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No one would have thought that the Empress Hu would take the initiative to come here.

After all, ever since what had happened that year, she had always been unhappy with Emperor Ruikang. Even if he vomited blood in anger during the New Year's Eve banquet, she still did not wish to see him.

But now, she actually came?

Ye Jingxing sized Empress Hu up. Seeing her dressed in plain clothes, he hurriedly stood up and bowed to her. Unexpectedly, Empress Hu waved her hand and said: ”There's no need to be so courteous.”

After saying that to Ye Jingxing, the Empress Hu looked directly at him and said, ”This matter was done by the Madame Liu.”

Once Empress Hu finished, Prince Duan and Ye Jingxing immediately understood.

However, the two of them were puzzled, they did not understand why the Empress Hu would take the initiative to investigate.

Empress Hu did not care about the two's expressions, she directly told them the evidence she had found. After she finished speaking, she looked at Prince Duan and said: ”I have already ordered people to guard this place, how is it? After saying that, the Empress Hu paused for a moment before continuing, ”But no matter what, I have to ensure that Fifth Brother can successfully ascend the throne.”

After throwing down those words, the Empress Hu didn't even spare a glance at the dead Emperor Ruikang, and directly turned around and left.

When the figure of the Empress Hu disappeared, Ye Jingxing then looked at him and said, ”Uncle Wang, what mother said just now...”

”I will check for myself.” The Prince Duan did not feel at ease leaving this matter to others. The one who was harmed was his own brother, the one who had protected him for so many years.

It was fine if he didn't have a clue before, but now that he had a clue, he would definitely look into it.

Even if this clue was given to him by someone else, he would carefully investigate and distinguish if it was real or fake.

Hearing the meaning behind Prince Duan's words, Ye Jingxing remained silent and did not speak.

Right now, he was thinking about what Empress Hu had said before she left. He understood that she had sincerely wanted him to succeed the throne.

Thinking to this point, Ye Jingxing sighed in his heart, and suddenly felt that his decision from the beginning was truly too correct.

With the passing of the monarch, the funeral was naturally not a simple matter at all.

Although the Emperor Ruikang was killed by someone, but this matter was not spread out. After all, the body of the Emperor Ruikang was always in a bad state, and now that he suddenly went, although the court officials were suspicious, the Prince Duan, Empress Hu and Ye Jingxing still appeared at the same time.

After all, they had already chosen the successor before the death of the Emperor Ruikang.

The date for the inauguration of the throne was originally set at the beginning of February. Although the Emperor Ruikang had directly collapsed, the matter of the new emperor ascending the throne was still progressing smoothly.

It should have been a joyous occasion, but because of the sudden death of the Emperor Ruikang, the inauguration ceremony for the new Emperor did not look that joyful.

As for Ye Jingxing, who had already donned the dragon robe and ascended the throne, he was extremely agitated.

He was not upset because there were too many political affairs. During this period of time, even if there were any problems, as long as they were not too anxious, the court officials would suppress their anger and would not report them.

Therefore, the fact that Ye Jingxing was in a bad mood basically had nothing to do with political matters.

”Uncle Wang, about this matter, you don't need to ask.”

The new emperor was still very respectful to the Prince Duan, but he never thought that Uncle Wang would suddenly find out about Yan Ye's situation in the next two days.

When Prince Duan saw Ye Jingxing's expression, he knew that what he had received from the letter was the truth.

Ye Jingzhi's eldest son was still alive.

Prince Duan really wanted to ask Ye Jingxing what exactly was going on, did he forget how good the crown prince was to him back then.

Since he clearly knew that his brother's son was still alive, why didn't he say it out loud? Why did he hide it from his brother?

His brother had clearly asked him about this before, but he was actually playing dumb at that time?

Prince Duan really wanted to ask, but he couldn't.

He didn't even know how he managed to make it to the palace after receiving this letter.

This was because he understood that although the nephew in front of him was of the younger generation, he was still the new Emperor.

He could rely on his status as Uncle Wang to interrogate him twice, but what about after that?

Even as a Prince Duan, he had no choice but to consider the future generations of his family.

His Majesty was his own older brother before. The two were blood related, but in two or three more generations, their own descendants and older brothers would only be normal blood brothers.

Ye Jingxing could tell that the Prince Duan wanted to speak, but on this matter, he really couldn't say anything.

Just as the awkward atmosphere between Ye Jingxing and Prince Duan was spreading, a report came in from outside the door.

”Your Majesty, Esteemed Empress Dowager came.”

The people who could be called the empress dowager in the palace were the former Empress Hu and Ye Jingxing's mother, the former Consort De.