The Virtuous Concubine

The doors and windows of the study in Prince Yong's mansion were wide open, and the warm sunlight poured in unreservedly. The room was filled with a warm atmosphere, bright and quiet.

However, on such a fine day, the entire main courtyard seemed to be shrouded in a layer of dead silence, and you could hear a pin drop.

The Fourth Prince stood beside the desk, tightly holding a brush and writing and drawing on it.

Looking closely, they were the words "be patient and avoid haste". He kept writing these words over and over again, as if he was trapped in some obsession that he could not extricate himself from.

Su Peisheng stood aside with his hands hanging down, not daring to make a sound, his whole body tense.

Instead, it was the Fourth Prince who broke the suffocating silence first. Without even raising his head, he asked, "How is the palace going?"

Su Peisheng quickly bent down slightly, lowered his voice very low, and said softly:

"To answer the Fourth Master, there is a lot of commotion in the Palace of Heavenly Purity, and the situation seems to be quite serious. There are rumors everywhere in the palace, but the Emperor has sent heavy troops to guard it, and no one knows exactly what happened. The Queen entered the Palace of Heavenly Purity first, and then the two imperial doctors hurried in, and then the Crown Prince also rushed over. Princess Wenxian and the Seventh Prince wanted to enter together, but were stopped outside. Then Princess Wenxian went back to guard Concubine Ulanara and the Fourth Prince... Guaerjia."

At this point, Su Peisheng paused for a moment, secretly looked up at the Fourth Prince's face, and seeing that he was normal, he continued, "I think the princess is also worried about the safety of the queen in the palace, but the situation in the palace is unclear, and as a girl, there is only so much she can do."

The Fourth Prince's face was still calm and expressionless: "She is smart. She knows that I will not let them go."

As he spoke, he took out a piece of written paper: "However, after so much experience, she is still so stubborn. I thought that at this point, she would finally give in and send someone to find me."

As he spoke, the Fourth Prince slowly changed for a new piece of rice paper. The ink was slightly condensed on the tip of the pen, as if it was about to drip.

Because the Fourth Prince was slow to put pen to paper, the wolf hair brush dipped in ink finally dripped a drop of ink onto the paper, which instantly spread across the white paper.

This piece of fine rice paper was wasted just like that.

He frowned and didn't change it. Instead, he gently put down the pen in his hand, turned his head, and whispered to Su Peisheng calmly: "In another hour, Guaerjia and Ulanara will die. After all, they are siblings. You should let someone know and tell her to stay out of this mess. Don't let yourself get involved because of a momentary impulse. It's better to save some energy and think about how to save my mother."

Su Peisheng's face suddenly turned pale: "After the princess returned, she controlled all the palace servants. I'm afraid it will be difficult to contact them for a while."

The Fourth Prince shook his head: "Forget it, if that's the case, then let them be. This shows that she and Yinzuo don't appreciate my kindness as a brother and are unwilling to accept my kindness."

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and a cold light flashed in his eyes. "Go and inform Longkodo to get rid of Fei Yanggu immediately, and then quickly dispatch people to surround the entire imperial city. Not a single bird can fly out."

After the emperor woke up, he directly controlled Fei Yanggu's men, and then replaced the actual Nine Gates Admiral with Longkodo, who was from the Tong family.

The Crown Prince's betrayal made the Emperor's already suspicious heart even more vigilant, which was exactly what the Fourth Prince wanted.

So Kangxi was now only willing to trust people from his mother's family, but what Kangxi didn't know was that he had already reached a consensus with Longkodo - the merit of following the dragon, plus marrying Wen Xian into the Tong family, and choosing another girl from the Tong family as his successor, the future empress of the Qing Dynasty.

These are undoubtedly much more cost-effective than helping the emperor, who is from the Tong family and is now in his twilight years, to support a prince from the Hesheli family to ascend the throne.

Therefore, the Fourth Prince knew clearly in his heart that what he had to do now was to wait patiently.

The emperor's health was like a candle in the wind, relying on his last breath to support himself. Once the emperor had dealt with the prince, his last bit of energy would surely dissipate.

With Liang Jiugong serving by his side, no matter what decision the emperor ultimately makes or what decree he issues, that crucial imperial edict will definitely be written according to the ideas he has planned in advance.

Although the development trajectory of all this may be the same as in the previous life, so what?

Su Peisheng actually still felt a little reluctant.

Putting aside other things, the Queen has nothing to say about her own Fourth Prince. And there is also Lady Guaerjia's child... After all, he is the Master's first child. Is she just going to give him up like that?

Little did he know that at this time, the Fourth Prince hated everyone related to the Crown Prince and wanted to kill them all, let alone Guaerjia, the Crown Princess in his previous life.

Of course, he knew that Guarjia was only pretending to obey him, but what was the harm? This situation made everyone trust her more, and his plan could be implemented more conveniently.

Guaerjia always thought that Qingfeng was the spy he had planted by his side, so she spent all her energy on keeping a close eye on Qingfeng's every move. Little did she know that the maidservant closest to her had already become the Fourth Prince's woman.

By having Guaerjia's family poison the prince's first child, and then killing his own relatives for the sake of justice, he could naturally make room for the girl from the Tong family. The emperor was disappointed with the prince and issued an edict to depose him. Besides himself, who else among the princes could take on this important task?

The Fourth Prince's gaze slowly shifted to the cannons and muskets placed aside and he smiled with satisfaction.

In his previous life, the prince had been on the throne for forty years, but due to countless faults and mistakes, the emperor’s patience was gradually worn out and he became extremely disappointed.

However, my mother, with her beauty alone, turned the situation around in less than three years. It would be even better if the prince could die directly at the hands of the emperor. The fourth prince shook his head gently, and the smile on his face showed both the emotion of his past life experiences and the pride of the current situation.

A son should not blame his mother for her mistakes. To a certain extent, everything the mother did was for the future and status of them and her son.

When all this is over, he will still respect her as the Queen Mother.

But what about Prince Limi? Absolutely impossible!