The little princess' mind was read, and the court and harem were eating melons

That day, it was still early when Li Qingyi left the palace.

The morning court had not yet ended. Li Qingyi had informed the emperor earlier, so on that day he only asked the palace maids who stayed in the palace to go to the Qianqing Palace to report to the emperor, and he left the palace with Fangxin and Qinglian.

On the other side, Wang Xuan got up early in the morning. After finishing her morning tasks, she prepared to go to Chen Qicong's restaurant to meet Li Qingyi.

Because the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and some envoy teams arrived earlier and have already reached the capital, many foreigners have appeared in and outside the capital recently. When they have nothing to do, they will go to the streets to look around, buy some things, etc.

Therefore, the streets were very lively. Not long after the carriage left the palace, Li Qingyi could hear the noisy noise outside. He lifted the curtain and took a look. At first glance, he saw two big men with beards walking by the roadside in the crowd.

She took a closer look, but could not see their faces clearly due to their beards. She could only tell from their clothes that they were probably not from the Central Plains.

After lowering the curtain, Li Qingyi turned around and asked Fang Xin: "Aunt, are there many foreigners in Beijing recently?"

If she asked other people in the palace, they might not be able to answer, but Fang Xin knew that Li Qingyi was more interested in information from the outside world and had paid special attention to it, so she answered directly at this time: "Yes, it is said that there are foreign caravans coming to the Central Plains with those envoys. I heard that Miss Wang's Chamber of Commerce has signed several large orders because of this."

Li Qingyi had heard Wang Xuan mention this matter before, but she had not expected that it would be so lively outside just after she had not been out for a while.

When they arrived at the restaurant and got off the car, Li Qingyi found that the restaurant was almost full in the morning.

She was a little surprised, looked at Chen Qicong who came to greet her, and said, "Your business looks really good."

Chen Qicong smiled and was very polite to Li Qingyi in front of Fang Xin. After bowing without attracting attention, he replied to Li Qingyi: "Thanks to you, many people heard that you prefer the dishes in my restaurant, so they all want to come and try them."

Li Qingyi didn't expect that there was a reason for this. He blinked and said, "Then you have to give me some dividends."

Chen Qicong: “Yes, you are right.”

Fang Xin glanced at him and said nothing.

In fact, Li Qingyi and Chen Qicong met offline very few times, but Li Qingyi met Wang Xuan relatively more often. And for various reasons, Wang Xuan and Chen Qicong did not know whether it was intentional or unintentional. Anyway, many people in Beijing now know that the two are quite close.

This man and woman, sometimes just standing together for a short time, may cause some people to talk about it, not to mention that Wang Xuan and Chen Qicong are currently at loggerheads in business from time to time, and occasionally eat and drink tea together, which makes some people who pay attention to the two of them confused.

This kind of "love-hate" mode of getting along naturally led to some scandals, but the two of them have always been open and honest in their public behavior, and even if some people with dirty hearts made up a few rumors, it did not cause much impact given their attitudes.

However, as businessmen, Wang Xuan and Chen Qicong have to pay attention to their own reputation, so they always take the time to track down those who spread rumors and teach them a lesson.

And the two of them tacitly did not bring up these things with Li Qingyi.

But they did not mention that Fang Xin and those people who were arranged by the emperor and the empress to protect Li Qingyi would pay special attention to the new people around Li Qingyi, and they were also aware of these things.

They knew it, and the emperor and empress naturally knew it too.

But everyone agreed that these messy things should not be mentioned in front of Li Qingyi, so as not to dirty her ears.

Fang Xin is one of them.

So Fang Xin's attitude towards Chen Qicong is pretty good.

After Chen Qicong led Li Qingyi to the box, Wang Xuan arrived a step late, so shortly after the two entered the room, before they had even said a few words, they heard some hurried footsteps outside.

Then came Wang Xuan's voice.

Li Qingyi said directly: "Let Wang Xuan come in."

At the same time, Li Qingyi asked Fang Xin to go out the door, but left Qing Lian behind.

Fang Xin glanced at Qinglian, and after they looked at each other in silence, Fang Xin smiled and followed Li Qingyi's instructions to retreat outside the door with the guards.

Qinglian lowered her head again, moved lightly to the window and remained silent.

In fact, this is also the reason why Li Qingyi kept Qinglian, because Qinglian knows martial arts and is good at it. If something unexpected really happens and someone breaks into the room through the window, Qinglian can at least deal with it.

Fang Xin can’t do that. Fang Xin is just an ordinary person.

Of course, if possible, Li Qingyi didn't want to leave anyone behind, but she was not that careless and still attached great importance to her own life safety.

Moreover, knowing that his father had secret guards, Li Qingyi felt that even if he kicked everyone out of the room, his father might still know what he had said to others if he wanted.

To be honest, if this happened in modern times, Li Qingyi would feel a little scared if she encountered this situation.

But here, thinking about how good his father was to him, Li Qingyi actually felt... okay? If he used those secret guards like surveillance cameras in public places, would he still be able to accept it?

As for rebelling against his biological father and not letting him place people around him... To be honest, Li Qingyi had thought about it before, but gave up.

The reason... Let's not talk about the emotional reasons. Intellectually, Li Qingyi also felt that if he was transparent enough in front of his biological father, it would actually reduce his threat level in front of the political creature called the emperor.

After everyone had left and there were only four people left in the room, including Qinglian, Li Qingyi spoke first: "Have you encountered any troubles recently?"

She just asked casually, but unexpectedly, the moment she said this, Li Qingyi saw Chen Qicong glance at Wang Xuan. Although Wang Xuan's expression didn't change, Li Qingyi still felt a little hesitant.

Li Qingyi was puzzled: "Wang Xuan?"

Wang Xuan: "...It's nothing serious, just some small things. I can handle it myself, teacher."

Li Qingyi looked at Chen Qicong.

Chen Qicong returned to his normal state, smiled, raised his hand and touched his nose, and said: "On my side... it's just the matter I mentioned to you before, but it seems that Lin Wangfu has been too busy recently."

Having said that, Li Qingyi thought of the dispute between Princess Lin and Prince Lin, and Li Ningyan...

Li Qingyi thought of Li Ningyan and asked the system: [I almost forgot about him. How is Li Ningyan? Is he still alive? ]