Chapter 267 Whirlpool

Chu Lingxuan saw Chen Afu's probing eyes and did not immediately give an answer. Instead, he continued, "When I was seven years old, I heard my father come back and say that I might be pointed out by the emperor to the six-year-old Ninth Prince as his companion. The Ninth Prince was not of high birth, and his biological mother was Shan Jieyu. Neither mother nor son was favored by the Emperor. My mother was very worried. The Ninth Prince was often bullied by the Eighth Prince from the middle palace, and she was afraid that I would be implicated. , my father was appointed as a third-rank general in the Royal Guards, responsible for the personal protection of the emperor. Although his official position was not too high, he was quite trusted by the emperor. My mother wanted my father to intercede with the emperor. Can he be replaced by another prince? My father scolded me severely. That was the most severe scolding my mother had ever received. My mother even cried..."

Chu Lingxuan glanced at Chen Afu, then changed the subject and said, "In our family, my great-grandfather was very strategic and versatile in both civil and military affairs. He was the general second only to Lord Yuan at that time. He once served as a first-grade governor, but he was very He had resigned from office a long time ago. He didn't pay much attention to my grandfather's education. He thought that my grandfather only needed to protect the family and not lose, and the family did not necessarily have to be favored. During those twenty years, our Chu family moved from the capital. He was one of the top nobles from a wealthy family and was demoted to a mid-level family, but my father was personally taught by him. Even when my father became the commander of the Royal Forest Army, my father was still a third-grade knight commander. My father also passed on the title of Marquis of Yong'an to my father. Just when my father's career was getting better and better, and our Chu family was about to turn around completely, we suffered a disaster..."

Princess Rongzhao was born to Concubine Ma Shu. Concubine Ma Shu had no children. She only had one daughter, and she was so pampered that she knew nothing about the world. She is the emperor's eldest daughter and is also quite popular with the emperor. She was a full ten years younger than Chu Guangche, the Marquis of Chu. When she was ten years old, she swore that she would not marry anyone other than the eldest son of the Chu family. At a young age, he often tried to find ways to meet Chu Guangche when he was on duty, which made Chu Guangche extremely annoyed. When she was fifteen years old, the emperor ignored her crying and decreed that she should be married to Prince Consort Xue. A few years later, Prince Consort Xue died of illness, and she took her daughter to live in Concubine Shu's Zixia Palace.

At that time, Chu Guangche was thirty-one years old and was already the youngest marquis and commander of the Royal Forest Army in the Dashun Dynasty. The Marquis of Chu would be on edge as soon as he entered the palace, always on the lookout for Rong Zhao to sneak out from some nook and cranny to meet him by chance and say a few words of love.

One day, the second prince called him to come and said that the eighth prince and the ninth prince had a fight in his palace, and I was hit on the head. At that time, the second prince had not recovered from his fall, so he would occasionally let the eighth prince lead other princes to play in his palace.

Chu Guangche then left. Unexpectedly, he was taken into a room by the waiter and saw a person wearing Chu Lingxuan's clothes crawling on the table. As soon as he walked over, the person raised his head and it turned out to be Princess Rongzhao. Chu Guangche quickly turned around and walked out, but Rong Zhao stopped him and hugged him from behind. At this time, the second prince walked in with a group of people...

That day was Concubine Ma Shu's birthday. Queen Wang, Concubine Zhou, and several concubines were celebrating Concubine Ma Shu's birthday in Zixia Palace. When they heard that Commander Chu and Rong Zhao were discovered having a secret meeting in the palace of the second emperor, they all rushed over.

This matter came to the emperor again. Such a poor plot, not to mention that the emperor knew that Chu Guangche was set up, everyone else could also guess what was going on.

The second prince even went to the emperor and cried bitterly, admitting that he had set up the trap, saying that he felt sorry for the emperor's sister and could not resist her cries and pleas, and even threatened death, so he helped to do such a stupid thing. He regretted it and asked the emperor to punish him, and so on.

But Rong Zhao was the emperor's eldest daughter and the only daughter of Concubine Shu, and the culprit was the son of Empress Wang. Just when the emperor didn't know what to do, another piece of bad news came.

When the thirteen-year-old Ninth Prince was playing with the twelve-year-old Tenth Prince, he was pushed off a rockery and broke his leg. One of the tenth prince's eunuchs seemed to have gone crazy. He took advantage of the chaos and hit the ninth prince with a big stone, breaking his leg bones.

Three days later, the emperor granted marriage to Chu Guangche and Rong Zhao, and Luo Shi, the former wife of Chu, was forced to become a monk. Chu Lingxuan was furious and ran to the border to find his third uncle Chu Guangkai to join the army.

"...Although there is no direct evidence, we all speculate that the Ninth Prince was also murdered by the Second Prince. We have never been able to figure it out. Our Chu family has no grudges against the Second Prince. Although my father became the commander of the Royal Forest Army at a young age, Our Chu family is not powerful, and it is not worth the effort of the second prince to bring it down. The ninth prince's background is low, and it does not matter to him. He should definitely deal with the third prince and the fifth prince born to Concubine Zhou. Moreover, they had always been in opposition before. It was possible that the third prince and the fifth prince were responsible for the second prince's injury. But the strange thing is that the second prince did not cause trouble for them, but caught our Chu family off guard without any warning... These things. The question kept lingering in my mind and I couldn't figure it out. It was when my grandfather came to Dingzhou Prefecture the day before our engagement that I found out the answer. I just found out..."

After sending Chu Lingxuan away, Chen Afu felt extremely heavy. For the Yuan family's wronged souls, and for the unknown future that he was thrown into. At first, she was embarrassed, thinking that she was causing trouble for Chu Lingxuan by marrying into the Chu family with a big treasure with a story. Only now did she know that the Chu family had a bigger problem for her.

At first she was wondering how her marriage to Chu Lingxuan got the approval of the Chu family so easily. It is said that people in ancient times were very concerned about family status. Why would such a wealthy family accept a daughter-in-law of her status? But it turns out that he was pulled into the whirlpool without even realizing it.

This feeling of being used is really bad.

"Six years ago, the emperor was drunk and favored the ninth prince's mother, Concubine Shan. On February 27 of the following year, she gave birth to a stillborn baby..."

This sentence has been lingering in Chen Afu's ears, lingering.

"Mother, why are you standing by the window all the time? Are you waiting for Jinbao and the others? It's so late, they will definitely not come back today." Chen Dabao, who was lying on the bed, said.

In order to prevent him from moving around, his legs were placed on a small wooden frame. He looked at her sideways, pouting his little mouth and staring with big eyes, looking very cute.

In fact, it was this little bad guy who dragged her into the whirlpool. From the moment Wang took him home to be her son, she was dragged into that situation.

If she is still that silly Afu, she is used without knowing it. If this side really fails one day, it's fine if Dabao's identity is not exposed. If it is exposed, silly Afu and the Chen family will definitely die. It's just that they died, and they don't know why.