Looking around, the fourth son, the fifth son and his wife, the sixth son, the seventh son and his wife, the eighth son, all of his sons except the King of Qin were present. Emperor Jingming snorted coldly, "What are you doing here?"

During the Lantern Festival, these idiots can go anywhere, unlike him who can only go upstairs to admire the lanterns. Now something happened in Xuande Tower, and everyone came over to see what was going on.

Emperor Jingming was about to drive everyone away when the empress called out softly, "Your Majesty—"

Emperor Jingming looked at the empress.

The Queen whispered a few words into Emperor Jingming's ear, and Emperor Jingming nodded slightly. He then turned to Yu Jin and Jiang Si and said, "You all follow me back to the palace, and everyone else can go home."

After saying this, Emperor Jingming reached out and supported the Queen Mother: "Mother, please be careful where you step."

Soon, Emperor Jingming and his entourage left Xuande Tower in a mighty manner, leaving Prince Qi and others looking at each other in bewilderment.

The King of Shu spoke first: "I didn't expect that Fourth Brother would come out to admire the lanterns today. I thought you would stay in the palace with Fourth Sister-in-law."

Prince Qi smiled faintly and said, "Your fourth sister-in-law is not feeling well and cannot come out, so I promised to enjoy this beautiful view for her. How come your sixth brother is also alone?"

The King of Shu did not expect the King of Qi to speak so eloquently and was stunned.

The reason why he came out alone tonight was naturally because of the unpleasantness he had with the Princess of Shu.

It was clear that the Princess of Shu was a top-notch figure among the noble ladies in the capital before she got married, with both talent and beauty. How could she be so arrogant and stubborn? He just mentioned the matter of heirs, but she gave him a cold shoulder.

You have to know that he got married more than a month earlier than the seventh brother. Seeing that the seventh brother's daughter is about to call for someone, but he has not made any movement here, how can he not be anxious?

It would have been fine in the past, but what was the situation now? Having a son would undoubtedly increase his importance in his father's heart. Maybe even a little advantage would determine who would win or lose between him and the fourth son.

The King of Shu suppressed his displeasure and said nonchalantly, "I don't know what happened. When we came here, my father only wanted my seventh brother and his wife to go to the palace."

In terms of ranking, there are the fourth and fifth sons ahead of him. It is not shameful to be ignored by his father, but it is embarrassing for the fourth son to be surpassed by the seventh son.

The King of Qi obviously realized this and could only feel frustrated.

The emperor's mind is unpredictable. What else can he do except endure the embarrassment given by his father? Unless he sits on that position, no one will dare to embarrass him again.

Although he was unhappy about his father's preference for the seventh brother, he felt relieved.

At this critical moment, if the emperor really liked the seventh child, he would not show it so obviously. The emperor's behavior showed that he had never considered the seventh child in his heart.

The King of Qi felt better when he thought about it. His biggest worry was undoubtedly the King of Shu in front of him.

King Lu listened to the two people's ambiguous conversation and felt that it was meaningless. He curled his lips and said, "Aren't you curious about what happened just now?"

Why are you talking so much nonsense?

The King of Qi and the King of Shu looked at the King of Lu in unison. They were curious, of course, but it was obvious that their father had no intention of letting them know.

King Lu twitched his lips and suddenly grabbed a guard who was about to leave: "What happened just now?"

The guard dared not not answer: "When Princess Fuqing was watching the lanterns, the maidservant slipped and fell down..."

"It's as good as saying nothing." Prince Lu knew that he couldn't get much out of her, so he turned his head and asked Princess Lu, "Do you want to continue watching the lanterns, or go back home?"

After this happened, Princess Lu naturally lost interest in admiring the lanterns and said, "Let's go back home."

Prince Lu was delighted and quickly ordered the maids to send Princess Lu back.

Princess Lu narrowed her eyes and asked, "Your Majesty, won't you go back with me?"

"I'll take a look around. I haven't seen enough of these new lanterns yet."

Hehe, I finally got rid of this yellow-faced woman. There are so many young ladies at the party, who knows, I might meet a beauty.

Just when I was thinking about good things, I suddenly felt a pain in my waist.

"Your Highness wants to watch the lanterns alone?" Princess Lu emphasized the word "alone".

Prince Lu bared his teeth, trying not to cry out in pain in front of Prince Qi and the others, and suppressed his regrets, saying, "I suddenly feel that this is meaningless, let's go back home."

What if he didn't leave and was chased by this tigress at the Lantern Festival? He would lose face in front of the people of the capital.

Seeing the King of Lu and his wife leave, the others also dispersed one after another.

When Emperor Jingming returned to the palace, he was in an extremely bad mood and even became angry with the Empress.

In the past two years, bad things have happened one after another and there has been no peace. He told the empress to worship the Buddha when she has nothing to do, but the woman was not happy.

Now it’s okay, something happened again!

Although he was in a bad mood, Emperor Jingming still forced a smile in front of the Queen Mother: "Mother, I will take you back to Cining Palace first."

"The emperor has something to do, so don't worry about me. Fuqing, she——"

"Fuqing is fine. You can go back and rest first. I will tell you when I have figured out the situation."

"Well, I'll go back first." The Queen Mother nodded slightly to the Empress, "Empress, please take good care of the Emperor and Fuqing."

The Queen knelt slightly and said, "Don't worry, Mother."

After the empress dowager left, Emperor Jingming's face immediately darkened.

The Queen patted Princess Fuqing's hand and said, "Fuqing, you should go back too."

Princess Fuqing shook her head and said, "Mother, today's incident was directed at my daughter. I know best what happened at that time. Please let me stay."

She is not so fragile that she can only hide behind Fourteenth Sister when encountering problems.

She is a legitimate princess, not a dodder.

Princess Fuqing felt a little ashamed when she thought of how the Fourteenth Princess rushed over and protected her behind her at the moment the accident happened. At this moment, she was unwilling to leave the Fourteenth Princess alone to be questioned.

The queen hesitated for a moment, then met her daughter's pleading eyes and nodded.

"Well, you two should tell us what happened at that time, and don't miss any details." Emperor Jingming said.

After listening to the two princesses, Emperor Jingming looked at Yu Jin.

At that time, the Queen said that the Prince of Yan and his wife were good at solving cases, so he asked them to come to the palace together.

Yu Jin pondered for a moment and asked, "When did Qing Dai start serving Thirteenth Sister?"

"Qingdai has been with me for several years and has never made any mistakes."

"Has she behaved abnormally recently?" Yu Jin asked again.

Princess Fuqing shook her head hesitantly: "I didn't find anything unusual about her. Hongxiu, you spend the most time with Qingdai, have you discovered anything?"

As another personal maid of Princess Fuqing, Hongxiu, who had gone upstairs with her today, was already frightened and pale. When asked by Princess Fuqing, she said hurriedly: "The other day I accidentally found that Qingdai's eyes were swollen, as if she had been crying. I asked her what happened and she said that she squinted her eyes and rubbed them randomly. Now that I think about it, Qingdai must have had something wrong at that time... It's all my fault for not asking clearly..."

Hongxiu slapped herself hard.

The queen turned a deaf ear to the crisp slapping sound and murmured, "Qingdai was personally selected by me to be with Fuqing, how could there be a problem?"

The people who served Princess Fuqing were carefully selected by the Queen, but the problem happened to be with Princess Fuqing's personal maid. The Queen was almost overwhelmed by fear and grabbed Jiang Si's hand and said, "Princess Yan, who do you think wants to harm Fuqing?"