The mistress just wanted to be bad, but she took off after being replaced

This resentment followed him like a shadow, and no matter how the emperor explained and defended himself, Prince Qing could not let it go, and he firmly believed that the other party was cunning and cowardly.

Later, the emperor deprived him of his military power, which made his anger reach the extreme.

Prince Qing believed that this was not only a trampling on his personal feelings, but also a questioning of his loyalty and loyalty to the empire.

The brotherhood that once fought side by side was completely broken by suspicion and misunderstanding.

From then on, Prince Qing stopped attending court on the pretext of recuperating from illness. Rumors arose from the outside world. Despite all kinds of speculations, he closed the door to visitors and refused all banquets. His lonely figure was no longer seen in the court.

A friendship that was once glorious eventually turned into nothing.

Prince Qing's impatience reached its peak. He slammed the table and stood up, interrupting the other party's words in a harsh voice: "How can the title of divine fortune teller be earned in vain? Is there any real evidence to support what you said?"

His eyes were as sharp as torches, fixed firmly on Sheng Junwei.

Sheng Junwei remained calm in the face of Prince Qing's questioning.

"In that case, I will make known to the public what you have never known."

His words were calm, yet turbulent. "Dear Princess, everyone knows that she comes from a merchant family, but few expected that her true identity is an orphan who lost her country many years ago."

These words were like a huge rock thrown into still water, instantly causing a thousand waves.

The Emperor and Prince Qing's faces suddenly changed, full of disbelief: "Where did you get this from?"

Prince Qing was even more astonished, frowning: "This is simply ridiculous!"

Thinking back to the wedding, all the elders from my bride’s family were present, so how could the idea of ​​it being from a foreign country come from?

Once these words were spoken, it undoubtedly hinted that there was a traitor lurking in the palace, and a sense of uneasiness and suspicion began to spread in the air.

How could a wife who is gentle, quiet, and deeply in love be a betrayer?

Seeing this, Sheng Junwei continued calmly: "According to the calculations of your two birth dates, her purpose of appearing seems to be to provoke the brothers to fight. To get to the root of the matter, we need the birth date of the princess as a basis."

In order to clear the suspicion on himself and his beloved wife, Prince Qing could not wait to provide the princess' birthday.

Sheng Junwei stared at the string of numbers for a moment, but shook her head helplessly: "These eight characters are not the princess's true destiny."

Prince Qing frowned. Sheng Junwei's words made the doubts and uneasiness in his heart grow like wild weeds. "What do you mean by that?"

Sheng Junwei's expression was firm, and every word she spoke was clear and powerful: "According to your numerology, Princess Qing should have passed away several years ago. And the person with these eight characters is not only alive, but also has strong vitality."

He continued, "Prince Qing is thirty-three this year. Even if the princess is younger, the age difference between them is only six years. So, the princess should be twenty-seven or twenty-eight now. But these eight characters show that she is a man in his forties."

Seeing everyone's shock, Sheng Junwei spread her hands and looked confident: "If you don't believe it, you can just find a monk or Taoist priest. They will know at a glance that this matter is just a piece of cake for them."

The emperor and Prince Qing exchanged a complicated look, and then the emperor pondered for a moment and gave an order: "Then do as Sheng Qing said."

After much deliberation, Prince Qing finally sent his trusted men, carrying the mysterious eight characters, to search for Taoist priests and monks in the city to verify the result.

Not long after, the confidant returned and the results he brought were surprisingly consistent with Sheng Junwei's inference.

Prince Qing was so shocked that he couldn't speak: "Did I remember it wrong? Or did she... did she remember it wrong?"

He tried hard to explain himself, emphasizing: "She is obviously a citizen of the Great Sheng Empire..."

However, Sheng Junwei made a new suggestion: "Why don't you invite her parents here? It just so happens that I lack the information about her horoscope and face, so some of the information is not complete. If the two elders were still alive, they might be able to fill in these gaps."

Prince Qing's expression suddenly became sad: "She was the only child of her parents. After she left, the two old people missed her too much and passed away soon after."

At this point, the clues seemed to be broken in mid-air, and everything was at a standstill.

Sheng Junwei rubbed her brows lightly, trying to find a new breakthrough: "So, what about her parents' birthdays?"

I didn't have high hopes and was considering proposing the radical approach of opening the coffin to examine the bones, but Pei Yu interrupted at the right time: "Their household registration records should have been preserved, right? Even if the records may have been tampered with, we can use this as a clue to explore the doubts."

"This is the method of following the clues." Pei Yu added.

The emperor hesitated for a moment and looked at Sheng Junwei sharply: "Sheng Qing, what do you mean?"

Faced with this sudden title, Sheng Junwei trembled slightly, then accepted it calmly.

She let out a soft "ah". Pei Yu's suggestion made her realize that her previous idea of ​​opening the coffin was too impulsive.

At any time, digging up graves and opening coffins are considered to be extremely heinous acts, which will inevitably arouse public anger and disgust.

The emperor raised his eyebrows slightly, with a look of curiosity and inquiry in his eyes, and asked slowly: "What is so unique about you that you can peek into life and death and see into the underworld?"

She opened her red lips slightly, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "My ability is extraordinary. Not only can I see through the fate of the living through their faces, I can also get a glimpse of the past of the deceased, and even touch those mysterious areas beyond the perception of ordinary people. Therefore, opening these three coffins can reveal some hidden truths for us."

When Pei Yu heard this, his pupils suddenly contracted and his face was full of surprise.

Prince Qing and the Emperor also looked surprised and exchanged complicated glances with each other.

After a short silence, Prince Qing was the first to break the silence, his voice mixed with anger and confusion: "It is incredible to propose opening the coffins, let alone opening three coffins at once! Madam Pei, have you overstepped your bounds?"

The emperor raised his hand gently, motioning Hu Gong to come forward to appease the slightly agitated Prince Qing: "Why not follow her wishes? Perhaps it will really solve the doubts in our hearts."

The Ministry of Revenue was the power center in charge of the country's money, grain and household registration.

Under the order issued by the emperor himself, despite facing a huge amount of population information, the officials of the Ministry of Households were able to quickly and accurately collect and organize all the required household registration data and eight-character records within just two hours.

Sheng Junwei held the household registration book in her hand, her eyes moving between them, her brows sometimes furrowed, sometimes relaxed, her fingertips gently sliding across the yellowed paper.

"There seems to be no flaws in the identity records of these two people. Most of the destinies deduced from these clues are inextricably linked to Prince Qing and the Princess." She murmured.

"Prince Qing's father-in-law, Jin Shengyuan, comes from an ordinary family in Xi County."

Sheng Junwei continued, "Tracing back to his great-grandfather's time, the Jin family had been poor farmers for generations, and their lives were hard. It was not until the generation of Jin Shengyuan's grandfather that, because his grandfather was both wise and brave, and by chance, he made friends with several powerful nobles, and with their help, in just a few years, he jumped out of the quagmire of poverty and accumulated a family business worth hundreds of taels of silver."