Unlike the bustling atmosphere of Prince Bao's mansion, the number of guests at Prince He's mansion has decreased significantly since Hongli began to oversee the country, making it rather quiet at this time.
That day, Hongzhou returned to his residence after finishing his business at the Ministry of Revenue. Upon entering, he went straight to his study, without going to the backyard.
The steward, who had been waiting for a long time, learned that Hongzhou had returned to the mansion and handed over some visiting invitations that had been sent to the mansion recently to Hongzhou's personal servant.
"These are the visiting cards from recent days. Take them to the Prince now and let him take a look," the steward said, pulling the servant who had come back to the mansion with Hongzhou.
"Yes, I'll take care of it right away." After saying that, the servant took the visiting card from the steward and went into the study.
After entering the study, the servant first served Hongzhou a cup of hot tea and placed it next to him. Then, he placed the visiting card that the steward had given him on the table in front of Hongzhou.
Hongzhou picked up the hot tea beside him, blew on it gently, took a sip, and glanced down at the visiting card placed on the table.
A moment later, Hongzhou put down his cup and casually flipped through the letters. He saw that these were all from people trying to curry favor with him. Although Hongli was now in power, there were not many princes in the court, so there were quite a few people trying to curry favor with Hongzhou.
At first, Hongzhou would carefully examine these visiting cards, but after a while, he stopped looking at them altogether. The contents of these visiting cards were all different; they were all sycophants forming cliques and using various excuses to invite him to their residences.
Therefore, he decided not to bother looking at these visiting cards and simply tossed them aside, saying to the servant beside him, "Take them all away. From now on, there's no need for me to look at these visiting cards."
"Yes." The servant hurriedly stepped forward to tidy up the visiting cards on the table.
However, when Hongzhou's eyes glanced at a letter beside him, his expression faltered slightly, and he reached out to stop the servant who was tidying up the visiting cards.
"Wait a moment, then bring me that letter to take a look." Hongzhou said, pointing to the letter on the far right.
This letter was different from the others. Instead of flattering words and phrases like "Respectfully presented to Prince He," the envelope was addressed directly to "To Hongzhou."
Upon seeing these words, Hongzhou paused slightly, feeling quite puzzled. He couldn't help but exclaim, "This letter is so arrogant."
Because, apart from Fourth Master and Lanqin, no one else dared to address him by his name so directly.
After pondering for a moment, Hongzhou still didn't know who had written the letter. He was unfamiliar with the handwriting on the envelope, so he picked it up with great curiosity and opened it.
However, after Hongzhou finished reading the letter, his puzzled expression changed, his brows furrowed slightly, and his expression was full of astonishment.
The servant standing nearby saw the letter fall from Hongzhou's hand, and sat down in his seat with an incredulous expression. A moment later, he heard Hongzhou say urgently, "Step back."
After the servants left, Hongzhou was left alone in the study. He picked up the letter that had fallen to the ground and looked at it in disbelief.
Because this letter revealed that Hongzhou was not born to Lady Geng, but rather to the current Empress Dowager.
Hongzhou was so surprised he could hardly believe it. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, but the turmoil in his heart was still hard to calm. The letter in his hand was burning hot to him. With his heart full of turmoil, Hongzhou crumpled the letter into a ball and threw it away.
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