The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 593: how dare
Chapter 593 How Dare
“I…used to suspect that Prince Liang and the Queen had joined forces. After all, the Heavenly Master that my father appointed came from Prince Liang’s mansion! And now the most favored Concubine Qiu in the harem also came from Prince Liang’s mansion!” The prince’s eyes were gloomy, and he gritted his teeth when he thought of Prince Liang. “And Prince Liang falsely accused King Zhenguo of treason in order to trust Prince Xin. I don’t believe that Prince Liang is so cowardly and incompetent. I think… these things were done by Prince Liang and the Queen together.”
The prince put his elbows on the armrests and moved closer to Bai Qingyan: “But the Zhenguo Princess said… it’s about the royal family’s reputation, and mentioned Fu Ruoxi. Could it be… that these things were done by the Queen and Fu Ruoxi?”
“I dare not lie to His Royal Highness. When I was young, I vaguely heard my grandmother mention that before the Queen married His Majesty… and became the Crown Princess, she had an engagement with General Fu. But it has been many years since this happened and I don’t remember it clearly. Later, His Royal Highness mentioned that he had seen the Queen’s personal maid escort Fu Ruoxi out of the palace, and I felt it was strange…”
“Later, Yan was worried that someone from the capital would forge an imperial decree to control the Anping camp, so he ordered Lupin to stop the messengers on the main roads between the capital and the Anping camp, but he intercepted the letter that Fu Ruoxi sent to the capital! Then, Fu Ruoxi assassinated the Crown Prince in front of all the soldiers in the Anping camp, regardless of the lives of the Fu family! Yan was very surprised, and when he returned to the capital to see his grandmother, the first thing he asked her about it. My grandmother said… I did hear about it back then, but because after His Majesty married the Queen, Fu Ruoxi also married a wife, and I heard from Old Lady Fu that they were engaged since childhood, so I just thought it was a nonsense rumor back then!”
The prince tightened his grip. He could already guess what Bai Qingyan was going to say next, and he held his breath immediately.
The Queen and Fu Ruoxi? !
How dare they!
When Bai Qingyan saw the prince’s face suddenly turn pale, he knew that the prince had understood.
The reason why the grandmother, the Grand Princess, was brought up was, firstly, because the Emperor and the Crown Prince would more or less trust Bai Qingyan’s grandmother, the Grand Princess, and secondly… since it was Nanny Jiang who brought Wei Zhong to tell Bai Qingyan about this matter, the grandmother must have known about it!
From Lu Ninghua’s discovery of the Queen and Fu Ruoxi’s secret meeting, to Wei Zhong’s investigation of the Queen and Fu Ruoxi’s relationship, perhaps my grandmother just wanted to find out why the Queen would seek out Fu Ruoxi to force the emperor to abdicate, or perhaps… with my grandmother’s wisdom, she had already doubted whether the child in the Queen’s belly was the Emperor’s flesh and blood.
But as the eldest princess, her grandmother was a member of the Bai family. Even if she was entrusted by the emperor to manage the harem, she could not rashly interrogate the queen. And the eldest princess absolutely could not allow the royal bloodline to be confused.
Regardless of whether this matter is true or false, it is a royal scandal and must not be revealed by the Grand Princess, otherwise it might implicate her granddaughters.
Even if this matter is to be revealed, it can only be revealed by someone in the emperor’s harem, or… the emperor’s own son. In this way, the emperor will not kill anyone to keep the secret. After all, this matter is a great shame and humiliation for a man.
“Now that Prince Xin has returned to the capital, the identity of the child in the Queen’s belly is unknown. Prince Liang wants to sit on the sidelines and wait for the fight between His Highness and the Queen… He wants to benefit from the situation. He originally thought that as long as His Highness can remain stable and stand upright, and no one can find any evidence against him, the people who set up the trap will be anxious! But if the child in the Queen’s belly is not your Majesty’s, the Crown Prince can quietly investigate the matter, wait for Your Majesty to wake up and inform Your Majesty, so that Your Majesty can deal with it privately… It will save Your Majesty’s face and be a great achievement!”
Hearing the words “great achievement”, the prince perked up and said, “I’d like to hear the advice of the Princess Zhenguo.”
“Your Highness, there are two urgent matters at this moment. The first is to find out whether the engagement between the Queen and General Fu is true. This is not difficult to find out. Your Highness can send someone to find the human traffickers in the capital city and look up the servant changes in the Queen’s mother’s family and the Fu family… in the year when your Majesty and the Queen got married! Find the old servant who was sold and ask him something!”
The prince nodded with a stern face, “The engagement between General Fu and the Queen needs to be investigated in detail, but the most urgent task is to determine the exact month of the Queen’s pregnancy! If the extra days she stayed in and out of the palace with Fu Ruoxi are not different, and your father did not stay in the Queen’s palace during that period…”
The prince was halfway through his words when he remembered that the Queen had been taken care of by Doctor Hu from the Imperial Medical Bureau since she became pregnant. Also, at the palace banquet… the Queen had severe abdominal pain and asked to call Doctor Hu over, saying that Doctor Hu was familiar with the Queen’s body and pulse. This sounded correct, but it was strange when you consider that the child in the Queen’s belly was not the Emperor’s.
“If he is really not my father’s son, but the Queen and Fu Ruoxi’s, then the four words ‘wait for the opportunity to act’ that Fu Ruoxi sent to the capital city were for the Queen?” The prince gnashed his teeth at Fu Ruoxi, but he also felt a little happy in his heart.
The prince kept the four words “wait for the opportunity to act” written by Fu Ruoxi, preparing them as evidence of Fu Ruoxi’s treason. It was a pity… the assassin who delivered the letter was dead, so nothing could be obtained from him.
If the child in the queen’s belly is really Fu Ruoxi’s, Prince Xin and the queen… will never be able to turn things around, and how can Prince Liang be his opponent?
The prince raised his eyebrows, took a long breath, leaned back in the chair, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his lips.
Without further ado, the prince thought for a moment and ordered, “Quan Yu, send someone to call Mr. Fang, Mr. Qin, and Mr. Ren!”
“Your Highness… This matter concerns the reputation of the royal family. The fewer people who know about it, the better. Otherwise, I’m afraid His Majesty will blame His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.” Bai Qingyan said again.
The prince thought about it and said, “I would like to let you handle this matter, but the emperor still has doubts about you. If you handle it, he will be suspicious! Let Elder Fang handle this matter!”
Quan Yu, who was standing at the door, heard this and turned around and sent someone to call Mr. Fang.
Since Bai Qingyan is able to run around for him, the prince naturally has to pretend to make plans for Bai Qingyan.
“I’m not afraid of being suspected by His Majesty, but I’m afraid of ruining His Highness’s business!” Bai Qingyan stood up and bowed to His Highness the Crown Prince, “Then I’ll leave this matter to Elder Fang. Elder Fang is mature and prudent and will definitely be able to handle it. I won’t stay any longer!”
In this matter, Bai Qingyan can only act as a person who gives advice to the prince, but cannot be the one to finish the task, otherwise the prince will definitely suspect her. So even if the prince does not say so, Bai Qingyan will say that there is no one in the capital city and she cannot investigate the matter in detail for the prince.
“Oh, right…” Bai Qingyan asked the prince as if he suddenly remembered something, “On the way back to the Princess Zhenguo’s Mansion, I saw that there seemed to be war reports sent to the government office. It came from the east, but what happened in the Anping camp?”
Ghost-faced General: It is said that if three people vote for the monthly ticket, the update will be released soon. I wonder if I will be included in that update!
Xiao Rongyan: Today is the last day, I don’t know if I can get third place.
Lu Yuanpeng: I think it may not work for you to come out and canvass for votes. Only Sister Bai and I can come out to canvass for votes together!
Xiao Rongyan: Xiao Si…
Bai Jinzhi: Brother-in-law, here is your whip.
Ghost-faced General: Xiaosi, what did you say?
Bai Jinzhi: Slipped away…