The eldest sister was reborn and the younger sister traveled through time. I just want to survive.

"It is an honor for me to be valued by the Grand Empress Dowager. But I am already married and have a baby at home. I dare not accept the Grand Empress Dowager's invitation."

As soon as Yan Muxi finished speaking, the eunuch outside came to report, "Report to the Empress Dowager, there is an accident in Zhongcui Palace."

Seeing that the Empress Dowager looked cold and didn't respond, the Princess asked anxiously, "What happened in Zhongcui Palace?"

Zhongcui Palace was the palace where Princess Dafeng and Concubine He lived. Something happened in Zhongcui Palace, which meant that something happened to Concubine He.

The eunuch glanced at the Grand Empress Dowager, and seeing that she had no intention of stopping him from speaking, he reported truthfully, "The Concubine He is missing."

"How could Concubine He disappear? Have you searched every corner of the palace carefully?" The eldest princess looked surprised and incredulous.

Ever since the scandal was exposed, Concubine He was imprisoned in the palace where the Empress Dowager lived. People from the Neiji Pavilion took turns to guard her twelve hours a day, and she could not escape even if she had wings.

The eunuch said, "We have searched the inner palace several times, but have not found any trace of Concubine He."

Due to the sudden change, Yan Muxi temporarily escaped the disaster and was taken out of the inner hall by the eunuch.

When she came out, she saw Yu Wantai still standing at the door of the inner hall, so she knelt down and performed the proper greeting.

"Madam Qian, there is no need to be so polite." Yu Wantai's tone was cold and distant, and his peach blossom eyes were filled with blood.

Yan Muxi resisted the urge to look up, pretended to be nervous and distant, and followed the eunuch out of the hall slowly.

As a member of the royal family of Dafeng, Yu Wantai appeared in North Vietnam. It goes without saying that he was dancing on the edge of a knife. If he was not careful, he would die. She must not step on his shoulder and make his situation more difficult.

Yu Shui was waiting at the steps outside the palace. When she saw Yan Muxi coming out of the palace, she hurried over to her and asked, "Madam, are you okay?"

"Don't worry, the Queen Mother is kind and didn't make things difficult for me."

"Madam is fine, I am relieved."

After they were far away from the courtyard, Yu Shui lowered her voice and spoke about the news she had just heard, "The internal guards have begun to interrogate the servants who left the Princess's Mansion yesterday morning. I'm afraid they will soon interrogate the maid and the driver. As for the driver, do you want the maid?"

"Wait a little longer, don't act rashly." Yan Muxi said with a warning.

The driver was bought from a pawnbroker. Although he was a contracted slave, he was just an ordinary person after all. Facing high-pressure interrogation, it was difficult for him to keep the secret.

But if they let the rain kill the driver, they would still arouse suspicion. Being in a den surrounded by wolves, they must not act rashly.

The only thing she can do now is to wait for Yu Wantai's reaction. Yu Wantai has recognized her and knows her situation. He will not sit idly by and watch her fall into the thorns. He will definitely find a way to break the situation.

Yan Muxi's prediction was correct. As soon as the master and servant returned to the courtyard where they were staying, the courtyard was surrounded by Shengjing guards.

Yu Shui tightly grasped the dagger in his sleeve, ready to fight desperately at any time. Fortunately, after a while of commotion, the yard returned to peace.

After making sure that the danger was over, Yu Shui went out to inquire and found out that something had happened to the servant in his mansion who was being interrogated.

The first carriage to leave the Princess's Mansion yesterday was from the Yongxing Marquis' Mansion, and the first person to be interrogated today was also a servant from the Yongxing Marquis' Mansion.

The victim was a close maidservant of the wife of the Yongxing Marquis. She committed suicide by biting open a poison sac hidden in her teeth before being brought to trial.

After the maid died, all the women in the Yongxing Marquis's mansion were taken away for interrogation, even a five-year-old child was not spared.

The people from the Yongxing Marquis' Mansion had just been taken away, and something unexpected happened in the main hall, a big one at that.

Yu Wantai held Princess Nishang hostage and was negotiating with the Grand Empress Dowager, "Let the Bo family and my people leave, and I will ensure that the princess is safe."

The Empress Dowager was calm and composed, as if the person with the knife at her neck was not her only living flesh and blood.

"I never thought that after being shrewd and cautious for most of my life, I would be fooled by my juniors in my old age. Xiao Anzi, you have been with me for nearly two years, so you should have some understanding of my character. Guess, for me, which is more important, the cause of the country or my granddaughter."

"The Empress Dowager is not an ordinary woman. She certainly won't put her children first like ordinary women." Yu Wantai's expression and tone were equally indifferent.

The Empress Dowager actually raised her lips and smiled, "Since I know that I don't value future generations, why do you still do such a stupid thing, Xiao Anzi?"

Yu Wantai also smiled, with three parts of confidence and seven parts of determination in his smile, "Even if the Empress Dowager doesn't care about her descendants, she still regards them as more important than others. Now that I have completed my mission and have reached a dead end, I have to try a gamble. I want to see whether the life of a villain like me is more important or the life of Princess Nishang is more important in the Empress Dowager's heart. If I win the bet, I will save one more life. Even if I lose the bet, I will not suffer any loss as the noble Princess Nishang will accompany me to hell."

"Then guess again, Xiao Anzi, who will win in this contest, you or me?" The Empress Dowager's eyes were gentle, and she looked at Yu Wantai as if she was looking at a junior whom she admired.

"Of course I win, because if I don't win, the Empress Dowager will have no chance of winning." Yu Wantai said arrogantly, and after stripping off the eunuch's mask, he regained his original boldness and recklessness.

"How do you know that I have no chance of winning? I never let others judge my wins or losses. I only rely on the scale in my heart. If I can defeat and crush those who disobey me, and I can still live well, then that is a win for me."

As the Empress Dowager finished speaking, the eldest princess fell to her knees and pleaded with a look of despair, "I beg you to save Nichang. I am different from you. Without Nichang, I cannot survive."

No one knows her mother better than the eldest princess. Her mother gave birth to three royal heirs in her lifetime, but now she is the only one alive. In order to achieve her goal, her mother can give up everything, even kill her own children with her own hands.

Her own brother, the emperor, who was born of the same mother, was ordered to be executed by the queen herself because he refused to accept her power and committed an act of rebellion.

Even her own flesh and blood can be abandoned, and the queen mother can also abandon those who are separated by a layer of blood without blinking an eye.

The Empress Dowager put away her smile and sighed deeply, "Xiao Anzi, you are right. I lost, completely."

She was treated like a slave by her father and brothers since she was young, and she vowed that one day she would trample under her feet the men who bullied women.

The woman who entered the palace at the age of fifteen and became the emperor, climbed to the high position by stepping on the arms of men with great effort, allowing thousands of North Vietnamese women to hold their heads high.

In addition to elevating women's rights, North Vietnam became stronger and stronger under her rule, strong enough to compete with Dafeng. She believed that she was doing no worse than any talented emperor.

However, a person's energy and lifespan are limited. The limit of what she can do is far from enough for the people of North Vietnam, and her descendants must continue to work hard.

But who could have imagined that none of her children would become successful. The eldest daughter, who was the one she had high hopes for, was easily influenced and short-sighted, and the two younger sons were even more ruthless, and they directly joined forces with others to rebel against her.

The new emperor was the best candidate she had found among all the royal grandchildren, but he was also an emperor without great talent.

She could clearly foresee the future of North Vietnam.

The incompetence of her younger generation meant that she was destined not to be a winner all her life. Although she no longer cared about winning or losing, she could not lose her only living flesh and blood.