"Don't be so shocked," Qian Jue said with a smile, "I was lucky back then. I was picked up by the Valley Master of the Divine Doctor Valley, who is also my master, so I survived."
The queen stared at Qian Jue's face without blinking, tears welling up in her eyes.
"You are really lucky."
Minister Jiang glanced at Qian Jue and asked, "Since you are still alive, why don't you just recognize the emperor?"
Empress Xian spoke up to clear her confusion.
"Of course, we're waiting for the right moment. The Queen has complete faith in Feng Qingqing's identity. If Young Master Qian were to come to Li Country and directly identify himself with the Queen, the Queen wouldn't believe him. Instead, she would think he's up to no good and is deliberately trying to stir up trouble."
"So you revealed your identities related to Prince Rui first, in order to force me to take action against you."
Minister Jiang stared at Concubine Xian, "No, I wouldn't be so stupid as to attack you myself."
"That's why what happened next happened."
Concubine Xian chuckled, "Of course you wouldn't be stupid enough to attack us yourself. You needed a knife at this time, so you chose Feng Qingqing. It's a pity that your first attempt at instigation failed."
"When you failed to instigate her, you tried to threaten her with Feng Qingqing's identity. However, Feng Qingqing looked down on you as her biological mother, so she refused. Then you revealed her identity to warn her, and that's how you two came to cooperate."
"Even though you've cooperated, Feng Qingqing still doesn't want to kill us. You probably don't know why. She wants to use Luo'er and me as hostages to strike a deal with Tianqi, so she's been holding back. That was her original purpose in kidnapping us."
"Empress Xian is really a good plan."
Minister Jiang truly admired Empress Xian in his heart, and there was no trace of sarcasm in his tone.
"No wonder you knew everything and still let things develop. It turns out you wanted Feng Qingqing to reveal her identity herself. This is more convincing than anyone else's words."
"There's just one thing I don't understand. Aren't you worried that the Emperor is really in danger?"
Yu Yiluo glanced at the Queen and said, "They say every failure makes one wiser. It wouldn't be a bad thing to let the Queen learn a lesson without endangering her life."
If she had seriously investigated Feng Qingqing, this wouldn't have happened.
The Queen was not angry because of Yu Yiluo's words. She felt that it was indeed her own fault for not listening to advice.
If Feng Qingqing's background had been checked earlier, this wouldn't have happened.
"Take her away and lock her up, then behead her in public at noon the day after tomorrow."
Minister Jiang was taken away and the imperial study was cleaned up. The empress wanted to say something to Qian Jue, but found that she didn't know how to start.
"Your Majesty, now that His Highness has been found, shouldn't we inform everyone?"
The Prime Minister seized the opportunity and quickly expressed his thoughts.
When the empress saw the prime minister start speaking, she looked at Qian Jue with a smile.
"Jue'er, what do you think?"
She owed Qian Jue so much. Although she secretly wanted to keep him in Li Country, she was worried that he would not be willing.
Yu Yiluo moved to Qian Jue's side and said, "Hurry up and agree to it. If you agree, you will get a lot of valuable things."
Seeing her money-obsessed look, Qian Jue lowered his voice and asked, "You're selling me out for a little silver?"
"Is this about silver? There will be a national treasury in the future."
Qian Jue: “…”
"It's all up to the Queen."
The Queen was delighted and quickly asked Ling Le to do it.
The Queen wanted to ask about Qian Jue, but was afraid that he would be disgusted, so she took the initiative to change the subject.
"Your Highness, are you here to pick up my cousin and Luo'er this time?"
"Yes, and send Princess Hongyu back."
The Queen was startled. The Prince saw her concerns and said gently:
"Don't worry, Queen. This won't count as a breach of the treaty. Tianqi won't pursue Feng Qingqing's case. Once the civil unrest in Qiang is quelled, we can renegotiate a new contract."
"I see. Is Hongyu willing?"
This was the first time the Queen cared about her daughter. Thinking of her own indifference over the years, which led to her being bullied by the enemy's children, she felt a rare sense of guilt in her heart.
"Of course I am willing. I hope the Queen will let her father leave the palace to see her for my sake."
"Didn't we just go into the palace and take a look yesterday?"
The prince recounted what happened yesterday, and the queen frowned.
It turned out that this was Feng Qingqing's idea, and she thought she had grown up at the time.
I didn't expect it was to attack Hongyu.
"I will send for Attendant Ling to come over and leave the palace with you."
…
Ling Changshi lived in a remote place and knew nothing about what was happening in the palace.
Upon hearing the message, he did not dare to delay, changed his clothes and followed the visitor to the imperial study.
Before he could salute, he saw the Queen had already stood up.
"No need to be polite, let's go out of the palace together to see Hongyu."
Attendant Ling looked at the empress in surprise, then quickly looked away.
"Can I serve as a servant at the Crown Princess's residence?"
"Feng Qingqing is not my daughter, and there is no such thing as a princess now."
Only then did Ling Changshi notice that there were other people in the room. When his eyes swept over Qian Jue, his eyes were shocked.
"He is the child of the Queen and me, he looks very similar, right?"
"Just like the Queen."
The feeling of meeting an old friend made Ling Changshi's eyes a little sore.
"Let's go see Hongyu first, and we'll talk about other things when we get back to the palace."
Prince Duan and Yuan Can felt a little uneasy when they saw that Feng Qingqing had been gone for a long time and had not returned yet.
The two of them were restless and paced back and forth at the door.
At this moment, the sound of footsteps was heard. Before the two of them even had time to hide, they saw the Queen and her entourage walking in.
"Meet the Queen."
Qian Jue looked at the two of them and said, "You must be getting impatient. Feng Qingqing is already dead. Prince Yuan and Prince Duan don't need to wait any longer."
Prince Duan wanted to ask something, but he had already been taken away by the people ordered by Qian Jue.
"My Lord, what is going on?"
Yuan Can tilted his head and asked Prince Duan, trying to find out the current situation.
But Prince Duan, like him, had not left the palace and could not give him an answer.
"Could it be that what Qian Jue told you yesterday was true?"
Yuan Can looked annoyed, "What should I do now?"
"What else can I do?"
Prince Duan glared at him and said, "You can only wait for death. I told you this was true before, but you refused to believe me."
Prince Duan was angry and spoke in a particularly bad tone.
"So what if it's true?"
Yuan Can also became angry, "Can you really help Feng Qingqing and make her succeed? You can't help her at all. You are working on a great cause, but now you've even lost your life."
"If you weren't useless, this would have happened long ago."
Prince Duan vented his resentment.
"You still have the nerve to blame me?"
Yuan Can laughed in anger, "You are useful, you are useful, but how come you haven't made any progress after being in Li Country for so long? You still want to make a comeback, you must be daydreaming too much."
"You're clearly incompetent and yet you're pretending to be noble. You deserve to fail now. You still think you're the high and mighty prince. You're just a stray dog. Do you think I'll still indulge you?"
He had had enough of this man these days, who always bossed him around and treated him like a servant.
"Shut up," the guards who were holding the two men stuffed cloth balls into their mouths, and only then did they feel their ears were much quieter.
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