His Majesty Meow Raises Fish [Rebirth]

If it weren't for the memory of a lifetime, Qi Jing would not have known that this Zhai Min, who seemed to be working in Lingqi Palace, was Yu Zhaoyi's man.

It is not uncommon to arrange one's own eyeliner on the side, this is not a rare thing in the palace, Wensi Palace naturally has people from other palaces, it just depends on who hides deeply and well.

Qi Jing remembered that in his previous life, this Zhai Min had not left the palace during the Empress Dowager Qianqiu.

At that time, the second emperor's elder brother "died" and fell ill due to the emperor's illness. In order to prevent changes in the palace and prepare for emergencies, Yu Zhaoyi gave a list to Qi Jing, mainly because she was placed in Lingqi Hall and Xuanwei Hall. people, including Zhai Min.

Qi Jing also had contact with this internal official, and knew that he had been favored by Yu Zhaoyi in the early years, so he had been secretly helping Yu Zhaoyi with things.

She was reborn after this happened, so Qi Jing didn't think she could change this master-servant relationship.

In other words, when Zhai Min left the palace, he might still belong to Yu Zhaoyi.

Qi Jing had been thinking before that the people behind the scenes brought the Zhuang family's escaped concubine to the east because the power was in Linhai, so they naturally considered the Yao family and Prince Feng.

Now the appearance of Zhai Min disrupted his thoughts—could it be Yu Zhaoyi who is behind the scenes?Otherwise, why would her people arrest the escaped concubine of Zhuang Mansion.

After thinking about it, Qi Jing decided to personally interrogate this internal official named Di Min.

"The Anguo Guild will send them to Tianjing, and when the time comes, I will find a way to let me go and see them before Brother Huang sees them."

Liu Bai thought it was the arrangement of Duke An or His Highness, so he replied, "Yes, Your Highness."

They will keep in touch with Lai Yiwei at all times. As long as there is news, it is not difficult for His Highness to meet the prisoner in advance.

Although the people in An Guogong's mansion were non-stop, it still took a lot of time to send them to Tianjing.

In order to avoid arousing suspicion, the Seventh Prince first went to Zhuangzi, the place where the prisoners were placed in the Duke of Anguo's mansion, and met Di Min, who had been bruised all over from the interrogation.

When Zhai Min struggled to open his swollen eyes and saw Qi Jing with a serious face, a gleam of light burst out from his lifeless eyes.

The Seventh Prince pulled out the rag from his mouth to prevent him from committing suicide, Zhai Min coughed a few times, and some blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.

He took a few breaths and was about to speak when he suddenly remembered something and looked aside vigilantly, only to find that there was no one else around except the Seventh Prince.

Seeing this, Qi Jing deliberately said: "Only Gu is here, and the palace has something to explain."

Di Min was relieved now, and saw that Qi Jing was looking at him calmly, not as if he was coming to Xingshi to inquire about the crime, so he thought he knew about it, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Your Highness, did your mother ask you to come here?" ?”

Ever since they were found by An Guogong's people and arrested, Zhai Min cut off contact with others, so as not to let An Guogong find out more clues that are not good for his master.

Before coming, Qi Jing still thought that maybe Zhai Min would no longer be used by Yu Zhaoyi for some reason in this life.

But seeing Zhai Min's performance now, there is still something he doesn't understand.

——As expected, Zhai Min was still Yu Zhaoyi's person, so seeing him as the seventh prince would give him some hope, and he had no defense against him.

But before Qi Jing opened his mouth to probe, the other party seemed to think of something again, and he was obviously more anxious than before. He only heard him say: "Don't worry, Your Highness, the servant has absolutely nothing to say about the matter of the empress! Since being caught, the servant has been I never thought that I would be able to survive, and I would bite Ling Qidian even when I died!"

He was worried that Yu Zhaoyi and the Seventh Prince would not believe him, and that the Seventh Prince even came to silence him, so he hurriedly showed his loyalty, lest the Seventh Prince really did something that would arouse suspicion from outsiders.

After An Guogong tried his identity, he decided that the matter was caused by Concubine Yao, and the reason for keeping him until now was to send him to Beijing to let him identify the person behind the scenes in front of the emperor, so his life was temporarily saved.

As a result, as soon as the Seventh Prince came, the prisoner died, which might arouse unnecessary suspicion.

Zhai Min knew that he had no hope of survival, and had already decided to be loyal to repay Zhaoyi's life-saving grace, and now he had to think about his little master.

Qi Jing didn't waste time because he wanted to say something, he said directly: "Talk about the situation on your side first, what is going on with Meng Liang."

Zhai Min didn't suspect him, so he told Qi Jing what happened after he left the palace.

It was only then that Qi Jing knew that Zhuang Jinshi's words were not entirely false—although the second prince did not collude with him, Yu Zhaoyi, the second prince's aunt, had close contacts with the Zhuang family.

But what Qi Jing couldn't understand was why Yu Zhaoyi held the card of Zhuang's escaped concubine, but instead of telling Zhuang Jinshi to shut up, he asked him to confess to the second emperor brother.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, Zhai Min couldn't say anything else.

The other party only said that Yu Zhaoyi had been in contact with Zhuang Jinshi in the name of the second prince. After the corruption case, in order to get rid of the threat posed by the other party, Zhaoyi ordered him to take Zhuang's pregnant concubine to the east.

Qi Jing thought for a while, Zhuang Jinshi's confession about identifying the second brother was later suppressed by his father. Di Min, who had already left the palace, naturally couldn't know the twists and turns.

He probably thought that Yu Zhaoyi asked him to arrest the fugitive concubine in order to threaten Zhuang Jinshi.

At this time, Liu Bai, who was guarding outside, came in and said, there was some commotion outside, probably the second prince's people also came.

Qi Jing couldn't continue talking to Di Min, Liu Bai picked up the cloth on the ground and stuffed it back into Di Min's mouth.

Seeing Zhai Min take a deep look at himself, and then pretend to pass out, Qi Jing felt extremely complicated - being regarded as being with Yu Zhaoyi is really annoying.

Afterwards, Qi Jing saw a confidant of Brother Erhuang's came in, and thought: It seems that if you want to know other truths, you can only ask Yu Zhaoyi.

……

On the second day, Qi Jing came to Wensi Hall on the occasion of paying his respects to the elders. He usually wanted to leave as soon as he sat down, but this time he stayed for the first time.

As usual, Yu Zhaoyi was not very warm to her own son, but because of the old Qifeng Wang, she also felt that she could no longer treat him like she did when she was a child, so she tried to chat with Qi Jing.

"Your father got up these few days and still coughed. You should be more concerned. Although you can't relax in official duties, you have to learn from your fifth and sixth brothers in other areas, and you should have snacks. "

Recently, the Fifth Prince and the Sixth Prince have been very diligent in coming to the palace. Compared with them, the Seventh Prince is obviously not diligent enough.

Qi Jing didn't come here to exchange greetings with Yu Zhaoyi, he didn't want to stay in Wensi Hall for too long, lest outsiders notice something strange, so he didn't follow her in any other words, and got straight to the point.

"Grandpa caught the man who hijacked the escaped concubine from Zhuang's mansion. I think my concubine has already got the news." Qi Jing observed the change of Yu Zhaoyi's expression very carefully. He didn't want to let go of any clues: "I went to meet those people. ... Zhai Min said that he will be loyal to his mother-in-law until death, please rest assured that I will pass on the message."

When Yu Zhaoyi heard the words, the smile on her face suddenly disappeared, replaced by the anger and panic of being exposed.

She never thought that the eyeliner that she had worked so hard to put outside for many years would reveal what she shouldn't have said so easily.

But she calmed down quickly, and said with a cold face, "You can talk about loyalty with such a loose mouth..."

Qi Jing interrupted her and said, "My concubine, Zhuang Jinshi framed the second emperor brother, did you really order it? Didn't you always love the emperor brother? Now, what do you want to do?"

Yu Zhaoyi fell silent, and after a while, she shed tears in front of Qi Jing.

Although Qi Jing and his mother have been divorced for two lifetimes, seeing her crying at this moment, he still has mixed feelings in his heart and is quite uncomfortable-he has never seen Yu Zhaoyi like this since he grew up.

He didn't know what to do for a while, and now he couldn't say a single word he wanted to question Yu Zhaoyi from the draft he had prepared in his mind.

Fortunately, he was not at a loss for a long time, and Yu Zhaoyi spoke first: "I love your emperor brother, but how did he treat me and the Duke of Anguo? We are doing our best for him, but he forgot grateful!"

Qi Jing frowned: "What are you talking about..."

"Before he became king, he started to secretly support his own power, and he still respected me on the surface, but in fact his wings were hardened, and he was no longer under control...Now he focuses on Du Shi, thinking that he has a wife family That's enough, I will definitely favor the Du family in the future."

When Yu Zhaoyi said this, she felt quite aggrieved, and she looked at Qi Jing: "If I hadn't, he really thought he was the closest to that position, and he didn't need others anymore."

Only then did Qi Jing understand why Yu Zhaoyi used Zhuang Jinshi to pour dirty water on the second emperor brother.

She was worried that the second prince would be close to his wife's family and alienated from his grandfather, so she wanted to give him some setbacks, so that the second prince would know the importance of her Wensi Palace and An Guogong.

However, it is not ruled out that Yu Zhaoyi was afraid that his collusion with Zhuang Jinshi would be found out, and he wanted Qi Heng to beg Wensi Palace and An Guogong Mansion, so he used a strategy of killing two birds with one stone.

"Aren't you afraid that the father will reject the second brother?" This matter is extremely risky, and Qi Jing thinks that Yu Zhaoyi should not be the one who will use this trick.

But the other party argued: "The escaped concubine is in my hands, and Zhuang Jinshi can do whatever he wants, so didn't he find any evidence later? He didn't dare!"

"But if the father believes it, he doesn't need any evidence at all!"

Qi Jing no longer knew whether to laugh at her for being too self-righteous, or to rejoice that her father believed in the second brother in the end.

However, this caused the second brother to insist on going to Shaohai in order to win back his father's trust, almost killing Qi Heng.

Maybe she also thought of what happened later, and she might have suffered because of it, so when Qi Jing mentioned it, Yu Zhaoyi showed a gaffe she had never had before.

Qi Jing thought that his grandfather was obviously not involved in this matter, so he arrested Zhai Min and others and took them to Beijing.

"Brother Huang has always respected his mother and concubine, and treated me very well. He is definitely not someone who does not care about family affection... Please take care of yourself and don't do such shameful things again!"

He hadn't figured out how to deal with the follow-up matters, but he knew that he didn't want to face Yu Zhaoyi like this again, so he saluted in a hurry, turned and left Wensi Hall.

……

After the Seventh Prince left, Yu Zhaoyi still sat on the Arhat couch, silently wiped away the tears on her face, took a sip from the teacup next to her, and frowned as if the tea was cold.

Ruoqing, who was standing by the side without saying a word, hurried forward to change Yu Zhaoyi's tea, she couldn't help it, and said worriedly: "Madam, will your Highness..." Tell His Highness the Second Prince about this?

Yu Zhaoyi drank hot tea again, and her brows relaxed. After putting the tea cup back on the table, she put on another handkerchief and pursed her lips.

After a while, she said: "He is really smart, not for now."

It is said that knowing a child is better than a mother, although Zhaoyi has never been very close to His Highness the Seventh Prince, but His Highness has been cute and clinging to Zhaoyi since she was a child.

What kind of temperament the Seventh Prince has, what he likes and what he hates in his heart, Zhaoyi is the most clear. Just now Zhaoyi saw his appearance, and I am afraid that he can guess the other party's mind.

At this time, Ruoqing suddenly thought of something again, and a trace of worry appeared on her face: "Your Highness, will he alienate you because of this?"

The mother and son were not very close at first, but now the seventh prince and the second prince have a deep brotherly bond, if the second prince disagrees, I am afraid that the mother will be misunderstood even more.

When Yu Zhaoyi heard this, her eyes flickered slightly, and finally she was not as calm as before.

Seeing her expression, Ruoqing became more and more anxious. After a long time, she heard Yu Zhaoyi say: "No matter how far apart we are, we are still mother and son..."