Aunt Liu sighed: "I'm sorry for putting you in such a difficult position."

Sheng Nanzhi lowered her head, her voice growing even lower: "My daughter doesn't know what she did wrong. Maybe I shouldn't have been born."

"From the moment I was born, I was predicted to be a calamity. I was looked down upon and bullied in the manor, and was sent to the farm when I was three years old."

"Most of the people living on the farm are tenant farmers. They hate and despise my father and the Sheng family. Knowing that I am the eldest daughter of the Sheng family, they try every possible way to torture and bully me."

"I have never told my aunt about these things."

She lifted her sleeves, revealing the scars that had long since healed, but still left visible marks: "Look, Auntie, these are the injuries I got from being beaten by the people in the farm over the years."

"Later, I finally returned to the Sheng Mansion. Although the marriage my mother arranged for me was with a scholar from a poor family, I didn't mind it. At that time, I even thought that no matter how poor the family was, it was still better than living on a farm."

"What happened between me and the Sixth Prince was really not my doing, but no one believes me."

"I asked to be admitted to a nunnery to prove my innocence, but I was unexpectedly taken out again. I also didn't expect that I would get pregnant."

Aunt Liu is pregnant now, so she can naturally understand Sheng Nanzhi's sudden sadness. Sheng Nanzhi's life is indeed miserable.

It's all her fault. She didn't have the ability to protect her.

Moreover, when Sheng Nanzhi was just born, she really didn't like Sheng Nanzhi very much...

But if you think about it carefully, Sheng Nanzhi is actually innocent.

Aunt Liu sighed: "It's hard for you."

"Don't be too sad. Some things have already passed. Don't think about them anymore."

"You are still pregnant now, you can't be so sad, it will affect the baby in your belly."

"I'll stay with you in Prince Yi's mansion for a few days. I'll take walks with you in the mansion, talk with you, and help you calm down."

Sheng Nanzhi nodded: "Thank you, Auntie. I thought that Auntie didn't care about me at all and wouldn't be willing to stay with me."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Aunt Liu felt inexplicably guilty. "I carried you for ten months and gave birth to you after breaking your bones. How could I not care about you?"

Sheng Nanzhi arranged a courtyard for Aunt Liu to live in.

On the fourth day of their stay, news arrived from the Sheng Mansion: "Mo Tao succeeded. Li Yueru had breakfast today and was walking in the yard when she suddenly felt severe abdominal pain and bleeding."

"Her face turned pale and she quickly summoned the court doctor, who told her that she was pregnant but had a miscarriage."

Li Yueru couldn't believe it and asked another doctor to take her pulse several times, but the result was still the same.

"She suddenly went crazy, throwing everything in her room all over the place, crying and shouting."

"Prime Minister Sheng received the news and rushed over to visit. He heard the noise from outside the door and hesitated for a moment. In the end, he did not go in. He just told the maid beside him to let the lady rest well."

"After hearing the news, Li Yueru was furious."

Sheng Nanzhi laughed: "She knew exactly why she had a miscarriage. It was precisely because she knew that she couldn't accept it."

"That's called reaping the fruits of one's own actions."

Sheng Nanzhi raised the corner of her mouth and asked, "Has Li Yueru dealt with all the saffron in the backyard of the Sheng Mansion?"

"It's been dealt with." Xue Yi quickly responded, "She had a sudden miscarriage, so we must investigate."

"She specifically asked someone to bring those saffron back to the Sheng Mansion and place them in the backyard."

"If she were discovered, Prime Minister Sheng would certainly be suspicious of her motives. Although she was furious, she hadn't completely lost her mind. So she immediately arranged for the maid to quietly call for help. They took away all the flowers and replaced them with similar varieties."

Sheng Nanzhi nodded: "We can't let her withdraw all of them."

"What if she wants to use this incident to frame someone else, like Concubine Liu? That would be bad."

Xue Yi nodded: "Don't worry, Princess. As you instructed before, our people secretly hid a few pots of saffron under the cover of night."

"If she really wants to frame us, we can just put the saffron out again."

It has to be said that Sheng Nanzhi knew Li Yueru quite well. Not long after, someone came from the Sheng Mansion.

"We are here to take Madam Liu back home."

Sheng Nanzhi raised her eyebrows and looked at Aunt Liu.

"Take Madam Liu back to the mansion? What's going on? Is there something going on at the Sheng Mansion?"

"I brought Concubine Liu here before, but I reported it to my father and got his approval."

The attendant from the Sheng Mansion quickly said, "Nothing serious. The Prime Minister and his wife just said that Concubine Liu has been at Prince Yi's Mansion for a few days. After all, Concubine Liu is a concubine of the Sheng Mansion and is pregnant. She really shouldn't be staying at Prince Yi's Mansion for a long time."

Sheng Nanzhi sneered secretly, he was quite good at making excuses.

"Alright." Sheng Nanzhi pursed her lips: "Then I'll take my aunt back home."

The attendants looked at each other, seeming a little anxious: "We have brought a carriage and guards, so the princess doesn't need to go there in person, right? The princess is pregnant, so it's best not to travel back and forth."

Sheng Nanzhi immediately frowned: "Why? The Sheng Mansion is my mother's home, can't I go back?"

"You guys came all of a sudden to pick up Aunt Liu, and you didn't even let me see her off. I just think you're really weird."

"The more you act like this, the more I want to go and see for myself what's going on."

Sheng Nanzhi made the final decision and immediately asked someone to prepare a carriage. She also asked Aunt Liu to get on her carriage and go to the Sheng Mansion together.

Aunt Liu also looked a little uneasy: "What on earth is going on? Did something really happen?"

Sheng Nanzhi whispered soothingly, "It's okay. If the enemy comes, we will fight them. If the water comes, we will block it with earth. Let's go back and see what's going on first."

Aunt Liu nodded and looked towards Prince Yi's Mansion with some reluctance to leave.

She spent most of her life in the Sheng Mansion and rarely left.

Although I only stayed in Prince Yi's Mansion for a few days, my life there was really comfortable.

She didn't want to go back to Sheng Mansion at all.

As soon as the mother and son arrived at the Sheng Mansion, they were immediately invited to the main hall of the main courtyard.

As soon as she entered the room, she saw Li Yueru, who was wearing a headband and looked haggard. Li Yueru stared at the mother and daughter who had entered the room, her teeth clenched, "Madam Liu, I think I have treated you well over the years, why did you want to harm me! Why did you want to harm the child in my belly!"

Sheng Nanzhi was not at all surprised by Li Yueru's performance.

Only Concubine Liu looked completely bewildered. "Ah? What did Madam say? When did I ever harm Madam? What child?"

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