Wu Ziya's eyes widened. It was the first time she lost her composure in front of an outsider. After she came to her senses, she laughed dryly and said, "Thank you very much, Miss Qin."

Before Wu Ziya came, she estimated that the amount of silver would not be small, so she prepared some extra money. However, she never expected that it would be nearly 30,000 taels. When she gave it out, her heart was trembling.

Qin Wan didn't care about her. After accepting the money and eating her fill, she happily stood up to say goodbye. Before leaving, she smiled and said, "Mrs. Wu, you've only been married for a short time, haven't you? I wish you a son soon."

"Thank you," Wu Ziya thanked him, her hand unconsciously touching her belly. They had just had sex on the second day of the Lunar New Year, but her period had arrived soon after, and it had only just ended.

Wu Ziya silently calculated the time, and after returning home, she invited Lu Yan to have dinner together in the evening.

Lu Yan could not use anyone to face the front or the back, so the couple had dinner in harmony and spent a harmonious and mutually satisfying night.

The lights in the main courtyard were turned off, and the news was sent to Qin Wan and Xie Qing. The Pingyang Marquis Mansion, which seemed to be strictly guarded, had no secrets at all in the eyes of these two people.

After hearing what Xie Qing said, the Sixth Prince's eyes widened in surprise: "Second brother, you are so perverted. You even know whether a couple sleeps together at night or not."

Xie Qing said unhappily, "When you get married, you'll know that this matter cannot be hidden from others."

"I don't believe it." The Sixth Prince snorted, then stared at Xie Qing's slightly red earlobes curiously: "Second brother, why are your ears red?"

"Really?" Xie Qing touched his earlobe. He didn't say that he knew it so clearly, not only because of the information brought back by the spies, but also because he opened Qianxianglou. More importantly, Qin Wan had just met him once not long ago and specifically told him about this matter.

Seeing that he was unwilling to say more, the Sixth Prince did not ask any more questions. After returning to the palace, he met the emperor and handed in his task, feeling relieved.

The emperor looked at the Sixth Prince, who had clearly grown a lot, and felt relieved: "How is the injury?"

The Sixth Prince shook his arm and felt the sharp pain in his bones, but he didn't care: "It's okay, there's no need to fix it."

The emperor nodded and said, "You have made great contributions this time. I will send your reward back to the palace. Go and pay your respects to your mother first. She is very worried. The Crown Prince will stay and talk."

"yes."

The Sixth Prince bid farewell to the Emperor and prepared to go to the Queen's Palace, but as soon as he came out of the Imperial Study, he saw the Queen standing at the door with red eyes.

He took two quick steps and knelt at the queen's feet: "Mother, your son is back."

"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back." The Queen quickly pulled the Sixth Prince up and said, "Where are you hurt? Let me take a look."

The Sixth Prince raised his arm: "Just my arm."

"Come on, let's go. I called the imperial physician. Let's go back to the palace and take a look."

The queen took the sixth prince back to the palace, took off his clothes, and asked the imperial physician to examine him carefully. She was relieved to learn that it was not a fracture, but most likely just a bone injury.

Even so, the queen was still worried and asked the imperial physician to apply medicine to the sixth prince's arm, fix it, and hang it around his neck. Only then did she feel relieved.

Afterwards, the queen asked the imperial physician in detail how to take care of the patient and the daily precautions before letting him go.

The Sixth Prince lowered his head to put on his clothes, not noticing the Queen's expression, which became gloomy as the imperial physician left.

After the Sixth Prince put on his clothes, the Queen dismissed the servants in the palace and asked him in detail about his situation in Fengyang.

The Sixth Prince was afraid that the Queen would worry, so he only said nice things. As for his arm, he just said that he accidentally fell.

The queen's face turned cold with anger: "You don't even tell me the truth!"

The Sixth Prince was stunned for a moment, then remembered how far his mother's reach extended. He felt helpless: "Since my mother already knows, why are you asking me?"

The Queen was angry, but she still patiently taught her son: "There is no father and son in the royal family, let alone brothers! You are too kind, and your mother is afraid that you will suffer!"

The Sixth Prince was very unhappy: "Mother! I have already said that I have no interest in that position. You forced me to take it. Why not give your full support to my second brother? Then I can be a rich and idle prince, isn't that good?"

The Queen was truly disappointed: "You say you won't fight for that position, and you'll get it? You really don't know anything!"

"My son doesn't understand, so you do? Do you understand that my son doesn't understand state affairs at all! And he has no interest in this!" The Sixth Prince yelled and turned and ran away.

The queen closed her eyes and told herself several times that her son was her own and would be her future support. After a long time, when she had calmed down, she called the eunuch who served the Sixth Prince and questioned him in detail.

Especially after the Crown Prince said something to the Sixth Prince in the carriage and learned that the Third Prince's men had embezzled disaster relief funds and that the evidence had been handed over to the Crown Prince, she was really furious: "This kid! He believes him but not me!"

The young eunuch hunched his body and dared not speak.

The queen suppressed her anger and asked the eunuch what happened next.

When the young eunuch mentioned that the prince was paying attention to the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion and the Sixth Prince's words that his "ears were red", she frowned and thought carefully, could it be that there was a girl in the Pingyang Marquis' Mansion that the prince liked?

How is that possible?

If one of the girls from the Lu family entered the palace as a concubine, the rest would never be able to marry a prince, especially a crown prince.

If it’s not the girl from the Lu family, then it must be the Wu family?

The Queen, realizing she knew something, smiled meaningfully, "Finally, I've caught you! Go, tell the Crown Prince to come see me."

Xie Qing talked with the emperor for nearly an hour before coming out of the imperial study. As soon as he went out, he saw the queen's people.

He was not surprised at all. He pinched the evidence in his sleeve and strode towards the Queen's Palace.

Xie Qing was as carefree as ever: "What does the Queen Mother want from her son?"

The Queen acted like a loving mother in front of Xie Qing as always: "I asked you to go and fetch your sixth brother, but instead you took him hunting."

"My son, didn't you think that your mother was missing a pair of rabbit fur gloves? I hunted a white fluffy rabbit and asked the inner treasury to make it and send it to your mother." Xie Qing sat down there and started eating the fruit on the table.

Even in the palace, there was no fresh fruit in winter. There were only stored apples and pears, which were bigger and better than those in ordinary people's homes.

Xie Qing ate half an apple in a few bites.

The Queen saw the apple juice dripping onto his hands and quickly asked someone to bring him a handkerchief to wipe them. She then asked, "Xiao Liu said there was something in your possession?"

Xie Qing knew he couldn't hide it from the Queen, and he didn't intend to. Some things were best handled by the Queen, so he took out the things without hesitation: "Sixth brother has always been soft-hearted. I was afraid that he would be soft-hearted for a moment and suffer in the future, so I put the things away. Now it is most appropriate to give them to the Queen Mother."

The Queen nodded with satisfaction: "If Xiaoliu had half the scheming of you, she wouldn't have been hurt."

Xie Qing wondered, if you hadn't put away his firearm, how could he have been injured?

But he would not say this. He was just waiting for the Queen to attack the third brother.

You can do whatever you want in court fighting, but you absolutely cannot target the victims of the disaster!