What Bad Intentions can the Yandere Crown Prince have?-Chapter 52: Who Is Helping from the Shadows
Pingyang Princess, in her fury, was astonishingly powerful.
Tang Xiaobai let out a startled cry and hurriedly pulled Tang Jiaojiao back to evade.
However—
"Smack!" A small table suddenly fell to the ground about three to five steps in front of them, as if someone had slapped it down.
Even though it didn’t hit her, Tang Jiaojiao’s expression changed with anger: "What? The Prince Consort didn’t manage to kill me, and now you want to finish the job? I never expected our Pingyang Princess to be so virtuous, truly a credit to Your Majesty!"
The Pingyang Princess seemed as if she was also frightened by her own recent actions. She glanced at Tang Jiaojiao and then lowered her head to look at her own hands, with a noticeable gleam in her eyes.
Tang Jiaojiao sneered coldly and said, "I didn’t mention anything before because you were quite fond of him, and others dared not speak. Don’t you have any sense of yourself? What kind of a thing is this Zhao Jing? Is he worthy of you?" Suddenly, she softened her voice, "Li Yao, you are a princess!"
The Pingyang Princess was silent for a long time before speaking softly, "Did you just see Zhao Jing standing with an unfamiliar woman? Do you know who that woman is? And you dare to slander my Prince Consort in this way?"
Tang Jiaojiao laughed in anger: "Yes! I’m slandering your Prince Consort—" She raised her chin and pointed again at the marks on her neck, "Come, strangle me to death!"
Pingyang Princess’s expression changed and she said nothing.
At this moment, a Princess Guard trotted in and reported at the steps, "Princess, the person has been brought!"
Tang Xiaobai’s heart skipped a beat.
Who could it be?
It couldn’t be—
"Bring them up!" the Pingyang Princess ordered as she adjusted her robes, sitting upright and composed, her expression inscrutable and without a trace of her earlier distress.
The person was quickly brought in.
She wore a white top and blue skirt, with no makeup, and her face was as fresh as a lotus emerging from water.
It was the Jiangnan woman from Jinchang Village.
Perhaps the Princess Guard was too rough, as she frowned slightly but kept silent.
It wasn’t until she was pushed to kneel on the ground that she let out a muffled groan of pain.
"What’s your name?" the Pingyang Princess asked coldly with her eyes downcast.
The woman rubbed her knee and replied, "Zhen Su from Yuezhou."
"What’s your relationship with Zhao Jing?"
Tang Xiaobai was listening attentively and was suddenly pulled hard on the hand by her sister.
"If the Princess has nothing else, we’ll take our leave first!" Tang Jiaojiao frowned and glanced at the woman.
Who knows what nonsense will be asked? How can her younger sister listen to this?
The Pingyang Princess snorted lightly without speaking, and Tang Jiaojiao took it as silent consent.
In any case, even without consent, she would leave.
As Tang Xiaobai was pulled out of the courtyard gate, she couldn’t help but glance back up at the empty sky around.
How did the little table thrown by the Pingyang Princess fall so strangely? Could there be someone secretly helping them?
...
"Could she have discovered us?" Li Xingyuan exclaimed in surprise.
"It’s possible," Su Shunqing replied honestly, "The Princely Heir’s move just now was too obvious."
Li Xingyuan gave an embarrassed smile: "Otherwise, what should I do? Wouldn’t using hidden weapons be even more obvious?" He turned back to ask, "Right?"
But there was no one behind him.
Li Xingyuan paused, unable to help but exclaim: "Deserving of the Crown Prince’s Shadow Guard, if only I had that Qinggong..."
...
The carriage arrived at the entrance of the Duke Yan Mansion in no time.
As soon as Tang Jiaojiao got off the carriage, she asked, "Has the Madam returned?"
"Not yet."
Tang Xiaobai noticed her frown and hurriedly asked, "When should she be back? Could something have happened in the palace?"
"It’s hard to say," Tang Jiaojiao replied.
As she spoke, she led Tang Xiaobai in, while also instructing, "Send someone to the Gu Mansion and the Gu Family clan school to report that the Second Miss has returned."
Hearing her hoarse voice, Tang Xiaobai felt distressed, and she instructed aloud, "Invite Doctor Feng to come and check on the young miss!"
Tang Jiaojiao turned her head to glance at her with a smile and continued leading her inside.
Tang Xiaobai followed closely behind, talking on the way, "Sis, how did you know I was at the Pingyang Princess Mansion? Did Gu Five and Gu Six come to find you? I clearly told them not to bother you—"
"Not to bother me?" Tang Jiaojiao stopped and turned to glare at her, "Have you become so capable? You can’t even make it through school without causing trouble, and you want to hide it from me?"
"The Pingyang Princess just wanted to ask me some questions, what else could she do? There’s no need to be so tense!" Tang Xiaobai felt her reasons were still sound.
No matter how angry the Pingyang Princess was, she would not pose a life-threatening danger to her.
"What else?" Tang Jiaojiao laughed angrily, "If that little table had hit you on the head, it could have smashed your little life away!"
"How could it? I wouldn’t provoke her like you did." Tang Xiaobai blurted out.
As soon as the words left her mouth, her cheeks were pinched and tugged—
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts..."
Only when the little girl’s eyes welled up with tears did Tang Jiaojiao release her hand angrily, and then she threatened fiercely, "Believe me if I say I’ll tear your mouth apart!"
"I believe, I believe, I believe..." Tang Xiaobai became instantly docile.
Seeing the young miss’s anger subsided slightly, Tang Xiaobai lowered her voice to ask, "Sis, don’t you think that little table was knocked down by someone?"
Tang Jiaojiao looked surprised, "How could it be knocked down?" She hadn’t noticed at the time.
"Do you remember how Zhao Jing suddenly withdrew his hand yesterday? I think someone used a hidden weapon to hit his hand. Today, it’s very similar, as if someone used a hidden weapon to knock down that little table!"
"Someone? Who?"
"I suspect it’s the person who was with Su Shunqing yesterday!" Tang Xiaobai said, feigning suspicion but her eyes were confident.
"Impossible!" Tang Jiaojiao denied outright.
Tang Xiaobai asked in bewilderment, "Why?" She was just strongly suspicious, yet the young miss was so certain; could she know something inside?
"How could such a burly, unkempt, beady-eyed, sneaky-looking, thin-lipped, ferociously-toothed person use hidden weapons? And save us?" Tang Jiaojiao looked disdainful.
Tang Xiaobai was stunned.
Even the "ferociously-toothed" term had come out, showing the young miss had exhausted all her vocabulary.
"The person at least helped you once, no need to be like that, right?" Couldn’t just pat off after lending a hand without holding such a grudge? Even she who had a knife to her neck hadn’t said anything.
"What do you know?" the young miss’s disdain spread to Tang Xiaobai.
"Alright, alright, I don’t understand..." Tang Xiaobai nodded good-naturedly.
Who could blame her since she was still young, and it was normal to be questioned by older kids.
Tang Jiaojiao snorted coldly, re-grabbing her hand, and continued to walk inside.
"Sis, what will Pingyang Princess do with that Zhen Su?" Tang Xiaobai casually asked.
"Mind your own business!"
It was no business, anyway; even if she wanted to do something, she couldn’t.
"What about Zhao Jing? Will he still marry the Princess?" This shouldn’t be considered meddling, right?
"If he can still become a Prince Consort, I’ll write my name Tang Jiaojiao backwards!"
Tang Xiaobai muttered "Jiaojiao Tang" to herself, thinking it sounded quite trendy.
As they were talking, Tang Jiaojiao suddenly paused her steps and lifted her chin towards the front, saying, "How did I know you were at Li Yao’s? Wasn’t it you who sent two people back to report it?"
Tang Xiaobai looked up to see her two attendant students standing outside the inner courtyard door.
One of them wore a calm expression, gazing at her accusingly with deep-set eyes.
