Chapter 541 [Three Updates]

The smile on Liu Tan's face vanished upon hearing this. He suppressed the urge to "Get lost." He couldn't help but ask, "Why do you think this prince is so attracted to men?"

The eldest prince said, "My father sent someone to inquire about the relationship between His Royal Highness the King of the Northern Territory and the King of Wusun of your country..."

Liu Tan: ...

So his reputation as a homosexual spread abroad earlier than his father's?

Liu Tan waved his hand in annoyance: "Goodbye, I won't see you off."

The eldest prince looked at Liu Tan seriously again, and this time he felt a little regretful.

In fact, putting aside all the twists and turns, His Royal Highness the King of the North is truly the most handsome person he has ever seen.

The fair skin alone is exactly what the prince likes.

The eldest prince has always liked fair-skinned beauties, but fair skin is relative in Jiaozhi. Compared to the fair-skinned and handsome His Royal Highness the King of the North, he is far inferior.

After the eldest prince left, Liu Tancai said angrily, "Go check who's talking so loudly. Once you find out, make sure he's silent for a month!"

Well, punishing someone for this matter seemed a bit excessive to Liu Tan. He had never actually thought of hiding his relationship with Lu Xuan, but that didn't mean he liked others gossiping about him.

For someone like this who can't control his love of gossip, it would be enough for him to keep silent for a month.

After Liu Tan finished dealing with it, he didn't take it to heart. He turned around and went to wash up and go to bed.

The next morning, after breakfast, he took advantage of the weather not being too hot and strolled to Liu Che.

At that time, Liu Che was reviewing documents. After Liu Tan walked over, he couldn't help but look at the sun outside.

Liu Che knew him very well, and when he saw his expression, he knew that Liu Tan wanted to say that the sun was rising from the west when he reviewed the documents today.

"What are you doing here again?"

Liu Tan was surprised and said, "They say that fragrance from afar is more fragrant than that from near. Is your Majesty so soon dissatisfied with your son's frequent visits?"

Liu Ju, who was handling unimportant matters nearby, couldn't help but pick up the document to cover his face after hearing this, but his shaking shoulders obviously betrayed him.

Liu Che said angrily, "I see you are a night owl who comes into the house for no reason."

After hearing this, Liu Tan sat down and opened his mouth with a playful smile: "Meow~"

Liu Ju couldn't stand it any longer and coughed softly, "Brother, I heard that the eldest prince of Jiaozhi ran to you in the middle of the night."

Before Liu Tan could say anything, Liu Che said with a smile, "I heard that the eldest prince wanted to offer himself to you. Are you unhappy that you got up so early today?"

Liu Tan: ???

Why do you know so much about what happened last night?

Liu Tan said angrily: "I drove him away!"

Liu Ju, not knowing if he had learned this from his father, also began to tease Liu Tan: "What's wrong? Is he disobedient?"

Liu Tan said expressionlessly: "No, it's too ugly."

When Liu Che heard what he said, he didn't intend to continue the topic, mainly because he didn't want to see the smiling face of Liu Tan when he mentioned Lu Xuan.

He coughed lightly and said, "Alright, tell me, what exactly did he want from you?"

Liu Tan was surprised and said, "Doesn't the emperor know about this? He came to me to offer his services."

Liu Che glanced at Liu Tan and felt his hands itchy.

Seeing that the topic was getting out of control, Liu Ju quickly asked, "What did the eldest prince talk to you about?"

Liu Tan said seriously, "Nothing. I just analyzed the current situation of Jiaozhi with him, and then he planned to buy some bows and arrows from me."

This is also the reason why Liu Tan came to report to Liu Che. After all, it involves weapons. If Liu Che feels it is inappropriate, he can ask Liu Ju to come forward and reject it. After all, Liu Tan is just a small prince. If the emperor and the prince think it is not acceptable, then it is naturally not acceptable.

Liu Che was quite interested: "Oh? How did you say that?"

Liu Tanxin said, "You even know that the eldest prince is not wearing any clothes, well, he is not wearing any clothes. Now you tell me that you don't know what we talked about?"

However, he still narrated the story honestly.

After hearing this, Liu Che said, "Okay."

The chaos in Jiaozhi State provides an opportunity to take advantage of, and the country within a country that Liu Tan created is also quite interesting.

Seeing that Liu Che did not object, Liu Tan looked at Liu Ju. Liu Ju looked up at him and asked, "What's the matter?"

"I'm afraid this matter will have to be handled by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Liu Tan was happy. They were all about to go back, and he didn't need to take care of things here anymore. When he was away from home, he represented the Han Dynasty, and it didn't matter if his father gave him a task. But after returning, he would become the King of the North and would not be able to get involved in the central government.

Liu Ju was caught off guard. He didn't expect Liu Tan to be waiting for him here. He said unhappily, "Did you do this on purpose?"

Well, let this father and son join forces to tease him. Liu Tan withdrew very happily and let Liu Che and Liu Ju have a good discussion.

After he went out, he ran into Wei Buyi and asked casually, "Are you almost ready?"

Wei Buyi nodded dully, looking at Liu Tan with a look of hesitation. Liu Tan asked puzzledly, "What's wrong? What problem did you encounter?"

Wei Buyi hesitated for a long time before whispering, "Your Highness, that eldest prince...is not good-looking either."

Liu Tan was confused: "What does it matter if he's good-looking or not?"

Wei Buyi gritted his teeth and said, "The King of Wusun is still waiting for you to return on the grassland."

Liu Tan felt that something was amiss and couldn't help asking, "What do you want to say?"

Wei Buyi simply said, "We shouldn't interfere in your private affairs, but... this person is really no match for the King of Wusun..."

"Wait...wait a minute." Liu Tan quickly raised his hand to stop him and asked, "Have you heard any rumors? What happened between me and the eldest prince?"

Wei Buzhi whispered, "Someone saw the eldest prince wearing your clothes and leaving your bedroom..."

Liu Tan: ...

As God knows, he was really afraid that the eldest prince would be exposed if he moved.

The eldest prince didn't care and even thought it was an eyesore.

Just as Wei Buyi said, the eldest prince is far inferior to Lu Xuan, so why would he fall for the eldest prince?

As for the eldest prince wearing his clothes... what else could he do? He couldn't just give the eldest prince a set of servant's clothes, could he?

Liu Tan said, "Go find him and don't let anyone spread rumors. I have nothing to do with the eldest prince."

Wei Buyi was immediately relieved. He knew their prince very well. He would not explain too much but he would not cover up too much either. He was just frank. If he really liked the eldest prince, what their prince would do now would probably be to find a way to take him away instead of asking him to clarify.

Wei Buyi immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't care how many lovers his prince had, he was just a little worried about his prince's aesthetic taste.

After Wei Buyi left, Liu Tan just returned to his bedroom and was about to take a nap when he was interrupted - the Prime Minister of Jiaozhi actually sent someone to give him a gift.

Since it was not the Prime Minister of Jiaozhi who came in person, Liu Tan didn't need to care about it. In such hot weather, he was too lazy to move even if there was an ice basin. He simply asked Bi Gao to go out to receive the gifts, and then analyze the attitude of the Prime Minister of Jiaozhi through the gifts.

Not long after, Bigo came back, but his expression looked a little strange.

Liu Tan took one look at him and felt that this expression seemed familiar. After thinking about it seriously for a long time, he suddenly realized - isn't this the expression Wei Buzhi had this morning?

He immediately became alert: "What did he send?"

Bi Gao said with an embarrassed look on his face, "Your Highness, the Prime Minister sent a few people."

After a moment's thought, he added, "These young gentlemen are not very old, probably between fourteen and fifteen years old. They are, well, considered quite good-looking in Jiaozhi. The Prime Minister of Jiaozhi said they were sent to serve Your Highness."

Send him someone?

Liu Tangang was wondering and wanted to say that he had no shortage of servants around him, but before he opened his mouth, he suddenly realized - it seemed that the Prime Minister of Jiaozhi also knew that the eldest prince went out wearing his clothes.

The Prime Minister of Jiaozhi was afraid that he would turn to the eldest prince because of the eldest prince's good "service", so he sent these young men.

Liu Tan sat up expressionlessly. When Liu Che and Liu Ju joked with him before, he didn't take it seriously and just thought that the embroidered robe envoy had reported it.

Later, when Wei Buzhi found out, he didn't care too much. With so many guards in his yard, it wasn't surprising to see him. Wei Buzhi was now the commander of his guards, so it wasn't surprising that he knew when he asked if anything had happened.

But it was not right that the Prime Minister of Jiaozhi knew it so quickly. The problem must be with the eldest prince.

After all, it was impossible for the Prime Minister of Jiaozhi to get news from his bedroom, and it was even unlikely that he would get news from the Han Dynasty’s headquarters.

Liu Tan looked up at Bigao and said, "Send someone to tell Wei Buyi to find out how the eldest prince got back after leaving our base last night."

Bi Gao was about to leave immediately, but before leaving, he asked, "Your Highness, those young men..."

Liu Tan lowered his eyes and said, "Since they have sent it to us, just accept it. Keep an eye on them and don't let them have any contact with the outside world."

Bi Gao understood instantly that this meant putting these young men under house arrest.

In fact, Liu Tan also knew that these young men were probably helpless, but he had long learned not to feel pity for others.

Now the only thing he wants is - let's go!

Not long after, Wei Buyi sent someone to investigate and received news that the eldest prince had returned on horseback that night.

Because of this, although he was wearing a cloak, the spies around him could see that he was wearing the clothes of a big man. Considering that he was going to meet Liu Tan, this must be the clothes of the King of the North.

Liu Tan almost laughed out loud when he saw the news. The eldest prince really did it on purpose. Otherwise, it wouldn't be so cool in Jiaozhi even at night, and he would probably sweat all over when riding back on horseback.

Although the Han Dynasty did not give the ice-making recipe to Jiaozhi, in order to maintain friendship, it still gave the other party a lot of ice. The other party also built an ice cellar. The only difference is that the shelf life of the other party's ice cellar is shorter.

But no matter what, the carriages used by the Jiaozhi royal family and nobles when they traveled always had ice basins. Who would insist on riding a horse in such hot weather?

Liu Tan lay back on the couch and thought for a while, he felt that the eldest prince was a little bit arrogant, maybe he needed a love education.