"I know." Mu Qingtong still looked at Wei Ning, "Then where are the children my mother gave birth to? Before she died, she asked me to take good care of you and protect you even if she sacrifices her life. Why?"
Wei Ning looked at Mu Zihan. She didn't know these things, and she didn't know where the prince came from.
Mu Zihan stretched out his hand, took her to his side, and said to Mu Qingtong, "Your mother was not pregnant back then."
"Impossible! I knew that the queen was pregnant. I saw her when she gave birth to Qing Ning in ten months of pregnancy!" Mu Qingtong said excitedly.
"The queen pretended to be pregnant and even hid it from the emperor. You were so young at the time, so it was impossible for you to know." Mu Zihan said, "Giving birth to Qing Ning was just a newborn baby brought in from the outside."
Wei Ning was startled and couldn't help but look at Mu Zihan. Had he always known these things?
Is it because he knew from the beginning that the prince was not of Mu family's blood, so he always left the prince alone?
If so, why didn't he reveal the identity of the crown prince? In the Qinglong Empire, which values bloodlines, wouldn't it be against the ancestral precepts to let an outsider occupy the crown prince's position for so many years?
Mu Qingtong listened and involuntarily took a step back and murmured: "This is impossible...Why would the Queen Mother do this?"
"As a queen, if she cannot give birth to a prince, then in the future when a prince from another concubine ascends the throne, where will there be a place for her?" Mu Zihan sighed softly, "She is the princess of Baize Kingdom. Her natal family has high mountains and long roads.
After the emperor passed away, if she had no one to rely on, she would have no choice but to be buried with him, so..."
"The queen is the princess of Baize Kingdom?" Wei Ning suddenly asked in surprise. This was the first time she heard about this today.
It turned out that Mu Qingning's mother was the princess of Bai Zeguo, so she seemed to have noticed something, something very crucial, as if a light suddenly flashed in her brain.
"That's right." Mu Zihan nodded. She didn't know and was not surprised because the queen passed away not long after she was born.
In the harem, few people mentioned her mother. After the new queen entered the East Palace, no one could remember the beautiful and unfortunate Princess Bai Zeguo.
"Uncle Emperor, how could the queen do such a thing? At that time, the emperor had a deep love for the mother and almost exclusively doted on the harem. How could she need to pretend to be pregnant to give birth to a prince?" Mu Qingtong didn't believe it. In her childhood memory,
, when the queen mother was reborn, she was always the most beautiful woman in the harem.
Because his father doted on his mother, no woman in the entire harem could compare to her. After his mother passed away, his father became addicted to elixirs, gradually abandoned the government, and finally indulged in beauty and gentleness, and handed over the power to the regent Mu Zihan.
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She didn't believe that with such grace, the mother would pretend to be pregnant and give birth to a prince to consolidate her status.
If you want to give birth to a prince, the mother need not worry at all.
"That's because the queen once gave birth to a heavy soldier, so she couldn't conceive." This time, it was not Mu Zihan who spoke, but Qinglong.
Mu Qingtong immediately looked at him: "No, I remember that the queen was pregnant once, but was poisoned by Concubine Liu, so the child was lost. The queen was very sad, but the imperial doctor said that as long as she takes care of herself, she can still conceive!
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These two days have been very busy and there have been few updates. It will be over in a few days. Don’t worry, it will be finished before the Chinese New Year~
