Chapter 3 — Phoenix Returns From The Border

"But just because I come from the Duke's palace, the queen wants to ruin my whole life." She raised her head to look at me and said word by word: "I know that you have suffered on the border before." "But if you have suffered before, can you force others to become servants?" "Do all the noble ladies in the world have to bow to you because you have a lowly background?" The palace immediately exploded. Several court historians knelt down with red eyes. "The demon queen has lost her virtue!" "The army and slaves are in chaos!" "Your Majesty, please abandon the queen!" Khuong Hoai An closed his eyes, looking extremely heartbroken. Lieu Thanh La also cried and shouted: "Your Majesty, if Minh Chau is guilty, please show evidence." "If there is no evidence, today it is the queen who relies on power to kill people!" An old royal palace official knelt forward, took off his hat, and placed it firmly on the ground. "Your Majesty, today I risk my life to kill a cockroach." Now, because of personal resentment, he reduced an innocent lady to a palace slave. If such a woman sat in the middle palace, everyone in the world would feel uneasy!" Another border general also knelt down. "Your Majesty, in the past, the princess of the Swallow Nation defended Nhan Hoi Quan, and did not retreat for three days. When I was brought back to Thuong Kinh, the armor inside was all blood." This is so great!" The old man of the Khuong family cried and slapped his hands on the ground. "The Duke of the First Nation died so unjustly!" "The daughter passed away so early, the granddaughter was humiliated like that, the Khuong family still has the face to meet the ancestors!" Hearing this, Khuong Hoai An bowed his head vigorously. "I have lived in the Khuong family's son-in-law for twenty years, and have never dared to forget the kindness of the Duke of the First Nation." "Minh Chau is the only daughter of the Duke of Jiang." I am also the only bloodline of the Khuong family." "I beg your majesty to respect the country's immortal, leaving the Khuong family a way to live." I stood on the jade step, listening to them saying one sentence after another raising Khuong Minh Chau to be the only bloodline of the Khuong family. The higher you lift, the more broken you will be when you fall. Tieu Chieu Da finally spoke. "Queen." "What do you want to say?" Everyone's eyes in the palace immediately fell on her. Khuong Minh Chau knelt in the middle of the hall, a trace of pride hidden in his eyes. We go down the jade steps step by step. The palace gradually became quiet. I stopped in front of Khuong Minh Chau. "You say you are the daughter of Tran Quoc Cong's palace?" Khuong Minh Chau raised her head, her eyes filled with tears. "The goddess is like that." I looked at Khuong Hoai An. "Lord Khuong also admitted?" Khuong Hoai An gritted her teeth. "Minh Chau is my biological daughter." I looked at Lieu Thanh La again. "What about Mrs. Lieu?" Lieu Thanh La tightened her handkerchief. hand. "Minh Chau is of course the bloodline of the Khuong family." I laughed. "Okay." I raised my hand. "Send someone up." Outside the palace gate, two forbidden soldiers pulled in an old woman. Her hair was white, her clothes were torn, her knees were pulled on the tile floor, creating two blood streaks. When she saw that face clearly, the handkerchief in Lieu Thanh La's hand fell to the ground. Khuong Minh Chau frowned. "Mother, who is she?" The old woman raised her head. The moment she saw Lieu Thanh La, her whole body went crazy, frantically crawling backwards. "Madam, spare your life!" "In the past, the person who swapped babies was the one who gave me three hundred taels of gold!" "I'm just a midwife, I'm not the mastermind!" The color on Khuong Minh Chau's face immediately disappeared. The civil and military officials in the palace were silent. I lowered my head to look at her. "Khuong Minh Chau." "Now do you still dare to say that you are the daughter of the Khuong family?" Lieu Thanh La's face was pale and bloodless. She jumped up to cover the midwife's mouth. "You're crazy! You're talking nonsense!" The soldier kicked her in the back of the knee.

ta. She immediately knelt down. Khuong Minh Chau grabbed her sleeve, her lips trembling. "Mother, what does what she said about exchanging babies... mean?" Lieu Thanh La did not answer. The midwife lay on the ground, crying until tears and snot covered her face. "Madam, it was you who gave me three hundred taels of gold a long time ago." "You said that Mrs. Quoc Cong's blood was ice-cold, as long as you held your daughter inside, no one would find out." "You also said that the Quoc Cong's family had agreed a long time ago." The whole palace was immediately in an uproar. I raised my eyes to look at Khuong Hoai An. He stood in the middle of the palace, his face also pale. In the past, he did not have the surname Khuong. His original surname was Tham. He married my mother, lived in the Tran Quoc Cong palace, and based on my grandfather's maternal title, he became the National Duke today. However, while he was the son-in-law of the Khuong family, he had an affair with his cousin Lieu Thanh La. Khuong Minh Chau is the daughter born to them. From beginning to end, she never had the bloodline of the Khuong family. I looked at Khuong Minh Chau. "Did you hear clearly?" "You are not the daughter of Tran Quoc Cong's palace." "You are not even from the Khuong family." Khuong Minh Chau's body swayed slightly. Lieu Thanh La shouted. “You talk nonsense!”