Overcoming all difficulties, the princess is reborn to become the empress

The three of them were filled with doubts.

As it got darker, the palace maids knocked on the door and asked if dinner was needed.

After asking Xuan Huangzi and Bai Shu for their opinions, Su Yunxuan only asked for the medicine that had been used to keep her father alive in recent days.

After carefully feeding the medicine to her father, she continued to discuss the events of the past with Xuan Huangzi and Bai Shu, trying to find out the whole truth.

Xuan Huangzi has basically said everything he knows.

Su Yunxuan asked Bai Shu what he might know about Master Bai and what happened back then.

Bai Shu tried hard to recall for a long time and expressed some of what he saw and his guesses.

He said that at the banquet that year, after the eldest daughter Bai Yeying went missing, Master Bai searched for her for a long time and even suspected that it was the Queen Mother and Prince Xu who took the eldest daughter away.

Although the lady repeatedly emphasized that the Queen Mother was the eldest daughter's aunt, and Master Bai also knew Prince Xu's character and was convinced that Prince Xu would not abduct the eldest daughter, it was an established fact that the eldest daughter had completely disappeared as if she had evaporated from the face of the earth.

The lady's health was getting worse and worse. Master Bai missed his daughter so much that he finally went to find the Queen Mother.

That time, Bai Shu accompanied Tutor Bai into the palace to take the emperor's pulse, and the memory of it was particularly vivid.

On the way there, Master Bai kept sighing in the carriage and repeatedly told him not to reveal to anyone what he had seen that night, the Queen Mother's secret meeting with Prince Xu.

After entering the palace, he went to the Emperor and Tutor Bai went to the Empress Dowager.

Later, they left the palace and returned home together. He found that Master Bai's face was extremely pale. He did not say a word the whole time. He just lowered his eyes and clenched his fists. He had never seen him in that state before.

He looked worried and asked curiously whether the Queen Mother had hidden the eldest daughter.

Master Bai glanced at him, his eyes were so complicated that he couldn't understand them, as if there was disbelief, fear, pain, resentment...

He was scared by being stared at, so he lowered his head and dared not ask any more questions.

The carriage returned quietly to the Imperial Tutor's residence. Imperial Tutor Bai took three days off and did not attend the court meetings. He locked himself in his room and refused to see anyone, even his wife was refused to see him when she knocked on the door.

On the fourth day, the lady cried and begged, knocking on the door, saying that she would no longer hurt herself because of the disappearance of the eldest daughter, and only hoped that Master Bai would be well.

Only then did Master Bai open the door and come out.

After comforting the lady and sending her back to her room, Master Bai summoned him and Bai Shu and ordered them to start recruiting talented people with outstanding martial arts skills and train warriors who would swear to be loyal to the Master's Mansion until death.

At the same time, Master Bai also warned him and Bai Shu not to provoke the Queen Mother or the people around her.

From then on, the Taifu Mansion, the Empress Dowager Mansion, and the Prince Xu Mansion all deliberately kept their distance.

The Grand Tutor and his wife never mentioned the eldest daughter Bai Yeying again.

Although they never mentioned it again, he and Bai Zhu knew that the Grand Tutor and his wife had never forgotten the eldest lady.

Every year on the eldest lady's birthday, the Grand Tutor and the Madam would order people to prepare a large table of the eldest lady's favorite food and set out three sets of bowls and chopsticks.

This custom was not continued until many years later, when the second young lady, Bai Xingyao, was born in the mansion.

Because of the incident with the eldest lady, the Madam's health had been poor and it was not appropriate for her to get pregnant again. However, the Madam knew that her life would not last long and she insisted on having a child to accompany the Grand Tutor. The Grand Tutor had no choice but to compromise and accompany the Madam every day longer than before.

Even though the Grand Tutor tried his best, the lady still passed away not long after giving birth to the second young lady.

The second young lady was born with a heart disease and could not stand stimulation. The Grand Tutor doted on her and raised her with great care.

When the second young lady was five years old, the Prince Xu's Mansion, which had been vacant for a long time, welcomed the hostess and the young master Su Muxiao.

Only then did they realize that Prince Xu had already married and had children outside.

It was unknown whether it was intentional on the part of the wife of Prince Xu. On New Year's Eve of that year, the people in the mansion took the second young lady out to play and ran into the wife of Prince Xu and Su Muxiao on the street.

The second young lady and Su Muxiao became friends from then on.

The Grand Tutor and Prince Xu did not try to stop him.

Su Yunxuan asked how Bai Xingyao died.

Although Su Changfeng did not say it explicitly, she knew that Su Changfeng had resented King Xu for killing his mother.

When Lord Zhong came to look for him, Su Changfeng went back to Yunsheng to see his grandfather, Master Bai, for the last time. When he returned to Fenglan and mentioned Prince Xu, there was no longer the disgust in his eyes or in his tone.

She guessed that Aunt Xingyao's death might not have been caused by King Xu.

Fearing that bringing up Aunt Xingyao again would make Su Changfeng sad, she did not ask any further questions.

Bai Shu mentioned the second young lady Bai Xingyao, and Su Yunxuan thought that Bai Shu might know the details.

Bai Shu said that Su Changfeng knocked on the side door of the Taifu Mansion at night and told Taifu Bai that Prince Xu intended to launch a surprise attack on Feng Lan. The Taifu was shocked for a moment, but then seemed to have expected it and calmly took a series of countermeasures.

But he was so busy that he once again neglected his daughter.

Wang Zhongxun, the steward of Prince Xu's Mansion, came to inform them, and they learned that the second young lady Bai Xingyao had died in Prince Xu's Mansion.

At that time, Master Bai and the young master Su Changfeng both thought that it was Prince Xu who killed the second lady Bai Xingyao in order to silence her.

At that time, because of their inconsistent positions, Prince Xu's Mansion and the Grand Tutor's Mansion were already incompatible.

Prince Xu and the Queen Mother sent people to secretly hunt down the Emperor. The Grand Tutor's Mansion and the second brother-in-law Su Muxiao, who was already the general of the Yunsheng Escort Banner, were busy protecting the Emperor. The Grand Tutor had no time and energy to investigate the real cause of death of the second lady Bai Xingyao.

King Xu never defended or clarified himself.

This misunderstanding was not completely resolved until many years later, when Master Bai felt that his time was up and, in order to save the overall situation, he put aside past grudges and visited Prince Xu at his residence.

According to Prince Xu, when he knew that Su Changfeng had gone to the Taifu Mansion to inform on the matter, he simply ordered people to imprison Bai Xingyao in the room. He never thought that Bai Xingyao would suddenly have a heart attack.

When the servant came to report, he rushed over to check Bai Xingyao's neck and was seen by his wife.

Mrs. Xu mistakenly believed that it was Prince Xu who killed her daughter-in-law Bai Xingyao, so she hurriedly ordered the chief steward Wang Zhong who followed her to Prince Xu's mansion to go to the Grand Tutor's Mansion to report the news.

This caused the misunderstanding.

Bai Shu said that Master Bai told Su Changfeng what he said before he died, and Su Changfeng asked if it was just Prince Xu's one-sided statement.

Tutor Bai said yes, and that after Prince Xu told him everything, he wanted to find the people involved in the incident to testify, but Tutor Bai refused.

Master Bai said that he believed in Prince Xu's character, and told Su Changfeng that Prince Xu was a man of courage and responsibility, and would not lie.

After Bai Shu finished saying this, Su Yunxuan guessed: Master Bai and Prince Xu must both know the truth about the Queen Mother's change of attitude.

She analyzed that Master Bai and Prince Xu might have known about it at different times.

She deduced that Master Bai must have discovered something wrong with the Queen Mother when he entered the palace to ask her whether she had hidden her eldest daughter, Bai Yeying. He also knew that his father's beloved disciple, Yun Lianzi, had used the forbidden technique of their Baiyun Sect, the technique of rejuvenation, on his sister-in-law, Yun Shang.

Xuan Huangzi and Bai Shu both expressed doubts: If Master Bai knew that it was the Queen Mother who took away his eldest daughter, Bai Yeying, why didn't he force the Queen Mother to hand her over?

Su Yunxuan did not answer but asked Xuan Huangzi and Bai Shu, have you ever thought about the reason why the Queen Mother used the Rejuvenation Method on Yun Shang?

Xuan Huangzi and Bai Shu both shook their heads, indicating that there was no way to find out.

Su Yunxuan asked them to think about the time periods over the years when the Queen Mother made statements, actions and instructions that were completely contrary to the past.

Xuan Huangzi and Bai Shu frowned as they recalled.

Su Yunxuan simply took out a pen and paper, spread them on the table, and wrote down the differences and time points mentioned by the two of them.

By the time Xuan Huangzi and Bai Shu finished talking, Su Yunxuan had already written a full page of paper.

She stared at the paper and discussed it with Xuan Huangzi and Bai Shu.

She analyzed a lot, but in the end she suddenly shut her mouth in horror.

She was shocked to find that every time the empress dowager changed her expression, it seemed... to be related to her grandfather Lu Zhenyuan.