Chapter 222 Never Fall Into Self-Proof
The system said awkwardly: [Hey, I gave Ah Ruan some help, hehe. As long as I can help Ah Ruan, that’s good.]
Yuan Ruan chuckled: [Tong'er, it's the disease you just mentioned that he had! Even if it's not 100%, it's about 80% to 90%. With the help of those melons, it can barely be considered as verification evidence.]
Civil officials and military generals: ???
What happened to the male queen's illness? How can her identity be verified? !
Everyone looked at Yuan Ruan at once.
Yuanruan looked up in confusion.
At this time, the emperor gave the prince a look. The prince coughed lightly with understanding and said something like, the ceremony of welcoming the empress dowager was almost over, and all officials could go back first.
The officials were anxious when they heard this: !!!
Prince, we are stuck in this situation. You can't chase us away at this time!
At this time, the Junior Secretary stepped forward and said righteously, "The Queen Mother is praying for the well-being of Great Xia. How can we leave just to rest?"
The chancellor of the capital also said righteously, "That's right. If we leave, it will be disrespectful to the Queen Mother and even more so to Daxia."
Several other officials who had concubines at home also came to help, and other officials who wanted to take advantage of the situation were reluctant to leave and would lend a helping hand from time to time.
Yuan Ruan couldn't help but sigh: [I didn't expect this male queen mother to be quite popular in Daxia. So many people care about him.]
The officials who had just been speaking righteously suddenly turned green in the face.
The system looked at these courtiers in confusion and couldn't help but sigh: [Yes, humans are really complicated, and they say one thing and mean another.]
After the sigh, the system continued: [By the way, Ah Ruan, please continue.]
Yuan Ruan: [Tong'er, you just said that male queen mothers are born with many diseases. For example, all male members of their family will have webbed toes between the second and third toes after birth. This is obviously a dominant gene carried by Y. Does any of your sons have webbed toes? If not, it is enough to prove that none of these princes are the queen mother's.]
The crowd eating melons:!!!
What! There is such a genetic disease in the Queen Mother's family? !
The court officials who had concubines at home were overwhelmed with emotion: Yes, as long as the princes don't have this disease, everything will be fine!
The prince immediately looked at the emperor, and indeed saw that the emperor's expression had softened a lot.
System: [Frog, yes, the whole family has a genetic disease among men, but what about the princess? ]
Yuan Ruan was confident: [Princess, don't worry. In addition to this, the male queen mother was born with asthma, skin disease, and color blindness. I remember in the TV series "Dark xx", the male and female owners were normal, but their daughter was color blind, so they determined that the female owner had an affair with a male color blind... Wait, I'm stupid, this doesn't work.]
Yuan Ruan suddenly stopped talking in the middle of her speech: [I forgot. As for color blindness, we can infer the father from the daughter, but if the father has it, the daughter may not have it 100%. We also have to look at it in combination with the mother's genetic disease.]
The officials whose concubines gave birth to only sons secretly rejoiced and even had the energy to comfort their colleagues.
For example, colleagues whose concubines have children at home were once again so nervous that they were scratching their toes.
The system quickly comforted: [Ah Ruan, it's okay. In fact, even without these, the blood dripping method and bone dripping method alone, combined with your famous reputation and melon, are enough to testify for the princess and the prince. ]
Yuan Ruan: [Of course there is a difference. Technology will evolve to another stage sooner or later. People in the future will sooner or later know that the blood method is unreliable. When archaeology discovers a male queen, what kind of reputation will my brother have? He will definitely be jokingly called the greatest cuckold in the history?! My eldest nephew and his friends will also be framed by various marketing accounts. I cannot accept it!]
The Emperor and the Crown Prince: ...
Just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle.
The emperor's eyes sharpened.
Yuan Ruan finished his complaints in one breath, took a break, and then said: "But now we are using genetic methods, it's different. People in the future will only worship my brother and nephew as smart people, and will not think that they were cheated. I have to protect their reputation. 】
The emperor and the prince were moved.
The system hesitated for a while: [But Ah Ruan, how would people in the future know? Before the male queen mother is exposed, why not just kill him and prevent the scandal from being exposed? ]
The emperor nodded slightly: Not bad.
Civil and military officials: Yes.
Yuan Ruan covered her face: [Ah... But didn't Tong'er say that he had a relationship with the State of Chu? If we kill the Queen Mother here, what if the State of Chu is exposed? ]
System: [It's okay! Chu wants to expose the male queen mother, so we will just give them a more explosive revelation. I remember the posthumous son of the previous emperor of Chu. Just make up a ridiculous life story for him, saying that he is the son of a regent. Use a more explosive one to cover up the news of the male queen mother. There are too many messy revelations, and future generations will just treat it as unofficial history.]
Yuanruan's pupils trembled: [Ah? ]
The system is very serious: [Ah Ruan, those who play politics are all dirty-hearted. They won't prove their innocence like you. They will just kill, and if they can't kill enough, they will just throw dirty water on each other.]
Civil officials and military generals covered their faces: ...
System, you are right, but don’t say it in front of the national master. We also have our consciences.
Yuanruan's pupils trembled: [That's right, don't fall into self-justification, I'm worrying about nothing. ]
The system immediately became anxious and coaxed: [No! Ah Ruan is very well prepared, great. How about keeping the male queen and giving Ah Ruan some room to show her talents? ]
The corners of the mouths of civil officials and military generals twitched slightly: ...
System, you must have been a tyrant in your previous life.
Yuan Ruan's mouth twitched slightly: [Pfft. I'm fine, Tong'er, you're really great. Ah, let's continue eating melons. ]
Yuan Ruan quickly changed the subject: [Ah...Tong'er, please tell me how he planned to become the queen mother. I am really curious.]
Now that the matter has been settled, the officials have spontaneously relaxed and are in a mood to enjoy the show again.
I'm eager to hear more.
System: [Ah...he, this male queen mother is really not what he wants to be.]
Yuanruan: [What? Is it because of the situation? ]
System: [Yes, a different kind of helplessness. He and King Xin of Qin rushed in to rescue the horse, but found that your brother had a strong army and horses, and could not break through from the front, so they ran to the harem, hoping to use the power of the queen mother to complete the killing.]
Yuan Ruan: [Empress Dowager? So the Empress Dowager was still a woman at that time.]
System: [Yes.]
Yuan Ruan showed an expression of sudden enlightenment: [No wonder you said that just now. Then, what kind of deadly power is hidden in the harem? Could it be that the late emperor left some kind of dark guard corps in the harem? ]
System: [No, the late emperor was also a man, he would not place so many male secret guards in the harem.]
Yuan Ruan coughed lightly. That’s right. If any of the secret guards couldn’t control themselves, it would cause a scandal.
Yuan Ruan: [What kind of ultimate move is that? 】
System: [Edict of succession. ]
The emperor pinched the cup expressionlessly.
The prince quickly drank five sips of tea to suppress his surprise.
All the civil and military officials were horrified: !!!
Wait, when King Xin of Qin was first arrested and thrown into prison, officials of King Xin of Qin's lineage shouted at the top of their lungs that King Xin of Qin had the late emperor's decree of succession, and angrily denounced the current emperor as a traitor and a thief, and hoped that everyone would assist King Xin of Qin in ascending the throne.
But the decree of succession never appeared. In addition, since the emperor was a powerful army with an iron fist, people thought the decree was fake. So, was there really such a decree of succession?
The Minister of Rites could not help but tug at the Minister of Rites and asked softly, "Sir, is it true that there was..."
The Minister of Rites calmly calmed the other party: "Stay calm, it's not important anymore."
The Minister of Rites calmed down instantly. Yes, this happened many years ago and it is indeed not important anymore.