Women dressed as men: powerful officials

Chapter 230 Forged Fu Rui

"What can I doubt?" Xu Yuan avoided Bei Yao's gaze.

Bei Yao smiled, took a step back, and slowly said, "Of course I suspect that the Third Prince is me."

Hearing this, Xuyuan asked, "So you are?"

Beiyao didn't say anything, just nodded.

Xuyuan didn't say anything.

Beiyao didn't know what to say.

He had thought many times about what it would be like to confess.

Xuyuan would ask him why he had been deceiving her all along?

Or slam the door and leave angrily.

But Xuyuan did nothing, just watched quietly, making it impossible for him to guess what he was thinking.

Maybe, making a wish doesn’t matter that much.

Don't care about what he hides, and don't care who he is.

After a long while, Bei Yao laughed and broke the silence, "I'm not surprised by your reaction. I think you should have guessed it a long time ago."

Without waiting for Xu Yuan to speak, Bei Yao turned around, walked to the table and said, "I lied to you about this matter. You may hate me or dislike me, but my promise to you will never change. You came to the Cheng Palace for the banquet today. You can say that I forced you to come. Just sever your relationship with me."

Hearing Bei Yao's words, Xu Yuan suddenly smiled.

She watched Beiyao sit down at the table, walked over and said, "The time on the invitation is Chenshi. I came to Chengwang Mansion in a hurry and didn't even have breakfast. If the Third Prince wants to see the guests off, he should let them eat a full meal before leaving, right?"

Seeing Xu Yuan sitting opposite him, he had a thousand words on his lips, but he didn't know how to start, so he could only turn his head away and said angrily and smilingly: "The Chengwang Mansion can't do without you."

"Too."

Xu Yuan prepared the dishes and chopsticks, and said, "I didn't say anything just now because I was thinking about how to say this. Now that I have thought it through, I should tell you solemnly, so that you don't think that I want to cut off my relationship with you."

"When I first saw you in the desert, I was wondering who you were. I was also wondering if you were the Third Prince Beiyao who later became the Crown Prince. But the princes were not allowed to leave the capital without an imperial decree, so I didn't know who you were either."

"When I first arrived in the capital, I asked the soldiers guarding the city, and they said that the Third Prince had always been in the capital and had never left. Therefore, I dispelled this doubt. So, the answer to your first question is that I have suspected you since the first time we met."

Beiyao was not surprised by this answer.

Xu Yuan has always been very smart, as he was able to recognize Song Ju and Xie Xiaocheng.

"Then how can you be sure that I am the Third Prince?"

"Feelings, but feelings cannot be used as evidence. Therefore, I specially made a small portrait of you, thinking that there must be someone in the capital who knows you, and I will be able to know whether you are the second son of the Shen family."

"So, Master Qin said that you painted a picture in private and were going to the Shen family's banquet, just to find someone to inquire about me?"

"That's right." Xu Yuan nodded, "But when I actually went to the Shen family, I felt that I was a little ridiculous."

"Why?"

"Because, if you were the Third Prince, I would not stay away from you just because of your identity. If you were not the Third Prince, I would not stay away from you just because you have no power or influence. To me, it doesn't matter who you are, what your identity is, or what your status is."

After hearing Xu Yuan's words, Bei Yao asked, "What is important in your heart?"

"Loyalty, the friendship from Sishui County to the capital."

Some words had already been said, so Xu Yuan didn't want to hide them any more. She said bluntly: "You and Shen Yichuan are both my friends. Along the way, you have helped me a lot, so much that I can never repay you in this lifetime. But I also tried my best to help you. I owed you two favors before, one of which I have already paid back, and the other one was also fulfilled today. In the future..."

"do not talk."

After hearing the latter part, Bei Yao couldn't help but interrupt Xu Yuan's words.

He knows too well the smile of making a wish.

The kind of smile that makes you want to cut off ties with him immediately.

When he saw it, he felt a wave of heartache.

Xuyuan smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Today is the opening banquet of Prince Cheng's Mansion. Shouldn't you wait for me to speak first?" Bei Yao asked back.

Xu Yuan thought, since it was the last time anyway, she said, "Okay, you go first."

"Warm wine will warm you up." Bei Yao poured a glass of wine for Xu Yuan and another for himself, then said, "No one has heard my story in all these years. I will tell you today."

"You speak and I listen."

It’s still early, so there’s no rush to make a wish.

He picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine. The spicy and refreshing taste spread in his mouth, and he immediately put down the glass after making a wish.

There are important things to do today, so we can't delay them.

Seeing Xuyuan's little action, Beiyao smiled and said, "Fruit wine, it won't make you dizzy, it's okay to drink too much, it won't affect your business today."

Xu Yuan nodded and didn't dare to continue drinking.

Bei Yao drank the whole thing in one gulp and said calmly, "My father and the late emperor are brothers. The late emperor's mother died young, and when the late emperor was still a young child, he was adopted by the royal grandmother, and was considered the royal grandmother's biological son. Because of this, there was a big rift between the two brothers."

"The court argued for years over whether to establish the eldest son as the heir or not. In the end, the late emperor ascended the throne because he married the eldest daughter of the Xu family."

When Xu Yuan heard the name of the eldest daughter of the Xu family, his smile froze.

Bei Yao continued, "My father later found out that my grandmother wanted the late emperor to ascend the throne, so she arranged a marriage for him. In order to make my father lose his competitiveness, she chose a pretty good woman from the E clan as his concubine, and from then on he became an idle prince in the capital."

"This matter was originally concealed perfectly, but the late emperor was seriously injured and died when he led the army to fight. My grandmother left the palace late at night and asked my father to go to the palace to take charge of the situation and stabilize the court. My father refused, and the two of them quarreled in the study room. My mother heard it, and at that time, I was not yet born."

"For the sake of the people of Tianqi, my father put on his armor and went to the battlefield to stabilize the morale of the troops, while my mother and my grandmother guarded the court together, not daring to relax for a moment. On the day I was born, there was a great victory in the north, and my father returned to the court. A wandering Taoist priest spread the word that I was a lucky person of Tianqi. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that I was born on the day of the great victory?"

Hearing this, Xu Yuan saw the tears in Bei Yao's eyes and couldn't help but said: "If you are too sad, there is no need to say more. The past is already over."

No one understands Beiyao's situation better than Xu Yuan.

"We've come this far, so we might as well finish it all at once."

Beiyao poured himself another glass of wine, as if to give himself more courage.

"I am not some lucky omen as told by some alchemist. In fact, the army reports from the north are sent back to the capital every day. If we win, messengers will start calling out at the city gates the next day. If we lose, they will pick out some good news to call out. In short, the court's goal is to stabilize the people's hearts. Therefore, the army reports of the great victory in the north were sent to the palace one day in advance. And my grandmother forged this lucky omen in order to make my father's ascension to the throne appear to be a good time, a good place, and a good people."

Bei Yao finished the wine in the glass in one gulp and filled it with another.

Xu Yuan grasped the key point, "You shouldn't have been born on that day, it was the Queen Mother..."

Xu Yuan was a little afraid to continue speaking.

"That's right. My grandmother gave my mother a drug to induce labor so that I could be born early. This was so that we could catch up with the military report of the great victory in the north and let the world think that God agreed with my father to be the emperor. Don't you think this is ridiculous?"

Bei Yao smiled, and his voice was full of loneliness.