After Transmigration, I Snag a Stunning Bigwig as My Husband-Chapter 691 Calculation

Xie Jingchen looked at Duke Chong, "So Duke Chong plans to give up eating for fear of choking, considering only filial piety and ignoring the life and death of the Old Duke?"

Duke Chong’s face turned a shade of blue.

Marquis Dongxiang looked at him and said, "This time the Old Duke Chong was poisoned, I will definitely investigate thoroughly. If anything happens to him again in Dongxiang Marquis Mansion, I, Marquis Dongxiang, will accompany his old man with this Xiang Shang’s head of mine."

A hat of filial piety, coupled with Marquis Dongxiang’s promise.

If Duke Chong insisted on taking away the Old Duke Chong, then he would truly be unfilial.

Duke Chong clenched his fist, his teeth gritting with anger, but he was powerless.

He turned away in fury, and Xingxing threw a small knife from behind, "Last time a servant from Duke Chong’s Mansion came to fetch medicine, my lady gave medicine ointment to the Heir of Duke Chong out of respect for the eldest young master. Don’t forget to bring the silver note this time."

Su Jin thought, "..."

This maid constantly remembers the debt Duke Chong owes and hasn’t repaid.

But Su Jin only guessed half of it right.

Xingxing mainly disliked Duke Chong, daring to be aggressive with her Marquis, who still had things to ask of her lady.

If she didn’t remind him, he would surely forget.

Duke Chong was almost infuriated to the point of spitting blood on the spot.

He glanced back, his gaze icy cold, scaring Xingxing to hide behind Su Jin.

Marquis Dongxiang looked at Su Jin and said, "Tomorrow, the Old Madam of Prince Zhenbei Mansion will be buried, you should go back first."

"Be careful on the road," Mrs. Tang said.

Su Jin bid them farewell.

The Hidden Guard hurried over with a carriage, Xie Jingchen helped Su Jin get on board, and he also sat inside the carriage.

When the carriage went further away, Xie Jingchen said, "You seem not to be affected emotionally?"

Knowing one is not biological, there would always be some sadness.

Xie Jingchen came to bring back Su Jin, also to console her.

How could Su Jin say she is not the original Su Jin, such a blow is much smaller than knowing about time travel, she can endure?

"Perhaps it’s because my elder brother is ahead, after he returned to his ancestry everything remained the same, I’m not worried the relationship would become distant," Su Jin said.

What Su Jin said made sense, but Xie Jingchen felt her reaction was still too calm.

He guessed it might be related to amnesia.

She lost the memory of being with Marquis Dongxiang and them on Qingyun Mountain, and after amnesia, she married him after a few days of meeting them, so it was easier for her to accept not being biological.

Anyway, it’s best that she wasn’t affected.

The carriage slowly moved toward Prince Zhenbei Mansion.

The Prince Mansion looked no different from when Su Jin left.

After returning to the mansion, Su Jin first went to pay her respects to the Old Madam with incense.

The maids and servants in the mansion viewed Su Jin with somewhat different eyes than before.

From thinking of her as a female bandit, turning into a princess, the gap was too big.

Such a gap was hard even for the servants to accept, let alone Princess Nanzhang and Xie Jinyu.

Though Princess Nanzhang didn’t have the position of Princess Consort, she was still a Commandery Princess, not inferior to a Princess Consort in status.

Although the Princess Consort was also a Commandery Princess, she was the Nanliang Hengyang Princess, an identity that no one could acknowledge.

In Prince Zhenbei Mansion, Princess Nanzhang could rely on her identity as a Commandery Princess, but now Su Jin became a Princess.

Compared to a Princess, a Commandery Princess was as light as a feather.

Moreover, Su Jin, being a Princess, was sure to have a fief.

With the Emperor’s favor, the fief would surely be prosperous, perhaps even surpassing that of a Prince!

Princess Nanzhang recalled how they had relentlessly suppressed Su Jin after her marriage.

In the face of their aggressive schemes and attacks, Su Jin advanced unharmed, step by step.

From a feared female bandit of Qingyun Mountain to a lofty and unreachable Eldest Princess.

Is there anything more ridiculous and demoralizing than this?!

It’s like all their schemes fell through and turned into weapons that hurt themselves.

Only failures, never successes, no matter how determined, their morale was crushed completely.

The Prince Zhenbei Mansion was very calm.

Although everyone knew Su Jin was a Princess now, she hadn’t officially returned to her ancestry, and besides, they were still in mourning, it wasn’t a suitable atmosphere for too much thought.

But with a Princess offering incense, burning paper money, even accompanying Xie Jingchen on night watches, even the Old Prince and the Prince felt distressed, but Su Jin insisted on doing so, they could only comply.

Su Jin quietly burned paper money, unaware that at this moment, in the Imperial Palace, the Emperor was investigating the fire incident at Chaohua Palace.

From summoning Su Jin to the palace to having her redirected to Chaohua Palace, it was a grand scheme all along.

This plot was not only aimed at Su Jin but also targeted Consort Li.

As the Emperor investigated the case, all fingers pointed at Consort Li.

The messenger eunuch was killed, someone was seen with a little eunuch from Changchun Palace furtively pulling that eunuch.

Moreover, Consort Li invited the Emperor to Chaohua Palace for tea, whereupon half a cup later, the Emperor, under drug influence, embraced Consort Li onto the bed.

Even Eunuch Fu noticed something strange, let alone the Emperor.

The Emperor investigated and found the tea contained drugs that, when combined with the flowers in the room, worked as an aphrodisiac, muddling his mind.

Consort Li had no way to defend herself.

Though she was an Imperial Concubine, she bore the Emperor a son and daughter, having accompanied him for so long that the Emperor lost his novelty for her.

She held the Phoenix Seal, yet the Emperor seldom stayed in her chambers, and many concubines in the harem said he wasn’t in love but that she was the longest-serving.

In the harem, a woman fears being labeled as old, losing charm as affection wavers.

Consort Li exhausted her mind competing for affection, someone advised using drugs and scents to induce desire.

Fearing harm to the Emperor, she had her family first test it, ensuring no harm to the Emperor, then dared administer it to him.

Who would have thought this was a trap laid for her!

She foolishly fell into it.

She didn’t know how to argue that it was sheer coincidence someone falsely relayed an imperial decree summoning Princess Consort Zhenbei just as the Emperor was in her bed, and no one dared disturb.

The timing was so precise that anyone would believe it had been calculated.

Consort Li knew it was the Empress scheming against her, but she had no evidence.

The Emperor’s face was ashen.

He believed Consort Li didn’t do it, her holding the Phoenix Seal was owed to Princess Consort Zhenbei, otherwise, she might never have touched it in her lifetime.

With Princess Consort Zhenbei around, she would continue to clash with the Empress, Li’s best move was to ally with her rather than be at odds.

But for competing for affection, she dared drug the Emperor, this was intolerable to him.

Just because he was dazed, were it not for Eunuch Fu barging in and promptly rescuing Princess Consort Zhenbei at Chaohua Palace, he might have lost his daughter even before acknowledging her, in the palace where she was born, no less!

Anything related to Consort Yun was the Emperor’s sore point, Chaohua Palace usually was off-limits; Marquis Jibei being Consort Yun’s uncle meant even Duke Chong dared not target him.

Su Jin was the Emperor’s and Consort Yun’s daughter, whoever dared harm her, the Emperor would never forgive.