Chapter 148 Chapter 148 The Emperor Was Deceived
After lying on the bed and sighing comfortably, Xu Yunfan told Qin Run about Qin Mu.
At first, Xu Yunfan had no intention of keeping Qin Mu's jade pendant, but after thinking about it, he decided not to give the jade pendant to Xiao Mu.
A guy who was "abandoned" on the mountain to fend for himself, holding a jade pendant worth a thousand taels in his hand. It would be fine if he picked it up, but what if this thing originally belonged to him?
It's shown in all those TV dramas and novels. Generally speaking, people like this don't have simple backgrounds.
In cases like Qin Mu's, the parents who abandoned their children were either from prominent families who had to abandon their children for some reason, such as being hunted or something else, but left behind a token so that they could be reunited with the child in the future. Or, Qin Mu's elders had met with an accident, and Qin Mu became an abandoned child.
In short, everything is possible.
The more he thought about it, the more smug Xu Yunfan felt. "Brother Run, do you think I'm the type of person who gets to play the leading man? Otherwise, how could I have run into something like this? If Brother Mu returns to his roots, wouldn't I have a very powerful brother-in-law? Then he can protect me, and maybe I can even walk around with my head held high."
Xu Yunfan was just joking when he said this. He had never thought about these things from the beginning to the end when he decided to adopt Qin Mu.
After listening to Xu Yunfan's speculation silently, Qin Run pursed his lips and said after a while: "Yunfan, is there a possibility that they simply lost Mu Ge'er?"
Xu Yunfan, who had just been thinking beautifully, choked: "...If you say that, I will lose face."
Qin Run put his index finger to his lips and laughed, "You have such a rich imagination, you can even go storytelling. I guess there will be a lot of people listening. After all, few normal people would think so much about the possibilities you mentioned."
How could such a coincidence happen in the world?
The Qin family's ancestral grave had already smoked once, so how could they be so lucky that the child they picked up happened to be the son of a wealthy family?
Isn't Qin Run's words just a reflection of his own beautiful thoughts?
Xu Yunfan pushed Qin Run. The force was not strong, but it was enough to make Qin Run, who was facing him sideways, be straightened by this force. Xu Yunfan quickly turned over and used a clever force to "press" on him directly: "Run'er, am I heavy? I feel like I have grown taller recently."
Qin Run, who was pressed under Xu Yunfan, took a breath and said, "It's not heavy."
"If it's not heavy, why are you breathing?"
"I'm a living person, but I don't breathe. Do I breathe only when I'm dead?" Qin Run took the opportunity to put his arm around Xu Yunfan's waist. "Why are you still so thin? You haven't gained any weight in this period of time."
Xu Yunfan: “…”
There is a kind of thinness that makes your husband think you are thin.
"I'm growing vertically now, so I'm not gaining weight. Besides, how have I lost weight? You, on the other hand, seem to have lost some weight recently. Your waist has even gotten smaller."
Xu Yunfan wrapped his arms around Qin Run's waist, his head buried in his neck. His breathing became heavier, and his hands became more and more dishonest. "In two months, I will be eighteen, Run'er~"
"you……"
Qin Run knew what happened to Xu Yunfan and couldn't help but feel a little moved. "Actually, you don't have to wait until you're eighteen. We..."
"No, Run'er, you can't do this. Even if you want to, you have to endure it for another two months. You can't seduce me. Starting sex at the age of 18 is already my minimum requirement. You can't back down again and again." Xu Yunfan turned over and moved his buttocks a little further away from Qin Run. It seemed as if he was afraid that Qin Run would turn into a beast and pounce on him at the next moment.
Qin Run: “…”
Today he finally saw what it meant to turn the tables.
Qin Run changed the subject, "Come to think of it, Mu Ge'er's household registration hasn't been processed yet, why don't I go and get it done tomorrow."
"Are you free tomorrow?"
"Yes, I have already helped them prepare the materials for the oil press you mentioned. I will stop by the county tomorrow to take care of some other things."
"Okay, then I'll have to trouble my dear husband." Xu Yunfan smiled, "Come on, my husband has worked hard, he must give me a kiss."
Qin Run, who was actively leaning over to look at the side of Xu Yunfan, was obviously used to this shamelessness, and he did it very quickly.
Capital city.
Qi Yuanyang, who had originally gone south with his eldest son to check the accounts, was obviously more restless about this matter than the candles after receiving the letter from his second son. Before he could check the account books of several shops, he rushed back to the capital in a hurry the next day.
The matter Qi Xiuyuan mentioned was of great importance and was no longer something he, an imperial merchant, could decide.
After all, the technology of papermaking was monopolized by the royal family and two other wealthy families in the Dayan Dynasty. If the royal merchants wanted to touch the interests of these three families, the other two families would not be a problem, but they would have to give the royal family a heads-up.
Qi Yuanyang knew that even if he cooperated with Xu Yunfan without saying a word, the current emperor would not punish him even if he knew about it. He would only applaud and praise him for doing a good job.
The current emperor can be said to be a rare famous monarch. Although he had the intention to kill his brothers when he ascended the throne, in the end, the two princes are still alive and well and have been lively and energetic over the years.
Over the years, there has been no other moves by the other two princes, and the royal family has been relatively calm. Therefore, the emperor is naturally not worried about the possibility that his subjects may have disloyalty. Who else could the Qi family belong to except the emperor?
For the emperor, the more the royal merchants earn, the more abundant his treasury will be.
Qi Yuanyang, like everyone else, thought that the first thing the emperor did after ascending the throne was to execute his two brothers because he was afraid that they would have any ideas about the throne in the future. But they were wrong, very wrong.
The previous emperor had few children. He worked hard for half his life and had dozens of beauties in his harem, but only three princes were born and grew up safely, and Your Majesty was the youngest of them.
As the three princes grew older, the fight for the throne inevitably began.
In the end, the third prince was named the crown prince and even succeeded to the throne, which was actually a foregone conclusion.
After all, compared with the eldest prince and the second prince, the current emperor is simply too outstanding.
The emperor's two elder brothers, the eldest prince and the second prince, cannot stand being frightened. If anything happens that can make his heart beat faster, he will definitely faint.
This eldest prince fainted countless times in the Golden Palace. If such a person inherits the throne, you will have to wait until he faints before making any important decisions. By then, it will be too late.
As for the second prince, he is even worse. He stutters so badly that he can spend half a day talking to you about one sentence. If he becomes the emperor, I wonder how many eunuchs will be anxious to death.
At that time, the late emperor often scolded the two princes for not even eating hot shit.
The late emperor had the imperial physicians examine the eldest prince's heart disease, but he had changed more than a dozen imperial physicians and even called countless doctors from the folk. Without exception, these people were "quacks" who could not find any problems. They were all trembling with fear, but their words and deeds all expressed the same meaning, that is, the eldest prince was in excellent health, as strong as a bull, and had no heart disease at all.
The late emperor was very angry with this result.
These guys are simply "quack doctors". How could this be possible if his son didn't have any heart disease?
As for the second prince's stuttering, we saw it and tried everything, but in the end, nothing worked.
Even so, no matter how knowledgeable and talented the eldest and second princes were, and how reliable they were in their work, they were eventually abandoned by the late emperor.
Later, the late emperor issued an order to appoint the third prince as the crown prince. When the eldest prince and the second prince heard the news, they were greatly shocked. They looked up at their father sitting on the dragon throne, their eyes almost popping out of their sockets in shock.
Perhaps the blow was too great, the eldest prince's ears rang, he felt dizzy, he held his forehead with one hand, glanced behind him, staggered forward two steps, and then fainted. This scared all the civil and military officials. The second prince couldn't finish a sentence for a long time. It was obvious that the late emperor's appointment of the third prince as the crown prince was too much of a blow to them.
In fact, the eldest prince, who had pretended to be faint for more than ten years, was really fainted because he was too surprised.
Not to mention the Second Prince. The surprise came so suddenly, and he has been pretending to stutter for more than ten years. Isn't he allowed to continue stuttering?
The eldest and second princes had been humiliated for more than ten years, and finally they saw the dawn of victory.
After the crown prince was appointed, the eldest prince, who had always been timid and easily dizzy, rode his horse very fast the next day and no longer had chest tightness and shortness of breath. The second prince sang songs so well that the door panels were almost shaken off. He sang the whole day long and sang the songs fluently.
As for the loser, the prince, when he learned about this, he was so angry that he almost couldn't hold it back.
As expected, as the son of an emperor, these people are as cunning as a honeycomb. He has been deceived for more than ten years, and the prince has remembered this grudge.
Perhaps these three brothers are different from the princes of other dynasties. They are eager to sit on the throne of the emperor, and they would even kill their brothers, kill their father and force the emperor to abdicate. They will do anything to achieve this.
But they are different.
The three brothers couldn't even figure it out, and were baffled as to why other royal princes liked to sit in that position so much.
It is true that as long as you sit in that position, you will be the most honorable person in the world, above everyone else. However, while this position gives you supreme power, you also have to pay a corresponding price for it.
The three princes had seen their father sleep harder than a dog and wake up earlier than a chicken. Even when he was so tired, the beauties in the harem were still lining up to be favored by him.
The trivial matters in the court are already troublesome enough, and there are all kinds of conspiracies and intrigues in the harem, which is really tiring and physically demanding.
Being a prince, you eat and drink as you please, attend the morning court every day, do your work when you have something to do, and play with cats and dogs when you have nothing to do. Isn’t this a wonderful life?
Why must he kill his brothers and sisters and waste his brains on becoming an emperor?
After the emperor was appointed the crown prince, he learned that the heart disease and stuttering that had troubled his two brothers for many years had miraculously healed. What else could he not understand?
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