Reborn as a concubine's sister, the eldest lady went crazy

Lu Anyuan looked up in surprise, with a hint of admiration in his eyes: "You figured out my people so early? Awesome. That's right, Mr. Yao is indeed the descendant of the Si Chong people, and my mother did find this group of "aliens" outside the palace to perform magic for her.

Later, the Si Chong people were wiped out by the imperial court, and my mother thought Mr. Yao was a rare treasure, so she hid him away. It was really ridiculous." Lu Anyuan recalled, and he could still remember how he and Mr. Yao used to harm ants and earthworms when they were children.

At that time, Mr. Yao was just a child, but he was very strange. All poisonous insects dared not approach him. To be honest, he liked to torture earthworms when he was a child, maybe he learned it from Mr. Yao.

"Later, I brought him out when I opened my mansion. He has been researching various miraculous medicines for me in my mansion. This is a way of repaying me for saving him."

"Ah? So, Concubine Yi really used those methods to harm people?"

"Yes."

Xu Yixing was silent. She thought there might be other reasons for Concubine Yi's death, but she didn't expect it was purely her own fault. She finally understood why Lu Anyuan thought his mother was stupid. If Concubine Yi were alive today, she might have done something that would have implicated the whole family.

"How do you know? Since the Queen has preserved her reputation and allowed her to enter the imperial mausoleum, she should have told everyone the reason for her death. Why do you..."

"It wasn't the Queen's mercy, it was clearly my aunt's pleading! At that time, the Queen brought my mother to my father to be punished, and it was my aunt who went to the Imperial Study to beg for a day to save me. As for how I knew..."

Lu Anyuan closed his eyes in pain. This was the downside of being naughty. When he was a kid, he liked to run everywhere. On the day when the palace servants came with poisoned wine and white silk, he was at the gate of the second hall. He happened to see his mother, who was like a mad woman and refused to obey, and was strangled to death by the strong man who came to supervise the execution.

If Mr. Yao hadn't covered his mouth tightly behind him, there's no telling what the outcome would be. Later, the Queen announced the news of her mother's death to the six palaces. Lu Anyuan stood expressionlessly beside the Queen, his eyes full of resentment and hatred.

Fortunately, the queen was only concerned with exerting her power as the empress at the time. When she looked at Lu Anyuan again, he had recovered from his sadness. The queen lovingly touched Lu Anyuan's little face and sent him back.

"Hey, hey, hey! Are you okay?" Xu Yixing saw Lu Anyuan closing his eyes for a long time and quickly shook him.

"Ah, I'm fine. I just found out the truth by accident. So you see, our mother's early death is actually a good thing for us, right?" Lu Anyuan gave a bitter smile, which made Xu Yixing feel sad.

"Forget it. Things have come to this point. Human intervention is useless. Now that the Second Prince is gone, what are we going to do next?"

"You really can't stop for a day!"

"I can't help it. Being with you every day is like walking on a single-plank bridge at high altitude. If I don't plan ahead, I'm afraid I'll fall to my death."

"Don't worry, I'm here to hold you up, so you won't fall!"

The departure of the Second Prince caused quite a stir in the capital, but unlike the previous gossips, this time the people affected by the stir were almost all affected in secret, and no one talked about it openly.

And soon, four days after he left the capital, the funeral of the eldest prince, Prince Pingsong, was held in the capital. The funeral procession entered the imperial mausoleum in a grand manner. There were cries everywhere, and paper money was like snowflakes, being carried everywhere by the wind and snow.

To make matters worse, upon learning about this, King Pingsong's father-in-law, General Fenwei, who was already seriously ill, also died.

For a while, all I could hear was the suona, but I couldn't see the candles. This added a touch of sadness to the already heavy officialdom in the capital. For several months, the court was filled with an atmosphere of anxiety. Everyone was worried, but they didn't know what they were worried about. It was an indescribable weird feeling.

The Dragon Boat Festival came again. The flowers in the prince's mansion bloomed and then faded. Summer was quietly approaching, and people felt much more relaxed.

No matter how the outside world changes, these few months are the most relaxing time for Xu Yixing. Without powerful rivals in the court and trivial matters at home, he is as comfortable as he can be.

This year's Dragon Boat Festival banquet will still be held at Prince Cheng's Mansion. There's nothing we can do about it. The old couple are rich and they don't mind holding as many banquets as they want.

The pavilion in the center of the lake was not used this year. I don’t know if it was because the shadow left by Wu Xueyan last year was too heavy, but Prince Cheng and his wife actually abandoned the pavilion that they had built at a huge expense. It was such a pity.

Xu Yixing sat in the curtained ladies' area. From time to time, he could hear exaggerated laughter and pedantic poetry coming from the male guests. It was so boring.

The fourth princess suddenly appeared out of nowhere and came to her with a glass of wine in her hand: "Haha, sister Yi Yan, we meet again!"

Xu Yixing stood up to salute, but saw that the fourth princess' belly was slightly bulging under her skirt. Did she seem to be pregnant?

"Your Highness, what are you doing?"

The fourth princess patted her belly gently: "Five months!"

"Congratulations, Your Highness! Congratulations, Your Highness!" Xu Yixing bowed again to express his blessing. It was a wonderful feeling that his childhood playmate was now pregnant.

"No need, no need. Just give me a big red envelope later. That will be a token of your kindness!" The Fourth Princess' face was full of happiness, which made Xu Yixing feel happy.

"Have you told the palace about this happy event? The atmosphere in the palace is not good right now. I think your pregnancy will make the emperor, empress, and queen mother happy for a long time!"

"Not yet. Ever since I became pregnant, there have been problems in the palace. I think it's unlucky! However, I have to tell you today. I have just told my uncle and aunt, and they will definitely tell my father and mother."

Xu Yixing smiled bitterly. When something happened in the palace, only the Fourth Princess dared to say the word "bad luck". She was really childish.

"But your highness, you are pregnant and shouldn't drink."

"It's okay. I asked, and those barbarians always drink at any time. I only drink a little bit, it's okay."

"this..."

"Forget it, forget it. Stop nagging. The princess has already been talking for a long time!" The fourth princess covered her ears with disgust on her face.

"Okay, then you sit here?" Xu Yixing gave up his seat to the Fourth Princess, but she had no intention of sitting down.

"No, I'm here to congratulate you." After saying that, he raised the wine bottle, waiting for Xu Yixing to clink glasses.

But Xu Yixing didn’t understand what this meant: “What are you congratulating me for?” I’m not pregnant…

"Of course, congratulations on having another mother." The fourth princess laughed so exaggeratedly that Xu Yixing couldn't help but suspect that she was here to laugh at him.

But... "What mother?"

"Don't you know? No way!" The fourth princess became interested and said with great joy: "General Xu is getting married again!"