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Xiao Jiu'an had suspected that there was a problem with the plants that Ji Yunkai was raising, but when he returned to the study room, he saw that the fresh green mint that was growing had died this morning.

That was more like it. If it did not die soon, he really would suspect that there was something wrong with the Princess Consort.

In the evening, Xiao Shaorong came over, and when he did not see the potted plant on the table, he was stunned for a moment and said, "Prince, it died?" It was not Xiao Shaorong's fault for asking such a question; it was simply because Xiao Jiu'an's track record was too glorious.

Xiao Shaorong sighed, pretending to be solemn as he said, "I didn't expect that even the Princess Consort would not be able to escape from your brutal destruction of plants."

However, Xiao Shaorong was not afraid of him, and continued to mock him, "You are ruthlessly destroying plants and not letting people say it, do you know that you are a tyrant?"

"If you have nothing to do, then scram. This King has no time to pay attention to you." Xiao Jiu'an lifted his head, and coldly swept his gaze across Xiao Shaorong.

Xiao Shaorong then stopped laughing and said seriously, "I have something to do. Do you know anything about the Grand Princess Mansion?"

"What happened to the Grand Princess?" Wasn't it already resolved? Does that woman still want to cause trouble?

It was just the death of the Vice Minister's Wife. Could it be that she dared to cause trouble for him?

"It is said that the tens of thousands of chrysanthemums in the Grand Princess Mansion all died in one night. Not only that, the peony flowers that the Grand Princess paid a huge price to cultivate all died as well. The Grand Princess was trying to vent her anger on the gardeners, saying that the gardeners had not been taking good care of all the flowers, which was why all the flowers in the mansion died." However, not many people believed this reason.

How inattentive were the gardeners to cause the death of tens of thousands of flowers in one night? To make tens of thousands of flowers die in one night was not an ordinary feat. It was impossible for ordinary gardeners.

Of course, the Prince was able to do what the gardeners could not.

However, people outside Prince Yanbei's Mansion did not know of his ability to kill plants mercilessly. Outsiders might not even know that there was a reason that Prince Yanbei's Mansion was as rigid as iron and steel and had no greenery, but everyone in the Prince Yanbei's Mansion knew of it.

Forget about just outsiders, even those staying in the Prince Yanbei's Mansion might not know, such as Ji Yunkai.

"Is this what you meant by serious matter?" Xiao Jiu'an coldly glared at Xiao Shaorong. If Xiao Shaorong dared to nod his head, then he would dare to throw Xiao Shaorong out.

"Prince, those gardeners are innocent." Xiao Shaorong silently shifted his position to avoid Xiao Jiu'an's ice-cold gaze.

"So?" Did Xiao Shaorong want him to save the gardeners?

How naive was Xiao Shaorong?

"Your Highness, they were implicated by you." Xiao Shaorong could not bear to see the hundreds of gardeners in the Grand Princess Mansion dying just like that.

"A woman's benevolence!" So what if they were implicated? How many people were implicated by him in the past few years?

The Yanbei Army suffered tens of thousands of casualties every year, weren't those people innocent?

However, to protect this country and his territory, those people had sacrificed themselves.

In this world, no one was truly innocent. So what if they were?

The person who wants to kill you will not show mercy just because you are innocent.

A person like him, who had climbed out of hell, would not soften his heart just because they were innocent. His heart had long since frozen over.

"Your Highness, there is also a spy from our Prince Yanbei's Mansion in there." If not for the fact that there was a spy in the Grand Princess Mansion, he would not have received the news so quickly.

Xiao Jiu'an secretly took a deep breath, then suppressed his impulse to beat someone up. He said, "Such a simple matter, and you still need me to do it?" He could save him if he wanted to, but he could not help him.

"Your Highness, you've agreed?" Xiao Shaorong was overjoyed, and his anxious heart was finally at ease.

He did have the ability to save him, but if the Prince did not agree, he would not do it either.

"Scram. This King does not want to see you." Xiao Shaorong was still not tough enough, and not cold enough either. Maybe he should throw Xiao Shaorong into the dark guards' training camp and let him suffer.

Only after suffering enough and experiencing the evilness of the human world would he understand that kindness would only harm him in the end.

"I will leave now. I thank the Prince on behalf of the hundred gardeners." Xiao Shaorong walked away happily, ignorant of what Xiao Jiu'an was preparing to do to him.

The next day, the news about how tens of thousands of flowers in the Grand Princess Mansion all died in one night spread out. At the same time, rumors of the Grand Princess killing too many people and causing too many deaths spread, which caused people to think that even the flowers were not willing to bloom in her home because of it.

When the Grand Princess heard this, she was so angry that she almost vomited blood.

"Investigate! Investigate! Investigate! Who spread the news?" Though the Grand Princess was domineering, she was not stupid. She was well aware of the severity of what the death of all the fresh flowers in her mansion would cause and had long since sealed off the news.

The Grand Princess had searched the mansion but still could not find out how the news had leaked out. At this time, the rumors spread even more widely. There were even rumors that the flowers in the mansion grew on rotten corpses, so the flowers bloomed much brighter, and because of the grievances of these corpses, they withered overnight.

After finding out that the flowers in the Grand Princess Mansion had died in one night, the Emperor frowned. He told the Grand Princess to investigate the reason behind the death of the flowers and to find a way to exchange the flowers for new ones.

The Grand Princess saw that the Emperor had no intention of blaming her, and she immediately replied, "Your Majesty, there must be someone framing me in this matter." No matter what, she had to get rid of her relationship with this incident.

"Where is the evidence? Do not speak without evidence." After hearing Xiao Jiu'an's words every day, the Emperor became annoyed and opened his mouth to say them out loud.

"Your Majesty, the person who framed me cleared the evidence long ago. Where can I find the evidence?" The Grand Princess was so angry that she stomped her feet. She had never suffered such a loss in her entire life.

Speaking of suffering a loss, the Grand Princess inevitably thought of the banquet yesterday, "Your Majesty, Xiao Jiu'an murdered someone in my residence in public. What should we do? And what about Madam Zhu's case? All of the evidence is pointed at Ji Yunkai. What should we do after this? "

Xiao Jiu'an and Ji Yunkai had beaten her face until it was swollen yesterday. If she did not take revenge for this debt, then she was not the Grand Princess of Revelation.

The Emperor's eyes lit up. "A life to repay a life. Since Imperial Sister has evidence, she should go to the Ministry of Justice and accuse them."

Didn't Xiao Jiu'an want evidence?

Now that there was evidence, he wanted to see how Xiao Jiu'an would defend himself. Furthermore, once this matter came out, no one would pay attention to the matter of the flowers dying in the Grand Princess Mansion.