Sun Jin’s heart set off waves of shock and horror, and his body couldn’t help but sit up a little straighter.
He couldn’t understand why the Crown Prince and Xiao Xian Fei hadn’t searched the Tiger Talisman over since they had taken control of the Emperor, had they been careless or had they not found it?
On his face, however, he did not show it.
“Have you ever thought about it? If Liu Jiang really led his troops into the city, how many innocent people would be affected, and how many soldiers would lose their lives?”
“I couldn’t care less. I want to avenge my mother and third brother, do you know that? Father himself told me that it was the Crown Prince and Consort Xiao Xian who killed them.”
“So, you believed the words of Father?”
The Sixth Princess was a little stunned.
What did the sidekick mean by that?
Of course she believed what her father said, he had no reason to lie to her, did he?
“In the beginning, I asked the emperor to grant the marriage because I wanted to relieve Brother Song Si.”
Sun Jin suddenly said something without a head.
The Sixth Princess was puzzled.
She was not stupid, she naturally knew that the sidekick was relieving Song Si in the first place.
But even though they both understood, no one had ever said anything.
After all, the two of them had already become husband and wife, so talking about it would only hurt their feelings.
“But then I really fell in love with you. Although you are a princess, you don’t have the pettiness of a princess, whether it’s treating me or my parents like family.”
“Of course, all these are secondary, what moved me the most was that you were actually very simple, simple not like a princess who came out of the palace of deceit and deception.”
“So I said to myself that I must treat you well, for the rest of my life, to have more children with you and watch them grow up slowly.”
“And that’s why, after the news of the palace came out I gave a gag order to the people in the house, forbidding anyone to mention it in front of you, for fear that you would be involved with it and our family would be in a place of no return.”
“You, what do you mean?”
Sun Jin looked into her eyes, “Father has sat on the throne for decades, playing with people’s hearts is what he is best at, his words cannot be trusted!”
“Impossible!”
The Sixth Princess subconsciously retorted, “Father wouldn’t lie to me!”
“If he didn’t lie to you, why didn’t he tell you before something happened? Even if you couldn’t avenge your mother and third brother, you could have questioned the Crown Prince and Consort Xiao Xian. After all, the Crown Prince hadn’t been ordained at that time, and Father hadn’t been placed under house arrest.”
The Sixth Princess opened her mouth.
“As I just said, you are very simple, and Father is taking advantage of that. Now that he is trapped in the palace and there is no one left who can help him except you, he will naturally plant the death of Mother Consort and Third Brother on the Crown Prince and Consort Xiao Xian in order to stir up the hatred in your heart and help him send the Tiger Talisman to Liu Jiang.”
“But have you thought about it, once the palace changes, it is still unknown who will win and who will lose, but it will definitely be our family of three who will be the first to suffer.”
“Those innocent people who suffer will curse you because of the talisman you sent to them, the civil and military officials will also blame you, even if the emperor wins by a fluke, no one will say good things about you, they will curse our whole family, is this what you want?”
The Sixth Princess subconsciously shook her head.
“And now that the Emperor is old enough to sit in that position for a few more years, once he passes away, who will the throne pass to? The eldest prince or the second prince? Whichever royal son it passes to, do you think they will be as good to you as the Crown Prince?”
The Sixth Princess was about to shake her head again, but halfway through the shake she could not help it.
When she was in the palace she hadn’t been on good terms with her elder and second brothers, and no matter which of the two of them took that position, it wouldn’t do her much good …… but, at the very least, they hadn’t killed her mother and third brother, the two people closest to her.
She couldn’t help but avenge them!
But what if it was true, as the sidekick had said, that the father had deceived her?
The Sixth Princess bit her lips tightly and had a waver.
“There is one thing I have not told you. ”
The Sixth Princess looked at Sun Jin.
Still looking her in the eyes, Sun Jin told her about the emperor defiling Concubine Qin and using it to kill him.
The Sixth Princess covered her mouth in disbelief.
Since she had given birth, news from outside had never reached her ears again; she did not know about the things that happened outside, nor did she hear these rumours.
If someone else had told her, she would never have believed it, her father was not that kind of person.
But these words had come from the sidekick’s mouth, and the sidekick would not lie to her that her father had really done that.
She was too young to go to see the execution of King Qin, but her personal servant went and came back with a high fever for days, almost losing her life.
She thought at the time that King Chin deserved it, who let him try to kill his father, but it turned out, but it turned out ……
The Sixth Princess had cold sweat coming out of her back.
Is the father really using her?
“Don’t forget, it was Father who deported the Third Prince to Youzhou back then. If he really belonged to the Third Prince as Crown Prince, how would he deport someone to Youzhou?”
The Sixth Princess’ lips opened and closed, but no words came out.
“Qin’er ……”
Sun Jin held her hand, “Mother Consort and the Third Prince have already gone, our family of three is still alive, especially our son, just a few months old, can you bear to involve him in the whirlwind as well, so that he will be scorned and pointed at from a young age?”
The Sixth Princess shook her head.
That was the child she had almost lost her life to, she held it in her hands for fear of dropping it, she held it in her mouth for fear of it melting, how could she let him suffer that.
“If you don’t want to ……”
Sun Jin raised his hand to remove a strand of her hair that had fallen out and looked at her steadily, “then hand over the tiger talisman to me and I will take it to the Crown Prince to negotiate a deal so that he will guarantee that our family will live the rest of their lives as they do now.”
……
A quarter of an hour later, Sun Jin left the sidekick’s residence and went to the palace gate in a carriage.
Hearing the palace attendant’s report, the Crown Prince put down the pen in his hand and asked Eunuch Zhang to bring him to the imperial study.
“Your Highness.”
Sun Jin finished his respectful salute and held out the tiger talisman in his hand, “This is from the Emperor to the Princess, and he wants her to send it to Liu Jiang, the commander of the Featherwood Army, ordering him to lead his troops into the city.”
Eunuch Zhang, who was standing with his hands hanging down, looked up sharply and saw the tiger talisman in his team’s hand, his heart pounding wildly.
How close!
Fortunately, the horse in harness was wise, otherwise… otherwise there would have been rivers of blood.
The prince smiled, “Thanks a lot brother-in-law.”
“I dare not, in fact, even if I didn’t send it to you, the Crown Prince would have had a way to get it.”
Indeed.
But getting it that way and Sun Jin sending it were two different things.
“Brother-in-law go back and tell Sixth Sister that I will pretend I don’t know about this, and that in the future she will still be my favourite Sixth Sister and I will still be her most beloved Fourth Brother.”
“Many thanks, Your Highness.”
……
After Sun Jin left, Song Si also came out of the Hanlin Academy and got on a carriage to go home.
The epidemic had just passed, and although the shops on the street were all open, there was not much of a crowd, and there were very few pedestrians walking in twos and threes on the road.
“Have you heard? Back then the late emperor actually wanted to pass the throne to King Qin, but King Qin said that the eldest and youngest were in order and pushed it hard, before the current emperor took that position.”
“I’ve heard, and I’ve also heard that because of that, the emperor was always wary of King Qin, and later even used tactics like that to humiliate him.”
“Who says otherwise.”
Song Si jerked open the curtain of the carriage and looked at the person who had spoken.