When asked by Xiao Yanchu, Lu Junyuan shook his head. "The wet nurse didn't say anything, and I didn't think to ask that question at the time."
“Prime Minister Lu, Young Master Lu, if Dapu is indeed the young prince of Xiaoyue, we will respect his choice to stay or return to Great Chu. If he is not, we will immediately take him back to Great Chu,” Su Ruojin said.
Lu Junyuan nodded, "Of course. By the way, the Princess Consort mentioned that there was something she needed my help with. May I ask what it is? If I can help, I will do my best."
“We had it before, but we don’t need it anymore,” Su Ruojin said.
Lu Junyuan understood. He figured that Su Ruojin probably wanted him to help her find out the whereabouts of Yuan Hong and Dapu.
After Su Ruojin and Xiao Yanchu left, Lu Junyuan and his son returned to the study. Lu Junyuan asked, "Father, do you think the Regent and Princess of Great Chu will help us?"
"With Xiao Yanchu's intelligence, he naturally knows that we are revealing everything in order to use his power to help Dap rise to power. As for whether they are willing to help us, it depends on Dap's position in their hearts."
We can only try our best to leverage all available resources; the rest is up to fate.
"Yes, Father."
Meanwhile, after Su Ruojin and Xiao Yanchu returned to the inn, neither of them expected that their nighttime raid on the Prime Minister's residence would not only lead them to Yuan Hong and Dapu, but also yield such shocking news.
“Prime Minister Lu is still hiding something from us,” Su Ruojin said.
Xiao Yanchu nodded. "If that's all he's capable of, then he wouldn't be Lu Hong. Indeed, as Lu Junyuan said, many years ago Lu Hong was a well-known honest official in Xiaoyue Kingdom. He often handled various wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice for the people. He was loved and respected by the people. It was only in recent years that he went from being an honest official to a corrupt one."
Today, he had Lu Junyuan tell us everything simply to test how much we valued Dap. If we could use our power to deal with Wu Taihuang, that would be even better.
"There are too many suspicious points in this matter. If Dapu was taken away by the wet nurse at birth, how did he get poisoned by Manluo Powder? Is Aya really the Princess Xiyue? How did the two siblings recognize each other?"
"How could someone as skilled as the Imperial Physician of Xiaoyue make a mistake in determining the sex of a child in the womb? Why would the late Emperor of Xiaoyue give the precious pearl, which could identify the bloodline of the royal family, to someone who was only a concubine?" Su Ruojin voiced all her questions.
“The imperial physician couldn’t have made a mistake, so there’s only one possibility: someone made him make a mistake,” Xiao Yanchu said.
Su Ruojin had a sudden inspiration, "It was the late Emperor Xiaoyue, he arranged everything."
“That’s right. Lu Junyuan said that none of the late emperor’s concubines could give birth to princes. As an emperor, wouldn’t the late emperor have suspected something? Perhaps he had some unavoidable difficulties and could only use this method to protect the child in Consort Yun’s womb.”
Su Ruojin pondered, "If that's the case, then it makes sense that he secretly gave the Red Jade Pearl to Consort Yun. But why would an emperor be forced into this situation?"
Furthermore, Lu Junyuan said that the wet nurse left the child in Lanchuan. If I remember correctly, after leaving Lanchuan, Xiaoyue flowed into Dachu. If that's the case, the child should have been rescued by people from Xiaoyue or Dachu. But Kepu is from Beili, which doesn't make sense." Su Ruojin had many things she couldn't understand.
It's impossible for Xiaoyue or the people of Da Chu to find the little prince and then send him to Bei Li.
Xiao Yanchu raised his hand and gently smoothed the furrowed brows of Su Ruojin. "Don't think about it anymore. Get some rest. The truth will come out eventually. Once Dapu wakes up, some things may have an answer."
"Hmm." Su Ruojin stopped worrying about it; some things are indeed better left unattended.
Two days later, Dap woke up and saw Su Ruojin in front of him. He could hardly believe his eyes and thought he was dreaming.
After finally confirming that it wasn't a dream, Dapu burst into tears, "Your Highness, I thought I was going to die."
Dap was very sensible; he knew he couldn't compare to Yuan Hong, so he didn't dare call Su Ruojin "sister."
Seeing that Dap still had the energy to cry, Su Ruojin felt relieved.
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