Forcing me to become a concubine? Remarrying the Ninth Prince, she'll be pregnant all over the

The little girl is thirteen years old and her name is Xiao Qiu.

He was born to a servant in the Grand Tutor's mansion, meaning he was a household slave raised in the mansion.

Lin Wantang walked over slowly, glanced at the rotten, oozing food, and showed no unusual expression on her cold face. Instead, she helped Xiao Qiu up, saying, "It's alright, don't cry."

She didn't have much of an impression of Xiao Qiu. Before the marriage, the people who could serve her were Su Xin and others. There was no way it would be Xiao Qiu's turn.

But now it seems that this little girl has the courage to disobey Chen Shi and is quite respectful to her.

In that case, Lin Wantang wouldn't mind cultivating one or two trusted people in the household.

"Young Miss, Su Xin, she..." Xiao Qiu hesitated, tears welling up in her eyes.

Lin Wantang then said, "I know even if you don't say it, but it doesn't matter, let them be for now."

Xiao Qiu asked, puzzled, "Huh?"

Lin Wantang looked at her red nose from crying, smiled, and took out a handkerchief to wipe away her tears. Her gentle eyes blinked softly, "Have you forgotten? If you want someone to perish, you must first make them go mad."

Xiao Qiu didn't understand. She just thought that the young lady was kind and never harsh on the servants. Now that Su Xin and the others believed the rumors about switching the children, they treated the young lady like this. Xiao Qiu felt sorry for them but was powerless to do anything about it.

"It's good that Miss knows what's going on. These dishes absolutely cannot be eaten by Miss. I'll try to find something better. Miss will be ready in a little while."

Xiao Qiu wiped away her tears and left. She was in such a hurry that she didn't hear the sound of stones being thrown at the inner window.

Ding ding!

The sound of pebbles hitting the window was not loud.

Lin Wantang first opened the door and glanced outside to make sure no one was there before going around to the inner room and opening the innermost window. Outside stood a woman dressed in a simple blue robe.

But if the white cloth covers the eyes, one will be blind or suffer from an eye disease.

Holding a white cane in one hand and a heavy food box in the other, he handed the food box to her upon hearing her voice: "Just made by the head chef of Chunfulou."

His voice was quite cold, and his whole body exuded a faint sense of death.

Lin Wantang gladly accepted the package, opened it, and was greeted by a rich, fragrant aroma. "There's pig's trotters. Not bad. Jiang Sijiu, does this mean you've agreed to cooperate with me?"

Jiang Sijiu remained unmoved and said coldly, "I had someone investigate, and they can't verify what you said for now, but since it concerns my sister and the baby in her womb, I have no choice but to believe you for the time being."

"But if you dare to lie to me..."

Before she could finish speaking, Jiang Sijiu suddenly reversed the direction of his cane, the end of which aimed directly at Lin Wantang's neck and shoulder, and the cane revealed the cold glint of a weapon.

It wasn't originally a white cane; instead, it concealed a sharp sword capable of cutting through iron like mud.

Lin Wantang neither dodged nor evaded, calmly looking down at the sword that was being drawn from its sheath, and gently curled her lips: "I already said, what good would it do me to lie to you? Besides—"

Before she could finish speaking, a wicked glint flashed in her cold eyes, and she suddenly flicked away the white cane with a slender finger: "If you draw your sword in front of me, then you will only die."

Lin Wantang wasn't bluffing. She looked directly into Jiang Sijiu's blindfolded eyes, adjusted her sleeves, and concealed the poisoned hidden weapon.

Jiang Sijiu took a half step back, gripping her cane, and gasped, "It would be best if that were the case, so that neither of us would lie to the other."

Jiang Sijiu was the person Lin Wantang found on the day she acted alone after going to the Dingxian Xingyuan with Wei Wujiu and others a few days ago.

Lin Wantang suddenly remembered something from her past life. In her previous life, she and Lin Qinglian were pregnant one after the other, but she gave birth to a child with pus and blood, while Lin Qinglian gave birth to twins. No one suspected anything until several months later, when the two children in the swaddling clothes gradually grew up, everyone discovered that the two children did not look alike at all.

Twins, even before they grow up, will look exactly alike.

But Lin Qinglian's two children, one with fair skin and the other with dark skin, one with thick eyebrows and big eyes and the other with small eyebrows and small eyes, no one would guess that they were twins.

Lin Qinglian made many excuses, even inviting the abbot of Huguo Temple to divine, and Chen swore an oath with her life, which barely dispelled Shen Huai'an's doubts. But a few days later, a woman on the street went crazy and blocked the officials to cry out for justice.

"My child is missing! Stolen! I have evidence! Your Honor, please help this woman! Look at this jade pendant, I fought tooth and nail to get it from those thugs on the day I gave birth..."

Everyone thought the woman was crazy, and the official didn't even look at the jade pendant before ordering his men to beat her away.

The woman, covered in wounds and distraught, continued to tell everyone she met on the street her grievances, crying out that her child had been stolen. She showed the jade pendant to everyone she met, and inadvertently stopped Lin Wantang's sedan chair.

At that time, Lin Wantang was punished for giving birth to pus and blood during her first childbirth. After her confinement period, she often went to Huguo Temple to burn incense and pray. She would kneel for seven days at a time. On that day, she returned to the palace after kneeling. She was exhausted and in a sorrowful mood. When she heard the guards driving away the women, she still softened and let them stop.

Seizing the opportunity, the woman stumbled and struggled towards her, eagerly showing her the jade pendant in her hand. "Madam, I am Jiang Nianqi. Look, do you recognize this jade pendant? This is the man who stole my child..."

The palace servants stopped the woman from going forward, and Lin Wantang did not take the jade pendant, but she glanced at it from a distance. Unexpectedly, this one glance made her shudder and bewildered.

The jade pendant was engraved with the character "安" (peace/safety).

Ordinary people might not know, but Lin Wantang knew it perfectly well.

This represents Shen Huai'an, and is an exclusive jade pendant held by all the palace maids and servants of the Eastern Palace. It is used to identify oneself, communicate messages, or retrieve items when necessary.

The jade pendant is there, and the person is there. Unless absolutely necessary, no one in the Eastern Palace could possibly lose it.

Lin Wantang felt it was too strange that day. The woman's grievances seemed genuine. However, although she was the Crown Princess at that time, she was in a precarious situation and could barely take care of herself. How could she have the mind or ability to help others?

After much deliberation, she finally gave the woman some silver and comforted her to live a good life. The incident was like a brief interlude and was quickly forgotten.

It wasn't until Lin Wantang's power had waned and she finally saw through the viciousness of Chen Shi and Lin Qinglian, and learned that the two had conspired to have her child through surrogacy, that she suddenly remembered Jiang Nianqi.

In her previous life, Lin Wantang had two pregnancies, each resulting in only one son. But where did Lin Qinglian get the twins from?

It must be that he stole another child from someone else.

In this life, Lin Wantang did not repeat the mistake of marrying into the Eastern Palace. Lin Qinglian and Chen Shi could not have a child through surrogacy, and were eager for Lin Qinglian to get pregnant and secure her position, so the only option was... just like in the previous life, to steal someone else's child.

So Lin Wantang wanted to find Jiang Nianqi first, but unexpectedly, instead of finding Jiang Nianqi, she found her sister Jiang Sijiu.