Chapter 391 Your dear mother, when did she contact you?
"Father! I have no intention of slandering the Crown Prince. Please don't be angry with me. I won't dare to do it again in the future."
As long as the emperor didn't allow him to do something, he would immediately refuse to do it. Being well-behaved and obedient was his protective color, and he couldn't show his true colors at this time.
"You don't dare? Is there anything in the world that you don't dare to do?" The emperor sneered, "House arrest is just the beginning, King Qi! My patience is limited. Since you choose to betray me, you should know your fate."
Betrayal? The King of Qi was shocked by this word. Could it be that his father knew about his secret contact with his mother?
How is this possible?
My mother did it so secretly, how did my father know?
The emperor stared at the King of Qi kneeling on the ground with a gloomy expression.
There was a flash of anger and disappointment in his eyes. This was the person he had always held in his hands, but he actually betrayed him and contacted that woman.
The emperor clenched his hands tightly and his anger grew.
He had always doted on and trusted the King of Qi, giving him endless power and status, but the King of Qi did such a thing behind his back, which really disappointed him.
"Father! I did not betray you! That was all a misunderstanding." The King of Qi started crying again, "I really did not betray you!"
The emperor sneered, "Misunderstanding? Do you think I'm a fool? And you're pretending to be innocent in front of me?"
The King of Qi took a deep breath and said, "I don't know why Father insists on saying that I betrayed you? Where do I start?"
"Where do I start?" The emperor sneered, "Don't you know what you have done? Do you want me to point it out to you?"
What did he do? The King of Qi was a little flustered. He had done a lot. What did his father know? Why didn't he give him a hint?
The King of Qi looked at Liu Xiaowu who was standing at the door of the imperial study, hoping that he would give him a look or some message.
Unfortunately, Liu Xiaowu lowered his head and didn't even look at him. The meaning was very clear that he would not give him any hints.
"You don't have to look around. I just want to hear your story from your own mouth." The emperor's eyes were extremely cold, and his tone was unprecedentedly stern. "Speak now! As long as you can convince me today, I will lift your house arrest."
"Father!" The King of Qi knelt pitifully and asked pitifully, "What do you want me to say?"
Although the emperor knew that the Prince of Qi was most likely not his son, he still allowed him to call him father. After all, he was the one who raised him, and even though there was no blood relationship, there was still some affection between them.
In addition, he did not want to reveal the life story of the King of Qi, fearing that he would be laughed at by the old uncles in the clan. Back then, for Wei Hanyi, he had offended many uncles in the clan.
Who could have thought that the woman gave him such a big slap? Not only was his face swollen, but his head was also stunned.
The slap made him so confused that he didn't know which way was which. Fortunately, he was not foolish enough to give the throne to the King of Qi, otherwise he would have been laughed at.
"Tell me about your Baofeng Bank and your silver mine."
The emperor said this indifferently, and the King of Qi trembled with fear. No wonder his father was angry, it turned out that he knew everything.
It was my mother who suggested opening the Baofeng Money House, and the silver mine was also given by her. Since my father knew all this, did he also know that my mother was still alive?
Sure enough, the next sentence the emperor said with a dark face: "Tell me more about your good mother. When did she contact you? Think about it before you speak. If you lie to me again, you can imagine what will happen to you."
Upon hearing this, the King of Qi collapsed to the ground. If this matter was investigated seriously, he would definitely not have a good ending. Being torn into pieces by five horses would not be an exaggeration.
The only thing he could bet on was his father's love for him. He firmly believed that his father treated him differently and was special.
"Speak!" The emperor suddenly became angry and raised his voice twice as loud. "Why are you pretending to be dead? Tell the truth and tell me everything."
“Father!” It was the first time that the King of Qi saw the emperor yelling at him. He was really scared and cried out in fear. “Father, please calm down! It’s not that I didn’t say it on purpose or concealed it from you. It’s that I don’t dare to say it.
This is too big a matter, I dare not say it! Mother sent people to find me when I was about five or six years old, and at that time she only came once a year. "
"Ho! Ho! Ho!"
The emperor sneered three times and said nothing. He stared at the King of Qi silently, waiting for his next words.
Five or six years old? She came to see him at such a young age, which showed how scheming that woman was.
"After a few years, my mother sent people to help me set up Baofeng Bank, and later gave me a silver mine."
The King of Qi tried to keep things as simple as possible, fearing that if he said too much, his father would get even angrier.
He knew in his heart that his mother was the woman his father cared about most, even more than the empress.
She was a dead person, but she came back to life. She was the emperor's woman, but she became the imperial concubine of the Northern Kingdom.
No man can tolerate a woman’s betrayal and infidelity. My mother was really going too far.
"Your mother has high expectations of you! Have you thought about what to do?" The emperor's tone suddenly became as kind as usual, "You are her good son, how could it be possible that you don't live up to her expectations?
You framed the Marquis of Pingyang and his son and exiled them, you took Liangjun City into your possession, and you took the blueprints of the repeating crossbow and sent them to the Northern Kingdom. What else do you want to do next?"
The Prince of Qi's face was pale, and his whole body was shaking. It turned out that his father did not trust him so much and indulge him, but instead investigated everything about him.
It turns out that although he doted on him on the surface, he was always on guard against him secretly. This was his good father.
"Hehehe! Hahaha! Hahaha!" The King of Qi suddenly laughed crazily, with great anger in his eyes, "Father! You forced me to do this.
I am your eldest son, why must the legitimate son inherit the throne? I don't accept it. Mother has given me so much help, so I will definitely give it a try."
The fig leaf had been torn off, and the King of Qi felt that there was no need for him to be humble. He slowly stood up and looked at the emperor, extremely angry.
"If mother could stay in Wei, how could she bear to leave? Since you can't give her what she wants, why keep him?
Father! The army from the Northern Kingdom has arrived. Their weapons are equally matched, so it is hard to say who will win.
As long as you depose the crown prince and make me the heir, I will make the Northern Kingdom withdraw its troops. Father! Don’t you love your son the most? Why can’t you give me the position of crown prince? "
The emperor asked, "Besides the position of Crown Prince, what else have I given you? Have you protected it? Last year, the southern Xinjiang tribute box of South China Pearls, each round and plump, was invaluable. I gave it to you. Where are the South China Pearls now?"
If you can't even protect your own storehouse, how can you protect the Great Wei? I'm sure that if I give the Great Wei to you, it will be swindled away by that woman sooner or later."
"Impossible." The King of Qi relied on the emperor's favor for him and said, "My mother is the Royal Consort of the Northern Kingdom. How could she want something from me? If my father doesn't want to give it, just say so. Why bother making up excuses?"
The emperor no longer wanted to discuss this issue with the King of Qi. It was too boring. The eldest prince was a joke.
(End of this chapter)
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