The queen is crazy and spoiled, and the tyrant bows to her

Uncle Snake especially felt that Jiang Wantang did not touch the prince's men even when she was in urgent need of manpower. This alone made her different from the ordinary scheming women.

The relationship between the Nangong family and the Northern Territory was already sensitive, and now it has become even more tense due to the sleep of the King of Zhenbei.

If Jiang Wantang involves the Northern Territory again for his own selfish reasons.

So today, he would not come at all and would not tell her anything.

Uncle Snake smiled coldly, the smile not reaching his eyes: "Well, since the queen has said so, then I will get straight to the point."

"Whatever your majesty wants to investigate and understand is in my hands."

"I came here today specifically to help the Queen clear up her doubts for the sake of our prince."

"Before this, we never thought that the queen would be a descendant of the Nangong family, let alone that she would be related to the Leng family."

"But since Your Majesty has been able to find out the secrets of the Nangong family, I think she knows a lot."

"Perhaps it was God's will..." Uncle Snake deliberately lowered his voice as he spoke, "Grandma Leng kept this secret for decades. I thought I'd take it to my grave, but I never thought it would be revealed by the Empress."

"And the one beside the Empress is Granny Leng."

Jiang Wantang opened her eyes wide in surprise and looked at the old woman beside her.

Granny Leng gently grasped her hand with her bony fingers and said, "My dear child, do you know...your biological grandmother's surname was Leng? In my time, I was Madam's most trusted maidservant during her marriage."

"Although you are the second young lady's daughter, the stubbornness between your eyebrows and eyes is very similar to that of the eldest young lady who entered the palace back then."

"Especially this luxurious dress, with that imposing look on her face, it's exactly like her back then."

"With just one glance, I'm certain of your identity."

Jiang Wantang's pupils trembled violently when she heard this. She looked at Granny Leng in surprise and asked, "Granny...what do you mean by that?"

Granny Leng's wrinkled hands trembled slightly, but her skinny knuckles were clenched tightly.

She sighed softly, her cloudy eyes watering, her voice hoarse as if worn out by time: "It's a long story, and it has to start from when your grandmother married into the Nangong family..."

"..."

Jiang Wantang learned from Grandma Leng that the Leng family was also a prominent family in Beijing, even more prominent than the Nangong family at that time. Her grandmother Leng Qingshu was beautiful, gentle, dignified and virtuous, and was one of the most talented women in Beijing. Before she even reached the age of 15, many people wanted to marry her.

Nangong relied on the good relationship between the two families and tried his best to arrange a marriage between the two families.

However, the then-Prince of Nangong Mansion, Nangong Jue, was handsome and romantic, so the Leng couple were not optimistic about this marriage at first.

It was not until later that the Nangong couple brought their son Nangong Jue to visit the Leng couple many times and publicly vowed never to take a concubine, and changed their previous romantic nature, that the Leng couple agreed to arrange the marriage for the two.

Granny Leng continued to recall, "Madam has a cold personality. During the first year of their marriage, Nangong Jue always treated Madam with great care and consideration, and the two of them treated each other with respect."

"Later, the Leng family angered His Majesty by repeatedly admonishing him in the court, and was framed by treacherous individuals, and soon fell into decline."

"In order to protect their family's survival, the Leng family had no choice but to resign from their official positions and return home."

"My wife wanted to divorce and return home with her family, but she was pregnant at the time. Furthermore, Nangong didn't want to be branded as a traitor, so she refused to let me go."

"After the fall of the Leng family, the people in the Nangong Mansion became increasingly harsh towards the Madam. Nangong Jue's true nature gradually became apparent, and he began to flirt with other women. Although he didn't take concubines, he kept quite a few of them outside."

"The Nangong couple blamed everything on the wife, saying she was useless and couldn't control her man. The wife had completely given up on the family. By then, her pregnancy was already very advanced, and she only wanted to find a chance to leave with the child after giving birth."

Granny Leng's voice suddenly deepened, tears glistening in her cloudy eyes. "It's a pity that Madam didn't live to see that day. She was pregnant with twins, and the babies were large and difficult to deliver. She also suffered heavy bleeding during labor, and the birth lasted from daylight to midnight, a full six or seven hours."

"Bath after bath of blood..."

"Giving birth at midnight is a very bad omen for aristocratic families, and it also happens to happen in an unlucky year, month, and time..."

"And my wife happened to give birth to a pair of baby girls. At the time, a master asserted that women are 'yin', and twin girls are 'extremely yin'."

"Giving birth to a girl at midnight will bring bad luck due to the double yin."

"It happens to be a year of natural disasters, which is a very ominous sign."

"Madam knows very well that if the people in the Nangong Mansion knew that she gave birth to twin girls, they would definitely not tolerate her and her daughter."

"So the youngest daughter, who was born late and was frail, was left behind. Madam only took one look at her, and with tears in her eyes, she secretly had the healthy eldest daughter sent out of the capital overnight to Huai Township, where the Leng family's master and mistress were."

"Afterwards, my wife also passed away due to complications during childbirth..."

Granny Leng was already in tears when she spoke of this. After a while, she continued, "Madam didn't know she was having two children before she gave birth. The girl was named 'Yihua', and the second young lady's maiden name was Nangong Yihua."

"Later, the master and the mistress named the eldest daughter Shaohua based on the second daughter's name, taking her mother's surname, Leng Shaohua."

"Just like that, the two young ladies were separated, and more than ten years later, each grew into a graceful young lady."

"The second young lady inherited her mother's temperament and is gentle and kind. The eldest young lady was raised by the master and the mistress and has a free and easy personality and is outgoing and enthusiastic."

"..."

Jiang Wantang suddenly thought of the contents of Jiang Huaizhou's letter. Madam Jiang was also a gentle and kind person, while Empress Dowager Wende had a cold and fierce temperament...

A light bulb went off in her head, so the person who actually entered the palace that year was...

And what Grandma Leng said next confirmed Jiang Wantang's guess.

It turned out that before entering the palace, the second lady Nangong Yihua was secretly plotted against by a concubine in the mansion out of jealousy. She wanted to replace her and enter the palace, which destroyed her appearance. Later, she exchanged identities with the eldest lady Leng Shaohua who came to Beijing to avenge her mother.

More than ten years later, the two sisters reunited, and the elder sister Leng Shaohua entered the palace in place of her younger sister.

Her younger sister, Nangong Yihua, went to a villa outside the capital to recuperate from her injuries, hiding her identity and met Jiang Zhixu, a poor student.

Jiang Zhixu is handsome, gentle, and talented. He and Nangong Yihua admire each other, and they develop feelings for each other as they get to know each other better.