Chapter 610 - 610 Background Exposed
610 Background Exposed
Eunuch Wang was deeply frightened by his guess. Back then, the Eldest Princess was sent out of Nanzhao because of the fate of a jinx. Although Nanzhao had not been affected all these years, it could be considered peaceful. If there was anything that gave the Emperor a headache, it was the Little Princess’s marriage.
The Little Princess was angry with the Emperor for a man and left for a few years. When she returned, the deed was done. Not only did she have a man, but she also gave birth to a son.
That time, the Emperor was furious.
Originally, according to the Emperor’s plan, after the Little Princess safely accepted his marriage decree, he would make her the Queen. In the end, because of this, the Emperor was angry for many years. It was not until she found the holy artifact that the Emperor went with the flow and passed the position of the Queen to her.
Other than that, the bumps were all storms that ordinary Emperors would encounter. They were not worth mentioning.
This time was different. Even without the Emperor repeating it, Eunuch Wang himself felt quite uneasy.
The theft of the holy artifact, the Queen being poisoned by a Gu, the Queen being deposed, and the Queen falling out with the Prince Consort. Everything seemed to have forced the Queen Manor to a dead end.
Eunuch Wang did not understand. Why was the Queen Manor the unlucky ones? What had the Queen Manor done? Or was the Eldest Princess here to jinx the Little Princess?
Bah!
What was he thinking? They had yet to confirm that the Second Madam of the Helian family was the Eldest Princess!
The Emperor on the armchair fell into deep thought, as if he was thinking about this matter. After all, it concerned the safety of the country, so the Emperor had to take it seriously. After pondering for a while, he said in a deep voice, “Wang Dequan.”
“Yes.” Eunuch Wang bowed and walked forward.
“Does the magistrate prefecture have the birth characters of the Helian family?” The Emperor asked.
It was impossible for Eunuch Wang to say no. Who didn’t register their household register? As for the few who had just been recognized back to the Helian family, they had also registered their household register after Yu Shaoqing and Helian Beiming told them the truth. Even the travel pass could be done in two days.
“I’ll go get it now?” Eunuch Wang observed his expression and asked.
The Emperor nodded. No matter how unwilling Eunuch Wang was, he had no choice but to brace himself and go. He knew the Little Princess’s birth characters, and the Eldest Princess was only half an hour early. He secretly prayed that it was not between three in the afternoon.
However, fate played tricks on him. The moment he opened the household register, his eyes widened.
In black and white, it was clearly written—three in the afternoon!
Eunuch Wang was almost certain that the Second Madam of the Helian family was the Eldest Princess who had been exiled to the commoners.
What should he do? Not to mention the Emperor, even Eunuch Wang began to suspect that the Queen Manor was jinxed by the Eldest Princess. However, so be it. Eunuch Wang had been unhappy with the Little Princess for many years.
The cause was an extremely small matter. At that time, the Little Princess was still a young girl who had yet to get married. Because she did not do her homework well and was reprimanded by the Emperor, she vented her anger on lowly servants like them.
As a servant, it was only right for them to be a punching bag for their master. However, her words were very insulting.
When she grew up, she restrained her temper and became much more tactful in dealing with people. She no longer easily exposed her bad temper, but for some reason, Eunuch Wang could not be as loyal to her as he did with the Emperor.
She was clearly treating him more kindly than the Emperor.
In comparison, Eunuch Wang sympathized with the child who was sent away on a snowy day. After sighing, Eunuch Wang took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and raised his pen to change it—four-thirty.
This time, it was later than the Little Princess’s birthday. This shouldn’t make the Emperor suspect that she was the Eldest Princess, right?
Eunuch Wang suppressed his nervousness and quietly took the birth characters to the imperial study. He wanted to wait inside, but the Emperor had no intention of letting him stay, so he could only wait outside the door.
But the characters had been changed. This time, they probably wouldn’t be able to find a jinx. Unexpectedly, just as this thought flashed through his mind, the sound of a copper coin breaking came from the imperial study.
Then, the Emperor asked, “How did this happen?”
Eunuch Wang secretly glanced in and saw the State Preceptor vomiting blood and handing the birth characters he had just calculated to the Emperor.
After the Emperor saw it, his expression changed drastically. “…On the thirtieth of October… at three o’clock… This… This is…”
“The Eldest Princess’s birth characters,” the State Preceptor said weakly.
Eunuch Wang was stunned. Didn’t he change it to four-thirty? Why did it become three again? For a moment, Eunuch Wang suspected that his memory had gone wrong. But he looked at the ink that had accidentally stained his fingertips. He did hold a pen.
He changed it.
Someone had changed her birth characters back.
It was obvious who this person was. Along the way here, he had never touched anyone. The State Preceptor was the first to touch it.
Eunuch Wang was in disbelief. This was the State Preceptor of Nanzhao, the most favored minister of the Emperor. Other than Gu Elder Kong, he was the person the Emperor relied on the most!
He did not expect him to do such a thing!
In his opinion, what bullsh*t fire, what disaster? It was all caused by this freaking State Preceptor!
Eunuch Wang was so angry that he wanted to curse at his door for three days and three nights! Unfortunately, he did not dare. Then, he thought that he was probably finished.
Since the State Preceptor wanted to frame the Eldest Princess, the State Preceptor would definitely scheme against him if he found out that he had changed her birth characters.
Eunuch Wang was actually thinking too much.
Although the State Preceptor realized that something was wrong, he did not suspect that it was done by Eunuch Wang. He had only recently learned about the Eldest Princess and Yu Wan’s background from Nangong Li. It turned out that he had not mistaken them for someone else in Nanzhao.
He had been deceived by that group of people. Since they were scheming, in order to prevent the Eldest Princess’s identity from being exposed, it was hard to guarantee that she would not hand over fake birth characters.
The State Preceptor had already made this assumption before he came, so he had already prepared a true birth characters in his sleeve. The so-called asking Eunuch Wang to get the birth characters was just a formality. If the birth characters were correct, he would go with the flow. If the birth characters were fake, he would secretly replace them.
From the looks of it, his preparations were useful.
The Emperor’s expression changed unpredictably. He sat back in his chair in a daze for a long time.
Didn’t she marry into the Ghost Clan? How did she become Yu Shaoqing’s wife? What was going on?
Because he was too shocked, he couldn’t even care less about the Queen Manor.
It was the State Preceptor who cleverly turned the topic around. “When I saw the birth characters, I was also very surprised. I thought that it might have nothing to do with the Eldest Princess, but from my divination…” The State Preceptor said this with a pained expression, as if he could not continue.
The corners of Eunuch Wang’s mouth curled up. You old man is very bad!
The Emperor suppressed the surprise in his heart. “Maybe it’s not her, but someone with the same birth characters as her.”
No matter what, he did not believe that his daughter would disobey his decree. She escaped the marriage he gave her and ran to the Great Zhou to marry a country bumpkin.
Although Yu Shaoqing was Helian Beiyu, didn’t he not know at that time? She would be a queen in the Ghost Clan. What would she be when she’s in the countryside?
A peasant woman!
When he exiled her back then, he never thought that she would really become a wild girl. He left money and servants for her, and she was raised by someone!
Why was she humiliating herself like this! What did she want to do by marrying a country bumpkin? Take revenge on him?!
The Emperor felt terrible.
When the State Preceptor saw that the topic he forcefully brought back could not attract the Emperor’s attention at all, he understood that the Emperor had suffered too much and was unwilling to accept this fact.
Forget it, when he really saw her, he might not suspect her identity.
“I want to be alone. Don’t publicize this matter first,” the Emperor said with a headache.
“Yes, Your Majesty.” The State Preceptor cupped his hands.
“You can leave first.” The Emperor’s mind was in a mess and he did not want to talk about the divination anymore.
The State Preceptor tactfully left.
The Emperor called Eunuch Wang in. He pressed his sore temples and said tiredly, “I remember that you went to the clan with the Little Princess back then. Have you seen that child?”
Eunuch Wang’s eyes flashed. “I… I’ve seen her before, but I only glanced at her from afar. It’s been so many years, I don’t have any impression of her.”
The Emperor muttered, “Is that so? You heard everything just now. Do you think it’s her?”
What should Eunuch Wang say? Say that he thinks so too? Then he still thought that the State Preceptor was a dog. Would the Emperor believe him?
Eunuch Wang thought that the Emperor would summon her to the palace to confirm, but the Emperor did not do so.
The Emperor did not pursue the good and bad of the divination.
However, this matter still leaked in the end.
First, an elder who had gone to the clan to send her off recognized the Eldest Princess on the streets. The elder was frightened and had a stroke. The news of the Eldest Princess coming to Nanzhao spread like wildfire overnight.
Then, someone saw the Eldest Princess enter the Helian Manor.
There were beginning to be unpleasant voices among the people.
“After she came, there were frequent disasters in Nanzhao. First, the holy artifact was stolen, and then the Queen was poisoned. Now that the Queen is deposed, her father is not her father, and her husband is not her husband. Everyone has betrayed her and deserted her. It’s all her fault!”
“I heard that something happened to the Old Master of the West Manor too.”
“Isn’t that so?”
“What is the General thinking about bringing such a jinx into the house?”
“That’s right. Hurry up and chase them out!”
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It was another day for the little black eggs to buy candied hawthorn.
Zi Su and Fu Ling held their hands.
The three little fellows jumped and walked in the alley happily!
Smack!
A rotten egg hit Dabao’s head.