Chapter 393 Something was found in the princess’s courtyard!
"Shihan, don't be disrespectful to the prince!" Lin Tingfeng's face darkened slightly, and he scolded in a low voice.
Although His Royal Highness Prince Jin did not take the primary credit for this great victory, if he had not risked his life to cause the Liang army to relax their vigilance and buy enough time for Zhu Gong and others who were supervising the construction of the machinery in the border city, this battle would never have been won so easily.
He knew very well that if the two armies really fought against each other, at least half of the border troops would be lost in this battle, and it was unknown how many people would die in vain.
Hearing this, Zhuang Shihan raised her eyebrows in amusement, "If saying a word is disrespectful to His Majesty, then General Lin's disrespectful actions are probably too numerous to count."
"Shihan!" Lin Tingfeng's face became increasingly gloomy.
The eyes that always held tenderness and love when facing her were now full of warning.
He reminded Zhuang Shihan that they were in the same boat and advised her to think twice before speaking.
Saying these words in anger was not good for him and it did not benefit her at all.
The two of them now share the same fate.
Zhuang Shihan certainly understood this.
She just felt nauseous.
Why can Song Yanxi win the favor of His Royal Highness Prince Jin without doing anything? Regardless of his own status, he would rather risk being discovered by outsiders to protect her openly and secretly.
It would be fine if those women in the capital with long hair and short knowledge took advantage of her, but even a woman as capable as Princess Huayang looked at her differently at Madam Lin's birthday party.
And those old guys with the surname Liu!
When her identity as a woman was exposed, they considered both military rules and moral principles, and wanted to drown her with spit.
But if it were Song Yanxi, she would become a gifted young person who is to be feared.
What kind of drug did she give them?
Zhuang Shihan met Lin Tingfeng's slightly disappointed eyes, leaned lazily back in the armchair, and looked like an outsider watching the fun.
Seeing her like that, Lin Tingfeng felt an inexplicable rage rising in his heart. He gritted his teeth and said, "Shihan, you must not be disrespectful in front of the prince."
Before he could say anything about women sitting properly, Zhuang Shihan casually crossed her legs and said, "The prince hasn't said anything yet, why is General Lin so anxious?"
It is true that the emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is.
Meeting the smile in her eyes, Lin Tingfeng couldn't help but think of what she had said before, and felt even more depressed for a moment.
They were going to be husband and wife, how could she think of him like that?
If he is a eunuch, then what is she?
Shihan in the past would never be so ignorant.
Zhuang Shihan turned away from him and urged impatiently, "General Xu, please tell them to move faster. I'm very sleepy."
Xu Xiao nodded and ordered outside the door, "Tell General Cheng to search the princess's courtyard first."
After hearing this, Zhuang Shihan finally realized what was going on.
The man surnamed Xu talked for a long time, and it turned out that he just wanted to search her yard first.
She chuckled lightly and said coldly, "I hope General Xu can really find something useful, so that such a big effort won't be wasted."
Xu Xiao picked up the teacup and took a sip, then said with a half-smile, "Thank you for your kind words, Princess."
Zhuang Shihan snorted coldly, turned around and asked, "Princess Yong'an has been busy for a long time, have you found anything?"
Song Yanxi closed the medicine box with her backhand and said calmly, "At present, we can only confirm that she died of poisoning, and her posture before death was relatively calm.
As for the specific type of poison and its source, I still need some time to find out."
"So, you didn't find anything?"
"Your Highness can say that."
I thought she would get angry, and Zhuang Shihan had even thought about how to refute her.
The only thing I never thought about was that I would punch cotton.
This feeling of powerlessness, of being unable to vent her anger, made her heart ache and she even wanted to kill someone.
She said sarcastically, "Old Liu and the others praise you all day long, and I thought you were some great figure, but you're nothing more than this."
This one sentence made the faces of the three men in the room change.
Song Yanxi smiled faintly and asked with a sincere look, "My medical skills are not very good, so I can't find out what kind of poison it is. I think if Princess Shihan were to examine it, she would definitely be able to tell what poison this woman has been poisoned with."
Her words undoubtedly put her on the fire.
Zhuang Shihan said awkwardly, "Since General Xu has entrusted this matter to you, it is your business. How can I, the princess..."
Without waiting for her to refuse, Song Yanxi asked in surprise: "Isn't Princess Shihan from the Divine Doctor Valley?
Is there any poison in this world that even the princess cannot identify?"
She sighed softly and said with some regret, "If that's the case, then my little bit of practice wouldn't be in vain."
Hearing her words of agreement, Zhuang Shihan couldn't help but look more suspicious.
When did this Song family become so humble?
She was afraid that Qing had set a trap for her on purpose and was waiting for her to fall into it.
Zhuang Shihan's face fell, and she said bluntly, "I'm only responsible for saving people, not investigating cases. After all, I take on as many tasks as I can."
The implication was clearly a mockery of Song Yanxi for not being that capable and yet still accepting Xu Xiao's request.
Whether it involves Liang State captives or Wen Qi's favorite concubine, if you look into it carefully, you won't know how many troubles are hidden behind it.
Anyone with a bit of common sense would have stayed as far away from it as possible. If it got on your body, you wouldn't be able to get rid of it.
"Bang!" Xu Xiao put the teacup heavily on the table with a cold face.
He said in a gruff voice, "If everyone in Da'an were like Princess Shihan, only thinking about saving themselves and ignoring the overall situation, they would have been annihilated under the iron hoof of Liang State long ago."
Zhuang Shihan looked nonchalant, "General Xu, there's no need to say this. I don't buy into this moral blackmail."
Xu Xiao's brows knitted into a "川" shape and he said angrily, "I hope that when I return to the capital to see the emperor, the princess will be able to stick to her own opinion like this."
Zhuang Shihan put on a smile and said, "Of course."
The provocation between his eyebrows was not concealed at all.
Xu Xiao's face turned livid with anger, but because she was a woman, she couldn't say anything too harsh. She only managed to squeeze out a sentence through gritted teeth, "I'll wait and see."
As time passed, Zhuang Shihan's patience soon ran out.
After she asked to eat the roast goose at Wangjianglou and was rejected, she became completely unable to sit still.
She asked Xu Xiao directly, "If you can't find anything in my yard tonight, are you going to sit here and wait?"
Xu Xiao glanced at the sky and was about to speak when he heard Zhuang Shihan continue coldly, "I've only had one bowl of porridge this morning. Even death row prisoners get three meals a day. Does General Xu intend to starve me to death?"
As soon as she finished speaking, several maids came in quickly, holding trays filled with cakes of various styles.
Xu Xiao's original intention was to shut Zhuang Shihan up, but he didn't expect her to be so impatient.
After being busy for half a day, Zhuang Shihan was indeed tired and hungry. When she saw the pastries, her expression immediately relaxed a lot.
She picked out the ones she liked and ate two, praising them for once: "The chef at the General's Mansion is average, but I didn't expect this pastry to be so good."
Xu Xiao said politely, "If the princess likes it, please use more."
As he was speaking, a man ran in hurriedly and said in a panic, "General, this is not good."
"No need to panic, speak slowly."
"In reply to the general, something was found in the princess's courtyard!"
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