Chapter 373 Implicated

The Queen was hoping that Wu was pregnant with a grandson, and she was even more hoping that Qin Peiyuan could be named the Crown Prince soon. When she heard the title of Crown Prince, her eyes narrowed into slits as she smiled, "It's only natural that it should be passed down from one generation to the next."

"Tell someone to find two pieces of brocade from our palace storehouse and send them to Miss Yan," said the Queen.

Whether it is Mrs. Wu or Yan Siying, they will be her daughters-in-law in the future.

Although Yan Siying has not yet married into the family, the Yan family is powerful and loyal to Yuan'er at this time. Moreover, Yan Siying is the legitimate daughter of the Yan family after all, and marrying her to Yuan as a concubine is somewhat unfair to her, and it also makes the Yan family look bad.

As the queen and Yuan'er's biological mother, she had to strike a balance in this matter so that the Yan family could know their thoughts and know what to do in the future.

"Yes." The maid agreed and arranged these matters one by one according to the queen's instructions.

The snow stopped around noon.

But after the snow stopped, the sun did not come out. The sky was still gloomy, like a huge pot, upside down on the entire earth, pressing people so hard that they could not breathe.

In the evening, light snowflakes began to fall again, mixed with the whistling northwest wind, and swept through the palace.

These small snowflakes did not grow bigger into snowflakes again, but remained in this state until the evening of the next day.

It was not until noon the next day that the sun finally emerged from behind the clouds.

The sky was not completely clear, and the sun looked a little hazy, hanging in the sky like a night pearl, bright but not dazzling.

And at this moment, many people also breathed a sigh of relief.

Firstly, the weather is clearing up and the snow will stop falling. Judging from the current situation, it probably won't become a snowstorm and not many people will suffer from it.

Secondly, it was because the Imperial Guards stopped arresting people and sending them to the Tianlao for interrogation.

This basically means that this matter has come to an end for the time being.

But it is also possible that this is the calm before the storm...

After thinking about this, many people felt heavier in their hearts.

Qin Yishu was also in a very bad mood at this time.

During the two days of thundering wrath, many people were arrested, almost filling up half of the prison, and many things were revealed.

He ordered Doctor Jiao to place poppies in Qin Peiyou's food, arranged a sneak attack on Qin Peiyou and He Yanxiu on their way to Hong Zheng Mansion for disaster relief, and even ordered assassins to kill them on their way back to Beijing after the disaster relief.

He formed a clique for personal gain, accepted bribes, manipulated the Ministry of Rites to appoint people, and allowed the Gong family to bully men and women and evade taxes...

One thing after another, they filled up three whole pages of paper.

It was so crowded that Qin Yishu was given a headache.

This is the good son he gave birth to, who did so many things behind his back.

Qin Yishu rubbed his forehead, his face becoming increasingly gloomy.

"Your Majesty." Minghai whispered carefully, "His Highness has arrived."

"Let him in." Qin Yishu rubbed his cheeks with his hands, perked up, and sat up straight.

"Yes." Minghai walked quickly to the outside of the hall and opened the door. "Your Highness, please come in."

"Thank you, Eunuch Ming." Qin Peiyuan was polite and took a deep breath. He walked slowly into the hall and knelt down to Qin Yishu. "Your son pays respect to the emperor."

After Qin Peiyuan knelt for a while, Qin Yishu finally spoke, "Get up."

"Thank you, father." Qin Peiyuan stood up, bowed and asked, "I wonder why your Majesty summoned me?"

Qin Yishu raised his hand, and Minghai on the side took the stack of papers on the table and handed it to Qin Peiyuan.

"This is..." Qin Peiyuan took it.

"This is the confession of a group of people after being interrogated in the past two days." Qin Yishu said, "You can also take a look."

Qin Peiyuan knew what was on it.

After all, everything was done by him and Qin Peiheng together.

Even the assassination between Qin Peiyou and He Yanxiu on their way back to Beijing was not arranged by him. However, others suspected that it was an assassination ordered by him, the great prince. He also had people make false confessions and put the blame on Qin Peiheng so that there would be no suspicion on himself.

But at this moment, since his father asked him to look, he also looked carefully, and then pretended to be shocked, "Second brother, second brother actually..."

"Father!" Qin Peiyuan knelt on the ground. "My second brother is still young. He must have done these things out of confusion. Please be lenient with him, Father!"

"Confused?" Qin Yishu narrowed his eyes. "I think he is also very clear-headed. He did things so flawlessly. He must have planned it carefully. How can he be called confused?"

"Father, please calm down!" Qin Peiyuan kowtowed and did not stand up.

But he said no more.

Qin Yishu saw that Qin Peiyuan was no longer pleading for Qin Peiheng. After a moment of silence, he said, "Pass on my decree. The second prince Qin Peiheng has no regard for the law and has no righteousness in his heart. He is dismissed from all his posts and sent to supervise the construction of the imperial mausoleum. He is not allowed to return to the capital without my order!"

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It was said that he was supervising the construction of the imperial mausoleum, but in fact it was no different from exile.

This time, my father was indeed very angry.

Fortunately, he listened to his mother this time and cut off his relationship with Qin Peiheng, otherwise, he would have suffered as well.

"Father is kind and merciful. He has made all these efforts for my younger brother. When I go to the Imperial Mausoleum, I believe I will understand Father's painstaking efforts and know my own mistakes."

Qin Peiyuan said, "But now that things have come to this, please take care of your health and don't get angry about this matter anymore."

"Yes." Qin Yishu nodded, "Yuan'er is right, but I'm afraid this evil creature won't understand my painstaking efforts."

"Yuan'er, you have a close relationship with him. You will go and convey my order later. It's a good opportunity to visit him as well."

"Yes." Qin Peiyuan agreed, but his heart was lifted.

My father said that he and Qin Peiheng were close...

Qin Peiheng's incident this time did implicate him to some extent.

I need to discuss this matter with Uncle Wang as soon as possible to see if there is any way to remedy the situation.

After Qin Peiyuan received the imperial edict and went to the Tianlao to announce it, Qin Yishu immediately issued another edict.

The virtuous concubine Gong was demoted to the rank of Jieyushi and confined to the palace. She was not allowed to go out without an imperial decree, and no one was allowed to visit her without an imperial decree.

A few days after the decree was issued, Qin Peiheng set out on the journey to the imperial mausoleum.

And that day was the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month.

After two consecutive days of sunny weather, most of the snow on the ground had melted, except for the snow in the shade, which was frozen more solid by the cold day after day.

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, the family banquet in the palace went on as usual. The concubines, princes, princesses and others from various palaces still attended the banquet as usual, chatting and laughing with happy faces.

Qin Peiyou's physical condition has almost recovered, so he also attended.

They hadn't seen each other for a long time, and Concubine Shu was very happy, the Empress Dowager was also smiling, and even Qin Yishu's face was more smiling.

(End of this chapter)