The emperor looked at Yuan Jia with a gentle look, reached out and held Yuan Jia's little hand, and asked softly: "Yuan Jia, are you still afraid now?"

Yuan Jia shook his head and said, "Uncle, I'm not afraid! The bad guy has been arrested, so I'm not afraid!"

The emperor laughed loudly: "Haha, I am really worthy of being my nephew, just be not afraid!"

The emperor coaxed Yuanjia and ordered someone to take him out for fun.

Yuan Jia knew that he was just a child now, and it was impossible to stay and listen to the conversation between the emperor and the empress dowager and the princess, so he followed the palace people out.

As soon as Yuan Jia left, the smile on the emperor's face quickly disappeared and he said to Princess Xihua: "Sister, it is very likely that someone deliberately targeted Yuan Jia's abducted this time, not a simple accident."

Princess Xihua was not surprised. She also had some guesses in her heart and said with a cold face: "Master, have you found out who is targeting Jiaer?"

The emperor shook his head slightly and said, "The person behind the scenes is very cautious. He is still investigating and has uprooted several human trafficker organizations along the clues."

Speaking of this, the emperor showed a look of shock and anger. He had never paid attention to human traffickers. The government was not so concerned about this. However, he didn't expect that after investigation, he was shocked. Those human traffickers were no longer simply abducting children, but formed a complete industrial chain, and even a huge network of relationships was hidden behind them.

For example, the girls who were kidnapped were sent to train and become thin horses, and finally sent to the mansions of some dignitaries, and sold to the brothels and Chu Pavilions, or to some families as maids... The boys were sold to families without sons, or to Nanfeng Pavilion, or to become thugs, and some boys were sent to the palace since childhood...

Before we knew it, this human trafficker organization actually relied on years of trafficking children to put its tentacles into the backyard of court officials and even into the palace of the emperor!

If it weren't for his nephew's abduct this time, the emperor would not have realized the great harm of the human trafficker organization.

Now think about it, the children of those human trafficker organizations who dare to be brave enough in the capital must be supported by someone behind the back, and how did the supporters be attracted?

It's terrible to think about it carefully.

Princess Xihua said unwillingly: "Have you just removed some human trafficker organizations? Didn't you find any clues? Are there any suspicions?"

In fact, Princess Xihua herself has a partner of doubt. She suspected that it was Lu, the concubine who gave birth to a concubine for King Jianping.

After all, King Jianping now has two sons and one daughter. Needless to say, the two sons are one legitimate and one illegitimate.

If the concubine's son wants to take office, unless the legitimate son is gone, no matter how outstanding the concubine's son is, it is impossible for King Jianping to depose the legitimate son and establish the illegitimate son. Even if King Jianping is willing, he should check whether Princess Xihua is a vegetarian.

Therefore, Princess Xihua suspected that Lu was secretly attacking her son in order to allow her son to inherit the Jianping Mansion.

Princess Xihua is the legitimate princess of the late emperor and is now a personal sister. She has a noble personality and has never bowed her head when she married Queen Jianping. Prince Jianping has a concubine but does not have a concubine because she does not allow a concubine to get in the way of her eyes.

She never took King Jianping's concubines who could not stand on the table. Even if Lu had a lucky son, she did not take the mother and son seriously.

But her son was almost lost...

As long as she thinks about who gets the greatest benefits after her son is gone, Princess Xihua doubts the Lu family and his son.

However, Princess Xihua did not express her suspicion to the emperor. She was confident that she could find out clearly with just a concubine, so there was no need to bother the emperor.

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Yuan Jia walked around the garden in the Empress Dowager's Palace and felt bored, so he took people out for a walk.

As the son of Princess Xihua and King Jianping, the emperor loved his nephew very much, and the empress dowager often took him into the palace to play. Yuan Jia's status in this palace was even higher than that of some unpopular princes.

While wandering in the imperial garden, Yuan Jia's thoughts gradually drifted away.

He didn't know what the original owner's cause of death was, but he thought that in the original plot, the original owner failed to escape from this trafficking, and it was very likely that he died outside.

Qi Yuan is the male protagonist, so the original owner must have a brotherly relationship with Qi Yuan. Whether he is a biological brother or not, he has at least a brotherhood.

So Qi Yuan, who was recognized back to Jianping Palace from a small mountain village more than ten years later, was not the original owner. How did the real original owner die?

Yuan Jia remembered the jade pendant that was taken away by Manager Mu when he was locked in the woodshed.

The jade pendant was brought to you by Princess Xihua since childhood by the original owner. It is said to be a precious jade rewarded by the late emperor. It is of great significance and only this part in the world.

Princess Xihua changed his clothes last night and found that his jade pendant was missing. Yuan Jia did not say that he knew that the jade pendant was taken away by Manager Mu. After all, he was a child unconscious at the time, and knowing too much is easy to arouse suspicion.

So he just said that he didn't know when the jade pendant disappeared.

Princess Xihua didn't ask much at the time. Compared to the child's return safely, a jade pendant was not that important no matter how extraordinary it was.

The original plot is mainly based on the perspective of the heroine Lu Wan, so the plot of how the male protagonist Qi Yuan was determined by Princess Xihua, who was far away in the capital, is not described in detail. Therefore, Yuan Jia is not sure whether Princess Xihua in the original plot relies on the jade pendant taken away by Manager Mu to determine Qi Yuan as her son.

All I can say is that there is this possibility.

Based on this possibility, Yuan Jia contacted the known situation, that is, the original owner was abducted and died. The specific cause and time of death were unknown. The jade pendant taken by Manager Mu should be on Qi Yuan. More than ten years later, Qi Yuan was regarded as the original owner and was recognized by Princess Xihua and returned to the Jianping Mansion.

Perhaps Princess Xihua could find out that Qi Yuan is her son, and someone is guiding her behind the scenes. So is someone deliberately removing the original owner Qi Yuan?

What is the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes? Why do we do this? If the bag is dropped to allow Qi Yuan to inherit the Jianping Palace, why not let Qi Yuan recognize him before the Jianping Prince Xie Ying was crowned as the prince?

In the original plot, Qi Yuan was recognized from Xiaoshan Village when he was seventeen years old. Qi Yuan was the same age as the original owner. The original owner's sister Xie Ying was three years younger than the original owner. Xie Ying was made the prince at the age of twelve.

If Qi Yuan recognized Xie Ying before she was made the crown prince, it would be that he would be recognized two years in advance and at the age of fifteen.

The original owner was only five years old when he was abducted. Ten years have passed. Even if Qi Yuan looks different from the original owner, the difference between a five-year-old child and a fifteen-year-old boy is so big that people can't recognize the difference. There is no need to worry that Qi Yuan's identity will be exposed.

So what is the reason why the mastermind behind the scenes has been delayed for two more years?

Yuan Jia thought about all kinds of speculations in his mind over and over again, and each speculation had something he couldn't understand.

Finally, I sighed slightly in my heart, but I still knew too few clues.

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Princess Xihua took Yuan Jia to meet the emperor and the queen mother, so she took him back to the princess's mansion.

Princess Xihua is the emperor's elder sister, so naturally there is a luxurious princess's mansion of its own, which is built not far from the Jianping Mansion.

Because there are several concubines in the Jianping Palace, Princess Xihua disliked them and was unwilling to live in the Jianping Palace. Most of the time, she took her son to live in her eldest princess's mansion. Prince Jianping was also willing to cooperate with her in the eldest princess's mansion for a long time.

Yuan Jia had just returned to the eldest princess's mansion and spoke with Princess Xihua. At this time, a servant came to report: "Your Highness, Mrs. Changning Marquis takes Changning Marquis to see you."

"Changning Marquis Mansion?" Princess Xihua thought hard and remembered which family of Changning Marquis came from.

There are quite a few nobles with titles in the capital, but most of them are short titles, and few have real power.

The Changning Hou is a dilapidated mansion among the nobles. The Tangtang Hou Mansion is so poor that he has taken the collections passed down from his ancestors in the warehouse to a pawnshop for silver to maintain the expenses. The Changning Hou was only holding a short title without any official position, let alone power, and stayed at home to have women and have children all day long.

The backyard of the Changning Hou Mansion is also very complicated. The current wife of Changning Hou is the second wife, but the Changning Houzi is the eldest son of the original wife. The two legitimate sons born to the current wife, who have no hope of inheriting the title.

In addition to three legitimate sons, Changning Marquis also had seven concubines, five concubine daughters, and a total of fifteen children.

When Princess Xihua remembered what kind of family the Changning Marquis Mansion was, she knew that today's visitor was not a well-known figure.

But at the same time, she also remembered that among the children abducted with her son, there was Changning Houzi, so she said, "Let's come in."

Mrs. Changning Hou walked in with a five-year-old boy. When she saw Princess Xihua and Yuan Jia, she hurriedly bowed: "Greetings to Your Highness, Princess, and the little prince!"

The boy beside her also bowed.

Yuan Jia, who was sitting next to Princess Xihua, saw the boy and said in surprise: "It's you!"

This child was the first boy who woke up among the seven children locked in the woodshed with him and dared to ask him to help untickle him.

Yuan Jia became a little interested in him and asked with a smile: "What's your name?"

The boy replied shyly: "My name is Zhou Hongyuan."

Yuan Jia smiled and said, "My name is Xie Yuanjia, we are meeting again."

Seeing this, Mrs. Changning said, "Your Highness, I learned from the child Hongyuan that he was locked up with the little prince at that time. Thanks to the little prince's wit, he was able to be saved with him, so I brought Hongyuan with shameless face to thank him."

Princess Xihua saw that Yuan Jia and Zhou Hongyuan were able to chat, and was in a good mood. She also spoke to Mrs. Changning Hou a gentler tone: "You are intent."

Yuan Jia said to Princess Xihua: "Mom, Zhou Hongyuan and I will go to the garden to have fun."

Princess Xihua quickly signaled the palace maids around her to follow: "Be careful, be careful when playing, don't fall."

Yuan Jia had already pulled Zhou Hongyuan out, and the answering voice floated in from afar: "I know!"

Yuan Jia took Zhou Hongyuan to the large garden of the eldest princess's mansion and asked the servants to wait in the distance. He and Zhou Hongyuan seemed to be playing, but in fact Yuan Jia kept trying to get Zhou Hongyuan's words.

I don’t know if his premonition is correct, he feels that Zhou Hongyuan is likely to be the male protagonist Qi Yuan in the original plot.

Because it was mentioned in the original plot, the male protagonist Qi Yuan has always had a vague impression of his childhood memory. He remembered that his home was originally very large and luxurious, and he remembered that there was a word "yuan" in his name.
Chapter completed!