"Empress Dowager, these are the Imperial College entrance examination papers for Prince Shun's two adopted sons. Please review them."
The Empress Dowager glanced at Su Ningwen's score and said, "Su Ningwen actually got an A!"
"Prince Shun's three adopted sons were all first taught by Princess Xiao. It's said that the Su family was so poor back then, and the princess couldn't afford to send them to school, so she personally taught them to read and write at home every day. The fact that Master Wen and Master Jie did well in the exams is inextricably linked to the princess's personal efforts!"
The Queen Mother's expression darkened. "You're quite good at speaking up for Xiao Lingyu."
"I dare not!" Fu Xuan responded and quickly shut up. He knew very well that the Queen Mother did not want to see Princess Xiao raise someone else's child.
It can be said that Princess Xiao has been brought up by the royal family since she was born, and she not only attended the palace school with the princes and princesses.
The Queen Mother even invited famous teachers and scholars to teach Princess Xiao in the arts of music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Not only did Princess Xiao have to assist the eldest prince in helping him ascend the throne, but most importantly, she had to use everything she had learned in her life to teach the crown prince and train him to become a qualified heir to the throne.
An imperial decree for marriage broke everything.
How could the Queen Mother accept this?!
"The second young master of the Su family is so good at math that he even got an A." The empress dowager couldn't describe the feeling in her heart as she looked at the two different test papers.
"Empress Dowager, these children are from a merchant family after all, and their nature is what it is. If they study at the Imperial Academy, they will have to earn their livings under the care of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. I dare to suggest that once His Royal Highness is born, their brothers can be his study companions, tying them to the Crown Prince early on."
The Empress Dowager smiled when she heard this. Although the children were picked up and raised by Su Xingyi, Su Xingyi was honored by his sons. So, let his adopted sons be utterly loyal to her little great-grandson.
The little Prince Fu was nothing to be afraid of. She just had to find a way to pull him over to the Crown Prince's camp.
"Give it to Song Jijiu and have him deliver the admission documents to the children tomorrow."
Fu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. He was still worried that the Queen Mother would not allow the two children to go to school because Su Xingyi disobeyed the order.
"It's the Queen Mother."
Not long after Fu Xuan left the Cining Palace, he hurried back, "Empress Dowager, Du Yu is back."
"Send him in."
A moment later, Du Yu entered the palace and said, "I, Du Yu, pay my respects to the Empress Dowager. May the Empress Dowager be blessed with good health."
"No need to be polite, please take a seat and serve tea."
"Thank you, Empress Dowager."
Lin Fang presented the imperial tribute tea, but Du Yu took it but didn't drink it right away. "I went to Guihua Village in Xishui County, Huayang Commandery, to inquire. The Su family is a hunter family. Su Xingyi has been hunting with his father since he was a child. His father passed away when Su Xingyi was fifteen, and that was the year Su Xingyi found his first child in the mountains."
"Is this first child the Little Prince of Fu?"
"Yes, Queen Mother. This child is a big eater. Luckily, Su Xingyi was able to feed him through hunting. The following year, he found the second child of the Su family. Two years later, he found the third child of the Su family. Four years ago, he found the girl of the Su family in the mountains. The year after he found the girl, Su Xingyi broke his leg, and soon after, he became blind. Life was difficult, and the children were hungry and full. They were almost given away. Later, Princess Xiao was sent to the Su family, and the Su family's life improved..."
The Empress Dowager listened to Du Yu's words. Su Xingyi seemed to be fine. "Then there is no one else in the Su family?"
"No, the old man of the Su family is a widower, and Su Xingyi is his child he brought home to raise more than 20 years ago."
Sure enough, Su Xingyi’s identity is suspicious!
"Then can you find out if there are any outsiders who have come into contact with the Su family over the years?"
Du Yu: "The villagers of Guihua Village have never seen this outsider. The village chief said that Su Xingyi's knowledge and martial arts were all learned from a master in Wufeng Mountain. This person has never been seen in the village. No one knows when he left. During the two years when Su Xingyi was blind and disabled and had no food to eat, this person also did not appear."
Someone was investigating Su Xingyi, so Wu Qingshan was cautious and did not tell Du Yu that he had been taken to Huayang County to see the mysterious masked man.
"Who is that mysterious man?"
The Empress Dowager felt inexplicably uneasy, but soon calmed down.
"Go and call the Emperor."
Emperor Qianyuan rushed over and saw that the Empress Dowager looked unhappy, so he quickly comforted her, "Mother, don't worry, we'll have news soon about Xie Wanyi's pregnancy."
The Empress Dowager dismissed all other outsiders and left behind her confidantes Lin Fang and Yun Gu.
Fu Xuan was very considerate and went to guard the palace gate.
When Emperor Qianyuan saw this scene, he thought it seemed to be another important matter.
"What's the matter, mother?"
"The Queen Mother arranged for someone to investigate Su Xingyi."
Emperor Qianyuan felt a tightness in his chest and his breathing became disordered in an instant.
Could it be that the Queen Mother has discovered Su Xingyi's true identity? He feigned composure and said, "I wonder why the Queen Mother wants to investigate Su Xingyi?"
"Humph, isn't it because he dared to disobey the order? Mother wanted to see where he got the confidence to disobey the order. Could it be that it was just because of the confidence given by the young Prince Fu?"
Emperor Qianyuan was worried, but he was indeed confident because he was your eldest grandson and his maternal grandfather's family was the Dongjun royal family!
"Then, mother, have you found out who gave Su Xingyi the confidence? Now he is the Prince of Shun. If he is truly restless, I must quickly devise a plan to suppress him!"
"Du Yu found out that Su Xingyi was brought home by the widower Su family's father over twenty years ago and raised there. He had a teacher who lived in the mountains and taught him to read and write since he was a child. This teacher never appeared in the village. My mother suspected that this person knew Su Xingyi's true identity."
Emperor Qianyuan was very surprised. Did Qi Lianli miss something?
"Su Xingyi found the little Prince Fu in the deep mountains. You have to know that the Song family forced Baili Qingluan to that cliff, which is far away from Guihua Village! If this child fell to the bottom of the cliff, how did he appear in the deep mountains of Guihua Village?"
Emperor Qianyuan was horrified when he heard this. Thinking of the anonymous letter, he thought that this person might intend to send the four children to Su Xingyi to raise, to help him seize power in the future.
Emperor Qianyuan suddenly thought of the Oriental Seal, as he was able to make careful plans for Su Xingyi.
Damn it! It's definitely him!
He is not dead yet!
"Mother, little Prince Fu is a glutton. Whoever finds him will be destitute. Perhaps someone happened to be passing by the bottom of the cliff at that time and picked up little Prince Fu to raise. But then they realized the child was too gluttonous and couldn't afford to feed him, so they threw him away. If they had thrown him too close, they would have felt guilty, so they threw him farther away, and happened to throw him into the deep mountains near Guihua Village."
He couldn't let the Empress Dowager associate it with the Oriental Seal, and Su Xingyi's identity couldn't be exposed.
If the Queen Mother knew about this, we would be in big trouble.
Shangguan Yu is still on his way to Beijing. If something happens to Su Xingyi, and Xirong and Dongjun join forces, can Beiyi still be saved?
"How could it be that simple?"
"Mother, there are villages one after another within a hundred kilometers of the cliff bottom. The only people who could have picked up little Fu Wang are villagers. How could they afford to raise him? He might have eaten seven days' worth of food in one meal. It's inevitable that they'd abandon him. If they threw him too close, the nearby villagers might find him. If they picked up a child and then abandoned him, that family would have no right to live in the village. We have to throw him farther away."
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