Ming Shu walked in: "Master."
Xiao Yuan said coldly, "Bring me the list of officials to be rewarded and sent to the capital."
"Yes!" Ming Shu immediately went to the study next door and quickly brought back a booklet and handed it to him.
Xiao Yuan turned to one of the pages, found a name, and immediately added a line after that name.
Cui watched everything clearly from the side.
Su Jingxuan, because of his meritorious service to the fiefdom, was specially granted the title of Marquis of Anyang, a third-rank official, with a fief of one thousand households...
She was shocked: "Your Highness, why are you being so frivolous?"
After Xiao Yuan finished writing, he immediately threw the booklet to Ming Shu: "Send someone to the capital immediately, there can be no delay!"
Cui's cheek twitched violently.
In order to marry Su, he actually went to such lengths, appointing that commoner as a marquis. It was simply outrageous!
Xiao Yuan turned to look at Madam Cui and smiled: "Aunt, you have taken meticulous care of my household for the past eight years. Now that you are getting on in years, why don't you go to Yangcheng Lake to spend your old age in peace?"
Madam Cui was shocked and stood up abruptly: "You...you want to drive me away for the sake of a woman?"
Xiao Yuan stared at her with an icy expression: "Aunt, don't think I don't know what you've been doing to Arong behind her back!"
Cui was trembling all over, incredulous.
"From Liu Qiao'er to Fang Mingzhu, Chen Siyi..." Xiao Yuan sneered, "When have you not indirectly fueled the flames?"
The sound of cicadas chirping came from outside the house, but Cui felt cold all over.
"Those people you planted in the East Courtyard, do you really think they're loyal to you?" Xiao Yuan asked sarcastically. "Do you think they benefit more from serving me or from serving you?"
Cui's body swayed precariously.
Unexpectedly, the people she had secretly planted in Juxiantang years ago had already been secretly subdued by Xiao Yuan.
“I originally didn’t want to expose your hidden thoughts because you are my aunt and have managed the Prince’s Mansion for me for so many years.”
Xiao Yuan's gaze gradually turned cold: "But this time you actually agreed to let Ge Yin enter the manor behind my back."
"In order to smoothly enter the mansion in the future, the Ge family instructed Zeng to harm Arong!"
"Everything Ah Rong is suffering today is your fault!"
Cui's face turned ashen, and she stared at Xiao Yuan for a long time, unable to utter a word.
She did indeed indirectly and secretly send people to participate in everything those women did to murder Su Xuerong over the past few months.
But unexpectedly, Zeng Ling ended up succeeding.
"Ah Yuan, I... I did all this for you!" Cui suddenly burst into tears. "If you marry her, how can you face your mother in the afterlife..."
"Shut up!" Xiao Yuan suddenly roared, startling Cui Shi so much that she immediately stopped crying.
"The reason you oppose Arong entering the manor is because she's not one of yours!" Xiao Yuan said angrily. "You're not doing this for my deceased mother; you're doing it for yourself!"
"Because you are not my mother, you want a niece-in-law who will obey your every command, so that you can keep the royal palace firmly under your control in the future!"
Xiao Yuan practically roared it out.
The sound made the room buzz.
Cui's face was deathly pale, devoid of any color.
She suddenly realized she was wrong.
She shouldn't have underestimated this nephew who was usually extremely filial to her.
He had the blood of the Great Zhou royal family flowing through his veins, and his innate nobility and imposing presence were beyond her, his aunt's, control.
"Aunt, if you behave yourself and manage the Prince's Mansion well for me, I will surely respect and honor you in the future!" Xiao Yuan's face was cold. "But you shouldn't have harbored such ambitions and delusions, trying to control me by controlling my Princess!"
Cui's body went limp, and she collapsed to the ground, her lips trembling as she tried to speak, but she couldn't utter a single word.
Xiao Yuan had actually seen through her all along!
"Guards, send the old lady and all her personal servants to the Yangcheng Lake Palace today!" Xiao Yuan said coldly. "Without my order, the old lady is not allowed to step out of the palace."
Ming Shu immediately waved his hand, and several guards walked in from outside the door, taking Cui Shi, who looked like a dead fish, out.
Upon seeing this, Xu and the others outside the door were greatly alarmed and came over to greet them.
"Madam, why is the Prince treating you like this? What have you done wrong..."
Before Xu could finish speaking, she was suddenly splashed with a bucket of cold water, which chilled her to the bone!
Cui was also soaked to the bone and looked disheveled.
"What are you doing?" Madam Xu was furious. She rolled up her sleeves and walked towards the woman carrying the water bucket. "Where did this servant come from? She just splashed water on my old lady!"
Zhou put down the bucket, crossed her arms, and sneered, "Going to Yangcheng Lake in this sweltering heat is too much of a hardship. I'm just helping the old lady cool off in advance."
Xu was furious and wanted to step forward, but she found that several old women had come out from beside the woman.
The leader, Madam Cheng, said coldly, "Madam Xu, you dare to lay a hand on the Madam? You've got some nerve!"
As expected, Lady Zhou will soon become the Lady of Anyang Marquis.
Xu's face twitched. Although she didn't know Zhou's background, seeing that Cheng was protecting her so much, she didn't dare to make a move.
Cui stared intently at Zhou for a few moments, then closed her eyes in despair and said weakly, "Let's go, let's go!"
That idiot Xu, didn't she notice how similar this woman looked to Su?
She must be Su's biological mother.
Ming Shu said coldly from the side, "Madam, let's get going!"
The news of Cui's departure quickly reached the Prince's residence.
The servants in the prince's mansion were all greatly alarmed.
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