The legitimate daughter was reborn, and the emperor’s little Jiaojiao went crazy.

Chapter 888 This is to kill the princess

When the army was winning victory after victory, Xiao Zhi did not dare to propose a change of commander. He just hoped that the battle would be over soon and the prince consort would return to Beijing as soon as possible.

Which prince would have to worry about his sister giving birth every day? His father handed over such a big stall to him, which was really too difficult for him.

In fact, after the death of Empress Dowager Jiqing, he wanted to return to his fiefdom and become a leisurely prince. He wanted to fight for this position just for revenge.

Now that his enemy was dead, he had inexplicably become the crown prince. And he had just taken the crown prince's position and started to supervise the country. He really didn't even have time to breathe.

Xiao Zhi sat down again, flipped through the piles of memorials, sighed and murmured, "I have a heavy burden on my shoulders. I just hope that my father will return to Beijing as soon as possible to take charge of the overall situation."

Eunuch An was about to leave the imperial study, but when he heard the prince's mutterings, he felt that his master was too naive.

He rolled his eyes and said, "Your Highness, I heard a rumor. I wonder if I should tell you about it or not?"

Xiao Zhi raised his head and glanced at Eunuch An calmly, "If you have something to say, just say it. Don't keep us in suspense. If you really don't want to say it, don't start it."

Eunuch An hesitated, "Well, I won't say anything."

Xiao Zhi: "..."

If it weren't for the fact that Eunuch An was old and loyal to him, he would have wanted to punish him by making him kneel.

He looked at Eunuch An's expression and suddenly felt that something was wrong. He said in a deep voice, "Speak!"

Eunuch An's throat rolled a few times, his fingers in his sleeves twisting the tassel of his whisk unconsciously, and he finally spoke carefully, "There are frequent reports of great victories in the war ahead. Your Highness, do you think this is a blessing or a curse?"

Xiao Zhi paused for a moment as he held the pen, and the cinnabar spread a little scarlet on the memorial. "Of course it is a blessing. Why, are you hoping that my soldiers will suffer a defeat?"

The sound was not loud, but it made the silver charcoal in the hall seem a little colder.

"I dare not!" Eunuch An bent his waist very low, not daring to look his master in the eye, and said with a stiff face, "But the commander is the prince consort."

"So what?" Xiao Zhi put down the wolf hair brush and tapped his white jade ring on the table, making a crisp sound.

Eunuch An's cold sweat had soaked through his inner clothes. "The emperor is leading the army in person. The prince consort is the commander-in-chief, in charge of the seven military operations in the northern border. The tiger talisman in his hand can mobilize 300,000 troops."

"So what?" The same four words, this time covered with a layer of ice.

"Nowadays, the people call the Prince Consort the 'Northern Wing God of War', and everyone praises the Prince Consort's achievements." The old eunuch's voice became lower and lower, "The people only know that there is a Prince Consort in the Northern Wing, and they don't know that there is a Crown Prince at all."

"Shouldn't it be?" Xiao Zhi suddenly chuckled, scaring Eunuch An so much that he shuddered.

The old eunuch finally made up his mind, as if to spit out the thorn that had been stuck in his throat for many years, "I heard a rumor that the prince consort is actually the emperor's son who was exiled to the common people."

The wolf-hair brush suddenly broke on the inkstone, and the ink splashed all over the table. Xiao Zhi wiped his hands slowly, "Oh? Where did this nonsense come from?"

"That day, I left the palace to pray at Baoguo Temple..." Eunuch An stared at the ink stains on his master's fingertips, as if he was looking at some ominous omen. "When I came back and stopped on the road, I heard a few merchants in the teahouse talking about it with details..."

The palace was so silent that one could hear the sound of the night watch. Xiao Zhi looked at a plum blossom outside the window that was about to bloom, and suddenly remembered that many years ago he had presented a mahogany box, but his hands were filled with 50,000 silver notes from his husband.

The prince consort said, take it and use it first, and don’t be too stingy with your loyal subordinates.

Later, the first person he rewarded was the eunuch An who was beside him, because he was sure that if he encountered danger one day and only one person could survive, eunuch An would be the one who would protect him with his own life.

But at this moment, the prince's voice was as light as the falling snow, "What else?"

Eunuch An clenched his hands tightly, and once the arrow was shot, there was no turning back. "The rumor that the princess is the Phoenix Girl of Heaven has been around for a long time. Your Highness, please think about the connection between them."

"What's the connection?" Xiao Zhi's tone was still calm, without any ups and downs, and no sadness or joy could be seen.

Seeing his master's nonchalant look, Eunuch An was so anxious that sweat oozed from his forehead, "Your Highness! If the consort is really the emperor's prince who was exiled to the common people, and married the Phoenix Girl of Heaven's Destiny. Now he has followed the emperor to the battlefield and made unprecedented military achievements, this, this, this, between these three..."

"Oh," Xiao Zhi suddenly sneered, and tapped lightly on the rosewood table with his bony fingers. Every tap was like a life-threatening sound. "Eunuch An's thoughts are more complicated than the winding corridors in the Imperial Garden."

"This old slave deserves death!" Eunuch An fell to his knees, his forehead hitting the gold bricks with a dull thud. A strand of gray hair fell from the edge of his black gauze crown, shaking with his trembling body. "This old slave just... just can't bear to see His Highness being kept in the dark. This old slave is only concerned about sharing the worries of his master!"

"I think you're worrying too much." Xiao Zhi slowly opened the lid of the teacup, and the crisp sound of celadon hitting each other was particularly piercing in the palace. He suddenly thought of something, stood up abruptly, and the teacup fell over, leaving a brown mark on the memorial, "What on earth did you do to the imperial sister?"

Eunuch An's whole body trembled violently, and he slammed his head on the ground again, this time so hard that even the bronze crane lamp in the corner of the hall seemed to shake. "This old servant is sincere, and heaven and earth can bear witness to it."

A cold light suddenly flashed in Xiao Zhi's eyes. He picked up the celadon teacup at hand and threw it at Eunuch An.

"boom!"

The teacup shattered on Eunuch An's forehead, porcelain pieces splattering everywhere. A streak of blood flowed down the old eunuch's wrinkled forehead, mixed with tea foam, and drew a glaring red mark on his pale face.

"Your Highness, please calm down!" Eunuch An did not dare to wipe the blood, allowing it to drip down his cheek, blooming into dark red.

Xiao Zhi grabbed Eunuch An by the collar, and his strength was so strong that he almost lifted the old bones up: "Tell me! What did you do to the imperial sister?"

……

In Tinglan Courtyard, Shen Siyuan held a piece of silver-threaded charcoal and examined it carefully under the candlelight. A few strange blue lines could be vaguely seen on the charcoal, and a very faint sweet smell could be smelled when one got close.

"There is 'Hundred Days of Drunkenness' in the carbon." His voice was tense, and he glanced at Shi Anxia in surprise, his eyes dark and unclear.

"Hundred Days of Drunk? Mixed in the silver charcoal, it burns colorless and odorless." Liang Yanbing was furious and clenched the handkerchief in her hand. "You want to kill the princess!"

Doctor Shen nodded, the candlelight casting a flickering shadow under his eyes, "This poison enters the body through breathing and can remain dormant for several days. On weekdays, it just makes people lack energy, but once the qi and blood surge... such as during childbirth, it will cause hemorrhage. At that time..."

Liang Yanbing was horrified, "This silver charcoal was given by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince himself! Could it be that he..." Before she finished speaking, hurried footsteps were suddenly heard from outside.

Bei Hui walked in with a light sweat on her forehead, "Madam, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is visiting late at night."

Shi Anxia was not surprised, nodded, and gave the order, "Your Highness, please go to the main hall for tea. I will be there later."

After Bei Hui left, she slowly reminded him, "Everything you saw and heard today should be as if it had never happened. Is it possible?"