Born a phoenix? The husband I picked up is the young emperor

Chapter 1761

When the army was winning victory after victory, Xiao Zhi did not dare to propose a change of commander. He just hoped that the battle would be over soon and the prince consort would return to Beijing as soon as possible.

Which prince would have to worry about his sister giving birth every day? His father handed over such a big stall to him, which was really too difficult for him.

In fact, after the death of Empress Dowager Jiqing, he wanted to return to his fiefdom and become a leisurely prince. He wanted to fight for this position just for revenge.

Now that his enemy was dead, he had inexplicably become the crown prince. And he had just taken the crown prince's position and started to supervise the country. He really didn't even have time to breathe.

Xiao Zhi sat down again, flipped through the piles of memorials, sighed and murmured, "I have a heavy burden on my shoulders. I just hope that my father will return to Beijing as soon as possible to take charge of the overall situation."

Eunuch An was about to leave the imperial study, but when he heard the prince's mutterings, he felt that his master was too naive.

He rolled his eyes and said, "Your Highness, I heard a rumor. I wonder if I should tell you about it or not?"

Xiao Zhi raised his head and glanced at Eunuch An calmly, "If you have something to say, just say it. Don't keep us in suspense. If you really don't want to say it, don't start it."

Eunuch An hesitated, "Well, I won't say anything."

Xiao Zhi: “…”

If it weren't for the fact that Eunuch An was old and loyal to him, he would have wanted to punish him by making him kneel.

He looked at Eunuch An's expression and suddenly felt that something was wrong. He said in a deep voice, "Speak!"

Eunuch An's throat rolled a few times, his fingers in his sleeves twisting the tassel of his whisk unconsciously, and he finally spoke carefully, "There are frequent reports of great victories in the war ahead. Your Highness, do you think this is a blessing or a curse?"

Xiao Zhi paused for a moment as he held the pen, and the cinnabar spread a little scarlet on the memorial. "Of course it is a blessing. Why, are you hoping that my soldiers will suffer a defeat?"

The sound was not loud, but it made the silver charcoal in the hall seem a little colder.

"I dare not!" Eunuch An bent his waist very low, not daring to look his master in the eye, and said with a stiff face, "But the commander is the prince consort."

"So what?" Xiao Zhi put down the wolf hair brush and tapped his white jade ring on the table, making a crisp sound.

Eunuch An's cold sweat had soaked through his inner clothes. "The emperor is leading the army in person. The prince consort is the commander-in-chief, in charge of the seven military operations in the northern border. The tiger talisman in his hand can mobilize 300,000 troops."

"So what?" The same four words, this time covered with a layer of ice.

"Nowadays, the people call the Prince Consort the 'Northern Wing God of War', and everyone praises the Prince Consort's achievements." The old eunuch's voice became lower and lower, "The people only know that there is a Prince Consort in the Northern Wing, and they don't know that there is a Crown Prince at all."

"Shouldn't it be?" Xiao Zhi suddenly chuckled, scaring Eunuch An so much that he shuddered.

The old eunuch finally made up his mind, as if to spit out the thorn that had been stuck in his throat for many years, "I heard a rumor that the prince consort is actually the emperor's son who was exiled to the common people."

The wolf-hair brush suddenly broke on the inkstone, and the ink splashed all over the table. Xiao Zhi wiped his hands slowly, "Oh? Where did this nonsense come from?"

"That day, I left the palace to pray at Baoguo Temple..." Eunuch An stared at the ink stains on his master's fingertips, as if he was looking at some ominous omen. "When I came back and stopped on the road, I heard a few merchants in the teahouse talking about it with details..."

The palace was so silent that one could hear the sound of the night watch. Xiao Zhi looked at a plum blossom outside the window that was about to bloom, and suddenly remembered that many years ago he had presented a mahogany box, but his hands were filled with 50,000 silver notes from his husband.