I'm in trouble again! My best friend, the princess in the group, please save me!

Hearing Song Yan's voice, An Huanyan quickly wiped away her tears and gave Jiang Xingkuo a forced smile.

"Come in! What's going on?"

"Princess, His Majesty just issued an edict to confer a title on Consort Yan, saying... saying... "

"Hurry up and tell me!" Jiang Xingkuo was extremely anxious.

"Zhaoyi Yan is pregnant!"

The two were shocked and remained silent for a long time.

"I thought……"

"I thought so too..."

They wanted to laugh, but were also confused and uncomfortable.

Songyan went out confused.

"Your father is quite powerful..." Jiang Xingkuo blinked.

"My father should be only in his fifties..." An Huanyan also blinked.

"In ancient times, living to seventy was considered rare."

"Too……"

"What's more, you are the youngest princess, and you will have no more children..."

"Too……"

"So this pregnancy came in a strange way..."

"That's right... Ouch!" An Huanyan's head was hit hard.

"You're a repeater!"

An Huanyan said aggrievedly: "Then what can we do! We can't do a paternity test here. Besides... if there are new brothers and sisters, even if I don't have them... Father and Mother shouldn't be too sad..."

"You're overthinking it. Your father might be able to do it, but your mother definitely won't! And your brother won't either!" Jiang Xingkuo rolled his eyes at her.

"Oh! What you said makes me not want to go back!" An Huanyan sighed.

"Then you should pack up and get married soon. Khitan is not far away, probably in Inner Mongolia." Jiang Xingkuo sat down, lay down and continued to eat the crystal pork elbow he had just made.

"Wuwuwu... Just kill me!" An Huanyan screamed to the sky.

"It's not bad. In this era, they should still be riding horses and herding cattle."

"Don't say anymore!" An Huanyan covered her ears.

"I don't know if this Khitan prince has ever received any education... or knows Chinese characters... If I marry him, maybe I'll get pregnant and have two babies in three years..."

"Shut up!" An Huanyan stuffed the remaining pork elbow on the plate into her mouth.

"Hmm..." She took her elbow down and continued to shake her head, "What if your husband died? Will you still marry your brother-in-law and have a few more kids..."

"Ahh! Isn't this incest... It's so horrible..." An Huanyan didn't want to listen anymore and ran out howling.

Seeing that it was still early, she decided to go out.

The prince looked at the pearl milk tea brought by Jiang Xingkuo, looking at her and then at the milk tea.

"Drink it. It's not poisonous."

"I know." The prince picked up the teacup and took a sip.

The movement was so elegant and noble that Jiang Xingkuo blinked.

I didn’t know and would have thought I was drinking 1982 Lafite red wine.

"…It's surprisingly sweet, yet not greasy, with the fragrance of tea leaves and the smoothness of milk."

He savored it to his heart's content, marveling at it, and the image of Jiang Xingkuo, a plain-looking but inexplicably confident man, emerged in his mind.

When she raised her eyes, she was wearing a veil, hiding all her charm.

"What is this?" He bit into a pearl, and the texture bounced and slid away, leaving a fragrant taste in his mouth.

He looked at the empty milk tea and felt unprecedented relaxation, as if all his worries were left behind.

"How's it going? Not bad, right?"

"It's really good." The prince wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief.

"Just consider it as a thank you gift to His Highness."

The prince was stunned, "What thank you gift?"

"Snow Lotus of Tianshan Mountain." Jiang Xingkuo smiled, his eyes full of energy. "Although I don't know how Your Highness persuaded Yan Buwan, but thank you anyway!"

"How do you know..." The prince suddenly felt guilty at this moment.

"I'm a fortune teller, I know everything!" Seeing his inexplicable nervousness, Jiang Xingkuo could only joke around.

"Young lady, you are joking. By the way, has Huanyan found a new candidate? If it is still Hai Yanqing, it will be a headache." The prince quickly changed the subject.

"Although I don't like Hai Yanqing very much, but what if Huanyan must be with him?"

"Then I have no choice but to separate the two lovers. I really cannot hand Huanyan over to someone who has hurt her before." The prince's face turned serious.

Jiang Xingkuo forced a smile and said, "You probably don't understand her. Once she makes up her mind about something, she won't turn back even if she hits a wall."

"Miss, what you said is interesting. Huanyan is my sister. You have only known her for a few months. How can you know her better than I do?"

"..." Jiang Xingkuo was speechless and patted his waist with gritted teeth.

"What are you doing?" The prince was shocked.

"Nothing, nothing. I just saw a mosquito and swatted it away for you." Jiang Xingkuo smiled awkwardly, turned around and ran away. "I have something urgent to do. I'm leaving now!"

The prince put his hands behind his back and looked at her panicked back. Wu Ye walked out from the corner.

"Your Highness, she stole your token."

"I know."

"Should your subordinates go and get it back?"

"No need. See where they use it."

Meanwhile, the second prince was sitting in a thatched cottage, painting with his left hand while his right hand hung naturally.

Songyan put the milk tea on the small wooden table outside. He walked out and was stunned when he saw the milk tea with several large black beads floating in the brown water.

"Second Prince, please use it sooner. This thing will lose its flavor after half an hour."

After the pine smoke had gone away, Hai Yanqing came out of the thatched cottage.

"What kind of food is this?"

When he saw that thing, he couldn't help but pick it up and take a sip, but it was snatched away by the Second Prince, who seemed quite angry.

"What are you doing? When did you become so stingy?" Hai Yanqing looked at his reaction in surprise.

The second prince said nothing, but drank sip after sip by himself, his eyes shining.

"Isn't that a maid from Piyun Palace? Are you having any dealings with the princess...oh no, that ugly girl?" Hai Yanqing teased him.

"Just a few words." The second prince obviously didn't want to pay attention to him. He drank the milk tea in one gulp and wiped his mouth with satisfaction.

"Tsk, don't you never talk to anyone?"

"you are not human?"

The second prince's words choked Hai Yanqing.

"You're not talking to that ugly girl..."

"Let's talk business. What are you doing here?" The Second Prince's heartbeat quickened, feeling very strange.

Hai Yanqing glanced at him and said, "In a few days, the Khitan envoy will go back."

"and then?"

"I want you to send the envoy off on behalf of the prince."

The second prince put down his teacup and said, "This is for the crown prince only."

"What if the crown prince can't go?" A cold light flashed across Hai Yanqing's eyes.

The second prince just looked into the distance, "...even so, I still can't go."

"I will arrange everything you are worried about." Hai Yanqing continued to persuade.

"Go ahead. Let's pretend that today's conversation never happened." The second prince said as he stood up and walked into the thatched cottage.

"You just need a reason! I'll give it to you! A reason you can't refute!" Hai Yanqing shouted to the silent people in the room.

But the second prince did not answer him, so he could only stand up and was about to leave, but he almost tripped over the railing at his feet.

He steadied himself and looked over. He saw that the newly turned land was surrounded by a bamboo fence.

"What are you planting? Why do you have to fence it off?" he shouted into the house.

"peach."

The second prince's voice came from inside the room.

“…and they even specially surrounded it.” Hai Yanqing shook his head and walked away.

He just silently stretched out his right hand, looked again and again, and finally pulled down his sleeve to cover it.

He leaned against the mottled wall, feeling lonely and unwilling.

There were dark clouds outside the house. When I looked up in the afterglow of the setting sun, I felt so oppressed that I couldn't breathe.

The air also became humid and hot, and the heat waves rolling in from the ground forced all the palace gates to close tightly in an attempt to block out the annoying heat.

Jiang Xingkuo wrote two letters and put them under the floor tiles.

She walked outside, held out her hand, and went back inside before it started to rain.

She met An Huanyan's expectant and worried eyes, and the two looked at each other in silence.

They asked the servants to go and rest, and Songyan and the others were not required to keep watch. The two of them sat in front of the window, watching the crackling raindrops begin to fall.

"Let's go." Jiang Xingkuo quietly opened the door and slipped out.

An Huanyan followed carefully behind.

It was raining heavily and it was night, so even if the palace door was opened, no one would notice it.

The second prince looked at the heavy rain, but felt an inexplicable emptiness in his heart. He raised his head, his delicate eyebrows and eyes were filled with sorrow.

"Why is this happening..." he murmured, looking at the small piece of land outside the house that was surrounded by a fence.

Jiang Xingkuo and An Huanyan held up two black oil-paper umbrellas and hurried past the palace wall.

Jiang Xingkuo looked up and could not tell the direction in the heavy rain. He could only walk towards the Meridian Gate Tower based on his rough memory.

She remembered that this was the highest point in the entire city.

She pulled An Huanyan and walked past the Qianqing Palace. The water was rushing, and the wind and rain were beating down. Her lower body was wet up to her thighs.

Suddenly, An Huanyan grabbed her and pointed into the hall.

The door to the palace was not closed. The emperor and the empress were arguing about something. The empress had a sad face but was determined, while the emperor was furious and upset.

Faintly, they heard An Huanyan's name. Seeing Huanyan's pleading eyes, Jiang Xingkuo reluctantly took her sneakily closer to the door so that he could hear clearly what they were talking about.