the person who came into the mansion later could become the legal wife.

Murong Shu stole all of Xiao Wenbo's attention as soon as she arrived.

She was not convinced that Murong Shu could get pregnant before her even though she entered the mansion later than her.

She was dissatisfied and took away all her power over the household as soon as she entered the house.

All kinds of dissatisfaction made her feel depressed. After learning that Murong Shu was pregnant, her first reaction was to frame her for miscarriage.

But God blessed her and she became pregnant soon after. After that, she focused on taking care of the baby and wanted to live in peace with Murong Shu.

But the good times didn't last long. When she was six months old, she ate something by mistake and had a miscarriage, giving birth to a stillborn baby.

It was a boy. Xiao Wenbo was very angry and sad for a while, but he soon focused his attention on Murong Shu, whose fetus was stable.

Since then, Xiao Wenbo stayed in Murong Shu's yard every night, as if she was the only one who had lost her child.

After being depressed for a long time, her sadness turned into anger, and she believed that Murong Shu's child had killed her, so she colluded with her cousin who was a concubine in the palace to take revenge on her.

At the same time, she did not forget to regain Xiao Wenbo's favor and used the pain of losing his child to make him feel guilty.

In order to comfort her and let Murong Shu take good care of her pregnancy, he temporarily handed over the housekeeping power to her.

When she was about to give birth, she was drugged every day. The simple-minded Murong Shu did not let the maid test the poison because she had just lost a child.

Over time, her delivery date was postponed for several days, until one day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, when heavy rain fell and flooded several cities overnight.

The Imperial Astronomical Observatory in the palace was urgently summoned into the hall. They deduced that a demon child was born that night and the flood was a natural disaster that followed. If the demon child was not killed in time, the peace of the world might be disturbed.

The emperor, in line with the principle of preferring to kill a thousand by mistake rather than let one go, conducted a thorough investigation and then set his sights on Xiao Mo who had just landed.

Xiao Wenbo, who had thought he was having a son due to the flattery of his servants, was greatly disappointed when he saw that it was a daughter.

When the emperor sent people to kill the baby, he no longer had the attitude of defending it to the death.

Fortunately, Murong Shou, who heard about this, predicted the emperor's actions and arrived at the prime minister's residence before the guards to rescue the infant Xiao Mo.

He spent three days making all kinds of promises to the emperor, and only after much persuasion did he agree to send the newborn Xiao Mo to Qinshan, a thousand miles away.