If Xiao Sheng knew Xu Ningyou's true feelings, he would definitely think that his master's wife had misunderstood him.
Xiao Sheng simply wanted to use the luminous pearl to win Li Xingran's favor and stop calling him a cannon fodder prince. After all, he was working hard and could definitely change the outcome.
Fan Zu'an was preoccupied with the scent emanating from the outer garment, spending the entire morning engrossed in gossip. He had previously only read about the intimate pleasures of emperors in unofficial histories, but now he was experiencing them firsthand.
Although he had transmigrated to a country that had no historical records, it had everything except modern technology.
From the moment he stepped into the Li family's gate, Fan Zuan felt that his fate had taken a turn.
He used to have his fortune told, but he could never see his future. Now, however, he knows clearly that he will become famous and successful in this strange world.
This means that the Li family was the place that changed his fate; it's truly fantastical.
This palace not only contained opium, but also this secret medicine that could render the emperor infertile. The methods of the ancients were truly ruthless.
Li Xingran was still looking at the luminous pearl.
[Mother, tonight, put this luminous pearl in the room. I want to know if it can really make the room as bright as daytime.]
[Hey, why is Uncle Fan staring at the cannon fodder prince's outer robe?]
Li Ting noticed that Fan Zuan's thoughts seemed to be elsewhere at the dinner table, so he asked, "Brother, is there a problem with this outer garment?"
Fan Zu'an looked hesitant. "Well, with the children here, it's hard to say!"
Seeing that breakfast was almost finished, Li Ting instructed Li Ruizhang to take his four younger brothers to the academy, while Xiao Sheng went to review what he had learned the day before.
[Father, you're so narrow-minded! If my brothers heard this, it would serve as a wake-up call. If the cannon fodder crown prince heard this, even if he wins this battle for the throne, he'll know that lust is a dangerous thing and he shouldn't indulge in the pleasures of the concubines in the harem.]
[Last night, the Crown Prince returned to the palace, and these clothes were his. That means there's a scent on them. This scent most likely belongs to Zhao Yunwan. Zhao Yunwan's ability to keep the Emperor by her side daily is due to this scent, just like the Zhao Feiyan sisters.]
However, the pills used by the Zhao Feiyan sisters rendered them infertile, and also caused their husbands, Emperor Cheng of Han, to die young.
Historically, Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede were both incredibly beautiful. Driven by a desire for a glamorous and powerful future, they resorted to any means necessary. Emperor Cheng of Han ultimately left no children behind; all were either killed by Zhao Feiyan or, unable to resist her instigation, were executed on her orders.
A glorious dynasty declined because of these two women. Tsk tsk tsk! What a pity, what a pity!
[In the book, Emperor Hui's death is also somewhat inexplicable. The crown prince was poisoned by the emperor and died, and since he had no other children, the position of crown prince had to be given to Xiao Ding.]
Three days after Xiao Ding became crown prince, the emperor suddenly died. He died in the bed of Consort Jing in the inner palace.
Because of this unrefined manner of death, Zhao Yunwan ordered the Court of Imperial Sacrifices and the Court of Imperial Clan Affairs to hold a funeral as soon as possible. Lu Dacheng only announced that the emperor had died from overwork.
Xiao Ding ascended the throne as emperor, and Zhao Yunwan ruled from behind the curtain.
[Later, when Xiao Ding turned eighteen, according to custom, Zhao Yunwan should have returned to the position of Empress Dowager. However, things took a turn, and the mother and son ended up fighting each other for several years.]
With such a mother, Xiao Ding's cruel and bloodthirsty side began to emerge. In the struggle between mother and son, the Southern Chen Kingdom was swallowed up by the Great Liang Kingdom. The Great Yue Kingdom ceded half its territory, leaving it with only a tiny piece of land, barely clinging to life.
[Sigh, if it weren't for that vicious woman Zhao Yunwan, how could things have turned out this way?]
Just as Li Ruizhang and his brothers were about to leave, Li Xingran finished speaking in one breath.
Li Ruizhang has reached the age where he can get married, and he is thinking that when his mother chooses a wife for him, he will just pick one with good character.
The younger ones were a bit naive, but they knew that being obsessed with beauty wasn't a good thing, and they would have to be more discerning when choosing people in the future.
Xiao Sheng's focus was on something else entirely: the dynasty that Li Xingran mentioned didn't seem to be on the Cangxuan Continent.
In his spare time, he browsed through "The Book of Emperors Who Lost Their Kingdoms" and found no mention of Emperor Cheng of Han. Moreover, on the Cangxuan Continent, no country had ever fallen due to women causing trouble in the harem.
As he pondered, he left the flower hall and headed straight for the study; he needed to investigate further.
After listening to Li Ruizhang and the others, Li Xingran did not continue speaking and left the flower hall.
After the children left, Fan Zuan looked at the garment and repeated Li Xingran's earlier thoughts.
Neither Li Ting nor Xu Ningyou showed that they already knew about this.
But what Fan Zuan said next shocked Li Ting and his wife, as well as Li Xingran.
"Big brother, second sister, this fragrance can make women more beautiful and attract men, making them addicted and unable to extricate themselves, and even causing them to hallucinate. But it has almost no harm to women."
"On the contrary, the men around her are more easily affected. The more they inhale this fragrance, the more damage it does to their fertility and brain."
"Judging from the lingering smell on these clothes, the dosage was quite high. His Highness the Crown Prince said that he rolled around in the Empress's arms a few times last night, and when he returned to the Eastern Palace, he wrapped the clothes in a bundle. But the smell dissipates the easiest thing to dissipate, and the fact that it still has such a strong fragrance this morning means that the Emperor is not far from losing his mind."
Was it because Xiao Sheng discovered the opium that Zhao Yunwan accelerated her efforts to control Emperor Hui?
"However, I do have a way to control this taste."
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