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The moment she looked up, she recounted what had happened in her mind.
This kidnapping seemed to be done in a rush, but it was actually very difficult, and not something that any random political enemy of Lu Shiqing could do. From the beginning, she only thought of two possibilities: one was King Ping, and the other was Xi Ju.
Judging from the whole incident, the other party must have been planning for a long time and it was not a one-day effort.
First, Yuan Cixian went into labor early, but the child who was used for the swap was also born around the same day, with a difference of less than one day. This was definitely not something that could be arranged in a hurry. In other words, it was very likely that the other party had already gathered several women who were close to her pregnancy period from all over the country and placed them in the capital in advance to wait for orders.
Secondly, the secret passage is no less than the lifeline of Lu Shiqing and Zheng Zhuo. After Lu Shiqing left Beijing, this road has not been used by anyone, and the defense of Xu's house is also more stringent than usual. It is really incredible to say that it was exposed recently. So Yuan Cixian thought that the secret passage might have been discovered earlier.
From this point alone, we can conclude that the initiator of this plan was not King Ping, but Xi Ju.
Because the secret passage was exposed, it meant that the identity of "Xu Shan" was also exposed. Once Prince Ping found out about this, he would not use it to kidnap people, but should have stopped targeting Cai He and turned to Lu Shiqing, or revealed the existence of this secret passage to Emperor Huining.
But Xi Ju's position is different. After learning about the relationship between Lu Shiqing and Xu Shan, his first reaction was not to expose it to the world. He did cooperate with King Ping, but he could not be his friend forever. It would be a good thing for Nanzhao to let Zheng Zhuo and Lu Shiqing continue to fight against him and continue to consume each other.
So he chose not to tell Prince Ping or Emperor Huining about the secret passage, but secretly planned a kidnapping.
But this plan would not work if he relied on himself alone.
From kidnapping to splitting up into four groups, all the actions took place in the second half of the night. At that time, the gates of Chang'an City were tightly closed. If it weren't for the early preparation of several orders to leave the city, it would have been impossible to achieve. But as a prince of Nanzhao, he couldn't get an order to leave the city, so he had to rely on King Ping.
Therefore, Xi Ju found King Ping in advance and persuaded him to help him complete the follow-up plan of sending people out of the city.
However, King Ping would not take risks for something that would not bring him any benefits, so why did he agree to this? Compared to Xi Ju, his purpose was simpler, which was to use Yuan Cixian and her son as bait to take Lu Shiqing's life.
He might not know about Xu Shan yet, but after so many years, it is impossible for him to be unaware of Lu Shiqing's manipulation of the court and the hindrance his existence posed to his bid for the throne.
If you can't get the help, you should destroy it. After Lu Shiqing's successive missions to Nanzhao and Uighur, his momentum became more and more prosperous, he felt more threatened, so it was understandable that he wanted to use Xiju's power to get rid of him as soon as possible.
Yuan Cixian's thinking had been clear until this point, but when Lu Shiqing said "kill the old king of Nanzhao", she realized that she had not considered enough.
She began to think that she and Shao He were close to being pregnant, and Xiju might want to send her child to Chang'an as a so-called "hostage", so that she and Lu Shiqing would have to watch the child so close but unable to reunite with him, and have to live in fear every day, and even have to do something for Nanzhao at the critical moment for the safety of the child.
But now it seems that Xi Ju knows that Lu Shiqing is not a mediocre person. The accidental loss of his beloved son is enough for him. It is impossible for him to continue to allow Nanzhao to do whatever it wants. Therefore, although the plan is perfect, it is actually difficult to achieve.
So, since he knew that this wish would most likely fail, why did he insist on going to so much trouble
Yuan Cixian thought that was because, even if the plan failed, living in seclusion would still be profitable.
The child's whereabouts were unknown, and Lu Shiqing intended to find Lu Yuanzhen as soon as possible. The only way was to get the "hostage" to Beijing as soon as possible. So he had to do two things: first, assassinate the old king of Nanzhao and let Xiju ascend the throne as soon as possible; second, replace the child before he arrived in Chang'an.
And these two things were exactly what Xiju wanted.
Let’s talk about the first one first.
Since Xi Ju was sent as an envoy to the Great Zhou and reached an agreement with the imperial court on marriage, he had the upper hand in the competition with his second brother, and his momentum has been growing rapidly over the past six months. However, as long as the old king is alive, he cannot succeed to the throne. In order to avoid more trouble, he had already thought about killing his father.
But this was too risky. He could kill the old king, but it was hard to ensure that no one would know about it and that there would be no evidence. When he first ascended the throne, the political situation was inevitably unstable. If someone took this opportunity to rebel on the grounds that he had killed his father and usurped the throne, his efforts would have been in vain.
Therefore, the ideal situation is that he does not do it himself, but deliberately neglects the defense of the palace and lets someone else do the killing. If the murderer happens to be a member of the power center of the Great Zhou, it will be even better.
Let’s talk about the second thing.
Regardless of whether Shao He's pregnancy was true or not, what was certain was that Xi Ju had never intended to send his biological child to Da Zhou. Long before deliberately releasing the news that Shao He was pregnant, he had already arranged a suitable candidate in Nan Zhao to be the so-called "hostage" in the future.
But later, when Yuan Cixian happened to become pregnant at about the same time, he came up with this "better" plan.
But using a fake child to fool Emperor Huining is also risky.
Xi Ju could not guarantee when Da Zhou would discover the trick, nor could he guarantee whether he would have already firmly established himself on the throne and no longer need the support of the court by the time Da Zhou discovered the trick. In order to add a layer of protection for the unpredictable future, it would be best for him to design a "switch" incident to shirk responsibility.
When the truth is exposed, he will be able to insist that the child he sent is real, but was switched by Lu Shiqing halfway. He can even turn the tables and ask Da Zhou to return the child to him.
Lu Shiqing saw Xi Ju's motive clearly. But this was an open conspiracy. For the sake of the child, he had to do these two things.
After figuring out all the details, Yuan Cixian couldn't help but hug him tightly with worry.
Lu Shiqing smiled and said, "How can there be such a good deal in this world? All the benefits go to Xi Ju alone? I have my knife at the neck of the old king of Nanzhao. If I really kill him, wouldn't that be too stupid?"
Yuan Cixian's eyes flickered for a moment, and she wiped away her tears and said, "You mean..."
"Fake death." He blinked calmly, "Father-in-law will bring him back to life at the best time."
*
That night, Yuan Cixian listened to Lu Shiqing's detailed account of what had happened and realized that her father had secretly "assassinated" the old king of Nanzhao more than 20 days ago, and had replaced the old king's "corpse" with another. So in fact, Xiju had already ascended the throne at that time and sent his "son" out of Nanzhao. It was just that she had been staying in the house to recuperate after giving birth, so she was not aware of these things.
In order to avoid any mishaps, Xiju did not take Lu Yuanzhen to Nanzhao after kidnapping him. Instead, he hid him in Dazhou and waited until the team carrying the hostage to the capital passed by before he carried him onto the carriage.
Therefore, the child did not suffer from the bumpy ride.
It was at this time that Yuan Cixian finally understood why Lu Shiqing named his child "Zhen". She had always thought that he chose the name "Zhen" because it means "complete", hoping that his son would be both good at literature and martial arts, and be excellent in both character and learning. But it turned out not to be the case.
Before the word "zhen" was derived into "completeness", it first meant "to come".
He is looking forward to his child coming back as soon as possible.
He didn't hold a wine-gathering banquet or a full-moon banquet because he didn't want others to have the chance to see the child who replaced Yuan Zhen, he didn't want to cause any criticism for Yuan Zhen, and he didn't want anything belonging to Yuan Zhen to fall into the hands of others.
Lu Shiqing looks such a cold and aloof person, but he is a father who protects his child to the extreme.
Two years ago, Yuan Cixian would never have believed such an unbelievable thing.
*
Lu Shiqing kept his promise and said three days would last for three days.
Three days later at dusk, Yuan Cihan stood in front of the mansion gate like a wife waiting for her husband. Finally, he got out of the carriage with a bright yellow swaddling cloth in his arms, in which was a baby boy sleeping soundly.
She ran forward, and when she saw the child her heart was so moved that she almost burst into tears again.
Lu Shiqing held the child in one hand and held her in the other as they walked in: "Stop crying, it's a waste of water. Didn't you always want to feed Yuan Zhen? Come, I'll tell you to feed her enough."
Yuan Cihan originally wanted to cry, but what he said made her burst into laughter and she twisted his waist hard.
The couple didn't know how to tell Xuan about this matter, so they secretly carried the sleeping Lu Yuanzhen into the bedroom like a thief, and then called a doctor to make sure that he was safe and healthy, and had been eating and drinking well these days before they felt relieved.
After the doctor left, Yuan Cixian remembered Lu Shiqing's reminder, and the long-standing desire in her heart became stronger, and she wanted to feed Yuan Zhen urgently.
In fact, she had quite a lot of milk. Lu Shiqing's words that she was weak and didn't have enough milk were all lies. If Yuan Shu wasn't so small but had such an amazing appetite, and had to come to suck her every hour, she would probably have been driven crazy by the milk.
But even so, there were several times when she couldn't stand the engorgement. She had already vaguely guessed that the child was not Yuan Zhen, so she didn't insist on feeding him the excess milk, thinking of squeezing it out herself.
But Lu Shiqing never left her side every day. When she felt uncomfortable, he would notice it and naturally would not trouble her, but would come to rescue her sincerely. At first, he used his hands, but later he felt it was wasteful, so he changed to his mouth.
Yuan Cihan thought back and realized that the father had actually robbed his son of a month's food.
Now that Yuan Zhen is back, she wants to make it up to him.
Yuan Cixian lifted her clothes, picked up the child who had just woken up, and prepared to feed him.
Lu Shiqing sat on the edge of the bed, staring at her intently. Seeing that his son turned his head away and didn't seem to want to eat, he thought for a moment and said, "Maybe he just ate enough. Feed him later." Then he added, "If you feel uncomfortable, I'll go first."
Whoever gives him such a good life will come first.
Yuan Cixian glared at him and insisted on trying to let Yuan Zhen breastfeed.
It wasn't that she was overbearing, but she was afraid. She was afraid that her son would not be with her since he was born, and after being away for a month, he would no longer be close to her.
She coaxed Yuan Zhen nervously for a long time, and finally saw the little guy turn his head and kiss her.
Yuan Cixian was delighted and was about to smile with a maternal radiance, but unexpectedly, after he sucked her hard, he suddenly let go of his mouth and turned his head away.
With a "swish", the milk splashed and shot straight onto Lu Shiqing's face... who was so close.
The instigator, Lu Yuanzhen, dodged in time and was unharmed. He looked at his father with foam on his face, and then at his mother who was standing there in a daze, and laughed heartily.
After a while, Lu Shiqing wiped his face with his hand, swallowed and said, "This time he is my biological son for sure."
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