45 Crisis (2/2)

At this time, An Jinxiu was busy with An Yuanzhi's joining the army. As always, Grand Preceptor An reprimanded An Yuanzhi for his decision to join the army, but he spoke harshly about it.

As long as An Yuanzhi dared to join the army, he would never have a son like An Yuanzhi again. How could An Yuanzhi care about the Grand Preceptor's harsh words? After a complete falling out with him, An Yuanzhi settled in the Shangguan household, waiting for An Jinxiu to clean up his luggage and leave the capital.

Seeing that she could not persuade An Yuanzhi to wait any longer, she wrote to Shangguan Yong, asking him to look after him.

Grand Preceptor An ignored An Yuanzhi's departure. To the Grand Preceptor, An Yuanzhi was just a concubine son. Without his care, how could he have made a name for himself by joining the army?

He will wait for the time that this son to come home and beg after he had been badly battered outside. Currently, Grand Preceptor An was more concerned with the crown prince than with An Yuanzhi. His attitude towards the crown prince was getting worse and worse, and he was scolding him whenever the latter was mentioned. This made Grand Preceptor An extremely anxious, wanting to help the crown prince, but he didn't know why the Emperor was so suspicious of the crown prince.

After the night fell, Grand Preceptor An sat in his study. Outside the window, it had rained for several days in the capital city, but the rain still hadn't stopped. As he listened to the sound of the rain, he grew more and more confused. While he was helpless, Grand Preceptor An wasn't sure if his eldest daughter, An Jinyan, would still be sleeping peacefully in the Eastern Palace.

At this moment, An Jinyan was sitting in a small parlour in the East Palace. She looked down at Eunuch Xie who was sitting below her and said with a smile, ”It's really not easy to talk to Eunuch Xie.”

With a face full of smiles, he said, ”What identity does this servant have? How can this servant meet the Crown Prince's consort?” If there's anything the Crown Princess needs, feel free to instruct your servant. ”

In order to let Eunuch Xie come to the Eastern Palace for a visit, she had even sent out the White Jade Buddha that the crown prince kept in his private storage in the Eastern Palace. Only then did she invite this famous person from the Emperor over, ”I know that there are a lot of official affairs and you can't be absent for a long timehere.” An Jinyan said to Eunuch, ”Eunuch knows what I want to know, so it's better if we just don't waste time.

Eunuch Xie retracted the smile on his face and said somewhat awkwardly, ”Esteemed imperial concubine, His Majesty is the only one in this world who doesn't lacks anything.” ”This servant is also a fool. I only know how to serve His Majesty. The other servants know nothing at all.”

”Eunuch, His Highness won't forget you,” An Jinyan said, ”People should sometimes look further ahead, only after a long period of time can one enjoy wealth. To you, Eunuch, a period of wealth is meaningless.”

With a smile that wasn't a smile, Eunuch Xie replied, ”Esteemed wangfei is too serious. His Majesty really did like one thing recently, but from servant's point of view, even if the crown prince was filial and filial, he still wouldn't be able to give it to His Majesty.”

An Jinyan said, ”If Eunuch doesn't tell us, how would we know that His Majest want that the Crown Prince can't do it?”

”His Majesty has taken a fancy to a woman,” Jilly said.

”Women?” This answer was out of An Jinyan's expectations. The world knew that Emperor loves beauties, so it wasn't strange that they would fall for a woman. What kind of beauties were not available to the emperor?

At this moment, Eunuch Xie rose from his seat and walked over to An Jinyan. He spoke almost in a whisper, ”The second lady of the Residence of An is a heavenly beauty. Your Majesty has always been thinking about her, but unfortunately, she's already married. Can this official take her away?”

An Jinyan sat blankly on her seat.

”Esteemed wangfei, Thus servant still has matters to attend to in His Majesty's imperial study. This servant will be leaving now,” Eunuch Xie knelt before An Jinyan and left the small parlour.

”Master,” the eunuch, Wu Shun, who had been waiting at the foot of the hall, hurriedly greeted him with an umbrella as he saw that Eunuch Xie was coming out.

Eunuch Xie looked at his disciple and asked, ”Why don't you serve His Highness the Crown Prince?”

Wu Shun raised more than half of the umbrella above his head and whispered, ”The crown prince's palace is over there. He doesn't need the servants to follow him.”

”new concubine?”

”Yes, she is the newly selected beautiful lady,” Enlightened Shun said. ”This servant has also seen a beautiful lady.”

The Crown Prince was going to favor a pretty girl, but the Crown Princess was still planning his future. The couple from the Eastern Palace were rather interesting.

”Ha,” Eunuch Xie laughed.

”What's wrong, Master?” he hurriedly asked.

”It's fine,” It seemed that the Crown Prince's consort, An Jinyan, was not a kind woman. To send a married woman into the palace, could An Jinyan really do such a thing?

”The Crown Princess … she …” Wu Shun wanted to continue asking.

”Shut up!” Eunuch Xie understood and said, ”How did I teach you? The talkative servant always dies early, do you think you have lived too long? ”

He quickly shut his mouth.

”Serve His Highness the Crown Prince well. If there's anything you need to know, let me know who it is.” E7nuch Xie patted Wu Shun's face as he reminded him.

”This servant understands,” Wu Shun hurriedly replied.

On the way out of the Eastern Palace, Eunuch Xie turned around and glanced in the direction of the Eastern Hall. He was waiting to see how far An Jinyan could go for the crown prince.

An Jinyan, who was sitting in the parlour, had already regained her senses. The Emperor was interested in An Jinxiu? An Jinyan's first thought was, could it be that the eunuch named Xie had been bribed by a prince to say such crazy things to harm her and the crown prince? But when An Jinyan thought about it, from giving a marriage gift to the full moon banquet for her son, the Emperor actions towards a fifth-grade military official was actually a bit too benevolent.

An Jin. This was the first time in her life that the Crown Prince's consort, An Jinyan, had lost sleep because of this little concubine.