Chapter 180 Two Top Priorities
The queen just gently reached out her hand to take the cup of tea and took a sip: "Yunlan, you will serve me from now on!"
Yunlan was delighted, she knew that she had won the bet this time.
"Yes." Yunlan bowed politely, trying hard to hide her inner joy.
The Yunzhu is now in my hands. I will make her pay back for the torture she gave me a few days ago.
"Yunzhu, you are really confused." The Queen spoke again, but her words were just for show. "The Imperial Concubine has always been respected by His Majesty. Why did you have to offend her in public?"
"I have to give the Imperial Concubine an explanation. You should start sweeping the floor today. When the Imperial Concubine calms down after a while, I will make arrangements for you."
Yunzhu knew that she was indeed too arrogant this time, so she could only thank the queen honestly and then retreat.
I'm afraid Shen Ning has completely given up on me, so I should contact Prince Yi as soon as possible.
The news of the Royal Concubine's punishment of Yunzhu spread quickly in the palace.
The little palace maids who had been bullied by Yunzhu these days felt very satisfied and admired the Royal Concubine even more.
"My sister doesn't know that some concubines in the harem originally thought that you were a person who was easy to bully," Concubine Lan was chatting with Song Qingyan in Qingyun Palace at this time, "I'm afraid they have given up this idea now."
"I didn't want to argue with her." Song Qingyan put the sleeping Lu Xingwan down, and then looked at Concubine Lan, "But she's just a palace maid. I really can't stand it."
Especially since she had just returned from Marquis Dingguo's Mansion. In such a warm environment, suddenly such a person appeared. How could she not be annoyed.
"Sister, you should have done so a long time ago. I heard that His Majesty and the Queen Mother also think that you handled the matter very well."
But right now, Song Qingyan doesn't care about these things.
After Concubine Lan left, Song Qingyan naturally ordered Jinxin to invite the prince, as this was the top priority.
Naturally, this matter must be avoided from Lu Xingwan. What if she suddenly wakes up? Wouldn't that be embarrassing?
The prince greeted politely and asked about Song Qingyan's affairs in Dingguo Marquis Mansion, but was stopped by Song Qingyan.
"I called you here today because of two important matters. You must listen carefully."
Seeing Song Qingyan was so serious, the prince sat up straight and said, "Aunt, please tell me!"
"First of all, the Minister of Rites sent a sword to Marquis Dingguo through the Second House a few days ago. There were several letters in the compartment of the sword box. Those letters were the correspondence between Marquis Dingguo and Emperor Helian Hengxin of Yuefeng Kingdom."
"The Minister of Rites is from Yuefeng State?" The prince naturally would not believe that Marquis Dingguo was colluding with the enemy and committing treason, so the first person he suspected was the Minister of Rites.
Song Qingyan shook her head: "This happened so quickly, I don't have much energy to investigate."
"But I asked Meiying to return the sword box intact to the home of the Minister of Rites." The prince knew the existence of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum. Since Song Qingyan entered the palace for him, he trusted her completely.
The prince lowered his head and looked as if he was thinking about something: "I know."
Song Qingyan knew that the prince was a man of his time, so she didn't say anything more when she saw him like this, thinking that he could handle it.
"The second thing is that a new concubine has recently entered the family of Master Rong, the doctor of the Imperial Academy. They say she is Master Rong's cousin. This person is not simple. You should investigate her."
"Aunt, what is your guess?" The prince has always trusted Song Qingyan, and the information she provided is most likely true.
"She might be a spy from Yuefeng Country."
The prince was stunned. Yuefeng Kingdom had just suffered a heavy blow a few days ago, so how come it was so active now?
"The Yuefeng Kingdom was defeated by my grandfather a few days ago, how dare they do these things in succession?" The prince was indeed confused.
"Helian Hengxin is probably a person who is eager for success. If he can't break it from the outside, he will think of disintegrating it from the inside."
"I don't know much about this guy."
"I have led troops to fight him before. His biggest problem is indeed his impatience for success. I didn't expect that he would still be like this after becoming the emperor."
The prince replied, "A few days ago, my grandfather negotiated with Helian Renxin to capture two cities in Yuefeng State. Now that Helian Renxin has obtained military power, he must be extremely anxious."
Song Qingyan's mind, however, had drifted far away, and it was probably more than that.
According to what Wanwan said, according to the normal trajectory, Helian Renxin would not have military power, and the Great Chu Kingdom would not have taken advantage of the Yuefeng Kingdom. This was probably arranged long ago.
In the past, it was people under Prime Minister Cui who arranged to frame Marquis Dingguo.
Now that Prime Minister Cui is gone, a new Minister of Rites has emerged.
Song Qingyan suddenly had an idea: "Do you think the Minister of Rites could be the Third Prince's man?"
"Your son will go check it out." The prince stood up, saluted to Song Qingyan, and hurried to Xingyang Palace.
Not long after the prince left, Meiying and Lanying arrived.
Song Qingyan couldn't help but sigh. This was the consequence of going back to her parents' home for two days to rest, and now she had to come back to deal with endless things.
Lu Xingwan happened to wake up at this time.
Song Qingyan simply held her to her side and listened to Meiying and Zhuying's reports.
Anyway, there is nothing to hide from her. On the contrary, her presence can provide me with some extremely crucial information.
"The Queen has relaxed her mind since the young lady went home, so it's much easier to investigate." Mei Ying stood aside, unwilling to sit down. "Your Majesty's headache, I guess it's most likely related to the Queen, but the Queen did it very covertly and didn't leave any evidence."
[That's right, every time something happens, Father gets a headache.]
[Or maybe the emperor neglected her, which gave him a headache. ]
[This person has such a cruel heart. She secretly harmed the emperor just to make him need her.]
Song Qingyan nodded: "Disclose this matter to the Dragon Shadow Guards and let them investigate it themselves. We will not interfere anymore."
I will naturally care about the emperor's own health, I just need to reveal the matter to him.
Lan Ying continued, "The young lady asked her subordinates to investigate the assassins who tried to kill the Second Prince in the south. These assassins were not targeting the Second Prince. Their real target was Prince Pei."
"Prince Pei?" This was beyond Song Qingyan's expectation. "Could it be that he is targeting Duke Anguo?"
"I followed the clues and found that all the assassins who killed Prince Pei committed suicide. No one survived. This must be an assassin organization with very strict discipline."
Song Qingyan really didn't expect this.
"It's just that this assassin organization probably originated from the Dali Kingdom."
[Awesome! The situation is getting increasingly chaotic.]
[Another spy from Yuefeng State has infiltrated and is trying to cause chaos in the Chu State.]
[Another assassin from Dali has sneaked in and wants to assassinate the prince of Anguo. ]
[That's not right. Duke Anguo defeated Yuefeng Kingdom. Dali Kingdom should be grateful to Duke Anguo. Why would they attack Pei Chuyan? ]