Reborn as a concubine's sister, the eldest lady went crazy

After finally confirming that the woman in the prison van was dead, the leader of the team smiled slightly in his mask and signaled to withdraw. He didn't notice that the streets around him were terribly quiet, as if someone had cleared them in advance.

In the early morning, when the first group of people who got up to make a living took to the streets one after another, the capital began a new day of prosperity. No one noticed anything unusual on Zhuque South Street, because everything had been wiped out in the dark, leaving nothing behind.

His Majesty the Emperor adjourned court today, but all officials still got up early, sitting in sedan chairs and carriages, some going to the yamen to report for duty, some dealing with daily affairs, and some simply occupied the teahouses and restaurants closest to Suzaku Street.

While chatting, he pretended to look out the window facing the street. In fact, everyone knew that the emperor stopped court today because of a woman, a woman who should have disappeared early but returned to Beijing mysteriously.

After the emperor meets her, he will definitely quickly summon some officials. Everyone knows what is going on and is just waiting for the palace gate to open so that they can know the details immediately.

The Zhaode Hall was extremely peaceful, just like any other ordinary morning. Concubine Ying and the Second Prince, mother and son, had breakfast together in harmony. Today, they also invited the Second Prince's wife and the little grandson to join them. It was as harmonious as it could be.

The second prince obeyed his father's order and did not move. He ate and slept peacefully, but he was still panicking. He had already drunk three bowls of soy milk this morning, but he was still very thirsty. He didn't know what was wrong.

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, Eunuch Kang who serves His Majesty is here." A palace maid reported softly, and the Second Prince bit off the oil cake that was still hanging on his lips.

"Okay, you go to the study and study first, and you go back to the palace and wait for me." The Second Prince treated his children and the imperial concubine with endless tenderness. He watched the three of them leave, and then asked Eunuch Kang to come in.

"His Majesty has issued an order. Please ask Concubine Ying and the Second Prince to receive it." Eunuch Kang looked as businesslike as usual.

Just hearing that he was here to announce the imperial decree, the Second Prince and Concubine Ying felt a pang in their hearts at the same time. This was not right. Even if he really interrogated Wu Xueyan, he should have asked them to go over to confront her or explain. Why did he just come with an imperial decree?

Without much hesitation, Concubine Ying and the Second Prince knelt one after another in the center of the hall, waiting to receive the emperor's order.

"The Emperor, in compliance with the Will of Heaven, declares: Concubine Ying Zhou, who is gentle and respectful in nature, has given birth to a child and has worked hard in educating the Second Prince Yan in the palace. I am very pleased.

I hereby grant Yan a residence in Kyoto and a number of servants. From now on, you must take the prince, consort, and children out of the palace to build a residence, rebuild your virtue, strengthen your body, and assist the capital. You must not make any mistakes. This is my decree!"

When the Second Prince heard the contents of the imperial edict, he almost immediately looked up at his mother, but his mother remained indifferent and was even a little excited.

"Your Majesty, I accept your order and wish our Emperor a long life!"

When the Second Prince saw his mother accept the imperial edict, he quickly stood up and caught up with Eunuch Kang who was about to leave: "Eunuch, wait a minute, I have something else to ask you."

"Please speak."

The second prince wanted to ask whether his father had interrogated Wu Xueyan in the morning, but when the words came to his lips, he changed them to: "Eunuch, the emperor has issued an order, when can I go to thank him?"

"Your Highness, don't worry. His Majesty will summon you after lunch."

"Okay, okay." After just a moment of distraction, Eunuch Kang left like a gust of wind, and Concubine Ying didn't even have time to give him the wedding money.

"My son, this is great, you can finally open your own residence!" Concubine Ying stepped forward, looking quite excited, but she saw her son's brows were furrowed and his face was full of sorrow. "What's wrong with you?"

"Mother, did you send someone to do something yesterday?" The Second Prince's eyes were full of vigilance and suspicion, and this look deeply hurt Concubine Ying.

"No, didn't you tell us not to do anything else?"

"Really do not have?"

"No!" Concubine Ying was hurt by her son's suspicion and even took two steps back. At this time, the head maid stepped forward, supported her, and answered the second prince fearlessly:

"Your Highness, I can attest that Your Majesty has indeed not made any other moves since the day before yesterday. Please do not be suspicious, Second Prince."

The second prince took the imperial edict and murmured in confusion: "Then what's going on...what's going on..."

"Huang'er, what happened to you?"

"Mother, Father clearly wanted to protect me yesterday, but this imperial decree..."

"What's wrong with the imperial edict? We have always been worried that you couldn't build a palace, but now it just happened to suit your wishes. Are you dissatisfied?"

The second prince pressed his chest lightly and talked to his mother. Sometimes it did take some patience.

"Mother, when other princes built their own palaces, they usually had fiefs in addition to the mansions and servants, but father did not give me any fiefs."

After being reminded by her son, Concubine Ying suddenly realized. If the mansion is opened but no fiefdom is given, then where will the expenses of the prince's mansion come from? Relying on the salary of being a prince, it is not enough to support even the servants, let alone support a mansion.

"Could it be that your father has forgotten?"

The second prince remained silent. This was too absurd. There must have been some unexpected event that he was not aware of.

"Mother, I feel like we may have been tricked. Could you please help me find out what happened to my father this morning?"

Concubine Ying gave a wink to the senior palace maid beside her, and she took the order and left. Although she knew it was extremely difficult to get information from the emperor, she still had to do what she had to do.

"My dear, what should we do now?"

"Wait until I see father at noon, and then we'll make plans..." The second prince sat down in panic, his tone was empty, and Concubine Ying had tears in her eyes and was a little flustered.

After Xu Yixing finished packing and dressing, he looked at himself in the large silver mirror several times to make sure that there was nothing wrong with him before going to ask Lu Anyuan about the situation.

"Why are you looking for me?"

"It seems that the emperor has already contacted your father. Your father said that he knew nothing about it and that it was all caused by you and Xu Yiwen, so naturally he had to call you."

"Alas!" Xu Yixing sighed. A quarter of an hour ago, a strong man came to tell her to go to the palace, saying that he wanted to ask about the last city defense commander's card. She really didn't expect that her father would directly shift the emperor's attention to her and Yiwen.

However, he soon figured out the reason. At the beginning, everyone thought that Xu Yiwen and Wu Songjin were fighting each other, which led to this incident. Even Lord Shen Yue let it go without investigating. If my father said that he knew that the second prince deliberately framed his family, then this would be knowing the truth but not reporting it and shifting the risk, which would be too eye-catching.

It would be better for him to just insist that he had no knowledge of the matter. The emperor would never do anything to a junior like him.