Chapter 417 Drawing a Picture of a Beauty

"Mr. Xie, you have to think of a solution!"

"Yes! We can't go on like this, how can this be accepted? Mr. Xie, you have to think of a solution." Mr.

Xie sighed: "You asked me to give advice to the emperor, and I've said all the bad things. The emperor just wants to protect the Queen Mother and the Crown Prince. I really have no other choice."

"In another two months, the emperor will lead the court officials to the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum to worship their ancestors."

Someone suddenly said, "Isn't the fifth prince in the imperial mausoleum?"

"What do you mean?"

"The fifth prince is the legitimate son of the late queen. According to reason, the fifth prince should be made the crown prince."

As long as the fifth prince becomes the crown prince, the Queen Mother will not be able to exercise her ambitions so unscrupulously.

The Emperor was also concerned about the face of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's biological mother, which is why he couldn't make a decision for a long time. Late at

night -

several important court officials walked out of the residence of Xie Dashi, and the spies hidden in the dark quietly returned to the palace.

"Xie Huai?"

"Xie Chenghui's father?"

Shuangjiang nodded: "The several ministers who have been instigating the court officials to oppose the Queen all have daughters in the palace as concubines. Xie Dashi has a very high reputation in the Hanlin Academy and had the best chance to enter the inner cabinet, but..."

Jiang Xinyue took over what she had just said: "But because my father was promoted to the inner cabinet by Master Jing as an exception, he took his place, right?"

"That's not the case."

Shuangjiang frowned, "It's not that easy to enter the inner cabinet. If Lord Jiang didn't have the ability, Master Jing wouldn't let him enter the inner cabinet. It must be that the queen's father had the ability, plus the identity of the prince's grandfather, and after comprehensive consideration, he was selected into the inner cabinet."

In this case, there is no such thing as her father occupying the quota of Xie Dashi.

"It seems that it's time to meet this Xie Dashi."

The night sky was as cold as water, the red candles in the window were swaying in the cold wind, and the drizzle outside the window was slanting, and the accumulated water was like broken pearls, quietly dripping along the eaves, spreading a circle of ripples on the ground.

Xie Huai was sitting in front of the window, staring at the rain outside. Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed out from the side, scaring him: "Ah..."

After seeing who it was, the hair on his body finally relaxed. He patted his chest twice and said, "You rebellious son, you scared me to death."

Xie Chenghui said coldly, "If you don't do bad things in your life, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night. Father has done too many bad things, so he was scared by me."

"Tsk!"

Xie Huai glared at him, "How do you talk to your father?"

Xie Chenghui snorted again, "Father has private contacts with so many ministers in broad daylight, which is suspected of forming a clique for personal gain. He also dares to make irresponsible comments on His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Queen Mother, which is even more sinful. Father is not afraid of being exposed. Will the emperor dismiss you?"

"You rebellious son!"

The fat on the white and plump scholar Xie's body trembled. He pointed at his son outside the window and cursed: "Who else would expose me except you, a little bastard? Don't think I don't know what you are thinking? Who are you doing this for? Now you want to betray me to please that woman, right? I think you are possessed."

"Please be careful with your words, father."

Xie Chenghui's face was still cold: "My son is not a good person if he doesn't get married. If my father insists on making wild guesses, let's go to the emperor and explain it clearly. I don't want to implicate anyone."

"You...you really are...you make me so angry..."

"You don't like..."

The name came out of Master Xie's mouth with difficulty, and the voice was so soft that Xie Chenghui almost didn't hear it clearly: "Then why do you hide her portrait in your study?"

"I have told you many times that the portrait was painted by me for the Emperor and the Queen Mother of Heaven before. I thought her appearance could be ranked first among the beauties, so I painted it. Can you please not insult my personality?"

He liked the Queen Mother of Heaven, but he didn't have any evil thoughts when he painted it. He painted the twelve beauties openly and named each portrait after a flower, and the Queen Mother of Heaven was the first of the twelve flowers - the peony.

He was still searching for the rest of the beauties with his master.

It was when his father saw the portrait of the Queen Mother of Heaven in his study that he determined that he was reluctant to get married because of the person in the painting.

"If you don't believe me, you can ask my teacher if we are planning to paint the Twelve Beauties recently?"

His love for the Queen of Heaven was the most obscure, secret, and undisclosed thing in his life.

If he painted for personal reasons, it would be an insult to the Queen of Heaven and his own personality.

He said that he would never secretly collect the Queen of Heaven's portrait in his life.

He would never do anything that would cause trouble to everyone.

Xie Huai's originally firm eyes turned into unconfident ones, and he said with half doubt and half belief: "Is what you said true?"

He twirled his beard, smacked his lips uncomfortably, and his angry eyes turned into relief: "I told you! My son is the most talented and good young man in the Dayan Dynasty. How could he have such dirty thoughts? This is the good boy of my Xie family! Why are you standing outside? Come in! Don't get wet in such heavy rain."

It was as if he had just noticed that he was standing under the porch.

Xie Chenghui pushed his father's hand away: "You are not targeting the Queen Mother just because of the painting in my study?"

"How is that possible?"

Xie Huai wanted to argue a few more words, but seeing his son's sharp eyes, he said weakly: "Yes and no, I was also trying to advise the emperor not to let the relatives monopolize power, which would encourage the Queen Mother's ambition and be detrimental to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the future." But

at that time he did not intend to impeach Jiang Xinyue, he just wanted to reason with the emperor. If he could make sense, it would be the best. If not, he could do nothing.

After all, the emperor's surname is Shen, and no matter what the emperor wants, how can a minister be stubborn?

It was the portrait in his son's study that made him imagine and had a preconceived and bad guess about the Queen Mother.

That's why he kept on biting Jiang Xinyue, staying up late to read, looking for clues in the memorials she reviewed, wanting to severely report her in front of the emperor. He

wanted the emperor to find out how terrible she was, how deep her scheming was, and how terrifying her ambition was, so that he could take back the power from her.

After he finished speaking, he found that the emperor was not shocked or unhappy, and he was not on guard against the Queen Mother. Instead, he seemed to admire her.

The courtiers quarreled deliberately at the door of the study to test the emperor's attitude, but they were also dealt with by the iron fist.

How could he have the nerve to talk to his son? He didn't even have the chance to fight with the Queen Mother, and was beaten back by the emperor.