On the other side, the Queen Mother got the news and immediately sent Nanny Mei to pick someone up.

Nanny Mei hurried as fast as she could and just happened to meet the Fourth Prince and Qiao Jiaojiao on the palace road.

She looked from afar and saw the Fourth Prince squatting in front of Miss Qiao, holding Miss Qiao's hand and saying something.

What surprised Aunt Mei was that although Miss Qiao was such a young baby, she could see a look of despair on her face.

Aunt Mei: ???

No, she must have seen it wrong...

"Your Highness! Miss Qiao!"

Madam Mei stepped forward and said with a smile, "The Queen has sent me to welcome His Highness and Miss Qiao. The decree has been sent to the Qiao Residence. I believe Madam Qiao will be coming to the palace soon."

Before Qiao Jiaojiao recovered from the shock of feeling completely wiped out, she let Aunt Mei pick her up and walk towards the Yikun Palace.

The Fourth Prince looked at Qiao Jiaojiao with some worry. After thinking it over, he felt that the people Sister Qiao saved were probably good people, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

Now that Sister Qiao is mentally prepared, she will definitely not suffer any loss from this in the future.

But he didn't have time to ask Sister Qiao what the price was for her to save people. Don't hurt herself!

On this side, Qiao Jiaojiao and her group walked towards the Yiku Palace, while on the other side, Huang Pei asked Concubine Jing and the Second Princess, and then left the Xinghua Palace without saying a word.

Even though Huang Pei doesn't show it on his face, he is actually suffering a lot!

The emperor strictly ordered him to thoroughly investigate the source of the rumors, and he decided to start with Concubine Jing and the second princess.

After asking for a long time, it turned out that when Concubine Jing was strolling in the Imperial Garden, she "happened" to hear someone gossiping.

But the man hid behind a rockery, and when Concubine Jing ordered people to capture him, no one was seen.

There was something weird about this place, but it just confirmed his previous guess.

All of this...I'm afraid it was really caused by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!

And the Third Prince on the couch...

It doesn't seem like His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is genuine in his care for the Third Prince. In this case, I'm afraid the Third Prince is also involved!

The two princes have put so much effort into doing all this, and their target must be - the Second Prince who is about to return to the capital!

Oh my God, could it be... could it be that the Second Prince's background is really wrong, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the others have already known it privately?

But Di Zaiying is dead. How can there be any evidence for such an illusory thing?

Your Majesty... Even he couldn't figure out what Your Majesty was thinking.

This fight is really dangerous!

This time, the Third Prince has personally intervened and played the whole game. If he had not heard Di Zaiying's last words before and had some guesses, I'm afraid even he would have been kept in the dark!

It seems that His Majesty will not be able to guess who the Crown Prince is for the time being. If His Majesty stops here, everything will still be in time.

If...if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has made up his mind, he dare not say who will win or lose in this battle!

Thinking of this, Huang Pei's heart was in a mess.

At the last moment, I'm afraid even he will have to make a choice!

Huang Pei sighed countless times in the deserted place, and finally he had to make up his mind.

Never mind, let’s check it first!

Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has set up the plan, he must have also left behind the so-called "person who spreads rumors". He will first find this person out and see how His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arranges it!

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Imperial study.

After Emperor Yong returned from Xinghua Palace, he went into the imperial study alone.

The eunuchs were guarding outside and could only hear the silence in the imperial study, without a single sound.

It was already time for Emperor Yong to take a nap, but Huang Pei was out on business, and none of the other eunuchs dared to knock on the door.

The windows of the imperial study were never opened, and the room was dark, dull and extremely quiet.

Emperor Yong sat on the dragon throne with his head down and his expression could not be seen clearly.

After a while, he suddenly raised his finger and touched the mechanism of the handrail, which controlled the secret compartment on the wall.

But as soon as he raised his index finger, Emperor Yong stopped moving again.

The next moment, his hands began to tremble uncontrollably, the amplitude was small but not negligible.

Emperor Yong turned his head suddenly, looked at the scene in disbelief, and hurriedly pressed his right wrist with his left hand to suppress the trembling.

Emperor Yong knew that he seemed to be ill.

He never told anyone that he sent Zou Qi out of Beijing, firstly to treat the second son, and secondly to avoid the daily Ping An pulse check.

He was in his prime, the supreme ruler of Yong State, and rarely caught a cold. How could he have contracted a strange disease?

He was unwilling and unable to accept this fact, but the fact that the third brother hovered on the brink of life and death today touched his heart.

He knew that the third brother was convulsing all over when he was sick. He had always regarded the third brother as a stain on the royal family and therefore ignored him.

But now that he has also shown such signs, he can't help but wonder, could it be that he passed this disease to the third brother?

There were rumors in the palace that the third son was not his son, but he naturally did not believe it at all.

The third son is his son, not only because his features resemble his own, but also because his mother is stupid.

Among the concubines in the harem, the queen is smart, Concubine Lin is gentle but calculating, and the others all have some thoughts to some extent.

Only Concubine Jing was a simple-minded person. She did not have the courage or the ability to confuse the royal bloodline.

Moreover, when Concubine Jing was diagnosed with twins in her belly, he sent people to check. Concubine Jing's grandmother was also pregnant with twins, so there was evidence of everything.

If...if the third brother's illness really came from him, would he one day become like the third brother, convulsing when excited and losing face in front of the court officials and the people of the world?

What about the prince?

As the crown prince is the heir to a country, does the prince also have such a hidden danger?

Thinking of this, Emperor Yong couldn't help but breathe slightly faster.

The Yong Dynasty and the ancestral foundation, what he is thinking about is the eternal future...

Emperor Yong was distracted and his hand loosened just in time to touch the mechanism on the armrest.

The secret compartment on the wall slowly opened, revealing the stunning face in the portrait.

Before Emperor Yong turned his head away, he was still troubled, but when his eyes fell on the portrait, all his distracting thoughts disappeared in an instant.

Emperor Yong slowly stood up, walked up to the portrait, and touched the stunning eyes and eyebrows.

"Yu Liu, I haven't come to see you for a long time. After the second brother left Beijing, I..."

Emperor Yong frowned slightly, with a hint of shame in his expression.

"When the second son was by my side, I thought of you and your son all the time, and I wanted to give him the best things."

"But now, I haven't thought about the second brother for a long time..."

"When you were dying, you asked me to never forget you, and I clearly agreed."

"But Yu Liu, you've really been away from me for too long... so long that I've discovered the goodness of the queen again, and I've remembered the affection and time we had as a young couple."

"Yu Liu, I seem to be ill..."

Emperor Yong murmured, his brows furrowed at one moment, then relaxed at another, with a hint of tearing and a hint of weirdness...