Finally the old emperor agreed.
"Thank you, Father!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Prince Kang and Gu Yunsheng expressed their gratitude, and the old emperor waved his hand to let them leave.
The old emperor stroked the jade ring on his thumb, his cloudy old eyes full of calculation.
"Fuquan, who do you think is the enemy of Miss Gu and King Kang?"
Eunuch Fuquan, who was suddenly called out, was almost frightened to death.
Why did the emperor suddenly think of asking him this question?
Didn't you treat him as if he didn't exist before?
Eunuch Fuquan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know much about this matter, and I can't think of anyone who might be the enemy of Miss Gu and Prince Kang."
The old emperor narrowed his eyes, took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, swallowed a black pill, sighed, turned his head to look out the window, and seemed to be muttering.
"There are only four people left..."
After Prince Kang returned to the Prince Kang Mansion, he told his wife about the conversation that took place in the imperial study.
Upon hearing this, Ye Peizhu's eyes showed some admiration.
"Miss Gu is quite clever. Even without communicating with her in advance, what she said was actually similar to what we discussed.
Fortunately, nothing was revealed. Your Majesty, after you left the palace, did Miss Gu tell you how she planned to find her enemy?
"She mentioned it. She said that when her mother fled the capital with her pregnant, she had poisoned the enemy.
She can let her insect find the enemy, it just takes some time."
Ye Peizhu: "That's fine too. Let's wait for Miss Gu's poison to find someone. And the rumors circulating in the capital, once we find the person who spread the rumors, maybe we can find some clues."
"Yes, let's wait and see."
As the couple was talking, Song Jiujiu, who was sitting on a blanket playing with toys, listened to what her parents said, and something seemed to flash through her mind.
But the thought passed by so quickly that she didn't catch it.
This time, the secret guards sent by King Kang to investigate the rumors in the capital were very quick in finding out the truth and came back to report to King Kang in just a few days.
However, when the secret guard told King Kang what he had investigated, his brows furrowed.
"Are you sure the rumors in the capital were spread by Prince Duan and Prince Jing's people?"
"Yes, I'm sure. Prince Duan's people first spread the news that Miss Gu was a descendant of the Gu Clan. Then Prince Jing's people spread the news that the eldest young master brought a girl back to live in the mansion.
The combination of these two things led to the rumor in the capital that the descendant of the Gu Clan was brought back by the Crown Prince of Kang and lived in the Kang Palace for a long time.
"Got it. Recently, send people to keep an eye on Prince Duan's Mansion and Prince Jing's Mansion to see if they will make any moves."
King Kang ordered the secret guards to let him leave first.
Prince Kang sat down at the table and sighed, "Madam, this time, could it be considered that Prince Duan and Prince Jing have joined forces to deal with us?"
Ye Peizhu nodded with a complicated expression, "Of course it counts. Mu Bai was very low-key about bringing Miss Gu back. If no one hadn't asked around, who would have known about it?
Even though Miss Gu would go out from time to time, she would always wear a veil and go out through the back door.
No matter what King Jing's purpose was in spreading this matter, his actions have affected us.
As for Prince Duan, he knows that Miss Gu is a descendant of the Gu Clan... Your Majesty, could it be that Prince Duan is actually the one who had Miss Gu's mother poison you back then?!"
At this point, Ye Peizhu's breathing quickened a bit and she continued, "Your Highness, do you still remember? Father said that the man who asked Liu Niang to put the curse on you was named Gu!
Miss Gu also has the surname Gu! Could it be that Miss Gu is actually the man's daughter?
Back then, for some reason, Miss Gu's mother's identity was discovered by Prince Duan. Prince Duan then threatened Miss Gu's mother and that man surnamed Gu with her life, asking them to cast a curse on you?!
As a result, the poison entered my body and failed. Prince Duan did not want this to be discovered, so he sent people to hunt down the man surnamed Gu and the mother and daughter surnamed Gu.
And they fled the capital directly!
That's why Liu Niang couldn't find the whereabouts of the man surnamed Gu in the capital!
Also, Your Highness, didn’t you say that Miss Gu mentioned that her mother had cast a curse on her enemy before she escaped?
Your Highness, do you remember when we went to Prince Duan’s Mansion before, Prince Duan suddenly felt unwell all over, as if he was experiencing some pain!
If it's not a physical illness, could it be the poisonous insect in his body causing trouble?!"
After listening to his wife's speculation, King Kang felt that the fog in front of him seemed to have been cleared a little, but the fog was still very thick.
"Ma'am, your guess may be correct.
But when I think about it this way, it seems a little strange. Liu Niang used to be a prostitute in a brothel. According to her, the man surnamed Gu was once her patron.
But the man surnamed Gu and Miss Gu's mother gave birth to Miss Gu. Unfortunately, Miss Gu's mother was a descendant of the Gu Clan, and her identity was discovered by Prince Duan.
After Prince Duan threatened Miss Gu's mother, could it be that she asked the man surnamed Gu to threaten Liu Niang, the general's concubine, and let Liu Niang put a curse on her husband?
If this is true, it is such a coincidence!
If it's too coincidental, it's just human nature.
If it was Prince Duan's scheme from the beginning for Liu Niang to attach herself to her father-in-law and pretend to be pregnant with his child to enter the General's Mansion, then what happened afterwards seems to be clear..."
As King Kang said this, he felt a chill on his back.
If this is true, Prince Duan has been plotting against him for fifteen or sixteen years...
At that time, Prince Duan was only in his early twenties, but he was already laying the groundwork for what would happen fifteen or sixteen years later...
Prince Kang felt a chill in his heart. He suddenly realized that Prince Duan might be more difficult to deal with than Prince Ning and Prince Gong.
Ye Peizhu pursed her dry lips and said the same words as King Kang's.
"Your Highness, we have to think carefully about this. It may not be easy to deal with Prince Duan."
The couple exchanged glances and saw solemnity in each other's eyes.
That night, the couple didn't sleep much.
On the contrary, Song Jiujiu, who was unaware of all this, slept soundly.
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