C339 The past is hard to bear(1)

"You think the empress will protect you because she has some secrets?" As if he had seen through her thoughts, Helian Yu smirked. "The little secret you kept in your heart for eighteen years. In the end, I'm afraid it will become a sharp blade that will send you on your way!"

Mrs Liu's expression changed tragically, as she struggled to stay alive. "What does Your Highness say? This servant doesn't understand."

Helian Yu stood up and said with a trace of an eerie smile, "Someone, take Senior Servant Liu to my mother's place."

Just as someone lifted Mrs Liu up, she struggled to lie on the ground and cried, "Your Highness, save me! "Your servant is willing to be your slave …"

Helian Yu waved his hand. With a dispirited expression, he said, "I do not lack oxen and horses to drive and you will not be able to pull the carriage."

"His Highness must want to know some secrets! Even if His Highness managed to deduce a few of these secrets, there would definitely be no real secrets. Only this servant knows that there is something fishy going on. " Mrs Liu was not stupid. She could see that Helian Yu knew what was going on. Otherwise, why would he use such a method to trick her?

Helian Yu paused for a moment before he gently lifted her hand. The people carrying Lady Liu immediately put her down and retreated. Only the two of them were left in the hall.

Mrs Liu thought back to the past and said while pondering, "Didn't His Highness go out of his way to intercept this servant just to hear some truths before the empress disposed of this servant?" For this matter, if Imperial Concubine Zuo or the eighth prince truly wanted to put this servant to death, besides your highness, who else could save this servant? "

She smiled ruefully. "Eighteen years of a secret. I thought I would be able to live without revealing my secrets. Who knew that eighteen years of being on tenterhooks wouldn't be enough to escape this day …"

Helian Yu didn't say a word this time. He only used a gaze that could see through everything to gaze coldly at her.

Mrs Liu sighed.

More than twenty years ago, the empress Xu had seen the left flank of the wheat and was extremely surprised. She had been brought back to her family, Prime Minister Xu's residence, where she had secretly taken care of it.

Zuo Liangliang was originally the daughter of a small merchant, and her family was pretty good. In one night, her family was on the verge of collapse, and the little girl who had been raised to live well was going to become the servant girl of a big family. How could she live like this?

It was a good thing that Empress Xu had an inexplicable love for Zuo Lian. She had even bought her daughter, Mrs Liu, who had served her since she was young and raised her in the Prime Minister's Estate.

At first he thought that Empress Xu was the wife of a wealthy family, but when he learned that she was the current empress, he became flattered and uneasy. However, in the prime minister's house everything went on as usual, and her life was even more luxurious than before, more extravagant, more extravagant, and there were experts to teach her how to work in the zither and calligraphy.

The Prime Minister and his wife usually took care of her and raised her, but in truth, the Prime Minister was very busy with his affairs and it was not convenient for him to see a little girl all day. For some reason, the Prime Minister's wife disliked her, and the best person for her was the son of the Prime Minister, Empress Xu Jingchen, who was nineteen years old.

Zuo Liangliang gradually became a peerless beauty, and Xu Jingchen's infatuation for her also deepened. The young men and women exchanged glances, and finally, one day, they went off the rails.

Who would have thought that this matter wouldn't develop as perfectly as Zuo Lian thought. She would be able to smoothly marry into the Xu Family, even if it was just to be Xu Jingchen's side room.

The consequence of this was that one day, when she was only sixteen, she was raised like a daughter in the Prime Minister's Palace. She had naively assumed that Xu Jingchen would help her settle everything, but who knew that the Prime Minister and his wife would find out?

Prime Minister Xu's face was ashen as he said nothing, while Lady Xu scolded her for being shameless, seducing the third young master of the Xu family to drive her out of the estate.

Xu Jingchen did not appear, saying that he had been imprisoned and watched over by his parents.

Zuo Lian had no choice but to complain that the empress had brought him back home. If he wanted to punish her, he would have to wait for her to return. At that time, she still held onto a glimmer of hope and treated Empress Xu as her last straw of hope.

Empress Xu found an excuse to return to the Prime Minister's Estate. When she heard of this, she was rather quiet and did not say a word, allowing Zuo Lianji to wail and beg. Only then did she sigh, seemingly in pity as she spoke some empty words of comfort, but not a single one of them mentioned the marriage between Xu Jingchen and her.

Zuo Liangji desperately wanted to commit suicide, but found that he didn't have that kind of courage when he was on the verge of dying.

Only then did Empress Xu calm her down and put pressure on her, giving her the only way out: to enter the palace.

Zuo Lian was extremely unwilling, but her stomach needed to be covered up. She didn't want to be chased out of the Prime Minister's residence and lead a life of exile. She was used to living a life of luxury and wealth and wanted to give birth to her own children.

In the end, she had no choice but to obey the empress's arrangements and enter the palace as the daughter of a border official. She stood out amongst the ladies and was chosen by the emperor.

Zuo Lian didn't know why so many pretty girls were lined up in a row. The emperor only saw her at first glance, but she knew clearly that the aloof and elegant man's eyes were filled with joy and infatuation when he looked at her.

She had thought that she had unwillingly entered the palace, and that she still had boundless love and love for Xu Jingzi. Who knew that after entering the palace, Empress Xu would make her marvel at the extravagance of life in the palace, and the benefits of overflowing power.

Under Empress Xu's arrangements, Zuo Lian's medical examination was successfully passed. Naturally, it didn't take much effort for her to be favored by the emperor. At that time, she was only 2 months old.

From the moment she told her first lie, she had to use countless lies to round it up. She was quickly diagnosed as having a "one and a half month" pregnancy, but fortunately, her naturally slim figure did not expose her, and no one could tell that she had been pregnant for more than three months.

However, there was no way to hide the fact that she was giving birth. She had to deceive so many midwives, saying that it was a baby that could not bear a monthly birth, and to make everyone in the palace believe that she was born prematurely was too risky.

Thus, Empress Xu arranged for the matter of the temporary delivery in the palace and carefully selected a few midwives to lead the way.

When they arrived at the palace, Zuo Lian's Buckwheat didn't even have time to catch their breath before it gave birth due to the bumps along the way. She was really born prematurely, and there was already a little more than half a month before the birth date that she had calculated.

In the palace, Zuo Lian learned that the empress had arranged for several pregnant women to be born around the same time as her, in order to ensure that she would give birth to a "prince".

When Helian Hua was born, Empress Xu was extremely disappointed. According to her original plan, she should have abandoned her and returned to the palace as a baby boy.

Zuo Lianglian naturally did not want to be separated from her own daughter, so he plotted a scheme for her, claiming that he was pregnant with twins, and carried the son of a woman who was about to give birth to a child to serve as Helian Peng's younger brother.