NFBE Chapter 132 Play the long game and catch big fish
Chapter 132 Play the long game and catch big fish
Shangguan Ziqi's face, which had been gentle just now, immediately became serious.
"Push me into the study." Shangguan Ziqi ordered.
Qingfeng immediately stepped forward and pushed the wheelchair.
A room next to the bedroom where the couple lived was temporarily used as a study by Shangguan Ziqi.
He didn't stop working while recuperating.
The pill business is going on and is still expanding.
He rented another shop in Xicheng District and prepared to open a second branch.
And cooperation with the military also began.
A pill workshop can no longer supply it.
He asked Yang Zhuangtou for some land outside this village and was building a workshop, intending to turn it into a pharmaceutical base.
This place is not far from the city, and a horse-drawn carriage only needs to make a trip to the capital every day to deliver the goods.
The eldest prince also knew what they were going to discuss, so he found an excuse to take Yue Yuying away.
As for where to take it, Yu Yuanzheng didn't want to think about it, and followed Qingfeng into the study.
Close the door and isolate yourself from the outside world.
"Young Master, Madam Young Master, the murderer of what happened to Madam Young Master more than ten days ago was the Second Madam." Qingfeng directly stated the key point.
"Oh..." Yu Yuanzheng heard it, and as expected, she stretched out the sound and said "oh".
Ever since she entered the mansion, the second old lady had been very dissatisfied with her, and no one knew why.
Now he is trying to harm her child again, and no one knows why.
The people who should have harmed her child the most should have been Shangguan Zishu and his wife, but it turned out to be the second old lady.
It's so weird.
"How did you find out?" Yu Yuanzheng had never cared about this matter and left it entirely to Shangguan Ziqi to handle.
“Madam, it was the eldest young master who came up with this idea.
Shiritang's business has been very good recently, and a type of tranquilizing pill is selling very well.
Once, Miss Ling bought some for the second old lady as a gift to her. The second old lady was very satisfied with the effect after using it, and then she kept using it.
The eldest son asked us to prepare a bottle of medicine that looked identical to the one she was using and exchange it for it.
A hallucinogenic drug was added to it, and several of us servants took turns lying on the roof of the second old lady's bedroom every night to eavesdrop.
We didn't expect to hear this from her sleep talking.
At first we suspected it was the Crown Princess, and we gave her the same medicine, but we heard nothing. The same thing happened to Concubine Luo, but she didn't hear anything either."
"You really are, but this can't be used as evidence. It only means that you know who wants to harm me."
"Yes, but at least we know who it is. We can deal with it slowly later." Shangguan Ziqi explained.
"What did she talk in her sleep?" Yu Yuanzheng was quite curious.
“The Second Old Lady should have received the news of the failure to harm you that day.
When we got back, she had already sent the arresting personnel away, and we didn't catch her red-handed.
We used the drug that night, but because it took a while, we didn't hear anything.
But it was only after several days that she became increasingly irritable and began to have nightmares, and only then did we hear a little bit of her news.
Her sleep talk was somewhat incoherent.
Then he said: Damn little whore.
Then he said: She is not worthy of giving birth to a child in the palace.
After a while, he said: She is going to ruin my plan.
After a while he said: Ziqi shouldn't have woken up, why didn't the King of Hell take him away.
We listened to it for several nights in a row, and it was basically the same words.
We judged from these words that she was the one who wanted to harm the eldest son and the eldest young lady."
Qingfeng told them everything they had heard.
"Husband, why? Why would she want to harm you and me? What's in it for her?" Yu Yuanzheng could never figure this out.
"I don't know either." Shangguan Ziqi couldn't figure it out either.
"I still think that the Crown Prince is not my father's son, but the son of the second wife. This is the only possibility that makes sense. Otherwise, how can we explain the Second Madam's abnormal behavior?"
"But my father said that Zishu is his child, and we can't find any evidence for this." Ever since Yu Yuanzheng mentioned this last time, Shangguan Ziqi asked his father alone again.
The answer was affirmative.
It’s hard to say.
"Don't you believe in blood tests? How about asking father and the prince to do a test?" Although Yu Yuanzheng knew that this method was not reliable, she thought of this idea.
"Don't forget, if Zishu is really my second uncle's child, then it's compatible, because my second uncle and my father are brothers."
"But they don't have the same mother."
"My second uncle's biological mother and my father's biological mother have the same father." Shangguan Ziqi criticized.
"Alas, this road is blocked." Yu Yuanzheng sighed.
"The fox will reveal its tail sooner or later. Now we know that she wants to harm us. We must be more vigilant in the future. Once we find evidence, we will once again drive her into the mud." Shangguan Ziqi also hated the second old lady.
Before he got into trouble, he hadn't felt that the Second Old Lady was that annoying. She was usually nice to him, no different from his second brother. But after he fell into a coma, she had become a completely different person. After waking up and seeing her attitude towards his wife, he couldn't help but hate her.
"So you're just letting her go for now?"
"Well, play the long game to catch the big fish. This matter is not as simple as we see on the surface." Shangguan Ziqi had a hunch that there was a conspiracy behind this, because among the assassins who assassinated the genius doctor at that time, there were people from Canglan.
There's no way to explain this.
The Second Old Lady had no reason to cooperate with the Canglan people.
"Okay, since you have a plan, I won't care. I will pay more attention in the future. My babies, you have to be strong too. You have encountered someone who wants to harm you before you were born. But you also have to believe that your parents will definitely protect you." Yu Yuanzheng turned to her belly as she spoke.
Her belly was already noticeably bulging.
"Hey, the babies can hear me talking, and they are moving again." Yu Yuanzheng shouted excitedly.
Shangguan Ziqi waved to Qingfeng and the others.
The couple began to interact with the baby in their belly again.
And the other side.
The eldest prince took Yue Yuying for a walk outside the manor.
"My lord, let me push you." Yue Yuying shyly asked.
"Ah."
The two walked one after the other on the country road.
It was already the end of October and the weather was getting colder.
There were not many leaves left on the distant hill, but the cowherds were still playing on the hill, and their laughter could be heard from afar.
The eldest prince was in a very peaceful mood at this time.
He was almost twenty-three, no longer a young boy.
He is very sensible.
His legs have improved significantly after more than a month of treatment by Yu Yuanzheng.
Last night when the guard was massaging his legs, he already felt something and might be able to stand up soon.
And once he can stand up, it means he has to shoulder his responsibilities.
His father has always been training him as the heir, otherwise he would not have allowed the prince of Prince Rong to study with him.
This is an unwritten agreement of the Wei Dynasty.
Almost every emperor had the prince of Prince Rong as his study companion.
The two became friends since childhood and jointly ruled the Wei Dynasty.
Prince Rong may not seem to have much power on the surface, but in reality he does.
He knew that if an emperor was incompetent, Prince Rong had the right to appoint a new emperor. If the emperor did not have time to appoint a new emperor after his death, Prince Rong also had the right to appoint a new emperor on behalf of the emperor. This was a rule set by the ancestors, and only every emperor and Prince Rong knew about it.
And he just happened to know about this matter by chance.
In fact, many people in the royal family privately guessed that it was just that Prince Rong had never appointed a new emperor.
"Crown Prince, why don't you ask the miracle doctor in Beijing to treat your leg?" Yue Yuying suddenly interrupted the crown prince's thoughts.
"Do you hope that my legs will be better?" The eldest prince smiled and turned to look at Yue Yuying.