After Gao married the prince, the sick and weak concubine lost her horse

Chapter 277 277 is her husband

As soon as these words came out, Shen Qingci realized that he seemed to have gone too far.

Not to mention that there is no evidence that Sheng Tingzhao and the eldest princess conspired to murder Sheng Tingye, even if there is...with the Wang family, the eldest princess' mansion, and the Lin family as backers, and the queen as protection, I'm afraid they will pick it up heavily in the end and put it down gently.

As for the murdered Sheng Tingye, he was just an empty shell prince with no backing support.

Even if something happened to Sheng Tingye, the punishment of Sheng Tingzhao would be nothing in the end.

After all, Sheng Tingjing was convicted and lost another Sheng Tingye. The number of saints had few descendants, so he would not attack Sheng Tingzhao again.

The queen and the others also expected such a result, so they dared to be so unscrupulous.

The worst result of his death would be like this, not to mention, Sheng Tingye is still alive now, and it will be even less important to hold Sheng Tingzhao accountable in the future.

Brothers who are also siblings from the same mother, and their parents are partial to this, it would be uncomfortable for anyone.

That's why Shen Qingci felt that he had made a slip of the tongue.

This was undoubtedly exposing Sheng Tingye's scars, Shen Qingci couldn't bear to continue talking, the pros and cons of this were clear to each other.

But seeing Sheng Tingye's expression was indifferent, and he didn't seem to be affected in the slightest.

Shen Qingci thought to himself, he must have gotten used to it.

But since childhood, how many times of expectation and disappointment, suppression and training will it take to gradually get used to the eccentricity and ruthlessness of parents, and to be cold and indifferent, and to deal with it indifferently.

Shen Qingci felt a little distressed.

She stretched out her hand, subconsciously wanting to put it in his palm, but he grabbed it first.

"It's okay."

Sheng Tingye's other hand lightly touched Shen Qingci's shoulder, and his slender fingers helped her smooth the broken hair around her neck.

"The only one who can hurt me now is you."

He has a faint smile on his eyebrows.

Even with good maintenance, the fingertips and tiger's mouth of a person who has practiced martial arts all year round still have a layer of thin calluses. As Sheng Tingye smoothed her hair and stroked her neck, the thin calluses scratched her skin from time to time, This feeling is more comfortable than when Chun Ya massaged her for her.

Feeling comfortable, Shen Qingci took the initiative to lean over, but she vaguely felt that Sheng Tingye's movements were familiar.

Before she could think about it, she heard him suddenly mention: "I also raised a lion cat when I was a child."

Just at this time, Shen Qingci happened to see his doting eyes, coupled with the movement of his hands...

She was slightly startled.

Daringly, is this treating her like a cat?

Shen Qingci couldn't help grinding his teeth, and wanted to pinch him back.

The movements of Sheng Tingye's hands stopped suddenly, and he suddenly leaned over slightly and hugged her in his arms.

This made Shen Qingci laugh, and Shen Qingci, who had already raised his hand and was about to pinch him, was suddenly at a loss.

Because of his sudden depression.

Shen Qingci raised his eyes subconsciously, but saw that the love in his eyes just now faded away in a blink of an eye, and Ru Mo's pupils were suddenly stained with a layer of ice.

"It's just that the cat was killed by the queen's staff because it scratched Sheng Tingzhao."

In his face.

Although the cat is small, it is the only consolation for him to live alone in the isolated and helpless Fairview Palace when he was young.

But even this, Sheng Tingzhao wanted to take it away.

Seeing that the cat refused to go with him, he knew that he would be scratched by the cat, but he deliberately pulled the lion cat's tail and flicked it vigorously. Gave him a paw.

Relying on that scar, he made a fuss in front of his mother.

His queen mother didn't even ask him why, she just had him pressed down and beat the lion cat to death in front of him.

Bright red hot blood splashed all over his head and face, but at that time Sheng Tingzhao's smile was pure and bright.

"Third brother, this bastard is not good. It knew it would follow me, so it wouldn't lose its life, right?"

At that time, seeing Sheng Tingzhao's bright and harmless smile through his eyes full of blood, he felt even more cold and terrifying.

From childhood to adulthood, Sheng Tingzhao never saw that he was any good, and always targeted him everywhere, making everything difficult.

And no matter what happened, his mother would never ask the reason, and he was always the one who was punished.

"Why can't you let my brother go."

"Why didn't you protect him?"

"Why didn't you get hurt!"

……

Every sentence of questioning was like knives, no matter whether he could bear it or not, they were all stuck in his heart.

Even if it has nothing to do with him.

Sheng Tingzhao fell into the water because of his playfulness, so he was put in confinement.

Sheng Tingzhao stubbornly climbed over the wall and broke into the palace. He was beaten.

Even when Sheng Tingzhao suffered from the cold, he would be punished to kneel down and copy scriptures for him to pray for blessings.

When he was very young, at the age when he longed for the love and affirmation of his parents the most, he also had extravagant hopes. Even under the persuasion of some palace maids, he felt that he, the elder brother, did not take good care of his younger brother. Expectations are high, and that's why it's extra stringent.

But one or two things can still be justified, and one or two years can still deceive oneself and others.

As he grew older, he had the ability to distinguish right from wrong, and with his own judgment, he realized that his mother didn't love him because of partiality, or rather, she hated him.

why?
Because of his confusion, he even suspected that he was not her own flesh and blood.

After all, the middle palace can also raise the heirs of other concubines under their knees.

So, he went to check.

The results of the verification made him even more desperate.

He is indeed the Queen's son.

Thinking of this, Sheng Tingye couldn't help but sneer.

Only he himself has tasted the bitterness and bitterness in this smile these years.

"why?"

Hearing the end, Shen Qingci felt as if a boulder was pressing on her heart, and she was so oppressed that she couldn't breathe.

She believes that there is no unreasonable love in this world, and there is no unreasonable hatred.

For all reasons, there is always a cause and effect.

What's more, the queen's behavior has reached an unbelievable level.

Hearing her questioning, Sheng Tingye trembled slightly with his fingertips.

He didn't immediately answer Shen Qingci's question, but talked about another matter.

"Just now, even if I die, it may not be able to bring down Sheng Tingzhao."

"Actually, we don't need to take action on this matter. The Zhang family is overthrown, and there are always people who are dying and exposing some things that are not on the table."

Shen Qingci was puzzled.

Sheng Tingye raised his hand to stroke her long hair, and said calmly: "Have you ever heard that Sheng Tingzhao was born prematurely due to his mother's empress, so he was weak at the beginning and there was a risk of early death. Although he couldn't come back in time, he invited hundreds of eminent monks to the palace to chant sutras and pray for blessings."

Shen Qingci nodded, and since then, it has been rumored that the fifth prince, Sheng Tingzhao, is a proud son of heaven who is protected by the Buddha's light. Even if it is less than a month, after hundreds of monks prayed for blessings, his body is getting healthy day by day, with auspiciousness.

Before hearing Shen Qingci's words, he just thought that this child had a great fortune and destiny, how could he be related to those mysterious Buddha lights, auspicious auspiciousness, etc. It was just to add some embellishment to the fifth prince's identity.

Seeing that Sheng Tingye deliberately used this incident as an example, could it be that there is something else hidden in it?
Shen Qingci got up from Sheng Tingye's arms, propped his chin with his palm, and said curiously: "It can't be because he is born weak and almost impossible to survive, so the empress is more partial to him, right?"

But this is far from a matter of preference.

Some things don't make sense.

Sheng Tingye's slender fingers hooked a strand of Shen Qingci's long hair and played with it in his hands. Knowing that Shen Qingci was impatient, he didn't pretend to be a joke, and said bluntly: "No, that's just a rumor."

"Actually, he was born at full term."

Hearing this, Shen Qingci's heart skipped a beat, and he took a deep breath.

What do you mean?
If it weren't for the ghost in this fetus, how could it be that it was full term, but would lie to the world that it was premature!

She used to know very little about the court and the royal family, and she only started to pay attention to these things after she got married.

But it's not so detailed that every prince's birthday is recorded.

Shen Qingci frowned and said, "When is Sheng Tingzhao's birthday?"

Sheng Tingye paused with his fingers hooking her long hair, narrowed his eyes and said, "The 38th year of Taihe, October [-]th."

Hearing this, Shen Qingci's heart suddenly missed half a beat.

In the 38th year of Taihe, on the second day of the first lunar month, the first emperor passed away, and the whole country mourned.

During the period of national mourning, music ceremony, marriage and marriage, the officials will stop for a hundred days, and the military and civilians will have to mourn for 27 days in one month.

The requirements for the new emperor were even more serious. They could not use red pens for commenting on memorials.

The new emperor will have to mourn for a hundred days. Not only must he fast and be a vegetarian, but he must also avoid female sex and vocal music.

In the previous dynasties, some emperors impregnated their concubines while they were in mourning, so it was their turn to be criticized by historians.

If Sheng Tingzhao was born at a full month... then counting the time, he should have been conceived by the empress in the month when the first emperor died.

Think about it, the late emperor's coffin is still parked in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, but his son is in the harem, which is absurd.

Today's sages advocate filial piety the most. For the sake of fame and face, there is nothing wrong with covering up this matter.

But Shen Qingci didn't think about it, Sheng Tingye then said: "Father doesn't know about this matter."

These words were like a bolt from the blue.

Shen Qingci hadn't reacted yet, but he heard him throw down another thunderbolt.

"During the national mourning period, the princes knelt in the coffin to guard the spirit, and had the opportunity to enter and leave the harem."

Shen Qingci: "???"

So, what do you mean?
Before she could react, Sheng Tingye had already started talking to her slowly.

This is Sheng Tingye's deepest secret, an existence that cannot be touched.

At this time, facing Shen Qingci, he was able to say it calmly.

"At the beginning, the person who created opportunities for them and guarded the door was Mother He beside her, who was also Zhao Miaosheng's biological mother."

"Afraid that the matter would be revealed, after giving birth to Sheng Tingzhao at full term, she directly changed the entire palace. All the maids, nuns and imperial physician Wen Po who knew that Sheng Tingzhao was born at full term were all implicated."

"Even Lu Kui, who had asked her for a Ping An pulse once before, escaped at that time, but she found other excuses to kill her later."

"It just so happened that the father was in the palace at that time, and she was the only one in the palace, and with the help of the Wang family, this matter was kept a secret."

"Sheng Tingzhao has been waiting for his father to return to the palace for more than three months. He only said that he was protected by the Buddha's light. In addition, the newborn child is indeed growing very fast. No one doubts it."

At the end, Sheng Tingye snorted lightly: "But there is no impenetrable wall in this world."

It happened that when he was young, he saved Lu Kui's life by an unintentional act, and later found out Zhao Miaosheng, He Nanny...

Speaking of these things about his mother, Sheng Tingye was shocked, angry, and embarrassed at the beginning, but now he is calm and calm.

Compared with Sheng Tingye's calmness, Shen Qingci felt as if he had been struck by lightning when he first heard such privacy, and couldn't recover for a long time.

At first she suspected that Sheng Tingye was not the queen's son, but now she heard what he said, but Sheng Tingzhao was not the son of a saint!

This news is too unexpected!
Shen Qingci found it unbelievable, unbelievable!

You know, at that time, the current queen had already married a saint, and she already had Sheng Tingye, the legitimate son.

Her position as the princess is secure.

After the new emperor ascended the throne, she was successfully promoted as a queen, and no one had any objections.

How could she...

Sheng Tingye let go of Shen Qingci's long hair wrapped around his fingertips, held her hand, and continued to explain to her: "You know, she originally wanted to be the third son of the first emperor, and later Prince Jing."

"The two of them already had a marriage contract, and it was the father... who took love with a sword."

When he said the last few words, Sheng Tingye's originally calm face showed a touch of unnaturalness.

Shen Qingci caught it.

One must know that the third son of the first emperor was the most popular and most favored by the first emperor. The two of them, the empress and the empress, were even hailed as a pair of golden boys and jade girls.

It's fine if both of them have no intentions, but they clearly know each other and love each other, and the queen is also the most honorable daughter-in-law of the Wang family, the head of the four major families.

If there were no accidents...how could this marriage just be gone.

Shen Qingci thought of a possibility.

But to say it outright, it would be a bit cruel to Sheng Tingye.

I don't know if he saw what she was thinking, Sheng Tingye squeezed her fingertips, and smiled at himself: "Yes, because of me, she has to marry."

His father used the most despicable means to get his mother, ruining the marriage that was originally created in nature.

And he is the "evidence" of his mother's humiliation.

Even if he didn't have to do or say anything, his existence itself was a kind of humiliation and torture to his mother later.

Tell her how not to hate him.

He and Sheng Tingzhao.

"One is a child with a loved one, and the other is a sinful obstacle after being forced."

Who will she like, who will she favor?
The answer is self-evident.

"Sheng Tingye..."

The tip of Shen Qingci's nose was sour, and his eye sockets were a little swollen.

Regardless of the cause and effect of the predecessors, Shen Qingci just wanted to hug the innocent Sheng Tingye at this moment.

No amount of words seemed powerless at this moment.

Shen Qingci turned around and embraced him actively.

She put her head against his neck, and said softly but firmly: "You are not a villain, you are my husband."

No matter how hard his heart is, no matter how calm and breezy, but after all, he is his close relative, and what he is talking about is his most embarrassing identity and past events.

Sheng Tingye's whole body has been covered with a layer of cold ice unconsciously.

Shen Qingci was like a hot spring, pouring into his arms, melting the layer of solid ice that wrapped him up.

He who used to be walking alone in the ancient snow mountain, not only has a weakness, but also has a warmth that belongs to him alone.

From body to heart.

He who has always been indifferent to emotions, at this moment also revealed a smile and satisfaction that melted away from the ice and snow.

He lowered his head, hugged her back, put his chin against her forehead, and responded, "Yes."

(End of this chapter)