The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1447: Go on, tell me about it!

Chapter 1447: Chapter 1447: Go on, tell me about it!

Princess Consort Lian walked in, her heart fluttering with apprehension as she looked at the emperor’s solemn face.

"This concubine pays her respects to Your Majesty."

She bent her knees and knelt down, her heart already chilled by half.

During her previous visits to the Imperial Study, the Emperor would speak before she even knelt down and tell her to rise, but this time, the Emperor had not said a word.

After she had knelt steadily, there was still no word from the Emperor to let her stand.

"Princess Consort Lian has arrived, is there something urgent?"

Only then did the Emperor’s indifferent voice ring out.

"To His Majesty, this concubine has failed in her duties and has specifically come to confess her sins to Your Majesty." Princess Consort Lian had no choice but to grit her teeth and utter the words of confession.

"Oh?"

The Emperor rarely raised an eyebrow, his gaze fixedly on Princess Consort Lian.

"Why would you say such a thing, Princess Consort Lian? Could it be that there has been a problem at Prince Mo’s Mansion?"

"Yes."

Princess Consort Lian gritted her teeth in response.

"All the people this concubine had placed in Prince Mo’s Mansion have been driven out, not one was left."

That detestable Sui Zimo, it was all because of him that she had to kneel for so long before the Emperor, otherwise, if those people had not been driven back, she would still be enjoying His Majesty’s favor.

"And Qin Luoyin?" the Emperor asked.

"Your Majesty, Luoyin is still within Prince Mo’s Mansion," Princess Consort Lian replied.

"If everyone was chased out, why was Qin Luoyin spared?" The Emperor’s voice grew colder as he questioned.

Princess Consort Lian naturally heard the anger in the Emperor’s voice. She looked up in surprise at the Emperor, "Your Majesty, what do you mean by that? Isn’t it good that Luoyin can stay in Prince Mo’s Mansion?"

At least everyone wasn’t driven out, was that not the case?

"Princess Consort Lian!"

The Emperor suddenly stood up from the dragon throne, his eyes glaring at Princess Consort Lian.

"Qin Luoyin was forcibly sent to Prince Mo’s Mansion; do you think Zimo is a fool? Everyone else was driven out, but she was not; what exactly is going on? Explain to Us!"

"This..."

Princess Consort Lian was stunned by the Emperor’s question.

Actually, she had not figured this point out herself either.

Why was everyone else driven out, yet Qin Luoyin was not? Logically speaking, Zimo, knowing that the child in Qin Luoyin’s womb was not his, should have been even more eager to drive her out.

How come she was not driven out?

"This matter, this concubine also cannot understand," she said.

"Hisss... Huff!"

The Emperor took a deep breath in and then exhaled heavily.

"Then let Us tell you, the child in Qin Luoyin’s womb is indeed Zimo’s!"

He threw the words at Princess Consort Lian like a bolt from the blue.

"What?!"

Princess Consort Lian was stunned by his words.

The child in Qin Luoyin’s womb is Zimo’s? How could that be possible?

"Impossible, Your Majesty, that simply can’t be possible. Luoyin herself said that in her years at the Nine Lotus Hall, she never even saw Zimo himself, how could she possibly carry Zimo’s child?"

If a man and woman could have a child without even seeing each other, wouldn’t children be flying about the sky?

"Are you certain that all these years Qin Luoyin really never saw Zimo?" The Emperor asked seriously as he gazed at her.

"This concubine... cannot be sure," Princess Consort Lian bit her lip and shook her head.

How could she be certain of that? Qin Luoyin had been at the Nine Lotus Hall in recent years, while she had been within the deep palace; how would she have known what Qin Luoyin, who was at the Nine Lotus Hall, had been doing?