In the next few days, Princess Rui discovered that Prince Rui suddenly became busy.

"Your Majesty, the prince has something to do, so he told me to tell you that he won't be back for lunch." Han Qijing bowed and said, "The prince said he will deal with the matter as soon as possible and try to be back to have dinner with you in the evening."

"What has the prince been busy with recently?" asked Princess Rui.

After all, Prince Rui has always been a leisurely prince. He has been so busy recently that he has no time to go home. This is really a bit abnormal.

"To answer your Majesty, the prince is helping the emperor with something recently, so he will probably be very busy during this period of time." Han Qijing said vaguely.

Prince Rui was certainly not working for the Emperor, but was busy looking for his daughter's whereabouts.

He was not at all confident in letting others do this matter, so he personally took charge and monitored the progress.

However, this matter could not be told to Princess Rui yet, so Han Qijing had to make up an excuse.

When Princess Rui heard that it was a mission assigned by the Emperor, she was still confused, but she did not ask any more questions.

After all, that was a mission assigned by the emperor. If I can't say it, there must be a reason why I can't say it.

Maybe it's some royal private matter that's not convenient to hand over to others.

"Alright, the prince is rarely so busy, you close personals must take good care of him, understand?"

"Yes, I will take good care of the prince."

After Han Qijing left, Princess Rui pondered for a moment and asked, "Madam Xue, I don't know why, but I always feel that something is wrong with the prince these past few days.

"Not only has he been spending less and less time at home these past few days, but he's also been acting very strangely.

“As soon as I looked him in the eye, he looked away.

"Tell me, is he hiding something from me?"

Xue Ma was frightened by the question and quickly lowered her eyelids to hide the panic in her eyes. She tried to steady her voice and said, "Your Majesty, don't you know what kind of personality our prince has?

“Normally, whenever the Emperor wants to assign you a task, the prince always refuses to take it.

"You agreed so readily this time, and you're so busy all of a sudden. I guess this job is special, and there's no one more suitable than Your Highness.

"I think it must be something involving royal secrets."

Princess Rui nodded after hearing this and said, "Madam and I have similar thoughts."

“Since the prince is busy outside now, the matter must not have been fully investigated or resolved.

"There have never been any secrets between the prince and the queen. Suddenly, the prince is asked to keep such a thing to himself and cannot tell you. He must be feeling uncomfortable, so it's not surprising that he behaves strangely."

"You have some truth in what you said." Princess Rui was quickly persuaded by Nanny Xue's words. "Send someone to serve the food. I'll eat by myself."

Princess Rui thought it would be boring to stay home alone in the afternoon, so she ordered, "Send someone to the Qin Mansion to ask if my sister is free this afternoon.

"If she's alright, I'll go find her after dinner to cheer her up."

Upon learning that Princess Rui wanted to come, Madam Qin, even though she had something else to do, made time to wait for her arrival.

However, when Princess Rui arrived at the Qin Mansion, she did not go in. Instead, she asked someone to go in and ask Madam Qin to come out and get in the car.

"It's boring to stay at home all the time. Come out with me for a walk."

The two sisters went straight to the busiest streets in the capital, visiting silk shops, silver shops, rouge and powder shops, etc.

While strolling, Mrs. Qin suddenly saw a familiar figure walking in the distance.

"Sister, I think I saw the prince." Madam Qin was still holding two ribbons in her hand, comparing the colors, but her eyes had already followed Prince Rui's figure. "He seems to have entered the teahouse in front. Should we go over and say hello?"

"No, the prince has been helping the emperor with his work these days, and he's been busy going out early and coming back late every day, so he's not even home.

"He might be here just for this mission. Let's not go over and cause trouble. If we ruin his business, it will be no joke."

When Mrs. Qin heard this, her heart skipped a beat and her expression suddenly became unnatural.

Although she quickly concealed her surprise, Princess Rui still discovered something.

"Why are you acting so weird all of a sudden?" Princess Rui asked, putting down what she was holding.

"Sister, it's okay, I just..." Mrs. Qin wanted to find an excuse to fool her, but she didn't know what to say in a hurry, which made her look even more flustered.

"I'm your sister. How could I not see anything wrong with you?" Princess Rui glanced at her and said, "You've never been able to hide your face since you were a child."

Mrs. Qin was very conflicted and didn't know whether she should say this or not.

But since her sister had already seen through her, she really wasn't someone who could lie in front of her family.

After sending everyone around her away, Madam Qin said, "It's nothing, actually. Song Yin just mentioned it casually when he came home for dinner yesterday..."

"What did you say?" Princess Rui couldn't help but urge her when she saw that she was hesitant.

"That is to say, when he entered the palace yesterday, he heard the emperor jokingly say that if he had known that being an emperor was so hard, he would have let the prince do it. He was happy to be an idle prince.

"He also said that when he asked the prince to help him with something, the prince would turn it down nine times out of ten, and the remaining time he would just make a joke and refuse.

"The Emperor even asked if he had spoiled the prince too much, and said he should bring him back to help him share the government affairs.

"At that time, Song Yin realized that the emperor was joking, so he smiled and said a few words on behalf of the prince, and the matter was put to rest.

"So if the prince was really working for the emperor, why did the emperor say that yesterday?"

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