"Biyu, is it? You've served the princess for over ten years, which shows you're intelligent. But, logically speaking, an intelligent person shouldn't do something so unwise."
The princess and her husband's family entered the palace in the morning, and our group met them around noon. The whole process took less than three hours, including the time the princess and her husband's family spent resting in Guiyuan after the lunch banquet.
Our group's contact with the princess and her consort was limited to a brief greeting and a few words after the prince and princess introduced us.
Then Yuheng took her younger sister to visit your Princess Zhaohua. Based on this alone, you think we should rely on Yaoguang's appearance to resemble the princess and thus curry favor with the princess and her husband?
As you yourself said before, we are already honored guests of the Prince Yi's residence, and the Prince and Princess have treated us as benefactors. What kind of wealth and status do we want? The Prince and Princess cannot satisfy us, so why should we try to curry favor with the Princess and the Prince Consort? Isn't that redundant?
Let me tell you something else: the princess's brother, the current emperor, also has a good relationship with us.
He tried to persuade me to stay in the capital as a lady-in-waiting, offering me whatever conditions I wanted, but I refused. Why would I bother scheming and currying favor with your princess and prince consort?
If I wanted to give Yaoguang a good status and have the prince and princess recognize her as their adopted daughter, they wouldn't refuse, would they? It's not like they can't afford to raise her.
Even if I were to speak to the current emperor and ask him to bestow upon Yaoguang the title of county princess, county princess, or even princess, it wouldn't be a difficult matter.
Do I really need to force people into your princess and prince consort's service? And you, as a maidservant by the princess's side, do you need to be so sensitive and react so strongly? Isn't this overreaction a bit abnormal?
"So, what exactly happened? Are you planning to tell your master privately, or do you want me to reveal it here?" Hong Xiaoduo asked with a smile.
It wasn't that she liked to keep people in suspense or talk nonsense; she simply wanted to see how much more this person could struggle.
Through her observation of the prince consort, Hong Xiaoduo has ruled out another less desirable possibility: that Zhaohua is not the child of Biyu and the prince consort.
Hong Xiaoduo breathed a sigh of relief.
Everyone present, except for Quan Jinghuai, Fei Yan, and a few children, thought Hong Xiaoduo was incredibly arrogant after hearing her words!
Prince Yi also thought she was arrogant, but he also knew that what she said was true, and that she did indeed have such abilities.
Leaving aside how much her the emperor's nephew on the throne in the capital valued her, let's just talk about what he saw and heard in Huazhou, Baishi City, and Hongliu City when he went to Huazhou to find his daughter.
General Gong Wei's attitude towards her can be attributed to the fact that she was his son's benefactor.
But what about the other generals besides General Gong? Why do they all show her such respect and admiration, treating her like her underlings and followers?
Prince Yi also learned a general idea. It turned out that the reason why the enemy army was defeated several times was because of her help. She could control wolves, and not just ordinary wolves. She could destroy the enemy's powerful weapons, and she also had extremely powerful gunpowder bombs.
Although it's said that seeing is believing, Prince Yi was certain that the generals hadn't exaggerated. And her abilities weren't mere illusions of martial arts practitioners.
It's no wonder that the emperor's nephew on the dragon throne would value such a formidable figure.
However, Prince Yi did not feel regret that the man had failed to keep her in the capital.
Given her righteous nature—she'll intervene in anything, big or small, as long as there's injustice—it's already a blessing for the country that she's here in Fengliang.
Prince Yi thought that his nephew should directly appoint her as a first-rank imperial envoy, without restricting where she went or what she did, so that she could go wherever she wanted. How wonderful that would be!
As Prince Yi was pondering this, he heard Biyu, whose face had turned even paler, speak up: "What nonsense are you spouting, you little lady? I don't understand."
The voice sounded even more panicked than before.
Upon hearing this, Hong Xiaoduo looked at Yuening and her husband and said, "Princess, Your Highness, since that's the case, would you two be interested in witnessing my bloodline identification skills?"
After exchanging glances with the prince consort, Yuening looked at Zhaohua, who had lowered his head again, and after a moment of internal struggle, she said, "It's a rare opportunity to witness such a miraculous technique, so we certainly can't miss it."
Upon hearing the princess's agreement, Hong Xiaoduo turned to Prince Yi and said, "Your Highness, you have personally performed this bloodline identification procedure. Now, please have someone fetch the necessary items for me."
"I will come in person." Upon hearing this, Prince Yi immediately stood up, thought for a moment, then called to his queen beside him, and walked towards the princess and her consort, turning back to ask questions.
“Just a strand of hair will do,” Hong Xiaoduo replied.
It was a bit of a surprise that the prince would take action himself.
Yuheng and Brother Quan had also obtained the hair from these people, but now Hong Xiaoduo changed her mind and did not ask them for the hair she had already obtained. Instead, she waited for Prince Yi to take the hair in public.
“Ning’er, this matter concerns your bloodline, so please don’t blame your uncle for being impolite,” Prince Yi said to his niece with a touch of heartache.
"Thank you for your trouble, Imperial Uncle." Yu Ning only heard that she was to have a strand of hair removed, but she didn't know the proper way to do it, so she simply turned her head and bowed slightly to let her Imperial Uncle do it himself.
Prince Yi reached out and plucked two strands of hair from his niece's head, then turned and handed them to the princess. He then took strands of hair from the prince consort and Zhaohua, keeping one for himself.
"Please trouble Your Highness to also retrieve a strand of Biyu's hair," Hong Xiaoduo said again.
Prince Yi walked to Biyu's side and used his free left hand to pluck a small strand from Biyu's hair. His movements were not as careful and gentle as when he plucked the hair from the princess and her family.
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