Chapter 117
Although the Sixth Prince found it strange that the Luminescent Consort had run away so quickly and disappeared without a trace, he didn’t have much of a relationship with this male consort who had arrived halfway. Moreover, after learning that the Luminescent King hadn’t returned yet, the Sixth Prince couldn’t control the pride in his heart. Even if some confusion flashed through his mind, he quickly let it go.
He didn’t try to contact his people again. It would be best if everything went according to plan and went smoothly. Rashly believing it wasn’t a wise move.
At most, there would be a conclusion in these two days.
The Sixth Prince complacently walked towards his tent.
When he entered the tent, he saw Liang shi’s worried face. Sixth Prince felt unlucky. In the past, for the support of Liang shi’s maternal family, Marquis Dingbei, and for the child in Liang shi’s belly, he had to coax Liang shi. Liang shi’s pregnancy was sensitive, so Sixth Prince had been impatient for a long time. But now, he was in a good mood and had a rare happy smile when facing Liang shi.
“Rest early. Don’t be too tired.” Sixth Prince warmly said.
Liang Suyun was flattered. Sixth Prince had been somewhat cold to her since a month ago. Liang shi’s unspeakable suffering was all because of her child. She knew that this child was extremely important to Sixth Prince. Previously, the entire family, including herself, had hoped that this child would be a boy, but the imperial physician who took her pulse said it was a girl. Several imperial physicians had said the same thing. After Sixth Prince found out, although he didn’t blame them, he took two beautiful concubines and told her that he was at a critical juncture and must have a boy as soon as possible. This was also for the future.
Her belly was disappointing, so Liang shi could only accept it. Her maternal family, who had always helped her, also supported Sixth Prince and wanted her to endure. Liang shi’s mood became more and more depressed day by day. She was full of worries and had no one to talk to. Before she married, she was a lively girl, but after she married, she became absent-minded and would unknowingly cry. Sixth Prince often went to the concubines’ quarters and only occasionally came to see her. Only then did they appear affectionate in front of others.
Whether Sixth Prince and her were compatible or not, Liang shi couldn’t say for sure. But when she saw that King Jing, who was also a prince, doted on Princess Jing, she was very envious.
This time, Sixth Prince was talking and laughing. Liang shi sincerely hoped that these days could last a little longer.
Li Yu, King Jing, and Wang Xi took the children and walked far away. After confirming that Sixth Prince didn’t follow, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
This time, Dabao really suffered a loss!
Li Yu smiled and carried Dabao up. Dabao had stopped crying a long time ago. His black grape-like eyes were shining brightly. He tilted his head and looked at his father happily.
Li Yu was stunned. He had always known that Da Bao was smarter than other children and could understand adults’ words. Could it be that just now …
“Dabao, did you do it on purpose?” Li Yu smiled as he leaned against Dabao’s face and asked in a low voice.
“He’s bad!” Dabao pointed at the person in the distance with his chubby little finger.
The Sixth Prince usually concealed himself very well in front of others. Ordinary people could not see through the Sixth Prince’s inner thoughts. Because Dabao was extremely favored by the Emperor, he was often carried to the Palace of Heavenly Purity. There was always the Sixth Prince who paid his respects to the Emperor.
In front of the Emperor, the Sixth Prince naturally wouldn’t reveal anything. However, when the Emperor wasn’t paying attention, the Sixth Prince would look at Dabao with a poisonous gaze. He treated Dabao as an ordinary child who wasn’t even one year old. The Sixth Prince definitely wouldn’t take it to heart and would wantonly vent his hatred for children.
However, Dabao himself wasn’t ordinary. Before he was a baby, he had been a small fish for ten months. Fish developed faster than humans, so Dabao already knew many things. The Sixth Prince’s gaze was very unfriendly, which made Dabao very uncomfortable. He also remembered the Sixth Prince’s bad intentions.
However, Dabao was still a child. When he met a bad person who made him feel uneasy, his instinct was to stay away. Just now, he tried his best to cry and make a fuss to make his father stay away from the bad person.
Although it was by accident, Dabao was very happy that he was able to protect his father for once!
King Jing reached over and rubbed Dabao’s head. Dabao was so excited that his little face turned red. King Jing’s father rubbed his head!
Li Yu also rewarded Dabao with a kiss. He vowed to smear half of Dabao’s face with his saliva. Li Yu was kissing passionately when suddenly, his vision blurred. Er Bao, San Bao, and Si Bao came forward, their chubby little faces swaying in front of him.
When it came to kissing, one didn’t worry about the lack of kissing, but the unevenness!
“Everyone, be good!”
Li Yu held back his laughter and kissed each of them one by one.
The family of six and Wang Xi quickly went to the Dragon Tent.
The Emperor had been waiting for a long time. When he saw King Jing and Li Yu bringing the children over, the Emperor smiled and teased, “Are you finally at ease?”
The Emperor was mocking King Jing for begging him before. King Jing silently accepted it.
Li Yu looked at the Emperor and then looked at King Jing. He was very curious.
Although King Jing didn’t express any dissatisfaction, he put Dabao down.
The best mediator, Dabao, was on the ground. He immediately strode with his short legs and staggered toward the Emperor’s grandfather.
The Emperor didn’t care about his son, but when he saw his grandson, he was overjoyed. He immediately changed the topic, “Why do I feel that Dabao is walking more steadily?”
Li Yu, “…”
Dabao really isn’t. Dabao really isn’t. Your Majesty, you just saw him a few hours ago. You’re lying through your teeth!
After going through untold hardships, Dabao finally walked in front of the Emperor and grabbed the hem of his dragon robe. The Emperor beamed with joy and picked Dabao up.
With his chubby grandson in his arms, the Emperor deeply hated the person who tried to scheme against his grandson.
If King Jing fell and the Eighth Prince was hated, who would benefit from it?
The Emperor actually knew, but the other party had never revealed such a scheme in front of him. Didn’t this mean that the other party knew how to hide and had been pretending in front of him all these years?
He must force the other party to make a move and capture him on the spot so that the other party could no longer quibble.
The Emperor already had a careful plan, but this plan needed the cooperation of King Jing’s family.
“Dabao, can you do grandpa a favor?” the Emperor asked with a smile.
Originally, the Emperor was willing to explain to Dabao in person.
Dabao blinked his eyes. He realized that all the adults liked to ask him for help.
Father Yu often said it, and so did grandpa.
Dabao liked Father Yu and grandpa, so he was naturally willing.
Dabao patted his small chest, “Okay!”
The Emperor’s eyes were full of smiles, and he continued to tease him, “Is it okay if it hurts?”
Dabao wrinkled his little chubby face. Father Yu had taught him to keep his word. Dabao was afraid of pain, and he couldn’t regret it.
Dabao gathered his courage and nodded, “Okay.”
Li Yu vaguely guessed that because this was the Emperor’s decree, Li Yu and King Jing couldn’t do anything.
The children were born in the western border, so it was inevitable that they would attract gossip. The Emperor’s actions were to completely shut people up.
He also knew that the Emperor’s so-called pain didn’t really mean that it was that painful. But as the child’s father, he couldn’t bear it.
The Emperor summoned the imperial physician over, and Li Yu couldn’t bear it and turned around.
King Jing held him under his sleeve, and Li Yu viciously pinched King Jing’s hand, but King Jing didn’t even frown.
At the Emperor’s place, because he was worried that Dabao would be afraid, the Emperor personally carried Dabao to his knees.
Steward Luo came to take the blood, and the Emperor stared at him coldly. Luo Ruisheng had been working for so many years, and his fingers were trembling slightly. He was even more nervous than King Jing, who was on the Emperor’s knees.
Dabao said that he wasn’t afraid, but he was still afraid. As soon as he saw the needle, he closed his eyes.
Then his finger was hit, and Dabao felt that it was okay. It was much better than the time when his mouth hurt when he ate lychee.
But when he opened his eyes and looked around, Dabao found that Father Yu’s eyes were red, and his grandpa and King Jing’s father looked like they were about to hit someone.
Dabao, “…”
Steward Luo gathered his courage and asked, “Your Majesty, what about the other young masters?”
Although he understood that Steward Luo was just doing his job, Li Yu really wanted to kill him.
When the children saw their elder brother being injected with needles, they were so scared that they didn’t even dare to breathe loudly.
Just as the Emperor was about to shake his head, Dabao anxiously said, “Grandpa, let me do it!”
Dabao knew that it was still a little painful, and his younger brothers might not be able to endure it. If Grandpa must use needles, Dabao was willing to do it for his younger brothers!
Dabao bravely stretched out his other finger.
The Emperor, “…”
The smile in the Emperor’s eyes deepened. “Okay.”
Luo Ruisheng was startled. He didn’t expect that this would work.
Dabao thought that he was going to be injected again, so he closed his eyes again in fear. But after waiting for a while, nothing happened. Steward Luo just took a few more drops of blood from his finger.
The Emperor asked for a bandage and personally bandaged Dabao’s wound, wrapping it into a thick circle.
Dabao returned to Li Yu’s side. Li Yu hugged Dabao lovingly, and the other children didn’t fight for Father Yu to hug them. With Si Bao taking the lead, they blew on Dabao’s bandaged finger.
The children felt that it wouldn’t hurt anymore if they blew on it.
Seeing this, the Emperor’s heart had already melted into a puddle because of these children.
The Emperor then ordered Luo Ruisheng to invite the Eighth Prince.
On the day of Concubine Lu’s accident, the Eighth Prince and the Seventh Prince stayed in the same tent. The Eighth Prince felt that it was noisy, but no one dared to tell him what was wrong. Since then, he hadn’t been able to see his mother. Even the Seventh Prince, who usually paid close attention to him, avoided him. It was the Sixth Prince who kindly told him. When he found out that his mother’s secret meeting with another man was discovered, the Eighth Prince was stunned.
Although he was only seven years old, he already knew what kind of crime it was. His mother had already been sent back to the palace, and the servants were all pointing fingers behind her back. When the Emperor asked for a test, the Eighth Prince gritted his teeth and agreed. Anyway, he could only find out who he was by doing this.
The Emperor made preparations and ordered Luo Ruisheng to summon Prince Li of the First Rank, the princes, a few important ministers, and the elders of the imperial family to the Dragon Tent.
The Emperor announced: “Prince Li of the First Rank received a secret report that the Imperial Bloodline is suspicious. I have decided to use a secret method to test it.”
The Emperor didn’t mention the letter, and didn’t mention who he wanted to test it for. He only said that the blood of these people had already been taken, and ordered the imperial physicians who knew the secret method to test it as soon as possible.
The Emperor’s words shocked the imperial family and ministers. First, the Emperor didn’t reveal who the Imperial Bloodline was suspicious. Second, the jade bottles that needed to be tested by the imperial physicians, other than some strange markings, no one could tell who it was.
These markings were actually Li Yu’s contribution. After learning of the Emperor’s plan, Li Yu proposed to use the markings to replace the names. Only the Emperor himself knew how the markings corresponded to people.
The Sixth Prince was originally waiting for the Emperor to be furious when he found out, but he didn’t expect the Emperor to use this method.
Normally, the imperial physicians would take the blood and test it. The imperial physicians actually knew who it was, but the Emperor didn’t. It could be seen that the Emperor was also guarding against the imperial physicians.
The safest way to fake the Imperial Bloodline was to bribe the imperial physicians.
There weren’t many imperial physicians in this dynasty who knew the secret method. Because the Sixth Prince’s mother, Consort Zhang, had saved the life of an imperial physician surnamed Pan in her early years, she was able to persuade Doctor Pan to help her test the blood of the “Little Heir” taken from King Jing’s residence. It was also because Doctor Pan repeatedly assured him that the Little Heir was not a member of the Imperial Bloodline that the Sixth Prince fought this battle more smoothly.
King Jing’s Heir was not a member of the Imperial Bloodline. This was already set in stone. Even the imperial physicians didn’t know who it was, so it didn’t matter to him. However, the Sixth Prince couldn’t help but feel suspicious about why the Emperor made such an arrangement.
“Wang Xi, what should we do?”
The Sixth Prince looked around and saw Princess Jing holding the Little Heir whose finger was “injured”. She was anxiously discussing with Wang Xi about countermeasures.
Except for the Second and Third Princes, the Emperor had summoned all the other princes. Only King Jing didn’t show up. It seemed that the Emperor was still holding the King Jing captive, which made Princess Jing very anxious.
The Sixth Prince ordered his eunuchs to go over and find out. Princess Jing was very alert, so the eunuchs couldn’t get too close. They could only faintly hear the Princess Jing say “can’t find” and “can’t be exchanged”.
The Sixth Prince pondered for a moment. He knew that the Princess Jing was anxious. Princess Jing probably knew better than anyone else where the Little Heir came from. He wasn’t anxious about the Emperor’s arrangement, but the King Jing’s family was anxious …
Therefore, the Emperor’s series of measures should be to guard against the King Jing. He was afraid that the King Jing would do something, so he didn’t have to worry.
The Sixth Prince thought that he had figured out the Emperor, so he calmed down and waited for the news.
On the other side, Doctor Pan, who was helping the Sixth Prince, was a little anxious.
The Imperial Bloodline was very cautious. Several imperial physicians checked separately and then checked together. Doctor Pan was surprised to find that the blood was all from the Imperial Bloodline!
Why was the result different from what the Sixth Prince wanted? Doctor Pan was dumbfounded.
This matter was related to the Sixth Prince’s great cause. No matter what, Doctor Pan had to send a message to the Sixth Prince to confirm.
