"The second possibility," Bai Shan also stretched out a finger, "is that the Crown Prince still has no son, and the Third Prince still wants to compete with his older brother for the emperor's throne. Knowing this, the Prince of Yizhou divulged the news after learning that one of the Crown Prince's concubines was pregnant, resulting in the Third Prince arranging for the concubine to have a miscarriage. Then the Prince of Yizhou informed the Crown Prince about this, and the Crown Prince, furious, confronted the Third Prince. The emperor, even angrier upon knowing this, then ordered us to accuse the Prince of Yizhou."
"And then, and then," Bai Erlang said anxiously, "the child was actually lost because of the Prince of Yizhou, who then framed the Third Prince for the deed. The Crown Prince, being rather slow, failed to find out the truth, but the Emperor did, so he was angry with both of them—he punished the Crown Prince and commanded us to denounce the Prince of Yizhou."
