coobybook Chapter 400 Crisis
Chapter 400 Crisis
Jiaofang Hall.
Queen Shen Ningyue and the female officials were discussing how to arrange the funeral of the Thirteenth Prince.
The thirteenth prince, Qin Minghu, was not yet an adult, so he could be considered to have died young or unexpectedly. He was neither the crown prince nor the king, but he was very favored, so his funeral could not be handled hastily.
"My Lady, please go and ask His Majesty to confer a title of king on the Thirteenth Prince posthumously, so that the funeral ceremony will be more dignified."
"After all, the Thirteenth Prince was deeply loved by Your Majesty when he was alive. If the honor and mourning after his death cannot be perfect, I am worried that Your Majesty will blame the Queen when he thinks about it after he is sad."
Shunpin Shi Qingzhang nodded and agreed, "Yes, Your Majesty, although His Majesty did not mention it, but..."
Halfway through the conversation, Shi Qingzhang suddenly reacted, "Does the queen have any concerns in her mind?"
"Your Majesty, are you worried that His Majesty will posthumously confer the title of Crown Prince on the Thirteenth Prince before conferring the title of Crown Prince on the Ninth Prince?"
Within a few months, the discussion about the Thirteenth Prince's drowning and posthumous title of Crown Prince had not yet subsided, and the heat of making the Ninth Prince the Crown Prince resurfaced.
In this case, someone might lie with open eyes and falsely accuse the Ninth Prince of ordering the palace servants to drown the Thirteenth Prince.
On the eve of the Ninth Prince being enthroned as Crown Prince, the most favored Thirteenth Prince was posthumously named Crown Prince.
Even though everyone knew that the Thirteenth Prince was born to a woman of a foreign race and had a pair of golden-blue eyes, and that it was obvious that he could not inherit the throne, everyone in and outside the palace knew about His Majesty's fondness for the Thirteenth Prince.
If there is another matter concerning the life and death of the two princes, those who are not interested will be suspicious, not to mention those who are interested will intentionally add fuel to the fire.
Did Your Majesty joke about making the Thirteenth Prince, who was born on your knee, the Crown Prince, and the Ninth Prince, who was the legitimate son, heard it and took it seriously, so he cruelly killed his Thirteenth Brother, who was born to a different mother?
"Empress, rumors are spreading outside that the reason why the Thirteenth Prince drowned was because the First Prince and the Ninth Prince ordered the palace servants to do it."
The palace maid who was not on duty heard the rumor and hurried back to the Pepper Palace to report the news.
"How could there be such an outrageous rumor?" Shen Ningyue sighed softly.
Did Your Majesty issue an edict to enthrone both the living and dead princes at the same time?
"Your Majesty, this rumor is even more rampant than the previous rumor that the Seventh Prince killed the concubine. Someone must be behind this."
"What do the rumors say? It's impossible that the First Prince and the Ninth Prince killed the Thirteenth Prince out of thin air, right?"
Shen Ningyue sat down and asked seriously.
The palace maids did not mention anything about the prince, so why did such rumors spread?
"Whether it's Mingyu or Mingxuan,
They are the eldest prince who left the palace a long time ago and has his own house, the eldest brother of all the princes,
One is the eldest son who is about to reach adulthood and has a righteous status.
Between them and a child less than ten years old,
What kind of grudge or hatred could there be to the point of endangering lives?
So where did this rumor come from?" Shen Ningyue asked slowly.
Since the rumors are so rampant and someone is manipulating them from behind, she is now rushing to catch the person and stop the rumors. She can already think of the other party's next move.
It simply means that she and her group in the Pepper Palace are guilty and short of breath, and are extremely angry.
This rumor would spread from Mingxuan to her, the queen who "instructed the eldest prince and protected her own son."
First, the legitimate son was unworthy of being the crown prince because of his lack of virtue, and finally, the queen was unworthy of being the queen because of her lack of virtue. So who was virtuous enough to aim for the position of crown prince and queen?
"The eldest and ninth princes are both filial children. How could they kill their own brothers and make His Majesty sad?"
Shunpin Shi Qingzhang frowned, very anxious.
"When I heard the rumors about the eldest prince and the ninth prince," the palace maid looked embarrassed.
Seeing the palace maid hesitate, Shen Ningyue interrupted her and said, "You'll be rewarded. Come on, go find out what's going on."