The letter was quickly delivered to Sheng Nanzhi.

"A letter from Madam Liu?" Sheng Nanzhi glanced at it and then looked away as if nothing had happened.

Shi Huaizhi nodded: "Most likely it's because I want you to help Sheng Qingqian. Do you want to see?"

"If you don't want to see it, I'll take it away."

Sheng Nanzhi felt a little resistant from the bottom of her heart and just remained silent.

Shi Huaizhi smiled: "Then I'll take it and dispose of it."

"Sheng Qingqian is guilty of confusing the royal bloodline. It was inappropriate for Concubine Liu to ask you for help. Such a letter must not appear in your room. If someone with ill intentions saw it and took it away, it would become a handle to threaten and control you."

Sheng Nanzhi responded, but when Shi Huaizhi turned around, she stopped him and said, "Let me take a look first. It's the same if I deal with it later."

She took the letter and unfolded it, reading it quickly, but then read it again.

"What's wrong?" Shi Huaizhi asked in a low voice when he saw that she looked strange.

Sheng Nanzhi's eyes were gloomy: "You guessed right, Aunt Liu did write to ask me to help Sheng Qingqian. But..."

"She also said in the letter that Sheng Lin would take her to Huaizhou."

"And, she said, she had a secret to tell me about my background."

"As long as I help Sheng Qingqian, and find a way to keep her in the Imperial City."

Sheng Nanzhi's eyelashes trembled slightly. "I'm more curious about the secret about my life experience that she mentioned in the letter."

She blinked her eyes and said, "Could it be that I am not Sheng Lin's daughter? Or maybe I am not her biological child?"

"It's not impossible. After all, we are both concubines of the Sheng family, but whether it's Sheng Lin or Concubine Liu, their attitudes towards me and Sheng Qingqian are completely different."

"But this could also be because I am a calamity star."

Shi Huaizhi's Adam's apple rolled, and he couldn't help but raise his hand to touch Sheng Nanzhi's hair.

"Hmm?" Sheng Nanzhi raised his head in confusion.

Shi Huaizhi shook his head, not knowing what to say. Suddenly, for a moment, he wanted to hold her in his arms.

He took a deep breath and said, "It's okay. A married woman should obey her husband. You are already married, and this Prince Yi's Mansion is your home."

"I am your family."

"And mother."

Sheng Nanzhi paused, smiled, and thought to herself that there were several concubines in this mansion.

Shi Huaizhi has quite a large family.

Maybe he is more obsessed with giving every woman in the world a home?

Sheng Nanzhi was amused by her own thoughts and silently changed the subject: "I have to meet Aunt Liu and listen to her so-called secret about my life experience."

"Yes." Shi Huaizhi agreed: "I'll arrange it."

On the second day, Sheng Nanzhi changed into a maid's clothes and was taken to the courtyard where Aunt Liu lived.

Aunt Liu was packing her things, looking worried. "Didn't they say the letter was delivered to Princess Yi? Why hasn't there been any response?"

"Is she really not going to care about me anymore?" Aunt Liu gritted her teeth and said, "I told you she's cold-blooded and heartless. She's impossible to tame..."

The maid standing nearby had already noticed Sheng Nanzhi and quickly interrupted Aunt Liu: "Aunt, Princess Yi is here."

Concubine Liu was startled and quickly turned her head, her eyes falling on Sheng Nanzhi: "You, you, you...why are you here? Didn't His Majesty order you to stay at Prince Yi's mansion to recuperate and take care of your pregnancy?"

"Yes." Sheng Nanzhi's eyes were indifferent: "Didn't my aunt write to me and insist on seeing me?"

"My aunt's letter described the situation so seriously that I naturally had to come even if it meant risking disobeying her order."

Aunt Liu's eyelids twitched suddenly. When did she come? How much of what she said just now did she hear?

But recalling what Sheng Nanzhi had done before, Aunt Liu straightened her back immediately. So what if she heard it? She was telling the truth.

Aunt Liu waved away the maid, grabbed Sheng Nanzhi's arm, and pulled her into the house: "Your father asked me to go to Huaizhou with him!"

"I'm still pregnant with your brother. The journey from the Imperial City to Huaizhou is long and tiring. I definitely can't stand it."

"You must help me think of a solution. I don't want to go to Huaizhou."

"As for your third sister, I think she must have been schemed by Wen Tingyun. She would never do such a thing."

Sheng Nanzhi lowered her eyes and smiled. Her aunt really thought she was omnipotent.

She didn't answer immediately, but only asked an irrelevant question: "Brother? How did Auntie know that the baby was a boy?"

Aunt Liu curled her lips slightly: "Your third sister said so. She said that I must be carrying a boy in my belly. She had dreamt about it."

"She always calls me brother, brother, so I'm used to it."

It turned out to be the case.

Not surprising.

Sheng Nanzhi nodded: "What is the secret about my life that Auntie mentioned in the letter?"

Aunt Liu paused, a little annoyed: "Is this all you care about?"

Sheng Nanzhi curled her lips: "What Auntie asked me to do is not a simple thing. She wants me to find a way to keep you in the Imperial City, and she also wants me to save Sheng Qingqian."

"It's not that difficult to keep you in the Imperial City, but saving Sheng Qingqian is not easy."

"Even if Sheng Qingqian was plotted against by Wen Tingyun, Wen Tingyun is the prince. We don't have enough evidence and there is no way to accuse him."

"If I want to find evidence, I have to do it right under Wen Tingyun's nose. I can only borrow the hidden guards left by Shi Huaizhi and give it a try."

"But even though I can give it a try, no matter what it is, I will have to take a huge risk. In this case, I naturally have to see if Auntie has enough chips in her hands."

"After all, didn't Auntie just say that? I'm an ungrateful person who can never be tamed."

Aunt Liu's eyes widened. She heard it! She really heard it!

And he even used such means to threaten her.

He had probably figured it all out, and since he had accumulated enough disappointment with Aunt Liu, Sheng Nanzhi didn't actually have too many extra emotions in his heart.

"Since Auntie thinks I'm an ungrateful person, then I don't have to try every possible way to be nice to her."

"After all, speaking of it, I haven't had much time to spend with my aunt since I was a child."

"My aunt didn't raise me for long, nor did she teach me how to be filial, so naturally I don't know how. Before, I was just following others, but their relationships with their biological mothers were probably different from ours, so copying them didn't seem to have much effect."

"Then I'll just stop learning and stop pretending."

"In that case, there's no need for us to talk about mother-daughter love. Let's just negotiate the terms directly."

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