coobybook Chapter 457 Weighing
Chapter 457 Weighing
Zhaozheng Hall.
"Your Majesty, I greet you. I hope your Majesty is in good health. It has been several days since you last visited me in Lanlin Palace." After paying her respects, Concubine Miao Yueji began to complain before Qin Zhi called her.
"Zhen An, get up."
Qin Zhi simply ignored Miao Yueji's subsequent words.
"Your Majesty, the Phalaenopsis and Mo orchids that I asked Lin Heng to grow have all bloomed. Would Your Majesty like to come and see me?" Concubine Miao Yueji held her belly, her skirt slightly fluttering, as she walked forward and held Qin Zhi's sleeve.
"You've been waiting for me outside for so long, and you're still in the mood!" Qin Zhi raised his eyes and glanced outside the hall, seeing the backs of the officials who were leaving in twos and threes. He lowered his eyes to look at the concubine Miao Yueji who was acting coquettishly, and reached out to touch her belly.
"Your Majesty is busy with government affairs, and it is reasonable for me to wait as long as possible." Concubine Miao Yueji smiled at Qin Zhi in a flattering manner.
"You know I'm busy with government affairs, but you still come to Zhaozheng Palace to see me?" Qin Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Your Majesty is my husband and the father of the baby in my belly. Why can't I come to see you?" Concubine Miao Yueji raised her chin slightly and pouted.
"Your Majesty, can I go see Concubine Mingyu?"
Upon hearing this, Qin Zhi looked at Miao Yueji carefully from head to toe.
Is this a brain failure?
"We are sisters." Miao Yueji smiled awkwardly.
"You are pregnant, so stay in Lanlin Palace and take care of your baby. Don't think too much. What happened recently has nothing to do with you. If there is anything that is not related to the baby in your belly, wait until you give birth to it."
Qin Zhi said in a gentle voice.
So...is he planning to use Imperial Concubine Mingyu and the Third Prince to indirectly test his approach to the First Prince?
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your understanding." Concubine Miao Yueji frowned, but the corners of her lips were raised. The expression between her brows was both worried and happy, which was very contradictory.
He seemed to be feeling sorry for Concubine Mingyu, but also happy that he would not have to suffer because of the concubine's funeral.
"Is there anything else? I'm going to Concubine Yi's place for dinner in a while, and will go to Lanlin to see you tomorrow." Qin Zhi gently patted Miao Yueji's back, indicating that she could go out.
Miao Yueji was anxious, so she blurted out her purpose: "Your Majesty, the eldest prince..."
"Your Majesty, as you know, I and the eldest prince had a mother-son relationship in our previous life. Although I am only his concubine's mother in this life, in my heart, he is my own son. Now that he has suffered this hardship, I can't help but want to find out more..."
"Will you feel at ease after finding out? If Shunpin and the twelfth prince were poisoned by him, how do you plan to plead for him?"
Qin Zhi looked at Miao Yueji gently with his calm eyes, but it made Miao Yueji even more frightened.
Miao Yueji shook her head gently, "I don't know either. If he really did something so treasonous, I, I will not plead for him."
Qin Zhi placed his hand on Miao Yueji's belly and chuckled, "This is your biological son. As for the eldest prince, Mingyu is also my biological son. Unless he points a knife at me, you don't have to worry."
Miao Yueji nodded heavily, sniffed, her eyes sparkling with tears, and said in a muffled voice: "I understand."
"Shunpin is begging for mercy." Qin Zhi casually handed the handkerchief offered by the palace maid to the concubine Miao Yueji, "She said that she is willing to demote herself to a palace maid, and begs me to be lenient with the eldest prince."
Miao Yueji paused while wiping her tears. She said against her will, "It seems that Shunpin has the eldest prince in her heart."
There's a ghost.
She has both a son and a daughter, but she still demoted herself to a palace maid. Isn't this directly convicting the eldest prince by begging for mercy?
"Your Majesty, please stay with me for a while longer. I and the baby in my belly miss you so much." Miao Yueji said to make amends.
She must be waiting for His Majesty because she misses Him.
The mother and son in the previous life are all things of the previous life. In Miao Yueji's heart in this life, the eldest prince must be secondary, secondary to His Majesty, secondary to her and her prince in this life.
After all, His Majesty may not really believe what she said when she tried to seduce His Majesty.
Your Majesty, please don't misunderstand her.
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Qin Zhi stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, watching the figure of Concubine Miao Yueji being supported by palace maids on both sides as she walked further and further away.
"Your humble servant, Si Yu, the commander of the Capital Region Department, wishes to greet Your Majesty."
"I'm fine. What did Mingjin say to Mingyu when he went to see him?"
Qin Zhi would treat some trivial matters that did not need to be dealt with immediately or did not need to be dealt with at all, and would just treat them as stories or vernacular novels to be read slowly. However, some information had to be known and responded to in a timely manner.
For example, the third prince surrendered to the fourth prince, and another example was the meeting between the third prince and the eldest prince.
Upon hearing Qin Zhi's question, Si Yu, the commander of the Jingji Division, immediately presented the intelligence recording every word spoken by the eldest prince Qin Mingyu and the third prince Qin Mingjin during their meeting.
"The Third Prince went to visit the First Prince and told him that he planned to become a monk with His Majesty. His words seemed to be trying to instigate the First Prince to rebel."
Qin Zhi flipped through the conversation between the two, thinking about the conversation between the Third Prince and the Fourth Prince presented by Wei Zhun, and chuckled, "The Third Prince is trying to make the First Prince hate me. Does it mean that I am partial to Xiao Jiu by handing the case over to her?"
"But the Ninth Prince is my legitimate son. If I make him the Crown Prince without training his abilities, wouldn't that be biased in the eyes of the boss?"
"Si Yu, I feel so wronged!" Qin Zhi stood up, put his arm on Si Yu, and took him out of Zhaozheng Hall in a swagger.
"Your Majesty!" Si Yu hesitated to speak.
"Before, the eldest brother planned to unite with other brothers to suppress the ninth brother. I thought he had grown his brain. Now that he has been instigated by the third brother, it seems that he is going to turn his hostile eyes to me. I am his father, the emperor, these two unfilial sons."
Qin Zhi sighed with a barely perceptible smile in his voice.
"Your Majesty, are you going to let the Crown Prince achieve his goal?"
"Why not? I want to see how he can do it, so that he can set an example for his brothers and sisters on what they can and cannot do."
"If he is smart and has me as his father in mind, he will not raise the knife to challenge me. This way, I can get some force to help me.
When he has trained his soldiers well, I can allow him to return to secular life, turn his monk soldiers into his own private soldiers, and let him go out and conquer some places to establish his own fiefdom. It is not impossible."
Thinking of the advice that Lu Shanggong had given him, although Lu Shanggong herself was very naive and often had bizarre ideas, and most of her suggestions were not suitable for Dayong, some of them did make Qin Zhi's eyes light up.
Lu Shanggong is a loyal minister.
"Your Majesty loves your son deeply, I,
Before Si Yu could finish his words, he was interrupted by Qin Zhi, "No need to be polite, I know that my father's love is moving." Qin Zhi's eyes were full of smiles.
Si Yu looked helplessly at His Majesty, who had remained the same for ten years and would suddenly become childish and complacent if he wasn't paying attention.
"Your Majesty, the Ninth Prince requests an audience."
"Announce." Qin Zhi said solemnly.
"Your Majesty, I'll take my leave." Si Yu bowed to Qin Zhi, got permission, and quickly left Zhaozheng Hall.
"I hope your Majesty is in good health." The ninth prince Qin Mingxuan came hurriedly and saluted.
"Go ahead."
"This is the case file compiled by your son, please review it, Father."
"I don't want to watch, I want to hear you say it."
Qin Zhi had a blank expression on his face, and looked at the ninth prince Qin Mingxuan with burning eyes.
"There is absolutely no possibility that a son would kill his mother in the Yong family. The story of Concubine Mingyu's miscarriage is a fabrication. The Third Prince has asked to become a monk to show his filial piety and pray for his mother."
"As for the lead-tin kettle case, my eldest brother was negligent for a moment and caused Shunpin and my thirteenth brother to be poisoned. Fortunately, no one was killed. I hope that the emperor will be lenient with them."
"Is that your answer?"