"Don't believe him. Concubine Yun was banished to the cold palace simply because she angered the Emperor." The Empress Dowager looked around and argued. "No, you were whispering in the emperor's ear at that time, but don't forget that I was always following you." Gu Zhong said with a smile. Concubine Yun frowned: "Another conspiracy?" Gu Zhong said: "On the one hand, she hopes that you can give birth to your child a few days earlier than her, but on the other hand, she also thinks that you and the little prince in your belly will not compete with her and her child for favor in the future." Even without saying it explicitly, everyone could hear it. Concubine Yun took a deep breath and said, "So her real intention is to let me die in the womb, leaving two lives?" Gu Zhong glanced at the Empress Dowager and said, "She is the one who should be consulted to answer the Empress Dowager's questions." After all, the Empress Dowager is the person involved. Concubine Yun shouted: "Ling Li, give me an explanation!" "These are just Gu Zhong's guesses. Don't take them seriously." The Empress Dowager denied it.

"You hope that my son and I will both die, so that you can keep the old emperor's favor for a longer time." Concubine Yun sneered, "You are just asking for trouble. You schemed against others and caused your own son to die young." Poor child, she was replaced by Ling Li at birth. "Nonsense!" The Empress Dowager became excited. "My son, he doesn't want to leave me either!" Concubine Yun sneered, "Haha, Ling Li, Ling Li, you had evil intentions from the beginning. From the moment you treated my son as your own son, you had to use tricks to conceal what happened back then." As he laughed, he thought about the fact that he had been separated from his son for more than 40 years. The pain in his heart was so severe that he could not relieve it for a while and he collapsed into the chair. Long Yi panicked and grabbed his biological mother's hand: "Mom, what's wrong with you?" "Nothing." Concubine Yun shook her head weakly. "Imperial physician, please help my mother with her medical examination." Long Yi ordered, and then quickly said, "Yan Funing, come here." The two imperial physicians and Yan Funing stepped forward. Yan Funing took Concubine Yun's pulse first, and then the two imperial doctors also took her pulse. "Father, my grandmother is depressed, that's why she is like this." Yan Funing said. The old doctor also said: "That's true. The Concubine Tai is in good health. There is nothing wrong with her. It's just that she is depressed." The middle-aged imperial physician agreed. Long Yi still frowned, and looked at Yan Funing with a dignified look: "You are capable, even my brother praises you highly, don't let me down." Yan Funing nodded and said, "Father, if you want to resolve the knot in Grandmother's heart, please allow me to sort out what happened back then." "Let's sort it out." Long Yi agreed. Yan Funing said: "Back then, Lipin didn't want Yunpin to give birth to a child, so she deliberately asked for different food every time and sent the food to Yunpin under the pretext of the emperor's order. When the child was really born, Lipin's own child unfortunately died, so she snatched Yunpin's child away." "In order to ensure that Concubine Yun would not be suspicious, Concubine Li, who had been made a concubine, bribed the imperial physician and Concubine Yun was sent to the cold palace." "Many years later, the little prince grew up and married the daughter of the Qiao family as his principal wife." "The Concubine Li had become a dowager, and she knew in her heart that the so-called son was Concubine Yun's. On the one hand, she was glad that she had swapped the two children, but on the other hand, she was unwilling to accept it, after all, the son she raised was someone else's."

"So at this time, she thought of a way, which was to let her niece from her mother's family enter the Prince of Jin's mansion and become the Prince of Jin's concubine." "Even though her niece became a concubine, the Concubine Dowager was still not satisfied. She thought that it would be best if all the assets of the Prince Jin's Mansion were inherited by someone with the blood of the Ling family. So she did everything she could to make things difficult for the Princess Jin, intending to hinder the marriage of her son and daughter-in-law." "Because she is not his biological mother, she doesn't care who the woman his son really likes is." Hearing this, Long Yi nodded repeatedly. He held Qiao Wanyou's hand tightly with his other hand: "I finally know why you love her so much." This girl from the Yan family is indeed thoughtful. "Fu Ning is very good." Qiao Wanyou nodded, "Your Majesty, please listen to Fu Ning's words." Yan Funing continued, "The Princess of Jin gave birth to a son as her first child. The Prince of Jin was delighted and immediately asked the Emperor to confer him the title of Crown Prince. The Dowager Concubine was unhappy and asked her niece to get pregnant with a child as soon as possible." "After Concubine Ling gave birth to Long Lihui, the Concubine Dowager interfered with the couple's relationship more and more, and deliberately made things difficult for Princess Jin more and more." "Things like morning and evening visits are not required for concubines and other relatives, but Princess Jin must not miss them every day." "Until one day, Princess Jin accidentally saw something she shouldn't have seen and heard something she shouldn't have heard, and that was the Concubine Dowager snuggling in Gu Zhong's arms." "Thinking that her affairs must not be exposed, the Concubine Dowager made up her mind and ordered Gu Zhong to poison Princess Jin, hoping that she would lose her memory and eyesight. In order to prevent the poison from taking effect, Gu Zhong pretended to be a ghost to scare people." "But the poison didn't work immediately, so the Concubine decided to go all out and ordered Gu Zhong to set the fire." At this moment, Gu Zhong raised his hand and said, "Princess Rui, everything you said before is correct. The Concubine Dowager did not directly order this old servant to set the fire." The Empress Dowager thought that Gu Zhong's heart had returned, and she immediately said, "Yes, it was not me who set the fire and killed people!" But Gu Zhong said, "Back then, the Concubine ordered me to give her the Crane's Beak Potion to poison the Princess and the Crown Prince. I told her that anyone who took the Crane's Beak Potion would die instantly. If it happened and the King of Jin investigated, the consequences would be disastrous." Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Long Yi was so angry that his whole body turned cold: "Empress Dowager, you actually want to poison my wife and son?" The Empress Dowager gave a bitter laugh, leaned back in her chair and said nothing. Gu Zhong added: "In fact, the Concubine Dowager first ordered me to go to Ling Taipin to find a suitable poison that could kill people without being held accountable. The poison was not found, and my mask fell off. The Concubine Dowager mentioned the Crane's Beak Red, and I came up with the idea of ​​using fire. The Concubine Dowager was overjoyed when she heard it, saying that fire would be a good way to burn everything cleanly." "That day, I drugged the Princess of Jin in advance so that she would not wake up during the fire. To prevent the Prince of Jin from being buried in the fire, I also drugged him so that he could be rescued before the fire." "Things can happen unexpectedly, like when the Prince of Jin flicked his sleeves that night and set the curtain on fire, he left the yard and went to drink alone." Yan Funing sneered when she heard this: "If that's the case, then I would say that Father must have been drugged. Mother fainted after arguing with Father, so there must be a reason for that." Fu Ciyi glanced at his father, frowned slightly, but said nothing. The Empress Dowager stood up and laughed bitterly: "Gu Zhong, I slowly dealt with all those who participated in the baby swap, and only left you. Do you know how important you are to me? Today you treat me like this, and you still say that I don't have you in my heart. Can you live with your conscience?" (End of this chapter)