Prince! The political conspiracy is not a play, the show is real

"Well... we're here."

Chu Huanjun leaned against Tao Yao's shoulder, yawned lazily, and kindly tidied up her hair that was messed up by the wind.

Tao Yao suddenly felt a warmth behind her ear. It turned out that Chu Huanjun's fingers gently brushed past her and picked up the jade liquid grass flower that she had originally pinned behind her ear.

Chu Huanjun rubbed the Jade Liquid Grass Flower in his palm and played with it, muttering something to himself. Tao Yao didn't hear clearly and asked curiously what he was saying. Chu Huanjun didn't answer, but just smiled and threw the Jade Liquid Grass Flower out the car window.

"I say, it's unlucky to put a white flower on your head so early in the morning." Chu Huanjun said with a wry smile.

Tao Yao was in a rare mood to wear flowers in her hair today, but Chu Huanjun's words made her feel a little angry. She raised her voice and complained, "You're so tasteless and superstitious!"

Chu Huanjun laughed: "Sometimes being superstitious isn't a bad thing."

Hukou Town's annual Incense Appreciation Conference was held today at Taohuawu in the town. For years, the Hukou Town Incense Appreciation Conference had been single-handedly organized by the Chen family, the town's renowned merchant family. Last year, the Chen family's father presided over the entire event. This year, the Chen family's father, fascinated by the beauty of nature and traveling extensively, handed the responsibility of organizing the incense appreciating conference to his son, Chen Heng.

The location of this incense tasting event has always been very particular. In previous years, the event was mostly held on a pleasure boat on the Chishui River, making it more convenient for merchants traveling along the river to browse for incense goods. However, this year, the event was held in Taohuawu, a departure from the usual practice.

Taohuawu is a peach forest with many low hills. Not only does the cargo fortress never pass through Taohuawu, but due to the complex terrain there, even carriages and horses rarely pass through that area. It is very strange that the Fragrance Appreciation Conference was held here.

It is said that a new official starts with three major changes. Perhaps the youngest son of the Chen family wants to take over the organization of the incense tasting conference this time, change the previous practice, take charge and put an end to the old man's prestige.

Today, Chen Heng received a pigeon message from Chu Huanjun early in the morning, saying that he would come today.

Chu Huanjun is a regular guest at the incense tasting conference - his biggest hobby is collecting all kinds of incense. In addition to collecting various incenses at the incense tasting conference, the most expensive and valuable incense displayed at the conference every year are all pocketed by Chu Huanjun.

Naturally, Chen Heng could not miss this good opportunity to "rip off customers", so he ordered people to prepare the top item to be served this year - ambergris, which was priced at 9,990 gold. Most people could not afford it, and this price was specially set for Chu Huanjun.

Everyone knew that Chu Huanjun never followed the routine every time he came. He would always appear in a corner of the incense tasting meeting like a ghost, and no one could find him. This person was very cunning. He knew that the Chen family was keeping a close eye on the gold and silver in his pocket, so he deliberately didn't want to be caught by them. Every time he sneaked into the meeting to buy incense, he would bargain for the price.

In order to prevent Chu Huanjun from sneaking into the incense tasting conference to bargain for cheap goods, Chen Heng specially called a pair of servants to follow him and personally went to the entrance of Hukou Town to wait for the arrival of the distinguished guest Chu Huanjun.

In addition to Chu Huanjun, Chen Heng had another distinguished guest at this year's incense tasting conference. It was said that this distinguished guest had the ability to compete with Chu Huanjun - but this customer did not reveal his name. He just sent someone to deliver several large boxes of gold, silver and jewelry in advance, saying that it was a deposit, and deposited it with Chen Heng.

Regardless of whether this mysterious guest would actually arrive as scheduled, Chen Heng happily accepted the boxes of gold, silver, and jewelry. This year was his first time organizing the incense tasting conference, and Chen Heng was determined to make as much money as possible and to prove himself in front of the old man.

Chen Heng had been thinking about how to get money from these distinguished guests day and night recently. He was so tired that he fell asleep after standing at the entrance of the town for only half an hour.

Suddenly, the little maid next to him poked Chen Heng's arm and whispered, "Master, it seems that Prince Yi is here."

Chen Heng immediately woke up and looked in the direction the maid pointed. From a distance, he saw a carriage with very simple decoration speeding towards him.

Chen Heng hit the maid and scolded her, "Don't you have eyes? That guy always cares about his reputation. This carriage is so shabby, how could it be him?"

The maid was not convinced and quickly pulled Chen Heng to look towards the carriage. Chen Heng rubbed his eyes and looked carefully. Sure enough, there was a familiar figure sitting in front of the carriage.

...It was indeed Chu Huanjun. He loved to dress up in all sorts of fancy ways, so even from a distance, he could be spotted at a glance.

However, it seemed that he did not come alone today. He was accompanied by a woman who was a head shorter than him. She was dressed simply, and sitting next to Chu Huanjun, the peacock, she seemed to have a unique aura.

As the carriage drew closer, the woman's delicate and beautiful face became more visible. Her skin was fair and her complexion rosy. Even without any makeup on her face, wearing only plain clothes and with no ornaments in her hair, she was still exquisitely beautiful.

As the saying goes, a woman should be beautiful when she is dressed in filial piety. This was the first time Chen Heng saw this saying truly reflected in a person.

When the carriage came closer, the people waiting here saw that Chu Huanjun boldly loosened the reins in his hands, allowing the horse to run freely, and immediately used his free hands to hug the plain-dressed woman next to him.

The woman obviously wanted to dodge, but she couldn't, so she had to let Chu Huanjun hold her in his arms.

Chen Heng was somewhat surprised. Rumor had it that Chu Huanjun was a playboy, but he had only heard rumors and had never seen him actually do anything shameless. He always appeared to be a gentleman, so he had thought the rumors were false. But now that he saw him, the rumors were indeed true.

The woman frowned and cursed at Chu Huanjun. Judging from her mouth shape, she was saying something like "you are shameless, you are despicable". Chu Huanjun still had that nonchalant smile on his face. He raised his hand and gently stroked the woman's hair. When he moved his hand away, he saw a shiny pure gold hairpin in the woman's hair.

...This Chu Huanjun is really concerned about his reputation. He must have seen that his female companion has nothing valuable on her and is too poor, so he must make her wear something valuable to show off his noble status.

Chen Heng clapped his hands to the servants and ordered, "People are here, everyone get ready and get to work."

At his command, the servants immediately formed a long line and walked towards Chu Huanjun's carriage in an orderly manner.