Chapter 451 The Prince’s Background (1)
"I know." Mu Qingtong still looked at Wei Ning, "Then where is the child my mother gave birth to? Before she died, she asked me to take good care of you and protect you even at the cost of my own life. Why?"
Wei Ning looked at Mu Zihan. She didn’t know these things, and she didn’t know where the prince came from.
Mu Zihan stretched out his hand, pulled her to his side, and said to Mu Qingtong: "Your mother was not pregnant at that time."
"Impossible! I knew that my mother was pregnant. I saw her give birth to Qingning after ten months of pregnancy!" Mu Qingtong said excitedly.
"The queen pretended to be pregnant and even hid it from the emperor. You were so young at the time, so you naturally had no way of knowing." Mu Zihan said, "Giving birth to Qingning was just like bringing in a newborn baby from outside."
Wei Ning was stunned and couldn't help but look at Mu Zihan. Has he always known all this?
Did he leave the prince alone because he knew from the beginning that the prince was not of Mu family blood?
If that was the case, why didn't he reveal the identity of the crown prince? In the Qinglong Empire, which values bloodline, isn't it against the ancestral teachings to let an outsider occupy the crown prince's position for so many years?
Mu Qingtong listened and took a step back involuntarily, muttering, "This is impossible... Why would the Queen Mother do this?"
"As the queen, if she cannot give birth to a prince, where will she be able to stay when the princes of other concubines ascend the throne in the future?" Mu Zihan sighed softly, "She is a princess of Bai Ze Country. Her parents' home is far away. After the emperor passes away, if she has no one to rely on, she can only be buried with the emperor, so..."
"The queen is the princess of Bai Ze Kingdom?" Wei Ning suddenly asked in surprise. This was the first time she heard of this.
It turned out that Mu Qingning's mother was the princess of Bai Ze Kingdom. She seemed to have realized something, something very crucial, like a flash of inspiration in her brain.
"That's right." Mu Zihan nodded. It was not surprising that she didn't know, because the queen died not long after she was born.
In the harem, few people mentioned her mother. After the new queen entered the East Palace, no one remembered the beautiful but ill-fated Princess Bai Ze anymore.
"Uncle, how could mother do such a thing? Father loved her deeply at that time and she was almost the only one favored in the harem. How could she need to pretend to be pregnant to give birth to a prince?" Mu Qingtong didn't believe it. In her childhood memory, when her mother was reborn, she was always the most glorious woman in the harem.
Because my father doted on my mother, the queen mother, and no woman in the entire harem could compare to her. Ever since my mother passed away, my father became addicted to elixirs, gradually neglected state affairs, and finally indulged in beauty and tenderness, handing over all power to the regent Mu Zihan.
She didn't believe that with such favor, her mother would have to pretend to be pregnant and give birth to a prince to consolidate her position.
If you want to give birth to a prince, the queen mother shouldn't worry at all.
"That's because the queen once gave birth to a heavy soldier, so she can't conceive." This time, it was Qinglong, not Mu Zihan, who spoke.
Mu Qingtong immediately looked at him: "No, I remember that my mother was once pregnant, but she was poisoned by Concubine Liu, so the child was gone. My mother was too sad, but the imperial physician said that as long as she was carefully taken care of, she could still get pregnant! "
