The Prince of Qi was obviously suppressed by Emperor Jingming, and all the officials and nobles naturally noticed it. As a result, the Princes of Lu, Shu, and Yan immediately became the focus of everyone's attention.
Prince Lu returned to his palace happily and said to Princess Lu, "Have a drink with me."
Princess Lu frowned and asked, "Is there any good news for the prince?"
King Lu sat down and smiled brightly: "You can see all this. I am in a good mood today."
"Please speak, my Lord. It will make me happy."
Prince Lu was excited: "I thought that after becoming a prince, I would have to bow down to them, but I didn't expect that I would be so glorious. Today, I met a few people who were very polite to me. I didn't see them being like this when I was a prince before-"
Princess Lu rolled her eyes and said, "Please be polite, Your Majesty, don't take it too seriously."
When the King of Lu heard this, he was unhappy: "Old Eight and Old Four have lost their power one after another, leaving me, Old Six, and Old Seven safe and sound. Think about it, I am the oldest among the three of us, so why are those people respectful to me?"
"What the prince means is——"
Prince Lu smiled proudly: "Can I only be a prince? Maybe if I'm lucky, I can even become a prince——"
Princess Lu burst out laughing.
"What are you laughing at?"
Princess Lu stopped smiling, glanced at Prince Lu, and said murderously, "I advise you not to have wild ideas. Is being a crown prince just a matter of luck? Let's not talk about others, let's talk about Prince Qi. He has been patient and cautious for many years, but I don't know why he was abandoned by my father. Do you think you can be more patient than Prince Qi? Or do you want to be like Prince Qi?"
Prince Lu shuddered and shook his head quickly.
He didn't want to be a person like Lao Si, who would bear a grudge for the rest of his life for making him take the blame when he was a child.
For people like Lao Si, he just wanted to say "Pah".
Princess Lu was afraid that Prince Lu would not give up, so she said, "Your Highness and I are husband and wife. I don't mind whether your Highness becomes successful or loses his life, but what about our daughter?"
As she spoke, she rubbed her belly and said, "There's another one in my belly..."
"What did you say?" Prince Lu was surprised, and then overjoyed. He hugged Princess Lu and kissed her, "So, I'm going to have a son?"
Princess Lu turned her head away and said, "How can we know whether it is a boy or a girl... Even if it is a boy, so what? If the prince had mixed the two blindly, it would be a pain if a boy was born——"
King Lu said repeatedly: "No more mixing, no more mixing!"
Princess Lu breathed a sigh of relief.
This man shines brightly when he sees a little sunshine. He doesn't have the brains to seek death. This is just making a joke of the whole family.
After a while, Prince Lu calmed down and said with a wry smile, "Since you are pregnant, I will sleep in the study. As for that... I don't need too many, just arrange for a beautiful lady to accompany you."
"Not much?" Princess Lu glanced at Prince Lu.
King Lu felt that opportunities were rare and that he must strive for the benefits. He laughed dryly and said, "One is not too much, right?"
"No, quite a lot."
"ah?"
Princess Lu took out a pair of scissors from the embroidery basket, slapped them in front of Prince Lu, and sneered, "Your Highness, you think too much!"
Soon screams were heard from inside the house.
The maids standing guard outside the door looked at each other with an attitude of being accustomed to it.
Compared to the chaotic Lu Palace, the Shu Palace is much quieter.
The King of Shu and his wife did not get along well, so naturally he would not confide his secrets to her at this time. Instead, he locked himself in the study, thinking about what had happened recently.
The more I think about it, the more anxious I become.
That day, the seventh brother was called into the palace first and scolded, and then the fourth brother was called into the palace as well, and then the officials who supported the fourth brother suffered a heavy blow... Was the fourth brother's misfortune related to the seventh brother?
And the matter with the Eighth Brother was obviously planned by the Seventh Brother, but the Fifth Brother tried to take the blame for it - thinking about how stupid the King of Lu was, the King of Shu shook his head.
It seems that he and Lao Qi have the best chance.
After the King of Shu's slight excitement, he realized something terrifying: Does that mean he will have to face the Seventh Brother head-on?
No, no, he is not fully prepared yet and cannot fight against Lao Qi now.
The King of Shu locked himself in his study for half a day and finally thought it through: he still had to prepare slowly, so let the seventh brother have the glory for a while.
Meanwhile, at the Dongping Marquis's mansion, Second Elder Jiang started counting on his fingers: King of Lu, King of Shu, King of Yan...hiss, the possibility of King of Yan is even greater!
Mr. Jiang's jealousy towards the eldest wife intensified again.
Jealousy is jealousy, but it is necessary to please. Mr. Jiang Er decided to take the wine bottle and go to find his eldest brother to drink.
At the Anguo Mansion, the Duke of Anguo solemnly warned his wife, Wei: "Don't tell your mother about Prince Qi's affairs, so as not to worry her."
Wei nodded and said anxiously: "My Lord, what should we do in the future——"
Duke An sneered, "What do you mean? Of course, we have to do what we have to do. When my sister was not a concubine in the palace, we were the Duke's Mansion that was inherited by hereditary. Do we really have to run down the path of being a foreign relative just for an illusory idea?"
"But--"
"It's nothing, you should put those thoughts aside and take good care of the Duke's Mansion." Duke An warned Wei, he had his own thoughts in mind.
Although he has always been reluctant to get involved in the matter of usurping the throne, the Duke of Anguo's Mansion is the maternal family of the Prince of Qi, and in the eyes of the world, they are naturally supporters of the Prince of Qi. If the Prince of Qi fights with a certain prince like water and fire, once he loses, the Duke of Anguo's Mansion may suffer.
But now it's a little different.
The chances of Prince Yan are getting bigger and bigger. Once Prince Yan comes to the throne, the Anguo Mansion is, after all, his maternal family with a blood relationship. Even if Prince Yan is registered under the name of the Empress, she cannot deny this.
As long as the Anguo Mansion does not act excessively, there is no reason for Prince Yan to take action against the Anguo Mansion.
If the Prince of Yan lost to another prince, since the Prince of Yan was registered under the name of the Empress, the prince who ascended to the throne would not have a hard time with the Anguo Mansion.
After much thought, the bloody fight between Prince Yan and other princes will have little impact on the Anguo Mansion. If Prince Qi does the same, the Anguo Mansion may also lose its head.
Well, King Qi should just leave it like this.
As the uncle of King Qi, Duke An Guo once again determined not to help King Qi.
If there is a chance, it would be possible to help Prince Yan quietly.
"As for Concubine Xian, when you go to the palace to pay your respects, please advise her that being law-abiding is a blessing."
Wei agreed and went to the palace to visit Concubine Xian the next day, but she had a different story to tell.
"Your Highness, do you know about the King of Qi?"
When Concubine Xian heard Wei's question, her heart sank. She asked calmly, "What happened to Zhang'er?"
She got the news when the Empress Dowager fainted on the first day of April, but it was difficult to find out more after that.
With the Empress Dowager and the Queen around, some news was much more blocked inside the palace than outside.
For this reason, Concubine Xian has been waiting for news from Prince Qi these days, but Prince Qi has not come to the palace to pay her respects.
Wei's eyes flickered, and he whispered, "It is now said that King Qi has lost power—"