The Virtuous Concubine

Jingyi didn't doubt the Fourth Prince at all, she just checked him again, and when she saw that he stopped wailing soon, she quickly called Doctor Rong to come and check on him. But she was also puzzled: "The Fourth Prince doesn't like to cry, why is it that he just wailed without shedding tears when he was really in pain?"

After thinking it over, she decided to tell the queen about this as soon as possible. The queen should not be disturbed during her confinement, and as a servant, she should find out everything before reporting to the master. But she just felt that something was wrong.

Malu watched the whole process in the video with a twitch in his mouth: "How old is this child to start framing others? Where did he learn this method? Is it that the children of the Aisin-Gioro family have this instinct?"

The system guessed: "Children in the palace may mature early."

You know what, although the Fourth Prince didn't shed tears, his crying and accusations were very realistic. If Malu hadn't seen it all in the video, she would have been anxious and angry if she had heard that the eunuch had just touched the corner of his clothes.

However, this incident made her realize that there were some problems in the management of Yonghe Palace and that the Fourth Prince was different from others.

She mismanaged the matter at first. She issued an instruction that the time should be clearly stated and then she should remember to ask for the result. Although there are indeed too many things to do during childbirth, she can use the system to do these things well, avoiding omissions and risks.

Thinking of this, she planned for a long time, listing several major things to do in the future and then breaking them down. This project took a long time, and the next step was to face the problems she had been avoiding.

Xiao Si'er, who is he?

Malu had lied to herself at first, saying that her child was gifted and had learned everything on his own. But today, after watching what Xiao Si'er had done to the eunuch, she couldn't put it off any longer. She wasn't sure, but she had to seek an explanation, a reason that would allow her to understand Xiao Si'er's abnormal behavior.

Malu didn't think that Xiao Si'er did anything wrong. After all, he was protecting himself. It was also his own fault. He should have gotten rid of the eunuch long ago, and let the child be exposed to risks.

Malu sighed, and after a while he found the courage to say to the system: "I suspect that Xiao Si'er is a time traveler or a reborn person like me."

She felt a little embarrassed after saying this – she gave birth to another adult ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

The system was silent for a moment, and finally responded in a calm and mechanical voice: "My current function cannot detect this. Traveling through time or rebirth is an individual's internal experience, and I cannot verify it directly. You need to discover the truth yourself."

After saying that, it comforted Malu: "It doesn't matter, they are all your children. If it is a time travel, then this person is quite powerful. If it is a rebirth..."

Both Malu and the system fell silent.

If he was reborn, he would definitely remember his jealousy towards the Fourteenth Prince and his hatred towards his mother's cold attitude. He might also feel that the Concubine De in front of him was not his real mother.

This thought was like a heavy stone pressing on Malu's heart, making her feel unprecedented pain and torment.

Just when the system wanted to continue discussing this topic with her, Jingyi came in person and reported that the Fourth Prince was suspected of being strangled and the young eunuch was now imprisoned.

Ma Lu waved her hand and said unusually: "Go ask the Fourth Prince and see how he wants to deal with it." After that, Ma Lu added: "Just do as the Fourth Prince says."

Jingyi was stunned, obviously not expecting Malu to answer like this, but she quickly regained her composure and bowed respectfully: "Yes, Your Majesty." Then she turned and left the room to ask the Fourth Prince how to deal with this eunuch.

Malu was left alone in the room, her eyes once again turning to the video, which showed the Fourth Prince's every move.

After hearing Jingyi's words, the Fourth Prince uttered one word concisely and firmly: "Kill."

Jingyi was horrified: "Fourth Prince! This... this..."

In Jingyi's opinion, if this little eunuch really hurt the Fourth Prince, he deserved death. But according to the conventions of Yonghe Palace or the palace rules, he should either be sent back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs or beaten with thirty boards and expelled from the palace. And the Fourth Prince was so young!

The Fourth Prince turned his gaze to Jingyi, the Jingyi who had taken care of him since he was a child, the Concubine Min who was supposed to give birth to the Thirteenth Prince and was unknown in the harem. His gaze did not waver at all. He still repeated in his childish voice: "Kill."

Jingyi felt the determination in the Fourth Prince's words. She trembled in her heart, but she finally knelt on the ground and accepted the order with the most respectful attitude: "Yes, Fourth Prince."

Malu turned off the video when she saw this, and covered her head with the quilt in depression, as if she could avoid facing everything in real life. Therefore, she missed the two words that the Fourth Prince said when Jingyi was about to leave: "Chuanzhe".

"磔" was a form of torture in ancient times, which meant cutting the flesh from the bones, breaking the limbs, and then chopping the throat. The Fourth Prince's words "Cunzhe" actually meant that the eunuch should be chopped into pieces!

Although Jingyi accepted the order, she knew in her heart that this matter was of great importance and she had to inform her own queen first. Otherwise, if she went directly to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the name of the Fourth Prince and asked for such a cruel punishment to be carried out on the eunuch, it would surely cause an uproar. Then she could only use the queen's name, but it seemed the same if she used the queen's name!!!

After Malu heard Jingyi's words, the depressed feeling disappeared immediately. She wanted to rush out and pull the Fourth Prince's ears and scold him for betraying his mother!

He was the one who tricked the person and wanted to kill him, so why didn't he take the blame himself and put it on his own mother? !

Malu shook his head: "You didn't even check who was behind this, and just chopped him off?"

Jingyi explained in a low voice that the Fourth Prince seemed to dislike this eunuch very much and couldn't bear to see him live for another quarter of an hour. Malu was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke: "Even if you hate him, you can't be so careless. Forget it this time, just send it back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and then drive him out of the palace. For the rest, you can send a letter to the Wuya family and let them do it secretly."

Jingyi breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it didn't damage the reputation of the Empress and the Fourth Prince.

After doing all these things, Malu felt exhausted both physically and mentally. She asked the system helplessly: "Can't you really find out who this Yama King on my son is?"

The system knew that she had experienced this, and was even more unwilling to face the fact that she had given birth to such a cruel old baby, so it said in a roundabout way: "Power struggles require this kind of decisive and murderous trait."

Malu shook her head. "I don't expect him to be kind and innocent like a Disney character! It would be better if he could learn patience and endurance! At first I thought he was the reincarnation of the Fourth Prince from history, but I didn't expect him to be so impatient. He's probably not."

The system did not quite agree with Malu's judgment. First of all, it was still unclear whether it was rebirth or not. Secondly, if Yongzheng had been the emperor for more than ten years and suddenly turned into a baby, then he had been having his way for too long and it was normal for him to lose patience.

But she didn't say anything, because Malu had a more terrifying guess: "He doesn't want to kill or destroy Xiaoqi or the next Fourteenth?"