Chapter 261
"So it seems Wei Qingyi is deeply in love with Bei Ye. For him to do that for military power is a bit underhanded!"
[Master, if you think about it carefully, Bei Ye is actually the third party who intervened in someone else's relationship.]
"How so? Did Wei Qingyi have another boyfriend before Bei Ye?"
[Not exactly. Before meeting Bei Ye, Wei Qingyi was already married to Jiang Li, the daughter of Chancellor Wei's former classmate, to whom he was betrothed since childhood.
As the eldest son of Chancellor Wei, Wei Qingyi met the Fifth Prince, Bei Ye, during a royal autumn hunt.
At that time, Bei Ye was not yet sixteen, with red lips and white teeth. You could say Wei Qingyi fell in love at first sight and offered himself at the second.]
"Uh... was he in that much of a rush? Isn't that developing a bit too fast?"
[Fast? It's alright. At least compared to Xi Yuanshan's parents, it was a step slower.
This Bei Ye truly lives up to being born of the same father as Bei Yue; both brothers are experts at opening doors to new worlds for other men.
Before meeting Bei Ye, Wei Qingyi was known in Beili as a pure-hearted, modest gentleman with few desires.
He treated his wife with mutual respect and threw himself into his career, so much so that they had no children after three years of marriage.
He wasn't uninterested in women because he wasn't lustful; it was just that his lust was aimed at the wrong gender.
The moment he met Bei Ye, it was like dry wood meeting a blazing fire. Wei Qingyi, an old house that wasn't quite old yet, caught on fire.]
"So Wei Qingyi likes men. Isn't his wife pitiful, then!"
[It's more than that. Not only does Wei Qingyi like men, but he is also infertile, which is why they didn't have children after years of marriage.
The Wei family thought it was Jiang Li's fault, so she had to drink all sorts of bitter tonics every day.
Later, Bei Ye got drunk and slept with a palace maid, who gave birth to his son ten months later.
Wei Qingyi was furious when he found out. To appease him, Bei Ye gave the son to Wei Qingyi to raise.
They registered the child under the 'infertile' Jiang Li's name as the legitimate son.
And they falsely claimed the child was born to Wei Qingyi and another woman outside.]
"What kind of logic is that? Wasn't Bei Ye afraid that Wei Qingyi would kill the child out of anger and humiliation?
Besides, the child looks nothing like Wei Qingyi. Wouldn't Chancellor Wei be suspicious?
Would Bei Ji not know his grandson was given away? Are those two blind?"
[Bei Ye had already established his own estate outside. At that time, Bei Ji was lacking energy and paid little attention to this son, so he truly didn't know he had a grandson who was given away.
As for Chancellor Wei, that old fox naturally noticed the clues and investigated thoroughly. However, after investigating, he chose to tacitly accept it.]
"Why? Was he afraid of the authority of the Beili royal family?"
Hearing such explosive gossip, the monarch and officials of Dayan all wore expressions of eager curiosity, but they did not agree with the Junior Preceptor's words.
One's own bloodline could not be mixed up. If it were them, they would either tell the Emperor the truth or raise the child as a concubine's son.
They would never raise him as a future heir.
[That is because Chancellor Wei discovered that this child was actually of his Wei family's bloodline. Since the child carried his blood.
Returning to the Wei family in this capacity wasn't unacceptable.
Moreover, having guessed that the lack of children after years of marriage was not the daughter-in-law Jiang Li's fault, but rather his eldest son's infertility, Chancellor Wei was actually happy to see this happen.]
"How does this involve the Wei family's bloodline again? Could it be that Bei Ye is Chancellor Wei's illegitimate son and Wei Qingyi's biological brother?
Little Zhu, is this gossip a forbidden one?"
Everyone: Could you please not gloat so much? If you don't wipe that amused smile off your face.
Lord Liu, who is currently reporting, will think you are targeting him!
Yue Fuguang didn't care if others would overthink it. Right now, she just wanted to watch the drama unfold, no matter how chaotic it got.
In layman's terms, she was enjoying the gossip so much she didn't care about anyone else's misery.
Lord Liu, who couldn't hear any of this, was completely unable to ignore the smile hanging on the Junior Preceptor's face.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead and continued to report on the matters concerning the diplomatic missions from various countries.
His superior, Lord You Mingmin, seeing his subordinate sweating, felt helpless. What else could they do? Just endure it!
[Master, where is your mind going! Bei Ye is Bei Ji's biological son; he has absolutely nothing to do with Chancellor Wei.
The issue lies with the palace maid that Bei Ye slept with.
Why did a drunk Bei Ye sleep with that maid? Because her eyes and brows looked extremely similar to Wei Qingyi's, and she was considered quite a beauty among mortals.
And Wei Qingyi inherited his features from Chancellor Wei.]
"So, this palace maid that Bei Ye favored is actually Chancellor Wei's daughter?"
[Master guessed correctly. The palace maid's mother was the daughter of an offending official. As a young girl, she was sent to the Jiaofang Department and became a dancer.
When Chancellor Wei was young and not yet chancellor, he slept with that dancer during a palace night banquet. Actually, Chancellor Wei quite liked that dancer at the time.
He even tried to ask Bei Ji for her, but Bei Ji refused him with various excuses, and he failed to get her several times.
Later, he heard that the dancer had died, so he gave up on the idea.
Because of the affair between Bei Ye and Wei Qingyi, upon careful investigation, he discovered that the palace maid Bei Ye had casually favored was actually the daughter born to that dancer who died in childbirth—his own daughter.
Therefore, this child was his grandson. Naturally, he didn't mind raising the child under the name of his eldest son, who was suspected of being infertile, and bringing him up as the legitimate eldest grandson.]
"Do Wei Qingyi and Bei Ye know all of this? A son turning into a nephew—he didn't lay a hand on that child, did he?"
[At first, he indeed harbored ill intentions. But later, the father and son had a secret talk behind closed doors, and it is unknown what was said.
Wei Qingyi's attitude towards the child changed, and ever since Bei Ye sent the child away, he never asked about him again.
It was as if such a child had never existed.]
"Then what happened to Chancellor Wei's daughter, the mother of the child?"
[Chancellor Wei brought her out of the palace, and she entered the Wei family under the identity of the child's wet nurse.]
"When all is said and done, the most pitiful ones in this whole mess are Jiang Li and Qi Xia, who are completely in the dark."
[The two of them are unfortunate, yet also fortunate. The misfortune is that they married these two bastards; the fortune is that neither of them currently has children.
Even if they divorce and return home, they won't have any burdens tying them down.
Master, this Wei Qingyi controls some of Bei Ye's hidden agents. He was the main mastermind behind last night's assassination.]
"Are you saying that this Wei Qingyi has also come to Great Yan, and the two of them have hooked up again?"
Yue Fuguang stroked her smooth, little chin. Bei Ye really managed to live this monogamous life!
That simply wouldn't do. Yue Fuguang considered herself to be a petty person; if someone wanted to capture and kill her, unless she had to temporarily endure it for a system quest, she wouldn't be able to swallow her anger without striking back.
However, if she killed the two of them right now, putting aside the diplomatic relations between the two countries, the loss of this competing faction in Northern Li would only benefit the Northern Li Emperor and those princes.
It would be best for her rivals to beat each other's brains out over the throne, constantly depleting their own strength. That would be the most advantageous outcome for her future unification of the lands.