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Chapter 329 I Want to Protect You

Baoqin paused, turned her head and looked at her, and asked in surprise, "What's the point of you going?"

Xiao Xixi: "If I'm here, maybe we can find a chance to turn the situation around."

"But you are just a weak woman. What if the prince cannot be rescued and you are implicated as well?"

Xiao Xixi smiled and said lightly: "That only proves that this is my fate."

Baoqin looked at her and her eyes couldn't help but turn red.

When Xiao Xixi saw her like this, she immediately softened her heart and quickly comforted her, "Don't cry, things haven't reached the worst yet. Maybe in the end, the prince and I will be safe."

Baoqin said with tears in her eyes, "It was my fault. I shouldn't have asked you to tell the prince's fortune. If you hadn't predicted that the prince was doomed, you wouldn't have thought of accompanying him on this journey."

Xiao Xixi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What does this have to do with you? Even if you don't let me tell the prince's fortune today, I will tell his fortune myself later. I can't let him face danger alone."

Baoqin didn't know what to say and could only lower her head and wipe away her tears.

Xiao Xixi was helpless: "I'm not dead yet, why are you crying first?"

Baoqin immediately became anxious: "Don't say such unlucky words!"

Xiao Xixi quickly responded, "Yes, yes, I will never say such unlucky words again. Go and make me something delicious."

Baoqin knew that there were many things that she, a little palace maid, could not change.

She could only wipe away her tears silently and turn around to go to the kitchen to busy herself.

The only thing she could do for Concubine Xiao was to make more delicious food so that she would be happier eating.

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In the past two days, Luo Qinghan has been busy arranging matters for his return to Chenliu County. He rested in the Linde Hall at night and never set foot in the backyard.

It was not until the third day that he took some time out to visit Qingge Palace.

He originally planned to tell Concubine Xiao to stay in the palace well during this period, not to run around, and wait for his return.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the room, he saw Concubine Xiao directing the palace maids and eunuchs to pack their luggage. The palace maids and eunuchs were busy running around. There were several large wooden boxes on the ground, which were filled with many things needed for going out.

It was not until Eunuch Chang shouted at the top of his voice, "The Crown Prince has arrived," that the people in Qingge Palace realized that the Crown Prince had arrived. They hurriedly put down their work and knelt in unison to pay their respects.

Xiao Xixi bowed and said, "I pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Luo Qinghan waved his hand, and everyone in the room immediately tactfully retreated.

Luo Qinghan found a place, sat down elegantly, and asked casually, "What are you doing?"

Xiao Xixi sat down beside him and said with a smile, "I'm packing my luggage."

Luo Qinghan was puzzled: "Why are you packing your luggage?"

Then he thought of something and became alert.

"Do you want to return to your sect?"

Xiao Xixi blinked: "No, I haven't completed my mission yet, what am I going to do back to my master?"

Luo Qinghan thought that it was good that he was not going back to his sect, so he relaxed and asked, "Then where are you going?"

"Of course I will go back to Chenliu County with you."

Luo Qinghan looked at her suspiciously: "You usually take a long time to go out, so why are you willing to travel thousands of miles with me to Chenliu County? Do you have other plans?"

Xiao Xixi said with a straight face: "What other plans do I have? I just want to be with His Highness."

Although this sounded helpful, Luo Qinghan still cruelly rejected her.

"No, I don't plan to take you out this time. You stay in the palace and wait for me to come back."

Xiao Xixi refused: "Why? Last time you went south to pray for rain, you took me with you. Why don't you want to take me with you this time? Could it be that Your Highness is like the heartless scholar in the storybook, and has begun to get tired of the old and love the new?"

At the end of her speech, she deliberately wiped the corners of her eyes with a silk handkerchief, pretending to be very sad.

Luo Qinghan looked at her expressionlessly: "I remember that in the storybooks I gave you, there was no such heartless scholar."

Xiao Xixi: "There was one. After the scholar passed the imperial examination and won the third place, he abandoned his first wife and married a noble lady. Then his first wife traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to file a complaint with the emperor, and she brought the scholar down. In the end, the scholar ended up in disgrace."

She couldn't help but sigh when she said this.

“This is such a positive story.”

Luo Qinghan didn't understand what positive energy was, but he could roughly guess what it was.

He brought the subject back to business.

"I am not such a heartless person. I am unwilling to take you to Chenliu County this time for your own good. The journey is long and arduous, and I don't know how many dangers you will encounter. I don't want you to take any risks. You should just stay in the palace."

Xiao Xixi clenched her fists and said sternly, "It is precisely because of the danger that I must act with you. I must protect your safety!"

Luo Qinghan didn't think that the woman in front of him could protect him, but he couldn't help but feel a little warm in his heart.

He said seriously, "I have received your kindness, but I really cannot take you with me to Chenliu County."

Xiao Xixi glared at him angrily.

Luo Qinghan remained unmoved.

Xiao Xixi gritted her teeth and said, "If you don't take me with you, I will sneak out of the palace and follow you all the way."

Luo Qinghan said coldly: "If you sneak out of the palace and are discovered by others, the maids and eunuchs in Qingge Palace will be charged with dereliction of duty. At the very least, they will be sent to the laundry department, and at the worst, they will be beaten to death."

Xiao Xixi shrank her neck and immediately became timid.

She can keep herself safe, but she may not be able to keep others in Qingge Palace safe.

Seeing that she was scared, Luo Qinghan slowed down his tone a little: "Just stay in the palace and I will bring you some delicious food when I come back."

Xiao Xixi pouted and looked at him aggrievedly: "Your Highness, do you really not trust me?"

"That's not what I meant."

"That's what you mean! You said all these nonsense before, saying that I'm the one you trust the most, but in fact you don't trust me at all. You treat me as a burden and refuse to take me with you when you go out. Aren't you afraid that I will get you into trouble?!"

Luo Qinghan didn't expect her reaction to be so big.

He was stunned for a moment, then explained: "I want to protect you. I don't want you to go out and suffer with me."

Xiao Xixi said loudly: "It's not like I haven't suffered before. When I accompanied you to the south to pray for rain, I adapted better than you did. Don't underestimate me!"

Luo Qinghan was speechless.

During the more than three months before going south, Xiao Xixi was indeed the one who adapted the best among their group. She didn't care where she lived or what she wore. As long as she could fill her stomach, she could make do with anything else.

She has never been a flower kept in a greenhouse, and she is not afraid of the ups and downs outside at all.

(End of this chapter)