Jiang Si picked up the teapot and poured a cup of water, handing it to Yujin. “Have some water first.”

Yujin took it and drank a few sips, then put the cup down. “Asi, I want to kill the Crown Prince!”

Jiang Si smiled. “I heard you. Why this sudden thought?”

Yujin raised an eyebrow. “You’re not surprised?”

Jiang Si caressed the fine white porcelain teacup, speaking casually, “I know that if you want to kill someone, you must have a reason.”

Just like her, she didn’t constantly think about killing people, but when she discovered certain people’s malicious actions, she would develop small goals.

People’s thoughts are always changing, so there’s nothing to be surprised about, Jiang Si thought silently as she raised her teacup and took a sip, quite experienced in achieving small goals.

Yujin held Jiang Si’s hand, feeling moved. “Asi, I knew you would understand me.”

Indeed, they were a married couple. If Asi wanted to kill someone, he would be the first to hand her a knife.

“Quickly tell me, why did you suddenly want to kill the Crown Prince?” Jiang Si smiled and nudged him.

The full-month celebration had been held at noon, and now it was early afternoon. The sun was blazing, making even the lush flowers and trees look listless. The sound of cicadas could be heard from afar.

In such a leisurely, quiet, and somewhat lazy afternoon, no one would imagine that behind closed doors, the young couple was discussing how to kill the Crown Prince.

Jiang Si tilted her head slightly, her fair face like snow-white jade, so delicate it seemed to glow. The faint smile on her lips made her infinitely more captivating than jade.

Yujin stared at her steadily, couldn’t help but sigh, and then said fiercely, “Today in the garden, the Crown Prince looked at you!”

Jiang Si was surprised. “Just because of that?”

Yujin raised an eyebrow. “Isn’t that enough?”

Jiang Si shook her head with a smile. “Ajin, don’t be like a jar of vinegar—”

“Who’s a jar of vinegar?” Yujin glanced at Jiang Si.

A jar of vinegar? Was he that kind of person?

He was a vat of vinegar!

Feeling that his wife still didn’t understand him well enough, Mr. Yu felt dejected.

Jiang Si glared back at him. “You still say you’re not a jar of vinegar. You can’t want to kill everyone who looks at me, can you?”

If that were the case, Ajin’s small goals would be too numerous.

Jiang Si was already accustomed to people’s gazes.

She had been used to it since childhood.

When a person is exceptionally beautiful, they receive a lot of attention, which had cultivated her aloof and self-satisfied nature from a young age. In her previous life, she had insisted on marrying into the An Guo Gong family against her father’s advice, which could be said to be a tragedy caused by her temperament.

Because of her high self-regard, she wasn’t content with marrying someone a step lower than others.

It wasn’t until later when she went to the Southern Border and fell in love with Yu Qi, whom she saw as merely a merchant’s son, that she repeatedly lamented in her heart how naive and laughable she had been in her youth.

Compared to all those messy things, nothing was more important than the person.

“It’s not just a matter of looking,” Yujin rubbed his brow, his expression very serious. “Asi, you don’t understand men, especially men like the Crown Prince. The way the Crown Prince looked at you today was not just simple looking.”

He could reluctantly understand men who couldn’t help but take a second look at an outstanding beauty, even though it angered him. But the Crown Prince was not an ordinary man.

He was a greedy, foolish man who happened to have an extremely high status.

Having his wife coveted by such a man would make him restless.

The Crown Prince hadn’t done anything yet, but it was only because he hadn’t had the chance.

If he didn’t eliminate this hidden danger now, should he wait until Asi was harmed before regretting it?

By then, even if he chopped up the Crown Prince and fed him to Erniu, how could that makeup for the harm done?

Yujin never considered himself a good person. When it came to enemies, he always believed in striking first.

Hah, many people in the Southern Border knew this about him, but the people in the capital didn’t understand him yet.

Jiang Si fell silent after hearing Yujin’s words.

In her previous life, the Crown Prince was first deposed because of his affair with Imperial Consort Yang.

A person who dared to have an affair with his stepmother was brazen beyond belief. What wouldn’t he be capable of doing?

If Ajin said the Crown Prince’s gaze towards her was inappropriate, then they indeed needed to be cautious.

At this moment, Yujin sneered, “The Crown Prince not only covets you but also Erniu!”

“What?” Jiang Si was stunned for a moment.

Coveting her and coveting Erniu — that was quite a leap.

“Asi, why do you think Erniu bit the Crown Prince? Erniu isn’t that idle to bite people without reason. It was because the Crown Prince tried to get close to Erniu, so Erniu gave him a warning.”

“How could the Crown Prince covet Erniu?”

Yujin sneered, “That coward of a Crown Prince was terrified by the earthquake, and now everyone in the court knows that the people of Jinli Town avoided disaster because of Erniu during the earthquake. The Crown Prince must have set his sights on Erniu because of this. Asi, you don’t know, but today the Crown Prince specially brought braised beef from the palace to bribe Erniu. It’s clear he has been plotting for a long time and is determined to get Erniu—”

Jiang Si pursed her lips and said calmly, “You’re right. It’s better to kill such an insatiable person as the Crown Prince.”

For Jiang Si, Erniu was no less important than her own family.

Coveting Erniu? This cannot be tolerated!

The couple reached an agreement and smiled at each other.

“Ajin, how do you plan to do it?”

Thinking about the Crown Prince’s second deposition, it would still take some time, and originally, they could have patiently waited. But there were too many variables in the waiting time. What if the Crown Prince couldn’t wait and made a move on Erniu?

As for herself, Jiang Si wasn’t worried.

She was a proper princess consort. Even if the Crown Prince had evil intentions, he wouldn’t have any opportunity.

Analyzing it rationally, even if the Crown Prince was determined to have Jiang Si unless he became the Emperor and everything under heaven was his, it would be impossible for him to take his brother’s wife.

Throughout history, there were even emperors who seized their daughters-in-law, let alone their brothers’ wives.

This was indeed a hidden danger, but Jiang Si knew that the Crown Prince would ultimately not ascend to that position, so there was no need to worry.

She was more concerned about Erniu.

Yujin’s mindset was different from Jiang Si’s.

He wasn’t sure about the Crown Prince’s second deposition, so he couldn’t tolerate anyone coveting his wife at all.

He could still restrain himself and warn the Crown Prince for coveting Erniu, but for that one look the Crown Prince gave Jiang Si, he didn’t want to warn anymore.

For someone he was determined to kill, he would be a fool to warn them. Of course, it was better to kill them without a word.

“Asi, you don’t need to worry about these things. The Crown Prince is covered in handles; pulling on any one of them would be enough to deal with him.”

Yujin turned and summoned Lengying.

The light in the study was dim, and the stern-faced Lengying was almost imperceptible.

“What are your orders, Master?”

It wasn’t just Long Dan who accompanied Yujin to Qianhe County, but also Lengying. One was visible, the other hidden.

“Discreetly leak the information about the Crown Prince’s affair in Qianhe County to Prince Qi,” Yujin, sitting with his back to the light, his expression somewhat obscured, instructed calmly.

Since Fourth Brother was watching so closely, he might as well give him a hand.