Spring Drunk Chang'an

Aunt Lai was really full of ambitions and calculations and excuses, but none of them were of any use. She was directly dragged out by the guards and taken to the Ministry of Punishment.

That was where the inner palace interrogated prisoners.

From concubines and female officials to palace maids and eunuchs, anyone who made a mistake in the inner palace would be sent to the Ministry of Punishment.

Gathered here were the most proficient criminal interrogation talents in the entire Great Xia Kingdom. Even the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple were slightly inferior to them. After all, those in the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice were officials and clerks, so they had to be more respectable. The Ministry of Punishment...

Most of them are eunuchs.

I've been doing this for half my life. After Lai was sent in, she wasn't a concubine in the inner palace, nor was she a noble lady. The eunuchs and maids really used all their tricks...

How could Aunt Lai resist?

He just said whatever he wanted to say, and in the end, even the insults he had said to the Song family in private were revealed.

but……

She didn't say there was a 'mastermind'.

First of all, it really didn't happen. She took the initiative to flirt with the girl, and no one knew about it.

Firstly, she knew that Song Bin wanted her to expose Liu Xiu. This might be good for her situation. The main culprit would become an accomplice, and he probably wouldn't be beheaded. He could make Gen Bai Ling commit suicide. But why bother?

Although she was an orphan, she had some distant relatives and confidants in the Ningguo Mansion. In fact, Qingru would have to return to the Liu family in the future and need Liu Xiu's care. She bit Liu Xiu out and got a good death!

What will happen to Qingru in the future?

When Liu Xiu saw Qingru, he immediately thought that this man’s mother had wronged him.

Alas, although Qingru is ruthless, she can't bear to leave her daughter after all!

Aunt Lai's face was covered in blood, and she shed two lines of tears as she admitted to all the charges.

The chief eunuch sent the confession back to the Qiankun Palace. After reading it, Emperor Yingwu handed it over to Liu Xiu and Song Bin...

Aunt Lai confessed everything and explained in detail how she exchanged the baby and how she concealed the truth. She even mentioned several "insiders" that Song Bin didn't know about.

She was also the one who helped her change the baby, her confidant.

Originally, she didn't want to confess all this, intending to leave it to her daughter for future use. However, the methods used by the Ministry of Punishment were beyond her expectations, and she couldn't resist it!

"My dear ministers, you all saw it!"

"Duke Ningguo, do you have any doubts?" Emperor Yingwu asked Liu Xiu.

"Your Majesty, it's your humble servant's fault that my daughter was swapped with someone else's in my family, and I was completely unaware of it."

"I am frightened!"

"Never mind, it's all my audacity. You're also the victim!" Seeing that Duke Cheng'en still had no intention of clarifying the matter of Liu Wenbai, Emperor Yingwu, more or less, defended Liu Xiu for the sake of his son, and then said, "Duke Ningguo's concubine, Lai, is so audacious that she swapped the mistress's daughter. Her crime is unforgivable. I sentence her to be beheaded in public!"

"Lord Cheng'en, are you satisfied?"

He looked at Song Bin.

Cut in half!

It means chopping a person in half at the waist, which is considered torture.

Since ancient times, serving the dying is like serving the living, and beheading is a form of punishment that leaves the body dismembered.

According to folklore, if the body is incomplete, the person will be reborn as an animal in the next life.

"I obey the command of Your Majesty."

Although direct execution was too easy for that bitch Lai, the death penalty of beheading also made Song Bin feel satisfied, and he quickly expressed his gratitude.

The rest of the Song family also knelt down to express their gratitude.

In the corner, Liu Qingru leaned closer to Liu Wenrui, and her crying became very small and inconspicuous, but her expression and her eyes were extremely panicked.

Aunt? Aunt is really dead!

She also became a concubine's daughter!

That bitch Liu Changan had stepped on her to get to the top and become the legitimate daughter. How could that be? Wuuwuwu, how could that be?

Why was that incident discovered? Obviously, obviously, wow, it was clearly something that happened more than ten years ago. Auntie is really useless.

There was actually someone caught alive by the Song family?

Auntie, auntie, wuwuwu, please tell her quickly, what will her future be like? Can she still marry into the Eastern Palace and rule the country? Wuwuwu, will Daddy help her?

Auntie!!

In a panic, Liu Qingru instinctively wanted to ask her aunt for help, but the next moment, she remembered that her aunt was going to be beheaded?

Her face turned even paler.

However, no one in the hall cared about the little girl's thoughts. After dealing with the issue of the daughter-exchange between the Liu and Song families, Emperor Yingwu thought for a moment and decided to help clean up the matter.

"Liu Xiu, this Liu, uh..."

He looked at Liu Changan and his expression paused.

Beside him, Xiao Xun quickly whispered a reminder, "Father, it's Liu Chang'an!"

The person the Crown Prince has been in frequent contact with recently is the little maid who ruined the Ningguo Mansion's affairs. Who would have thought that she is actually Song's daughter...

"Oh, Liu Changan is your biological daughter. Do you have any plans for her?"

"Should we take him back and make amends?"

Emperor Yingwu asked, with some embarrassment in his eyes.

After all, he remembered that when Song and Liu Xiu divorced, they had an agreement to take away the two heirs except Liu Wenbai and remove their names from the family tree. Now, Liu Qingru has become a concubine's daughter and has nothing to do with the Song family. It seems that Song will not want her. Then, what about Liu Changan?

Should it belong to the Song family or the Liu family?

"What does Lord Cheng'en mean?"

What do you two think?

"This..." Liu Xiu was stunned and looked hesitant.

To be fair, he didn't want a daughter who was born into a slave family, and it would be shameful to bring her home, but on second thought, he didn't want to give the Song family a free ride.

After all, she is a pretty girl, regardless of her age, and she has good character. She will be of some use if she gets married, right?

"Your Majesty, I was thinking of..." taking her back to the palace!

Liu Xiu was about to say this, but before he could finish, Song Bin suddenly stepped forward, pushed him aside with his shoulder, and said sincerely with a fist clasped, "Your Majesty, my family wants to recognize Chang'an as my granddaughter!"

"what?"

Liu Xiu was stunned.

Emperor Yingwu was also puzzled. "Sister-in-law's granddaughter? My dear, what do you mean by this?"

Song’s daughter should be your granddaughter!

"Reporting to His Majesty, Chang'an has suffered many hardships since her birth. She has been separated from her family and has suffered a lot. However, she has a very good temperament, is filial and sensible, and everyone in my family, young and old, loves her very much."

"Every time I see her, I can't help but feel guilty!" Song Bin sighed, speaking sincerely, "The suffering Chang'an has endured since childhood is all due to the carelessness of us, your humble servants."

"It was because we failed to perceive the Lai family's ambition that Chang'an was forced to flee. The daughter of a noble family had to suffer..."

On the side, Song responded by crying louder.

She held Liu Changan's hand tighter.

Yes!! Woohoo, it was her fault. Yu Ge'er was her child, Chang'an was her child. She had carried them for ten months and raised them, risking her life to give birth to them. But, but she had no idea of ​​their existence.

Over the years, she treated the hatred as her own children and worried about them...