Chapter 312 Do you still remember the child who was replaced?

Lu Xinran tossed and turned the entire night, and at dawn he could no longer hold on and only slept for two hours.

She was awakened by hunger before noon. She ate something casually and then sat in the study to start looking for details again.

The emperor has stopped writing, and Shuntian Prefecture is no longer as busy as before.

Song Junyan got up in the morning and went to the government office to deal with all the official business that had accumulated since the previous year, and then came back to continue accompanying his newlywed wife.

Both the husband and wife had a vague suspicion that the capital would not be at peace for many days.

“Found it!”

Towards evening, before the booklet was about to disappear, she finally found the details she wanted.

"The baby that was replaced by the previous emperor...is not dead."

The emperor ordered people to deal with him, but the palace maid who was in charge of dealing with the baby suddenly felt soft-hearted and drowned him in a basin, leaving him to fend for himself.

But the basin of water had just flowed out not far when it was rescued by someone. The palace servant thought that all this was God's will, so he followed the man and found out where he lived.

In the following years, every time he left the palace, he would look for an opportunity to see the child. The child, who was predicted by the imperial physician to not live beyond six months old, miraculously survived in that farmer's family.

Although he was a little weak and had to be kept on taking medicine all year round, he was extremely smart and clever.

He discovered the palace maid on her fifth visit to him, and she told him all her life stories when he was ten years old.

When he learned that he was a prince and should be the most favored prince in the palace, he hated the previous emperor who wanted to execute him, and was jealous of the emperor who took his position.

"Later, just as you would expect, he was able to survive in a poor farm family, with his adoptive parents taking great care of him and using all their money to keep him alive. Of course, he had some great means.

"In the year when the emperor ascended the throne, he took advantage of the emperor's ancestor worship to find Eunuch Fu and asked him to help him.

"But a shrewd man like Eunuch Fu would never agree to his request so easily. He also found out Eunuch Fu's background and used his family in Yuzhou as a threat.

"He also threatened that if he refused to help him, he would reveal what he knew about the emperor's background.

"Under various threats and inducements, Eunuch Fu had no choice but to agree. He could only promise to help him and act accordingly."

Lu Xinran had never imagined that there was such a secret behind this. She originally suspected that some foreigners had bribed the people around the emperor, but she had never thought that the baby who was predicted to not live more than half a year old was actually alive today and could still stir up trouble with his schemes.

Song Junyan fell into a long silence. This result was something they had never imagined.

"He was the one who gave the prescription for the aphrodisiac to Eunuch Fu, asking him to find an opportunity to give it to the imperial physician and use it on the emperor."

The man had been planning for more than 20 years and was finally ready to take action.

"Does that recipe have any effects that others don't know about?"

"Yes," Lu Xinran said solemnly, looking at Song Junyan and pausing for every word, "Overdose can cause sudden death."

Song Junyan sat up straight, feeling only troubled after the shock.

"Do you know where that person is now?"

"I don't know. He has been the one who contacted Eunuch Fu unilaterally. Eunuch Fu tried several times to track him down and find his hiding place, but he always managed to hide away."

The last time, the man even sent him his nephew's hand as a warning.

The shock that hand gave to Eunuch Fu was so strong that he dared not act rashly ever since.

"You can ask Ding San to look for the person. You can start with Eunuch Fu's family in Yuzhou. They must have spies among them."

If she could catch that person's spy, she would find a way to bring him back to the capital regardless of life or death.

Song Junyan stood up and went out immediately to make arrangements. It would be difficult for the couple to have a happy New Year.

On the 29th of February, after struggling for a few days, Lu Xinran finally pulled him into the study and whispered to him, "What do you think, should we tell the Queen about this?"

They have limited manpower, and Song Junyan had only wanted to be a leisurely prince before, and had never managed his subordinates seriously. Now that he has the right people, he regrets not having enough.

For them, the best allies should be the Queen and the Zhang family.

"Okay, I'll find a chance to talk to the Queen Mother about this in detail."

Song Junyan was also a decisive person. He knew that the two of them alone could not control the situation, and they were still undecided about how to deal with this matter.

New Year's Eve was still a family banquet, but because of the "incident" on the day of New Year's Eve, the emperor only showed up in the front hall this time and left quickly.

As soon as he left, the empress dowager sat for a while and then returned to Yongshou Palace.

The concubines gathered in groups of three or four, chatting and laughing. Several princes did not want Lu Xinran to see too many of their secrets, so they all found excuses to leave.

Song Junyan found an opportunity to sit next to the Queen early in the morning. Everyone left at this time, which gave him the opportunity to talk to the Queen.

However, there were many people in the palace and it was not easy to talk about such a secret matter. So the couple supported the empress and carried her to Changchun Palace regardless of her reaction.

"Enough of being so mysterious. Tell me what you want to tell me."

The Queen was so amused by the two of them that she waved her hand to signal the palace maids to leave first. She also instructed her trusted aides to guard outside the palace and to warn loudly if anyone approached. Then she pulled the two of them to her side and asked them in a low voice.

Lu Xinran glanced at Song Junyan, and Song Junyan spoke first while they were looking at each other.

"Mother, please believe what I am going to say next, and try not to scream out loud."

He quickly recounted the whole story that the two of them had worked out during this period, telling the emperor's life story and the fact that the son he replaced, who actually belonged to the empress dowager, was still alive, without hiding anything.

The Queen's fingertips had already dug into her palms, and she looked extremely ugly as she tightened the veins on her forehead.

"No wonder! No wonder! Do you know who the woman in the cold palace was who was sentenced to death by the late emperor?"

As she spoke, tears quickly fell: "She is my dear aunt!"

Back then, her aunt was also the empress, but later the late emperor stripped her of her title on trumped-up charges and banished her to the cold palace, where no one was allowed to visit.

At that time, Zhang's family were all at the border, and when they learned about this, everything had already been settled.

The previous emperor was jealous of the military power in the hands of the Zhang family and suppressed them everywhere.

For the sake of the Zhang family, my grandfather had no choice but to swallow his anger and even wrote a letter to the emperor to expel her aunt from the family to make his position clear.

This incident happened before she was born. It was only after she went to the border this time that she learned about it when her grandmother sent a secret letter to the border.

Thinking that the emperor was actually her aunt's son, her heart felt like it was being cut by a knife. She cried and laughed at the pain.

"You can't stand the fact that our Zhang family is so powerful, but you also want the world to be protected by our Zhang family. Good, very good!"

Is this to make the Zhang family never betray the dog emperor for his life experience? !

But, on what basis!