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

A few more days passed.

After a heavy rain, the weather became hotter.

An Huanyan stared at the invitation sent by the Hai family on the table in a daze.

Jiang Xingkuo picked it up and took a look at it. Suddenly he remembered what happened a few days ago and his alarm bells rang immediately.

"Even if the royal family wants to show up, why must you go? Don't you have two brothers?" Jiang Xingkuo picked up the invitation, looked at it again and again, and felt that something was not right.

"My prince is so busy with all kinds of affairs that he doesn't even have time to take a shit. How can he have the time to go?" An Huanyan sighed helplessly, holding her face.

"What about your second brother?"

"He, isn't he busy taking care of my dying father? According to the imperial physician, my father will only live in these few days." She changed her posture and sighed again.

"If you don't go, won't it be enough if the gifts arrive?" Jiang Xingkuo frowned.

"The Hai family is powerful and influential, and we can't afford to offend them." An Huanyan shook her head.

It’s not that she doesn’t understand the interests involved in the palace, she just doesn’t want to face them.

On the day of departure, Jiang Xingkuo wore a veil and kept a low profile, blending in with the maids.

Just as they were about to go out together, she was stopped by someone.

"Miss Jiang, His Royal Highness the Second Prince asks you to come over." The palace maid said with lowered eyebrows.

"Tell him that if there is anything, wait until I come back to talk about it." Although Jiang Xingkuo was confused, he still refused.

"Miss Jiang, the Second Prince said it was about Mother Zhao."

Jiang Xingkuo widened his eyes and glanced at An Huanyan in panic.

"What's wrong?" An Huanyan noticed her uneasiness.

"It's okay." Jiang Xingkuo forced a smile, pulled An Huanyan to a corner, gave her instructions again and again, then reluctantly watched her leave.

"Let's go." Jiang Xingkuo followed the palace maid, and the palace maid took her to the thatched cottage.

A peach sapling in the yard is growing vigorously.

"You're here." The second prince smiled slightly, asked her to sit in the rattan chair in the yard, and made her a pot of tea.

"If you have something to say, please make it short." Jiang Xingkuo had no intention of sitting down or drinking tea.

"You have never been such an impatient person." The second prince raised his head and looked at her strangely.

"Ahem." She pretended to be calm as she sat down and blew on the teacup, but her mind was not on it at all. "Mother Zhao, what's wrong? What do you know?"

A hint of sadness flashed across the second prince's eyes, but he still took out a few pieces of paper from his arms and handed them to her.

Jiang Xingkuo took it and looked at it. His eyes narrowed slightly. He swallowed and stammered, "This... this is... Wei Chuchu's indenture contract. How... how did you get it..."

"Mother Zhao is dead." The second prince said calmly with no expression on his face.

Jiang Xingkuo took another long breath of cold air, and his smile was uglier than crying: "What did you say? You..."

"I didn't kill him." The second prince met her shocked eyes, "I just knew you needed something."

"How do you know?" She stood up suddenly, her knuckles turning white as she pinched the papers.

She only told Wei Chuchu about such a secret matter.

If what happened that day were known to others, then the matter of the aphrodisiac would definitely be made public.

I don't know what tricks Hai Yanze will come up with by then. After all, the enemy is in the open and we are in the dark.

The second prince looked at her face which showed red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, and found it quite funny. He couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.

"Don't think too much. It was Wei Chuchu who asked Mother Zhao to redeem her."

"Oh." Jiang Xingkuo glanced at him casually and pretended to drink tea. "Then how did you get this thing?"

"I once did a favor to Mother Zhao. When she was being hunted, she found my people and begged me to save her life." The second prince stared at Jiang Xingkuo without blinking.

"Then why did she die anyway?"

"I'm in the imperial city, out of reach." The second prince looked away unnaturally. "So, do you want it or not?"

"Yes, yes, yes, of course." Jiang Xingkuo quickly stuffed the paper into his arms, but looked at him without doubt, "What are your conditions?"

The second prince smiled bitterly and said, "Does it mean that if I give you something, in your eyes, it is a conditional exchange?"

Jiang Xingkuo immediately felt embarrassed. "...I used my meanness to take away the belly of a gentleman."

The second prince smiled with relief.

"Well, I still have some things to do..." Jiang Xingkuo thought of An Huanyan and was still a little restless.

Unexpectedly, the Second Prince's expression suddenly dimmed.

"...I didn't expect you to leave so soon. It's a pity to waste this excellent pre-rain Longjing tea, which I brewed especially for you. Well, if you want to leave, just go ahead. I told you. I don't want to exchange it for anything, including the time you spent with me."

He seemed to be suppressing his disappointment and looked into the distance.

When Jiang Xingkuo heard this, he felt that it was not right to drink the tea in his hand, nor was it right to put it down.

No, this guy looks a bit like a green tea boy! !

She gritted her teeth, but had no choice but to bite the bullet and chat with him for a few more words.

An Huanyan arrived at the Hai Mansion. Prime Minister Hai was standing there to greet her. His serious look made the scalps of the palace maids she brought with her tingle.

Hai Yanqing, who was standing behind her, looked at her approaching and wanted to say something but hesitated.

Because Hai Yanze next to him was staring at him.

He didn't quite understand. There was a vague feeling that something was about to happen in the whole mansion, but he was the only one avoided and the reason was never told to him.

An Huanyan looked at this family and grinned deliberately, laughing again and again until her eyes disappeared from laughing.

"Don't show your teeth when you smile! Don't show your teeth when you smile!" Prime Minister Hai despised her silently in his heart, but he welcomed her in.

After they sat down to the table, Prime Minister Hai made a special toast to her. "Your Highness Princess, you can come to celebrate my son's birthday. It really brings honor to the Hai Mansion! I am so grateful and I offer you a toast."

An Huanyan looked at the wine glass in front of her and remembered Jiang Xingkuo's repeated warnings to her.

She grinned again: "Then drink slowly. Drink less."

There was no intention of picking up the glass at all.

Prime Minister Hai's face twitched slightly and he could only drink the wine in the glass.

When he saw the birthday gift Song Yan held up, his face turned even more gloomy.

Hai Yanqing took it and looked at it, and was also frozen.

Everyone's eyes were attracted.

A piece of Hetian blue-white jade with a pig head jade pendant with the word "hai" engraved on both sides.

"Why don't you like it? I heard that you were born in the Year of the Pig. Look, this jade pendant can not only be worn, but also used for fun."

As she spoke, An Huanyan took the jade pendant and looked at the family members with different expressions through the two holes on the pig's nose.

"...Thank...thank you very much, Princess." Hai Yanze still accepted the jade pendant.

"You, the birthday boy, have received such a precious gift, why don't you toast to the princess and express your gratitude!" A fake smile appeared on Hai Yanze's scarred face.

"Princess doesn't drink, but does she look down on the Hai family?"