Besides lying down, I also know a little about power struggles

Chapter 149 Wan Wan Lei Qing
"Who?" Fang Tong tilted his head to look at him.

"You know him too." Feng Twelve said.

Fang Tong said "Oh" and said slowly: "King Jing?"

Feng Twelve raised his eyebrows: "It seems that you have already suspected him."

Fang Tong was able to mention Prince Jing without hesitation, which showed that she had suspected him more than once.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Feng Twelve asked.

"No time, no evidence." Fang Tong said, "I suspect him because he is too close to Wuyue Mountain Man, but I have no evidence to prove that Wuyue Mountain Man is Qingluan's accomplice, so I can't prove that there is anything wrong with Prince Jing either."

It is true that Feng Yuyang is a supporter of Wuyueshanren, but Wuyueshanren is well-known in Dazhao, and Prince Jing is not the only one who admires him. It would be too hasty to convict Prince Jing based on this alone.

"Then why don't you have time?" Feng Twelve asked.

Fang Tong glanced at him and said, "You've been coming and going so quickly these days that the time we've been able to talk like this is less than a day."

Ever since they left Linshui County, they have been rushing back to the capital day and night. Just after they put down the rebellion of Prince Ping, Feng Twelve was sent by the emperor to Luozhou to face the danger. The two of them did not have much time to spend together, and even if they did, Fang Tong did not want to disturb his mind with some unfounded things.

"Sorry." Feng Twelve said.

Fang Tong was surprised: "Why are you apologizing?"

"I brought you back to the capital, but then I left you aside." Feng Twelve said.

Fang Tong laughed: "Do you really think of me as your own cat? Even if you were in Beijing, I still have a lot of things to do."

Feng Twelve paused as he looked at her and said, "That's right."

Fang Tong smiled, leaned back against the carriage, and gently patted the box in his arms: "When you want to see me in the future, you may have to make an appointment."

Feng Twelve lowered his eyes and smiled: "I can imagine."

He was so reasonable that Fang Tong felt embarrassed to continue joking. She sat up straight again and asked seriously, "Why do you suspect Prince Jing? Did you discover something?"

Feng Twelve shook his head gently: "Although there are some suspicious points about Prince Jing, I have no evidence like you."

"What are the doubts?" Fang Tong was very curious.

"What kind of person do you think Prince Jing is?" Feng Twelve asked.

Fang Tong thought about the outside world's evaluation of Feng Yuyang, and said truthfully: "He is happy and carefree, and lazy."

This was also what she couldn't understand. Feng Yuyang had gone to his fiefdom early and was living a free and easy life outside. He had made many princes jealous. It was unnecessary for him to go against the crown prince.

Feng Twelve looked at her, but his gaze seemed to pass through her body and into the distant past.

"When I was a child, I lived with my mother in Ye Ting." He suddenly spoke.

Fang Tong was stunned.

"Ye Ting?" She frowned slightly.

Ye Ting was not a good place. Only the wives and daughters of criminals who were not allowed to enter the palace and the concubines who had made mistakes would live there.

She looked at Feng Twelve in confusion: "Your mother..." Was she a family member of a criminal or a concubine who made a mistake? She didn't ask the second half of the sentence, but Feng Twelve obviously understood what she meant. He chuckled and continued: "My mother was a palace maid. Because of her special appearance, she was intentionally sent to your majesty."

The words he used were a little strange, and Fang Tong couldn't figure out what he meant by "special".

She suppressed her doubts and listened to him patiently.

"After my mother was favored, she did not rise to fame overnight. On the contrary, she was sent to the palace by His Majesty and did menial work every day. The people behind her saw that she was useless and gave up on this chess piece." Feng Twelve said.

Fang Tong felt a chill in his heart when he heard his normal tone.

This is a palace secret. It sounds like someone wanted to use Feng Twelve's mother to get close to the emperor, but the plan failed and Feng Twelve's mother became an abandoned child.

"Does your mother...know that she is being used by someone?" Fang Tong asked carefully.

Feng Twelve's eyes were calm: "She didn't know at first, until she saw the portrait of the Crown Prince's mother."

"A portrait of the Crown Prince's mother?" Fang Tong murmured, "Does she look like the Crown Prince's mother?"

Feng Twelve looked at her and seemed a little surprised: "You guessed right, her eyebrows and eyes are very similar to the Crown Prince's mother."

Fang Tong was silent for a while, his eyes unconsciously stopped on the twelfth seal.

No wonder every time she saw Crown Prince Feng Yunxi, she always felt that he and Feng Twelve were like a pair of real brothers. She originally thought that it was because of their close relationship, but now looking closely, Feng Twelve's eyebrows and eyes were 80% similar to Feng Yunxi, except that Feng Twelve's pupils were darker and deeper, and he was not as approachable as Feng Yunxi. But compared to other princes, only they had the same eyebrow contours, obviously inherited from their mother.

Fang Tong stared at him in a daze for a while, with all kinds of weird scenarios flashing through his mind.

It is said that the emperor had a deep affection for Feng Yunxi's mother. After the death of the first queen, the emperor had intended to enthrone his beloved as the new queen. However, Feng Yunxi's mother died of hemorrhage during childbirth, leaving only Feng Yunxi as a little baby. The emperor therefore loved Feng Yunxi very much. Not only did he bring him to his side to raise him personally, but he also made him the crown prince when he was a little older.

This action moved many men of letters and scholars, and there are still storybooks circulating among the people today, praising the deep affection between the emperor and the prince's mother.

If the emperor really loves Feng Yunxi's mother so much, then what choice will he make when he sees someone with similar features, joy or disgust?
Fang Tong thought that she probably understood why Feng Twelve's mother was sent to the Ye Ting, and why Feng Twelve was so unpopular with the emperor.

Everything is wrong with this Wanwan like Qing.

The emperor showed such deep affection for Feng Yunxi's mother, how could he tolerate others using a substitute to test his weaknesses? However, he favored this palace maid, which was equivalent to stepping into it knowing it was a trap. This was simply a shame for the emperor.

Based on Fang Tong's understanding of the emperor, it would be fine if he was really greedy and stupid, but he was not that kind of person.

The more this happened, the more the emperor could not accept that he had been plotted against. He could not kill the palace maid to vent his anger. If he did so, it would be tantamount to admitting that he was wrong.

So he sent her far away to the palace, probably thinking out of sight, out of mind. However, before the matter was over, the palace maid he had favored became pregnant.

When Fang Tong thought of this, even though he knew what the result would be, he still looked at Feng Twelve worriedly.

The emperor must have thought about getting rid of this child before he was born.

"You...were also born in the Ye Ting?" she asked, choosing her words carefully.

Feng Twelve seemed to understand her subtext. His eyes moved slightly, with a hint of nostalgia in them.

"Fortunately, I was born in Ye Ting." He gave a reply that surprised Fang Tong, "Before I was born, my mother kept this news secret very well."

Not only her mother, but also the palace maids who helped them and their son, whether out of sympathy or respect for life, under their cover, the emperor did not know that he had another son until half a month after Feng Twelve was born.