After another two hours, the ban was lifted, and the princes, princesses, concubines, and ministers entered the palace to visit the Empress.
Crown Prince Li Chengqian threw himself in front of the phoenix bed and cried bitterly. If it was under normal circumstances, Li Shimin would definitely show a gratified expression.
They could only wait for news from Li Junxian.
......
The three midwives had served King Qin's manor and were recorded in the manor. After Li Shimin ascended the throne, these files were sealed in the secretary's office.
After entering the secretary's office to retrieve the files of Prince Qin's residence, he immediately learned about the situation of the three midwives.
Following the clues, the evening of the second day.
Li Junxian led a midwife in her eighties to the steps of the Hall of Political Establishment. As for the other two midwives, they had already passed away. After all, it had been sixteen years since the second year of Wude.
Midwife Wu's face was full of wrinkles and her body was hunched. Most importantly, she looked nervous because she had a secret hidden in her heart for many years.
"When you see His Majesty later, remember to perform the etiquette of a monarch and his subjects. His Majesty is no longer the King of Qin from back then.”
Li Junxian coldly harrumphed.
"I understand."
Midwife Wu had not expected that the Qin Princess Consort from back then would actually become the current Empress. Helping the Empress deliver the Crown Prince was extremely glorious. She could die without regrets in her life.
Weng!
The two of them saw a man standing in front of the phoenix couch.
"Greetings, Your Majesty!"
Li Junxian and Midwife Wu clasped their hands in salute.
Li Shiming turned and shot a glance, and Li Junxian left the hall.
Why did His Majesty summon her here?
"Granny Wu, do you remember the scene of you delivering bengong in Luoyang Temple in the second year of Wude?”Empress Zhangsun's voice was neither salty nor light, and there was no emotion in it. However, it was like thunder in Midwife Wu's ears.
With a thud, Midwife Wu knelt down and begged,"Your Majesty, atone for your sins. The Empress, atone for your sins. This old woman deserves to die.”
"Speak!"
Li Shi Min's eyes were stern and furious. If this Wu took the money and replaced the two children, causing them to be separated for sixteen years, he would definitely cut them into pieces.
In the second year of Wude, the Tang Dynasty had just been established. In the east, there were Liu Wuzhou, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande and other independent forces, while Li Shimin held heavy troops. According to his guess, these people must have wanted to swap his child and use him to threaten him on the battlefield.
......
How could Midwife Wu forget that night? That night, the wind and thunder were so strong that the thousand-year-old tree was cut down by lightning. There were two expectant women in the house, one was the Qin Princess Consort, and the other was the Ye family's farmer's wife.
April 7th.
The wind began to blow and the rain began to fall.
Midwife Wu remembered that night in the delivery room of Qin Wangfei's Zhangsun Wugou.
As the Qin Princess Consort Zhangsun Wugou had heard that there was a Ye family farmer in the temple who was about to give birth, he was afraid that this woman would have a difficult labor, so he invited her into the house.
......
Zhangsun Wugou wanted to bring this vulgar peasant woman into her delivery room.
Consort Qin was born into a noble family, she must not be tainted by filth.
However, Zhangsun Wugou was very insistent.
In the delivery room, there was no distinction between the status of the mother and the status of the child.
In the same delivery room.
If the Ye family's peasant woman had a difficult labor, he could also go and help her.
Zhangsun Wugou saw everyone hesitating and said firmly,""If you are a farmer's wife of the Ye family and suddenly have to give birth in this temple, do you also hope that someone will help you?”
Swoosh!
As soon as he said that.
All the midwives and maids shut their mouths.
If they were the Ye family's farmers, they would naturally hope to get the help of Qin Wangfei and stay in the same delivery room as Qin Wangfei to prevent themselves from dying from childbirth.
......
Taking her over to have children with her, Qin Wangfei was not afraid of being tainted by bad luck. She was really kind and even lent the extra silk swaddling clothes to this old peasant woman.
At 11:00, a thunderclap sounded.
Everyone in the room was still in a daze. The next moment, the farmer's wife of the Ye family shouted and began to give birth.
The two children were born one after another and wrapped in swaddling clothes. Everything seemed to be going smoothly.
At this moment, the wind outside the house howled and blew the wooden window open, blowing out the candles.
The room was pitch black.
Immediately after, everyone heard a shocking explosion. The thousand-year-old tree outside the house broke with a crack and crashed onto the ground, causing a rumble.
The room was in chaos.
The baby was already wailing loudly. The maidservants thought that the sky was falling and screamed in fear. They ran around and even overturned the basin. It was a mess.
When the wind stopped and everyone was quiet, he lit the candle.
Seeing that the two babies in the hands of the two maids and Consort Qin were fine, Midwife Wu heaved a sigh of relief.
Midwife Wu walked out of the delivery room. Unexpectedly, a maid pulled her to the side and said in a trembling voice,
"Could we have carried the wrong person?"
As the Qin Consort Zhangsun Wugou was kind-hearted, he lent the silk swaddling cloth to the other party.
Now, the two babies were wrapped in the same swaddling cloth.
How could he tell?
Seeing that the little handmaiden was still in shock, Midwife Wu warned,""This matter cannot be made public. It will not benefit the two of us, or even everyone.”
The little handmaiden was so frightened that she cried out. She could only nod.
This was the secret that had been hidden in Midwife Wu's heart for many years. At this moment, she told Li Shimin and Empress Zhangsun, which could be considered to have solved the knot in her heart for many years.
" Your Majesty, please forgive me!"
Midwife Wu kept kowtowing, hoping that her family would not be implicated. She still had a grandson serving in the army.
However, Empress Zhangsun smiled in relief and did not blame the midwife. She only felt that she was incompetent.
However, Li Shimin was a little depressed. Back then, the Guanyin maid had kindly lent the silk swaddling cloth to the Ye family's peasant woman. Unexpectedly, in the darkness, the maids had carried the wrong child. In the end, the two swaddling children were indistinguishable.
A piece of silk swaddling cloth had separated father and son for sixteen years. It seemed that it was really the will of heaven.
Li Shi Min's eyes were filled with uncertainty as he looked at Midwife Wu. This person knew the secrets of the palace, so it was best if she didn't live in this world.
"Your Majesty, how about we move Midwife Wu to Lingnan and let her descendants join the Thousand Ox Guard?”
Empress Zhangsun came down from the couch and looked at Li Shimin pleadingly.
Letting her grandson join the Thousand Bull Guard was compensation.
"You may leave."
Midwife Wu finished kowtowing, but unexpectedly, she hit her head against a pillar and died of blood loss.
"Drag her away."
Li Shi Min sighed and ignored her.
Yap Liangchen was not Yap Liangchen, but the Crown Prince of the Tang Empire.
The two of them found it hard to accept, and the atmosphere in the hall was heavy.
Empress Zhangsun really wanted to acknowledge her son.
However…
However…
She knew her body well.
A mother had already abandoned her child for sixteen years. Was she going to let this child suffer the pain of losing her mother?
Li Shi Min said.
"No!"
Li Shi Min was surprised,
"Your Majesty, please don't tell him about your background. ChenQie is weak and shouldn't be able to live past next year.”
"If ChenQie recognizes him, she can only be his mother for dozens of days.!!”
"Why do you have to hurt him!"
Now, it was better to build a good relationship with that child first.
"Nonsense!"
"Guanyin maid, if you can accompany zhen for a lifetime, zhen will hire the best doctor to treat you.”
Li Shi Min shouted at her.
Empress Zhangsun nodded, her heart filled with despair.
It turns out that Chengqian didn't have a Qi disease, not because the heavens blessed him, but because he wasn't my son.
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