Chapter 22 Secret Letter
After Yingxue carried Xia Miaoyuan out of the room and closed the door, Xia Zhengqi asked curiously, "Ruoyu, when did you start to hear your daughter's voice?"
"From the day she was born prematurely." The queen was a little embarrassed.
"What about your majesty?" The queen raised her eyes.
"The morning of the second day after she was born..." Xia Zhengqi was stunned.
Oh, so embarrassing, I am not only not the only one who can hear my daughter's voice, but I am not even the first.
"Then your majesty knows that the carriage incident was a conspiracy of the Queen Mother and Concubine Jiang?" The queen asked in surprise.
"Yes, I know. And when I took her to court, I also learned that Master Jiang was forming a clique in the court and had great ambitions." Xia Zhengqi looked indifferent.
"Oh, no wonder your majesty asked Cheng Wan to pretend to be sick in the mansion and closed the door to welcome guests. Was it because he heard that Master Jiang wanted to harm him and protect him?" The queen's mouth curled. "
Yes, on the day when we received the urgent report of the Qianjiang flood, we had dinner together with our daughter. I heard the same thing as you. So I sent Master Jiang to provide disaster relief, and asked our Cheng Wan to disguise himself as an ordinary citizen to go to Jiangxia Province to investigate Master Jiang." Xia Zhengqi suddenly lowered his head, not daring to look into the queen's eyes.
To be honest, disguising and secretly visiting Jiangxia Province is a very dangerous task, even with 200 elite soldiers, it is still full of dangers.
When I secretly sent the prince to Jiangxia Province, I had already thought that if the queen knew about this later, she would definitely be worried to death.
Now that the Queen knows about it in advance, he can't help but feel a little guilty.
"What? Your Majesty said that he was sent to Jiangxia Province to investigate the evidence of Jiang Taishi's crimes?!" The Queen froze.
"I sent 200 elite soldiers to follow him and gave him the Imperial Sword." Xia Zhengqi hurriedly explained, trying to alleviate the Queen's worries.
"Well, he's gone anyway. What's more, he is the Crown Prince of Daxia, and it's his job to investigate treacherous people." The Queen's tone was light, and this sentence seemed to comfort Xia Zhengqi, but more like comforting herself.
In Kunning Palace, there was peace and darkness, and only the Queen's inner room and the corridor were still lit. There was an occasional chirping of crickets in the courtyard.
Xia Zhengqi and the empress chatted enthusiastically, discussing all the thoughts of their daughter that they had heard over the past month.
The next morning, Xia Zhengqi was unable to get up early due to severe lack of sleep, so he simply missed a day of court on the grounds of feeling unwell.
The emperor had not stayed in Kunning Palace for a long time, and the empress was overjoyed.
In the main hall of Kunning Palace, Xia Zhengqi and the empress sat at the table, eating breakfast warmly.
After the nanny tidied up Xia Miaoyuan, she carried her for a walk in the corridor.
Xia Miaoyuan glanced at Xia Zhengqi and the empress with a gossipy look on her face, and found that they all had yellow complexions and heavy dark circles under their eyes.
[Tsk tsk tsk tsk, what complexions. They are already in their 30s, almost 40, can they be more restrained! 】
【How much you want to give me a brother or sister. 】
【By the way, which is better, a brother or a sister? There are 8 princes in the palace, and I am the only princess. The ratio of men to women is seriously unbalanced. When I grow up, I am afraid I won’t even have a playmate. 】
【It’s better to give me a sister. Pray to God to give the empress mother another daughter! 】
Xia Miaoyuan has a lively personality. She started by complaining about the empress and Xia Zhengqi, and then jumped all the way to looking forward to having a sister.
Although the emperor and the empress were eating in the palace, they were only a few steps away from the corridor. They heard their daughter’s voice clearly and couldn’t help laughing.
"Ruoyu, let’s have another daughter, while she is not too old." Xia Zhengqi stretched out a hand and grabbed the empress’s hand.
The empress blushed and turned away, but the corners of her mouth could not help but rise.
After breakfast, Xia Zhengqi carried his daughter to Yu's study.
He held Xia Miaoyuan in one hand and flipped through the memorials
with the other. Xia Miaoyuan looked at the memorials in her father's hand curiously, and complained as she read.
[The governor of Haichuan wishes Princess Anguo good health and the emperor good health.]
[The governor of Jinsha congratulates the emperor on the birth of his daughter and wishes Princess Anguo happiness and peace.]
[The governor of Changning reports to the emperor that the grapes produced in Li County this year are big and sweet, and the harvest is very good.]
[It's so boring, so boring! Why are they all useless? Can't you just pick out the useful ones?]
Xia Miaoyuan hadn't read for a quarter of an hour when she turned her little face away impatiently.
Xia Zhengqi laughed secretly in his heart, do you think your father's government affairs are so easy? Dealing with these nonsense all day long is already tiring.
"Your Majesty." Eunuch Debao walked into the study with small steps and closed the door carefully.
"The secret letter from the prince, just arrived."
"Give it to me quickly." Xia Zhengqi took the letter.
After he quickly finished reading the letter, his face darkened.
[Secret letter from Prince Guoguo? ] Xia Miaoyuan was shocked.
[Isn't Prince Guoguo pretending to be sick in the mansion? It would be enough to just pass a message to daddy, why write a secret letter? What secret is going on? ]
While thinking, both eyes immediately looked at the letter paper.
It was written briefly: After my own investigation, I found that Master Jiang colluded with local officials to embezzle disaster relief grain funds.
[Prince Guoguo is in Jiangxia Province? ! ]
Xia Miaoyuan's eyes widened in shock, and he looked at Xia Zhengqi in disbelief.
[Dad, you are really good. You asked Guoguo to pretend to be sick, so that he could be sent to Jiangxia Province for a secret visit. ]
[Great, great, this trick is really great! Deliberately provide an opportunity for Master Jiang to reveal his true colors, and then take the opportunity to collect evidence of his crimes and then deal with him. ]
[I didn't expect that my emperor father would be so resourceful. It seems that the description of him in the book is still too simple. He is not incompetent at all, but he is trapped by filial piety and deceived by his stepmother. ]
Xia Zhengqi's eyes flashed with a trace of pride.
Hehe, my precious daughter complimented me, and even praised me for being resourceful.
My daughter, just wait and see, I will uproot this big tree of the Jiang family.
In the main hall of Kunning Palace, Lin Zhaoyi and Lipin bowed to the empress with embarrassed faces and greeted her respectfully.
The eunuchs behind them were holding gifts in their hands.
"Empress, you just came out of confinement, so you must still be weak. Sister Lin and I specially brought you some supplements." Lipin smiled.
"Yes, yes." Lin Zhaoyi looked a little embarrassed.
[Haha, it's you, Lin Zhaoyi. A few days ago, it was you who assisted the treacherous concubine at my full-month banquet, saying that if there were censors who criticized my father for his extravagance and waste in the future, my mother would be blamed.]
[Lipin, you are not a good person either. Although I didn't run into you on the day of the full-month banquet, you usually flattered the treacherous concubine and mocked my mother.]
[Hahaha! Aren't you all usually following the treacherous concubine's tail to the sky? Why are you all so listless this time?]
[Is it because your backer has fallen, and you are afraid now? 】