Chapter 378 The Truth
"The marriage is naturally cancelled! However, whether the second prince can risk his life for his beloved is Shen Mingzhu's ability!
If she can really get the second prince to plead for mercy in front of the emperor, it would be worth considering her arrangement again!"
The queen mother said sinisterly, and the queen immediately understood what the second prince's pleading meant, and hurriedly smiled and said, "I'll remind her."
The truth about Huang's cruelty to Huang Chen was not deliberately concealed by Shadow.
The concubine's bedroom.
Concubine Shu looked at the second prince with a green face, "I can't ask for this kind of favor for you! You know exactly what crimes Shen He and Huang committed!
Not to mention the dozen lives, Huang Chen is Zhou Qing's mother!
She was merciful not to torture Huang to death, whip her corpse, and grind her bones to ashes. What, do you still expect her to forgive her on the spot without holding a grudge?
Even if Zhou Qing is willing to forgive, do you think the prince of Ning Wangfu is dead?
That's Shen Mingyue's mother!
Besides, this case involves the old case of Rongyang Marquis Mansion. You should know your father's feelings for Rongyang Marquis!
At this time, whoever asks for mercy will add fuel to the fire and fly into the fire!"
Concubine Shu flatly rejected the second prince.
The second prince sat on the chair with a pale face and closed his eyes.
Of course he knew this, but when he thought of Shen Mingzhu's red and swollen eyes and Shen Mingzhu's heart-wrenching pleas, he couldn't bear it.
"Mother, you can't take someone away secretly."
Shu Fei said unhappily: "That's a shadow, how can you let me take someone away secretly! Ah? You'd better give up this thought as soon as possible. Not to mention saving someone, even if it's Shen Mingzhu, you can't welcome her into the palace!
Although His Majesty didn't say it clearly about your marriage, his meaning was very clear. The previous arranged marriage is invalid.
You'd better give up those messy love affairs for me as soon as possible!
You are a prince. It doesn't matter if you make a fool of yourself, but don't implicate those who follow you all the time!
Who did they offend, so you have to implicate them for no reason? They also have wives and children and families!
If you are determined to go all the way for Shen Mingzhu, I have nothing to say. I can only tell them tomorrow that it's time to break up!"
Shu Fei's words left the second prince speechless.
But he felt uncomfortable in his heart.
It was the kind of blockage that he had to find a solution even though he knew there was no solution.
"Mother, if I don't care, how will Mingzhu live in the future? She might die."
Shu Fei said expressionlessly: "It has nothing to do with me whether she lives or not!"
"Mother, can't you just repay me for my kindness?" The second prince almost begged at the end.
Shu Fei raised her eyebrows, "Repay me?"
The second prince leaned back on the chair with drooping eyelids and pale face.
"Mother, do you still remember that year when I was admiring flowers in the Imperial Garden and was pushed into the lake and almost died?
It was she who jumped into the lake to save me.
It was early spring at that time, and the ice in the lake had just thawed. She was so young at that time."
Speaking of this, the second prince felt that his heart was so painful that he couldn't breathe, and his throat was more blocked than his heart.
Back then, Shen Mingzhu didn't even want her life to save him. Now, he was helpless in the face of Shen Mingzhu's family affairs.
This kind of powerlessness made the second prince extremely tormented.
".I cannot stand by and do nothing."
The second prince sighed painfully, leaned forward, spread his legs, supported his elbows on his knees, supported his head with his hands, and tears fell to the ground.
For a long time after he finished speaking, he could not hear the voice of Concubine Shu. The second prince wiped his nose and looked up at Concubine Shu, "Mother."
When he looked down, he saw Concubine Shu looking at him with a hard-to-describe expression.
Seeing him looking at her, Concubine Shu could not hide her disgust and said, "So, for so many years, you have been infatuated with Shen Mingzhu just because she saved you that year?"
The second prince did not understand why his mother had such an expression.
Shouldn't this life-saving grace be repaid with gratitude?
The second prince didn't say anything, and Concubine Shu sighed again, "Do you love Shen Mingzhu or are you grateful for her?
If it's true love, I have nothing to say, my son is stupid!
If it's gratitude, then there's no need. The person who saved you back then was not Shen Mingzhu, you are grateful to the wrong person."
Concubine Shu's words were quite sarcastic and ruthless.
The second prince was thinking about the words love and gratitude, and when he heard Concubine Shu's last words, he was so shocked that his elbow almost slipped off his knee.
Looking at her son's reaction, Concubine Shu rolled her eyes in displeasure.
"What? You are shocked like this?"
The second prince stared at Concubine Shu, unable to digest this sentence for a while. After looking at it for a long time, he pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled bitterly, "Mother, in order not to let your son."
Concubine Shu immediately gave the second prince a heartfelt shout without any manners: Bah!
"Who is Shen Mingzhu? Is she worthy of me telling a lie?
I used to think you were blind and stupid because you were crazy about love. I thought, who hasn't been young, who hasn't loved truly, so I just turned a blind eye. As long as it doesn't affect the overall situation, it doesn't matter.
Who would have thought that my son is not only blind but also blind!
It was Shen Xin who saved you back then!"
Boom!
Something exploded in the second prince's mind.
He jumped up from the chair almost instantly, "What did mother say?"
"It was Shen Xin who saved you, but after saving you, Shen Xin was wrapped in a cloak and carried away by Shen Li!
She is just a little girl after all. How could she go back to the shore in public with her clothes soaked!
I didn't expect that there would be people who took credit for it!"
"How does mother know that it's Shen Xin and not Shen Mingzhu!" When the second prince asked this question, he didn't even notice how badly he was shaking.
Concubine Shu glanced at her son's shaking hands and frowned. What was shaking?
"You are my own son. You fell into the water for no reason. Shouldn't I investigate this matter?
Is the investigation only about the murderer and not the benefactor?
Why do you think I have never been an enemy to Shen Li for so many years? Am I afraid of him?"
The second prince felt his head buzzing.
He couldn't remember how he left Concubine Shu's bedroom and how he left the palace.
When people reacted, they were already standing at the door of Guangping Marquis's mansion.
Back then, Shen Mingzhu told him that she saw clearly that it was Shen Xin who pushed him into the lake and she saved him.
Shen Mingzhu also said that Shen Xin might not have done it on purpose. She hoped that he would not tell anyone about this matter, which would ruin Shen Xin's reputation. She also hoped that he would not tell anyone about her saving him, as she was afraid of being scolded by her family.
He believed it at that time.
He believed Shen Mingzhu's kindness, and believed that Shen Mingzhu was afraid of being scolded because she was diving in the cold weather.
It was because of this that he later took medicine and changed into clean clothes, and couldn't wait to thank Shen Mingzhu on the way and met Shen Xin.
He punished Shen Xin to kneel for an hour and not get up.
At that time, Shen Xin was carried away by Shen Li and changed into clean clothes.
Tsk, Second Prince, you are not a human being!
Looking back now, many details at that time were simply wrong.
At that time, why didn't Shen Xin leave the palace directly?