Even though she was locked up in Jingren Palace and unable to go out, the Queen still knew a lot of news outside the palace.

So after planning to control the Fourth Prince, the Queen immediately remembered the few words about Hongli that she had obtained some time ago regarding the Third Prince's movements.

Ever since the third prince was driven out of the palace, Hongshi, knowing that he had no hope of inheriting the throne, began to indulge in women and listening to operas.

The Fourth Prince used to have the best relationship with him. I don’t know if it was out of pity or if he wanted to use the Third Prince to improve his image, but recently when he has nothing to do, he will take time out to accompany the Third Prince to watch operas.

"My queen, do you want to train the Fourth Prince?"

Jianqiu looked at the Queen with a bit of disbelief, “Your Majesty, weren’t you the one who looked down on the Fourth Prince the most in the past?”

"Do I have any other choice now? As long as it succeeds, no matter whose child it is, it will only be my child."

The queen roared angrily. She really didn't want to see Jianqiu's stupid look. She closed her eyes for a while, then opened them again and looked at Jianqiu.

"I remember that there is a girl of the same age as Hongli in the Narbu family. Tell him to let his daughter get in touch with Hongli. As long as she can capture Hongli's heart, when Hongli ascends the throne in the future, the position of empress will still belong to our Ulanala family, and I will be the only empress dowager."

Thinking of this, the queen's eyes were full of brilliance. As long as she could become the queen mother, no matter how much hardship she had to endure now, it didn't matter!

Even though she felt that this matter was not very reliable, Jianqiu did not dare to go against the Queen's wishes and had to go downstairs to make arrangements.

When Narbu received the news, his hands were shaking as he held the secret letter. Without hesitation, he asked someone to call his daughter Qingying and told her the Queen's plan.

Although his daughter looked unhappy after learning about this, Narbu still used coercive orders to make her obey. This was his last chance to go further. What did it matter if he gave up a daughter?

Coming out of her father's study, Qingying's face looked extremely ugly, but even if she was unwilling, she had to obey her father's instructions.

However, this reluctance was shattered by Hongli's gentle and handsome face the moment she saw him. From that moment on, that handsome face completely occupied her young heart and made her fall in love with him all of a sudden.

Qingying remembered it very clearly. The play played in the theatre that day was "Wall Horse". It seemed as if everything was destined by heaven, and she and the other party were destined to be entangled for eternity.

In the box opposite, Hongli originally thought that today's play was too vulgar, but when he accidentally turned his eyes, his eyes met the lively girl like a deer in the window of the private room opposite.

The pair of eyes stared at him blankly. Although her face was half covered by the pipa, Hongli could see that she was beautiful and lively. This made Hongli's love of beauty surge up in his bones.

For a moment, the two of them looked at each other, and the vulgar wall before now lingered in their ears like heavenly music.

Until the show downstairs stopped, the third prince, who was already a little drunk, called Hongli several times but got no response from the other party.

Finally, it was Wang Qin, who was standing behind Hongli, who reminded him and helped Hongli come back to his senses.

"My Lord, my Lord, the Third Prince is calling you."

"Oh, sorry, third brother, I was just thinking about the homework that the teacher left for me and lost my focus for a moment."

As he said this, Hongli stood up with apologetic look on his face and bowed to Hongshi to show his apology.

"Nothing, today's show is over, do you want to come to my house for a drink?"

Although Hongshi was not very talented, his only good point was his generosity, especially towards his younger brother who was particularly good to him. Hongshi liked him the most.

"No, I have to go to morning class tomorrow, so I will go back to the palace first."

In the past, Hongli would have accepted Hongshi's invitation, but today, his mind was full of the beauty who had just looked into his eyes, so he had no intention of drinking with Hongshi.

"Okay then, I'll go first. Please be careful on the road."

"Brother San, take care"

It was not until the Third Prince walked away that Hongli looked over again and the beauty was no longer there.

For a moment, Hongli felt extremely disappointed, but he quickly cheered up. He whispered to Wang Qin to come closer and asked him to find out who the woman was.

When he returned to the palace that day, Hongli was so exhausted that he could not read any books. He endured this torment until 15:00, when Wang Qin hurried back to report.

It turned out that the woman in the daytime was actually a woman from the Ulanara clan. Hongli felt a little conflicted when he got the news. He loved beautiful women, but if he really had to choose, it would be more important to him whether he could sit in that position in the future.

If Qingying was a daughter of a poor family, he would have directly brought her into the mansion as a princess. But the problem now was that Qingying was the daughter of the Ulanara family.

No matter what, as long as the Queen is still in existence, it would definitely be impossible for him to let Qingying enter the palace to be his princess. But if he wants to let Qingying become his wife, Hongli really doesn't think highly of Qingying's family background.

But Hongli was unwilling to let go of such a beauty. For a moment he was conflicted and didn't know what to do.

What Hongli didn't know was that his encounter with Qingying today had already been seen by Yongzheng's Blood Dropper.

He did not like his three sons, but after all, he was nearly fifty years old and had only three adult princes. So under Yinqi's advice, Yongzheng felt a sense of crisis in his heart, and even though he did not value them, he still had people secretly protect the three of them.

So after learning that Hongli and Qingying met today, conspiracy theories in Yongzheng's mind continued to surge.

But for some reason he still thought of the fact that he and Chunyuan had been in the same situation, which made Yongzheng's heart soften.

After the morning court session the next morning, Li Dequan called Hongli over.

"I heard that you went to watch a play with your third brother yesterday?"

When asked this by Yongzheng, Hongli, who was standing in front of the dragon table with his head down, had his mind spinning in a whirlwind.

This was not the first time that he and the Third Prince went out to watch an opera, but the Emperor had never asked about it before. Why did he suddenly ask about it this time? Could it be that he asked Wang Qin to investigate the matter of the Ulanara princess and let the Emperor know about it?

For a moment, Hongli felt a little panicked, but he swallowed and pretended to be calm.

"My Lord, I used to be with my third brother every day, but now he has suddenly moved out. I am afraid he will not be able to adapt, so I went out to spend some time with him."

"Your third brother has fallen into depravity. You must never learn from him."

Yongzheng turned the beads in his hand, thinking of everything that had happened to Hongshi since he left the palace and set up his own residence. He was afraid that Hongli, his only sensible child, would be led astray by him.

"Father, my third brother is just frustrated for a moment. I will comfort him while supervising myself."

It was obvious that he had often compared his third brother with himself in front of the Emperor before, but now that the Emperor really gave up on his third brother, Hongli felt uncomfortable for some reason.

"It's up to you. Besides, you're both not young anymore, it's time for you to get married."

This sudden change of topic made Hongli look up slightly at Yongzheng, who was spinning the beads with his eyes closed behind the dragon table. He wanted to see something from it, but Yongzheng always had a cold face, so it was really difficult to see anything.

"I will obey your Majesty's orders."

"Listen to my arrangements. What about you? Do you have someone you like?"

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