The Flirtatious Prince and His Savage Concubine

On the way back, Lu Lingxi asked Chunhong and Liulu: "Have you learned everything that Concubine Shang taught you today?"

Chunhong: “Yes.”

Liu Lu: "I have learned it, too. Madam Concubine explained it in great detail, almost teaching me everything she knows. How about you, Madam? Have you learned it? Don't be lazy, don't just rely on me and Chunhong to help you with the accounting, right? This is your primary responsibility as the mistress of the house, you have to take it on yourself."

Why is Liu Lu so clever now? Just like the worm in Lu Lingxi's stomach, she could tell that she wanted to be lazy. But she absolutely couldn't admit it, so she said, "What, I want to be lazy? I just want you to learn more and have an extra skill to make a living in the future."

Liu Lu: "The monthly salary given by the queen is enough now. We don't have to worry about our livelihood anymore. Right, Chun Hong?"

Chunhong smiled faintly and nodded to show her agreement.

Lu Lingxi: "I'm supporting you now, but what about in the future? After you get married, you will also have to manage the household accounts and plan for the expenses of the family. This skill is so practical, you should learn it well."

When Liu Lu heard Lu Lingxi mention marriage again, her face turned red. "My queen, why are you like this? You can relate everything to marriage? I will never get married, and I will just rely on you and let you support me."

Lu Lingxi looked at the blush on Liu Lu's cold face, which looked somewhat pure and charming. He nodded and said, "Well, considering your face, it's not impossible to support you for the rest of your life. Come here and let your queen smell your fragrance."

Liu Lu knew that her queen was joking again, so she stamped her feet and said angrily, "Hmph! You scoundrel!" Then she turned around and went to Changqiu Palace first.

Lu Lingxi and Chunhong walked slowly behind her, not in a hurry to catch up with her.

When Lu Lingxi and Chunhong arrived at the entrance of Changqiu Palace, they saw Liu Lu being held in the arms of a man in black. They could vaguely hear Liu Lu mumbling something. Only the man in black heard clearly what she said: "Why don't you look at the road when you walk?"

When Lu Lingxi saw this scene, he felt that the atmosphere was a little subtle, so he pulled Chunhong to hide behind a one-meter-high viewing tree nearby. However, the black man seemed to be a martial artist, so he still heard the slightest rustling sound they made.

The man in black glanced sharply at Lu Lingxi and the others, then let go of Liu Lu and quickly left through the side corridor.

Liu Lu shouted at the man in black, "How could you bump into someone and run away without apologizing? You have no manners!"

Seeing that the man in black had disappeared, Lu Lingxi pulled Chunhong out from under the viewing tree and asked Liu Lu, "Who is that man? Why are you hugging each other?"

Liu Lu's face turned several shades redder than before, and she explained anxiously, "My Lady! What do you mean by hugging each other? Someone was walking without looking at the road and bumped into me."

Lu Lingxi was obviously a little unconvinced. He said "Oh~~~" meaningfully and then said, "Who is that person?"

Liu Lu: "I don't know. I have never seen it before."

Lu Lingxi was a little surprised: "Oh, there are people in this mansion that you don't know? Didn't you claim that you have made friends with everyone in the mansion? Do you even know their family situations and the closeness of their relationships with each other?"

Liu Lu: "How can it be so exaggerated? I can talk to people in the mansion whenever I meet them, but I have never seen that person in the mansion before."

Lu Lingxi couldn't help but guess in his heart that this person might be an official who came to discuss business with Nan Wangyu. He looked quite young, and I wonder if he was married. If he was not married, maybe this was the beginning of his romantic love story with Liu Lu. Sure enough, it was more interesting to watch others fall in love.

Thinking of this, Lu Lingxi couldn't help but smile like an aunt.

Liu Lu felt a little scared when she saw the smile, so she spoke to wake up Lu Lingxi who was immersed in her imagination: "Madam, what's wrong with you? You suddenly smiled like this out of nowhere, it's really creepy."

Lu Lingxi came back to his senses and said calmly: "It's nothing, let's go and have dinner quickly, don't let the prince wait too long."

During dinner, Lu Lingxi seemed to be hesitant to speak. Nan Wangyu looked at her several times but she didn't speak. He put a piece of fish in her bowl and said naturally, "Just say whatever you want to say. What's wrong with you talking to me? Why are you being so shy?"

Nan Wangyu spoke first, and Lu Lingxi followed suit and asked, "Who was the one who came looking for you just now? Was it the man in black who just walked out of the palace before we came back?"

Hearing Lu Lingxi's question, Liu Lu beside her also pricked up her ears unconsciously.

Nan Wangyu looked at Lu Lingxi with a strange expression. You know, in the past half month since she married into the Prince's Mansion, she has never cared about the affairs of the mansion and has never taken the initiative to ask about anyone.

Then I thought about Yingchen's wheat-colored skin, thick black eyebrows, and thick black beard that was about to emerge on his cheeks. Could it be that Lingxi was influenced by her father and preferred rough men instead of delicate men like me?

Looking at Lu Lingxi who was waiting for his answer expectantly, Nan Wangyu's mood suddenly became bad, but he still replied: "That was the secret guard of the mansion, who came to report something to me."

Lu Lingxi didn't notice Nan Wangyu's change of mood and continued, "Oh, a secret guard? What's his name? Could he be Xiao Yu'er?"

"What Xiao Yu'er? There is no secret guard named Xiao Yu'er in the mansion."

"Oh, how old is he this year? Is he married?"

"Twenty-four. Single."

After answering the question succinctly, Nan Wangyu felt something was wrong. Why did Lingxi ask these questions? Did she really like him? This shouldn't be the case. My appearance is quite popular among the noble ladies in Kyoto. Why is Lingxi still indifferent?

"Who else is in his family?"

Nan Wangyu narrowed his eyes and asked instead of answering: "Lingxi, why do you ask so many questions about him? Do you like him?"

Lu Lingxi was shocked by Nan Wangyu's train of thought and quickly denied: "What do you mean by like or dislike? I didn't even see what he looks like. Besides, I'm still a married woman, right? How could I suddenly like someone else?"

The words "married woman" successfully pleased Nan Wangyu, and his attitude softened a lot, but he still asked: "Then why do you care about him so much? And you asked about his family situation."

Lu Lingxi thought that Liu Lu and Ying Chen had only met once, so it was too early for him to say that he was looking for her and seeing her. So he smiled and said, "Nothing, I just wanted to chat with you, just chatting casually."

"Just chatting? There are so many people in the mansion, why don't you talk about others?"

Lu Lingxi rolled his eyes around and found an excuse: "Haven't you introduced the others to me? And I see them every day, but I haven't seen Ying Chen before, nor have I heard you mention him. He was wearing black clothes, so I couldn't see his face clearly, but he seemed quite mysterious. People are always curious about mysterious things and people, so I asked a few more questions."

Nan Wangyu nodded, accepting her words, and then looked at the untouched fish fillet in her bowl and said, "We've been talking for so long, the food is almost cold, let's eat quickly."

Then the two of them finished their dinner quietly.