Chapter 4 — Eighteen Years of Searching for the Princess

"When you were only a few days old, you were taken away by Mother Van." "So tell this palace, a child is still in diapers..." "How do you know that this palace likes to eat cinnamon flower cakes, is afraid of the cold and has to hug the hand warmer, and has a scar on his left wrist caused by a sword?" The man opened his mouth, his face turned pale, unable to say a word. The palace was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. "Escort!" The Emperor's voice was like deep thunder before a storm. "Take both of these people to heaven! Use strict interrogation!" The guards rushed forward at the same time, pulling Ma Ma Van and the other man, whose face was ashen as ash, away. I put away my sword, turned around, and step by step walked out of Kim Loan Palace. The sunlight shines down on me, but I only feel cold. In Phuong Nghi Palace, the Emperor personally poured me a cup of tea. "The Queen..." She rubbed her hands, looking like a child who had just made a mistake. "What happened today was my mistake." "I shouldn't... I shouldn't say you have other feelings." I did not accept that cup of tea. Today, I also misunderstood you. "Your Majesty." I raised my head to look at him, my eyes serious. "This is not simple." The Emperor's hand holding the tea paused. "What do you mean?" "Mama Van is my person, has followed me for twenty-three years." "She is not the type of person who betrays me just for a small gain." I said in a low voice: "There must be someone behind her. Furthermore, this person's background is not clear." The Emperor's face also became solemn. "You said... someone has been planning for a long time, wanting to put a fake Prince in the palace?" "That's not wrong." I nodded. "The jade pendant is real, the habits of this concubine are also real, even Ma Ma Van was bribed." "This chess game was not just set up in a day or two." The Emperor put down the tea cup and stood up suddenly. "I immediately ordered someone to control it." Investigate! We must find out the truth!" "Your Majesty, wait." I stopped him. "First, let's investigate from the prison." "Mother Van and that man must be detained separately, interrogated separately. We must pry their mouths." The Emperor nodded and immediately gave the order. But just a day later, bad news came. Mother Van was "afraid of committing suicide" in prison. When I arrived at the heavenly prison, all I saw was the cold body of Van Ma Ma. There were obvious strangle marks on her neck, and a torn piece of belt was thrown in the cell. "What did Ngo Tac say?" I asked. Minister Hinh tremblingly replied: "Your Highness, I did an autopsy and confirmed that she committed suicide by hanging herself." "Hanged?" I coldly laughed. "The sky is not even close to the crossbar, how did she hang herself?" Minister Hinh's face turned pale and he knelt down. "Please calm down, Your Highness! The official... the lower official will immediately investigate!" I took a deep breath, suppressing the rolling anger. "No need." After returning to the palace, the Emperor also heard the news, his face as black as the bottom of a pot. "Thien prison is a strictly guarded place, yet a serious criminal can die in an unclear way?" The man slammed down on the sentence. "Investigate! Immediately investigate for me! From top to bottom, not a single person can be overlooked!" Three days later. The leader of the secret guard knelt in the royal study and presented a thick file. "Your Majesty, Your Highness, it has been investigated." I received the file and flipped through each page. The other man's name is Tran Tu An, from Gian Chau. Having no father or mother, he wandered around the streets of Gian Chau as a child, and was later adopted by the owner of a grocery store. He is smart, knows how to read and write, and is also good at calculating. At the age of sixteen, his father and mother passed away, so he ran the grocery store alone. What is worth noting is that his grocery store is located right next to the place where I gave birth and raised my child

lost my child. The Emperor also finished reading the file and frowned at me. "Uyen Uyen, you see, he really grew up in Gian Chau." "No father or mother, and looks so similar to me... could it be that you really remembered wrong?" "In the past, you were born... actually a Prince?" Before he could finish speaking, I raised my hand and knocked hard on his forehead. "Love!" The Emperor held his head, looking sad. body. "I am the Emperor! You dare to hit me?" "It's the person who hits you." I said angrily: "I repeat once again, the person I gave birth to is a girl." "Even if I were to fall into a coma a hundred times, I still wouldn't be able to remember whether my child is a boy or a girl." The Emperor rubbed his head and closed his mouth sadly. I closed the file and pondered for a moment. Suddenly, I thought of something and immediately stood up. "That's not right." I said: "All the secret guards have withdrawn." The Emperor was stunned: "Withdrawn? Why?" "From now on, no one is allowed to continue the investigation." I looked at him, a sharp light flashing in my eyes. "Foreign people keep saying that it has been confirmed that Tran T. An is our royal child." The Emperor was completely stunned. "Are you crazy?" "He's not fake." Why do you want to accept him now?" I didn't answer, just smiled. "Your Majesty, don't rush." "What we need to do is just wait."