Arriving at the courtyard arranged by Rong Qizhou, Su Ruojin looked at the girl who was still unconscious on the bed and narrowed her eyes.
Isn't this the maid who ran towards the pavilion yesterday?
Where did you find her?
"A mass grave. My men heard from the servants of the Princess's residence that the Princess's residence has thrown another maid who wasn't completely dead into a mass grave. This is the third one this month," Rong Qizhou replied.
"Yanluo".
"Yes, Miss." Yanluo walked to the maid's side and began to provide first aid.
"Miss, she has been flogged. If she doesn't wake up tonight..." Before Yanluo could finish speaking, Su Ruojin understood.
This maid must have committed some offense at the Princess's residence, and was punished with caning, eventually fainting but still clinging to life.
Normally, someone like that wouldn't survive, so the people in the princess's residence simply threw her into a mass grave.
"Yanluo, keep an eye on her. If she wakes up, send someone to inform me."
"Yes, Miss."
Su Ruojin returned to the General's Mansion. As soon as she got off the carriage, Hu Qing came up to her and said, "Your Highness, the Prince invites you."
With the betrothal gifts already given, Hu Qing immediately changed his address, knowing that calling the prince that way would please him, and a pleased prince would make him more comfortable.
Inside the Regent's Palace, Xiao Yanchu stared at a small booklet in front of him, his eyes somewhat cold and somber.
At this moment, a servant came to report, "Your Highness, Princess Chang Le has arrived."
As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Qing brought Su Ruojin in, then withdrew and carefully closed the door.
“Ah Jin, you’re right. I really don’t know much about my elder sister. Look at this.”
Xiao Yanchu handed the booklet to Su Ruojin.
Su Ruojin slowly unfolded the booklet, her brows furrowing more and more as she read it.
Is this the gentle and kind princess that Xiao Yanchu described?
In the Princess's residence, any maid who intentionally gets close to the Prince Consort, or whose maid is even glanced at by the Prince Consort, will not survive past the next day.
The prince consort had kept a mistress who gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. When the princess found out, she had the mistress killed, and the twins, who were not even a year old, were drowned.
If there truly are wronged souls in this world, the sky above the Princess's residence must be filled with the vengeful spirits of countless women.
Xiao Yanchu could hardly believe it. "My elder sister was never like this before. If she were, she would never have risked her life to save me, an unfavored prince."
"Could it be that the evil energy within her body changed her?" Xiao Yanchu considered this possibility.
"Impossible. Evil energy can make a person irritable, but that irritability is only relative to normal and will not completely change a person's personality."
It is even more impossible to turn a kind person into a bloodthirsty person.
Su Ruojin directly refuted Xiao Yanchu's conjecture.
"What exactly is going on?"
Su Ruojin couldn't figure it out for a moment.
"Does the princess have any complaints about what she did?"
"The prince consort came from a poor family. When the princess went to the temple to offer incense, a landslide occurred, and the carriage was crushed. The princess was bitten on the ankle by poisonous insects in the mountains. The prince consort, who was also on his way to the temple to offer incense, encountered her."
The prince consort risked his life to suck the poison from the princess's foot, saving her life. He himself didn't wake up for three days, and from then on, the two developed feelings for each other.
Xiao Yanchu gave a brief account of how the prince consort and the princess first met.
"Why is it this same old cliché again?" Su Ruojin raised an eyebrow. "How capable is the prince consort?"
"His abilities are mediocre; he would not pass the imperial examination if he participated in the scientific expedition."
Su Ruojin understood that a prince consort with mediocre abilities and a poor background could have everything he had now entirely because of the princess. How could he dare to have any objections to what the princess did?
Everything sounded normal; it was not surprising that such a thing happened between a poor prince consort and a powerful princess.
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