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Chapter 932: The Wasteful Prince vs. the First Female Official 1

After getting Lingyao's consent, Xuan Yanjing's enthusiasm for learning increased sharply. He even asked Xiao Fuzi to invite Lingyao to have dinner in advance that day.

Seeing that it was almost time for dinner, Xuan Yanjing felt a little unsteady in holding the pen. He hesitated for a moment, then waved to Xiao Fuzi to come over and whispered a few words in his ear.

Xiao Fuzi looked surprised, but quickly nodded in agreement.

Soon Lingyao received an invitation to dinner.

It was clearly him who took the initiative to keep the guests, but he said, "Because of your arrival, the Imperial Kitchen will prepare an extra portion of dinner for the Crown Prince's Residence. From now on, your Excellency should have dinner at the Crown Prince's Residence before returning to avoid waste."

Lingyao naturally had no objection, but she turned her head and glanced at Xuan Yanjing, who was pretending to be practicing calligraphy seriously and could not hear anything.

Xuan Yanjing could feel her looking at him, but he didn't look up.

She looked at what he was doing. He was just trying to prevent the food from going to waste, but he didn't really want her to stay for dinner.

Xiao Fuzi: Haha, Your Highness, that’s not what you said when you asked me to change the cold food, haha.

In the next two days, everyone in the harem was talking about the inexplicable accidents that happened to several princes. It was said that the imperial concubine reported the matter to the emperor and sent people to investigate, but unfortunately nothing was found.

However, the Prince's Mansion, which usually has the most things to do, is surprisingly quiet. I heard that the Prince's Mansion has not been busy for the past two days and has been staying in the Wenhua Hall all day practicing calligraphy.

This news naturally reached the ears of the Imperial Concubine. With the people she had placed in the harem, no matter what Xuan Yanjing did, she could not hide it from her as long as she wanted to know.

It was just that a few days ago she was busy investigating the dangers of several princes, mainly investigating her own third prince. Although the third prince seemed to have fallen inexplicably, the palace maids and eunuchs at the scene saw it, but no one did anything to the third prince.

But the Imperial Noble Consort was obviously skeptical about this matter. The Third Prince had never fallen since he was a child, and he was not the type to bump into things when walking. How could he fall while walking on flat ground?

Unfortunately, after spending a lot of time and energy to investigate, she still found no clues. Even the Third Prince advised her, his mother, not to investigate further, thinking that it must have been an accident.

After dealing with this matter, the imperial lady finally remembered about Xuan Yanjing.

"Call Consort Wen over to me. Does this court lady really want to be the Crown Prince's tutor?"

Lingyao was summoned to Changchun Palace again.

Gongsun Yun, also known as the Imperial Noble Consort, was reclining on a chaise longue covered with peacock blue satin, casually twirling a string of oriental pearl bracelets in her hand. The soft sound of the beads colliding was particularly clear in the quiet hall.

Seeing Lingyao coming in, she raised her eyes lazily, and there was a hint of wariness and temptation in her eyes that was not there last time when she summoned Lingyao.

"Lady Shang Gong, I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been studying extraordinarily hard these past few days? Lady Shang Gong, you have made great contributions."

She drew out the last few words in a long voice, like a snake spitting out its tongue, slowly licking her ear.

Cold and threatening.

Lingyao's expression remained unchanged, she said calmly, "It's just practicing calligraphy."

Gongsun Yun naturally knew that Xuan Yanjing had only been practicing calligraphy these past two days and had not really learned anything.

Otherwise, she wouldn't just be hitting Lingyao now.

In fact, Gongsun Yun didn't need to worry about Xuan Yanjing practicing calligraphy. The previous tutors also used this method to kill Xuan Yanjing's teaching time, but this time was a little different from before.

The prince was not so cooperative with the previous tutor.

The Imperial Concubine chuckled softly, "Yes, it's just calligraphy practice. However, I am very curious about how Concubine Wen got our lawless Crown Prince to sit down and practice calligraphy."

What lawlessness? Her God of Wealth is obviously very well behaved.

The Imperial Concubine is such a scoundrel!

Lingyao had no expression on her face and said something random, "He was just in a whim."

The imperial concubine hesitated for a moment and temporarily accepted Lingyao's statement. After all, apart from this reason which was somewhat credible, there seemed to be no other reason.

The Imperial Concubine had been busy investigating things for the past two days and was exhausted. After asking Lingyao and getting the answer she wanted, she raised her hand to let Lingyao leave and gave her some instructions.

"Tomorrow when you go out of the palace to do some shopping, please bring some things to me and take them to Gongsun Mansion. Remember to give them privately to avoid gossip..."

Lingyao got the things that the imperial concubine wanted to take to Gongsun Mansion.

An inconspicuous wooden box, but it was locked.

When Lingyao got it, the imperial concubine's trusted maid specifically warned her not to try to open it. If it was discovered that the things inside had been touched, she would lose her head.

This is unfortunate, Lingyao loves to do this kind of thing. After all, if she loses her head, she can just rewind and start over! It's just such a bug!

When I opened the box, I saw nothing but a jade pendant and a letter inside.

After reading the letter, Lingyao put the things back unopened.

There's nothing in the letter.

It was about the Imperial Concubine colluding with the salt transport envoy of the Gongsun family to supply the people with inferior salt and make huge profits.

The letter actually doesn't reveal much information. Just by reading it, many people probably won't be able to see anything specific.

That's why the Imperial Concubine dared to let Lingyao bring her a letter.

After all, although the Imperial Noble Consort is now in great favor, there are still countless concubines in the harem who are watching her every move. Sometimes, it may not be as convenient for her to do things as it is for female officials like Lingyao, especially when it comes to sensitive matters such as this one related to her mother's family.

That night, Lingyao went to bed early as usual, but someone in the Prince's Mansion did not sleep much at all.

It took him a long time just to search for the clothes he would wear tomorrow.

He likes bright colors, and his clothes are mostly brightly colored, either royal blue or bright yellow.

But Lingyao instructed that she would take him out of the palace tomorrow, and he could only dress up as a eunuch and follow her out.

This makes Xuan Yanjing very difficult.

He doesn't have the temperament of a eunuch!

Even if he found the simplest long gown to put on, it still didn't look right. In the end, it was Xiao Fuzi who took the initiative to offer him a new set of clothes that he hadn't worn yet, and Xuan Yanjing was able to solve this problem.

In fact, even if he wore eunuch's clothes, he didn't look like one. He didn't have the temperament of being servile, nor did he have the fawning air of a subordinate, and his back was always straight when he walked.

Xiao Fuzi never imagined that one day it would be his turn to teach His Highness how to walk and salute like them.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is enjoying learning about this concept.

While studying, Xuan Yanjing discussed with Xiao Fuzi where to go after leaving the palace.

Xiao Fuzi was very young when he entered the palace. Although he was born outside the palace, the scenery outside the palace was actually as untouchable as a mirage to him.

Xiao Fuzi could only discuss with Xuan Yanjing based on the vague memories she had.

But this was enough for the two of them to talk about for a long time.

When Lingyao brought Chuntao over the next day, they saw the "two eunuchs" with dark circles under their eyes.

The eunuch was so delicate and tender that Lingyao felt itchy.

Although they both had panda eyes, they did not look tired at all, and their eyes even sparkled.

Chuntao, on the other hand, almost thought that she had not woken up yet when she saw the Crown Prince wearing eunuch's clothes.

After pinching himself hard with his palm and feeling the pain, he wondered if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was crazy.

With a clang, the door closed and Xiao Fuzi stepped out of the Crown Prince's enclosed bedroom.

He gave orders to the palace maids and eunuchs who were cleaning the surroundings and waiting to serve Xuan Yanjing his meal.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince caught a cold yesterday and is feeling unwell. No one is allowed to disturb him today, or else he will get angry and you'll lose your head!"

After Xiao Fuzi finished speaking, he glanced at the group of people and said, "I will go call the imperial physician now. You all should move away and clean up. Don't disturb His Majesty." After that, Xiao Fuzi walked away.

After getting away from the crowd's sight, he started sprinting.

His Highness didn't forget to take him with him when he went out of the palace to play, so he naturally couldn't hold His Highness back!

Fortunately, he finally arrived in time.

He boarded a donkey cart at the back that was carrying several palace maids and eunuchs, and as soon as he got on, he saw Chuntao.

But after looking around, he didn't see the figure of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. He was shocked. Could it be that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't come?

Xiao Fuzi hurriedly grabbed Chuntao and asked in a low voice, "Dan, where is Master Jing?" Xiao Fuzi still hadn't forgotten that Xuan Yanjing had told him yesterday to call him Master Jing when he left the palace.

As soon as the word "palace" came out of his mouth, he quickly changed his words.

Chuntao understood what Xiao Fuzi wanted to ask and raised her hand to point at the sedan in front.

"It's in that car."

Xiao Fuzi finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat down quietly on the donkey cart.

Chuntao, on the other hand, had a lot of questions to ask.

I sat down in a seat closer to Xiao Fuzi.

"Why did my master bring...bring Master Jing along? Did Master Jing threaten my master?"

Chuntao thought about it and there was only one reason that could make the Palace Lady do such a beheading thing.

However, Xiao Fuzi refuted it.

"Of course not. Your Highness, Your Highness is not as bad as you think. This was agreed to by the Lady Shang Gong. Because the Lord Jing has completed his studies, the Lady Shang Gong agreed."

"Really?" Chuntao was still full of doubts.

No matter how you look at it, it seems outrageous that the Lady Palace Consort agreed to take the Crown Prince out of the palace just after he completed his studies.

But Xiao Fuzi looked so confident that she became a little confused. After all, it seemed that Lady Shang Gong had been very good to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince since she entered the Crown Prince's Mansion.

The journey out of the palace took about an hour. While Chuntao and Xiaofuzi were gathering information, Xuan Yanjing was sitting in the sedan chair eating jujube flower pastry.

Jujube flower pastry is filled with jujubes and is shaped like a blooming jujube flower.

The crust is as white as snow, with layers of crispy filling. It is soft and crunchy when you put it in your mouth, with a mixture of sweetness and slight bitterness, sweet but not greasy, just right.

Xuan Yanjing held the pastry in one hand and placed his five fingers together with the other hand a few inches below his chin to catch the scattered pieces. He ate two of them in this way.

Lingyao watched him raise his head and eat the fragments that fell into his palm.

I asked him, "Is it delicious?"