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

Xu Yixing's forehead was covered with sweat. According to what Lu Anyuan had told her, he should have submitted the good news immediately after "discovering" the Emperor's Sword. Now the good news has disappeared, but this secret report has arrived first. It seems that he really kept the Emperor's Sword privately. . .

"Empress Dowager, there may be a reason why the memorial to offer the treasure has not arrived. Please think about it carefully. The Emperor's Sword is only rumored to have been lost by the previous emperor. Where it is and what it looks like is still unknown. How can this secret report be so sure that it is the Emperor's Sword? This is one of the reasons.

Secondly, even if the secret report was true, and my husband really found the Emperor's Sword in the northern border, if he really wanted to conceal it, how did the person who wrote the secret report know it? It couldn't be that with my husband's layers of defense, he could have reported it to the capital so quickly, right?

Thirdly, even if the Emperor's Sword is really a treasure, I would like to ask the Queen Mother, can your husband command the soldiers in the northern border to obey his orders and mercenaries to rebel with this Emperor's Sword that he got inexplicably? The second prince had the tiger talisman and all the nobles and ministers in the palace as hostages, but he still couldn't succeed in his rebellion. How could he, the King of Xiaoyi, dare to win over hundreds of thousands of border troops in the northern border with a legendary Emperor's Sword? "The more Xu Yixing talked, the more he felt that this was not right. The reasons she gave were enough to stump Lu Anyuan. So did he rebel or not?

The Queen Mother was caught off guard by the three questions. She didn't expect that after being accused of treason, Xu Yixing could still say so much. In the gap between these three questions, the momentum of the two sides was very different. Xu Yixing raised his upper body and knelt straight. Even if you say anything today, Lu Anyuan will not rebel in front of me!

The nanny beside the Queen Mother immediately took up the conversation: "Princess Xiaoyi is very eloquent, but have you forgotten that your father is the famous General Fuyuan? Everyone knows that he was born in Miaozhou and served in the northern border. It is not impossible that he has acted as a middleman for Prince Xiaoyi to contact the border troops over the years, right?"

"Humph." Xu Yixing snorted coldly, his eyes shifted from the Queen Mother to the nanny beside him. You, an old woman, dare to challenge me? You probably don't know that what I am best at is killing old women like you.

"This nanny is so confident. Did you see my father bribe the soldiers for the prince? Or did my father admit it himself? Or do you rely on your noble status and stay in the deep palace to know everything about the outside world? Even the Queen Mother did not mention my father, but you directly convicted him. I think you should have been the judge when Jingzhao Prefecture Yin Shen Yue stepped down. After three years, wouldn't our Great Xia be peaceful and prosperous?"

Xu Yixing turned his gaze back to the Queen Mother. Seeing her lips moving slightly as if she was about to say something, he quickly spoke in advance, blocking the Queen Mother's words:

"Empress Dowager, I'm afraid you don't know that my father was poisoned more than ten days ago and has been in a coma until now. Because we were afraid that someone would use this to cause trouble, my family kept it a secret and only told the public that my father had a minor cold. If your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can ask Chao Jianyi, the imperial physician who went to the palace to treat my father yesterday. He is the son of the loyal minister Chao Guoan and will definitely not tarnish his father's reputation."

The Queen Mother's expression had changed by now, and she was no longer as angry as before. Instead, she glared at the nanny beside her and said, "I already know about this matter, but there is something strange about General Xu's poison. I heard that even the Nine-Turn Soul-Restoring Pill was used, but it didn't work. I don't know who did it."

"That's right. We have been searching at home for more than ten days, but there is no trace of the thief. We are extremely worried. And Queen Mother, my father served in the northern border 20 years ago. He has never left Beijing in these years. How could he still have close contact with them? Your Majesty, I and the Xu family are not worthy of your suspicion!"

"Yes." The Queen Mother took a deep breath, patted her chest as if to relieve the tension, and then said: "You have to understand me. I don't believe such a thing, but since it concerns the emperor and the throne, I have to ask this question. Yuan'er has been trusted by your father in recent years, so it is natural for him to become the crown prince. I am just afraid that he will have confused thoughts!"

Xu Yixing didn't dare to respond. The Queen Mother never commented on state affairs, but today she even revealed who would be the Crown Prince. This must be a trick.

Seeing that the kneeling man was silent, the Queen Mother obviously did not get the response she expected, so she sighed and continued, "Get up. I know that this matter is not so easy to conclude. This secret report is very interesting. I want to investigate it carefully. Do you mind staying in the palace for a few more days?"

"I'll obey the Queen Mother." Xu Yixing stood up and left respectfully without overstepping the boundaries, as if she wasn't the one who had just quarreled with the Queen Mother.

After leaving the Yian Palace, the person who came to pick me up this time simply changed to a sedan chair. Was this an attempt to completely hide me from being seen by people in the palace?

Xu Yixing ignored it and still took the sedan chair back to Yixiao Pavilion. Siqin was obviously frightened and trembled as soon as she came in, unable to believe what she had just heard.

"Miss! Our, our son-in-law really rebelled...rebelled...?"

Xu Yixing snorted at her, and said, "Nothing has happened yet, why are you cutting off ties with me and becoming my son-in-law?"

"How could it be possible? If that were the case, would we have been able to walk out of Yi'an Palace alive and come here? Wouldn't we have been sent to the cold palace like the Second Prince's wife?"

Si Qin glanced at the Yixiao Pavilion with a shiver. This place had closed doors and people were chased away. What was the difference between it and the cold palace?

"Don't think too much. Why is Lu Anyuan rebelling? Someone must be trying to harm him. I have to protect myself and find out who is behind this!" Thinking of this, she suddenly remembered the figure of Mr. Yao who left angrily that day.

He is... what did he discover?

Xu Yixing closed his eyes and carefully recalled what happened to Mr. Yao that day. I asked my father if he would not wake up, and he said, "On the contrary?"

Quite the contrary... Xu Yixing uttered these three words fiercely, then suddenly opened his eyes and suddenly understood.

In other words, at least on the day when Mr. Yao left the house in anger, Dad should have woken up, so Mr. Yao felt strange. If a person has woken up, but did not wake up, it can only mean one thing, Dad was pretending!

Mr. Yao must have realized this at the time and felt that he had been fooled by his father or himself, and that he had been made to see a healthy person in vain, so he left in anger.

Dad, you're already awake, why are you pretending to be unconscious? Is it because you know what's about to happen and you're deliberately avoiding it, or is it because you're unconscious to make something happen?

"Miss?" Siqin was still a little scared at this moment, and looked at Xu Yixing at a loss.

"what happened?"