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Chapter 1812 My Aunt is the Empress 19
To be honest, although it was Consort Cai who administered the medicine, Linlang dared not say for sure whether the Emperor knew about it, since she had no evidence.

But Linlang felt that the emperor was not stupid and held real power. Linlang did not believe that he was completely unaware of what was happening in the palace. He should know that Empress Zhou could not have children because she had been drugged. Once he knew that Empress Zhou had been drugged, he should investigate who did it.

If the emperor were to investigate, with his vast manpower, he should be able to find out who did it.

He probably even knew who had poisoned her, but he didn't do anything about it. In other words, even if the emperor didn't personally poison Empress Zhou, he still condoned it. He probably still had his guard against the Zhou family and was happy that Empress Zhou couldn't have children. Anyway, as long as it wasn't him who poisoned her, it was none of his business if someone else did it.

Linlang made this guess, but she had no evidence yet. Although she had no evidence, Linlang was still wary of the emperor, after all, it was a fact that Empress Zhou had no children.

Since there was no evidence to show what the emperor had done to Empress Zhou, Linlang didn't do anything to the emperor. She only secretly revealed the evidence of who Consort Cai had harmed to the few concubines who had been harmed.

The reason why Linlang did not reveal this to Empress Zhou for the time being was that she did not want Empress Zhou to get involved in this conflict—mainly because she was afraid that the emperor would be wary of the Zhou family's power. If Empress Zhou were to suffer a fate, it would not only be a bad thing but also a bad thing—she only let the concubines deal with Consort Cai.

To be honest, the concubines alone were quite powerful enough that Empress Zhou didn't need to take action.

Sure enough, the concubines received the evidence from Linlang and quickly launched an investigation, only to find that the evidence Linlang provided was true.

At that time, there were concubines who had lost their children due to Consort Cai's actions, and they brought evidence to sue Consort Cai for harming their sons.

That was the prince who had already been born. She had always thought the child was too young and sick to stand up properly, but now she discovered that Consort Cai had poisoned her child's medicine, which caused the child's death. How could the concubine who had only given birth to this one son and had been killed by Consort Cai swallow this insult? Naturally, she had to appeal to the emperor and demand that Consort Cai pay for her son's life.

Following her lawsuit, other concubines who possessed evidence of Consort Cai's wrongdoings also filed lawsuits against Consort Cai for harming them or their children.

Harming royal offspring, especially princes who have already been born, is a truly heinous crime. So when the emperor saw that the evidence was conclusive, he was naturally furious and gave Consort Cai a cup of poisoned wine. She suffered an even worse fate than the mother of the second prince. The mother of the second prince was implicated by the second prince, but she was only deposed and at least kept alive. The mother of the fifth prince, however, was in a much worse state. The emperor killed her directly.

In fact, the emperor knew that the harem was not peaceful. Some concubines or princes and princesses died, but they were not necessarily sick. Someone must have poisoned them. However, if the concubines did not report it, he would not investigate. After all, he had too many things to do. How could he manage everything? That would exhaust him.

He would only personally investigate if something happened to one of his favorite concubines or beloved princes or princesses.

The Fifth Prince's mother had caused the deaths of so many people, yet she was dismissed by the Emperor with a bowl of poisoned wine. Needless to say, the Fifth Prince had also fallen into the Emperor's eyes and was no longer favored. It's likely that his chances of becoming the Crown Prince will be slim.

After all, his mother killed so many people and still made him the crown prince. What would those murdered concubines think? How could they possibly let him ascend the throne? Even if the old emperor was willing, those murdered concubines wouldn't be, lest the fifth prince ascend the throne and cause them trouble.

Seeing that the Fifth Prince's condition was also not good, Master Zhou turned his attention to the Sixth Prince.

This time, he not only investigated the situation of the Sixth Prince, but also the situation of the Sixth Prince's mother, in order to prevent a situation like that of the Fifth Prince's mother, which would have made him work in vain.

Fortunately, his daughter hadn't been engaged to the Fifth Prince yet, otherwise, this incident would have been a real problem. Because the previous princes had all encountered various accidents, Master Zhou was no longer in such a hurry. Instead, he agreed to let Linlang keep an eye on things for a while longer, lest something happen to the Sixth Prince as well, and all their efforts be in vain, or they even get implicated.

It wasn't that Master Zhou lacked the ability to investigate Consort Cai's affairs; rather, it was because of Linlang's surveillance system, which monitored Consort Cai day and night, that some clues could be found. Otherwise, ordinary people in this world couldn't monitor Consort Cai 24/7, so how could they find out this information?

It wasn't that Master Zhou was incompetent and couldn't find out; it was that Linlang's information channels were simply too incredible.

Since Master Zhou wasn't urging her, Linlang naturally wasn't in a hurry either.

Although she had thoroughly investigated the Sixth Prince and his mother and found nothing wrong, she still needed to observe them further and there was no need to rush into an engagement with him.

Linlang didn't show any favoritism towards the Sixth Prince; she treated him the same way she treated the other princes.

The Sixth Prince was unaware of Linlang's thoughts. After all, while many of the previous princes had encountered misfortunes, the Third Prince was still perfectly fine. Therefore, he hadn't considered that Linlang thought he was alright for the time being and that she could marry him if she wanted to. Furthermore, the Zhou family had a better impression of him than of the Third Prince.

He had thought the Zhou family would prefer the Third Prince.

Actually, Master Zhou did prefer the Third Prince because he felt that the Third Prince was older and more stable. However, there were too many people attacking the Third Prince. Although the First Prince had fallen, his men were still attacking the Third Prince.

Those who previously followed the Second Prince, Fourth Prince, and Fifth Prince are now also attacking the Third Prince.

They all thought that the Third Prince was doing well and was the most likely to ascend to the throne, so they thought, "If we can't ascend to the throne, you can't either," and so they all attacked him.

Besides those few who couldn't rise to power attacking the Third Prince, other princes also took advantage of the situation and joined in the attack.

In his second life, the Third Prince was protected by the Zhou family, so he survived despite being attacked by many people.

Now that the Zhou family isn't protecting him, the Third Prince is frequently impeached for trivial matters. Over time, even the Emperor himself has grown somewhat displeased with him. After all, who would like someone who is constantly being impeached? The Emperor might be thinking, "You must be in trouble, otherwise why are they only impeaching you and not other princes? If you're not in trouble, then it's because you're incompetent, otherwise why haven't your counterattacks deterred others, and why are they still impeaching you?"

In short, either you lack ability, or you have some kind of problem.

Therefore, the emperor's attitude towards the third prince has become somewhat cold.

That's why they say Master Zhou is a cunning old fox. He quickly realized that the emperor disliked the third prince, so he set his sights on the princes who came after the third prince.

Now that the Fourth Prince is disfigured and the Fifth Prince has been implicated by Consort Cai, the Sixth Prince is naturally the most suitable candidate.