The Concubine in the Palace_The Feast of Masks【Complete】(131)

Yao Niang subconsciously wanted to hide, and the other party only then realized that Yao Niang was pregnant. Just as she was about to say something, she was knocked unconscious by Yu Chan's hand knife from the side.

Yao Niang was startled and said in a low voice: "Yu Chan, how did you knock him unconscious? What should we do? He must be the master of a courtyard in the mansion."

This man was well-dressed and looked like a servant.

"Don't be afraid, Madam, it's okay. I'll throw him into the bushes. When he wakes up, he won't make a sound."

"But will this cause trouble for His Highness?" Yao Niang still remembered that King Jin said that the Shen family was more important to him.

"No." Yu Chan said, and pulled the man on the ground up and dragged him into the bushes.

It was the first time that Yao Niang found that Yu Chan was so strong.

After putting the man away, the master and servant left in a hurry. Yao Niang returned to the room and even planned that if things got out of hand later, she would just bite him to death and rest in the room without going out.

Fortunately, the man did not show up until they left.

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Shen Tai slept in the bushes for nearly two quarters of an hour before waking up.

After waking up, he found that his neck was particularly painful. He shook his head and naturally remembered what happened before.

He was naturally not a fool. If he was not wrong, the woman was the concubine of King Jin. I really didn't expect that King Jin was so lucky to have such a beauty by his side.

Shen Tai would naturally not make such a thing public. He just cursed and left.

It was indeed bad luck. After that, he went to the gambling house and lost all his money without even making a bubble. Just as he was about to leave, someone squeezed in beside him.

"Brother, I see that you are not lucky, but do you need to borrow some money?"

Shen Tai was not the first time to come to the gambling house, so he naturally knew that there were people who borrowed money from the gambling house. Ningguo Mansion had no shortage of food and drink for him, and he didn't spend much money on weekdays. It was only after he got involved in gambling that he found that money was very scarce, but he never thought of borrowing money from the gambling house.

He was not a fool, and knew how harmful this loan was.

Although he knew it, his heart was still stirring. It was because he had spent the money he had intended to treat people to a drink, and he was also gambling and wanted to make up for his losses.

"You know who I am, and you dare to lend me loan money?"

"The famous Ningguo Duke, I don't know who you are, and I can't find you!"

Shen Tai liked people to flatter him the most. He snorted and raised his eyes: "You have something in your eyes. I won't lend you more for now. I'll make a profit first."

The man didn't say much, and immediately took out 500 taels of silver notes from his arms and gave them to him.

The problem was that Shen Tai had been unlucky tonight, but it wasn't bad. He had been better for a while, but unfortunately he was greedy. Thinking of the silver he had lost here before, he wanted to make a big profit. Who knew that all the silver he won was poured out, and he borrowed 5,000 taels of silver from that person.

This amount was completely beyond what Shen Tai could use. Even if Madam Shen loved him, she would not give him five thousand taels at once.

Shen Tai's face was ashen, but things had come to this point, so he just had to wait until he raised the money to pay it back.

He walked out with a curse, but was grabbed by the man.

"Mr. Shen, my master wants to talk to you about something. Not only do you not have to pay back the five thousand taels, but you can also have an explanation for the matter you have been thinking about for a long time."

Somehow, Shen Tai thought of the matter of the position of the prince of Ningguo Mansion.

Chapter 105

After Yao Niang returned, Prince Jin was already waiting in the yard.

Before dinner, Fucheng was asking the maids to set the table. Yao Niang had something on her mind, and she didn't eat much in the Duke's Mansion. She came back and hurriedly went into the inner room to clean up, and then came out to eat with Prince Jin.

"What's wrong?"

Yao Niang hesitated for a moment, picked up a piece of vegetable leaf and fed it to Xiaobao who was sitting next to her. In fact, Xiaobao had eaten his fill in the Duke's Mansion before, but he still opened his mouth and ate what his mother fed him.

The King of Jin frowned slightly, glanced at Xiaobao, and then looked at Yao Niang's tangled face.

"I encountered something in the Duke's Mansion today..." She hesitated and told him about the encounter with the lecher.

After listening, the King of Jin frowned even more.

"I don't know him either, and I don't know if he will cause trouble for His Highness..."

Xiaobao stared at the King of Jin, planning that if he dared to show his mother a little displeasure again, he would delay calling him dad. In fact, after Yao Niang finished telling the story, Xiaobao guessed who the man was.

The man named Shen Tai was simply a borer in the Shen family. Anyway, when Xiaobao knew this person, he was already dead, but it was just a name that Madam Shen always mentioned.

From the words of Mr. and Mrs. Shen, and his father's attitude of ignoring but obviously avoiding him, Xiao Bao guessed whether this person died at the hands of his father, or whether the cause of death was related to his father, so Mrs. Shen would use this as a leverage to achieve her intention of controlling his father.

But his mother should not have entered the capital in her previous life, so naturally there would be no such thing today. Shen Tai was not stupid enough to openly violate his father's taboo, so what exactly caused his anger, or what did Shen Tai do to make his father so angry that he even ignored the face of his deceased uncle and did not hesitate to kill him?

Xiao Bao suddenly remembered something. He remembered that he had never seen his great-grandfather when he was a child, only his great-grandmother. His great-grandmother was a very kind old woman, but she was in poor health and had been bedridden for many years before she passed away.

He once went to pay homage to his great-grandfather with his father. If he remembered correctly, the time of death engraved on the tablet should be very recently. But today, judging from my great-grandfather's mental appearance, he does not look like a man who is about to die.

Xiaobao felt that he knew something, but there was always a thread that couldn't be connected in his mind. He tried hard to think about what happened at this time in his previous life.

A secret story he heard in his previous life suddenly flashed in his mind, and Xiaobao felt a cold feeling all over his body, as if he had been struck by lightning.

In his previous life, his father did not ascend to the position of the Ninth Five-Year Plan justifiably, but invaded the capital under the banner of Qingjun. The person he found was Zhao Youting, a commoner, who is now the Yongwang.

Xiaobao knows too little. He was just a milk baby when all this happened in his previous life, and all these things were wiped out by the turmoil.

In his previous life, Emperor Jin'an's reputation was not good. There were always rumors among the people that he killed and imprisoned many brothers in a cold-blooded manner before ascending to the position of the Ninth Five-Year-Old Emperor. There were even frequent literati who wrote sarcastic articles to criticize him.

There were two large-scale literary prisons in the Jin'an Dynasty, in which many people were implicated, corpses lay everywhere, and countless courtiers were sacked. Since then, no one dared to discuss this matter, and Emperor Jin'an also gained a reputation for being cruel and violent. For a time, the people in the court were silent.

After Xiaobao became sensible, he only found out about this incident by chance. In fact, it is not so much a coincidence as it is someone who did it on purpose. After that incident, Prince An was reprimanded, and Xiaobao realized that someone was deliberately trying to deceive him and try to hurt his father.

From what Xiaobao has seen since entering the capital, the prince is still the prince, the status of the prince's family has not been shaken, and the emperor's grandfather's body is not seriously injured. So what happened in the thirty-two years of Hongjing? Such a big change?

Xiaobao feels that too many things have happened in the thirty-two years of Hongjing——

During this year, his mother was poisoned and died, and his health deteriorated; during this year, his great-grandfather passed away, his imperial grandfather passed away, and the prince and grandson all died; during this year, King Yong monopolized the power of the court and attempted to ascend the throne. The position of the Nine-Fifth Emperor; during this year, his father sent his troops south and ascended the throne as emperor the following year.

Xiaobao always had a feeling that the opportunity for all this to happen had started long ago, and it was now that the real turmoil would start. Because this is the only way to explain it, and the mastermind behind everything is really King Yong, and he will definitely choose this time to take action——

Emperor Hongjing lived long, and all the kings gathered in the capital.

And his father sent his troops south from Jinzhou, so it should be that his father suffered a loss in this battle and left the capital, and then he braved the disapproval of the world and invaded the capital under the banner of the Qing Dynasty.

Could it be that the reason why my father suffered a loss in this incident was related to the death of my great-grandfather?

And just when Xiaobao was worried about the country and the people, King Jin, who was so deep in thought for unknown reasons that Yao Niang misunderstood, was making amends afterwards.

"It really won't cause any trouble, so don't think too much about it."

"He should be a relative of yours. Could he be my aunt's son? My aunt is not very friendly to me. I'm afraid..."

Yao Niang, who spilled the beans, received a cold look from King Jin.

"Why didn't you tell me about this before?"

Yao Niang, who was a little flustered and aggrieved by being stared at, hesitated: "I didn't think it was anything, but then this happened again, I..."

"Why is she so unkind to you?"

"Actually, it's nothing, I just said a few unpleasant words." Under Jin King's slightly narrowed eyes that looked a little dangerous, Yao Niang told the story honestly.

"Later, my grandmother told me not to blame my eldest aunt, saying that she had resentment in her heart. But I didn't understand this. The elders said it, and I just listened."

A hint of complexity flashed in King Jin's eyes: "Don't pay attention to her, she can't understand her. When I said that the Shen family is very important, I didn't mean her, and I didn't mean for you to suffer." As he said that, Jin Wang Ye couldn't go on anymore. It wasn't his statement that made Yao Niang misunderstood.

What a silly girl, he said it was important, but she held back her anger. If it were anyone else, let alone having given birth to the eldest son of Prince Jin's family, he would still be able to make a fuss out of a molehill without suffering the consequences of being dumb just with what he had in his belly.