Reborn as a concubine's sister, the eldest lady went crazy

Xu Yixing smiled lightly. Although she didn't want Lu Anyuan to get involved in the position of crown prince, looking at the current situation, it was only a matter of time!

Within two days, on the morning of September 18, the royal palace received an imperial decree from the palace, that King Xiaoyi would go to the northern border to comfort the troops on behalf of the emperor and would set off on September 25.

Xu Yixing frowned slightly and asked Lu Anyuan, who was packing his luggage, "Why the northern border? I thought you were asked to return to your fiefdom to comfort the soldiers in the southern border."

"Since the surrender of the Song Kingdom, the southern border has been peaceful. There have been some frictions in the past few years, but there has been no war. Unlike the northern border troops, they have fought several tough battles in succession and have made outstanding military achievements. How could they leave the meritorious people alone and go to a peaceful place instead?"

Lu Anyuan answered her questions while taking out the armor and sword that Yixing had worn a few years ago from the bottom of the box. Suddenly he touched something and stopped: "Madam, your sword has faded."

"Ah?" Xu Yixing hurried forward and looked at the sword he brought from home. As expected, due to long-term lack of maintenance, the vermilion on the scabbard had fallen off in several pieces, leaving it mottled and extremely ugly.

"Forget it, it's been stuffed in this box for several years and it's about to break. After all, I have let this sword down." Yixing touched the faded area with great distress and ran his finger upwards, bringing down more paint chips.

"This..." Lu Anyuan also saw the peeling paint flakes, walked forward and took a closer look, and suddenly his expression became serious: "You all go out, I will clean it up later."

Although he didn't know why he drove the servant away, Xu Yixing still took two quick steps and came to the window sill to check with him. "Is there something wrong?"

Lu Anyuan thought about it, took out a small dagger from his arms, and gently scraped the sword with the back of the knife. After a while, a sword with completely different color and pattern appeared in his hand.

Xu Yixing could tell as soon as he started scraping that the vermilion paint was only attached to the outside, and the black inside was the color of the sword itself. It was just that not much paint had fallen off just now, so she didn't notice it.

"Has this sword been repainted?" Xu Yixing took the scabbard from him. Lu Anyuan was carefully observing the sword at this time without saying a word.

The exposed black scabbard not only does not bring a sense of calmness compared to the vermilion one, but instead adds more murderous intent and majesty. What's going on?

Lu Anyuan touched and looked at the sword, then picked it up and slashed it with his dagger. The small dagger immediately returned to the west, which surprised Xu Yixing.

"Haha." Lu Anyuan laughed bitterly and finally put down the sword: "Madam, where did you get this sword?"

"I stole it from my house. I told you a long time ago that this is something from my armory. I saw that it had a thick back and a thin blade, so I took it."

“Alas!” Lu Anyuan sighed, as if he was relieved, as if he was helpless: “Yixing, this is the Emperor’s Sword of the founding emperor of Daxia. It is rumored that the late emperor lost the treasure that my father had been searching for many times in vain.”

"Sword of the Son of Heaven?" Xu Yixing took a while to remember where this sword of the Son of Heaven came from. "How can you be sure? You haven't seen it before, and how could it be in my house?"

"The blueprint of the Emperor's Sword is in the palace. My father showed it to my eldest brother before he went to war against the Kingdom of Song. It is no secret that it was suspected to have been lost in that area. It is like this. In fact, I was curious when I saw the murderous intent of this sword, but I didn't have the opportunity to ask about it at that time. Now that I have carefully looked at it, I can't be wrong.

As for the whereabouts of the Emperor's Sword, it was hearsay and it was hard to tell whether the news was true or false. The Kingdom of Song surrendered but still did not find the Emperor's Sword, which shows that the news was wrong."

Xu Yixing was silent, calculating in his mind the probability that the Emperor's Sword, the only one in the world, would appear in his own armory and he would hit the target with just a casual move.

Seeing that she was silent, Lu Anyuan thought about it and came up with a more reasonable explanation: "The Emperor's Sword was lost during the war of the previous emperor. The previous emperor had fought in Miaozhou, and your Xu family was guarding Miaozhou in the early years. I think it might have been lost at that time. Then it was picked up by your ancestors by chance. Maybe they didn't know and changed its color at will, and then it was passed down to your father."

"Thank you." Lu Anyuan's explanation was extremely biased. He cleared his family of all blame. He also cleared them of the crime of exterminating nine generations of his clan. It was really hard for him.

"If they really didn't know, why would they think of changing its color and appearance? And they even found it? Whether it's stealing, robbing, buying or picking up, hiding national treasures is a capital crime. My ancestors were really brave..."

Lu Anyuan smiled awkwardly. Now that the Emperor's Sword had reappeared in the world, he certainly couldn't pretend not to know. He naturally had to make up a story about its origin.

"But to be honest, the 'fact' you guessed should be correct, but my father should not know about it." Xu Yixing was not trying to excuse his father. If his father really knew that this was the Emperor's Sword, he would not have kept it so openly in the armory, nor would he have ignored it after it was lost.

What's more, my father had seen it in the outer palace before, but he didn't react at all at that time.

Lu Anyuan thought for a moment and nodded, agreeing with her words. "Oh, this is troublesome. You can't say that your father woke up and found Tianzijian waving at him at the bedside, right?"

Xu Yixing was amused, but soon her thoughts uncontrollably turned to another situation: Lu Anyuan wouldn't think that with the Emperor's Sword in his hand, he was the one destined to challenge the throne, right?

"Ahem! I think keeping this sword in your hands will eventually lead to disaster. I'm lucky that it hasn't been discovered in the past few years. Now that we know about it, it should be returned to its original owner. You should find a way to present it to the emperor, and don't involve our family."

Without taking the Xu family, naturally, neither the merits nor the sins will be taken. This is the best way.

"Of course. If I don't find a legitimate way to get here, your family will be implicated sooner or later. I won't do that." After Lu Anyuan finished speaking, he looked back and forth at the sword many times. Xu Yixing felt that he was staring at the sword as if he was staring at the throne, his eyes were full of calculations and schemes.

"Well, this matter needs to be done as soon as possible. It would not be a good thing if we were discovered." Xu Yixing was frightened by that look and added that she really didn't want Lu Anyuan to be bewitched by the so-called Emperor's Sword and do the same thing as the Second Prince did. That would be too bad.

"As soon as possible?" Lu Anyuan seemed to have finally seen enough of the sword and lowered his hand: "Why are you so anxious about this matter? In fact, there is a logical opportunity to return the Emperor's Sword to my father right now. How come my smart wife is blinded and doesn't see it?"