Chapter Eighty-Eight: Substitution

An hour later, Gonggong Li finished telling everything he knew, leaving me alone in shock.

"What my father-in-law said is true?" After a long time, I spoke slowly.

"What the old slave said is true, but the emperor issued an edict and asked the mother to keep it secret for the old slave."

"Well, only you and I know about today's events."

"Xie Niangniang."

"Father-in-law, go down first."

"Yes."

After Gonggong Li went down, I sat alone for a long time, and my mind was full of what Gonggong Li had just said.

He said, three years ago, if it wasn't for the emperor who gave up his life, I wouldn't have the life to sit in this palace today.

He said that two years ago, if it weren't for the emperor's protest against the decree, the people in the Longxi County Mansion would have died with the city.

He said, I entered the palace a year ago, if it wasn't for the emperor's rescue, I would have become a ghost in the Taizu Palace.

He said that there are many things that Madame doesn't know, and what the emperor has done has long been far more than just pampering.

"The emperor almost lost his life for his wife, Mrs. knows."

"I know that the border of the Southern Tang Dynasty was with me at the beginning."

"Except for that time, there is, the mother doesn't know."

"Should I know?"

"Nope."

On the second day, he didn't wait for Zhao Guangyi for a whole day, and Gonggong Li said that the emperor went out of the palace and probably won't come to Shuiyue Palace today.

Won't you come? But he said he was going to give me the answer today.

Maybe it was what Father-in-law Li said last night, I couldn't give up all day today.

My mind is full of what happened in Zhao Kuangyin's palace on the night I entered the palace a year ago, and who sent me back to the house in a coma without knowing it?

I shook my head, what Grandpa Li said last night, it was obvious that he was hiding something from me, it seems that only Zhao Guangyi can give me the answer to all this.

When the meal was passed in the evening, Gonggong Li suddenly brought Ling Qi in, saying that he was ordered by the emperor to come to pick me up from the palace.

"Is the emperor going to send me back to the Longxi County Mansion?"

"The minions don't know."

Although Gonggong Li and Ling Qi did not answer me clearly, after a while, I also guessed the destination of the trip through the direction of the carriage, and the carriage must have gone to the Longxi County Mansion.

Could this be the answer Zhao Guangyi gave me?

I don't know if Xiaoxiao and Aunt Zhu left me a sauce elbow, after this time, Xiaoxiao should never agree to me entering the palace alone.

When the last ray of sunlight disappeared, the carriage stopped at the main gate of the Longxi County Mansion, Ling Qi was not in a hurry to let me go down, but took out a mask from the wooden box on the side.

"The emperor said that he would let Niangniang go in with a mask."

"Why?"

"The slave doesn't know, the emperor ordered it, and the slave listened."

"What if I refuse?" It's obviously going back to my own house, why should I wear a mask?

"I'm afraid that Niangniang can only be wronged and follow the slave back to the palace." Ling Qi glanced at me and then added. "If the slave remembers correctly, Niangniang's martial arts are still taught by Ling Qi, as long as Ling Qi disagrees, Niangniang will not be able to get off this sedan chair."

I smiled and raised my hand to put the mask on my face.

Ling Qi is right, although I know some martial arts, I am definitely not above Ling Qi, and now I am afraid that it is even more unfamiliar to the point that it is difficult to climb over the wall.

"The emperor also ordered, after going in for a while, no matter what Niangniang sees or hears, she can't make a sound, she just needs to sit next to the emperor, if she is seen by Niangniang, then the Longxi County Mansion is estimated to disappear from the world after tonight."

"What does that mean?"

"The emperor said that Niangniang is a smart person."

Wise man? I'm afraid that even a fool can hear the threat from Ling Qi's words.

"Guard Ling, don't worry, if the emperor has nothing else to explain, just get out of the car."

"Yes."

If it were a weekday, Xiaoxiao and Yuan'er would definitely be guarding the door, I sighed in my heart.

As soon as I entered the gate, I heard a burst of music coming from the main courtyard.

"It's New Year's Day, and the emperor is spending the festival here with a group of ministers." Ling Qi explained.

"Why not in the palace?"

"This Ling Qi doesn't know, the emperor naturally has the emperor's reason, and the mother will know when she goes in."

Maybe it was because of Gonggong Li's father-in-law, Ling Qi treated me extremely coldly along the way, and he didn't feel acquainted at all.

I don't know why, the more I go inside, the more uneasy my heart becomes, I always feel that there will be something waiting for me inside, I don't understand why Zhao Guangyi chose such an important festival to celebrate in the Longxi County Mansion?

"Mother, it's here."

"Hmm."

Originally, I was still depressed, but it wasn't until I saw Li Yu that I instantly understood all this.

I don't know how I got to Zhao Guangyi, I only know that my mind is blank, and when I react again, I am already sitting next to Zhao Guangyi, and Zhao Guangyi on the side is looking at me with concern.

"The emperor really took great pains for his concubines!"

"I said I'd give you an answer."

No wonder Zhao Guangyi was so blatantly left me in the palace, I originally thought that he was just using my identity of fake death, but I never expected him to find someone to replace me directly.

I looked at Li Yu in the banquet, he was happily drinking with his wife, the position that should have belonged to me, but at the moment it was occupied by another woman, and everyone called her Mrs.

It's really a big lady, I stared at the woman, the woman who looked exactly like me.

Is it exactly the same? Why does it feel different?

It seems to be really different, when she looks at Li Yu, there is starlight in her eyes.

"It's been a long time since I've seen him smile so happily." The woman the emperor is looking for must be very good, so good that he will replace me in just a few months.

Zhao Guangyi raised his glass, he said that he was sorry for Li Yu, if there was no fire that night, if it wasn't for the queen's insistence on staying, the wife of the Longxi County Mansion would not have lost her memory because of this, let alone lost her voice. He will mobilize the strength of the whole country to find the best doctor for the eldest lady.

Li Yu knelt down, he said thank you for the emperor's kindness, he said that the current life is very good, the current eldest lady is also very good, the memory of the past is lost, and he and the eldest lady don't want to find it back.

Do you really want to find it again? What a touching love story this was, and all the ministers present were moved.

Zhao Guangyi said that since then, the eldest lady has been exempted from entering the palace to pay respects, and thinks that the righteous sister enjoys the honor of the princess of the Song Kingdom.

Li Yu thanked, and all the ministers sighed at the emperor's kindness.

Later, I don't remember what happened at the banquet, but I know that Li Yu smiled very happily that night, happier than ever.

Even though the woman was mute.

Zhao Guangyi said, go back, I have already given you the answer you want.

Oh, yes! Come back, the answer I want has already been given by Zhao Guangyi, but what about Li Yu? Did the emperor give him the answer he wanted?