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

The good news is not Xie Chengyao.

Bad news, her fourth brother has to stay and take charge of the situation.

Li Qingyi: ...

When the news came out, Li Qingyi heard from the system some people's inferences about the emperor's decision, among which conspiracy theories were indispensable.

For example, the emperor wanted to support her fourth brother to compete with the prince, so he deliberately found a reason to let Prince An return to the border to accumulate power.

There are also people who say the other way around, that the emperor did this because he disliked the Fourth Prince, so he used this excuse to expel Prince An from the political center.

Anyway, everyone has their own reasons, and some of them make sense. Li Qingyi was confused after listening to some of them.

But the conflict between the positive and negative ideas made Li Qingyi dizzy for a while, and then he made a decisive decision... not to think about it anymore.

She definitely couldn't figure it out anyway.

Don't make it hard on yourself!

When they finally returned, the team was a little larger than when they came. This was because many people in the team wanted to bring some things back to Beijing, and the emperor also had people prepare a lot of local specialties for them to take back as rewards or for their own use.

Secondly, there were more people. Among them, Li Qingyi cared about the most were two talents who were said to be selected from the nearby garrisons. They were favored by the emperor at the autumn hunt and he planned to take them back and train them well.

When he went, he was just an ordinary soldier, but when he comes back, he may not be the same.

Li Qingyi looked at the Sixth Prince with red eyes, pulling at the sleeve of her Fourth Brother, looking very reluctant. Thinking of how her Sixth Brother had run to his biological father yesterday and said that he wanted to stay with Prince An, she felt a little emotional.

Normally, the Sixth Prince seemed to be somewhat displeased with Prince An for always controlling him, but as expected, brothers are brothers, and even if they dislike each other a little on weekdays, they would still be reluctant to part when they really had to.

Moreover, although most people now believe that the northern border can be stable for ten to twenty years, the Tatars and Oirat forces will not launch any large-scale wars in a short period of time because actual conditions do not allow it.

But this does not mean that the northern border is completely safe. There are certain risks for Prince An to stay.

Not only the Sixth Prince had such concerns, but Li Qingyi did too.

But she knew that since the emperor had decided this matter, he must have his reasons, and she'd better not interfere.

Furthermore, she could also see that her fourth brother seemed to be in a better mood after coming to this open area compared to the capital. It seemed that he liked the life here better.

Then she naturally couldn't be the one who meddles in other people's affairs.

However, on the way back, some urgent matters occurred in the court that required the emperor to go back and deal with them in person. So after informing Li Qingyi, the emperor returned to Beijing first with his confidants and some men.

As a result, Li Qingyi, who was originally worried about how to find an excuse to visit other places, now has more time - now that the backbones have left, the rest of the people naturally don't feel such a strong sense of urgency.

However, those officials in important positions would naturally not have it as easy as Li Qingyi and others. Unless their physical condition did not allow it, they had to follow the emperor back to Beijing.

Except for the Sixth Prince who was obviously not in high spirits, the other princes followed, even the youngest prince.

As a result, soon the person with the highest status in the army was the legitimate princess Li Qingyi, followed by the seventh princess.

Li Qingyi: Huh?

A little bit magical, but not much.

Then, Li Qingyi was finally able to use the system on hand to scan the two people he was originally concerned about.

Unfortunately, those two people were not Li Qingyi’s students in the previous life.

However, before leaving that place, Li Qingyi himself didn't know why he bought the melon from one of the old men.

It is a very big melon and very expensive. It requires 1000 energy and is not included in Li Qingyi's task plan.

So, even she herself didn't know what she was thinking at the time. After she confirmed that the other party was not her student, they were just strangers and she didn't need to pay so much attention to him.

But Li Qingyi bought it anyway.

Fortunately, she bought it.

Li Qingyi: [So that's how it is. He didn't travel through time, but his grandfather did. When he was young, he was taught by his grandfather, which is why he has these slightly different ideas and ways of doing things.]

Li Qingyi: [System, I think that grandfather might be my student.]

System: […Ah, but I looked through the information, and there was nothing unusual about the deeds left by this person.]

Li Qingyi said calmly: [But didn’t we only find out about Lin Xile after she took the initiative to change her name? ]

Li Qingyi: [Not every time traveler will reveal the differences between themselves and the people around them. ]

System: [Hey? Hey...]

However, having said that...

Li Qingyi: [But the person has been dead for many years, decades, and it is possible that he has been reincarnated in this world. There is no need for the system to scan you. ]

System: [Sorry, host, I am still too useless. ]

Li Qingyi looked up and pulled his cloak tighter. The climate in the north is already colder than that in the south, especially now that we are still in the Little Ice Age and winter is approaching, the weather is even colder.

For this reason, the Seventh Princess, as the person who stayed behind to take charge of the situation, did not let the rest of the people rush around every day. Instead, she calculated the journey and allowed people to go into the city to rest if conditions allowed, so as to minimize the probability of people getting sick.

Li Qingyi is staying in an inn in this small town with the Seventh Princess and others tonight. The conditions are not very good, but not too bad either. The only difference is the lack of protection against the cold, so they have to rely on the clothes they prepared to keep warm.

Li Qingyi sighed in her heart: [You don't have to apologize. ]

When she was negotiating with the Space-Time Bureau, she had not thought about the time difference. Now that she could reunite with the few students she had found, perhaps she was lucky.

Li Qingyi: [This trip is not completely fruitless, but I don’t know if Lin Xile…]

Not long after, Li Qingyi and others returned to the town where they had dealt with Huang Hu. Before entering the city, Li Qingyi learned about the new movements of Qianniang and Lin Xile from the Seventh Princess.

The Seventh Princess said to Li Qingyi: "The newly appointed prefect and county magistrate are both real people. Maybe because of our relationship, they are very caring towards Qianniang and the others. I heard that they are doing well recently."

Seventh Princess: "Qiniang looks like a self-reliant woman. After Huang Hu was dealt with, she managed to find a job for herself and helped sell things in a cloth shop. The owner of the cloth shop was also a widow who had lost her husband. She was also persecuted by Huang Hu, so she and Qianiang had some sympathy for each other."

The Seventh Princess: "I think Qianniang is a person with great ambitions, so I plan to take her back to Beijing."