The little princess' mind was read, and the court and harem were eating melons

52 chapter

After these words were spoken, the team chat fell silent.

After a few breaths, Li Qingyi slowly exhaled and looked up at the sky.

Li Qingyi: [Sometimes, I feel that it is difficult for me to live in this world.]

Wang Xuan: [Yang Jianrang's daughter...could she be a concubine of the previous emperor?]

System: [Yes. 】

Wang Xuan: [… Let me guess, could it be that the daughter of the Yang family gave birth to a son for the late emperor, and then Yang Jianrang was so bold that he wanted to support his grandson to become the new emperor? ]

The system was silent for a moment, then slowly said: [It’s almost right, but not completely correct.]

Li Qingyi: [How much is this melon? ]

System: [The original price was 5000 energy, and the price has just been reduced by 100, so it is now 4900 energy.]

Wang Xuan: [Oh, because my guess just now was a little bit right, the price has been reduced, right? Then I will guess again.]

System: [I suggest you don’t make random guesses. After all, there is a limit to the number of price reductions. If you exceed it, the price will not change, unless you have a key clue and directly make the melon free.]

Wang Xuan fell silent for a moment.

I guess he is trying to figure out what is going on here.

When Li Qingyi heard the price, his desire to buy disappeared immediately, and he asked the system: [Since such a case has been uncovered, shouldn’t we quickly arrest all members of the Yang family for questioning? Why are we allowing the Yang family to continue to bully the locals? ]

System: [No, because this matter involves the royal family, the Qingyi Guards and the imperial envoys sent secretly dare not act on their own, so they have been trying to find a way to confirm the authenticity of the evidence submitted by Yang Lian in the past few days. After confirmation, they dared to send a letter back to the capital as soon as possible to ask the emperor for instructions.]

As the system said this, it fumbled around in the background for a few seconds before continuing: [In fact, the Yang family was lucky. Qingshan County had just submitted a secret memorial to the emperor a few days ago, telling him about the sweet potato. As soon as the secret memorial was sent out, the Qingyi Guards discovered this from the things Yang Lian had given them. The Qingyi Guards were also dumbfounded, and simply dragged the imperial envoy into the water.]

[The imperial envoy stayed up all night, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, and scolded Yang Jianrang all night. The next day, he started to investigate with the Qingyi Guards. After a few days of investigation, he became more and more shocked. He cursed the Yang family every night. However, since you are a minor, I will not repeat it to you.]

Li Qingyi: [……]

Listening to your description, it seems that this imperial envoy is a bit miserable.

System: [Then the imperial envoy confirmed that the evidence given by Yang Lian was true so far, and then he dared to send a memorial to the capital to ask the emperor for instructions. However, the person who sent the memorial is still on the way. According to the distance, it will probably take until midnight today to arrive in the capital.]

At this time, Li Qingyi suddenly said: [Are there any girls from the Yang family in my father's harem? ]

As luck would have it, Wang Xuan suddenly spoke up at this time: [Is there a girl from the Yang family in the emperor's harem? ]

The two of them were not in the same place, otherwise they would probably be looking at each other in confusion.

The system responded quickly: [No. Because the previous emperor's position as the crown prince was just like the current crown prince's, very stable, and Taizu's temper was well known, so no one doubted that the crown prince would not be able to ascend to the throne.]

And this is indeed the case. After Taizu passed away, the late emperor naturally ascended the throne. However, he did not sit on the throne for long as he died.

System: [It may be a family inheritance. The great ancestor, the previous emperor, and even the emperor, and perhaps your brother, the current crown prince and the future new emperor, all seem to be people who are not fond of women.]

System: [Since Taizu, there have not been many women in the harem, especially during Taizu's time. At most, there were eight women in the harem, and that was only after the original wife who died young. Six of them were due to marriage alliances, one was the wife and daughter of a brother who helped him, and one was the queen.]

System: [The late emperor was similar to Taizu, with one queen and barely enough to make up the four concubines, and that was it. But the late emperor may have passed away too early and didn't have time to build his own harem.]

System: [As for your father, his number is actually greater than that of your biological father and brother. Here we calculate based on the time when the number of people was the highest, which was last year.]

As soon as this was said, Li Qingyi exclaimed, and then heard the system say: [Look, at this time last year, there was only one queen in the harem, and four high-ranking concubines, namely Shufei, Liufei, Chenfei, and Defei. The following were Anpin, Wupin, Shenpin, Wupin, Chang Guiren, Liu Guiren, and Chen Guiren. ]

But now Concubine Liu is gone and Concubine Shu has been demoted.

System: [This is all the harem, and as long as the emperor has favored her, he will give her a position, unlike some emperors who have favored her but did not give birth, then there is no position. On the surface, there are not many concubines in the harem, but in fact, as long as she is a palace maid, she can be considered his woman. ]

System: [And the women in your father's harem are all very healthy. The youngest is the ninth prince's biological mother, Concubine Chen, who is already 26 years old this year. It's nothing like some emperors, who always have teenage girls in their harem. Tsk tsk tsk.]

Li Qingyi: […So what does this have to do with the Yang family girl? ]

Wang Xuan said: [The emperor is not greedy for women, so for those who want to get to the top through women, a shortcut will be cut off. ]

System: [That’s right. It’s because neither the late emperor nor the emperor would be influenced by women, and they both respected their first wives, so when the Yang family used their daughters for investment, they could only choose the late emperor.]

After all, the emperor was only a prince at that time. He respected his first wife and treated his concubines equally. So what was the purpose of the Yang family girl going in? Was she just a decoration?

Wang Xuan added: [Yang Jianrang should be the kind of person who cares a lot about his reputation. He is sure that he cannot get enough rewards from the emperor through this method. On the contrary, it may damage the reputation of the Yang family because the two daughters of the Yang family have become concubines of the late emperor and the emperor respectively. It would be better for him to just focus on the late emperor.]

Wang Xuan: [After all, the late emperor was the crown prince at the time, and he was set to be the new emperor in the future. It was an honor for the Yang family to have a daughter of the Yang family enter the late emperor's backyard. Others would not have had that opportunity.]

System: [That’s right. ]

Li Qingyi: [Oh, so my father escaped a disaster. ]

System: [Not necessarily.]

Wang Xuan: [The emperor said, if Yang Jianrang really wanted to take the girl from the Yang family into his backyard, it would be fine if the girl didn't do anything, but if she really did something, the Yang family probably wouldn't be alive today.]

Long gone.

After all, compared with the generosity and magnanimity of the previous emperor, the emperor now only seems to have a good temper.

Although the late emperor has passed away now, no one knows whether he would still be so magnanimous when his life was offended, but that was the impression he left on everyone, and there is nothing more to say now.

System: [So the host does not need to worry. Even if there is a girl from the Yang family in the harem, it will not cause any trouble.]