If not abolished

Chapter 179 Letter

After the two brothers looked at each other, Zhu Zhanqi spoke first, "Brother, take a rest first. I'll go see what's going on."

Zhu Zhanhe nodded, Zhu Zhanqi closed the door and walked out, and met the Crown Princess outside the door.

"Sister-in-law."

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince..." the Crown Princess said worriedly.

"My eldest brother has woken up now, so I can rest assured for the time being. Just now you said that the maidservant beside mother had a letter left by mother. Where is that maidservant now?" Zhu Zhanqi asked hurriedly.

"Yes, the maid is outside now." The Crown Princess said and took him there personally.

Zhu Zhanqi followed the Crown Prince's Consort to a side hall. A maid in the hall was kneeling beside them. When she saw the two people outside the door, she kowtowed and said, "Greetings to the Second Prince, Crown Prince's Consort."

After seeing the people, Zhu Zhanqi turned around and said to the Crown Prince's Consort, "Big brother has just woken up, so I'll go take care of him first. I'll leave the matters here to you, my younger brother. I'll report back to you later."

The Crown Prince's wife knew that Zhu Zhanqi wanted to get rid of her, so she nodded immediately and ordered people not to come near her after she left.

"Princess, are we just leaving like this? Why don't we stay and see what the princess is up to..."

The Crown Prince's wife stopped and looked at her, signaling her to stop talking with her eyes, "Didn't you see that the Second Prince deliberately sent me away? Besides, I already know enough. If I want to live a peaceful life, the less I know, the better. I now know the biggest secret in this palace. If anything happens to the Crown Prince... I'm afraid I can't escape the blame..."

"Princess Consort, His Royal Highness will be fine." The maid comforted.

When the Crown Princess returned to the room, she heard no noise and thought Zhu Zhanhe had gone to bed. However, when she walked to the bed, she saw Zhu Zhanhe half lying there with his eyes open.

"Your Highness, did you not rest?"

Zhu Zhanhe saw her coming and asked her to sit down.

"Has Zhanqi gone there?" Zhu Zhanhe asked.

"Well, Your Highness, would you like to rest for a while?" The Crown Princess tucked the quilt in for him.

"Maybe I slept for too long just now, so I'm not that sleepy now," Zhu Zhanhe said, holding her hand, "Don't be afraid, I'm fine, I just got angry for a moment."

"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have told His Highness so suddenly, so now..." Thinking of this, the Crown Prince's wife couldn't help crying for some reason. Then she immediately remembered that she had violated a taboo, so she covered her mouth and dared not make a sound.

Zhu Zhanhe held her in his arms and said, "How can you be blamed for this? If it weren't for you, we would still be kept in the dark and have no idea that the father we have always admired is such a person." Zhu Zhanhe continued, "I just don't know what kind of truth Xiaoqi will get from mother..."

As the two were talking, the King of Han also received the news that the prince had vomited blood, and immediately sent someone over to inquire about the situation.

"Prince, Princess, the prince sent someone to ask how the prince is doing?" the maid outside said.

The Crown Prince's wife hurriedly got up from the Crown Prince's arms, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and tidied her appearance.

"Go and tell them that I have woken up and am fine. Father doesn't need to worry." Zhu Zhanhe shouted outside.

The person sent over from outside the door also heard what Zhu Zhanhe said, and it sounded like there was indeed nothing serious, so he went to report to the King of Han.

Hendon

Zhu Zhanqi walked into the hall and sat at the top. The maid turned around and knelt facing him.

"I heard that you have a letter left by your mother?" Zhu Zhanqi didn't beat around the bush and asked directly.

"In reply to your Highness, I do have a handwritten letter left by the princess."

"Then why didn't you take it out earlier, but only now?" Zhu Zhanqi immediately asked his question. His mother had passed away for many days. If his mother really left something behind, why didn't he take it out as soon as she died, but waited until now.

The maid replied, "Your Highness, the princess once said that if nothing happens in the mansion after she leaves, especially to the prince and you, then there is no need to take out this letter. But if anything happens to the prince or you, I will give the letter to one of you at all costs. That's why I didn't show up before this. But today I heard that the prince suddenly vomited blood and fainted, so I..."

"Now that you've said that, Your Highness understands. Now you can give me the things that Mother left behind." Zhu Zhanqi saw the maid start to take off her clothes after he finished speaking. He jumped up from his chair in shock. "What are you doing?"

"Your Highness, don't be excited. I have no other intention. I just sewed the letter into my clothes. After the princess passed away, those of us who served her were searched. The princess probably guessed that this would happen, so she told me to sew the letter into my clothes so that I could escape." The maid explained.

"In that case, you should go behind the screen." Zhu Zhanqi said and turned around.

"Yes."

After a while, the maid took out the letter, "Your Highness."

When Zhu Zhanqi heard the voice, he turned around, took the letter, and quickly opened it to read. It was indeed the handwriting of the Princess of Han.

"I don't know who will open this letter, Zhanhe or Xiaoqi. Of course, I really hope that neither of you will open it. This will at least prove that you are both fine.

But I also know that the possibility of this hope is too small.

If your lives are in danger, I think it's probably because you know some secrets of your father, and your father is a man who doesn't care about anyone for his own ambitions, so mother wants to tell you, if you really know something, you must not go against your father, mother's ending is a good example, don't defend mother or find out the reason. You just need to know that mother betrayed your father, and he should do so, so don't do anything to your father for me, if you know, just pretend you don't know, the important thing is to survive. "

Although Zhu Zhanqi knew the truth before, he was still shocked when he saw with his own eyes the things left behind by his mother.

"Are you sure this was written by your mother herself?" Zhu Zhanqi couldn't believe it. How could his mother tell them not to do anything? Wouldn't he be unworthy of being a son?

Is he supposed to just accept the fact that his father killed his mother and do nothing? No...

"Your Highness, I dare not lie to you. This is indeed written by the princess herself."