Fu Ciyi also used his inner strength to transmit a message: "Okay, got it."
Fu Jiangze said to Lu Wenfeng: "Please return to your original residence, Lord Lu. Lord Lu's residence has been kept by my prince for you."
"Thank you, Your Highness!" Lu Wenfeng was very grateful.
After the three carriages traveled together for a while, the Lu family's carriage separated from the Fu family's carriage.
After walking for a while, Fu Ciyi ordered Fu Hu to send Fu Nanyao and Fu Beimo back to the palace.
Fu Beimo lifted the carriage curtain and said, "Brother and sister-in-law, let's go back to the capital. Mother will definitely want to see you. After you return to the palace, you must go to the palace."
"Yeah." Fu Ciyi responded lightly.
The two cars separated again, one heading towards the imperial palace and the other returning to Prince Rui's mansion.
Yan Funing saw Leng Feng riding a horse through the window, so she whispered to Fu Ciyi, "But what news did Leng Feng bring?"
"Well, let's go back to the mansion first." Fu Ciyi ordered Leng Feng, "Go and pick them up quickly."
"Yes, Your Highness."
The cold wind bit the horse's belly and it galloped away.
After Fu Ciyi and Yan Funing returned to the palace, Leng Feng arrived with his men after a cup of tea.
When the servant came to report, Fu Ciyi and Yan Funing were in the room.
"Your Highness, Princess, Lord Qiao has arrived."
"Got it. I'll be there right away." Fu Ciyi said.
Servants, please leave.
Yan Funing looked at Fu Ciyi with a puzzled look: "Husband, is Lord Qiao your uncle?"
My surname is Qiao, and my mother-in-law's surname is also Qiao.
Probably one family.
Fu Ciyi nodded: "It's my uncle. I haven't seen him since I left Beijing."
He took her hand and said, "Come with me, okay?"
"Okay." Yan Funing nodded obediently and asked softly, "Did you send someone to look for your uncle when he came to the capital, or did you come here on orders?"
Fu Ciyi did not hide it from her: "I'll send someone to invite him."
"The Qiao family is a well-known family in the capital. After your mother and you left the capital, the Qiao family would have been implicated. After I came to the capital, few people mentioned the Qiao family, which shows that the implicature did exist."
Otherwise, a prominent family would definitely be mentioned often.
At least when my mother-in-law was recognized by Prince Jin, someone would have mentioned the Qiao family, but no one did at that time.
When my mother-in-law resumed her status as Princess of Jin, the Qiao family did not arrive.
Even after my mother-in-law was crowned queen, no news of the Qiao family was heard for some time afterwards.
You have to know that the Qiao family is the queen's maternal family. Why has no one mentioned such a family? The only possibility is that they were suppressed in the past.
Fu Ciyi nodded and said calmly, "That's true. My grandparents were so angry that they passed away one after another. My uncle was also implicated and banished from the capital. It is said that he is not allowed to return to the capital without an imperial decree."
"But now he's back, and you're the one who sent someone to invite him." Yan Funing couldn't help but worry, "He's going to have trouble getting past our father."
Now, the only way for Uncle Qiao to come back is with the edict from the new emperor.
But the emperor obviously didn't know that Fu Ciyi was investigating the incident in depth.
Even if he knew, he would not issue an edict easily.
Fu Ciyi squeezed her hand and said, "Don't worry, I'm using the imperial edict from my uncle."
"Uncle Emperor?"
"Um."
"Before my uncle passed away, he called me over and spoke with me for quite a while. He knew I was hung up on the fire and my mother's poisoning, and he wanted to help me resolve them. I took the opportunity to request an imperial edict, asking for permission for my uncle to return to the capital. However, since they were investigating the truth of what happened, the fewer people who knew about it, the better. Therefore, my uncle's return would have to be secret, and he couldn't report to the court for the time being."
"I understand." Yan Funing said softly, "Then let's go see my uncle."
The couple quickly left the bedroom.
In the study in the front yard, when the couple arrived, Qiao Chen was already waiting.
When they saw each other, they were both stunned.
The middle-aged man in front of me was very elegant, and his eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to my mother-in-law. Perhaps because of the long journey, he had a scruffy beard.
Yan Funing knew that the uncle and nephew hadn't seen each other for many years, so it would probably be difficult for them to get close to each other quickly.
Then he opened his mouth and said, "Uncle, how are you!"
The girl in front of him called him uncle, and he saw them holding hands...
Qiao Chen reacted and bowed quickly: "Your Highness Prince Rui and Princess Rui!"
Fu Ciyi raised his hand to support him, opened his thin lips slightly, and finally called out, "Uncle."
Qiao Chen's eyes suddenly turned red: "Wen Yu is already this old, and he's still alive. Very good, very good!"
Thinking back to that time, he was the one who put the little man that was burned into charcoal into the coffin with his own hands. As soon as he put it in, black charcoal fell down.
He was also buried in that small coffin.
Now seeing that his nephew had grown into a handsome and tall man, and had married such a beautiful wife, he was so excited that tears suddenly rolled down his face, and he quickly wiped them away with his sleeves.
If his father and mother knew that their grandson was still alive and well, they would be relieved in the afterlife.
"In the fire scene that year, I clearly saw your..."
The body was burnt beyond recognition.
"Why, Wen Yu, how did you escape?"
Fu Ciyi raised his hand to invite his uncle to sit down, and then he pulled Yan Funing to sit down as well.
"I've never told anyone about my escape from the fire. It's best not to talk about it until the case is brought to light." Thinking of Leng Feng's report, he asked directly, "Uncle, what happened to the Qiao family back then? What is this matter you mentioned that you have something to report?"
Qiao Chen began to recall, "After you and my sister left, the Qiao family was targeted. Father and I were both impeached. Difficult questions came one after another, and the Qiao family was overwhelmed. Father and Mother were already deeply hurt, and with the impeachment and difficulties, they left one after another. My banishment from the capital was considered a good outcome at the time. I originally thought that the person who caused all this was the Prince of Jin, so I have been investigating for more than ten years. Later I learned that those people were all the concubine's people, and they all acted according to the concubine's orders. I thought that the concubine wanted to help her niece obtain the status of the Princess of Jin, so she killed you and your son."
"What happened back then is closely related to the Concubine Dowager, now the Empress Dowager, but it is definitely not as simple as her helping her niece to obtain the position of Princess." Fu Ciyi said.
Yan Funing continued, "I guess there's a deeper reason."
Qiao Chen nodded. "I don't know the specific reasons, and I'm not sure. But the Concubine Dowager's desire to help her niece obtain the status of Princess Jin is definitely one of her purposes. If the deeper reasons you mentioned exist, then the motives of this old woman are clear."
Yan Funing asked, "My uncle originally thought that the murderer was the Prince of Jin. May I ask why he thought so?"
"He keeps saying he loves my sister, but he has so many other women around him. If I don't doubt him, who should I doubt?" Qiao Chen was still furious when he thought about this. "To be honest, he didn't even dare to look at the charcoal-burned 'Wenyu'. I personally gave that child..."
Having said this, tears welled up in my eyes again.
Yan Funing let out a long sigh.
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