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

After Li Qingyi finished washing up, she heard from Fang Xin that the fifth prince had passed away. She was still surprised and asked, "Is there any news from Concubine Liu?"

As she spoke, she seemed to feel that her behavior might seem a little cold to those who didn't know her, so she tried hard to look sad: "Fifth brother is so pitiful."

Fang Xin: “…”

My Lord, you don’t have to stop acting if you can’t continue.

Li Qingyi went to see the queen again.

The Queen was very busy. When she saw her coming, she took the time to hug her, and then let Fang Xin take Li Qingyi out to play while she continued to be busy.

Li Qingyi listened for a while and found that the queen was busy with the funeral of the fifth prince. She curled her lips and did not disturb her. After leaving Kunning Palace, she stood at the door for a while and said to Fang Xin, "Aunt, let's go to Qianqing Palace to find my father."

Fang Xin nodded.

However, Li Qingyi went to the Qianqing Palace but found nothing.

No one knew where the emperor had gone.

In fact, if Li Qingyi wanted to ask, she could have found out. She was young and favored, so she would not be accused of spying on the emperor. But Li Qingyi did not ask. She stood there for a while, feeling that something was wrong.

Li Qingyi asked the system: [Where is Liu Cong now? ]

Although the system did not say it directly, Li Qingyi guessed that the fifth prince was dead, but Li Cong was not dead.

It’s not that she didn’t want to know the details. After all, the system had said before that the secret medicine was the fake death medicine, but the time didn’t match.

According to the system, the fake death drug should make the person who takes it weak for a period of time, and then slowly "die of illness", rather than die suddenly like the fifth prince.

That's why Li Qingyi was frightened before.

However, the system said that there was some inside story and that you had to buy the melon.

Li Qingyi: ...

I don't really want to spend extra merit on people I hate.

But now Li Qingyi felt more and more that something was wrong. She asked Fang Xin to take her for a walk in the garden. When passing by a small pavilion, she went in and sat for a while, looking at the lake not far away and began to wonder what would happen here.

Then, I couldn’t think of anything.

After all, as things have developed to this point, Li Qingyi finds everything about it outrageous, and it is really hard to imagine what the inside story is.

She sighed softly and called the system: [Xiao Ba.]

System: [I am here. 】

Li Qingyi: [Buy it. ]

Li Qingyi didn't even need to say a word, the system naturally understood what she meant.

System: [Purchase successful, let me take a look... Oh, so exciting. Host, you will never guess why the fifth prince died suddenly yesterday.]

Li Qingyi: [Say.]

System: [The Fifth Prince was in bed recuperating, but the Emperor did not conceal the news that Concubine Shu was demoted to a concubine. When the Fifth Prince found out, he felt that both he and Concubine Liu were rejected by the Emperor. He was so angry and anxious that he fainted. When he woke up, he found that he seemed to be really sick.]

[Then, the fifth prince felt that he could not continue to be ill. If he really continued to be ill, and was not in front of the emperor for a while, he was afraid that he would really have no hope, and those court officials would not remember him, so the fifth prince... ate the elixir given by the Taoist priest.]

[Coincidentally, there was something in the elixir that conflicted with the secret medicine, which activated the medicinal properties of the secret medicine in advance, and the result was GG. ]

Li Qingyi was shocked: "Wait, can the medicinal properties conflict with each other? Also, what's the matter with the elixir? Aren't the Taoists and alchemists refining elixirs just refining poison? Are you sure he was just stimulated by the medicinal properties and not really poisoned to death?"

System: [How should I put it? He was lucky. If he had taken that pill alone, he might have been poisoned. Moreover, it was the kind that stimulated the body's potential in a short period of time and had endless consequences. But he happened to have been poisoned by a secret medicine before, and the conflicting effects of the medicine caused him to vomit a lot of blood, and he vomited out the poisonous blood.]

Li Qingyi: [...Oh.]

Having said that, Li Qingyi's mood became very complicated at the moment.

She hated the Fifth Prince, but it wasn't to the point of wanting him dead.

This has nothing to do with whether she is a saint or not. It’s simply that Li Qingyi doesn’t like killing people.

Although the system downplayed the situation and Li Cong was not really dead after all and still had his life, it seemed that he had suffered a lot this time.

And... her father couldn't have failed to arrange someone to keep an eye on what happened to Li Cong. Her father must know exactly whether he was really dead or not.

But even so, news of the fifth prince's sudden death still came out. Li Qingyi really didn't understand what her father was thinking.

Is this the mentality of an emperor?

It can't be that her father thinks that the Fifth Prince is not cut out for this job, but is ambitious and lacks self-awareness. Instead of this, why not change his identity?

No way?

impossible.

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When the emperor returned to the Qianqing Palace, he already knew that Li Qingyi had been there, but he said nothing.

Huang Kang was very perceptive. He asked someone to find out where Li Qingyi was now and asked the emperor: "Your Majesty, the young prince should know about that person. Look at this..."

The emperor waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Yi'er is smart and won't tell anyone."

After a pause, the emperor rubbed his brows, went into the inner room to change into light clothes, and then asked Huang Kang: "How is he?"

"Not awake yet."

The emperor looked sullen and said after a moment: "Keep watching."

Huang Kang bowed and agreed. Seeing that the emperor's face was still not very good and he looked in a bad mood, he moved his lips, but he didn't know what to say at this time.

Not to mention that Li Qingyi didn't understand the emperor's thoughts, even Huang Kang, who had been serving the emperor, actually couldn't understand what the emperor was thinking at this time.

But he couldn't ask, and didn't dare to ask.

The emperor rested for a while and then went to handle government affairs. The whole room was quiet to the point of silence. The palace servants who served him felt the oppressive atmosphere and even breathed much softer, for fear of accidentally disturbing the emperor and attracting his attention.

It was not until Kunning Palace sent someone to ask on behalf of the Queen where the fifth prince's funeral would be held.

The emperor paused for a moment, then said, "According to the rules..."

As I said this, I suddenly remembered that there has been no such precedent since the founding of Daning.

During the reign of Taizu, his sons either died before the founding of the country or had reached adulthood and did not live in the palace.

There is no need to mention the period of the previous emperor.

As for the emperor, he had quite a few children. Except for a few who died before they were one year old, all the others survived.

Perhaps because he had quite a few children and the other party was not really dead, the emperor was not as unhappy as he looked on the surface. Instead, he was calm in his heart.

After being quiet for a moment, he put down his pen and stood up: "Let's go to Kunning Palace."