My elder sister is so noble, this time it's my turn to strike back

"Of course, I am blessed by heaven, otherwise I wouldn't have met Your Majesty and won your favor!"

Wan Rongyue's words were a double entendre, both confirming the emperor's words and praising his good taste. This made the emperor feel happy.

"By the way, you just said that Xiaoliu also had Qiu Ning's help in this competition. What's going on?"

The emperor seemed to suddenly think of something and asked.

At this time, Qiu Ning carefully took out a booklet from his sleeve and handed it respectfully to the emperor.

Perhaps because it has been kept for a long time, the cover of the booklet has become a little yellowed and curled.

"I dare not deceive Your Majesty. The Sixth Prince's poems, including his couplets, are actually all from this book."

The emperor was stunned at first, then felt relieved.

He said, how could the Sixth Prince, a child of only six years old, have such incredible ability? It turned out that he had prepared a "magic weapon" in advance.

The emperor took the booklet and flipped through it casually. There were probably hundreds of ancient poems in it, each of which was a quatrain.

The back of the book records the math problems that appeared at the banquet, and also explains the steps to solve them.

"The poems in this booklet should have been collected together. They don't seem to be written by the same person. Where did you get them from?" asked the emperor.

"I dare not lie to your Majesty. This booklet was actually written by my aunt. I stumbled upon it in the mansion's library when I was a child. I found the contents very useful, so I decided to keep it. It's also a way to remember my aunt."

When the emperor heard Qiu Ning mention her aunt, he suddenly remembered the talented woman Qiu Wuyan, who was once famous throughout the capital and even the previous emperor wrote a poem to praise her.

"Are you talking about Qiu Wuyan, the daughter of the Qiu family who was famous in the capital back then?"

Qiu Ning nodded, seemingly lost in a soft memory. "Indeed, I later heard from my father that this was my aunt's handwritten letter before her death. It's extremely precious. Now, I'm using my aunt's posthumous work to help the Sixth Prince enhance the country's prestige. It can be said that it has been put to good use."

Qiu Ning's aunt Qiu Wuyan was once recognized as the most beautiful woman in the entire Daxia. She was extremely talented and intelligent, and showed amazing talent since she was a child.

The late emperor had intended to marry Qiu Wuyan into the harem, but a terrible plague suddenly broke out in Daxia that year, and Qiu Wuyan did not survive the plague. In the end, she died young and gradually disappeared from the public eye.

However, some of her poems and articles were well preserved and widely circulated.

Although Emperor Shengjing had never seen Qiu Wuyan because he was still young at that time, he had heard of Qiu Wuyan's fame and talent, as well as her natural beauty. Even his mother (now the empress dowager) was wary of this girl and said bluntly that if she entered the harem, everyone else would probably become a decoration.

Fortunately, she died later, and the late emperor selected new concubines to expand his harem a few years later. Only then did the world gradually forget about this woman.

"The dead are gone, so you should be more open-minded. This booklet is of little use to me. Since it's your aunt's legacy, please keep it carefully."

Qiu Ning took the booklet, thanked him respectfully, and silently recited something in his heart.

I'm sorry, aunt, in this situation, I can only take the blame from you temporarily.

These poems were actually written by Qiu Ning based on her memories of her previous life, from poems written by Liu Qingqing. Because she knew that in her previous life, Liu Qingqing relied on her talent to firmly establish herself in the harem and was arrogant and domineering.

In this life, she guessed that Liu Qingqing would use the same method, occasionally composing a few poems to keep the Guo family hooked, and under the pretext of helping the prince, she wanted to cheat and let the prince shine at the banquet.

I'm just sorry that Qiu Ning got there first this time.

In order to prevent the prince and others from reporting to the emperor later, Qiu Ning had to forge this seemingly old poetry book and get it in front of the emperor first.

In this way, even if the prince and the queen wanted to sue Qiu Ning for plagiarism later, Qiu Ning would have already taken the lead.

She was sure that the Guo family would not take the initiative to reveal that these poems were written by a prostitute, and that Guo Yian had secretly changed the identity of this woman, who was now living in the residence of Mr. Zhou, a fifth-rank official in the Ministry of Rites.

Sure enough, not long after the emperor returned to the Qinzheng Palace, he heard that the queen and the prince had come to visit, saying that they had something important to report to him.

After reviewing the last memorial in his hand, he ordered someone to take the prince to the next side hall.

"I see you, Your Majesty."

"My son, I will meet my father."

"Get up. I heard you have something important to report to me. What is it that's so urgent?"

After the emperor ordered the mother and son to stand up, he asked the first question.

The queen glanced at the prince and nodded slightly at him as encouragement.

The Crown Prince took a deep breath, stepped forward, and reported in a firm voice, "Your Majesty, I have something to tell you, and it concerns my sixth brother."

The emperor had a bad feeling when he heard this. He frowned and asked, "Oh? What is it?"

"Father, I want to expose my sixth brother. He plagiarized my poems and essays."

As soon as the prince finished speaking, he knelt straight on the ground, holding a booklet in his hands and raising it high above his head.

The emperor motioned Su Qinian to come forward and take the booklet from the prince's hand.

At this time, the Crown Prince was heard saying, "Your Majesty, you may not know that the poem 'Ode to the Goose' that your sixth brother composed at the banquet, as well as the couplet that followed it, were actually all the works that I have been thinking about day and night these past few days. I don't know when your sixth brother stole it and recited it in public at the banquet.

"I cannot bear to see my father being deceived and kept in the dark by my sixth brother. After much struggle, I feel the need to tell him the truth. My sixth brother stole the work of others and stole the spotlight at the banquet. If the people of Chu were to learn of this, it would cause a huge upheaval. I implore my father to investigate this matter thoroughly."

The emperor opened the booklet in his hand and saw that the content was exactly the same as what he had just seen in the Pepper Room.

However, the book in Qiu Ning's hand obviously has more poems and math problems at the back, and the book is also thicker. Not to mention that Qiu Ning's book is obviously opened all year round, and the paper and pages are obviously the kind that have been carefully preserved for many years.

The one in front of me looked like it was copied not long ago, and the paper was still new.

It is clear at a glance who is the original author and who is the plagiarist.

At this moment, Emperor Shengjing couldn't tell what he was feeling.

He originally thought that the prince wanted to report to him about important matters that would benefit the country and the people. He even wanted to treat everyone equally. He had just praised the Sixth Prince at the banquet, so he should also give the prince a chance to perform and make achievements.

Unexpectedly, the prince gave him such a big 'surprise' right from the start.

He even exposed his own brother, saying that he had 'plagiarized' his poems, articles and titles.