The maid's road to success

Manager Liang also saw the Fourth Prince behind him and realized that what he had just said had caused him to hear a lot of things he shouldn't have heard, but he was also very glad.

After seeing this scene, the Fourth Prince will definitely find an excuse to deal with the Sixth Prince. The Sixth Princess might be angered and suffer, but even if the Sixth Prince suspects the Princess, he dare not really investigate further, and he has to find a way to cover up for the Princess.

Otherwise, if the Sixth Princess, as a princess of a royal family, used underhanded means to deal with a concubine and harm the offspring of a prince, if the royal family knew about this, the Sixth Princess would not have a good ending. The Sixth Prince still has to rely on the military power of her family, and will definitely not watch the Sixth Princess get into trouble, so he will try his best to cover up this family affair.

Manager Liang knew that he could not survive, but he did not control his mouth. In order to bite Liu Yan, he leaked the news that the Sixth Prince had bad offspring. What awaited him when he returned would only be a life worse than death, and his family would be implicated. He might as well just die quickly. The Sixth Prince's wife would protect her mother and his wife and children because he took all the blame.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Steward Liang struggled hard to break free from the servant who was holding him down, and banged his head against the doorpost. Blood immediately flowed out, staining the stone steps red. When Liu Yan saw that Steward Liang was dead, she knew that he had protected the Sixth Princess with his death, and her child was gone, but the murderer was still alive.

Suddenly, his throat felt fishy and sweet, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and fainted on the ground.

The Sixth Prince rushed over and held Liu Yan in his arms, shouting for a doctor to come.

The Fourth Prince came today originally to question the Sixth Prince, but with such a big surprise, he felt that there was no need to dig into the previous matter.

He walked out of the courtyard and said to his personal servant.

"Find out everything clearly. He was the one who framed me and Baozhu and got me grounded for three months. He also lost his position as an examiner for the martial arts exam. I'll let him have a taste of this."

The Fourth Prince felt very aggrieved whenever he thought of the chrysanthemum viewing banquet. His aunt went back and investigated the matter. She found aphrodisiac powder on Baozhu's clothes, which emitted an aphrodisiac scent when wetted by wine.

Although the Fourth Prince was also very good at this kind of thing, he always knew what to do and what not to do, so he would not do such a thing at the chrysanthemum viewing banquet. It was obvious that he was being plotted against.

But the other party did a clean job and only found a suspect, a maid who was dead.

This matter involves only two families, the Sixth Prince and Duke Cheng'en.

The Fourth Prince thought about the matter carefully in the palace. The Sixth Prince was the most suspicious. Even if Lord Cheng'en wanted to trick him, he would not do such a thing at the banquet he hosted. Their main purpose that day was to choose a husband for the girls in the palace so as to win over more court officials. However, any incident would delay their success, so Lord Cheng'en should not be able to do it.

Then it could only be the Sixth Prince. As soon as he was released today, he went to pay a visit to his aunt and analyzed what to do. When he came out, he saw the servants talking.

"I heard that the Sixth Prince has not even returned to the palace recently."

"What do you know? The one the Sixth Prince has outside is pregnant, and he is taking good care of her."

"No wonder. I was wondering why the Sixth Prince didn't even go to the brothel."

"I'll tell you a secret. That person was also taken there during the days when the Sixth Prince was in the Imperial Mausoleum."

After hearing this, the Fourth Prince decided to come and meet the Sixth Prince, and by the way, see who the woman he kept outside was. She actually made the Sixth Prince hide it from his grandmother and abandon all the women in the mansion, and even wanted to see her in the imperial mausoleum?

The Fourth Prince's initial plan was to ask the Sixth Prince about that matter, and by the way, see what type of Miss Liu Yan was, and whether he could find someone of the same type to attract the Sixth Prince?

But I didn't expect to win without fighting. I went there at the right time, heard a big secret, and watched a good show. A prince who can't leave an heir? Is he still worthy of competing with me?

The Fourth Prince sent out many of his capable men, trying to take advantage of these good things to bring down the Sixth Prince. After all, he was one of the most powerful people in the fight for the throne. It only took two days to find out the truth.

Liu Yan did marry Huang Ling, and it is very likely that the child was conceived at that time. It is said that she has not had any intimate behavior with Lao Liu since Liu Yan came back, and before going to the imperial mausoleum, Lao Liu was busy calculating himself and did not spend any time on women. Therefore, it is very likely that Liu Yan's child was conceived when the Sixth Prince was punished to go to the imperial mausoleum. Doing lewd things in the place where the ancestors rest is unfilial.

It is unjust to place most of his cronies in Jingnan Lane and keep them away from the legitimate mistress for many days.

He colluded with court officials outside and gave many properties and treasures that came from illegal sources to the man in Jingnan Lane. This is disloyalty.

This time, the Fourth Prince and the Grand Princess Fu'an decided to have their subordinates work hard to make the Sixth Prince suffer a worse fall. However, the Sixth Prince reacted quickly and quickly got rid of the Sixth Princess. After all, the Sixth Princess's family still had power, and every time they found out something, the clues were always cut off. No wonder the Empress Dowager had chosen the Sixth Princess for the Sixth Prince so early.

But the Fourth Prince couldn't find anything no matter how hard he tried. He kept his affair with Baozhu relatively secret, as he had a close relationship with Princess Fu'an, and he had been very close to Baozhu for all these years. No one outside had ever suspected him. How did the Sixth Prince notice it? However, all that could be found was that the Sixth Prince suddenly sent people to supervise Princess Baozhu's house. As for why he suddenly became suspicious of his affair with Baozhu, there was no clue.

The Sixth Prince knew very well that the Fourth Prince would definitely fight back, so he quickly returned to the Sixth Prince's Mansion and summoned his staff and confidants to discuss countermeasures. Even though he now knew that Liu Yan's child was related to the Sixth Prince's Consort, he still had to arrange for people to clean up all the clues.

After inviting three or four doctors to see him in turn, they finally confirmed that he was indeed difficult to have children, but not to the point of being completely childless. The Sixth Prince suspected that the illness he had when he was a child was not a simple illness. He vaguely remembered that the queen was now the empress dowager, and her maid gave the Sixth Prince a piece of cake. After returning home, he felt very cold, but he did not have a fever. He recovered around midnight. When he was young, he thought he was weak and wore too thin clothes. Now it seems that the queen may have done something to him. After all, the Empress Dowager had said at that time that she planned to raise a child herself.

The princes do not have many children. The Fourth Prince himself does not have many children. Among the other brothers, only the youngest, the Ninth Prince, has four or five children. It is not known how many people the Queen has attacked. For the time being, the news of their difficulties in having children cannot be spread. The Sixth Prince and his men discussed it for half the night but still could not figure out how to keep this matter secret.

When I was sitting in the study room worrying alone, I planned to go to the inner courtyard to find the Sixth Princess to see if she had any good ideas. After all, the Sixth Princess's style of doing things was very similar to that of the Imperial Grandmother.

When I walked to the small gate, I heard a drunk gatekeeper talking to another person.

"My damned wife is pregnant."

"Isn't that a good thing? Congratulations."

"Congratulations, your mother. I touched her last month and she's three months pregnant. Whose child is it? You stinky bitch, I'll beat her to death when I get home."

The Sixth Prince did not listen to the rest of the words. The servant behind him had already gone up to hold down the two people who were talking and dragged them to the courtyard to be caned. It was a big taboo to drink while guarding the palace at night. This time, he would be skinned alive if he didn't die.

The Sixth Prince did not go to the inner courtyard but returned to his study and called the maid who served in his study. This girl had been with him since she was a child and he had favored her before, but her appearance was not what he liked, so she was not sent to the backyard. Moreover, there were many secret letters in his study and he trusted this girl. Now it seemed that only she could do this.

While the Sixth Prince was busy in the front yard, the man who was drunk and beaten with thirty sticks just now was lying on the bed, touching his chest happily. A masked man found him yesterday, gave him a hundred taels of prostitution tickets, and told him to say those words while on guard tonight. Of course his wife was not pregnant, and he was simply incompetent. His wife knew it, and she was fooling around outside but didn't dare to really get her pregnant. He had known for a long time that his wife had an affair with a peddler selling goods nearby, but because he had no money and no ability, he was afraid that his wife would run away with someone and he would really become a bachelor.

But the man told him that as long as he said those words, he would get one hundred taels, and the man would help him deal with his wife quietly. With the money, he could find another one. He had already picked one. There was a widow with two children in the next alley. If he married her, he wouldn't even have to have children.

The drunk man didn't really drink any alcohol, he just spilled some on his body. His purpose was to let himself finish saying those words, get beaten, hide for a while while recuperating, and marry a wife by the way.

When the court was held the next day, the censors attacked the Sixth Prince like crazy. First, he had bad personal ethics and kept a mistress, who was an actor; second, the Sixth Prince brought his mistress to the imperial mausoleum when the emperor punished him by punishing him to copy scriptures in the imperial mausoleum; third, the Sixth Prince accepted bribes privately, and many treasures and antiques were sent to Jingnan Lane; fourth, the Sixth Prince was unable to have descendants and could not explain to his ancestors, etc.

The Sixth Prince's face became more and more gloomy. He didn't expect that the Fourth Prince's people were so efficient. They found out the fact that Liu Yan went to the imperial mausoleum and accepted money from officials. Who leaked it?

Duke Cheng'en winked at his subordinates, asking them to follow suit in impeaching the Sixth Prince. During an early morning court session, the Sixth Prince was stripped of his princely status and demoted to a county prince. He was immediately sent to his fiefdom, and the 3,000 personal guards under his command were reduced to 800. The officials mentioned in the impeachment memorial were tried by the Dali Temple, and would be thrown into jail immediately if confirmed.

This time, the Sixth Prince suffered a crushing defeat. Looking at the complacent Fourth Prince and Duke Cheng'en, the Sixth Prince gritted his teeth. He had not completely lost yet, and he would repay all the humiliations he had suffered today.

That afternoon, the news that the Sixth Prince's maid was pregnant spread, and many officials who had already been shaken did not make any more moves of betrayal.

But Liu Yan in Jingnan Lane also heard it. It was said that the imperial doctors confirmed that it was a slippery pulse.

The child she had conceived with so much effort, and the suffering she had endured, was murdered by the Sixth Princess. No matter how much Steward Liang said, she didn't believe that the Sixth Princess was really innocent. But after waiting for two or three days, not only was the Sixth Princess fine, but the Sixth Prince also helped her to cover up the matter. For two days, the Sixth Prince had not come once, and he had been entering and leaving the palace in pairs with the murderer.

She had sent so many letters but had not received the proper response or result. Now the Sixth Prince's concubine was pregnant? What about her? What was she? She had never expected that even with her delicate face, she still couldn't make the Sixth Prince treat her wholeheartedly.

Liu Yan asked everyone to sneak out and called Xing'er in.

"Your master is not really helping the Sixth Prince, right?"

Xing'er didn't say anything, because Liu Yan didn't know the other use of Jiaoyan. Ever since she became pregnant, she had made all the Jiaoyan into snuff bottles and gave them to the Sixth Prince. In order to prevent Liu Yan from being exposed to the consequences of leaving Jiaoyan too early, Xing'er had been using Jiaoyan in her tea to maintain her appearance and spirit. Xing'er had been without Jiaoyan for the past two days, and Liu Yan no longer had the beauty she once had. Her hair was dry, her eyes were cloudy, and even her smooth skin was covered with spots.

"I don't want to question your master's true identity. I just have one request. Please help me do one thing. As long as you agree to it, I will give you all the treasures that the Sixth Prince has hidden in my house."

Xing'er still didn't speak, but raised her head and looked at Liu Yan.

"I want to make sure that the Sixth Prince can never have a child again. My child is gone, and the murderer who killed my child is still alive. However, my status is too low, so I have no way to take revenge. But I want to make sure that the Sixth Prince can never have a child again. As long as you agree to this, I will hand over all of the Sixth Prince's treasures in Jingnan Lane, which is at least 50,000 taels."

Xing Er nodded and told her that she would get an answer tonight.

Xing'er walked out of Jingnan Lane. The people in Jingnan Lane were busy with their own business and no one followed her. She came to a stall selling wontons and ate a bowl of wontons.

After Xing'er left, the stall owner found a small piece of paper at the bottom of the bowl when he came to close the stall.

"Liu Yan wants the Sixth Prince to have no descendants in exchange for the Sixth Prince's property in Jingnan Lane."

Now many of the servants have already packed up and are ready to leave. After all, the Sixth Prince has been ordered to rush to his fiefdom as soon as possible, and the servants in Jingnan Lane certainly cannot go with him. They don't know whether Liu Yan, as a concubine, can go with him, but so many servants will definitely be sold in Kyoto. Instead of having nothing sold, it is better to take the opportunity to find a good place for those things they had before.

So no one paid attention when Xing'er took the letter back under the pear tree in the backyard. After Xing'er read the letter and burned it, she brought the porcelain bottle to find Liu Yan.

"The medicine in the porcelain bottle is what you want, but you have to give it to the Sixth Prince yourself."

Liu Yan nodded and took Xing'er to her bathroom. She pushed open the bathtub, revealing a hole.

"The Sixth Prince has stored all the money he collected from outside here. He is worried that the Sixth Princess will know about the misappropriation of the money, so he has transferred it here one after another. You should move out as soon as possible."

Xing'er contacted An Zizhong that night after confirming that what Liu Yan said was true. Liu Yan now hated the Sixth Prince very much, and it was unknown when she would break up with him. Moreover, the Sixth Prince would definitely take these things away before leaving Beijing, so there was no time to waste.

In order to transport the things away properly, Xing'er lit the incense in Liu Yan's room and also used it on the night watchman. The Sixth Prince took away many of the guards in Jingnan Lane, and the people who stayed behind had no intention of serving. The whole yard was moved away by a group of masked people, and no one noticed that more than a dozen large boxes were taken away.