Chapter 315 Border Secret Report
When Shen Jingxuan heard Ling Feng's words, she suddenly stood up from the couch and looked at Xie Lingxiao in shock.
"Ah Xiao, could it be that Xie Zihan knew about the Queen and Lu Zhong?"
If this is not the case, how to explain Xie Zihan going to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and how to explain Xie Zihan's departure and the Queen's following suit.
She didn't believe that the Queen would let Xie Zihan go to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and it was impossible for Lu Zhong to let Xie Zihan go with her knowing that the Queen had returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
The only explanation is that Xie Zihan believed her words and secretly sent people to keep an eye on the two of them.
Xie Lingxiao said: "If Xie Zihan knew about this, he would definitely know that he is not a prince, so..."
"So, everything that happened to the eldest prince can be explained?" Shen Jingxuan interrupted Xie Lingxiao.
She guessed that Xie Zihan must know the truth of the matter and wanted to kill Xie Zian to ensure the safety of his position as crown prince?
If this is the case, I wonder if the Second Prince is doing well at this moment.
"Let Ling Feng continue to investigate. He will eventually find out the truth."
After Xie Lingxiao finished speaking, Ling Feng responded and continued to investigate the matter.
Shen Jingxuan paced back and forth in the study, unable to figure out the ultimate purpose of Xie Zihan's doing this.
Not many people knew his identity, and the emperor and all the civil and military officials in the court were just suspicious.
As long as Xie Zihan continues to cover up for the Queen and the Prime Minister's Mansion, his identity will not be exposed.
But this was originally the safest way, so why did Xie Zihan take such a risk?
Isn't he afraid that this matter will be exposed, and the emperor will find out, discover the secret between the queen and Lu Zhong, and then find out his true identity?
Shen Jingxuan and Xie Lingxiao didn't think it through for a while, so they had to continue waiting for Ling Feng's news.
But until late at night, the two still hadn't waited for Ling Feng, so they had to go to sleep uneasy.
The next day, the two got up early. Just as they had packed up, Eunuch Deng came hurriedly to look for Xie Lingxiao.
"Regent, the Emperor has an urgent matter and would like to summon you to the palace." Eunuch Deng said respectfully.
He had rushed to the Regent's Palace as quickly as possible, for fear of delaying the Emperor's important affairs.
After Eunuch Deng finished speaking, he looked at Xie Lingxiao anxiously, worried that he would delay returning to the palace due to his dissatisfaction and thus anger the emperor.
"Did something happen in the palace?" Xie Lingxiao asked coldly.
He was finally looking forward to the other three kingdoms leaving so that he could live a peaceful life, but the emperor sent someone to invite him again, disturbing his peace.
Eunuch Deng replied hastily, "I don't know what it is, but I know that the emperor received a secret report and ordered me to invite you into the palace."
Thinking of the emperor's expression when he saw the secret report, Eunuch Deng became more anxious.
If they fail to return to the palace in time, the emperor will be furious when they enter the palace.
Ever since the envoy left Beiling Kingdom, the emperor has been angry from time to time.
Especially when it came to matters related to the Empress and the Prime Minister's Mansion, the Emperor would become furious every time they happened.
Xie Lingxiao glanced at Eunuch Deng calmly, "Is it a secret report from the border?"
"Yes." Eunuch Deng responded.
Seeing that Xie Lingxiao looked at him as if he were a piece of trash, Eunuch Deng had no choice but to answer truthfully.
He was afraid that if he said something that he didn't know, Xie Lingxiao would say those two words in public.
As someone who has followed the emperor for many years, it is unacceptable that I don’t even know such a thing.
Hearing what Eunuch Deng said, Xie Lingxiao frowned slightly: "Xuan'er, I'll be back soon, you wait for me at the mansion."
"Okay." Shen Jingxuan's apricot eyes flashed slightly.
After Xie Lingxiao and Eunuch Deng left, he looked at the empty room and gradually fell into deep thought.
Urgent border report?
The other three countries had just left for a few days, and if you counted carefully, they had not yet returned to their own land.
At this moment, secret information came from the border, leaving Shen Jingxuan at a loss as to the reason.
When Xiao Jianhui and Xiao Yao from Nanling Kingdom left, they got along well with Xie Lingxiao and Shen Jingxuan.
Even at the palace banquet and the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet, he did not do anything to attract attention.
If there really was a problem in Nanling Kingdom, how deep must Xiao Jianhui and Xiao Yao's scheming be.
Thinking that it was Nanling Country, Shen Jingxuan broke out in a cold sweat.
If this is true, if you come into contact with such people, you will never know when they will plot against you.
Shen Jingxuan felt that the most likely candidates were Dongling Kingdom and Xiling Kingdom.
But the two countries did not take any other actions at the banquet. Although there were occasional quarrels, nothing serious happened in the end.
The only thing that happened at the banquet was that Song Yi asked the emperor to take Xie Shiyin as his concubine.
Apart from that, nothing else happened.
Thinking about the secret report being sent to the palace at this time, Shen Jingxuan felt inexplicably nervous.
She didn't know why, but she always felt that something was going to happen, and she couldn't figure out the emperor's intention in summoning Xie Lingxiao.
The emperor had always coveted the military power in Xie Lingxiao's hands and repeatedly sent people to assassinate Xie Lingxiao.
If the matter had not been urgent and caught him off guard, given the emperor's suspicious nature, he would never have taken the initiative to look for Xie Lingxiao to discuss matters.
Shen Jingxuan looked out the window, her beautiful brows gradually wrinkled. She didn't know whether the emperor's search for Xie Lingxiao this time was a good thing or a bad thing for both of them.
She only hoped that the matter that the emperor wanted to discuss with Xie Lingxiao could be easily resolved in the end without involving Xie Lingxiao.
Shen Jingxuan sat in the study. The more she thought about Xie Lingxiao entering the palace, the more irritated she became.
After thinking for a long time, she still couldn't figure out the reason, so she simply got up and went to the yard to get some fresh air.
Seeing Shen Jingxuan silent, Ling Qiong comforted her, "Princess, don't think too much. The prince has gone to the palace to discuss matters. He will return home after he has discussed it with the emperor."
When she saw Shen Jingxuan frowning and looking increasingly worse after she left Xie Lingxiao, she had no choice but to comfort her.
"Yes, don't worry, Princess. Whenever the prince came to the palace in the past, he always came back very early." Ling Huan said.
There is no telling how many urgent reports from the border are brought into the palace every day, both big and small.
Now the emperor has only summoned Xie Lingxiao to the palace to discuss matters, so I don't think anything big will happen.
After hearing what the two said, Shen Jingxuan did not feel relieved, but became even more worried.
She didn't know why, but this time, the longer Xie Lingxiao stayed in the palace, the more nervous he became.
The later Xie Lingxiao returned home, the more irritated she became.
Shen Jingxuan paced back and forth in the yard until dinner time, but she didn't wait for Xie Lingxiao to return home.
"Miss, it's time for dinner." Chuntao reminded.
She saw Shen Jingxuan walking in the yard for the whole afternoon, and now it was dinner time, but she still had no intention of going back to her room, so she felt a little worried.
Shen Jingxuan glanced at the sky and had no choice but to go back to the room with Chuntao.
Looking at the food on the table, I feel less and less appetite.
"Go away, I don't want to eat yet." Shen Jingxuan said softly.
How could she feel at ease if she didn't see Xie Lingxiao return home with her own eyes?
When Xie Lingxiao entered the room, he saw Shen Jingxuan with a worried look on her face, and said distressedly, "Xuan'er, why don't you eat first?"
"Axiao."
Hearing Xie Lingxiao's voice, Shen Jingxuan walked towards her quickly and threw herself into his arms in an instant.
She asked worriedly, "Why did you take so long?"
Xie Lingxiao looked at her worried expression and swallowed back the words he was about to say.
"Have your meal first, and I'll talk to you later."