King Yan had just received a secret letter from the eldest princess of Yongning, informing him of a message he had just learned from the Queen Mother.

Probably because Xiao Guifei and the mother and son of the three princes continued to shout grievances, whether it was a bitter plan or something else, the emperor did not show his intention to let go of the former, even if the entire assassination case had clearly revealed the traces of the dead Empress Cao's dominance, whether it was the emperor or the important ministers of the court, they all faintly knew it, and he still did not let go and said that Xiao Guifei was not guilty, and Xiao Guifei was a little desperate in her heart.

She was never the person the emperor really put in his heart.

Empress Cao has the confidence to be the mother of the country for many years, Lin Zhaoyi has the confidence of the old man of the palace and was once the emperor's henchman, even if she is a brainless fairy like Qiao Meiren, she has also made pistachios for the emperor for many years, and now she has given birth to a good son who is very favored, maybe when she will become the new prince and inherit the unification! Compared with these other three senior concubines, what does Xiao Guifei have?

She's not an old man, and she doesn't really have a favor. If she could once borrow her sister's light, after Xiao Rui's life experience and the truth of Xiao Mingzhu's death were exposed, this light could not be borrowed. The mother's family has a powerful brother Xiao Mingde, who is the emperor's henchman, and he can borrow a little strength. But Xiao Mingde did not support her mother and son to take the heir, and insisted on standing on the emperor's side, and now she was so affected by the scandal of the third prince and Xiao Lin that she lost the military power in her hands. Not to mention that he is becoming more and more estranged from her now, and he may still have a little resentment in his heart that she has affected the general's mansion of his mother's family, Zhuguo!

The third prince, the son who could still be relied on, first made the imperial father unhappy in marriage, and then had a scandal with Xiao Lin, and his ambition was known to everyone. The emperor was visibly dissatisfied with this son. Concubine Xiao Guifei didn't dare to think that the emperor knew that he was wronged, but he still refused to let go to prove her innocence, isn't he using this method to beat the third prince?!

No matter what the real reason is, Xiao Guifei has felt more and more that the future of their mother and son has been cut off.

The third prince still refused to give up, and tried his best to prove her innocence as a mother concubine, so that he could compete for the crown prince with his innocent and flawless background. But Concubine Xiao is much more practical than her son, and she knows more about the emperor than her son. She chose to take a step back, not forcing herself to get away with her guilt safely. If she is convicted of death, in exchange for the complete retreat of the Cao family and the smooth deposition of the crown prince, it is impossible for the emperor to pity her.

All she can do is to strive for a better result for herself, even if it is to break into the cold palace, it doesn't matter, but it is just that life is more difficult, but the most important thing is that her son's future cannot be ruined! She couldn't tolerate her son following in the footsteps of the second prince, and she was also worried that he would be oppressed by the new monarch in the future. Then the safest place to go is to let your son inherit the Yanwang Mansion!

Concubine Xiao knew that King Yan now had a son, and her eldest sister-in-law, Mrs. Xiao, had already told her about Xiao Rui's true background. To be honest, she was also surprised, she thought that the cheeky eldest sister Xiao Mingzhu was just having an affair with the emperor, but she never expected that the other party could still have a secret marriage with her fiancé Yan Wangzhu! It's not shameless anymore, it's just a slut|woman|***! How could the emperor keep such a woman in his heart for twenty years?! How could King Yan regard the son born by such a woman as his heir?! Is it because Princess Yan has no children? If it weren't for the fact that there was no other choice, King Yan would never have pulled down this face!

Xiao Guifei felt that she had guessed the truth, so she cried to the emperor and made a request to pass the third prince to the Yan Palace. Her idea is very simple, the Ming royal family has always had a tradition of step-princes entering the Yan Palace, and now the Yan King has no son-in-law, only a concubine or illegitimate child who can't come out of the table, isn't it a matter of course for the royal step-prince? Even if the emperor and the king of Yan are brothers of the same mother? It's not to kill the only flesh and blood of King Yan, Xiao Rui can still be crowned king, and in the future, the family business of King Yan's mansion can also be divided into a part of him. Moreover, the third prince has grown up with Xiao Rui since childhood, and the cousin friendship is deep. The third prince has become the heir of King Yan, and he can take care of this cousin, cousin, and heir brother.

This can also prevent others from attacking Xiao Rui with his life experience, saying that he is not qualified to inherit the throne of King Yan, or chewing his tongue about the past between King Yan and Xiao Mingzhu. As long as Xiao Rui is not the son of King Yan, who is his biological mother, and who cares? This is Xiao Guifei, who is a younger sister, and she is maintaining her sister's reputation!

Whether Concubine Xiao's words moved the emperor or not, no one knows. But at this time, something happened very coincidentally in the palace: Lin Zhaoyi died.

On the surface, Lin Zhaoyi died because she was seriously ill - she was already sick, and she became a madman, and she died of illness a few months later, which seems reasonable. However, on the side of the Queen Mother, as well as on the side of the eldest princess of Yongning, the truth revealed is: Lin Zhaoyi committed suicide!

In the middle of the night, she hanged herself with a belt in her bedroom where she was confined.

She left a suicide note before she died, saying that although she was insulted and provoked by Concubine Xiao, she also obeyed the instigation of the messenger sent by Empress Cao, and wanted to cooperate with Empress Cao to act in a play to help the Cao family get out of trouble. In exchange, the Cao family will help the second prince to successfully enter a decent clan palace and ensure a prosperous and safe life, and the Cao family will no longer embarrass the Lin family in the future, and the two families will be completely reconciled. They fought just to fight for the storage position, and now the storage position is about to fall to others, and there is no point in fighting any longer.

But Lin Zhaoyi did what Empress Cao ordered, and after a few months, the situation of the second prince did not improve in the slightest, and she regretted it, for fear that her stupid behavior would affect her son, so she could only die to seek relief. Before she died, she wrote this suicide note, just to let the emperor know the truth, not to anger the second prince, and to leave a way for the second prince to live.

Lin Zhaoyi is an old man who really accompanied the emperor all the way from the hidden mansion. She married the emperor earlier than Empress Cao, and she was also aware of the emotional entanglement between the emperor and Xiao Mingzhu. She also endured the persecution of Empress Cao, and was angry and frustrated with the emperor for the pressure brought by the Cao family. Although when he got older, the emperor gave more favor to the young and beautiful Qiao Meiren, but Lin Zhaoyi's status in his mind was always different.

If it weren't for the fact that the Lin family had gone too far and had threatened the emperor's prestige, they would have been the emperor's most relied on confidants.

If it weren't for the fact that the second prince was really not a suitable candidate for the prince, then there would be nothing to do with the third prince and the fourth prince.

Lin Zhaoyi once brought such a big threat to Queen Cao, Queen Cao didn't care that Concubine Xiao became a concubine, nor did she care that Qiao Meiren was favored, but she always pressed Lin Zhaoyi and refused to let her be promoted to one of the four concubines, which shows how jealous Queen Cao is of her!

Such Lin Zhaoyi died quietly in the deep palace like this. Even if the emperor was already full of boredom and impatience with her, in the face of her death, he couldn't help but recall the good memories between the two.

The second prince hugged Lin Zhaoyi's corpse, howling and crying, and the whole person collapsed.

Looking at such a son, the emperor looked back at Concubine Xiao Guifei, and finally gave birth to a little hesitation.

They are all women who have been with him for more than ten or twenty years, and they also gave birth to a son he once loved very much. Now that he is older, how many newcomers can he spoil and have a few children? He really wants to ...... Are you so cruel to your own women and relatives?

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