The Flirtatious Prince and His Savage Concubine

The next morning, the sun shone through the mottled leaves onto the ground, bringing a touch of freshness and vitality to the entire capital. Lu Lingxi got up early, carefully dressed up, and hurried to the door, boarded the gorgeously decorated carriage, and prepared to rush to the Zhenguo Marquis Mansion.

Along the way, Lu Lingxi sat in the spacious and comfortable carriage, listening attentively to the interesting gossips told by her personal maid Liu Lu. She sometimes covered her mouth and chuckled, sometimes widened her eyes in surprise, and was completely immersed in the story.

At this moment, the carriage suddenly shook violently as if it was hit by a huge force. Unprepared, Lu Lingxi's body suddenly leaned forward. If he hadn't reached out to hold on to the wall of the carriage in time, he would have fallen to the ground. The coachman shouted angrily outside: "What's wrong with you? Don't you have eyes when you walk? You even dare to ram the carriage of the prince's mansion!"

Hearing the quarrel outside, Lu Lingxi was startled and quickly reached out to lift the curtain and looked out. He saw a man in tattered clothes lying on the ground in a miserable state. He kept shouting in a sharp and piercing voice, and covered his legs with his hands, as if he was seriously injured.

"The Crown Princess is taking advantage of her power to bully others. She is riding her horse in the street and injuring someone! Not only did she not apologize after hitting the person, she also wanted to kill him to silence him! Someone, help! Murder! Murder!" The beggar shouted at the top of his lungs, attracting passers-by to stop and watch, pointing at the carriage.

When the groom heard the man on the ground speaking, pointing his finger at the Crown Princess, he knew something was wrong. He knew that this matter was serious and if it was not handled properly, it would probably cause trouble for the Crown Princess. So he quickly defended himself, saying, "Don't talk nonsense here! My carriage didn't touch you at all. It was obviously you who fell down accidentally. Do you want to take this opportunity to blackmail us?" As he said that, the groom quickly jumped off the shaft, strode to the side of the fallen beggar, bent down and tried to pull him up from the ground.

This is simply a blatant scam! Just as the groom was about to touch the beggar lying on the ground, Lu Lingxi was quick to speak and hurriedly shouted, "Wang Ji, wait a minute, get back quickly." Upon hearing this, the groom Wang Ji immediately obeyed his master's order, quickly retracted his outstretched hand, and turned back to the carriage to wait.

At this time, Lu Lingxi lowered his voice and patiently explained to Wang Ji: "No matter how this person talks nonsense later, you must not act rashly, and you must not even move the carriage. Once you come into contact with him, even if it's just a slight touch, he will definitely accuse you of beating him up. So, for now, let's stay put and don't touch him."

Wang Ji looked embarrassed and responded anxiously: "My queen, we are in a hurry to get to the Zhenguo Marquis's Mansion! If we delay here for too long, I'm afraid it will cause trouble."

Lu Lingxi, however, looked calm and unhurried, saying calmly, "Don't worry, my brother has already returned. Even if he goes a little later, he won't leave for a while. Besides, the more anxious you are about this kind of thing, the easier it is to fall into the trap set by the other party and suffer a great loss. You don't need to worry, just wait and see what this guy is up to."

Just as Lu Lingxi was talking in a low voice with the coachman Wang Ji, the beggar lying on the ground was still shouting at the top of his voice: "The Crown Princess is taking advantage of her power to bully others! She is trying to take human lives in broad daylight! Someone come and save me!" Such unbearable words could be heard all the time.

Originally, this road was deserted and sparsely populated. However, after the beggar shouted at the top of his lungs, a group of onlookers soon gathered around the carriage that Lu Lingxi was riding in. These people formed three layers inside and outside, surrounding the carriage so tightly that no one could get through.

When the beggar saw people gathering around him, he instantly became energetic and shouted louder and louder. Seeing this, the onlookers would occasionally interject a sentence or two, trying to ask the beggar about what happened and why. However, what was surprising was that none of the words that came out of the beggar's mouth were good to hear, but all of them were empty words and nonsense that could not be verified at all.

Lu Lingxi, who was standing aside, remained silent. She neither refuted the beggar's shouting nor showed any intention of responding.

This confrontation lasted for nearly half an hour. During this period, the beggar on the ground kept repeating the same few words over and over again, but Lu Lingxi just ignored him. Unable to find a new excuse to continue attacking Lu Lingxi, the beggar began to fall into a dilemma. He didn't know how to achieve his original goal, and he didn't know how to find a way out. Should he really rush forward and wrestle with the driver sitting on the carriage? But when he thought about what he had just said about his leg injury, he could only lie on the ground in a mess, and the driver was sitting high on the carriage. Even if he tried his best, he might not be able to reach him!

Just as the beggar was thinking hard, he suddenly heard an angry shout from outside the crowd: "What on earth are you doing? Why are you forming such a big circle here? It's making it impossible for the carriages on both sides of the road to pass normally!"

Hearing the voice, the crowd looked back and found that the person speaking was a patrolling soldier, so they immediately made way.

The beggar on the ground saw that the people coming were government officials. He crawled forward and grabbed one of them by the trouser leg as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw, shouting: "Official, help me! Official, help me! The Crown Princess wants to kill me!"

The guards were suddenly startled, thinking that they would not offend the Crown Princess. However, they had no chance to meet a person like the Crown Princess, and they could not suppress their excitement about meeting an important person, so they looked up at Lu Lingxi and asked, "Are you really the Crown Princess?"

Lu Lingxi spread his hands: "I'm not."

Chunhong, Liulu and the groom Wang Ji all looked at her in confusion, wondering what the Crown Princess was up to, but they didn't dare to expose her in person.

The beggar on the ground immediately retorted excitedly: "You are clearly sitting in the carriage of the Crown Prince's Mansion, how could you not be the Crown Princess?"

Lu Lingxi said calmly, "Who says that the person sitting in the carriage of the Crown Prince's Mansion must be the Crown Princess? Doesn't the Crown Prince's Mansion have concubines, imperial concubines, concubines, and concubines? It's also possible that I went to the Crown Prince's Mansion as a guest, and the Crown Princess sent a carriage to take me back home. How did you know that I was the Crown Princess? You probably didn't have the chance to meet the Crown Princess, did you?"

The palace soldiers and the onlookers suddenly realized that the Crown Princess was a person who was only known by name. Even when she traveled, she either had a supporter to separate herself from the crowd or she went incognito without using her real name. It was impossible for ordinary people to know the Crown Princess. The man on the ground was ragged and looked like a beggar. How could he know the Crown Princess? So they all looked at the beggar on the ground, waiting for his explanation.