"Of course I can!"
Jiang Xuanming answered hastily.
He wondered whether, under those circumstances, his mother might come to her senses a little.
"Then it's settled. Hand over the military tally."
Jiang Yunsheng addressed Jiang Xuanming.
He could not possibly leave an army of a hundred thousand in Jiang Xuanming's hands just like that, lest he become the next Prince Xin.
Jiang Xuanming had already prepared for this. As soon as Jiang Yunsheng spoke, he took a military tally from his pocket and handed it over.
After verifying its authenticity, Jiang Yunsheng nodded in satisfaction and allowed Jiang Xuanming to leave the palace with his father and mother.
Jiang Xuanming did not linger in Capital City. After resting for just one day, he set off back to Ba-Shu.
Once he returned, Jiang Xuanming took a broad axe to the task of reform, throwing all his siblings out to fend for themselves. Apart from dealing with the mother and son his father had been secretly protecting all along, he did not lay a hand on anyone else.
Had that mother and son not kept whispering into Prince Xin's ear back then, Jiang Xuanming would never have suffered so much. He might spare anyone else, but never those two.
Prince Xin's arrival had barely stirred a ripple in Capital City. Everyone there was focused on the Spring Examination results, which would soon be posted.
On the day the results were to be posted, Jiang Nuan arrived early to wait.
Although she could learn the results from Guagua, how could that compare to the excitement of seeing the list in person?
But by the time Jiang Nuan arrived, many candidates were already waiting. It took her considerable effort to squeeze her way in.
Around six hundred people had taken this Spring Examination, but