Although the 6th Prince thought it was odd that Jing-wangfei ran off so quickly, disappearing in a blink of an eye, he never had any exchanges with this male wangfei that Jing-wang had suddenly married. Furthermore, after learning that Jing-wang didn’t return yet, the 6th Prince really couldn’t suppress his inner delight. Even if a slight bit of confusion flashed across his mind, he quickly forgot about it.
He didn’t actually attempt to contact his subordinates. Having his scheme go according to plan was the best possibility. Hastily going off to send news now would be a foolish move.
The conclusion would most likely result in the next two days at most.
Extremely pleased and confident, the 6th Prince walked off to his own tent.
Upon entering his tent, he immediately saw Liang-shi’s downcast face. The 6th Prince felt like this was practically attracting bad luck. Before he needed the support of Marquis DingBei, Liang-shi’s maternal family, and also for the sake of the child inside Liang-shi’s stomach, he had no choice but to pamper Liang-shi. Liang-shi was very sensitive during her pregnancy. The 6th Prince had long lost some of his patience. However, currently he was in a pretty good mood. He finally faced Liang-shi with a rare pleasantry.
“Rest early, don’t get too tired.” The 6th Prince said warmly.
Liang SuYun was shocked by this sudden concern. Since the start of the last month, the 6th Prince had already started to treat her somewhat coldly. Liang-shi had unspeakable troubles. To be honest, this was all because of her child. She knew that this unborn child was extremely important to the 6th Prince. Previously, the entire family and her as well all hoped that this unborn child was a boy. However, the examining physician told her that it was a girl. Several physicians all said this in succession. After the 6th Prince learned of this, although he didn’t blame Liang-shi outright, he immediately turned around and married two beautiful concubines. He told her bluntly that he was at a critical juncture and needed to have a son as soon as possible; this was also for a better future.
Her own stomach failing to live up to expectation, Liang-shi had no choice but to accept it. Her maternal family who usually supported her surprisingly also agreed with the 6th Prince and wanted her to be patient. Liang-shi’s mood became lower and lower by the day, stomach full of worries that she had no one to speak about. A happy and lively girl before marriage, she became completely neurotic after getting married, unconsciously shedding tears for no reason. Yet the 6th Prince would always spend his nights with the concubines, only occasionally coming to see her and displaying affections only in front of others.
Whether or not she and the 6th Prince were suitable, Liang-shi couldn’t really even say. However, she saw the similarly princely Jing-wang loving Jing-wangfei dearly, and felt extremely envious inside.
This time the 6th Prince was finally talking and smiling to her. Liang-shi really hoped that these days could last a bit longer.
Li Yu, Jing-wang, and Wang Xi brought the kids and walked far away. Making certain that the 6th Prince wasn’t following them, they finally let out a breath of relief.
This time it was really all thanks to Bao#1!
With a smile, Li Yu picked Bao#1 up. Bao#1 stopped crying a while ago already. His black grapelike eyes were shining brightly as he looked at the gleeful fish dad with his tilted head.
Li Yu was startled. He had known all this time that Bao#1 was smarter than all of the other kids, and that he could understand adult speech. Could it be that just now–
“Bao#1 did that on purpose?” With a smile, Li Yu nuzzled Bao#1’s face and asked in a low voice.
“He’s bad!” Bao#1 pointed his chubby soft little finger towards that certain someone in the far distance.
The 6th Prince always hid himself very well in front of other people. Normally people weren’t able to see through the 6th Prince’s true insides. However, Bao#1 was extremely favored by the Emperor and would often be carried to GanQing Palace. He always saw the 6th Prince coming to pay respect to the Emperor.
In front of the Emperor, the 6th Prince naturally wouldn’t display anything. However, when the Emperor’s not paying attention, the 6th Prince always looked at Bao#1 with a poisonous gaze. He treated Bao#1 like a normal little kid who was not even one years old. The 6th Prince didn’t feel concern towards him and freely expressed his hatred for the child.
However, Bao#1 wasn’t normal at all. Before becoming an infant, he was a tiny little fish for 10 months. Fish grew up faster than humans. Bao#1 already understood a lot of things early on. The gaze that the 6th Prince used to look at him was very unfriendly and made Bao#1 very uncomfortable. Therefore, he remembered that the 6th Prince was bad.
However, Bao#1 was ultimately still a kid. Encountering a bad person who made him ill at ease, he only instinctively wanted to keep away. Just now, he did his best to cry and make a fuss, because he wanted fish dad to leave this bad guy far away.
Although a complete accident, Bao#1, who had managed to protect fish dad once, was extremely happy!
Jing-wang extended over a palm and rubbed Bao#1 on the head. Bao#1 was so excited that his little face flushed all red. Jing-wang daddy rubbed his head!
Li Yu also rewarded Bao#1 with kisses, smearing half of Bao#1’s face with saliva. Li Yu was just kissing enthusiastically when his vision blurred. Bao#2, Bao#3, and Bao#4 all leaned over as well, chubby little faces moving in front of him.
Kisses and whatever, were unlimited and everyone had equal rights!
“Everyone behave!” Li Yu suppressed a laugh and kissed them one by one.
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Li Yu looked at the Emperor and then looked at Jing-wang, extremely curious.
Although Jing-wang didn’t express any discontent, he placed Bao#1 down on the ground.
The King of Mediation– Bao#1 touched the ground and immediately marched his little short legs, walking and stumbling towards grandpa Emperor.
The Emperor had no trouble feeling annoyed with his son, however, when he saw his grandson, he immediately became bursting with joy. Immediately he changed the topic: “Why do I feel like Bao#1 is walking even better now.”
Li Yu: “……”
Bao#1 isn’t. Bao#1 hasn’t. Your majesty, you saw him just a few hours ago. You’re clearly speaking lies with your eyes open right now!
After suffering untold hardships and tribulations, Bao#1 finally walked in front of the Emperor and grabbed the dragon robe by the leg. The Emperor picked up Bao#1, beaming with all smiles.
With a chubby meaty little grandson in his arms, the Emperor felt extreme detest towards the person attempting to plot against his little grandson.
If Jing-wang fell and the 8th Prince was spurned, who amongst the remaining would gain the most benefit?
The Emperor actually knew the answer to this very well. It’s just that the other person has never displayed such craftiness in front of him– didn’t this prove that the other person was very good at hiding and had been pretending in front of him all of these years?
He needed to force the other and catch him in the act, so that he had no more opportunities to make excuses again.
The Emperor already had a thorough plan, however, this plan required the collaboration of Jing-wang’s family.
“Bao#1, can you help grandpa with something?” The Emperor asked with a smile.
Actually, he only needed to give an imperial order. However, the Emperor was still willing to inquire Bao#1 personally.
Bao#1 blinked a few times. He discovered that all of the adults loved to ask for his help.
Fish dad often did it. Grandpa also said it.
Bao#1 liked fish dad and also liked grandpa. Of course he was willing.
Bao#1 patted his little chest: “Ok!”
The Emperor’s eyes were filled with smiles and continued to tease him: “Even if it will hurt?”
Bao#1 scrunched up his little chubby face. Fish dad told him, he needed to do what he promised. Bao#1 was afraid of pain but he also can’t renege now.
Bao#1 gathered his courage and nodded his head: “Yes.”
Li Yu faintly guessed what it was, however, because this was the Emperor’s decree, Li Yu and Jing-wang couldn’t do anything.
The kids were born at the West Frontier. It was hard to avoid the spread of rumours about them. The Emperor’s decision was also to completely make those gossipers shut their mouths.
He also knew that the pain that the Emperor mentioned wasn’t really that painful. However, as the kids’ dad, he still hated for it to happen.
The Emperor summoned the imperial physicians over. Li Yu was unable to watch and turned around.
Jing-wang held his hand under their sleeves. Li Yu pinched Jing-wang’s hand ruthlessly, as if venting. Jing-wang didn’t even furrow his brows one bit.
On the Emperor’s side. Because of his worry that Bao#1 would fear pain, the Emperor personally held Bao#1 on his knees.
Head manager Luo came over to obtain the blood. The Emperor watched head manager Luo coldly throughout the entire process. Luo RuiSheng already worked for the Emperor for many years. Yet this time, his fingers trembled faintly; he was actually even more nervous than Jing-wang’s heir who was sitting on the Emperor’s knees.
Bao#1 said he wasn’t scared, but he still got scared. As soon as he saw the needle, he closed his eyes.
Then he felt a pinch on his thumb. Bao#1 really felt that it wasn’t that bad, much less painful than the time he hurt his mouth trying to eat too much lychee.
However, when he opened his eyes and looked left and right, Bao#1 discovered that fish dad’s eyes were all red. Grandpa and Jing-wang daddy both looked like they wanted to hit someone.
Bao#1: “……”
Head Manager Luo gathered the courage to ask: “Your majesty, what about the other young masters?”
Although he understood that head manager Luo was only following procedure, Li Yu really wanted to commit murder now.
The other Baos saw their older brother being pricked by the needle and all became terrified, not even daring to breathe deeply.
The Emperor was just about to shake his head when Bao#1 said in a hurry: “YeYe, let me!”
Bao#1 was aware that this still hurt somewhat. His little brothers might not be able to endure it as well as himself. If grandpa needed to the needle pricks, then Bao#1 was willing to do it for his little brothers!
Bao#1 bravely extended another finger.
The Emperor: “…….”
The smile in the Emperor’s eyes became deeper: “Alright.”
Luo RuiSheng paused, not expecting this to be allowed.
Bao#1 thought he was going to get pricked again and closed his eyes in fear again. However, after waiting for a while, it didn’t actually happen. Luo-gonggong only obtained a few more drops of blood from his finger.
The Emperor asked for bandages and wrapped up Bao#1’s wound personally, going around multiple times and creating a heavy thick layer.
Bao#1 returned to Li Yu. Li Yu held Bao#1 in distress. The other Baos didn’t even fight over fish dad’s embrace. With Bao#4 in the lead, they all started blowing air towards Bao#1’s well wrapped finger.
The kids felt like, if they blew on it, it wouldn’t hurt anymore.
Seeing this, the Emperor’s heart softened into a puddle because of these kids.
The Emperor then asked Luo RuiSheng to go summon the 8th Prince.
On the day of Concubine Lu’s incident, the 8th Prince and the 7th Prince were staying in the same tent. The night was a hubbub of voices. The 8th Prince felt like it was very noisy, but no one dared to tell him anything. Ever since then, he hasn’t been able to see his mother. Even the 7th Prince, who normally had a pretty good relationship with him, would evade him on sight. It was actually the 6th Prince who kindly told him what happened. After learning that his own mother was discovered rendezvousing with a strange man, the 8th Prince was completely dumbfounded.
Although he was only 7 years old, he already knew what kind of crime this was. His mother was already sent back to the Imperial Palace in a hurry. The servants were all pointing and whispering behind his back. The Emperor mentioned wanting to test his blood, the 8th Prince grinded his teeth and agreed. In any case, the only way to find the answer to who he was was by testing it.
The Emperor was all prepared on his side and ordered Luo RuiSheng to go summon Prince Li, his sons, several important officials, as well as clan elders, into the dragon tent.
The Emperor announced: “Prince Li received a secret report saying that the royal family bloodline was in question. I have decided to use the secret method to test it.”
The Emperor didn’t actually mention a letter. Nor did he mention who was getting tested. He only said that these people’s blood had already been obtained and ordered the Imperial Physicians who knew the secret method to perform the test quickly.
The clan elders and important officials were all shocked by the Emperor’s method of announcement. First, the Emperor didn’t actually divulge whose bloodline was in question. Second, the jade bottles that the physicians needed to examine, other than having some strange notations, no one was able to tell who they belonged to.
The idea of these symbols were actually a contribution from Li Yu. After learning the Emperor’s plans, Li Yu suggested using symbols to substitute people’s names. Only the Emperor himself would know which symbol correlated with which person.
The 6th Prince was originally waiting for the Emperor to fly into explosive rage after learning the result. He never expected the Emperor to use this kind of method.
Normally, the imperial physicians would obtain the blood first and then do the examination. The physicians would actually know who they were testing. However, now with the Emperor’s method, the physicians also didn’t know either. It can be seen from this that the Emperor was guarded against the imperial physicians as well.
The most reliable method of falsifying bloodlines was to bribe an imperial physician.
There weren’t actually many Imperial Physicians who knew about the secret formula in this dynasty. Because the 6th Prince’s mother, Concubine Zhang, had once saved the life of an Imperial Physician with the surname Pan, the 6th Prince managed to convince this Physician Pan to privately examine the blood obtained from the “little heir” at the Jing Estate. It was also because Physician Pan had promised repeatedly that the little heir wasn’t part of the royal clan that the 6th Prince felt like this encounter would go without a hitch.
Jing-wang’s heir wasn’t a royal member. This was already an ironclad fact. Even the imperial physicians didn’t know who was who, but to the 6th Prince, this wasn’t a hindrance. It’s just that the 6th Prince couldn’t help but question why the Emperor would make this kind of arrangement.
“Wang Xi, what should we do?”
The 6th Prince looked around. He easily saw Jing-wangfei carrying the little heir, who had an “injured” finger, while anxiously discussing countermeasures with Wang Xi.
Excluding the 2nd and 3rd Prince, the Emperor had summoned all of the other princes. Only Jing-wang did not appear. Looks like the Emperor still had Jing-wang locked away, which caused Jing-wangfei to be extremely anxious.
The 6th Prince ordered his personal servant to go listen in. Jing-wangfei was very vigilant. That personal servant didn’t dare to get too close. He could only faintly hear Jing-wangfei say “can’t find” “unable to swap,” and other such phrases.
The 6th Prince mumbled to himself and pondered briefly and knew that Jing-wangfei was panicking here. Where the little heir had come from, Jing-wangfei probably knew better than anyone else. The Emperor’s arrangement didn’t make the 6th Prince worry. The people worrying were Jing-wang’s group……
Therefore, the Emperor’s decisions should have been to guard against Jing-wang, fearing that Jing-wang would attempt to commit fraud. The 6th Prince still had nothing to worry about.
The 6th Prince was under the impression that he had figured the Emperor out. Calming down, he quietly waited for the news.
On the other side, Physician Pan, who was helping the 6th Prince, was actually somewhat flustered.
The imperial physicians had to be extremely cautious in dealing with the royal bloodline. Therefore, they first examined the blood individually and then got together to verify the result. Here physician Pan had discovered surprisingly that all of the blood was royal blood!
Why was this result different from the one that the 6th Prince had wanted? Physician Pan was dumbfounded.
Since this matter was related to the 6th Prince’s great cause, physician Pan decided that no matter what, he needed to send a message to the 6th Prince to confirm what he should do.
Claiming to be ill and not done with his examination, he said he wanted to go wash his hand outside and then ran out in a hurry.
Kinda sad for 6th Prince’s wife. Waiting for 6th Prince’s face to hurt.
+1 she has such a shitty husband 😔
+1
I hope he gets his just desserts, but I hope she’s not caught up in his punishment.
+1 she too is a precious daughter of a good family. She didn’t deserve this shit-eating husband!!!
+1 thats so mean of him to hurriedly married two concubine when the child of the first wife haven’t born yet. It’s too bad she had to married to this double-faced person😔
+1 y’all speaking facts
Thank You for the chapter（*’∀’人）♥
thanks for the chapter!
Imperial physician paid off! Wow! Thanks for the update ❤️
Fish babies are so precious T.T <333
poor 6th prince’ wife, i hope she’ll find happiness. the 6th prince can go to hell
But why would 6th Prince’ wife family suddenly turn back their back to their much treasured baby just like that?! Doesn’t make sense… They loved her being a GIRL why not loving her baby just because it’s a girl also?! 🤨 whyyyyy?
P.s: she got herself a shity husband in the process that is about to enter a hard face-slapping season
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