Chapter 1411: Prince Li's Extra: Detour

In fact, he and Murong Kai had already guessed the Xu family's thoughts. Concubine Xu was favored and gave birth to a prince. Xuan'er might die for some reason, and then Concubine Xu's father used the prince's grandfather's status to hold the emperor hostage to control the princes. At that time, Bei'an would naturally fall into their hands.

In order to make Concubine Xu favored, they set up a plan to let the queen die of poisoning. After the queen's death, they also repeatedly advised him to give the child to Concubine Xu to raise. In this way, the child and Concubine Xu would have feelings for each other and would be no different from the Xu family's own grandson. When the emperor passed away, Bei'an would be their grandfather's world.

But they didn't expect that the emperor would order the child to be raised in the Qingque Palace. Later, Princess Jiaoyang came back, and Xuan'er was raised in Princess Jiaoyang's Canyang Palace. During this period, there were many memorials in the court, saying that it was not decent for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to be raised in the princess's palace.

However, he kept all these memorials in his possession and did not send them out. His attitude made some court officials anxious. If they said it in the court, they would be stopped by his words that the prince and the princess had a deep sister-brother relationship.

However, he blocked their requests in the court, but he could not stop the tricks in the harem.

What he was afraid of now was not that Concubine Xu would take Xuan'er away. He always felt that the purpose of separating Xuan'er and Shiman was not to divide and rule, but to take Xuan'er's life.

If Bei'an lost the prince, then he, as the emperor, had the responsibility to reproduce the next generation. Although there were not many concubines in the palace, except for Concubine Zhu, any of them had a strong background.

Whenever Su Jing thought of this and the scenes imagined by the monarch and the ministers in the court, he felt a chill in his spine.

What made him even more heartbroken was that his vigilance was exchanged for the life of his queen, his most beloved woman.

He could not let her lose her life in vain, nor could he let their conspiracy succeed.

After the queen got into trouble, he didn't dare to trust anyone except the family of the Duke of Zhenguo, but the Duke of Zhenguo was still his trump card, so he could only put it aside and wait in the prison until he could turn the tide of the battle.

He didn't have many people available, but fortunately, Murong Kai fell into the trap.

He rejected Murong Kai in his heart, because he would eventually take away his daughter and occupy most of her life. He was very reluctant in his heart, and he looked at Murong Kai with all kinds of dislike, but he knew more clearly that this man loved his daughter deeply and was trustworthy.

So, he let him go and let him do some things, because his identity was suitable and he was trustworthy.

Murong Kai naturally knew the trust of Su Jing behind this matter, so he agreed even though he was reluctant to let Ah Man go.

After he left, Su Jing and Ah Man had their own battlefields, without any communication. How to share the same hatred and how to protect the people they cared about and cherished became the proposition that they had to face as father and daughter.

Su Jing was determined about the future. He wanted to protect his two children, but he was at a loss as to how to do it, because he didn't know how the enemy would attack. The only thing he knew was that they would not show mercy.

They dared to kill even the queen, so how could they show mercy?

While Murong Kai was thinking, the gentle voice of Concubine Xu came from outside the imperial study. She greeted the guards and said that she wanted to see Su Jing, but the guards refused.

Except for the queen, no concubine was qualified to enter the imperial study, but Concubine Xu was waiting outside today for him to make an exception for her, because he had comforted her today and said that if she had any requests, she could just speak up.

She didn't speak, and chose this roundabout way.

Her voice had become louder, obviously wanting him to hear it.

But at this moment, Su Jing wanted to pretend to be deaf. He didn't want her to get her wish, so he sat quietly in the imperial study, listening to the crying and sobbing outside getting louder and louder.