Chapter 36 Secret Room

Yingxue changed the clothes for the queen neatly.

Xia Miaoyuan was lying on the bed, kicking her chubby legs anxiously, and bursting into tears.

[Mother, take me there, take me there, I want to see the prince Guoguo! ]

The queen looked at her lovingly, asked Yingxue to change her clothes for going out, and held her in her arms.

When the queen carried Xia Miaoyuan to the prince's mansion, the imperial physician had already checked the prince's pulse.

"Imperial physician, how is the prince?" the queen asked anxiously.

"Your Highness is overworked and over-worried, so he fainted." The imperial physician looked serious.

"But it's not a big deal. I've just given His Highness an injection. I'll give him medicine later, and he'll wake up soon."

The empress's gloomy expression eased when she heard this.

[Isn't he just sleepy? Let the prince have a good sleep, and he will definitely wake up. ]

[People, staying up late is harmful to your health, you must not stay up late! ]

[Especially not working non-stop without sleep. ]

[I died of exhaustion from working non-stop in my last life! ]

Xia Miaoyuan suddenly thought of the ending of her life as a programmer, Xia Ruonan, and suddenly sighed.

Queen: What? Miao'er died of exhaustion in her last life? !

After hearing her daughter's thoughts, the queen looked at the prince more nervously.

Queen: My eldest son won't die of exhaustion, right?

After observing carefully for a while, she relaxed a little when she saw that the prince's breathing was steady and his expression was relaxed.

Then she looked down at Xia Miaoyuan in her arms and frowned with pity.

Alas, Miao'er was such a pitiful child in her last life.

She sang a lullaby softly, coaxed Xia Miaoyuan to sleep, and put her on the couch opposite the bed to sleep, while she sat by the bed and watched over the prince.

The prince didn't wake up until the dawn of the morning came through the window.

"Mother, you actually stayed here all night in person?" The prince looked ashamed.

"What's the matter? When you and Chengnian were young and fell ill, didn't mother do the same?" The queen said lightly.

"Most mothers in this world are like this."

"Cheng Wan, no matter how important things are, you must take care of your health. If your health is broken, isn't it a loss of the greater for the smaller?"

The prince nodded: "Your son has remembered."

The mother and son were chatting, and suddenly Eunuch Debao walked into the room with small steps: "Empress, Your Highness, the Emperor is here."

Xia Zhengqi walked in hurriedly.

The Queen and the Prince were about to stand up and salute, but Xia Zhengqi stopped them with his hand: "No need to salute."

"How is Cheng Wan?" Xia Zhengqi glanced at the Queen.

"I just found out that you fainted at night. These people are really, they didn't tell me right away." Xia Zhengqi walked to the bed and touched the Prince's forehead.

The Queen forced a smile and said, "They are also afraid that Your Majesty will worry."

"Cheng Wan is fine, he is just tired. Plus he is anxious and angry."

Xia Zhengqi asked concernedly, "Is it because you are worried about the Jiang Mansion?"

The Prince looked at Xia Zhengqi, nodded slightly, and then lowered his head in shame.

"How is the investigation going?" Xia Zhengqi asked.

The Prince lowered his head and said in a low voice, "It's useless for your son. We only found out about a few hundred thousand taels, this amount..."

At this point, the Prince hesitated.

Xia Zhengqi and the Queen immediately understood what their son meant.

How could someone of Jiang Rong's level, who has been in a high position for decades, be so greedy? Obviously there is a big difference.

"What about the correspondence?" Xia Zhengqi looked solemn.

The prince said in a harsh tone: "I didn't find anything."

Xia Zhengqi felt his whole body freeze when he heard this.

Now, except for the father and son of the Jiang family, those die-hard Jiang party members are still locked up in the prison of the Ministry of Justice.

There are dozens of family members, and they kneel down in front of the palace gate on time every morning to beg for mercy.

Every day when the officials see it in court, they talk about it.

He knows what everyone is talking about without asking, and they are complaining about him, the emperor, for the heavy punishment.

With this kind of public opinion, if they don't find reliable evidence of their collusion with the father and son of Master Jiang and forming a clique for personal gain as soon as possible, then this arrest will be in vain.

Xia Miaoyuan is small and sleeps a lot. This time is the time when she sleeps soundly, but the sound of Xia Zhengqi and them chatting is really too noisy.

[Ah... so noisy! Really. How can I, as a princess, not even be able to sleep until I wake up naturally!]

Xia Miaoyuan rubbed her sleepy eyes with her little fists, with a look of resentment on her face.

[I'm just a baby, can't you be more careful?]

Xia Miaoyuan curled her lips and looked at Xia Zhengqi and the other three.

[Oh, the prince Guoguo has woken up. I'm relieved to see that Guoguo is okay.]

Seeing that the prince was sitting on the bed, his face looked much better than last night, Xia Miaoyuan grinned happily.

The prince felt warmed when he heard his sister's voice.

"Your son and others searched the Jiang Mansion from top to bottom, inside and outside, but no letters between him and the ministers were found." In order to hide his expression, the prince quickly added.

Xia Zhengqi sighed after hearing this.

[Humph, old man Jiang is an old fox who has been dominating the government for decades.]

[How can you easily find the things he wants to hide!]

Xia Miaoyuan played with her hands and recalled the plot in the book.

[He has a secret room that only he knows about. Secret things like letters must be in the secret room.]

Xia Zhengqi, the queen and the prince were all shocked.

Ah! Secret room! Where is the secret room?

The three looked at Xia Miaoyuan at the same time.

But Xia Miaoyuan did not continue to speak, but picked up a bracelet on the couch and studied it.

[Does Prince Guoguo like bracelets too? Does an 18-year-old handsome boy also like this thing? ]

[Eh... I really can't understand it. ]

"Is there any secret room in the Jiang Mansion?"

In order to remind Xia Miaoyuan to continue, Xia Zhengqi quickly asked.

"We carefully checked the Jiang family's study and the bedroom of Grand Tutor Jiang, and did not find any secret room." The prince frowned.

[Humph! Although old man Jiang is not very wise, he still has some cleverness. ]

[The great figures in ancient novels all like to set up secret rooms in their study or bedroom, but Grand Tutor Jiang does the opposite. ]

[His secret room is set up in the living room where people come and go. ]

Xia Miaoyuan raised her eyebrows when she thought of the setting in the book.

Living room!

Xia Zhengqi, the queen, and the prince all felt relieved.

No wonder they couldn't find it, there was a secret room in the living room!

[As for most of the Jiang family's money and treasures, they are hidden in the other courtyard. ]

[So Prince Guoguo, you have to search hard and don't give up. ]

[It's a pity that I can't help you. I can't speak yet! ]

Thinking of this, Xia Miaoyuan pouted sadly and pretended to cry.

[Really! Really! Let me go through the book and change the fate of my mother and me! Let me be a baby, and I can't say anything! 】

【Seeing the prince in trouble but unable to help! 】

Thinking of this, Xia Miaoyuan finally couldn't hold it anymore and burst into tears.

"Miaoyuan, did you pee?" The queen pretended to pick up her daughter and hurriedly called the nanny to help Xia Miaoyuan wash and change clothes.