The princess was ordained by Heaven.

After Zheng Xun left, Commander Li reported everything that had just happened to the emperor.

The emperor was reviewing the memorial submitted by Qin Duzhi.

"The Wang family army...we don't need to worry about them for now."

Since Zheng Xun understands this person, let him stay with her to avoid causing a ripple effect and losing his perfectly good cavalry.

"As for that guy named Wang Laosi, since he's so ambitious, he probably doesn't even look down on our royal family. Let him leave. By the way, I don't want him to say anything that shouldn't be said."

Commander Li felt a chill run down his spine and accepted the order to leave.

Once the footsteps had faded into the distance, the emperor looked at Li Xiaojun and said, "Go and issue an imperial edict for me. Go in person."

Li Xiaojun watched as he wrote an imperial edict with a wave of his hand. Upon seeing its contents, he was somewhat surprised, but after a moment, he respectfully accepted it.

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When Eunuch Li arrived at the princess's residence to deliver the imperial decree, the Jiang couple had just left.

The imperial edict conferred upon her the title of Princess Yuanjia, and bestowed upon her a princess's residence and Tanzhou as her fiefdom. Keep in mind, that was an entire continent!

Moreover, the current name of the country is Zhaoyuan, and the emperor took one character from the country's name as her title.

She was also the second princess of the Dayong Dynasty to be conferred a title before reaching the age of marriage. The first one was Jianyang, who was conferred a title based on her military achievements.

She could already imagine how many old-fashioned men would be cursing the emperor and her during tomorrow's morning court session.

Very good and exciting.

Li Xiaojun congratulated her with a smile: "Congratulations, Princess Yuanjia. The Emperor has ordered the Ministry of Rites to renovate your princess residence, and you should be able to move in in about a month. However, the Emperor's intention is that you live in the palace before your coming-of-age ceremony. The Emperor has given you the Mingzhu Pavilion, and you can have a few trusted people manage the princess residence."

His gaze was kind and loving.

The Emperor solved the problem that had been troubling Zheng Xun, and she had no objection to this small request.

She just couldn't understand how she had suddenly become so favored.

Was she wearing a fake book? Could I be the beloved female lead?

Can't figure it out.

However, she was highly skilled and daring, and not afraid of being schemed against. The doubts did not linger in her mind for long before she dismissed them.

She slipped a silver note to Li Xiaojun, but he refused to accept it. Instead, he gave her a jade bracelet of excellent quality.

"Father-in-law, what is this...?"

Li Xiaojun smiled sincerely: "This is a congratulatory gift for the princess."

It was also a gift of thanks to her.

Fortunately, her prophecy relieved the Emperor of much worry. Moreover, she was the lifeblood of the Great Yong Dynasty, and as a person of the Great Yong, no amount of gratitude was too much.

Zheng Xun, unaware of the inside story, had a complicated look in her eyes. If it had been when she had just transmigrated, she would definitely have suspected that he had ulterior motives. But time and time again, she had come to understand that the people of Dayong were just good people.

She carefully put away the jade bracelet and said with a smile, "Father-in-law is too generous; it would be impolite of me to refuse."

“The princess should now refer to herself as ‘this palace’.”

He delivered several pieces of good news in a row. Zheng Xun wanted to keep him for a while, but the emperor couldn't do without him.

After Eunuch Li left, Zheng Xun unfolded the imperial edict and looked at it again and again.

The emperor is backing her up.

Having been ignored for so many years, there must be more than one or two people like Wang Laosi who don't know what's good for them. With this imperial edict, everyone will probably have to reassess her importance.

She happily put away the imperial edict and went to find her newly recruited Azure Dragon Guards.

She still had something to take care of.

After gathering everyone together, her gaze fell directly on Peng Li: "They say a new broom sweeps clean, but I find that troublesome, so I'll only do one."

She curved her eyebrows and smiled with a hint of innocence.

"Come here." She beckoned to Peng Li.

Peng Li didn't move, watching her warily: "Is the princess going to use me as a scapegoat?"

At this moment, her sense of crisis had reached its peak.

Then, she saw Zheng Xun walk up to her.

She instinctively tried to back away, but a sharp pain shot through her head, and then a pair of thin, small, seemingly weak hands reached out and deftly twisted off her limbs.

The dull pain in her hands and feet replaced the stinging pain in her head, and her consciousness gradually returned, only then belatedly realizing her situation.

"you……"

The way she looked at Zheng Xun was as if she were looking at some kind of demon or monster.

Zheng Xun guessed she wouldn't say anything nice, and glanced at Wei Yanxing: "Gag her."

After being called out, Wei Yanxing suppressed his shock and tore a large piece of cloth from the fifth brother next to him.

The fifth brother was used to his captain's occasional erratic behavior, so he remained calm.

Wei Yanxing dislocated Peng Li's jaw and stuffed a wad of cloth into her mouth.

Zheng Xun nodded in satisfaction: "After thinking about it, I think I should give you an explanation."

She looked around at everyone and said in a deep voice, "Do you want to know why I am targeting her?"

"I don't know."

Zheng Xun laughed: "Are you really unaware or pretending? Wei Yanxing, weren't you investigating her? How come you don't know now?"

Wei Yanxing was intimidated by her imposing manner and immediately knelt down to beg for forgiveness: "Princess, please forgive me. As expected, nothing can be hidden from your eyes. I did have some suspicions about Peng Li, but since I had no evidence, I dared not speak rashly."

Nothing can escape my eyes.

“You really like carved wooden hairpins…” She smiled meaningfully, and under Peng Li’s glaring eyes, she reached out and pulled the hairpin from her hair. Then, she skillfully unscrewed the seemingly flawless wooden hairpin.

The wooden hairpin was hollow, and inside was a small note with a few tiny characters: "Three or five birds return to the forest."

She passed the note around to the Qinglong Guards.

It's obvious that the note contains a coded message.

The seventh prince cupped his hands and volunteered, "Should I conduct an interrogation?"

"No need. The spies in the Brown Country are all in single-line contact and do not know each other's identities, so nothing can be found out."

Seeing that her scheme had been exposed, Peng Li finally stopped hiding her true emotions and gave her a smug look, seemingly certain that she wouldn't get any more information.

“However, nothing can escape my eyes,” Zheng Xun said calmly. “The note means that your Number Three and Number Five have been arrested, right? And you are the spy who contacted them.”

Her tone was firm, without a trace of probing.

"Let me think... who else are the spies within the Azure Dragon Guard?"

She pretended to be thinking, watching Peng Li try to struggle but was pushed back down by Wei Yanxing and Lü Mengying.

She suddenly lost interest and ordered, "Kill them."

With a flash of light from her sword, Lü Mengying separated Peng Li's head from her body in an instant. Her eyes were wide open, and her expression remained one of shock and disbelief.

What a sharp sword! What swift movements!

Zheng Xun inwardly praised the work, then patted the non-existent dust off his sleeves: "The matter is resolved, let's call it a day!"

The ninth sister, Yu Rong, didn't understand why she knew so much. She opened her mouth to ask, but was stopped by the third sister, Lü Mengying.