"Zi Yue, ask the kitchen to prepare a few dishes and put them in food boxes. Let's go to the Ministry of Justice prison."

"Miss, why are you going to the Ministry of Justice?" Zi Yue felt strange and couldn't think of it for a moment.

"You'll know once you go there."

Zi Yue received the order and just followed it.

Not long after, she came back with an exquisite food box.

Yu Yuanzheng placed the three children in the main courtyard, said goodbye to the princess, and left the palace.

Chunlei drove the car himself.

Zi Yue helped Yu Yuanzheng into the car.

When Zi Yue was about to get on the carriage, Chun Lei helped her up swiftly, and his eyes flickered a little.

Zi Yue's face turned red for no reason as she got into the carriage.

Yu Yuanzheng walked around the two of them, smiled and said nothing.

These two people are already grown up, so they can be considered.

"Ziyue, you're almost eighteen, right?"

"Yes. Miss, why do you suddenly ask this?" Zi Yue asked with a blush.

"My Ziyue is almost past the best time to get married. It's my fault as the master. I will find a good family for you to marry into later."

"No, I just want to stay with the young lady." Zi Yue's face suddenly turned pale.

"What are you afraid of? Even if you get married, you can still come to me. You know how big your master's business is and how many people he needs."

Zi Yue didn't know how to respond to this, so she could only lower her head.

Chun Lei, who was driving the carriage, listened to the conversation between the master and servant, and had his own ideas in mind.

The Crown Princess is such a smart person that she saw through it even after he just expressed it a little.

That silly girl still didn't understand what her master meant.

When they arrived at the gate of the Ministry of Justice, the officer on duty saw that it was a carriage from Prince Rong's mansion and immediately stepped forward to inquire.

Upon learning that the Crown Prince's Consort had arrived, he immediately went in to report to his superiors.

When Lord Gao, the warden in charge of the prison, learned that it was the Crown Princess who wanted to visit the prisoners, he did not dare to neglect her and came out to greet her in person.

"I've met the Crown Princess."

"Sir Gao, excuse me for disturbing you."

"I don't deserve it. I wonder who the Crown Princess wants to see?" Lord Gao thought for a while but couldn't think of which prisoner the Crown Princess wanted to see.

It seems that none of the prisoners in the jail are worthy of the Crown Princess’ personal visit.

As a low-level official, he certainly didn't know what was going on in the palace.

"Master Gao, I'm here to see Third Aunt."

Now Lord Gao knew who it was. However, the superiors had ordered that the mother and her two children be kept under strict surveillance and no outsiders be allowed to come into contact with them.

Every time the mother and her two children were interrogated, it was not the Ministry of Justice who interrogated them, but people from the palace themselves. They just kept watch.

"This..." Lord Gao was a little hesitant. Can he let her in?

"Don't worry, I'm just going to see her and tell her one thing and then I'll come out."

Lord Gao thought about it and nodded.

"Please follow me." Lord Gao thought that the Crown Prince's wife was also from the palace and was a woman, so there shouldn't be any problem.

As Lord Gao walked into the Ministry of Justice's prison, he found it surprisingly quiet.

There was no crying or shouting as she had imagined, just a little dim light.

Zi Yue followed Yu Yuanzheng closely, and was frightened when she saw the disheveled prisoners locked up in the cells.

But Yu Yuanzheng had no reaction and just followed Lord Gao silently.

Go to the innermost area, which is where female prisoners are held.

When she saw the mother and daughter huddled together in the corner, they completely lost their image as they did in the palace.

"Lord Gao, please step back." Yu Yuanzheng saw the man and asked him to stay away.

She had something to say to her third aunt alone.

Zi Yue and several guards also stepped back consciously.

When Bai Rong saw someone coming, she raised her head and looked outside the iron bars. She saw a person who had no chance of coming here standing outside the iron bars.

The one who should have come was the princess, but she never came.

"Aunt San, I asked the kitchen to prepare some delicious dishes and sent them to you specially so that you can enjoy a snack." Yu Yuanzheng smiled and explained her purpose when she saw her.

Of course, only an idiot would believe this.

"You want to poison us, mother and daughter?" Bai Rong only thought of this possibility.

She is the princess's daughter-in-law and is likely to come and kill her and her daughter for the princess.

"Aunt San, you're overthinking it. I really want to bring you some food. You've been in this prison and you probably haven't had anything delicious to eat for a long time. If you don't believe me, I can try it for you to see. It's not poisonous." Yu Yuanzheng explained kindly.

Then he opened the lunch box and took a few bites to show them.

"Sister Yan'er, come here. This is steamed chicken with eight treasures. It's delicious and the meat is tender." Yu Yuanzheng saw that Shangguan Yan wanted to come over, but she was held back by her mother and didn't dare to come over.

Bai Rong saw that Yu Yuanzheng had eaten in front of them, so she took her daughter over.

Yu Yuanzheng squatted down and handed the plates to them one by one.

The mother and daughter hadn't eaten such delicious food for a long time.

The prosperous days of the past are becoming increasingly distant from them.

The food in prison is just edible, but forget about it.

However, the Ministry of Justice did not intentionally abuse them.

As soon as Shangguan Yan smelled the scent, her saliva began to flow. A fourteen-year-old girl would never have dreamed that she would suffer such a disaster.

These days scared her, but also made her grow.

No matter how greedy I was, I would not be the first to pick up my chopsticks, but would look at my mother's expression first.

"Eat." Bai Rong looked at her daughter lovingly.

"Aunt San, you eat too. After you finish eating, I have something to tell you."

Bai Rong knew as soon as she heard it that she would not come to such a place unless it was necessary.

"Princess, could you bring two plates to Ziling?" Bai Rong saw her daughter eating with relish, and thought that her son was just like them, and hadn't had a good meal for many days.

"Row."

This small request is not too much.

Yu Yuanzheng picked two plates and asked Lord Gao to arrange them.

The mother and daughter did not eat voraciously, but maintained the elegance of a lady from a wealthy family.

Yu Yuanzheng waited patiently for them to finish eating.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Bai Rong has been through too much these days.

She could never have imagined that the husband she married was a spy from the enemy country.

After living together for so many years, she didn't notice anything.

No wonder she always felt that she could not get into her husband's heart.

After being married for so many years, she always felt that her husband was very far away from her.

The husband often goes out, but women in the house should not interfere in men's affairs.

All she has to do is take care of her husband and children.

All along, she has just done her job well, been filial to her mother-in-law, and taught her children.

What she felt most sorry for was her eldest son, who had been given to someone else since the day he was born.

When he returned to the palace and saw his eldest son, he had to suppress the throbbing in his heart.

"Zishu is dead." Yu Yuanzheng looked into her eyes and said the four words clearly, one word at a time.

"What did you say?" Bai Rong suddenly raised her eyes and grabbed the iron railing tightly with both hands.

Yu Yuanzheng just smiled at her and nodded.

"This is impossible, this is impossible. How did he die? Did the prince dislike him? No, didn't he go to the battlefield? Did he die on the battlefield?" Bai Rong asked several questions excitedly.

Yu Yuanzheng took out the letter from her arms and handed it to her.

Bai Rong took it and looked at it quickly.

When she finished reading, tears fell like beads from a broken string.

"Zishu, my son, I'm sorry for you. I was wrong. I shouldn't have swapped you out."

Bai Rong squatted down sadly, her body trembling and she cried suppressedly.

But she didn't cry for long before she suddenly stood up again.

"Princess Princess, I have been married to Shangguan Hongzhe for over twenty years and never knew he was a spy from the enemy country. The prince has sent people to interrogate me many times, and I have always said this. What I said is indeed the truth.

My husband and mother-in-law hid it so well that I never noticed anything.

The three of us, mother and son, have never participated in it.

Please also tell the prince that since Ziling and Yan'er are descendants of the Shangguan family, give them a normal life."

After Bai Rong finished speaking, she bowed deeply to Yu Yuanzheng.

Suddenly, with a sudden burst of strength, she rushed towards the wall of the cell.

"Boom!"

Bai Rong's body slowly slid to the ground.

"Mom!" Shangguan Yan screamed and ran over.

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