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Lan Qingyan asked him: "Do you care about this matter?"

"This is her business." Feng Chen replied coldly.

Lan Qingyan really didn't understand what he meant. He sighed and thought that there seemed to be no hope for the fifteen dancers.

Feng Chen didn't expect that Li Zhao would be waiting for him in Shuangfeng Palace. He was leaning on the table in white clothes. Before he could say anything, he started coughing violently. His whole body was arched and trembling, which was heartbreaking to watch.

Feng Chen roughly guessed the purpose of Li Zhao's visit to Shuangfeng Palace, and he didn't want to interfere in the matter. After Li Zhao calmed down a little, Feng Chen asked, "Why is Your Highness here?"

Li Zhao looked around and said with a smile: "I heard that the Shuangfeng Palace was designed by the emperor himself, so I came to take a look."

Feng Chen stood up and opened the window in the room, and said calmly, "It's hard for the emperor to be so thoughtful."

"I don't ask about the matter between you and Xier, but there are some things I should tell you." Li Zhao leaned his hand on the table and took out the old sachet from his arms with the other hand.

"I heard that you were investigating a case from ten years ago and suggested using this to treat the emperor?" Li Zhao's words were calm and there was no intention of blaming him.

Feng Chen already knew that although Li Zhao lived in Shuiyue, nothing in the palace could be hidden from him, so he was not surprised at all and nodded.

"This sachet was sewn for Xier by the Concubine Dowager when she was alive. The Emperor also had one, but it was lost ten years ago. Xier didn't want this one anymore and threw it into the palace moat. I had someone salvage it." Li Zhao placed the sachet on the table and untied the string. The petals inside had faded and had no fragrance.

"Ten years ago, the Emperor pestered the late Emperor to go out of the palace for a walk. The late Emperor had no choice but to send the commander of the imperial guards, Qin Ao, to escort the brother and sister out of the palace. He originally thought that they would just wander around the capital and nothing serious would happen. But Xier pestered to go outside to have a look. The Emperor doted on her, so he naturally agreed. General Qin Ao was also very helpless. He had to send someone back to the palace to report to the Emperor while following the brother and sister out of the capital.

Unexpectedly, they encountered a rainstorm halfway through the journey. The emperor accidentally slipped off the cliff. General Qin Ao left Xi'er alone on the mountain and went down the mountain alone to look for the emperor. Unable to walk in the rainstorm, he returned to the palace to report that the messenger had not been able to report in time. The emperor was furious and sent all his troops to look for the prince and princess. At the same time, he ordered General Qin's family to be detained. "

"At that time, fortunately General Feng returned to the capital from the border to report on his work. He encountered the princess on the edge of the cliff and sent people down to look for her, but General Qin Ao and the emperor were nowhere to be found."

At this point, Li Zhao suddenly stopped and looked through the window.

I looked at the clear sky outside, but my thoughts went back to that stormy night, and the light in my eyes flickered.

Although Feng Chen had not experienced it personally, he could imagine that ten years ago, the two siblings were only ten years old. How could one person survive a stormy night?

Sighing, Li Zhao continued, "That night, the palace was not at peace either. The concubine died of poison. After investigation, it was found that all the accusations were directed at the Qin family. The late emperor was furious and issued a secret order to exterminate the entire family."

"Afterwards, the late emperor rehabilitated the Qin family. Does this mean that someone deliberately framed them?" Feng Chen couldn't help but ask. This was something he couldn't understand.

Li Zhao signaled him not to worry and continued, "Half a month later, General Qin Ao will appear with the emperor. By then, the emperor will be six years old."

"What happened in between?"

Li Zhao shook his head. "No one knows what the emperor has been through in the past half month. When General Qin Ao learned that his family members were secretly executed, he just sang "God has no eyes" and then committed suicide on the spot."

There were only a few words in the history books, but I didn't expect there was such a hidden secret. Feng Chen thought about Li Zhao's words carefully, and then felt strange, "How did the late emperor know that the Qin family was wrongly accused?"

"After this incident, Xier was very upset. She blamed herself for the death of the Concubine Dowager and the Emperor's illness. The ministers in the court submitted a memorial, saying that General Qin Ao had been loyal all his life and would never do such a treasonous thing. The late Emperor was furious and wanted to behead all the ministers who submitted the memorial."

"Does this include my father?" The Qin family and the Feng family have some connections. Feng Chen believes that with his father's character, he will not sit idly by and do nothing about this matter.

Li Zhao nodded. "The late emperor insisted on his own way and had already taken the person to the execution ground. It was Xier who knelt under the scorching sun for three hours and made the late emperor change his mind. She also signed a military order in front of the emperor, saying that if the real murderer who poisoned the concubine could not be found, she would be beheaded together with the ministers."

Feng Chen found it hard to imagine where a ten-year-old girl could have such courage.

Li Zhao smiled and shook his head. "That girl is very stubborn. She searched almost every corner of the palace for three days and finally found the person."

"Who is it?" Feng Chen couldn't help but clench his fists.

Li Zhao thought for a moment but did not answer Feng Chen's question. "The late emperor felt guilty towards the Qin family, so he issued a pardon order, wrote a confession of guilt and read it on the city wall, and ordered the construction of a mausoleum for the Qin family."

Feng Chen felt that Li Zhao was hiding something and wanted to ask, but when he thought that Li Zhao would never tell him given his personality, he gave up.

"After this incident, the emperor often had nightmares. When he woke up, he didn't recognize anyone but Xier. Xier couldn't bear his pain and ordered no one to mention this incident. When the previous emperor passed away, Xier also wanted to use this method to make the emperor recover, but it almost caused the emperor's death."

Li Zhao's voice was calm, but in Feng Chen's heart, it was like a storm. Having lost two people to rely on overnight, it was no wonder that she didn't want to talk about the past.

Feng Chen suddenly remembered something and looked up and down at Li Zhao, "The Third Prince's illness also happened ten years ago, right?"

"Maybe." Speaking of himself, Li Zhao's face became even more indifferent. He smiled and then said, "The sachet was thrown by the emperor on the eve of his ascension to the throne. The child swore, 'Forget that I am a girl, I will definitely

We must protect the summer from getting worse.'

Li Zhao slowly put the sachet back and handed it to Feng Chen, saying solemnly: "Now that the summer heat has subsided, I hope you can give her this sachet so that she can find herself and Li Xi, instead of the Protector of the Nation Princess."

Feng Chen did not take the sachet. Today he seemed to see a different Li Xi. She was not the calm and steady princess, nor was she the one who attacked in anger in the market, nor was she the one who was in a miserable state. Instead, she was a woman who only had Yan Xia and her relatives in her heart.

He recalled what she said that day. The tears on the woman's cheeks seemed to fall on his heart, burning him. He handed the sachet back, "I don't have the qualifications."

"You are Yanxia's consort. No one else is qualified except you." Li Zhao placed the sachet on the table and stood up to say goodbye.

"Someone, send ..."

Feng Chen wanted someone to send Li Zhao back, but he shook his hand, covered his hand with silk and coughed twice before saying, "I'll go back alone."

Coming out of Shuangfeng Palace, Li Zhao walked alone along the edge of Yingchun Pond. He walked very slowly, looking at the humble wild flowers on the lawn, looking at the willows swaying on the embankment, stopping from time to time.

When he reached the front of the Qianqing Palace, he suddenly heard footsteps and a maid ran towards him from the corner. He had no time to avoid her and the two of them bumped into each other head-on.

A man jumped out from the side, pulled Li Zhao up and protected him behind him, and stabbed the three-foot soft sword towards the throat of the woman on the ground.

"Yinhua, stop." Li Zhao shouted coldly, causing another burst of coughing.

The soft sword stopped in front of the woman's throat. The woman with a cold face turned around and looked at Li Zhao who was coughing violently, but she just watched quietly without any intention of going forward to help him.

Li Zhao recovered and waved his hand to signal her to leave. He then looked at the trembling palace maid beside him and asked, "Which palace are you from? What happened?"

The maid hurriedly bowed and said, "I am from Ganlu Palace. The queen is about to give birth, and I need to go and invite the emperor."

"So fast." Li Zhao murmured softly.

The waitress didn't know what he meant. She couldn't leave at the moment, but she was anxious to stay. She reminded him, "Your Highness, do you have any other instructions?"

"You go ahead." Li Zhao waved his hand, turned around and saw Yin Hua looking at him not far away. He smiled and motioned her to come over. "Why did you come out?"

"Your Highness shouldn't have come out without telling Tong'er. If anything had happened to you, no one in Shuiyue Villa would have survived." There was no one around, but Yinhua still kept a distance of three steps from Li Zhao.

The smile on Li Zhao's face froze. Others couldn't do such a thing, but that child would definitely do it. He said nonchalantly, "Who in this palace can hurt me?"

Yin Hua said coldly: "Your Highness, who can't hurt you?"

Li Zhao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed and started coughing again. His whole body hunched up, and he held on to the branch next to him with one hand.

There was worry in Yinhua's eyes, but he remained standing still, "Do you want to ask for a miracle doctor?"

"He should be very busy right now, so there's no need." Li Zhao recovered and moved towards Shuiyue Villa again. Yin Hua was three steps behind him, following slowly.

Upon learning that Li Yingying was about to give birth, Li Xi sighed. With the birth of this child, there would be a lot of turmoil in the court. This was good, as long as the emperor's illness could be cured. If not... her hope was all on this child.

In this way, the country returned to the orthodox rule, and the Sixth Emperor's uncle also

I will do my best to assist my grandson, and then I can retreat safely.

New clothes cannot be seen by Li Yingying. Seeing Li Xi curling her lips, she said reluctantly, “The things have been selected. Do you want to send them to Ganlu Palace?”

"You choose someone else to go." Xinyi didn't want to go to Ganlu Palace, and Li Xi didn't make things difficult for her and said softly.

Xinyi chanted a Buddhist prayer and asked someone to come in and take the things out. After hearing the news outside, he came back with a gloomy face, "Tomorrow is the last deadline given by the master to the young marquis. If he can't get the silver back, what should we do?"

Li Xi was also worried, but she believed in An You. Over the years, he had never let her down.

Soon, news came from Ganlu Palace that Li Yingying had safely given birth to a dragon son, and both mother and child were safe. The emperor and Shen Qingming had already rushed over, and Li Quan and his family also came to Ganlu Palace.

Li Xi asked Xin Yi to take a message to Li Zheng, asking the whole country to celebrate, grant amnesty, and immediately make the child the crown prince and move him into the East Palace.

"Master..." Xin Yi looked at her master in surprise. Her cold figure seemed lonely against the backdrop of the entire hall. She looked at Li Xi for a long time before asking, "Have you really decided?"

"Yes." Li Xi leaned against the window, seeing the bright sunshine outside, and smiled: "Look, Xinyi, the alternation of day and night is an eternal law, white is white, black is black, this world, after all, belongs to men. No matter how much I do for Yanxia, ​​in their eyes, I am just a woman."

"They are stubborn." Hearing the sadness in her master's words, Xin Yi was so anxious that she almost cried. Li Xi waved her hand, signaling her to go down first.

Since leaving Yiju, Xinyi has always been in a heavy mood. She never disobeys Li Xi's words, but does she really want to make Li Yingying's child the crown prince? She is the murderer who poisoned the Third Prince!

After thinking for a while, she did not go to Ganlu Palace, but turned to Shuiyue Villa.

Before Li Zhao entered Shuiyue's residence, Xinyi called him, "It's good that your highness is here. The master wants to make the newly born little prince the crown prince. Your highness, please persuade the master as soon as possible."

Li Zhao thought about it and continued to move forward. "Since it is the princess's wish, just do as you are told."

"But Your Highness..." Before Xinyi could finish his words, the bamboo door in front of him had closed and the footsteps inside were getting farther and farther away.

Xinyi bit her lip, stomped her feet and walked out of the palace. No matter what, she couldn't let Li Yingying be so proud. Others could let go of what happened in the past, but she couldn't.

Just as she reached the Mingtang, a maid caught up with her and hurriedly reported: "The Imperial Concubine's child is gone."

"What's going on?" Xin Yi didn't know whether to feel sad or happy. Although she hated Li Yingying and didn't want her child to become the crown prince, it was still a little life after all, how innocent could it be?

"When the emperor arrived at Ganlu Palace, he heard that the little prince had stopped breathing. I don't know the details. The imperial concubine is also in critical condition, and the miracle doctor is trying to save her."

"You go down first." Xinyi walked back, and suddenly a vicious idea popped up in his mind. If Li Yingying died because of this, would the master feel better?

Upon learning that Li Yingying's child was gone, Li Xi was speechless for a moment and sat there in melancholy. After a long time, she said softly, "Consolation to her for me."

As a woman, although Li Xi had never raised a child, she could still understand the feelings of a mother towards her child. Although Li Yingying was hateful, the child was innocent.

"What is the decree?"

"The child is gone, and the decree is naturally gone." With a very tired tone, Li Xi rubbed his forehead and motioned for Xinyi to go down first.

Ganlu Palace was shrouded in a haze at the moment. Li Quan was sitting in the outer hall, still holding the dead child in his arms. No matter how the maid beside him tried to persuade him, he refused to let go.

Li Zheng paced back and forth anxiously, looking into the inner room from time to time with a worried look on his face.

Li Yingying was lying on the bed in the inner room. Her face was still a little pale, but her energy and spirit had recovered.

Shen Qingming sat on a low couch beside the bed, with a gloomy face, "Did the queen kill that child?" Although it was a question, his tone was very affirmative.

Li Yingying smiled weakly, "I said I wanted a girl."

"The situation is urgent. Where can we find such a suitable girl? Besides, everyone hopes it will be a boy. Isn't this good? The prince will not force you anymore." Shen Qingming was a little angry and almost growled.

Chapter 109 Heading to the Northern Base

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"Huh~~" Emperor Qianlong was surprised first, "Why do you suddenly want to arrange marriage for your fourth daughter? Didn't you say before that the third and fifth daughters could be arranged to marry, but your wife can't bear to part with the fourth daughter and wants to stay for a few more years?"

This was naturally said by the first wife. Firstly, as a mother, she really didn't want her daughter to get married early; secondly, wasn't it because of the special status of the fourth princess?

If the marriage was arranged before the succession ceremony, the Fourth Princess's status would be no more than the emperor's granddaughter or the prince's legitimate daughter, the same as the Fifth Princess of Prince Zhi's family, and her title could only be given to a princess.

But if we wait until the succession ceremony, this fourth princess will be a Princess Gulun!

Emperor Qianlong and the Fifteenth Prince knew all this very well in their hearts, so after this request, Emperor Qianlong and the Fifteenth Prince tacitly agreed not to mention it, and directly arranged marriages for the Third Princess and the Fifth Princess, skipping the Fourth Princess.

The Fifteenth Prince bowed his head and said slowly, "As the old saying goes, 'A girl should not be kept when she grows up, or she will become an enemy'. The Fourth Girl is not young anymore. Seeing the excitement surrounding the Third Girl's arranged marriage, she must be anxious, right?"

Emperor Qianlong snorted, and the corners of his lips slightly raised.