In the afternoon, Qingyan leaned lazily on Yin's shoulder, flipping through storybooks in her hands. These were all bought by Yin and put in her spatial storage so she could open them when she was bored.
The stories written during the Qing Dynasty were mostly positive and uplifting, which she found boring.
"Why aren't you reading it anymore?" Yin Gang had just finished reading the report on the Blood Droplets when Kangxi activated the Imperial Guards in the palace to thoroughly investigate the source of the poison.
Qingyan pouted and pointed angrily at the storybook.
"Are you kidding me? She's not pretty at all. Do you think a lady from a respectable family would be so easily fooled?" Qingyan shook his head helplessly. The noble ladies around him were all arrogant and haughty. Except for that woman, who was a princess like a white lotus, who would want to be interested in such a good-for-nothing?
Yin chuckled. He'd wasted a lot of manpower and resources searching for this storybook for Qingyan. She actually saw through a man's true nature at a glance?
"Now, many noble ladies are being deceived." Stories are just for fun, who would believe them?
Qingyan casually picked up a book of documents about the Blood Droplets. He glanced at it but did not stop him. He hoped that Qingyan would read it more and avoid being framed by the schemes of the women in the harem.
"Little darling, let's use the imperial edicts from the harem as storybooks." Qingyan didn't like stories written outside, so he prepared some based on real life for her.
The Flying Guillotine was constantly being sent into the palace, and the spies would send Yin a daily report, allowing him to keep track of the situation in the harem even when he was not in the palace.
"Huh?!" Qingyan was stunned. "You wouldn't let...you know, would you?"
Qingyan pointed his chubby little paw at the sky. This was no joke. If Kangxi found out, he would never think it was Yin's idea. He might even blame it all on Fei Yanggu.
"Hehe, you're too nervous. Father Emperor knows." He used the silver given to him by Consort Tong, and Kangxi was absolutely aware of it.
Initially, Yin planned to develop the Flying Guillotine, fearing that Kangxi would find out and eventually become suspicious. However, as the Flying Guillotine operated for three or four years, Kangxi gradually relaxed his surveillance, granting Yin preferential treatment. Many low-ranking imperial guard positions were filled by members of the Flying Guillotine.
"You've got guts!" Qingyan opened the folded document in her hand, which contained news about Lady Wuya, the Consort Wu... such an unfamiliar name.
Since her demotion, Consort Wu has attributed the blame to Yinzhi. He was not ill, so she should not have been demoted by Kangxi. In fact, even her title was stripped away. Before, she was a bondservant. When she rose to the rank of Consort, many noble ladies of the Eight Banners had to respectfully bow to her, which made her very happy.
Who would have thought that her good days would last only a few days before Emperor Kangxi issued an imperial edict, completely humiliating her. In the end, unable to suppress her inner turmoil, she bribed the servants in charge of the princes' quarters, instructing them to add incompatible drugs to the fourth prince's rations, causing them to experience poisoning.
"Do even the bondservant families have them?" Qingyan stared blankly at Yin and asked in a low voice.
This is related to the balance of power in the harem. Kangxi was preparing to deal with the Mongol nobles, and he would definitely seize this opportunity to make his move.
Yin nodded. In his previous life, he had underestimated the power of the bondservant families, which led to the Qing Dynasty falling completely into their hands.
Now, he no longer ignores the fact that each of the bondservant families has more than one blood guillotine agent, and these agents all have a single-line connection with Yin, in order to prevent a situation like Gao Bin's.
For the sake of Consort Huixian, Gao Bin completely abandoned his conscience and stopped repaying the kindness he had shown. He used the connections of the Blood Droplets to continuously poison the noble ladies of the Eight Banners. Whether it was Empress Xiaoxian or the later Ulanara clan, their downfall was related to the bondservant families.
"Fourth Sister, these people must be dealt with!" Qingyan waved her little paws. Historically, Hongli's deposed empress was from the Ulanara clan, and was also the niece of Empress Xiaojingxian. She would definitely secure her position as empress and would not allow her niece to become a deposed empress.
"Hmm." Yin agreed; it was time to deal with these servants.
He deliberately arranged the order of the Dragon Guards' reports. The mastermind was the Mongolian nobles behind the Empress Dowager. In order to make it easier to drug the Eight Banners noblewomen, they directly bribed the bondservant families. Even if the plan failed, they could still shift the blame to the bondservant families.
When Yin Yi thought about the thoughts of the Mongol nobles, he wished he could let the Eight Banners cavalry trample across the grasslands and make those arrogant princes lower their noble heads.
No sooner had he finished speaking than Su Peisheng entered, carrying a bright yellow memorial delivered by Li Dequan on a tray. Yin's pupils contracted; this memorial was clearly the official gazette of the Dragon Guard. He used to read this gazette frequently, and it contained the absolute truth.
"Your Majesty, Anda sent me with the memorial. His Majesty said that you and the Princess should take a good look at it," Su Peisheng reported.
Qingyan noticed Yin's nervousness. She knew in her heart that this memorial must be of great importance, otherwise Yin would not have reacted this way.
"Put the document down and you can leave." It was a habit formed over two lifetimes that Yin would never allow anyone serving him to be present when he was reading the Dragon Guard's documents. Only after Su Peisheng left did Yin take the document from the tray. "Little darling, this is a Dragon Guard's document, and it's written in Manchu."
Yin then switched to Mongolian. Su Peisheng could only understand Chinese and Manchu; these eunuchs were not allowed to learn Mongolian.
Her mouth dropped open. Kangxi had actually entrusted such an important memorial to Yinzhi. It seemed that he had uncovered something significant.
After speaking, he opened the commemorative document in his hand, quickly glanced through it, and his anger continued to surge. The Jueluo clan had also become involved in this matter. After the Empress Dowager learned about Qingyan's destiny, she made many underhanded moves in private, but Kangxi and he resolved them one by one. Just when things were making considerable progress, she wanted to use the Jueluo clan to ruin Qingyan.
"I want to see too!" Qingyan noticed that Yin's expression had worsened, and her curiosity was piqued.
Yin placed the memorial in front of Qingyan, and instantly her eyes turned into mosquito coil-like eyes.
On ordinary days, he taught Qingyan to learn Manchu. To make it easier for Qingyan to recognize the characters, he wrote each one in neat regular script. All the Manchu characters in the document in front of him were connected together.
"I'll translate it for you." Yin took out a few sheets of Xuan paper from the side and translated the Manchu words into Chinese little by little. Xiao Guai's Chinese was the best among the various languages she had learned.
She turned to look at Yin's translation, the evidence line by line chilling her to the bone. The Gioro clan and the Empress Dowager had joined forces, and the approach of those Mongol princes to her camp was also with the Gioro clan's tacit approval; she wanted to ruin her reputation.
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