Special Agent Rebirth: The Omnipotent Goddess of Quick Transmigration-Chapter 35 - 034 Prime Minister Residences Number One Talented

Chapter 35: 034 Prime Minister Residence’s Number One Talented Lady (16) – Second Update

Chapter 35: 034 Prime Minister Residence’s Number One Talented Lady (16) – Second Update

Zu Huan stood with his hands clasped behind his back, listening to Ye Shaohua’s voice, which made him involuntarily shiver and shrink his neck.

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Others might not be aware, but he knew very well that the last person who tested her patience… now couldn’t even find their own family home.

It seemed that the chief steward of the inner affairs within the Crown Prince’s Palace had heard some noise, and upon seeing Ye Shaohua, immediately invited her in.

“Chief steward, what punishment is there for disrespecting the Crown Prince?” Ye Shaohua retracted her hand and leisurely wiped her fingers with the handkerchief Zu Huan passed to her.

“The crime of flagrant treason.”

Ye Shaohua seemed quite satisfied, “Just that.”

Having said that, she led Zu Huan inside.

The chief steward, who did not spare words even for the Third Prince, treated Ye Shaohua with the utmost respect and courtesy, which surprised the observing ministers.

The Crown Prince of Cloud Country was originally heading to Jiangnan, but he stopped because of this turn of events. After all, if that person did not want to see him…

He would find it impossible to locate her even in death, so he might as well stay to watch the drama unfold.

Especially since… Ye Shaohua gave him an inexplicably familiar feeling.

The Emperor had made the Crown Prince’s Palace impregnable, not allowing any person to enter. After Ye Shaohua brought people inside, she was practically cut off from the world, leaving everyone guessing about the Crown Prince’s condition.

Meanwhile, the Emperor finally found time to deal with the Empress and the Third Prince among others. He burst out in fury after coming out and placed the Empress and the Third Prince under house arrest.

As for Bai Zhenzhen, she was also punished by the Emperor for being disrespectful to the Crown Prince, but because of her high reputation among the common people, in the end he only decreed that Bai Zhenzhen should be demoted two ranks in her father’s military post.

This infuriated Bai Zhenzhen to the point where her hands trembled and she smashed several invaluable vases.

This was an era without human rights, where without power she would always be at the mercy of others!

For the first time, Bai Zhenzhen realized that she lived in an ancient era where imperial power was supreme, and that the Emperor could have her beheaded any day if he was not pleased, just because she was the daughter of a general. With no high status like Ye Shaohua, should she be bullied by the royal family, by Ye Shaohua?

Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes darkened. She had never thought about kicking Ye Shaohua while she was down, and even contemplated letting her off the hook, but now that Ye Shaohua had gone too far, she was no longer inclined to show mercy to the Ye Family.

With this in mind, Bai Zhenzhen immediately summoned her subordinates and secretly sent a confidential letter to the Third Prince.

Since the Emperor had severely punished the Third Prince’s faction, it caused people to doubt whether Huangfu Yunzhong was truly beyond help.

The Crown Prince’s Palace was still guarded tightly, with no good news forthcoming, which only added to everyone else’s suspicions.

In recent days, even the common palace maids and eunuchs kept away from the Crown Prince’s Palace as if avoiding a pest.

As a result, the Emperor had several eunuchs put to death, and now, a group of new palace maids and eunuchs was being distributed to the Crown Prince’s Palace.

“This is really unlucky,” one middle-aged eunuch muttered lowly, “to be assigned to such a haunted place!”

“Watch your words,” a young palace maid beside him, perhaps new to the Palace, whispered, “the person inside is the Crown Prince…”

“What Crown Prince, he’s about to become a wandering ghost,” the middle-aged eunuch glanced at the people beside him, “don’t say I didn’t warn you, the one inside won’t last long. You all better plan ahead. I’ve already bribed someone from the inner affairs office, and I will be transferring to the Third Prince’s Residence tomorrow. Even though it’s just a menial job, it’s better than waiting to die here.”

“But the Crown Prince’s personal guard just said the Crown Prince can stand up and walk, and that he will soon be healthier than an ordinary person…” the palace maid hesitated.

“You newcomers are so naive. The Crown Prince’s personal guards were on their knees begging at the Empress’s Palace just the other day,” the eunuch scoffed disdainfully, “about to recover? Daydreaming in broad daylight!”

Especially during these days, Bai Zhenzhen used a large sum of money to secretly recruit soldiers and procure the best equipment for these troops, currying favor with the key ministers at court.

With the Crown Prince in a critical situation, the Uncle of the Nation directly led the key ministers to coerce the Emperor into pardoning the Third Prince from house arrest.

The Uncle of the Nation was the Crown Prince’s real uncle, and with even him standing by the Third Prince, it was feared that the Crown Prince truly had no hope left.

The previously neutral parties were wavering one after another.

The Emperor’s sons were not limited to the Crown Prince and the Third Prince; among them, the one best at playing possum was the son of the current beloved imperial consort, the Seventh Prince.

This person always kept a low profile, and according to the original trajectory before Ye Shaohua’s arrival in this world, he was the Third Prince’s biggest rival, but in the end, he too fell for Bai Zhenzhen, the wealthiest woman in the Wang Dynasty behind the scenes, and for her, he gave up the throne.

In this life, with the richest family of Jiangnan present, the Seventh Prince turned his focus to Jiangnan and didn’t pay attention to the “second master” of this Fengya Tower, and he had even less to do with Bai Zhenzhen.

At this moment, the Crown Prince was seriously ill, another heir was about to be enthroned, and the Third Prince was revealing his sharpness in the Royal Court.

However, what they didn’t expect was that the usually inconspicuous Seventh Prince would take several significant actions at this time.

The struggle between the Third Prince and the Seventh Prince began.

In the Crown Prince’s Palace.

“Yesterday, the Third Prince sent someone to place something in your sleeping quarters,” reported the Crown Prince’s Dark Guard in a soft voice, “Do we need to…?”

The Crown Prince gestured with his hand, drank the medicine Zu Huan handed to him, and said unhurriedly, “No need to bother.”

Zu Huan, standing aside, upon hearing this, couldn’t help but give the Crown Prince a look.

Even though this man had not yet recovered from his illness, he still exuded an air of elegance and purity, as if he stood above the dusty world, not belonging to this troubled age.

Thinking of how Ye Shaohua had gone to great lengths, risking exposure of her identity, just to acquire that ginseng for this man before her, Zu Huan felt somewhat stifled, and his attitude towards the Crown Prince wasn’t very good.

Yet the Crown Prince seemed not to notice anything at all, even offering Zu Huan a friendly smile.

Which just made Zu Huan even more frustrated.

Ye Shaohua hadn’t noticed the undercurrents between the two men; her mind was busy recalling the memories given by her system. In her previous life, the Ye Residence had been completely wiped out, and the Crown Prince was accused of “treason” and imprisoned until his death, never considered a threat by the Third Prince and others.

This life, even if the Crown Prince was “seriously ill,” the two had no intention of letting her go. Ye Shaohua sneered coldly; well, she would show the Third Prince and Bai Zhenzhen what true treason looked like.

Two days later, evidence of the Crown Prince’s treason was found in his sleeping quarters by people led by the Third Prince.

The Emperor was aware that the Crown Prince’s health was improving, but when it came to the throne, even if he trusted and favored the Crown Prince, suspicion arose in his heart, and he promptly placed the Crown Prince under house arrest.

This development affected the Ye Family, which had always supported the Crown Prince, especially when the Emperor learned of the enormous, unaccounted-for wealth in the Ye Residence.

His suspicions intensified, and he withdrew all significant powers from Prime Minister Ye.

When Ye Shaohua returned to the Ye Residence, she heard a woman crying, “Sister-in-law, what will you do now? Shaohua and Huaijin are still young, not yet married…”

This was none other than Prime Minister Ye’s own sister and Ye Shaohua’s only aunt, the wife of Wen Taiwei, who had just returned to Imperial City from Yunnan due to the Crown Prince’s incident.

“Before I came here, I went to see my husband, but he refused to see me…” Aunt Ye said, lowering her head to wipe her tears.

Mrs. Ye sighed lightly, “Why did you come to my residence at such a critical time? Now that the Crown Prince is accused of treason, the Ye Family itself is in danger. It is proper to dissociate yourself at this time. You should go back quickly; after all, you have an eldest legitimate son, and Wen Taiwei, having been promoted by my husband, will not ignore you at such a time.”

Upon hearing this, Aunt Ye’s maid spoke up, “Madam, you don’t know, but Taiwei has always kept a concubine, and after the Crown Prince’s incident, Wen Taiwei actually brought that concubine into the residence. That concubine’s daughter is about to marry into General Bai’s Residence, and Taiwei even demanded that the dowry and shops promised to Madam be given to that concubine’s daughter! Madam is treated worse than the chief maid of that concubine in the Taiwei Residence.”

This was simply an act of an ingrate!

“That Wen actually dared to treat you like this?!” Mrs. Ye was very close to Aunt Ye, as the latter had not yet been married when Mrs. Ye joined the Ye Family, and upon hearing this, she was so angry that her chest hurt.

Now that Prime Minister Ye was about to retire and return to his hometown, and Ye Huaijin was suspected of treason, with the Third Prince and Seventh Prince locked in a tiger-and-dragon struggle, the Ye Family seemed to have no chance of rising in the eyes of outsiders.

Even eunuchs and palace maids knew to judge the situation and act accordingly, let alone Wen Taiwei.

“He said that by not divorcing me, he has already repaid my brother’s kindness of the past,” said Aunt Ye, lowering her head, her tears flowing even more.