The Fourth Prince had no way to refute it, so the matter was temporarily shelved pending verification.
After the court was dismissed, Shen Ze'an was invited to the imperial study by the emperor. He hadn't seen him for a long time and didn't expect Shen Ze'an to be so sick.
"My dear, please take care of yourself..."
After speaking in a high-sounding manner, the emperor finally got down to business.
"Yu'er is now in the Imperial Palace. After all, she is my biological sister. Now she has suffered inhuman torture in Qing Kingdom. My original intention is not to let her go to Qing Kingdom again. Do you have any good ideas?"
He really had no other choice, so he placed his hopes on Shen Ze'an.
"Your Majesty's love for his sister is understandable, but Qing's actions are truly excessive. I believe it's not a bad idea to fight."
What the emperor feared most was war. War meant money, and war with the Kingdom of Qing meant there was basically no chance of winning.
During this period, so many ministers came in and out of the imperial study, some wanted to beat the princess, some wanted to send the princess away, and everyone had their own opinions.
The military generals wanted to fight, thinking that they could not be bullied; the civil officials wanted to make peace, thinking that they could not go to war just because of a woman. There were millions of common people in every household with elderly parents and young children to support, and if there was a war, their wives and children would be separated and their families would be destroyed.
The emperor knew it clearly in his mind, and he knew the consequences of losing the fight, so he didn't want to gamble. But now he was in a dilemma and he really didn't know what to do.
"If Your Majesty does not want to fight, I do have a solution."
"you say."
The emperor's face was full of anticipation, hoping to get different opinions.
"The Fourth Prince of Qing simply wants to bring back his concubine, but what if this concubine has already passed away?"
"How can that be possible? Yu'er is..."
After Shen Ze'an left the palace, the emperor also left.
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The next day, the news that Shen Ze'an was poisoned again spread throughout the court. The emperor was really angry this time. The person behind this dared to do it again and again.
Now is the time to recruit people, and the people of Qing are eyeing us covetously. The person behind the scenes actually dares to cause trouble at this critical moment.
The imperial physician came back quickly, saying that Shen Zean’s poison had damaged his heart meridians, and if an antidote couldn’t be found, they might only have a month left.
"Why at this time? Why at this time?"
The emperor was furious. He felt like his brain was about to explode. One thing after another, one crisis after another.
The emperor was so angry that he would have fallen down if Xiao Dezi beside him had not helped him in time.
"Go, find the best doctors and imperial physicians for Lord Shen, and make sure he is cured."
The imperial physician was so frightened that he trembled and could only retreat respectfully.
The emperor had just rested for a while when the young eunuch outside walked in tremblingly, and it was obvious that he had something to report.
"explain."
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is in trouble. She has fainted. Please go and see her."
The emperor was really angry to death. Nothing made him worry.
When the person was halfway there, the palace maid beside Concubine Xia stopped him and said that Concubine Xia was diagnosed as pregnant.
The emperor was so happy that he changed direction and came to Concubine Xia.
The Queen Mother was pretending to be sick, hoping that the Emperor would send Jiang Yuchu back to her, but she didn't expect to be intercepted by that bitch.
She couldn't go and vent her anger at Concubine Xia now, as she felt that the Queen was too stupid and couldn't even control a mere noble lady.
She then had the queen invited to her place, hoping that she would use her unborn child to threaten the emperor to release Jiang Yuchu.
The queen now really felt that all the people in the royal family were sick. They actually wanted her to use the child in her belly to threaten the emperor to release her daughter.
Not to mention that they don't have much of a relationship. Even if they do, so what? She is the emperor's own sister, and she doesn't want to let her, a sister-in-law, take care of her.
"Mother, His Majesty has told me to take good care of the baby and not to interfere with other matters."
"What are you talking about? Yu'er has called you sister-in-law for so many years. You can't just watch him sink into the quagmire like this."
The queen despised him in her heart, thinking that he had ruined a good hand of cards. At first, when Marquis Jing'an wanted to propose marriage to her, she turned him down.
Later, because she didn't want to marry into the Kingdom of Qing and give her clean body to someone else, which would ruin her reputation, she became pregnant with someone else's child and wanted to marry into the Kingdom of Qing with the child.
That is the Fourth Prince. If it were her, it would not be excessive to kill her.
"Mother, Your Majesty never listens to me. Rather than asking me to persuade Your Majesty, it would be better to let Noble Lady Xia do it."
"You, you, you... you are a piece of crap that can't be helped."
The empress dowager was so angry that her head was buzzing. Seeing this, the nanny next to her quickly took out some pills and gave them to her to take, and she felt better.
The Queen was still doing a good job on the surface. Seeing the Queen Mother like this, she quickly stood up and asked with concern, "What's wrong with you, Mother? Please don't let this make you sick."
"Go away, go away."
The queen shrugged and left the Queen Mother's palace.
The emperor was truly happy when he learned that Concubine Xia was pregnant. This was the happiest thing in these days.
"Yan'er, we finally have our own child."
The two hugged each other, and Xia Yuyan's eyes changed again and again. Since she and His Majesty already had a child, those who shouldn't exist no longer had any reason to exist.
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Within a dozen days, the news of the fifth princess' death spread like wildfire. When the queen mother heard the news, she collapsed due to suffocation.
The people of Qing believed this fact only after seeing the body of the fifth princess with their own eyes, and the fourth prince Ji Zhi even left Xiali Kingdom with a new concubine.
Shen Ze'an watched the team leave from the dark, knowing that it was time to start the next step of the plan.
The plan was that the people of Qing would retaliate against Chen Ze'an for capturing the guards around the Fourth Prince, and Chen Ze'an, who was already poisoned, would be assassinated to death.
But plans cannot keep up with changes, and bad news came from the palace.
The queen was dying and was said to have been pushed to the ground. She was supposed to give birth during this period, but this happened.
The Queen specifically wanted to see Rong Xi. Although no one knew the reason, the Emperor ordered that only the palace could come to convey his decree, saying that the Ninth Princess must be brought back to the palace no matter what.
The emperor was also puzzled. The queen was probably in danger of death. She didn't want to see him, let alone her family. She only wanted to see a princess who was indifferent to her.
They all knew that the Ninth Princess went to the temple to worship Buddha. After Shen Ze'an made it clear that the Ninth Princess was not in the mansion, the eunuch who delivered the order still stated the emperor's intention, that no matter how difficult it was, the Ninth Princess must be brought back to see the queen as soon as possible.
There was murderous intent in Shen Ze'an's eyes. Rong Xi couldn't come back now, otherwise all the careful plans would come to nothing, and Rong Xi's pregnancy would not be concealed.
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