Some people say: Children aged seven or eight are disliked by others, even pigs and dogs don’t like them.
Some people also say: If a child is not punished for three days, he will climb up the roof and tear off the tiles.
But Jiang Ying felt that nothing could compare to the "heroic act" of the eldest prince stealing his mother's private seal and giving it away for a few bites of food.
Although private seals are not as good as later seals, they are also extremely important and critical!
This gift... is so funny, Jiang Ying dare not accept it.
He quickly threw it to Yan Zhuo and said, "Find some time to return it. I value my life and don't want to die too early."
Yan Zhuo held the small private seal of the Queen in his hand and nodded calmly, "Now I finally understand why the Emperor hesitated to make the eldest prince the Crown Prince."
My goodness, how can this be possible with such stupidity?
If he really became the emperor, he wouldn't even know when he gave the country away!
At the same time, Kunning Palace.
After the Queen's maid Liu Qin helped to clean up the study, she felt that something seemed to be missing in the room, but the Queen had so many account books and books that she couldn't find it at the moment.
It was not until I had walked around three or four times that I saw that a box was missing from the shelf where the seals were usually placed that I realized what was going on.
But her first reaction was not that the seal was stolen, but that it was left on the ground or somewhere else. So she hurriedly looked for it everywhere. She couldn't find it by herself, so she called several other confidants of the queen to look for it. She almost turned the study upside down, but still couldn't find it.
Now everyone in the Queen's palace was anxious, but it was night time and the Queen had a headache during the day, so she went to bed early tonight.
Several people gathered together, debating whether to wake up the queen.
Finally, they couldn't bear it any longer. The Queen's private seal was such an important thing. If they didn't tell her tonight, they wouldn't be able to afford the delay in retrieving the seal tomorrow morning.
Liu Qin tiptoed through the door and walked to the bed. While shaking the queen's arm outside the quilt, she whispered, "Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."
After shouting a few times, the queen turned over and continued to sleep.
Liu Qin was helpless, her heart burning with anxiety, so she could only raise her voice, "Empress! Empress!"
The Queen finally made a sound. "Is it time? Hey, I just slept for a while, how come it's dawn so soon!"
Liu Qin didn't know what to say, so she stood outside the curtain with her head bowed, waiting for the queen to sober up.
After a while, the Queen finally resisted the overwhelming force of the mattress and sat up listlessly, crookedly. "Liu Qin, what's the point of me being the Queen? I have to get up so early every day, waiting for the concubines in the harem to come and pay their respects to me. They're all either showing off their favor or competing to see who's younger and prettier. I'm the only one who's served the Emperor the longest, so naturally I'm old and ugly and he doesn't like me.
"Oh, I can't get the person, but at least I can get a healthy body, right?
"It turns out this queen is truly unfitting. She's toiling away at the necessities of life, feeding the entire family, and bringing in new children. The Imperial Household Department is a bunch of dumb sparrows, and without me, it's like they can't even move!"
Liu Qin was flustered, but these were all the Queen's daily complaints, and she was used to hearing them.
I remained silent, hoping that the queen would hurry up and wake up, otherwise she might not be able to bear it if the news was told!
The queen straightened her messy hair and got out of bed, sighing softly, "I want to ask for leave again. Or I can just say I'm sick. Please excuse me."
Liu Qin, "Today is the first day of the lunar year, my lady."
The Queen, "Uh..." resigned herself to her fate and got out of bed.
At this moment, Liu Qin plopped down on her knees beside the footstool and said, "Madam, I called you up because I want to tell you something. Your private seal is missing!"
"What?" The queen stood barefoot on the couch, not reacting at all.
After a moment, she sat back down and said, "You mean my private seal? Isn't it in the study? How can it be gone? Explain clearly!"
Liu Qin trembled with fear, but spoke clearly and explained the whole story.
The Queen's expression was unclear in the candlelight, but it was definitely not good. However, she did not lose her composure. "The seal won't grow legs and walk out of the study on its own. Please check again. Who has entered the study since I left yesterday?"
She remembered that she had used a private seal when she reviewed the account books of the Imperial Household Department. In other words, the seal "disappeared out of thin air" after she left the study.
I glanced at the clepsydra in the room. It was only the second watch of the night, so it would only be a little over an hour in total.
It's not difficult to check.
Sure enough, Liu Qin returned not long after. "Your Majesty, I've found out. Aside from me, only the eldest prince entered the study that evening. His wet nurse, Madam Pi, lingered outside the study for an incense stick waiting for him."
As they were talking, both the master and the servant were wondering...was it the eldest prince or Aunt Pi who held the seal?
In the end, the two of them ruled out Aunt Pi. Everyone in Kunning Palace was loyal, and Aunt Pi was the most loyal. There was no reason for her to steal the seal.
So the little thief is his own son?
Thinking of this, the queen calmed down and fell back on the bed. "Since Shuheng took it, go grab him and let him find it!"
"Won't the Queen go in person? That's a private seal. What if someone with ulterior motives tricks the Crown Prince into using it..."
The Queen closed her eyes and shook her head. "I can't go. He'll be scared. Don't be too harsh on him. What if he gets too nervous and forgets things? Wouldn't that make things even more frustrating?"
Liuqin is under great pressure.
She knew that the real reason why the Queen didn't go was that she was still sleepy and didn't want to move.
But she wasn't sure if she could complete the task.
The eldest prince's thinking is incoherent, and it is much more difficult to communicate with him than a normal person.
But the queen was not in a hurry, and there was nothing she could do.
As he stepped back to the door, he heard the Queen's hazy voice say, "It's dawn. Announce the fact that I've lost my private seal. It just so happens that I'm busy looking for it, so there's no need to greet you!"
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