Princess Menglang is hard to change, the whole capital is embarrassed for her

For some reason, his eyes were a little wet.

The scenes between him and the emperor from his youth flashed through his mind. When he was talking to the emperor just now, he suddenly found that the emperor's hair had turned so much white.

What's good about this throne?

If he could do it again, he would hope that the emperor could live a peaceful and wealthy prince, rather than being an emperor who even his own son wanted to kill him.

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The third prince was standing outside the council hall. From afar, he saw a young eunuch running towards him in a hurry. He was delighted. Was it his father who summoned him?

"Third Prince, the Emperor has suffered an asthma attack and cannot be seen today. I order you to return to the palace another day."

His heart skipped a beat.

What's going on lately?

Why is everything not going as planned?

He walked out with his hands behind his back, and as he walked, he stopped.

On the floor tiles beneath his feet was a dragon that he and the Fourth Prince had playfully carved when they were young.

He remembered that his second brother went to the emperor to complain, but the emperor not only did not beat them, but also took their hands to look at the dragon and said that they carved it well.

Looking at it now, it is not a dragon at all, but a weird insect.

When Wu Yongguang found him and told him that his mother's real identity was the Princess of Western Qiang, he almost killed Wu Yongguang with a knife.

how can that be possible?

Is there anything in the world more rigorous than the emperor's selection of concubines?

Even scientific expeditions cannot compare.

My mother was clearly just the daughter of a fourth-rank official and a member of the Chuzhou An clan. How could she have become a Western Qiang? And the eldest princess?

For spreading such rumors, Wu Yongguang deserves to be killed.

But Wu Yongguang said that the eldest princess was framed by Concubine Rong of Xiqiang when she was a child and was exiled to the Great Zhou.

The Queen of Western Qiang was under house arrest by the Emperor at that time. In addition, her uncle, the Second Prince of Western Qiang, was frail and sickly. The Queen had no time to take care of the eldest princess. For safety reasons, she did not dare to bring her back to Western Qiang, so she sent people to protect her and let her grow up in Da Zhou.

The people who protected the eldest princess were Wu Yongguang's family and various other people.

To the outside world, the eldest princess was an orphan whose parents had died and whose family was well-off. By chance, while on her way to burn incense, she met the daughter of a fourth-rank official named An. The two of them were very compatible, and after some interactions, they became sworn sisters.

The eldest princess is a good person and has coaxed An's parents into loving her very much.

The fourth-rank official had always told the outside world that he had two daughters. In addition, the An family had indeed served as an official abroad for several years, so people thought that the eldest princess was born when the An family was abroad.

Coincidentally, when the emperor was selecting concubines, the An family's legitimate daughter eloped with a servant on the eve of entering the palace.

An's parents were terrified, feeling that a disaster was about to happen and that their entire family's lives were about to be lost.

At this time, the eldest princess volunteered to enter the palace in place of her runaway daughter to eliminate the disaster in the An family.

An's parents were so grateful that they wanted to take out all their belongings and send her to the palace.

According to Wu Yongguang, not long after this incident, An's parents died in a fire while taking a boat trip on the lake.

They didn't know until their death that their own daughter had been sunk to the bottom of the lake by Wu Yongguang's men as soon as the news of her elopement broke out.

The family was reunited at the bottom of the lake.

Unexpectedly, after entering the palace, the eldest princess was bullied by Concubine Liu because of her beauty. Before Wu Yongguang could intervene in the palace to protect her, Concubine Liu's brother, the former head of the guards, secretly drugged her, causing her to fall ill and die early.

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When we reached the palace gate, it seemed like raindrops were falling from the sky.

The third prince raised his head and felt the raindrops on his face.

That feeling reminded him of the moment when he was punished by Concubine Liu to kneel in the yard while it was pouring rain.

As soon as her mother died, Concubine Liu went to the emperor and begged him to raise her and the fourth prince together.

He also said that the two brothers have always had a deep relationship and are willing to live in harmony and set an example for royal children.

I don't know what was wrong with my father. Maybe he remembered how he and his brothers fought to the death for the throne. He naturally wanted to see the missing brotherhood in his sons, so he agreed to Concubine Liu's request.

But on the other hand, Concubine Liu was very kind to him in front of her father, but secretly allowed the maids and eunuchs in the palace to bully him and even let him be ridden by the Fourth Prince.

It was then that he gradually realized that Concubine Liu just wanted to train him to be her son's lackey.

He was only ten years old when he understood all this.

It was in the spring of the following year that Wu Yongguang found him when he followed his father on the spring hunt and told him that his mother was the eldest princess of Xiqiang, his uncle was the second prince of Xiqiang, and his grandmother was the former queen of Xiqiang. They were sent by his grandmother to protect his mother, and now they were to protect him.

Afraid that he would not believe it, the woman Wu Yongguang brought told him all the characteristics of his mother and took out a jade fish pendant.

He recognized it at a glance. His mother had left him a similar jade fish pendant before her death. His mother said that if someone came to him with the other piece, that person would be her and his relative. She told him to listen to that person no matter what, protect himself and make himself stronger.

He cried for a long time.

Wu Yongguang said that his mother entered the palace for the sake of the Western Qiang.

But his mother died so early, and the Queen of Xiqiang and the Second Prince, his grandmother and uncle, were extremely sad and felt guilty.

So he ordered Wu Yongguang to find him and tell him the truth, and promised him that as long as he wanted, he could decide whether to return to Xiqiang to be a noble prince or stay in Da Zhou to be the future crown prince or even emperor.

They will spare no effort to assist him and make plans for him.

He recalled the days when he was whipped by Concubine Liu, and the time when he crawled on his knees on the ground while the Fourth Prince rode on his back, patting his butt and shouting "Greetings, Greetings, Greetings"...

"I want to be the emperor of the Great Zhou," he said.

Wu Yongguang and the people he brought with him knelt on the ground, shouting that their master was wise.

From then on, he was no longer just the third prince of the Great Zhou, but also the son of the Princess of Xiqiang who harbored a huge secret in her heart.

Year after year, year after year.

The days fly by.

In the blink of an eye, they all grew up.

My father's asthma is getting worse and worse.

The eldest brother rushed back from the northern border.

As soon as he came back, he had a big fight with his second brother. The fight between the two of them almost reached the point where they would not stop until the other was killed.

He saw it and sneered.

Little did they know that many of the troubles were caused by him. He created conflicts among them, making them believe that the other party was responsible, and their hatred grew deeper.

He was the one who ordered someone to break the legs of his eldest brother Cui Meng, and the second brother took the blame. He did not admit it, but no one believed him.

Later, my second brother was beaten all over his body with his head covered. It was also done by someone he sent.

Everyone said that it was the eldest brother who did it, but he refused to admit it and no one believed him.