Three years later.

Xiao Shenji has already looked as tall as an adult man. In cold words, this child inherited his father's beauty and his mother's wisdom.

Chen Ji is already a famous young man in Chang'an City, and he is not sure how many girls are the perfect husband. He never goes to the fireworks and rarely goes out to the streets. He spends most of his time practicing with his father in the imperial guards.

Xiao Shenning is becoming more and more famous, but what is surprising is that she is becoming more and more similar to the Empress when she was young, so that the Empress often dazed when she was looking at her.

It is another spring year, and the army's war is about to go to the front. All departments and government agencies have already made preparations, and a large amount of food and supplies have been prepared in northern Xinjiang. This battle will be a great battle to completely change the world's pattern.

Weiyang Palace.

The Queen looked at Xiao Shenning who was sitting there reading a book well in front of her for a long time. If there was any uncertainty before, she could be sure of the little girl in front of her.

So she also mustered up the courage to have a good talk with the emperor.

And just before that, the emperor had a good talk with her. The emperor had told the old dean and Lai Cheng three years ago, and also told Chen Leng that he would abdicate after the Northern Expedition and pass the throne to the crown prince Li Changye.

This is not only something that has never happened in the history of Daning, but also something that has never happened in the history of the Central Plains. The new emperor of the Central Plains Empire ascended the throne and was always inherited after the death of the old emperor. Emperor Tiancheng of Daning Li Chengtang was going to set a precedent.

The emperor brought Chen Leng and Prince Li Changye into the outside. He saw the queen staring at Xiao Shenning in a daze. In fact, how could the emperor not tell? But the emperor just felt that the girl looked like some and nothing special.

"Chen Leng, Chang Ye."

After greeting the emperor, the queen looked at Chen Leng and Li Changye and said, "Your Majesty and I have something to say. You two avoid it first. The mulberries in the yard are already ripe. You two bring Xiao Shenning to pick some."

Of course the emperor knew what the queen was going to say to him, so he waved his hand: "Since we are going to talk about this, let's stay all of them. After that, we will go and pick them together."

He used the words "Our family".

So Chen Leng's heart was a little nervous. Although he never cared, how could he not be nervous when things came to an end? Prince Li Changye seemed even more nervous than him, and subconsciously glanced at Chen Leng.

“Things of that year…”

The queen opened her mouth, but she didn't know how to start the words behind her.

"I actually don't care about the things that happened back then... But since you want to say it, I will listen to you."

The emperor looked at Dai Fangzhou and said, "Go and close the door. No one is allowed to approach without my will."

"yes!"

Dai Fangzhou hurriedly took all the eunuchs out, and he did not dare to stay near the East Warehouse Pavilion.

The emperor walked to the queen, looked at her eyes and said seriously: "I have been waiting for you to say it in the early years, but you didn't say it. I know that it's not that you don't want to say it, but that you are uncertain, so you can't talk nonsense. Later, I felt that there was no need to say anything else, because what I care about was always you."

The queen said guiltily: "Your Majesty, I really don't know what happened back then. Now I'm looking at Xiao Shenning..."

The emperor said, "Maybe there are more girls to follow."

The queen took a deep breath and said seriously: "Actually, from the first sight of Cha'er, I felt that Cha'er had an inexplicable intimacy. But I didn't think much at that time. I felt that it might be because of my temper and personality, so I seemed close. Until... Chen Leng went out to war and the two children were still young, Cha'er brought the children to live in the palace, and I became more and more suspicious."

"There is a red dot on the back of Cha'er's neck, like a cinnabar mole. It's very beautiful. There is also a child I gave birth to back then."

Chen Leng subconsciously raised his hand and touched the back of his neck, but he didn't.

"At that time, Queen Yang sent someone to rush into the delivery room to kill the child. After the child was born, I took it away after only one look. I asked Wenmo if it was a boy or a girl. Wenmo told me that it was a boy."

The queen said, "So..."

The emperor slowly let out a breath, looked at Chen Leng and said, "Maybe it's all a coincidence. When I was young, I also had a red dot on my chest, but when I was thirteen or fourteen, I disappeared."

The queen said, "Your Majesty, can you listen to me?"

The emperor nodded: "You said, you said..."

The queen said: "I have been thinking these days, and I feel more and more that the truth of the matter may be complicated. Why did Empress Yang steal the child but not kill it, and not leave it to His Majesty, but to Mr. Chen?"

Everyone looked at her and waited for her to continue talking.

After sorting out the words, the queen said, "The next one is my speculation, but I think it's probably the truth... Because she was afraid that I would compete for favor, Queen Yang ordered,

As long as the child I gave birth to was a boy, I would get rid of it immediately. Her child was only one year old that year, and there was a crack between her and His Majesty."

The emperor nodded but said nothing.

The queen continued, "The people around me, seeing that I was often bullied by the queen, may have done something wrong. They all know that if I gave birth to a daughter, my status in the palace would still not be improved and I could not compete with Queen Yang. So I clearly gave birth to a daughter, but they told me to give birth to a boy."

Li Changye asked with a pale face, "But, what's wrong with that boy?"

The queen said, "You can go and invite Mr. Chen, let's confirm with each other."

The emperor looked at Chen Leng, and Chen Leng immediately said, "I'll go pick it up."

Nearly an hour later, Mr. Chen followed Chen Leng to Weiyang Palace. On the way, he had heard Chen Leng tell the queen's words, and Mr. Chen's face was also a little ugly. Isn't this something that has bothered him for most of his life.

East Warm Pavilion.

The queen looked at Mr. Chen, who had a pale face and asked, "Mr. Yang handed the child to you back then, you are sure that he was a boy."

Mr. Chen said: "I can be sure that I have taken him for so long, how could I read it wrong?"

The queen said, "Was there a red dot on the back of the boy's neck?"

Mr. Chen thought carefully: "No, I took the child around and hid, and there was no red spot on the child. I remember clearly, but it was Cha'er..."

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Mr. Chen's words came to an abrupt end.

The queen nodded to him, and Mr. Chen's face became extremely complicated.

He said to himself, "How could such a coincidence happen?"

The queen said, "So I guessed that I did give birth to a daughter, but the child was just born, and I had only time to take a look. The killer sent by Queen Yang broke in. They were going to kill the child because Wen Po had already told the people waiting outside that I had given birth to a boy."

"Actually this boy..."

The queen looked at Chen Leng, her eyes filled with guilt, so strong guilt.

"Actually, this boy doesn't know where they came from, and he has already prepared. If I gave birth to a boy, the boy would be returned. If I gave birth to a girl, I'll leave the boy and send the girl over."

Chen Leng's heart seemed to be cut by a knife.

The queen continued: "When Queen Yang's killer broke in before, the child fell to the ground during the fight and opened it with the child's quilt. They saw that the child was a girl, and at that time, the Wenpo and the others had not had time to change the child."

"So the killer stepped out. They told Queen Yang that it was not a boy, but a girl. Queen Yang broke in and saw it in person. She should have seen it too, so she laughed loudly in the room."

"I asked someone to pick my sword. Queen Yang was afraid that I would kill her, so she retreated. Wenpo and the others took the opportunity to change the child, and then went out again and said that she had given birth to a boy, and that was the same to me."

The queen looked at the emperor, and the emperor's face was also filled with pain.

The queen took the emperor's hand and found that the emperor's palm was covered with sweat.

The queen looked into the emperor's eyes and said, "I know these are all speculations, but probably the truth... Queen Yang just quit when she heard Wen Po say it was a boy. At that time, I fell into a coma with my sword and Queen Yang broke in again and stole the child."

"She probably felt that if she went directly to see His Majesty and said that I lied to His Majesty, then His Majesty would definitely not believe it. His Majesty would say that she stole the child and replaced it. Maybe she would kill her in anger. She dared not, so she thought of Mr. Chen."

Mr. Chen nodded: "I finally figured it out. Queen Yang was worried that Your Majesty would not believe her, and Your Majesty believed in me deeply, so Queen Yang would say when she handed the child to me. You will understand it if you saw it, but she came in a hurry and saw it with her own eyes before, so she didn't look at it again. If she saw it again, the boy would be killed by her."

Mr. Chen continued: "She thought she would not make any mistakes. After all, she saw it with her own eyes and was a girl, so she said that I would understand after seeing it, but when I saw it, I was already a boy. If she took a look at me again..."

He looked at Chen Leng. If Queen Yang had looked at him once, Chen Leng would have not been there, so Mr. Chen was afraid.

Mr. Chen looked at the emperor again and said, "I don't understand what Queen Yang means. I thought that she was going to blame me. His Majesty went to the Western Shu Road Warrior Camp at that time. My original intention was to take my children to the Western Shu Road Warrior Camp to see His Majesty."

The emperor took over and said, "But she suddenly repents, because she thought that even if you brought your children to see me, I would be furious because of this, so it would be better to get rid of you and the children. After I returned to the palace, she refused to admit it, so she immediately arranged a killer to chase you and force you not to get close to the camp of Xishu Road."

The emperor sighed.

"Actually, it's my fault. I was rushing to Chang'an at that time. I left this matter to the people in the mansion to continue to investigate. I told them to take you and the children back, but no one was found.

If I wasn't in a hurry to go to Chang'an..."

Mr. Chen said: "I have been hunted down and I am desperate. When I fled to Yulin Town, I heard Boss Meng's conversation with others. I knew he was going to adopt a child, so I threw the child away on his way home..."

He looked at the emperor: "What I thought at that time was that I would take the child back after I left the person who was chasing me, but this evasion lasted for several years."

The emperor nodded and he let out a long sigh again.

Then ask: "What's going on with Cha'er?"

Mr. Chen said: "Maybe God will do this. Wenpo spent a lot of money to exchange for a boy with tea, that is... Lengzi, the couple did not dare to stay in Chang'an, and they also went all the way to Anyang County, Jiangnan Road. The man in that family was a person who was not a good job in eating, drinking, gambling, and was exhausted. Wenpo had spent all the money he gave, and was afraid of being investigated, so he threw the child away..."

Mr. Chen looked at Chen Leng with a sad look: "In other words, I have... seen your biological mother on the day I decided to adopt Cha Er."

Chen Leng can only smile bitterly.

The queen knelt down and said to the emperor, "I am guilty."

The emperor reached out to help the queen up, shook his head and said, "It's very good now, everyone is very good, and I am very good too..."

He looked at Chen Leng and suddenly smiled and said, "I have been in pain for a long time. It turns out that it is a son-in-law..."

Chen Leng can only smile bitterly.

The emperor was silent for a while and reached out his hand: "Come on, give me all my hands."

On his hand was the queen's hand, on the queen's hand was Li Changye's hand, on Li Changye's hand, on Chen Leng's hand, on Chen Leng's hand, on Chen Ning's hand, on Chen Ning's hand, on Chen Ning's hand, on Chen Ning's hand, on Mr. Chen's hand.

“It’s a family.”

The emperor shouted: "It has always been a family, no matter now or later."

He looked at Chen Leng: "Cha'er..."
To be continued...