Famine and exile: I brought the Spirit Spring to save the entire Marquis's mansion.

Yan Mingyu was brought into the tent, bound hand and foot, and slammed to the ground.

He lay face down, his mouth full of mud.

Huo Jingya pinched his chin and made a shallow cut on his face with a knife, and blood immediately seeped out.

"It really is Yan Mingyu!"

"How dare you! Huo Jingya, I am the emperor! I am the emperor!"

"Yes, that's right, the deposed emperor. I'm very curious, what exactly did you do to be deposed?"

Yan Mingyu's eyes narrowed sharply, a hint of fear in them.

Sang Ning sent Pei Ming'an and Feng Dali out, and ordered Yu Cui and Yu Bai to guard outside the tent.

She was afraid that if she found out some secrets, things would get complicated.

The woman who was brought in with him kept staring at Sang Ning.

At this moment, Sang Ning smiled at her and said, "I know you are not Yan Mingyu's concubine, but who are you?"

The woman's gaze was neither humble nor arrogant, and her expression was neutral.

What if I don't want you to know?

"That girl must have her own reasons, and of course we won't force her. Thank you for bringing her here. Is there anything the Huo family can do for you?"

The woman glared at Yan Mingyu with hatred.

"I just want to know why they targeted the Huo family. I think you'd like to know even more, so I sent you here!"

Otherwise, she would have found a place long ago and torn this beast to pieces!

"I also want to know."

She looked at Huo Jingya and Sang Ning, her eyes filled with hidden pain.

"Are all the sons of the Huo family truly being humiliated, trampled upon, and harmed, as the rumors say?"

Were they really sold to the Northern Mongols? And now... are they alive or dead?

"It's true." Sang Ning didn't hide anything.

Since the news of the moon not being full was already publicized, there's nothing wrong with saying it.

"They are all alive, but in very poor health and are still recovering from their injuries."

"They're all alive!" The woman's eyes lit up.

She opened her mouth as if to ask something, but then stopped.

"Just being alive is good enough."

Huo Jingya scrutinized her, beginning to guess her identity.

Judging from what she just said, she seems to be an admirer of one of her brothers.

To be honest, there are plenty of girls who admire her brothers, but there's nothing she can do, since they all have wives.

Even after disaster, they never abandoned each other.

Oh, except for my second brother.

However, my second brother spends most of his time in the military, so he probably doesn't have many opportunities to meet girls.

She couldn't possibly be the second brother's admirer.

It's most likely the eldest brother's.

"Alright, let's ask why the royal family targeted the Huo family."

Sang Ning reached out and took out a red-hot iron shovel from the stove.

"I'll ignore my brothers for now and just do the same thing to you as Silang did back then."

"Sang Ning'er, what are you doing? How dare you...you bastard!"

Yan Mingyu writhed in terror, but it was no use. With a shrill scream, the smell of burnt meat filled the air.

"Spare me...spare me...it wasn't me, it was Father Emperor, it was Father Emperor who did it!"

Yan Mingyu trembled all over, tears streaming down his face from the pain.

He was indeed a cowardly and incompetent person. How could someone like that become emperor and control the lives and deaths of so many brave young men?

"It seems you still think we're fools."

As Sang Ning spoke, he threw the shovel into the furnace again.

"The late emperor intended to change the crown prince, but you overheard it. You then controlled the late emperor and used him to harm my father-in-law."

Yan Mingyu's eyes widened.

It seems that Sang Ning's previous guess was correct!

Sang Ning then took out a shovel.

"What else do you want to do?"

“Jingya, make him behave. Your fourth brother had his first lumbar vertebra broken back then, and I don’t want to distort the truth.”

Huo Jingya stepped on him, rendering Yan Mingyu unable to move.

Two women, even more ruthless than men—this was something Yan Mingyu hadn't expected.

This was something the woman watching from the sidelines hadn't expected.

But she was only happy.

The hot iron shovel had already made her feel great, and this time, she was even happier!

"Spare me! I'll tell you everything, I'll tell you everything..."

"Then let's listen to it first."

Yan Mingyu was drenched in sweat and panting heavily, even after Huo Jingya released him.

He lay sprawled on the ground like a lump of mud.

Huo Jingya spat, "What a useless piece of trash! It would be crazy if the late emperor didn't change the crown prince!"

Yes.

The woman looked at Yan Mingyu with disdain.

The people they used to be loyal to were actually this kind of people.

"Father, I had a dream..."

Yan Mingyu said that the late emperor had a dream.

I dreamt of a boy standing in a vast, golden wheat field.

Many, many people were harvesting rice, wielding sickles.

Their faces radiated genuine joy and excitement.

They shouted "Your Majesty" at the boy.

Everyone is saying that the young man is a wise and benevolent ruler of a prosperous era, a divine being bestowed by heaven.

The world is at peace, and all nations submit to its rule.

That was the late emperor's lifelong wish.

The late emperor wanted to run up and see who it was, but he could never see the person's face.

Finally, a mysterious voice said to him, "That is your son, the son you abandoned outside."

That is the true Son of Heaven.

When the late emperor woke up, he took the dream as reality.

He began to think back, but couldn't recall which woman was pregnant with the dragon's child.

Because when he was young, he traveled to many places and, of course, slept with many women.

So that night he summoned Du Xin to the palace.

Du Xin discovered that the late emperor not only had one son who was left behind, but also five daughters.

The late emperor ignored his five daughters and only cared about his son.

Du Xin calculated that the son was located in the southeast, about 500 li away from the capital.

The late emperor began to think again and finally concluded that his son must be in Pingyang.

In his youth, he disguised himself as an ordinary young master and followed Huo Zhennan back to his hometown to visit his ancestors, where he stayed for a period of time.

He spent a few days with a courtesan in a brothel.

Later, when he left, he redeemed the courtesan, who was extremely grateful to him. If she became pregnant, it would be perfectly reasonable for her to give birth and raise the child.

The late emperor believed that his true crown prince was in Pingyang. He couldn't trust anyone else for such an important task, except Huo Zhennan.

Therefore, he planned to have Huo Zhennan finish this battle and then find an excuse to leave and go to Pingyang.

These were all mentioned in a letter the late emperor wrote to Huo Zhennan.

Yan Mingyu intercepted the letter.

The guards around him told him that the late emperor intended to reinstate the crown prince, which he hadn't believed at first, but now he believed it all.

However, he had a deep bond with the late emperor and his son for many years. Even though the late emperor wanted to depose him, he did not intend to do anything to the late emperor. He only wanted to go to Pingyang first to find the child and then kill him.

Unfortunately, the guards intercepted a letter that Huo Zhennan had sent to the late emperor.

That document contained a secret that would plunge him into utter hell!

He, Yan Mingyu, is the son of the King of Northern Mongolia!