The medical concubine arrives: Prince, don't be arrogant

381 Theft
"Recruiting thieves... But what is missing in the palace?"

"This old slave doesn't know. If the princess wants to know more, she can only ask the prince."

King Jing blocked the news early in the morning to prevent these talkative servants from talking around.

Therefore, Steward Qian did not dare to criticize himself.

Walking into the front hall, the atmosphere inside was quite normal. As soon as they heard the news of Wang Yuetong's return to the mansion, the maids began to prepare meals.

King Jing sat at the table as usual, with the same expression on his face, as if no thieves had ever trespassed on the palace.

"My lord, today..."

"Princess, try this assorted cod first. This is a new dish. If it suits your taste, I will ask the dining room to make it for you in the future."

Before Wang Yuetong sat still, he began to ask about today's affairs.

However, King Jing was not in a hurry to talk about it at the dinner table, and only let her taste the new dishes first.

"This cod is very fresh, the people in the dining room are really caring."

Seeing that Wang Yuetong was eating happily, he was very happy to respect Wang Yuetong, and immediately called the people from the dining room to come forward to receive the reward.

"It's not that the people in our dining room have the heart, it's the prince who has the heart. The prince saw that the princess likes to eat some fresh seafood, so he thought about asking us to make a new dish to change the taste for the princess!"

The mother-in-law of the dining room came forward to receive the reward with a smile, and did not forget to express her respect for the king.

"My lord has a heart... This cod is so delicious and juicy that it melts in your mouth, my lord should try it too."

The capital does not produce cod, and it is really hard work for this cod to maintain such a delicious taste after traveling through mountains and rivers.

And after this hard-won new dish was ready, she was asked to taste it for the first time. King Jing himself hadn't tasted it yet, so he was about to reward the people in the dining room heavily.

After tasting the cod brought by Wang Yuetong, King Jing also nodded in praise, but he was not as surprised as Wang Yuetong.

"This cod is really good."

Seeing his bland reaction, Wang Yuetong felt that Wang Jingxu didn't like fish.

Eating and eating, he almost forgot the business.

"By the way, my lord, I heard from Steward Qian that something happened to the palace today?"

"There are some things, but now it's all taken care of, the princess doesn't have to worry so much."

After speaking, King Jing directly asked someone to take down the new dish and put it in front of Wang Yuetong.

"Since the princess likes to eat, let's eat more."

King Jing's accommodating appearance reminded her of that night.

At that time, she also wanted to put all the things he praised in front of him.

"These side dishes are also good, Wangfei, let's try them one by one."

King Jing is very enthusiastic today and has been encouraging her to eat more.

Until she was full, she didn't see how much King Jing ate.

"My lord only cares about recommending it to me, but I haven't eaten much myself. I'm not that three-year-old kid, so why should my lord take such care of me?"

There was not much blame in Wang Yuetong's words, it seemed to be blaming him for caring too much about her feelings, but ignoring himself.

"Looking at you eating so heartily, it seems that I also ate these with you."

Hearing this, Wang Yuetong slapped her hands.

This is the second time he has used the word 'smooth' to describe her.

Wang Yuetong maintains good manners on weekdays, and can deal with everything calmly no matter what happens.

But when it comes to food alone, I can't hold back.

Seeing her eating slowed down a bit, King Jing thought she was full.

"Eight percent full for dinner, be careful not to sleep well at night due to food accumulation. Come here, bring some hawthorn cakes for the princess to digest."

After eating and drinking enough, Wang Yuetong realized that King Jing still didn't explain what happened in the mansion today.

"My lord..."

"The token was stolen."

As if he knew what she was going to ask, before she could finish speaking, King Jing answered directly.

"Yes, the one in the study?"

"Ah."

Hearing the exact answer, Wang Yuetong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't you want to know who did it?"

Wang Yuetong was about to lower his head to take another bite, but he heard King Jing approached and said softly.

"Not the emperor?"

"No, it's Mr. Xiang."

Now, Wang Yuetong didn't have the heart to eat any more, so he put down his chopsticks.

"The emperor wanted Xiangye to steal that thing, but he thought that if the matter was revealed, it would just happen to be planted on his head?"

Wang Yuetong intuitively felt that the matter was not that simple.

"The concubine is still as smart as ever. Yes, the emperor has exactly this thought. Originally, everyone in the world knows that Xiangye is the most respectable person in front of the emperor."

"However, now the Prime Minister has fallen out of favor, and he can't even show up in the morning court. He has already been replaced by the King of Thailand. It's no secret anymore."

Therefore, it is not uncommon for Xiangye to deliberately murder King Jing and plant it on the emperor's head.

"But now he asks Master Xiang to take back that token, why?"

From a common sense, this doesn't quite make sense.

"After Xiangye stole the token, he immediately handed it over to the emperor. But he didn't know that the emperor had never seen it, so he asked someone to hide it in the Thai palace."

Hearing this, Wang Yuetong was shocked. It turned out that there was such a follow-up to this matter.

"The prime minister wanted to provoke the relationship between the emperor and Prince Jing's mansion, so he sent assassins to break into the mansion, and then stole the emperor's token and put it in Prince Jing's mansion, so as to keep people talking."

"Later, the Emperor and King Jing had a quarrel, and stole the token again, and put it in the Thai King's mansion, and planted the whole matter on the Thai King, in order to provoke the relationship between the Emperor and the Thai King again..."

Wang Yuetong quickly sorted out the intricate details.

This matter is really frightening.

The emperor not only cleared himself of his crimes, but also stole the token from Prince Jing's mansion, and it was done by Xiang Ye, which has nothing to do with him.

I'm afraid Xiangye still doesn't know that he has been calculated by the emperor.

"How did the prince know this?"

There are too many people involved in this, and it is extremely difficult to find out the matter so clearly.

"I have always sent people to watch over the Prime Minister's mansion. Two days ago, the Prime Minister sneaked into the palace to face the saint. Since then, I have noticed him."

"I guess that Xiangye's entry into the palace must have something to do with our respect for the palace, so I have been creating opportunities for him to sneak into the palace and steal the token during those two days."

Hearing this, Wang Yuetong suddenly realized.

It turned out that King Jing came back late a few days ago to create opportunities for the Prime Minister.

However, such a cautious plan was broken by her poor appetite that night.

Thinking of this, Wang Yuetong couldn't help feeling warm in his heart.

In the final analysis, King Jing had her in his heart, but he was not good at expressing it.

(End of this chapter)