kingnovel Chapter 1015 The Courtesan's Mistress Bribes the Minister
Chapter 1015 The Courtesan's Mistress Bribes the Minister
Emperor Hongde stood up and looked at Xiao Jingyu, "Prince Yu, please stay and sit with me in the Imperial Study!"
Emperor Hongde looked very hurt.
"Yes, I obey your order!"
Xiao Jingyu understood that his father had kept him behind because he was eager to know the results of his and Yue'er's investigation last night, and he was also about to report to his father!
The officials respectfully escorted Emperor Hongde to the rear hall, and Xiao Jingyu followed.
The father and son arrived at the Imperial Study.
Since there were only the father and son in the imperial study, Emperor Hongde did not sit behind the dragon desk as usual, but instead the two of them sat together at the tea table in the side hall.
Yu Feng served two cups of hot tea, and then he and Feng Guang went to wait outside the Imperial Study.
The two figures, one on the left and one on the right, resembled two door gods.
With these two guarding outside, Emperor Hongde and his son Xiao Jingyu could speak more at ease inside.
Xiao Jingyu then gave his father a detailed account of everything he and Leng Rongyue had discovered the previous night.
"What a fine Crown Prince of the Eastern Venezuela!"
What a bunch of East Venezuelan beasts!
They secretly infiltrated my capital, Jingyue, and committed all sorts of wicked deeds!
Emperor Hongde was furious after hearing Xiao Jingyu's account.
"The people of East Venezuela are all beasts!"
They all came with ulterior motives, as expected!
This so-called Silver Princess is trying to sully your Prince Yu's mansion, Yu'er;
That damned Crown Prince actually has his eye on Yue'er!
Haha...you really have a lot of nerve!
"That's wishful thinking!"
Seeing that his father was angry, Xiao Jingyu quickly spoke up to comfort him, "Father, why get angry over those beasts from the Eastern Wei?"
Their schemes will not only fail, but they won't even have many days left to live!
Didn't they send two crown princes, one real and one fake?
The real crown prince must die before the fake crown prince arrives in the capital!
Your Majesty, I'd like to see if those beasts in the Eastern Venezuelan delegation dare to admit that they actually sent two crown princes—one real and one fake.
One is openly displayed as a decorative item, while the other is secretly infiltrating to act as a spy and harm my Jingyue!
Dare to say that the real crown prince is missing!
Do they dare to ask our Jingyue Kingdom for their true crown prince?
After all, we specially dispatched people to welcome them all the way and escort them to the capital!
What reason do they have to say that the Crown Prince is missing?
What reason do they have to demand people from our Jingyue Kingdom?
They have no choice but to suffer this loss!
By then, the real crown prince will be dead. Would they still ask for a marriage alliance for a fake crown prince?
Even if they dare to make shameless remarks, we'll just reject them outright!
What can they do to me?
As for that Silver Princess...
laugh!
It's best for filth to go back to where it came from, so as not to pollute the eyes of us Jingyue people!
The Kingdom of Jingyue cannot tolerate these filthy and wicked beasts from the Eastern Wei!
Hearing his son say this, Emperor Hongde's anger subsided somewhat.
Next, Xiao Jingyu mentioned something else.
“Father, as you know, because of Zhang Jinyan’s downfall, some people in the court who were implicated with Zhang Jinyan… uh… or to put it more directly, the henchmen of my good cousin…”
Fearing that they would be implicated and that their descendants would be affected, they thought they had to leave an heir for the family no matter what. Didn't they secretly send their children away from the capital?
What they never expected was that the offspring they thought they had sent far away had actually been kidnapped by that group of Eastern Wei beasts on the way!
The children of those who were kidnapped are now being held in a small courtyard in the east of the city.
Your son and Yue'er entered the small courtyard and heard their conversation inside the house from the rooftop. They also went to investigate the room used for imprisonment...
There were only a few shallow breaths inside, no talking or crying, so the people inside must have been drugged!
They were held hostage by the beasts of East Venezuela!
Those whose offspring have been taken hostage include, as far as we know, Qin Lu, Deputy Commander of the Five Cities Garrison; Jiang Ciche, the Second Assistant Minister; Guo Yuan, Marquis of Dongping; and…
Xiao Jingyu looked at his father, a mocking sneer appearing on his lips.
Emperor Hongde saw this and thought that there must be a reason why his son had such an expression when he said this.
So he asked, "Who else?"
Xiao Jingyu slowly began to speak: "And there's Xia Qinian, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, who was just standing there in a daze in the Golden Hall!"
"It's him?"
Emperor Hongde exclaimed in surprise.
"it's him!"
Xiao Jingyu nodded and continued, "What Father Emperor doesn't know is that just last night after midnight, the deputy envoy of the Eastern Wei Kingdom, whose head was slapped into a pig's head by their Crown Prince, took another Eastern Wei beast and first went to the home of Qin Lu, the deputy commander of the Five Cities Military Command, and then went to the residence of Xia Qinian's mistress!"
"Xia Qinian also keeps a mistress?"
Emperor Hongde frowned upon hearing this.
"Didn't he claim after his wife's death that he would remain faithful to his first wife and never remarry?"
Xiao Jingyu chuckled and said, "Xia Qinian wasn't lying. He said he wouldn't remarry... and he really didn't!"
However, he already had several concubines in his household, and later he secretly kept a courtesan as his mistress...
Oh, by the way, that courtesan's mistress... it was my good cousin who paid a hefty sum to redeem her and then gave her to Xia Qinian after her death!