One month later.
"Your Highness, please come down quickly. If Prince Wei finds out what you've done, who knows what might happen!"
Xiao Lingzi really didn't know what had gotten into her young master.
A month ago, he woke up to find that he had broken his finger and had a big argument with the emperor, which angered the emperor so much that he banished him from the capital.
The Emperor said he would let the Crown Prince fend for himself, but in reality, he had said this in anger countless times, and the Crown Prince always pretended not to hear it.
Arguments between father and son are commonplace, and even Xiao Lingzi is almost used to it.
But this time it was very different.
The emperor sent the crown prince away, and he actually left.
Xiao Lingzi has been the Crown Prince's personal eunuch since childhood, and he knows best the thoughts of those noble families who plot against the Crown Prince.
If he leaves the capital, he will be surrounded by dangers.
But no one knows what the Crown Prince did, because when they left the city, they were safe and sound all the way, without even a single assassin.
Xiao Lingzi breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the Crown Prince would go to the bustling Jiangnan region for leisure.
After all, there were precedents of him arguing with the emperor and traveling alone to the south of the Yangtze River.
But he never expected that, following the Crown Prince, he would end up in the territory of Prince Wei!
Everyone knows that Prince Wei is a living devil; no one can mess with him, not even the title of Crown Prince!
But the Crown Prince was determined to come, and he even disguised himself before entering the city.
He thought the Crown Prince was going to make a big fuss, but who would have thought that he would enter the city with a clear goal, go into a small alley, and rent a house.
The next day, he climbed the ladder and secretly...sneaked peeks at the beautiful young woman next door!
It has to be said that Xiao Lingzi was devastated when she saw the Crown Prince peeping at her.
In his heart, the Crown Prince was by no means a bad and unruly person; he was a first-rate handsome and elegant man. It was just that those people couldn't see through him, which is why they demoted the Crown Prince to the ground.
This little eunuch saw things more clearly than anyone else.
However, the prince's glorious image began to truly shatter in Xiao Lingzi's heart when he secretly looked at other men's wives.
Xiao Sheng had no idea how rich the eunuch's imagination was; he stared at Jiang Tian with almost greedy eyes.
Jiang Tian is just 25 years old now, fresh and beautiful, and you can never get enough of looking at her.
Before anything had even begun, Xiao Sheng dared not delay; he had to seize the initiative.
From leaving the capital to arriving here, he didn't waste a single moment.
Xiao Sheng had already thoroughly investigated where Jiang Tian had lived and what her past was like.
Therefore, he successfully rented a house next to the Cui family's house.
In his eyes, Jiang Tian was incredibly beautiful.
She was dressed in simple clothes, yet she was so beautiful that no one could look away.
He was staring intently at Jiang Tian when the door suddenly opened, and a drunken Cui Zhiping staggered in.
Cui Zhiping was obese, and when he was drunk, he looked like a pig that had been smoked until it turned red.
Even through the wall, Xiao Sheng could almost smell the stench.
"Here, prepare some bathwater for me!"
Cui Zhiping could barely speak straight.
After he finished speaking, he went straight into the room, leaving Jiang Tian struggling to fetch water in the yard.
Upon seeing this scene, Xiao Sheng's expression immediately darkened.
He originally intended to take things long-term and give the two of them a good start.
Seeing Jiang Tian being tortured here made him furious.
After thinking it over, Xiao Sheng decided to kill the pig first.
Although he knew that Cui Zhiping was impotent and the couple had always slept in separate rooms, he absolutely could not accept Jiang Tian working like a slave in his house.
Xiao Lingzi was even more terrified when she saw her young master come down the ladder with a livid face.
"Your Highness, what has happened?"
Xiao Sheng looked at Xiao Lingzi and gave him a few instructions.
Xiao Lingzi was completely confused.
"Hurry up and do it!"
Seeing that he was still in a daze, Xiao Sheng couldn't help but urge him on.
If this idiot hadn't died for him in his past life, he really wouldn't want to keep such a dimwit by his side.
Xiao Lingzi immediately went out to take care of the matter.
He really couldn't understand why the Crown Prince would ask him to use money to buy hot water from the neighbors and have it delivered to the next door. What had happened?
About fifteen minutes later, two aunties knocked on the Cui family's door.
“Madam Cui, we boiled two extra buckets of water. It would be a waste to throw them away. Considering that it would be difficult for you to carry the water by yourself, we decided to let you use them as bathwater.”
The two aunts spoke very warmly; they had always been neighbors, so Jiang Tian naturally knew them.
Xiao Sheng stood on the ladder, listening carefully to Jiang Tian's response.
She spoke softly, "That's too much trouble. I'll give you the money instead."
"No need, no need. We burned too much at home, so we're just giving you the leftovers. Otherwise, it would be a waste. It would be too formal for you to give us money! Let us help you carry the water inside first!"
The two aunts were very quick and efficient, and soon filled the bath tub for Jiang Tian.
They also left the remaining buckets and hot water, so that Jiang Tian could return them after she finished using them.
After they left, Xiao Sheng saw Jiang Tian go into the house and say something, and then the pig staggered off to take a bath.
Fortunately, Cui Zhiping didn't ask Jiang Tian for help, otherwise Xiao Sheng would definitely have made his move tonight.
But he really couldn't wait.
He couldn't bear to see Jiang Tian suffer.
Three days later, Cui Zhiping, who had gone to a brothel to drink and have fun, suddenly went mad, stripped himself naked, fell off the platform, and died.
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