After Nafu actually met Xiao Linting, although he heard Gan Yuan explain on the way that the prince was in the princess's mansion, the scene of watching the prince leave Qi Town a few days ago was still deeply imprinted in his mind.

So Nafu himself was shocked to see the living prince in front of him.

what does that mean?!

This means that the prince rode at full speed for about half a day, but suddenly turned back to the capital.

This is not good news.

Thinking of this, Nafu suddenly began to feel uneasy.

Compared to Nafu's chaotic thoughts, Xiao Linting seemed calm and composed because there was someone who cared about him by his side.

"I have some things in the capital that I haven't arranged yet, so I came back. It's a good coincidence that you are here. I have something to tell you."

When Xiao Linting saw Nafu, he casually said "throw it out", then turned to look at Jiang Qingqing with a sincere look and a cautious tone.

"Your Highness, could you please lend me a room so that I can have a few words with Nafu?"

Jiang Qingqing was listening to Gan Yuan describing the situation along the way when she brought the Royal Aunt here, and was caught off guard by Xiao Linting's rare low-key and cautious tone.

She was distracted for a moment. Seeing Xiao Linting speaking, Gan Yuan didn't dare to speak again.

All of a sudden, the atmosphere in the lobby cooled down.

"Your Highness?" Xiao Linting seemed not to notice anything unusual, but after not getting a response for a long time, he had no choice but to carefully call him "Your Highness" again.

His deep and mellow voice did not have the clear voice of the boy he had in Beijing five years ago.

The voice of an adult man, coupled with a low and calm tone, made Jiang Qingqing's heart move.

"The warm room in the front hall is not safe. The servants in the mansion cannot hide in the house for too long. It is not easy to fool them. Uncle, please follow me."

Jiang Qingqing quickly withdrew her attention, without even raising her head, and walked straight to the front hall.

Seeing the little guy in front of him not even looking at him, Xiao Linting couldn't help but frowned when he heard the servant's words.

This time, Jiang Qingqing did not take the initiative to hold Xiao Linting's hand, but walked across the central hall and on the flower path.

Along the way, Jiang Qingqing felt a little confused.

It’s not the kind of confusion that the Chi family and the royal aunt feel, but the confusion that they feel about Xiao Linting after realizing it belatedly.

Although the emperor's uncle was cute when he was a teenager, he had a unique masculine personality charm after he grew up. Just by standing together, Jiang Qingqing could smell the faint fragrance on his body as male hormones.

To sum it up simply, she suspected that the emperor's uncle was hooking up with her!

Jiang Qingqing walked straight ahead with her head down, not noticing at all that she missed the hanging flower gate in the backyard, and instead took Xiao Linting and walked straight to the back door at the end of the flower path.

The back door was getting closer and closer.

Xiao Linting's expression became more and more complicated.

The details of Chihong's back door became bigger and bigger as they got closer. Looking at Chihong's gaze, Xiao Linting's brain got hot and he quickly grabbed Jiang Qingqing's wrist.

His thin lips slightly opened, and he was about to say a few words.

"Ah!" Feeling the touch of her wrist, Jiang Qingqing came back to her senses and saw that she had walked to the end of the flower path.

She slapped her forehead regretfully.

"I'm not used to the route to the Princess's Mansion yet. Huaning Palace is almost twice as big as the Princess's Mansion. I'm used to the pace of walking back from the palace. I almost walked out the back door again."

Jiang Qingqing kept explaining her mistake and quickly reached out to grab Xiao Linting's wrist.

Hearing this rhetoric, no matter whether Jiang Qingqing was really lying to him or not, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"What I want to tell Your Highness is that there are many spies in the palace. If I go back, I'm afraid I will cause unnecessary trouble." He said it sincerely, and the content of his words was true, as if they were his true thoughts from the heart.

Nafu had been following behind the prince, listening to what he said.

Nafu choked appropriately.

Over the years, he has been accompanying the prince, inspecting accounts and houses for him... If he is not too old and forgetful, the prince should have several houses with excellent secret atmosphere inside and outside the capital.

Well...it's not as miserable as the prince said, right?

Nafu's expression became more and more complicated. He looked at the back of the prince's round head, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

After being a master and servant for many years, there will always be a time when they have a tacit understanding.

Xiao Linting immediately turned his head to look at Nafu. The moment he turned his head, the expression that was sincere and honest towards Jiang Qingqing just now turned into a gloomy face the moment he saw Nafu, and he looked at Nafu with a warning.

Nafu: I feel wronged. I didn’t say anything!

Jiang Qingqing didn't have so many thoughts about her uncle, and she put aside the strange emotions that had just arisen.

"Then I'll have to trouble you to stay in the princess's mansion for the next few days. The people in the backyard are basically our own people, so no one should find out that you are in the capital."

Jiang Qingqing held Xiao Linting's wrist with her backhand, turned around and walked back, and came to the hanging flower gate in the backyard.

Just as he was about to step in, the voice of the emperor's uncle suddenly sounded again behind him.

"Nafu, you don't need to follow me in. Just wait here for me to pass on the message."

After saying this, he suddenly quickened his pace, took the initiative, took Jiang Qingqing's hand, and walked into the backyard skillfully.

Nafu, who was expressly forbidden to enter, stood there helplessly, watching his master walk in without looking back.

Gan Yuan and Gan Lin walked around Nafu and came to the hanging flower gate, then turned back and looked at Nafu while trying to hold back their smiles.

Gan Lin burst out laughing, and said with a trembling voice: "The backyard of the princess's mansion is a boudoir. Nafu, if you really want to enter the princess's boudoir, you have to go around the palace first before you are qualified to come in."

An ordinary man with no noble status and intact beard walked out of the palace, wouldn't he be a eunuch! ?

Nafu's face suddenly became colorful.

Gan Yuan also burst out laughing. The two maids turned back every three steps to look at Nafu, their almond-shaped eyes curved with laughter.

On this side, Jiang Qingqing followed Xiao Linting into the backyard. She pointed to the room on the other side, indicating that it was a study where they could write.

Xiao Linting nodded in understanding, walked straight into the study, lifted his sleeves slightly, walked to the desk, and was about to take a pen to write.

I subconsciously lowered my head to look at the table, and my eyes were attracted by the pieces of rice paper used for practicing calligraphy on the table.

After taking a few glances at those flamboyantly written characters, Xiao Linting felt that they were too familiar.

"If Your Highness accompanies me to the border camp someday, Your Highness will write down the military orders. Just based on Your Highness's handwriting, I'm afraid everyone in the army will believe it."

He said it with a playful joking tone.

Jiang Qingqing was grinding ink for him. "Then I'll just take it as the emperor's uncle praising my beautiful handwriting!"