What Bad Intentions can the Yandere Crown Prince have?-Chapter 347 - 343: To Seek Benevolence Is to Attain Benevolence
"Today at Le You Garden, it was my horse that hit a student from Huntian Academy."
After the Second Miss Tang left, Yu Jun voluntarily confessed.
Li Mu glanced at him indifferently: "Why didn’t you mention this earlier?"
Yu Jun gave a bashful smile: "I intentionally let the horse loose, afraid the Second Miss would beat me."
Li Mu lowered his eyes, offering no comment.
Yu Jun continued: "The student’s name is Luo Xiong. I saw he was trying to get close to Pingyang Princess, so I wanted to give him a lesson, not meaning to alarm the Second Miss."
Li Mu gave him a look: "I know this Luo Xiong."
Yu Jun chuckled: "First, he got close to the Second Miss’ maid, getting noticed by the Second Miss, then sought the chance to approach Pingyang Princess."
"Don’t act rashly if you aren’t sure you can handle the aftermath," Li Mu said indifferently.
Yu Jun acknowledged with a "yes" and said, "I will go apologize to the Second Miss now."
Upon hearing this, Li Mu’s brow twitched slightly, and he looked at him with deep eyes.
Yu Jun was half a year younger than him, with a gentle expression, weak brows, looking entirely harmless.
But—
"I will explain to her," Li Mu said.
...
Tang Xiaobai listened and was stunned for a moment before confirming: "You mean... Ah Wu let the horse loose and injured someone? And you are... pleading for him?"
"No," Li Mu immediately clarified, "I’m just relaying this incident."
Tang Xiaobai laughed angrily.
His coming personally to speak of this, wasn’t it implicitly asking her to let it go?
In fact, even if he hadn’t come, she wouldn’t have dragged Yu Jun out for punishment at this time.
But this matter was truly infuriating!
"He thinks Luo Xiong is deliberately getting close to Pingyang Princess? Did he find out clearly? The Princess herself said she just grabbed someone off the street randomly!"
Earlier, Pingyang Princess took a risk to slip out to seek help from Yu Jun, showing that there was some affection between the two in the palace.
But this indiscriminate anger against others was too extreme and rash.
"At such a young age, he acts recklessly, taking human lives so lightly, aren’t you going to manage him?" Tang Xiaobai glared at him and said.
Li Mu felt relieved, and replied in a good-natured manner, "I will manage, I will certainly discipline him well." It’s enough if she doesn’t personally want to discipline him.
He knew the temperament of the little girl in his house.
Yu Jun acted out of mere jealousy, letting his horse loose to hurt someone. His conduct was indeed lacking.
The Second Miss Tang couldn’t stand people "at such a young age" not learning proper behavior.
If Yu Jun came to apologize in person and acted obediently, the Second Miss Tang might just pay more attention, and it was even possible she’d personally guide him.
That’s why he took the matter upon himself.
"Ah Wu already knows he’s wrong and is afraid you’ll be angry when you see him, so he asked me to explain to you."
"Just explaining is useless," Tang Xiaobai was still somewhat angry, "Luckily Luo Xiong’s leg is fine, otherwise, how would it be resolved?"
Hearing her repeatedly mention Luo Xiong, Li Mu was not too pleased: "If his leg really got broken, I’d have Feng Hua treat him."
Tang Xiaobai looked at him curiously: "You’re actually behaving like a cousin!" Never seen him so protective of anyone before.
"It’s the right thing to do, to prevent him from being rude and offending anyone dear to you," he said.
That sentence was said with quite a bit of jealousy.
Tang Xiaobai found it both vexing and amusing: "Who’s dear to me? Where are they mine? Besides, is this a matter of whose person it is?"
Saying this, her face suddenly turned serious, cupping his face, she said: "You are now the Crown Prince, and will be the Emperor in the future, you must remember, all the people under the heavens are your subjects, no life should be taken lightly! Anyone who disregards the law and takes lives rashly is killing your people and slapping your face."
"We’ve already left the battlefield, and can no longer take lives with a wave of the hand; otherwise, what’s the point of the Government Office standing there?"
Seeing her thinking for his sake, Li Mu nodded at everything she said, and asked when he heard about the "Government Office": "Did you report it to the authorities?"
Tang Xiaobai nodded.
She didn’t know it was Yu Jun, she thought it was a political enemy causing trouble! Naturally, she reported it to the authorities immediately. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
"Have Ah Wu apologize to Luo Xiong, compensate for medical expenses, and assign someone to take care of him until he recovers. Then the case will be closed, otherwise, Wannian County Government isn’t our people, if it blows up, it won’t do us any good..."
...
Yu Jun was very obedient and went to the Luo family to apologize the next day.
"Yu has poor horsemanship, and in the chaos after startling the horse, actually abandoned the horse and fled... Fortunately, the Second Miss was present, otherwise, it would have been a disaster." His clear and beautiful eyes slightly reddened as he spoke, looking extremely pitiful.
If Tang Xiaobai didn’t know he did it on purpose, she might have softened her heart as well.
With such an act, Yu Jun quickly gained the forgiveness of Luo Xiong and his family.
After leaving the Luo house, Tang Xiaobai still gave him a warning: "Don’t let this happen again."
Because the truth wasn’t suitable to be spread, they could only cover it up with the excuse of "inadvertently startling the horse."
Yu Jun obediently agreed, hesitated for a moment, and said softly: "Yesterday, His Majesty summoned the Princess and reprimanded her publicly."
Tang Xiaobai glanced at him and said: "If you want to care for someone, you must know what she truly wants."
After deliberately causing such a scene, now he had gotten what he wanted.
...
Pingyang Princess was not only impeached by the Imperial Censor and scolded by the Emperor but was also confined to the Three Pure Ones Hall in the Palace and ordered to meditate.
Naturally, she was not allowed any visitors.
This made Miss Tang slam the table in anger: "How come she gets into trouble so easily?!"
Tang Xiaobai initially didn’t want to get involved, but as the Miss was slapping her desk, she had to put down her pen, consoling: "The Princess staying in the Palace is quite good, she has entered the path of Dao, not involved in power struggles, no one will make things difficult for her."
Tang Jiaojiao quieted down.
Just as Tang Xiaobai was about to finish writing a sentence—
"Bang!"
The Miss slapped the desk again.
Tang Xiaobai looked up, only to be stared at closely as she leaned forward.
"Li Yao can return to secular life in the future, right?"
Tang Xiaobai quickly nodded, softly saying: "With the Emperor’s permission, she can."
Even if this Emperor doesn’t allow it, the next Emperor surely will.
Tang Jiaojiao visibly relaxed but then began to complain: "Whoever came up with such a wicked idea in the first place, and Li Yao really, not knowing who left the note, just followed it through. Can anyone consider a way out for her?"
Tang Xiaobai remained silent.
That wicked person was her family’s little ancestor.
However, when the little ancestor came up with the idea back then, it was indeed not for Pingyang Princess to consider a way out.
It wasn’t within his considerations; he merely wanted to prevent Zhao Jing from becoming the Prince Consort.
After venting her emotions, Tang Jiaojiao noticed what was in front of Tang Xiaobai: "Writing invitations?"
The divination ritual had ended, and the new Prime Minister was appointed.
As expected, it was Wei Du.
But Tang Shigong was somewhat compensated, being appointed as the Crown Prince’s Guardian.
Thus, Duke Yan Mansion was to host a banquet in celebration.
Tang Jiaojiao was busy with the arrangements in the mansion, while Tang Xiaobai took on the task of inviting guests, responsible for writing invitations.
"You write so slowly even just for a few invitations," Tang Jiaojiao gathered all the unfinished ones in her arms, "Forget it, I’ll write them!"
Tang Xiaobai knew her sister was being considerate, so she didn’t refuse, cheerfully saying "Thank you, sister," before getting up to call someone to change her clothes.
"Are you going out?" Tang Jiaojiao asked.
"Father is coming back soon, I’m going to meet him."
"Why?" Tang Jiaojiao asked suspiciously.
Usually, they’d go out to meet after hearing the servants report his arrival.
Going out this early and changing into new clothes—
The always composed Second Miss Tang suddenly blushed, looked down, and said: "Well... today, the Crown Prince is requesting a decree..."
Lin Xujiji had already entered the Observatory, and the Crown Prince was again requesting a decree, to appoint the second daughter of the Tang Family as the Crown Princess Consort.
