- The two had a conversation with the children, and Sheng Hong sent the children out.
- Sheng Hong: "Shuang'er, tell me about your time in the palace?"
- Lin Yanchuang: "What do you want to know, Hong Lang?"
- Sheng Hong: "About the little prince, about Kunning Hall, about Xiangluan Pavilion. About the official family... tell me everything you know."
- Lin Yishuang heard Sheng Hong's words and knew what he meant. He wanted to know the official's attitude towards Kunning Hall and Xiangluan Pavilion, and wanted to speculate on the official's mind to make a decision.
- Every decision of Sheng Hong will affect and determine the future of the Sheng family, as well as the future and fate of Lin Yishuang and her children.
- Lin Yishuang objectively told Sheng Hong about what happened in the palace during this time, the officials, the queen, and Concubine Rong Gui, and also told Sheng Hong some of his guesses.
- Sheng Hong: "Shuang'er, do you suspect that the death of the three princes before the official family is related to the empress?"
- Lin Yishuang: "Hong Lang, while I was in the palace, I specially asked some old moms in the palace. It is not the official's wish to marry the current queen. The official family was forced by the ministers to marry the queen."
- "Soon after the empress entered the palace, there was a reputation, which shows that the empress is very famous. But in the third year of the empress becoming the empress, Empress Zhang, that is, Concubine Zhang Guifei, began to be favored by the officials."
- "It was also in that year that the eldest son of the official family, King Yang, was born. Yu Zhaoyi, who was still the monarch of Yan'an at the time, was pregnant with a dragon fetus, and the empress personally took care of the dragon fetus of the monarch of Yan'an. As a result, King Yang was born and died. It is said that when the monarch of Yan'an gave birth, the official family rested in the palace of Concubine Zhang Guifei."
- "Every other year, Miao Shuyi, who was still Miao Meimei at that time, gave birth to King Yong and raised him under the queen's knees. The following year, Queen Zhang gave birth to Princess Anshou, and the next year, Yongzheng died when he was less than two years old. In the same year, Zhu Cai gave birth to King Jing and also raised the queen's knees. The next day, Queen Zhang gave birth to a treasure and a princess, and the next year, King Jing died when he was less than two years old."
- "During this period of time, the official family almost exclusively favored Empress Zhang. Empress Zhang was even more pampered and arrogant, repeatedly arrogant, and disrespectful to the empress. According to what I heard, before Yongzheng and King Jing died, Empress Zhang had offended and angered the empress."
- Lin Yishuang looked at Sheng Hong and asked him, "Hong Lang, do you think this is a coincidence?"
- This is definitely not a coincidence.
- Even Sheng Hong could not say that this was a coincidence.
- Sheng Hong: "Why did she do this?"
- Lin Yishuang: "Hong Lang, according to the old man in the palace, the queen has been in the palace for so many years, and the official family has never had a room with the queen."
- Sheng Hong: "What?" Sheng Hong was shocked.
- Lin Yishuang said, "Hong Lang, you don't understand women. This woman's jealousy is terrible."
- "After the death of Empress Zhang, Concubine Rong suddenly emerged and had to be named Concubine Rong. Now the official family almost only favors Concubine Rong, but Concubine Rong is more modest than Empress Zhang back then. However, during my time in the palace, the queen repeatedly ordered the female official to scold Concubine Yu Rong several times."
- Sheng Hong: "Are you saying that the empress wants the official family to kill her descendants because of resentment and jealousy?"
- Lin Yanshuang: "Since the official family has let her stay a widow for the rest of her life, without children and daughters; why does she allow the official family to have both children and children, and why does the official family want her to raise children for herself?"
- Sheng Hong: "If that's the case, then she's too terrifying. Isn't that little prince in danger in the palace?"
- Lin Yishuang: "Hong Lang, this is just my guess, and it may not be true. The little prince is kept by Concubine Rong, protected by the official family, and he will be fine."
- If what she guessed is true, is the queen scary? It is indeed scary. But this is not the retribution that the official family deserves. If the queen is not the queen, if the queen does this, it will not affect a dynasty and a country. If the queen is the official wife of a family other than the emperor, and the queen does this, Lin Yonghuang will applaud her.
- But the queen is the queen, and the result of her doing this will affect a dynasty and a country, and will destroy a country; so if the queen really does this, Lin Yishuang will not agree.
- In front of the state, the individual is always insignificant.
- The empress broke the heir of the official family, which was undoubtedly equivalent to destroying the Song Dynasty.
- Lin Yishuang: "Hong Lang, this is just my guess, it's unfounded, don't take it seriously."
- Sheng Hong: "I see. I will think carefully."