"Now the situation of Gao Chen's family is clear at a glance," Lord Gao Chen looked at Chu Nian and Ming Xiu meaningfully, "Most of the rights have gone to the hands of the fourth prince with my son, and the other rights are in the hands of the empress with my eldest son, and my old wife, except for being able to lie on the bed at the moment, can be described as useless." ”

Lord Gao Chen calmly analyzed, "Although I don't know why Wu'er is coming back, it is obvious that he has always been wronged by the fourth prince. ”

As he spoke, Lord Gao Chen sighed heavily, and then said, "If you want to confront the four princes, only a few of us are not enough, it depends on His Royal Highness the Prince......"

She raised her eyes to look at Ming Xiu, but she also looked at Chu Nian over Ming Xiu, Chu Nian looked slightly, and a plan suddenly rose in her heart, "Now that the four princes are full-fledged, besides, the two of us are just outsiders, so naturally it is not enough, but what if we add various princes?" ”

When these words fell, Lord Gao Chen's face was stunned, and he saw Chu Nian smile slightly: "It's just that Lord Gao Chen still needs to come out and say a few more words." ”

……

Because of the disappearance of Princess Gao Chen, Xichu Luning turned the entire capital upside down, and even went to Gao Chen's mansion to look for Princess Gao Chen five times, but Lord Gao Chen turned him away because he was unwell, on the other hand, regarding the relationship between Xichu Luning and Princess Gao Chen, Xichu Yueling did not find out anything.

However, there is another windfall.

"This is ......" Chu Nian frowned and looked at Xi Chu Yueling in front of her, at this moment there was a white-haired old woman beside her, but her waist was still straight, and she looked like a waitress when she was young.

Seeing Chu Nian's gaze, the old woman straightened her waist again, raised her eyes and looked at Chu Nian in front of her, "Your Excellency the county lord, the old slave is the oldest maid in this palace, if you have any questions, you can ask the old slave, the old slave watched Her Royal Highness the princess grow up, and she must know everything." ”

Xi Chu Yueling on the side smiled embarrassedly and said, "This is Granny Chen, the captain of the maid who was given to me by the mother emperor in the past, but now she is old, so ......" She raised her eyes and looked at the old woman beside her.

I saw Granny Chen staring at Xichu Yueling with a pair of Tongling's big eyes, only to see Xichu Yueling blushing, "Her Royal Highness the Imperial Daughter has forgotten what I said to the old woman again, as long as Her Royal Highness the Imperial Highness needs it, the old woman will always be there." ”

Xi Chu Yueling rubbed his somewhat hot face and said with a smile: "Yes, I know that Granny Chen loves me the most." ”

As she spoke, she turned her eyes to look at Chu Nian, "Granny Chen is the oldest, and she probably knows something you want to know, but I don't have any idea at the moment, after all, I am facing my fourth aunt and my mother's concubine...... I'll leave it to you. ”

Chu Nian nodded, "Well, okay." ”

As she spoke, she gestured to the Taishi chair beside her, "Granny Chen, please come here, let's sit down and talk slowly." ”

Granny Chen nodded, strode unceremoniously to the side of the Taishi chair, sat down, and still looked at Chu Nian with a serious gaze.

I saw Chu Nian pacing in the hall, "Hmm...... Now we know the news we should know, but we still need some evidence, and I am afraid that only an old person like Granny Chen knows about it. ”

Granny Chen nodded as a matter of course, and saw Chu Nian looking at Xi Chu Yue Ling on the side as if asking, Xi Chu Yue Ling pursed her red lips and did not speak, so she heard Chu Nian's voice coming, "The five princesses back then...... How did it come about? ”

I didn't expect Chu Nian to ask such an important question in one word, Granny Chen's face was stunned, and she looked at Chu Nian with a wary look in her eyes, "Although our princess said that the county lord of Wushuang is not an outsider, but the county lord, as a person from Da Liang, opened his mouth to ask me if I was a little too angry?" ”

Hearing this, Chu Nian breathed a long sigh of relief, and saw Xi Chu Yueling on the side crying and laughing and gently patted the back of Granny Chen's hand, "Granny Chen, the only thing I can count on right now is this Da Liang person." ”

After all, she had taken care of Xichu Yueling for half her life, and when she saw Xichu Yueling speak, Granny Chen's complexion eased a little, and she breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at Xichu Yueling sideways and said, "Your Royal Highness, do you really want to tell a big cool person about this matter?" This is the secret ...... of our royal family."

Xichu Yueling raised his eyes to look at Chu Nian, who seemed to be a little embarrassed, and said helplessly: "It doesn't matter, Granny Chen, you can talk about it, if you talk about our Xichu's secrets, this Da Liang person knows a lot." ”

When these words fell, Granny Chen's face was a little unsightly, but fortunately, Chu Nian was not in a hurry, just sat quietly opposite, calmly picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Seeing that Chu Nian didn't seem to have any evil intentions, Granny Chen sighed and said, "Actually, among the five princesses, only the eldest princess and the second princess are the bloodline of Your Majesty, and the other three are all brought back from outside. ”

When these words fell, not only Chu Nian, but even Xi Chu Yue Ling was also full of shock, Chu Nian had already heard this matter from the mouth of Princess Gao Chen, naturally it would not be anything, but Xi Chu Yue Ling only heard Chu Nian mention it at most, she was not very convinced at that time, and when she heard Granny Chen mention it, her face was only a little pale.

I saw Granny Chen continued: "There can only be two princesses in each dynasty and each generation of Western Chu, this is the rule secretly set by the ancestors in the early years in order to avoid the clansmen fighting, and among the two princesses, the eldest princess is the quasi-heir, and the second princess is the alternate, but Rao is so, the ambitious people in the past dynasties always covet the throne very much, and it is inevitable that there will be a bloody storm, so the ancestors in order to ensure that the thin bloodline of the royal family is not mutilated, they re-established the rules, and there are only two princesses in each generation, But it is necessary to hold three more people from outside the palace as a way to confuse careerists, so that there are three princesses, four princesses and five princesses. ”

"It's still the same in the empress's generation, but the empress learned the truth because of an assassination of her sister, the empress has always been a kind person, and she learned that her sisters were forced to separate from their parents in the common people because of the rules of the royal family, so she took special care of her sisters, but she was forced by the rules of her ancestors to tell these sisters the truth."

"Unexpectedly, this move instead caused several other princesses to covet the throne, as a last resort, the first emperor will not be his own bloodline of the princess to death under various pretexts, or the empress pleaded, only to save the life of the four princes, so far, the empress will be completely transferred to the other sisters of the guilt to the four princes, everywhere to the four princes tolerated, the four princes are basically dissatisfied with the empress, so it is more and more excessive, until now, the ambition has overtaken the empress."

"And her relationship with the palace lord of Gao Chen ......" Granny Chen paused, cautiously glanced at Xichu Yueling beside her, and saw that she had no expression, so she continued: "Actually, the empress is not ignorant, she just pretended not to know, because originally marrying the palace lord of Gao Chen into the palace was to stabilize Lord Gao Chen's heart - Lord Gao Chen begged bitterly at the empress's table back then......"

"It's because the palace master Gao Chen wants to marry the empress, right?" Chu Nian answered this sentence expressionlessly, and saw Granny Chen nodding lightly with a solemn face.

What Xichu Lu Ning relied on was his identity as a prince, the bloodline of the royal family, and the support of the Gao Chen family.

Now Lord Gao Chen's position is also very clear, and Xichu Lu Ning has no royal bloodline, and the identity of the prince is only given to her by the empress.

I really don't know what Xi Chu Lu Ning's expression would be if he knew this truth...... Chu Nian playfully touched his chin, looked at the shadow of a small head on the window, and suddenly turned his eyes to look at Granny Chen as if he remembered something, "Then Granny Chen, do you remember where the biological parents of the princesses are?" ”

Granny Chen seemed to recall for a while, and then continued: "The Three Princesses were originally fatherless and motherless, and they were abandoned babies picked up by the old slaves from the streets...... The four princesses were inherited from a peasant family in the early years, and the five princesses ...... The old slave didn't know much. ”

Chu Nian raised his eyebrows slightly, and saw that Xi Chu Yueling said with some eagerness: "What's the matter with the Fifth Emperor Sister?" ”

Granny Chen's face was not very good-looking, and after a while, she spoke: "The old slave only knows that when the five princesses entered the palace, the empress was indeed in childbirth, but as far as the old slave knows, the empress gave birth to a baby boy at that time. ”

"Baby boy?" Xi Chu Yueling's face was stunned, "I always thought I didn't have a younger brother......"

"This old slave doesn't know very well, but think about it, in addition to the queen in the harem, the palace masters don't know such a secret thing, every time the queen wants to be brought in, the empress will pretend that she is pregnant, and it happened that she was really pregnant at that time, and she gave birth to a baby boy, and the baby boy is not the blood of the palace lord of Gao Chen, but the queen said that she wanted to appease the palace lord of Gao Chen and prepare to give this baby boy to the palace lord of Gao Chen."

Chu Nian frowned slightly, and Granny Chen didn't mean to stop, "The empress once mentioned this matter, before she fell into a coma during childbirth, she asked Wen Po to hold the child and show her, the empress said, it was really a male baby, but after the empress woke up, the male baby became the fifth princess." ”

"Stealing beams for pillars?" Chu Nian suddenly interrupted Granny Chen's words, "Because the palace master of Gao Chen didn't know about such secrets, he thought that even if he was his own bloodline, he could ascend to the throne, so he deliberately replaced the original boy with the fifth princess?" ”

When these words fell, everyone fell into deep thought, and Xi Chu Yueling's face became more and more entangled, "Who are the names of the biological parents of the fifth emperor sister, only the palace master Gao Chen knows?" ”

"Not necessarily." Chu Nian glanced meaningfully at the small head in the window, "I can't say, the fourth prince also knows." ”

When these words fell, the little head outside the window was obviously stiff, and then, I saw Chu Nian say in a loud voice: "The five princesses, since they are all here, don't hide outside, you don't know these things we are talking about." ”

"Sister of the county lord is good at deceiving people!" The little girl couldn't hold back for a long time, and jumped out from behind the window, she raised her eyes and looked at Chu Nian in front of her and said, "My biological parents, what do they have to do with the fourth prince?" Even if she wasn't the empress, she couldn't be that ......"