Looking at Tai'an from the full moon

"Is His Royal Highness Prince Yun looking for me?"

Before he finished speaking, several people looked outside the house and saw a woman in gorgeous clothes walking in. After seeing her, several people had different expressions.

The prince consort seemed to be somewhat amazed. In his impression, Li Jinxiu's image seemed to remain at the ordinary-dressed girl he met seven years ago. To be honest, although he had settled Li Jinxiu in the old house these years, they did not eat or live together, and he did not pay much attention to her changes. But after seven years, people's appearance and temperament would always change a little. Moreover, Li Jinxiu was also a lady from an official family. She did not have to do any work in the old house these years, and she was indeed raised to be more like a noble lady than seven years ago.

The princess looked at Li Jinxiu with a radiant look in her eyes. Out of guilt, she now regarded Li Jinxiu as her own sister, and specially ordered people to make clothes according to Jinxiu's figure, which looked really suitable for her! Jinxiu had a slender figure, and she looked thin in everything she wore, but after the modification of this dress, she looked less thin and more symmetrical. The princess couldn't help but secretly praise her own good vision.

Chu Yao's eyes were just pure curiosity, curious about what she looked like. Although Chu Yao was not born into a rich family, he had traveled a lot since he was a child, and had seen many different types of women. Although Li Jinxiu in front of him was dressed in gorgeous clothes and was very delicate, her appearance was only considered pretty good.

In comparison, Xiao Zuochen's expression at this time was particularly serious. Just now, after he mentioned that he wanted to see Li Jinxiu, the princess and the princess exchanged a few words. If she had just arrived, she should have only heard the conversation between the princess and the princess, and would never know that he wanted to see her. Her words, on the contrary, showed that she had been eavesdropping outside the courtyard for a while, but why did she eavesdrop? Moreover, she looked very calm, not like someone who had just been injured, and her expression seemed to be unafraid of the identity of anyone present.

"Your Highness Prince Yun?"

It seemed that she saw that everyone was looking at her, but Xiao Zuochen did not reply, so Li Jinxiu reminded him again.

"I want to ask you something about Lord Li. Is Miss Li available?"

Li Jinxiu smiled slightly after hearing this.

"Since it is His Royal Highness Prince Yun who asked, it is convenient. However, my father has passed away for many years. I don't know if I can help Prince Yun."

"Well~ Let me make the arrangements, you guys chat well, we won't disturb you~"

The prince consort hurriedly got up and arranged a guest room for them. When the two left, only the prince consort, the princess and Chu Yao were left in the front hall. At this time, the three of them looked at each other and felt a little embarrassed.

Chu Yao then remembered the "shameless" excuse Xiao Zuochen had thought of for him before, and also, when he went to the Princess's mansion to rummage through things, although the Princess did not find out that the man was him, he still felt a little guilty under the Princess's gaze.

The reason why the princess looked at Chu Yao was because her relationship with her husband had not yet eased at the last birthday banquet for Princess Jiashan. So she had some "bad" thoughts about Chu Yao at that time, but now that her husband had reconciled with her, she naturally didn't think about other men anymore.

The Prince Consort also noticed that the atmosphere was a bit awkward at this time, so he had to start looking for a topic. Before, Prince Yun told him that the Princess thought Chu Yao was a sparring partner, so the Prince Consort brought up this topic and talked about some interesting things that happened when Xiao Zuochen was practicing Qinggong. Although the atmosphere was still a bit subtle, it was good that there was a topic to talk about.

In just a cup of tea, Xiao Zuochen and Li Jinxiu came back. Chu Yao stretched out his elbow and nudged Xiao Zuochen under the table, wanting to know what they had said. Xiao Zuochen approached Chu Yao and held his arm with his backhand.

"Aunt, Uncle, Zuochen has already made an appointment with Miss Li. We will not disturb you today and will visit you another day."

After Xiao Zuochen finished speaking, he pulled Chu Yao up.

"Are you done talking now? How about staying for dinner? Jiashan should be back soon. She's been clamoring to see you every day~"

"Thank you for your kindness, Auntie. I have something else to do at home, so I have to leave first. I'll take Xiao Ling'er out to play some other day when I have time."

"Then I won't force you to stay. Be careful on the road."

After exchanging greetings, Xiao Zuochen and his companions returned to the palace. After returning, Xiao Zuochen arranged for Yun Wei and Yun You to inform Prince Qing and others separately.

"There will be new arrangements tomorrow!"

The next day—

After the morning court session, Prince Qing went straight to Prince Yun’s mansion.

"Since the speech Liuli proposed last time was very effective, my father has given me other things to do. Now I have to go to the morning court every day. But the things given to me are all small things."

Prince Qing leaned back in his chair, his eyes somewhat tired. Xiao Zuochen smiled softly and consoled him.

"Isn't this good? Although these are small things, they also show that the emperor now values ​​you, my brother. It's just that you haven't participated in many political affairs before, so the emperor just let you get involved little by little."

"Just small things take up half of my time. If it gets to that point..."

Prince Qing said halfway and turned to look at Xiao Zuochen. Although it was Xiao Zuochen who asked him to compete before, now that his father really started to pay attention to him, he was not sure whether Xiao Zuochen would change his attitude.

Seeing that Prince Qing seemed afraid to continue speaking, Xiao Zuochen held up his tilted chin with one hand.

"If I really reach that position, I will naturally have less time to do what I want to do than I do now, but the power I have will naturally double."

"Then why don't you want it? If you want it, Father will give it to you."

"Oh~ Royal brother, you know me well. I have been lazy since I was a child. If I were to be tied up in that position, I would definitely not be able to bear it."

"But I don't like the palace either..."

"No! My dear brother, you are different from me. The reason why you don't like the palace is because there is someone you don't like in it. She took away everything that originally belonged to you. And you are just taking back what belongs to you."

After listening to Xiao Zuochen's words, King Qing nodded again. In order to pull his enemy off the throne of power, he must ascend to it!

But the reason why Xiao Zuochen chose the Prince of Qing was not only because he had a grudge against the Queen, but more importantly, he had never experienced power. So once he experienced it, he would not let it go! This way, he would be able to get rid of that position more easily.

Not long after, Liuli and Zhen Luo also arrived, and the group gathered together again.

"Long time no see, everyone. What are you talking about today?"

Zhen Luo was still dressed in a tight outfit, and judging from his complexion, he must have been doing well recently. In comparison, Liuli looked a little tired.

"Today, we have to assign the second task!"