Chapter 5: Accidentally Getting a Hold on the Crown Prince

The Xiao Huangsun is the Crown Prince's only son, but he was born to a secondary consort and has never been favored.

The Yan Ning family cannot bear to see a child suffer, bullied by the Crown Princess and Princess, so they look after him whenever they can in their daily lives.

Yan Ze pats Yan Qing on the head, looks at the two bailiffs nearby, and gives each of them a handful of silver bits.

The two bailiffs hurriedly say, "Your Highness, we are going to get some tea and snacks nearby. Wang Liu still has to go to the town in a while. Shall we bring you a roasted chicken?"

Yan Ze waves his hand, "No need, I have a few words to say to Qing'er."

Yan Qing can be considered as having been watched by Yan Ze as he grew up; at this moment, Yan Ze feels quite helpless, unable to take this child away.

He sighs, "Why did you run out? Your sister and your father will be unhappy later. From now on, your eldest uncle won't be able to watch over your studies. You must read more, be humble, and not appear too clever. And also..."

Once he starts, he talks endlessly.

In the past, Yan Qing would certainly have been impatient listening to his nagging and run faster than a rabbit, but now he stands there obediently, listening to whatever Yan Ze says.

After a good while, waiting for Yan Ze to finish, Yan Qing has the Eunuch serving him move a large chest over.

Yan Qing waves his hand at the young Eunuch, and at this moment, only the few of them are left here; he lowers his voice, "Sister, I saw you and Auntie enter the Crown Prince's Mansion's storehouse together."

Yan Ning is stunned, momentarily not knowing how to explain to this little sprout how they managed to take everything away.

Who would have thought, the next moment Yan Qing sighs like a little adult, "Sigh, I know my father still has a chest of treasures in the study, the kind that cannot see the light of day. I originally wanted to have Xiao Linzi move it to you, but who knew you would run so fast."

The Yan Ning family looks at each other in dismay; this...

This truly is the Crown Prince's "good" son.

Yan Ning's expression turns serious, "Did anyone see?"

Yan Qing shakes his head, "No, no one else, just Xiao Linzi; everyone else went to the storehouse side."

Yan Ning ponders for a moment, "Leave Xiao Linzi behind when you go."

The child doesn't ask much; whatever his sister says, he does.

After giving away the last chest of treasures, Yan Qing returns to the palace, feeling satisfied.

After the chest is moved onto the carriage, their family sits in one carriage, Xiao Linzi sits in another, and Yan Ze's trusted aide keeps an eye on things, so there is no worry.

Yan Ning cannot wait to open the chest to look; these are treasures the Crown Prince dared not put into the storehouse.

Upon opening it, Yan Ning's eyes widen. Although it is only a small chest, inside are agates, rubies, sapphires...

These seem to be products from Xiyu; they haven't seen much of them in Daxia.

Yan Ze rummages through them, picking and choosing, "Oh my, the transaction is over, otherwise I would have definitely gotten a set of tools to make a set of beautiful jewelry for you all."

They have been transmigrated for five years now.

The whole family are salted fish; they learned a bit of everything regarding eating, drinking, and having fun, and Yan Ze even specifically found a master of jade carving.

Yan Ning, while rummaging through the gemstones she likes, complains, "It's useless to have them. We don't have electricity here, and we'd have to buy a generator. Such a big thing would definitely arouse suspicion."

"Huh, what is this?"

Yan Ning pulls out a brocade box pressed to the bottom of the chest.

Packed in such an exquisite box, it must be something good.

Yan Ning wants to open it, but it actually proves difficult; there is a mechanism.

In the end, Yan Ze opens it. When they see that it is full of letters, placed so secretly, Yan Ning knows these must be important letters.

Yan Ze tears one open directly.

"The Crown Prince is actually colluding with Xiyu and the Northern Rong?!"

"The Crown Prince and the Prince of Zhenbei have agreed to 'nurture war with war,' and they will split the rewards and the two countries equally!"

"They also have private collusion; the Crown Prince used disaster relief grain to trade for one thousand warhorses with the Northern Rong! He is actually raising troops in private!"

Yan Ning and Ji Lan hurriedly cover his mouth, "Stop, stop, stop, Dad, if you shout so loudly, you want people outside to hear! You'll implicate Yan Qing later."

Yan Ze quickly calms down; this amount of information is truly too massive.

Actually, it is easy to think about: the Emperor is currently in good health, and having been the Crown Prince for so long, it is inevitable that he would feel panicked. Moreover, he was still in the Capital at the time, and many ministers in the court were clamoring to depose the Crown Prince.

The Emperor is superficially doting on their family, and it would be a miracle if that piece of trash, the Crown Prince, could sit still.

Ji Lan is also a bit panicked, asking in a low voice, "Lingnan shouldn't be attacked so quickly, but I am worried about my uncle and my parents..."

Yan Ze whispers to comfort her, "It's not that urgent; the war won't reach us here. We'll change to a large ship when the time comes. If that doesn't work, we'll just slip away. It's just that the Empress Dowager fought for quite a few benefits; we can ride in a carriage all the way during our exile, and the government officials won't dare to make things too difficult for our family. Once we reach Lingnan, we'll have the Prince of Nanyang to look after us, so we won't have to do hard labor. It will likely be house arrest. This way, there is a lot of room to maneuver. First, establish a foothold in Lingnan, fence off a piece of land, and when it's safe, get Lingnan sorted out, and then we can directly bring our uncles over."

"As for the Crown Prince, now that he doesn't have me as a threat, he definitely won't cause trouble in the next few years, unless he thinks he's lived too long. Let's get a comfortable piece of land in Lingnan first, and we'll bring people over in two years."

Yan Ning also adds, "And they don't have the money to cause trouble now anyway."

After a little thought, they emptied the Imperial Palace, the Crown Prince's "good" son even stole the chest of treasures he had hidden away secretly, and the granaries were also emptied a bit; it is estimated that they won't be able to start a war within ten years.

Yan Ning and Ji Lan, who were originally a bit nervous, immediately sprawl out on the soft couch again, continuing to binge-watch their shows.

The problem is not big; they can still survive.

Their family has been in the ancient times for five years, acting as salted fish for five years; making them live a hard life again is absolutely impossible.

Yan Ze watches his wife and child comfortably binge-watching, pulls out the Table Desk, and starts drawing the design for their new residence leisurely, thinking about whether he can trade for some convenient things from big shots of other planes to bring along later.

Thinking of this, he wants to slap his thigh again; he actually forgot to trade for a generator and a solar water heater!

The Yan Ning family goes to Lingnan as if they are on vacation.

It can be said that the palace is truly in chaos.

The Emperor is furious; the Junjun, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of War, and the Capital Prefecture in the palace are all searching for the thieves with all their might.

The Eastern Palace is already in chaos at this time, scaring Yan Qing into hiding with the Empress Dowager.

The Crown Prince, Yan Yu, is on the verge of a breakdown; losing wealth is a small matter. As long as he is the Crown Prince and as long as he can be the monarch in the future, the Crown Prince's Mansion's storehouse will sooner or later be filled again.

What he is panicking about now is that those treasures he hid are all gone!

Inside were many letters of his collusion with the Northern Rong.

Yan Yu is practically going crazy, unable to find them anywhere, fearing that those letters will leak out; if they leak out, these letters will be the evidence of his treason and betrayal of the country.