After marrying the heirless prince, I gave birth to three children

Hongdou timidly followed Zhuqing into the house.

She was very uneasy.

For no reason...what does the Crown Princess want to see her for?

And I'm only looking for her.

"Your servant pays her respects to the Crown Princess." Hongdou knelt down respectfully, not daring to look up.

Xie Yao raised her eyes and asked, "Hongdou, are your mother and younger brother okay?"

Hongdou's heart was filled with alarm, "Thank you for your concern, Princess. Everything is fine."

"Your younger brother is eight years old this year, right?" Xie Yao said slowly. "I heard he's very smart and has a photographic memory."

Hongdou suddenly raised her eyes, her expression slightly changed, her eyes full of vigilance, "What does the Crown Princess want to do?" He investigated her family so thoroughly, and even revealed it in front of her...

The person is not good!

Xie Yao looked at Hongdou calmly and was not in a hurry to speak.

Those calm eyes made Hongdou's heart beat like a drum. What does the Crown Princess mean?

Did he discover something? Was he threatening her?

Hongdou was already feeling guilty, so she couldn't help but overthinking at this moment. She knelt on the ground, with big beads of sweat rolling down her forehead.

There was no response for a long time. The whole house was eerily quiet, and time seemed to stretch out...

"Crown Princess..."

Hongdou finally couldn't help but speak out.

Xie Yao chuckled and interrupted her, "If your brother can obtain the indenture contract and then find a teacher to study hard, he may not be hopeless in the future."

Hongdou suddenly raised her eyes, her eyes full of shock.

"What do you think?" Xie Yao raised her eyebrows slightly, feeling very confident.

It wasn't the first time she had talked about this with Hongdou, and she had more advantages in this life.

In her previous life, her dowry and body contract was in the hands of Madam Xie. In this life, it was in her hands, making it easier for her to control it.

Hongdou's heart sank completely. What else could she not understand at this point? The Crown Princess must know everything.

"I am willing to serve the Crown Princess." Hongdou bit her lower lip and made a quick decision, "Please, Crown Princess, save my mother and brother."

Xie Yao smiled, "Get up, I know you are a smart person."

Hongdou didn't hesitate any longer and said, "Madam instructed me to monitor the Crown Princess and inform her of any news. As far as I know, Madam isn't the only one looking for me, but who else... I don't know."

After a pause, Hongdou continued, "On the day the Crown Princess got married, Madam gave me a packet of medicine."

Xie Yao's face darkened slightly.

She knew that Mrs. Xie had arranged more than one person.

But medicine?

"What medicine?" Zhu Qing's face changed drastically, and he looked at Hong Dou with wariness in his eyes.

Hongdou immediately said, "The medicine is placed on my pillow. I haven't touched it yet. Please understand, Princess!"

Xie Yao gave Zhu Xin a look. Zhu Xin stepped forward to help Hong Dou up and handed another object to Zhu Xin. "The Crown Princess naturally trusts you."

Hongdou lowered her eyes and saw that what Zhuxin handed her was her brother's indenture.

She immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Xie Yao, "Thank you, Crown Princess! Thank you, Crown Princess! I am willing to go through fire and water for you."

"Why would I ask you to go through fire and water?" Xie Yao chuckled. "Don't think too much. Just do what you need to do on a daily basis. I'll find you when I need you."

"As long as you are obedient, I can personally find a famous teacher for your brother."

Hongdou's heart dropped completely, and she was only moved. She looked at Xie Yao with great gratitude and said respectfully, "Yes! Thank you, Princess. I will obey you."

"Zhuqing, send Hongdou out."

Zhuqing replied yes and sent Hongdou out of the inner room.

"Crown Princess." Zhu Xin then asked, "You are kind-hearted. If you give the indenture to Hongdou right now, what will you do if she changes her mind?"

"She won't." Without this certainty, she wouldn't be so generous.

Besides, Hongdou's younger brother was indeed smart. Two years in his previous life, he became famous in the capital and was named a child prodigy.

She didn't mind selling it well, and besides... the child prodigy had other uses for her.

When she came back not long after, she had a paper bag in her hand. "Princess, this is the medicine that Madam Xie gave to Hongdou."

Xie Yao took a look and said, "I'll quietly find a doctor to ask tomorrow."

It’s definitely not a good thing.

But you need to ask a doctor to find out what it is specifically.

The next day, when Xie Yao woke up, the pain in her waist was gone and the blood clot had dissipated, but there was still a little purple bruise on her waist, which was particularly conspicuous against her snow-white skin.

Zhu Xin applied medicine to Xie Yao's waist, and then helped her get up. As Xie Yao put on her clothes, she said, "Go and invite His Royal Highness the Crown Prince over."

A rich and exquisite breakfast was prepared in the main courtyard.

As soon as Xiao Ji entered the room, his eyes fell on Xie Yao's waist, "Are you feeling better?"

"Thanks to Your Highness, the pain is gone now." Xie Yao thanked him gently.

The couple sat down to eat, and Xie Yaocai said, "Your Highness, I recently checked the account books in the mansion and found some unreasonable things."

There is no mistress in the Prince’s Mansion. Although Nanny Xu is trusted by the Prince, she is not the master after all.

Although she grew up under the care of her stepmother, she learned a lot of housekeeping and accounting skills from her grandmother.

"I've been looking at the account books these past few days and have discovered that the money withdrawn from the accounting office is not being withdrawn on demand, but rather being withdrawn in advance at the beginning of the month."

The prince frowned slightly, "It is true."

"I think we should still follow the rules. Acting this way will cause too many hidden dangers..."

Xiao Ji looked at Xie Yao in surprise, "Oh?"

Xie Yao whispered, "Your Highness, you may not know that my maternal grandparents were in business. My mother died young, and my grandmother loved me so much that she gave me a shop to practice in since I was young. Zhuxin would occasionally go out and inspect these shops for me."

"When meeting with the steward of the mansion the day before yesterday, Zhuxin said that Steward Ding, who was in charge of the kitchen, looked quite familiar. She thought about it for two days before she was sure that she had seen him before at the Caijin Casino."

Xie Yao added, "The cloth shop across from Caijin's gambling house is my grandmother's shop."

Running a gambling house... is always not decent.

Of course, she hadn't really seen it. All of this happened in her previous life, but it happened half a year later.

The Crown Prince was severely punished by His Majesty for this, and he even considered deposing him. She heard it from Song Wenbo and that person afterwards, and only knew that the offender's surname was Ding, so she asked Zhuxin to find out last time.

Zhuxin naturally found out about his going in and out of the gambling house in the past few days.

Xie Yujiao was also reborn. In her previous life, she was the Crown Princess. Now she must resolve the hidden dangers in the Crown Prince's Mansion as soon as possible.

Otherwise, it will be a spear pointing to the Prince’s Palace!

After all, what that steward did was more than just gambling...

Xiao Ji's face darkened, a cold frost flashing in his eyes. "I will order a thorough investigation into this matter."

"As for the internal affairs of the palace, you are the Crown Princess, and everything is up to you. There is no need to ask me specifically. As for this Steward Ding... let's not alert him for now."

Xie Yao smiled brightly, "Okay! Your Highness, don't worry, I will definitely take good care of our family."

Xiao Ji: "..."

He paused slightly, coughed lightly, and stood up to leave.

Xie Yao looked at Xiao Ji's back as he left, a thought flashing through her eyes: the prince is really a good person.

If possible, she also wanted to help the prince avoid a dead end in two years.

After all, it is better for the child to have a father.

Although she doesn't have any children yet...

As soon as Xiao Ji left the main courtyard, he said to his personal attendant Si Nan, "Immediately investigate the officials in the mansion, starting with those with the surname Ding."