sjar Chapter 312 Do you still remember the child who was replaced?
Chapter 312 Do you still remember the child who was replaced?
Lu Xinran tossed and turned the entire night, and at dawn he could no longer hold on and only slept for two hours.
She was awakened by hunger before noon. She ate something casually and then sat in the study to start looking for details again.
The emperor has stopped writing, and Shuntian Prefecture is no longer as busy as before.
Song Junyan got up in the morning and went to the government office to deal with all the accumulated official business from the previous year, and then came back to continue accompanying his newlywed wife.
Both the husband and wife had a vague suspicion that peace in the capital would not last for many days.
"found it!"
Towards evening, she finally found the details she wanted before the booklet disappeared.
"The baby that was exchanged by the previous emperor... is not dead."
The emperor ordered his men to deal with him, but the palace servant who was going to deal with the baby suddenly felt soft-hearted and drowned him in a basin, leaving him to fend for himself.
But the basin of water had just flowed out not far when it was rescued by someone. The palace servant thought that all this was God's will, so he followed the man and found out where he lived.
In the following years, every time he left the palace, he would look for an opportunity to see the child. The child, who was predicted by the imperial physician to not live beyond six months, miraculously survived in that farmer's home.
Although he was a little weak and had to take medicine all year round, he was extremely smart and clever.
He discovered the palace maid the fifth time she visited him, and she told him all her life stories when he was ten years old.
When he learned that he was a prince, and that he should be the most favored prince in the palace, he began to hate the previous emperor who wanted to execute him, and he also envied the emperor who had usurped his position.
"Later, just as you can imagine, he was able to survive in a poor farm family, and his adoptive parents took great care of him and used all their money to keep him alive. Of course, he had some great means.
"In the year when the emperor ascended the throne, he took advantage of the opportunity when the emperor was worshipping his ancestors to find Eunuch Fu and ask him to help him.
"But a shrewd man like Eunuch Fu would never agree to his request so easily. He was also very smart and found out Eunuch Fu's background directly, and used his family in Yuzhou as a threat.
"He also threatened that if you didn't help him, he would reveal what he knew about the emperor's background.
"Under various threats and inducements, Eunuch Fu had no choice but to agree. He could only promise to help him act according to circumstances."
Lu Xinran had never thought that there was such a secret behind this. She originally suspected that foreigners had bribed the people around the emperor, but she did not expect that the baby who was predicted to not live more than half a year would actually be alive until now and could still stir up trouble with his scheming.
Song Junyan fell into a long silence. This result was something they had never imagined.
"He was the one who gave the prescription for the aphrodisiac to Eunuch Fu, asking him to find an opportunity to give it to the imperial physician and use it on the emperor."
The man had been planning for more than 20 years and was finally unable to wait and was ready to take action.
"That recipe...does it have any other effects that others don't know about?"
"Yes," Lu Xinran said solemnly, looking at Song Junyan word by word, "Overdose can cause sudden death."
Song Junyan sat up straight, feeling only troubled after the shock.
"Do you know where that person is now?"
"I don't know. He has been the one who contacted Eunuch Fu unilaterally. Eunuch Fu tried several times to track him down to his hiding place, but he always dodged him."
The last time, the man sent him his nephew's hand as a warning.
That hand gave Eunuch Fu such a strong shock that he dared not act rashly ever since.
"You can ask Ding San to look for the person. You can start with Eunuch Fu's family in Yuzhou. They must have spies around him."
If she could catch that person's spy, she would find a way to bring him back to the capital regardless of whether he is dead or alive.
Song Junyan stood up and went out immediately to make arrangements. This New Year would probably not be a happy one for the couple.
On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, after struggling for a few days, Lu Xinran finally pulled him into the study and whispered to him, "What do you think, should we tell the Queen about this?"
They have limited manpower, and Song Junyan had always wanted to be a leisurely prince, and had never managed his subordinates seriously. Now that he needs the right people, he regrets not having enough.
For them, the best allies should be the Queen and the Zhang family.
"Okay, I'll find a chance to talk to my mother about this in detail."
Song Junyan was also a decisive person. He knew that the two of them alone could not control the situation, and they had not yet decided how to deal with this matter.
There was still a family banquet on New Year's Eve, but because of the "incident" on the day of New Year's Eve, the emperor only showed up in the front hall this time and left quickly.
As soon as he left, the empress dowager sat for a while and then returned to Yongshou Palace.
The concubines gathered in groups of three or four to chat and laugh. Several princes did not want Lu Xinran to see too many of their secrets, so they all found excuses to leave.
Song Junyan found an opportunity to sit next to the Queen early in the morning. Now that everyone had left, he had the opportunity to talk to the Queen.
However, there were many people in the palace and it was not easy to talk about such a secret matter. So the couple supported the queen and carried her to Changchun Palace regardless of her reaction.
"Okay, stop being so mysterious. Tell me what you want to tell me."
The queen was left in a state of confusion as to whether to laugh or cry. She waved her hand to signal the palace servants to leave first, and instructed her trusted followers to guard outside the palace and to warn loudly if anyone approached. Then she pulled the two of them to her side and asked in a low voice.
Lu Xinran glanced at Song Junyan, and while they were looking at each other, Song Junyan spoke first.
"Mother, please believe what I am going to say next, and try not to scream out in surprise."
He quickly recounted the causes and consequences that the two of them had worked out during this period, and told them all about the emperor's life experience and the fact that the son who actually belonged to the empress dowager and was replaced by him was still alive, without hiding anything.
The Queen's fingertips had already dug into her palms, and the veins on her forehead were tense with an extremely ugly look on her face.
"No wonder! No wonder! Do you know who the woman in the cold palace who was sentenced to death by the late emperor was?"
As she spoke, tears began to fall rapidly: "She is my dear aunt!"
Back then, her aunt was once the queen, but was later stripped of her title by the previous emperor on false charges and was banished to the cold palace, where no one was allowed to visit her.
At that time, the Zhang family were all at the border, and when they learned about this, everything had already been settled.
The previous emperor was afraid of the military power in the hands of the Zhang family and suppressed them everywhere.
For the sake of the Zhang family, my grandfather had no choice but to swallow his anger and write a letter to apologize to expel her aunt from the family to make his position clear.
This incident happened before she was born. It was only after she went to the border this time that she learned about what happened when her grandmother sent a secret letter to the border.
Thinking that the emperor was actually her aunt's son, her heart felt like it was being cut by a knife. She cried and laughed at the pain.
"You can't bear to see our Zhang family become so powerful, but you also want the world to be protected by our Zhang family. Good, very good!"
Does this mean that the Zhang family must never betray the dog emperor for his life experience? !
But why!