The blacksmith lady is killing people in the harem, and her son is responsible for it.

As the crown prince, Zhao Zhen naturally kept an eye on the important officials in the court and the various aristocratic families, and paid more attention to who these forces would ultimately choose to side with.

He did not use marriage to win over court officials, but that does not mean he did not care.

At the beginning, if I hadn’t discovered that the cousins I grew up with all had hypocritical faces.

Make him feel that no woman in this world is reliable, and at the same time understand who he truly loves and cares about in his heart?

He might also obey his father's arrangement and agree to form an alliance with those ministers who wanted to send their daughters to the palace to consolidate the regime of Dayan.

If that were the case, the women in his backyard might not be just the four from the Han family.

After what happened with his cousin, he no longer trusted women easily, and he hated the kind that came to him on their own initiative. At the same time, he became more cautious.

Whether it was her cousin or the four women in the backyard, Zhao Zhen hated them all.

These women didn't really love him, they were just attracted by the power behind him.

After losing her virginity, the cousin continued to be gentle and considerate to him and drugged him in an attempt to get away with it and cover up the fact of her loss of virginity.

When he was most annoyed and most disappointed with women.

But the four people in the backyard were not honest either.

The girl from the Han family tried to use dirty tricks again, trying to give him aphrodisiacs in an attempt to get her pregnant, otherwise he would not have let the guards sleep with her. However, this also fulfilled the girl from the Han family's wish.

The girl of the Su family already had a cousin whom she loved, and the two had been secretly together for a long time. Unexpectedly, when she found out that she could marry into the royal family, she turned around and agreed, abandoning her lover and cousin.

Censor Su is a really resourceful man. He kept the secret completely hidden at the beginning.

The girl from the Li family is fussy and stupid. She has already taken refuge with her uncle's family. How could he trust such a person?

As for the last girl from the Zhu family, she follows the girl from the Su family like a follower all day long and she also has no opinion of her own.

None of these people could compare to his Wanwan. She was his legal wife and gave birth to a son who looked exactly like him.

Zhao Zhen admitted that the reason he loved Qin Wan was because of her tenacity, which deeply attracted him.

She is a genuine person and a trustworthy person to whom the younger generation can be entrusted.

This person is still his wife! The one he wants to be with for the rest of his life.

Although she hasn't completely fallen in love with him yet, he believes that one day he will win her heart.

He is not in a hurry and can take his time.

Zhao Zhen's thoughts wandered and she didn't answer Qin Wan for a while, which surprised her.

Seeing that Zhao Zhen was just looking at her, Qin Wan stretched out her hand and waved it in front of his eyes. "What's the matter? Why do you feel so surprised by what I just said? Or is there something wrong with the Xia family?"

Zhao Zhen reached out, held Qin Wan's hand, and shook her head, "No, it has nothing to do with the Xia family."

"Then what's wrong with you? You look so dull, it's not like you at all!"

Qin Wan asked as she let Zhao Zhen hug her.

The two of them hugged each other like this, Zhao Zhen stood on the ground and Qin Wan sat on the desk, the atmosphere was very ambiguous.

"Zhao Zhen, you are really weird? Are you possessed?"

Zhao Zhen was feeling sentimental at the time, but unexpectedly Qin Wan always said something to spoil the mood.

Seeing that Qin Wan kept talking non-stop, Zhao Zhen lowered her head and moved closer.

Qin Wan: “….”

Qin Wan finally shut up!

As time went on, my head became more and more dizzy.

Zhao Zhen found it funny, let go of Qin Wan, and reminded her in a low voice: "Breathe!"

Qin Wan: “…”

Qin Wan was embarrassed. She clenched her fist and gently hit Zhao Zhen's chest.

Zhao Zhen's eyes were deep and he put his arms around Qin Wan.

When Qin Wan realized what Zhao Zhen wanted to do, she whispered, "This is the study!"

"I know!"

Qin Wan never had a chance to speak again after that.

After a long time, Zhao Zhen carried Qin Wan out of the study.

Qin Wan lowered her head. She felt that she would not be able to face her little study room properly in the future.

That table!

That chair!

The memories here...

Ouch, so embarrassing!

The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace are very sweet and their relationship is heating up quickly, but today the court officials were tricked and none of them are very calm.

After they returned home and asked their wives about the specific fundraising details for the Yonghe Palace, those ministers who had other plans in mind could no longer sit still.

They began to look for allies and discuss countermeasures.

The ministers who had no allies, instead considered themselves unlucky and regarded the money as money spent to avoid disaster.

Some ministers were secretly happy, especially those of low official positions. After all, it was extremely rare to have their names seen by the emperor.

At least no one would be idle, so all the officials in the capital were listed on a piece of paper for Your Majesty to preview.

Now that they are on the list, they have a chance to be noticed by His Majesty and may be promoted in the future.

It must be said that these ministers, who hold low positions and have no party affiliation, really speak the truth.

They were really valued by the emperor and the prince, but that’s a story for later.

The Earl's Palace of Yongchang.

In the main courtyard, the heads of the three branches of the Xia family gathered together.

Xia Yuan glanced at his old wife and said, "Tell me, what does Crown Princess mean?"

Xia Tongzhang looked at his mother and asked anxiously, "Yes, mother, did the Crown Princess agree?"

Old Madam Xia nodded, "Yes, the Crown Princess promised to meet Shuhua after she came to Beijing."

Thinking of Qin Wan's suspicion of the Xia family, Old Lady Xia added, "However, the Crown Princess did not seem to trust my words and emphasized that Shuyi should be present on the day of the meeting, as if she was afraid that we would let Shuyi impersonate her mother."

After saying this, Old Madam Xia laughed, "The Crown Princess is a very suspicious child."

Xia Tongzhang was not very happy, "Mom, does the Crown Princess still suspect that our Xia family has ulterior motives?"

Old Master Xia glared at his slightly irritable third son and said, "Third son, shut up. This is just a coincidence. It's normal for the Crown Princess to be suspicious."

Madam Xia said, “Tong Zhang, our family was able to find your sister thanks to the Crown Princess.

If we hadn't checked her, our family wouldn't have thought of looking in the north, and we wouldn't have discovered that your younger sister was abducted to the north and adopted by a family surnamed Li.

If Shuhua hadn't been injured in the war eleven years ago and hadn't recovered her memory yet, we wouldn't have to take the initiative to find the Crown Princess to identify her."

The servants sent by the Xia family were already very sure that the person they found was the Xia family's lost daughter.

But Old Madam Xia still wanted Qin Wan to identify it again, and she also wanted to reunite the mother and daughter.

"Mother, but my younger sister is getting married again. Will the Crown Princess be able to accept this after she knows about it?"

As soon as Xia Tongzhang said this, everyone in the room fell silent.

Elder Xia pondered for a moment before saying, "Our Xia family has no demands on the Crown Princess. We just want to know the truth. Your little sister has been missing for so many years and has been suffering outside. If the Crown Princess doesn't recognize her, our family will just treat her well."

Xia Yuan made the final decision and no one else had any objection.