"What did you say? Xiao Xi'er lives and eats with Gu Yunshu in the Gu Mansion?"
Li Haiying hurriedly said, "The news from Bai Ying said that Master Xi likes Gu Yunshu very much and likes to stick with her. She will stay at the Gu Mansion for a few days before returning to the palace."
Emperor Qianyuan frowned: "Doesn't that mean Xiao Xi'er also drank the soup with the drug that can cause the child to die?"
"It's unavoidable for Master Xi and Gu Yunshu to dine at the same table..." Li Haiying glanced at Emperor Qianyuan's expression, "but this can be avoided by finding a reason to get Master Xi back to the palace. If Master Xi stays at Gu's residence, the medicine added to the soup won't be effective enough for the two of them to drink together. We might need to prescribe two packets."
Emperor Qianyuan had no intention of letting Xiao Xier become the extinct family line. This was purely an accident.
What if one day Xiao Xier suddenly has a headache or fever, and the Crown Princess takes her pulse and accidentally diagnoses that Xiao Xier's body has been harmed by the infertility drug?
The Crown Princess is so smart that she will definitely investigate this matter secretly. If Gu Yunshu is unable to give birth in the future, the Crown Princess will definitely think that Xiao Xi'er may be implicated. "This matter may be secretly investigated by the Crown Princess or Feng Yulin in the future. All evidence must point to the second branch of the Gu family. Do you understand?"
"Your Majesty, rest assured. I have already made all the arrangements. So... would you like two packets?"
Emperor Qianyuan thought for a moment and said, "Go to the Eastern Palace and convey my order. Have the Crown Prince bring his four children to the dining room in the Hall of Mental Cultivation to have dinner with me. Remember, no one of the children should be left behind."
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"Eunuch Ying, please return and report. Xiao Xi'er is a guest at the Gu Residence and will not be able to join us father and son in dining with the Emperor tonight."
"Your Highness, the Emperor requires you to bring your four siblings to dinner with him. Not one of the four children can be left behind. This is the Emperor's oral order, as if it were an imperial decree."
Su Xingyi was inexplicably annoyed. He was not yet the emperor, so he could not disobey his orders. "I understand. Let's go back."
"Yes." Li Haiying secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was really worried that the prince would disobey his order.
"Xiao Yu, does the emperor feel that it is inconvenient to send an imperial physician to visit Xiao Xi'er since she is at the Gu residence?"
Xiao Lingyu: "Xiao Xi'er hasn't sent any news back. What's the specific situation? We know nothing. Let's bring Xiao Xi'er back. As long as the imperial physician sent to the Gu Mansion to treat the patient can intercept him before reporting to the emperor, Xiao Xi'er will have a way to make him change his story in front of the emperor..."
Xiao Xi'er was a little surprised when she heard this. "Could it be that the Emperor is afraid that I've been poisoned by the drug that will kill me? Does he still have a conscience?"
"Xiao Xi'er, no matter what his intentions are, you and your father must return to the palace and follow the emperor's orders to have dinner with him. Your father and you four siblings must not make any mistakes in your words or actions. You must not give the ministers any excuse to accuse you, otherwise Emperor Qianyuan will use this as an excuse to delay his abdication."
"Mother, we were too obedient, giving him the opportunity to persecute you time and time again. We should have removed him the day his background became public..."
"Ayi, we've waited for so long. It doesn't matter if you wait a little longer. Take Xiao Xier back to the palace. Don't worry about the Queen Mother. She will protect herself..."
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"He used the drug that would make him infertile again?" Xiao Lingyu didn't expect Emperor Qianyuan to be so vicious. He used the drug twice instead of once!
Xiao Xier said: "The Emperor probably didn't find a suitable reason to send the imperial physician to visit, and only made a second move to ensure that Grandmother could not bear children."
Xiao Lingyu looked at Su Xingyi and said, "In case the emperor does something unexpected on the day of his abdication, we need to make arrangements in advance."
Su Xingyi nodded, "Don't worry, he will issue an abdication decree on that day."
Afterwards, Su Xingyi brought his four children to the inner kitchen to have dinner with Emperor Qianyuan...
Seven days later, Emperor Qianyuan learned that Gu Yunshu had drunk a sufficient amount of the drug that would make her childless. He was completely relieved and rushed to the Cining Palace.
"Mother, don't worry. Even if Feng Yulin gets married, he won't be able to have children."
Empress Dowager Du asked, "I heard that the Crown Prince brings his four children to have dinner with you these days?"
Emperor Qianyuan smiled and said, "Ayi is indifferent to me, my son. I thought of having dinner with the five of them every day to slowly cultivate their relationship. Now that the results are beginning to show, and the children can even call me Grandfather, how about having them come to the Cining Palace tonight to have dinner with the Empress Dowager?"
"That's not necessary. My mother is old and needs some quiet time."
Empress Dowager Du was in no mood to dine with the four children, as they were all ungrateful and could never be fed.
"Have you ever thought about the situation of my mother and me after you abdicate?"
Emperor Qianyuan's eyes darkened. "Mother, Ayi is your grandson. We are blood-thicker-than-water fathers. Even if the Shangguan mother and son want to embarrass us, Ayi will not allow them to do so..."
After Emperor Qianyuan left the Cining Palace, he felt that his situation would be increasingly difficult after his abdication.
He had to come up with a foolproof plan to ensure that after Ayi came to power, the mother and son could spend their old age in peace.
While Emperor Qianyuan was thinking about countermeasures in the imperial study, two-thirds of the imperial guards were secretly bribed by the Old Wise King, Xiao Tianci and others to prevent Emperor Qianyuan from going back on his word.
Moreover, there are troops stationed in Yibei, and the old wise king has arranged for people to infiltrate them.
Three days before Xiaowu's full moon, congratulatory letters from the Xirong royal family and the Nankun royal family were presented to Emperor Qianyuan in the court along with the full moon gift prepared for Xiaowu.
The ministers were stunned when they saw that the Nankun royal family sent full-moon gifts to the little prince.
The Nankun royal family lived in seclusion in a corner and never took the initiative to show goodwill with the other three countries, but they actually gave gifts to the little prince!
It is unbelievable that Prince Yi not only has the support of the Dongjun and Xirong royal families, but also the support of the Nankun royal family.
The ministers could not help but look at each other and wonder secretly, could it be that one of Prince Yi’s four adopted children has some relationship with the Nankun royal family?
Who could it be?
As the ministers speculated, a fourth-rank official glanced at Feng Yulin and the Old Sage King and said in a moderately loud voice, "She must be the Crown Prince's adopted daughter. It's said that Emperor Nankun Muchen Xuanyuan only had princesses, not a single prince."
"No wonder, Prince Yi is such a blessed man, his adopted daughter is actually the little princess of Nankun."
Emperor Qianyuan, sitting on the dragon throne, looked at the talkative official and gritted his teeth in hatred. He was the only one who had a mouth!
"Congratulations, Your Majesty! Congratulations, Your Majesty! The friendship between Crown Prince Yi and the Dongjun, Nankun, and Xirong royal families is a blessing for our Beiyi nation!"
"Congratulations, Your Majesty. Congratulations, Your Majesty, Your Majesty is wise..."
Emperor Qianyuan's palms were almost bleeding from being pinched inside his dragon robe!
He hasn't even abdicated yet, but all the ministers have already started supporting Prince Yi!
He uses his salary to support a bunch of fence-sitters!
"Hahaha..." Emperor Qianyuan laughed so hard that tears of joy flowed out of his eyes. "You are right. Ayi is my lucky star, the lucky star of the people, and the blessing of our Beiyi country..."
The ministers did not realize that Emperor Qianyuan's words were insincere; they just felt that the emperor was genuinely happy.
The blessings from the ministers were heard one after another.
Emperor Qianyuan glanced at Feng Yulin, and his heavy mood was relieved.
He planned for his whole life, but ended up making wedding clothes for his son.
Feng Yulin will never have a child until she dies!
Emperor Qianyuan thought about this and laughed happily again.
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