“It’s true that they’ve been trying to win over Feng Mohan. Over the years, there have been people who have been provoking our relationship explicitly and implicitly,” Feng Qingbai answered in the end, “But it’s impossible for Feng Mohan and the Liu family to stand together.”
“Why?”
“The Liu family administered the poison in Feng Mohan’s body when he was two years old.”
Liu Yusheng paused refining medicine for a moment and looked at Feng Qingbai with some incredulity.
Two years old? He was still a toddler who couldn’t even walk steadily.
The Liu family was already able to wield such poisonous means at that time? He was a child with part of the Liu family’s bloodline!
“There is nothing unusual about it. When it comes to imperial power struggles, fathers and sons turn against each other, and sibling rivalry isn’t rare, not to mention that Feng Mohan is only a nephew of the Liu family,” Feng Qingbai laughed wryly.
“In those days, apart from the eldest and the third princes, who were the most vocal in seizing the throne, there was also the seventh prince. But he concealed himself deeply and was more calm.
But the moment Father released an imperial decree, passing the throne to Feng Mohan, he became a thorn in the side of all ambitious families. E everyone wanted to get rid of it beforehand.
The Liu family did not dare to administer a fatal drug to immediately kill Feng Mohan because they wanted to leave themselves a room to wait and see.
If Feng Mohan dies, the ones who had the best chances were the First Prince and the Third Prince.
So they chose the chronic poison to let me fight with the First Prince first, while they sit on the sidelines and reap the benefits.”
Liu Yusheng instantly understood what the Liu family had in mind back then.
“The two tigers are fighting each other. If you lose, they will fight in the name of helping Feng Mohan and clear the ruler’s side under the identity of the emperor’s grandfather.
If the First Prince and the others are defeated, it will be the same as letting you help them to solve their opponent without any effort.
By then, Xiao Feng’s poison will slowly take effect. Before reaching adulthood, he will suffer organ failure and die, then the next heir in line will be the seventh prince.”
What a shrewd malicious scheme!
“Unfortunately, they finally overlooked a move and did not count on your existence.” Feng Qingbai laughed lightly. It probably never occurred to the Liu family that someone would be able to solve such a poisonous and difficult Gu worm.
“They should also not have counted that you, in the end, could fight them with one person. I guess during these years, Dowager Concubine Liu has been sleeping restlessly.”
If the Liu family were to know that their scheme for so many years was ruined in the end, what would their expression be?
Liu family…Thinking of the face that was exactly the same as the one in her memory, Liu Yusheng had extremely complicated thoughts about the Liu family.
When she heard this family mentioned again, there was no way she could regard them as an outsider calmly as she used to.
She has a feeling that her future conflict with the Liu family would definitely not end here.
“Feng Qingbai, tell me about the Liu family. What did the Liu family start out with and what businesses do they mainly deal in?”
“The Liu family started out selling over-the-counter medicines. Their ancestors were once imperial doctors and they possessed a lot of ancestral medicine prescriptions. Unfortunately, the younger generations in the family were unable to inherit the mantle of the old imperial doctor. Not long after, they began to decline. Without the Yuan family, the Liu family would still be an ordinary merchant in the capital.”
While relating these, Feng Qingbai observed the girl’s expression without a trace, and every change in her did not escape his eyes.
She cared too much about the Liu family.
As for Liu Yusheng, when she heard that the Liu family started out as pharmacists, and that someone in their ancestry had been an imperial doctor, she became rigid all over.
She didn’t bother to hide her abnormality in the slightest.
What was more, the person next to her was Feng Qingbai, and she rarely hid anything from him.
“Shengsheng,” he called her, “You should have never crossed paths with the Liu family in the capital. Why do you care so much about them? You are hiding something from me.”
After a pause, thinking that the Liu family of Xinghua Village and the Liu family of the capital have the same surnames, Feng Qingbai frowned. “Is there any relationship between your family and the Liu family in the capital?”
Liu Yusheng snapped out of her reverie and looked at Feng Qingbai. The doubt in his eyes was obvious, interspersed with worry for her.
She opened her mouth to say something but found that she had no way to speak of it.
Should she say that Dowager Consort Liu looked exactly like the elder in her previous life’s clan? He didn’t even know that she was reborn from another world.
Besides, she hadn’t met anyone else in the Liu family besides Consort Liu, so she couldn’t be suspicious of something unthinkable just because of someone who looked too identical to her.
Even if the Liu family and those in her previous life all resembled each other completely, what could it explain?
This was the Nanling Kingdom – a dynasty that has never existed in history and built on the stilts of time and space!
This Liu family here has nothing to do with the one in her previous life!
Feng Qingbai stood up, walked to the girl’s side, and gripped her shoulders while intently looking into her eyes. “If you have a secret you do not want to tell, I will not force you, but my feelings will remain the same as when I hid something from you. But I want to know everything that has to do with you, badly.”
Liu Yusheng was rendered speechless, and her eyes flickered.
The same feeling she had when he hid something from her?
What did she feel back then?
Very sad, very worried.
She wanted to know what had happened to him and everything that had to do with him.
Even if she couldn’t do anything to help, she could stay with him to face something together at least, instead of being confused and distressed for him.
“Feng Qingbai,” she called to him, her voice carrying a hint of indistinct uncertainty. It sounded like the wind leaking through the fingers, intent on grasping it but unable to hold it.
Feng Qingbai was a bit flustered and his brow furrowed even more.
“Feng Qingbai,” she added, “I once had a strange dream, and in it, I saw Consort Liu.”
His hands on the girl’s shoulders unconsciously tightened. Feng Qingbai’s voice turned tense, but he deliberately lowered his tone for fear of startling her, “What happened afterwards?”
“My dream was in another world. It’s very different from this time and space, and totally different from the Nanling Kingdom.” She gazed at him and gently recounted, “There, I was also a famous doctor, a renowned doctor…Later, Consort Liu slashed my wrist. That severed my muscles and the veins of my wrist, and I became disabled. I could no longer hold a scalpel.”
“…And then?” Feng Qingbai’s voice increasingly tensed up. He could barely squeeze out a sound, but he still gritted his teeth and asked softly.
“Then I died. I died in the sea. The people in the family threw me down.”
For a long time, Feng Qingbai could no longer make a sound. The girl’s eyes bore into his, shaken to the point of breaking and seemingly immersed in the dream. It was obviously a bland narrative of a dream, but her soul was trapped inside, unable to break free.
Feng Qingbai pulled the woman into his arms and hugged her tightly. He continuously kissed her cheeks, earlobes, and hair, and said, “It’s all right. Don’t dwell on it. Don’t think about it anymore, I’m not listening, Shengsheng. Don’t say anymore. This is Nanling, the King Nanling Royal Palace, not a dream!”
“Feng Qingbai, if that dream was not a dream, would you be afraid? Would you think I am a witch?” The girl’s muffled voice floated out from his arms.
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