Chapter 405, The purpose of Duke Yan's collusion with the enemy

The next day, when Xia Wanwan was having dinner with her parents, she kept glancing at her mother with her big eyes.

When Liu Wan looked over, she quickly smacked a big mouthful of rice.

After a while, there was a strong sense of stealing.

Should I tell my mother about it?

Just as she was thinking, someone suddenly came to report outside the door.

"Prince, Princess, this is a visiting card from Duke Yan's mansion."

Xia Siheng and Liu Wan looked at each other and asked in confusion, "Since we came back from Hezhou, we have no intersection with him."

Even Xia Siheng couldn't guess what Duke Yan was doing here.

Only Xia Wanwan was fidgeting, and Gu Ming behind her looked around at a loss.

"It must be when Wanwan was in Hezhou that his identity was exposed. He wouldn't come here to... harm Wanwan!"

Liu Wan turned her head to look at her little kid. No wonder she always felt that the little guy was weird today.

"Don't worry. Since he came to the Ninth Prince's Mansion, is it possible that he can succeed under our noses? It's good that he came. It's a good opportunity to find out his background."

Xia Siheng said.

Liu Wan hesitated for a while and nodded.

After everyone finished their meal, Liu Wan took people to prepare things to entertain the guests.

Xia Wanwan looked for an opportunity to slip away, but her father grabbed her by the back of the neck and lifted her up.

She was so anxious that her legs kicked.

"Tell me, what did you do last night?" Xia Siheng picked her up and hung her in his arms.

Yesterday she was so awesome that she let Yuanbao take her out.

But how could the secret guards he arranged be vegetarians? They could not hide anything from them.

The secret guards could not catch up with Yuanbao.

But Xia Siheng guessed that Wanwan went out because of Duke Yan.

Otherwise, why would Duke Yan come to question him so quickly.

"If you were going to blow up the roof of the Duke's Mansion, why didn't you call daddy? With daddy here, how would people know it was you who did it?" Xia Siheng pinched her little face with one hand and rubbed it.

Xia Wanwan pouted her little mouth and said vaguely, "I really didn't, I didn't blow up the roof, I'm a good boy."

"Really? Then Duke Yan came to see you?" Xia Siheng chuckled.

He would have to understand how Wanwan offended Duke Yan before he could deal with it.

Xia Wanwan said with a guilty conscience, "Not necessarily. It's also possible that he has a guilty conscience and feels sorry for me, so he comes to apologize to me?"

"Tell me the truth."

Xia Siheng gently spanked her little butt.

"Daddy, he is here to find my younger brother, but my younger brother is his boss!"

Xia Wanwan patted her chest with a proud look on her face.

Xia Siheng: ???

"I know all the words you said, but why do you put them together? I don't understand?"

"Yes, that Gu Ming is my new younger brother, and Duke Yang is here to ask for help."

Xia Wanwan pointed to the side with her little finger.

Empty.

Gu Ming, has already run away!

She was so angry that her little eyebrow raised, "Yuanbao!"

After a while, Yuanbao threw the runaway Gu Ming in.

Gu Ming smiled, "Hehe, hello, sister, what do you want to tell me?"

"Daddy, Yuanbao and I followed Gu Ming last night. Duke Yan seems to be quite hostile to Donglin. He colluded with the Donglin people, as if to avenge someone!"

Xia Wanwan repeated what Duke Yan said last night.

Xia Siheng frowned deeply.

"In addition to harming Concubine Xian and the Queen, and coveting the position of Queen, the Queen Mother also investigated his previous contacts with the Donglin people, which were nothing more than some court policies."

But those policies are generally made public once they are decided, so there is really no need to report them to the Donglin people.

"The most important thing is that he has trained a team of elite warriors for Donglin in Daxia. Although there is no evidence, the news that the rabbit got from Concubine Jing is definitely true."

"This team of warriors can be called elite. If they are left in Daxia, they will probably help Donglin people to assassinate the emperor one day."

"Then, what kind of difficulties can he have to do so many things for Donglin?"

Xia Siheng was puzzled.

Xia Wanwan had a fortune-telling last night when she was watching a play. She saw the general cause and effect, but she didn't know the specific details.

She said, "Daddy, Zhishu Qiao is the son of Duke Yan, but didn't the Empress Dowager tell us before that Duke Yan's wife and daughter fell off a cliff, and in the end only the daughter was found? Could Zhishu Qiao be the son of Duke Yan's concubine?"

"No, Duke Yan had only one wife when he was young. Twenty years ago, his wife fell off a cliff, so he married his current concubine. If there really was a concubine, the Empress Dowager should have found it quickly, but if the Empress Dowager didn't find it, then there wasn't one. It's strange. Who gave birth to Zhishu Qiao?"

Xia Siheng lowered his head and asked her.

"Dad, from what I've discovered, Duke Yan has only one boy among his children."

"I think his wife and son must have fallen off a cliff, and his son didn't die, but he was worried about leaving him in the capital, so he sent him to the Qiao family in Hezhou, giving the Qiao family wealth and status to raise his son. In order to conceal his tracks, he found a girl and announced to the outside world that he had found his young daughter."

In this way, all of Zhishu Qiao's life experiences made sense.

Xia Siheng looked at her and kissed her on the cheek. "As you said, Duke Yan later replaced all the servants and maids in the mansion, and had financial dealings with many people. He must have wanted to cover up the fact that he had brought his child back to the mansion."

"He replaced it with a baby girl, so that it would be easier to compete for the position of queen in the future, and secondly, it would protect his real child."

"If the capital is not good for his child, unless his collusion with the enemy is exposed, or the people of Donglin are watching him and using his child as a threat."

And so on.

Xia Siheng thought about this and suddenly thought of something.

Twenty years ago, the old Duke Yan had just died, and Duke Yan had not yet colluded with the enemy.

If his wife and children fell off a cliff, how did he think of exchanging the children and bringing them back home, and then planning this situation in just one day? ιΙйＧyuτΧＴ.ЙetIt

must be that the death of his wife and children was not an accident.

It was someone else's action.

Therefore, when he found his youngest son, he was afraid that the child would be attacked again, so he exchanged the child back. The reason why he changed to a girl was to let her enter the palace.

In this way, he not only knew who the murderer was, but also that the murderer was in a high position and powerful, and only the imperial power could shake him.

But under the imperial power of Daxia, the most powerful one is Duke Yan.

Could it be that the murderer is from another country? Is he from Donglin?

Is Duke Yan colluding with the Donglin people and looking for an opportunity to take revenge?

What a spy scene!

Xia Siheng suddenly had a change of heart towards Duke Yan, but soon, he put such thoughts behind him.

All of this was just his own guess.

Whether Duke Yan was a spy on a secret mission or just a spy, all of this remained to be considered.

Wanwan's fortune-telling was always accurate. Since she said that there was only one boy in Duke Yan's bloodline, it must be Zhishu Qiao, and the legitimate daughter in the mansion was exchanged.

The two sons born to the second wife might have been the result of Duke Yan's cheating.

He wanted to find an opportunity to test Duke Yan's attitude towards the people of Donglin. Now, the Lord of Donglin was about to come to Daxia, and time was running out. The final vote of the new law was imminent, and he had to solve the matter of the Donglin assassins one by one.

Otherwise, once Duke Yan meets Lord Donglin in Daxia, things will become even more uncertain.

"My dear daughter, let's go and test him." Xia Siheng shook Xia Wanwan in his arms and hugged her tighter.

When he was leaving, he passed by Gu Ming and Yuan Bao and said, "You guys come too."

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ps: Princesses, read it first, there is another chapter to be written, which will be posted later.