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

"Master, we found out that Miss Xu gave birth to a son. According to the month, your father was still on the throne at that time. What do you think she wanted to do by leaving the capital?"

Lu Hexin closed his eyes and thought about Xu Yiyan. He didn't know her very well, except that he had accepted her favor and was saved by her shadow guard once. At that time, he thought that the shadow guard must have been given to him by his seventh brother, but various things later, including Bai Yu's departure from Beijing, made him realize that this was not the case.

There are really a lot of mysteries about this Second Miss Xu. It can't be that the Bai family trained a group of shadow guards for a person who has no blood relationship with them? And how can she make the Seventh Brother so crazy? Could she be some kind of evildoer?

"Qiu Zhi, when you go back, have someone check the people around Xu Yiyan. There are quite a few experts around her."

"What happens after we find out?"

"Kill without mercy." Lu Hexin stretched out two fingers and pinched his brows. In the past, he and his seventh brother had made various treaties and alliances, and even had to lose Fan Shi. Now that he was the emperor, even if he didn't touch Lu Anyuan, could it be that he couldn't touch the people around Xu Yiyan?

Moreover, he always remembered that when Lu Chiyan kidnapped him, the reinforcements that rushed in from the window were not just the one who died. If he kept such a group of people, he would probably have trouble sleeping and eating.

"Yes, but if those people are under the protection of Old Seven, it would be difficult to kill them..."

"It's okay, I'm just a guard." Lu Hexin remembered that when Fan Shi died, no matter how heartbroken he was, he still resisted the pressure and showed goodwill to him. Now it's the other way around, what's wrong with that?

Fortunately, Lu Anyuan didn't know about this, otherwise he would have retaliated without hesitation. Lu Hexin thought he knew his brother's character very well and thought he could endure like himself, but he didn't know that times have changed and the barefoot are always not afraid of those wearing shoes.

However, Xu Yixing had already dismissed the shadow guards, so even though Qiu Zhi searched everywhere around her, he could not find the masters that the emperor had mentioned, and he had to return empty-handed.

"Yes. The master has also visited the garden today. Do you have any other instructions?" Qiu Zhi's meaning was very clear. The dead should be dead, especially those who could endanger the throne.

Lu Hexin shook his head to stop Qiu Zhi's thoughts: "Since he is so useless and is addicted to love, such a person is not a threat and there is no need to pay attention to him." Lu Hexin said this lightly, his tone full of disdain, but the deeper reason is only known to him.

When his seventh brother brought the Emperor's Sword and a letter from the grassland asking him to take the throne, although he was shocked, he set off for the capital without hesitation. After entering the palace, the empress dowager was critically ill, the queen committed suicide, and then the body of the late emperor was brought to the capital. He then smoothly ascended to the position he had once dreamed of.

To put it bluntly, he won the throne unfairly, but it was legitimate, so he really didn't want to care about it. Was it that he owed his seventh brother a favor, or was it that his seventh brother was plotting against him?

"Alas!" Qiu Zhi sighed, knowing that the emperor's words meant that he had tacitly approved of the late emperor's fake death and let him go free. "If that's the case, then we must keep a close eye on Qi Nan and Qi Bei, and don't let anything go wrong."

"Of course." Lu Hexin had already sent his confidants to Qinanqibei, and decided to give the fiefdom to the eldest prince as soon as he turned fifteen, and let his son manage it. By then, it would be too late for the seventh brother to accomplish anything.

Lu Hexin walked around the room, paying special attention to the child's clothes and crib. When he was about to leave, he found a familiar object on the dressing table.

He walked forward and took a look in the moonlight. It was a jade token exactly the same as his own, with the word "Yuan" engraved on it. It seemed that he had left it here on purpose.

"Alas, since he's dead, there's no point in keeping this thing with me. I'd better take it back and place it in the imperial mausoleum." He picked up the jade token and stuffed it into his arms. He knew what his seventh brother meant, and inexplicably felt a little more happy and a little more guilty. After all, he had given in to him in this life.

Lu Hexin came and left in a hurry. When the sun rose again, a years-long campaign to rectify the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River had quietly begun. However, the people involved in it were still unaware of it.

Lu Anyuan was walking on the official road to Suzhou with his wife and son when he received a carrier pigeon from Xia Xiao. Sure enough, Lu Hexin took his jade pendant, which seemed to mean he accepted his peace talks.

"What? The emperor is gone?" Xu Yixing was sweating profusely while holding Xiaobao. The weather was so horrible!

"The emperor just arrived, why are you leaving now?" Lu Anyuan looked at her flushed face and took his handkerchief to gently wipe the sweat off her head. They had chosen to travel in the morning and evening when it was not so hot, but they did not expect that things would still be so unlucky.

"Oh! It's all his fault, otherwise I would be lying at home, enjoying the breeze and using ice cream. It's so annoying!"

"Okay, okay, let's not leave once we get to Suzhou. Let's find a house to stay in and wait until autumn comes and the weather gets cooler before we set off again. How do you think?"

"Alas!" Xu Yixing nodded. This was the only way. "Has the emperor decided to let you go?"

Lu Anyuan felt that the word “let it go” was not used correctly, but he did not correct it: “I guess so. You can rest assured from now on.”

"how did you do that?"

"Speaking of which, it was your family's story that gave me inspiration. You remember you once told me that your father didn't dare to touch your mother's dowry because he thought that Commander Bai had planted someone around him, right?"

"Yes, but later on the Xu Mansion disappeared, and I don't know who is from our Bai Mansion."

Lu Anyuan smiled mysteriously: "Maybe there is no such person at all?"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that sometimes it doesn't matter whether this person exists or not. What matters is that your father believes that this person exists, so he is always worried."

"This..." Xu Yixing suddenly realized, yes, who said there must be a specific person? Even if there is, as time goes by, aging, sickness, death, or even betrayal, this person will be useless. It is better to keep a shadow for a longer time. In this way, every time my father fails to do something, I will suspect that it was my grandfather who left some obstacles. Great!

"So how many potential spies did you leave for the new emperor?"

"That's about right. Anyway, it just makes him have some reservations."

"Aren't you afraid that he might become cruel and replace all the people in the palace?"

"So what? As long as he believes that I have the ability to infiltrate a spy around him, he will not be completely at ease even if I change the person ten times. That's enough."

"Great!" Xu Yixing smiled and looked outside the car, just in time to hear the sound of a bell coming from somewhere. "It's the sound of a bell. There should be a temple nearby. How about we go and take a rest?"