hotmtlnovel Chapter 1873 The Truth About Crossdressing
Chapter 1873 The Truth About Crossdressing
After sending his daughter away, Prime Minister Shen thought of her unfinished words and felt a little regretful.
It wouldn't make a difference if we just listened to her finish that sentence. We could have waited until then before we started criticizing her.
But we've already kicked them out, so that's fine.
He was indeed very tired of her dreams, and even now he doesn't know what was wrong with him before, how could he have taken her dreams seriously?
If he cannot retain his position as prime minister, and Shen Xiangjun is getting older, it will be difficult for her to find a good marriage partner.
If only I had let her get married first, then we could have had another in-law ally who was a good match for us.
Prime Minister Shen then thought of Luo Qiu, who was still in the Dali Temple prison. Lin Rong was truly impervious to both soft and hard tactics. Once someone fell into his hands, neither threats nor bribes worked.
Now Prime Minister Shen is also planning to give up on Luo Qiu.
Since there's no way to get out of this situation and we can't cooperate with him, then it's not very valuable.
Yu Xu quietly left the city.
He ran quite a distance after leaving the city before daring to stop and rest.
While they were resting and eating dry rations, someone passed by. It was 1 p.m. that he had come from the capital and was also stopping here to rest and eat.
Yu Xu overheard their conversation and learned that as soon as he stepped out of the city gate, the gate was heavily guarded, and even those trying to leave the city were thoroughly searched.
Upon hearing this, I felt extremely fortunate.
Fortunately, he didn't even go back to the Yu family and left the city directly. If he had gone back to pack his things, he might not have even been able to get out of the city gate by now.
He squeezed the small jade whistle around his neck, which calmed him down a bit.
He went to Xiao Sheng's mountain village and went straight into the mountains.
After wandering around in the mountains for a long time, we finally found the grave.
The dappled sunlight filtering through the leaves created a slightly eerie atmosphere. Seeing the grave nestled among the trees, Yu Xu felt a chill run down his spine.
He took out the small jade whistle and blew it.
The whistle blew four times.
It seemed to get much colder all around, and the chill seeped into his pores, making Yu Xu feel an urge to run away.
The branches and leaves around the grave swayed, and something seemed to flash before my eyes.
Yu Xu subconsciously closed his eyes.
Just as he closed his eyes, he heard a voice.
"What's the matter with me?"
Yu was startled and quickly opened his eyes.
Standing in front of him was a man who looked to be about the same age as him. Just one glance was enough to tell him that the man resembled someone from the Yu family.
"Are you from the Yu family?"
I glanced carefully at his feet, but saw no shadow.
He didn't know how to describe his feelings for a moment.
He did come to see this "elder," but now that he's actually seen him, he feels quite scared.
After all, it's a ghost.
The ghost standing in front of him was Young Master Yu.
The tombstone of this young master Yu has an orchid carved on it.
Previously, Lu Zhaoling and Zhou Shiyue were investigating the ghost's background and found out that Consort Yu seemed to have had a sister.
"Are you stupid?" Young Master Yu asked twice but received no answer. He frowned and looked at Yu Xu with some displeasure.
The descendants of the Yu family are so terrible.
That jade whistle was indeed his old possession. The Yu family could find him by blowing it four times. It was something he left behind, and it was something he had promised.
If anyone from the Yu family comes to him with this whistle, he can get them to agree to three things.
However, for more than a decade, no one had come looking for him. Just when he thought the Yu family would no longer need him, they came again.
Yu Xu snapped out of his daze, quickly knelt down, and kowtowed three times.
"Nephew Yu Xu greets Uncle."
"What is it? Is the Yu family about to fall?" Young Master Yu did not stop him from kowtowing. He asked casually, his tone relaxed, as if he did not care about the life, death, rise and fall of the Yu family.
I need to quickly explain what has happened in the past few days.
"Do you know why your cousin dressed as a woman? He gave up being a prince and instead acted as a princess for over ten years," Young Master Yu asked him.
Yu Xu shook his head. "My aunt didn't tell me about this either. Why?"
Could it be that this ghost uncle also knew about this?
"That's because he had no other choice at the time."
Young Master Yu gazed into the distance, recalling events from years past.
“Your aunt once met a woman from Nanzhao. That woman was pregnant, but she didn’t know it at first. She suddenly fainted when she was passing by this mountain and was found and rescued by the villagers. That’s when she found out that she was pregnant.”
"At that time, your aunt and Ye'er also happened to come to this mountain forest. When the woman was rescued by the villagers, she left something behind, which your aunt picked up."
"When I looked at that thing, I found that it was a talisman, a magic talisman."
Young Master Yu stood there with his hands in his sleeves, recounting old stories to Yu Xu.
Upon hearing this, Yu Xu wanted to ask what the Illusionary Talisman was, but he was also somewhat afraid of this ghostly uncle and dared not interrupt him.
Fortunately, Uncle Ghost himself told the truth.
"This illusionary talisman can change the gender of an infant in front of others. That is to say, if it is a boy, it will appear to others as a girl except for the birth mother. If it was originally a girl, it will appear to others as a boy."
"There are such talismans?" Yu Xu couldn't help but ask in surprise.
"Of course there is. Actually, this is also a talisman used by evil sects for disguise in the past. However, the person who drew that talisman was too highly skilled, so he was able to draw such a disguise talisman with such power."
Young Master Yu said, "Your aunt wanted to hide that talisman back then, saying it was just in case. I looked at her face at the time and wanted to see if she would have a boy or a girl, but because she was going to have a child of royal blood, and I was injured at the time, I couldn't tell."
"She kept the talisman anyway. Later I heard that a few years later, after she became pregnant, she met a Taoist priest surnamed Song. The priest examined her and said that she was carrying a princess."
"Your aunt was also anxious. She was afraid that the talisman would lose its effectiveness after the child was born without confirming its identity, so she hurriedly used the talisman on Zhou Ruan."
Yu Xu was speechless upon hearing this.
No one could have predicted this outcome, right?
This is simply...
"So, she originally gave birth to a prince, but by using that talisman, it appeared to outsiders that she had given birth to a princess. Otherwise, with her methods, how could she have possibly deceived so many people in the harem and made them believe it was a princess?"
Consort Shu was keeping an eye on her back then.
"Later, she also felt that she should just go with the flow, because if she had given birth to a son, Consort Shu probably wouldn't have tolerated the child, and your aunt was also afraid that she wouldn't be able to save her son's life. Since it was mistaken that she had given birth to a princess, Consort Shu didn't take it to heart, and Zhou Ruan was able to survive."
"By the way, the reason for choosing the name Ruan is that it can be used for both boys and girls, so that I won't need to change my name after I become a boy again."