By the time Nafu received the letter sent by Xiao Linting, half an hour had passed.

Nafu stood in front of the hanging flower gate on the flower path, holding an envelope, and looked at Gan Yuan who was handing him the envelope, hesitantly.

"What do you want to say? It's just right that I can go back and tell you the message." Gan Yuan saw his little trick and asked directly.

Nafu scratched his head, thought for a while, and finally shook his head.

Gan Yuan was speechless for a moment. She waved her hand, turned around and went back to the backyard in a leisurely manner.

Xiao Linting will stay in the backyard of the princess's mansion for the time being.

According to Xiao Linting's idea, he thought he would live in the same yard with Jiang Qingqing.

In fact, when Xiao Linting arrived at the backyard wing and looked around at the wing's decoration, Gan Lin stood at the door and said respectfully: "If Your Majesty has no other needs, I will follow Your Majesty back to Huaning Palace."

Return to Huaning Palace! ?

Xiao Linting's heart paused, and he turned around to look at Gan Lin at the door.

Gan Lin saw the prince's rare look of confusion. She pondered for a moment and explained, "His Highness said that she is now an adult. After all, there is a difference between men and women. It is inevitable that it is inconvenient to live in the same courtyard. The backyard of the princess's mansion is the safest. His Highness also said that he would let Nafu go to the backyard to take care of you."

"She's not coming back?" Xiao Linting didn't care about this high-sounding reason. He only cared about whether Jiang Qingqing would return to the princess's mansion.

However, this question touched upon Gan Lin's blind spot in knowledge.

She shook her head and said, "I dare not speculate on your Highness's thoughts. If your Highness wants to come back, he will come back."

That's what I said.

Xiao Linting sneered in his heart but did not show it on his face. He sat calmly on the Arhat bench, with a dignified figure and a straight back, looking like a general.

"I understand, my king."

Gan Lin nodded and left the room quickly.

Half an hour ago, after grinding the ink, Jiang Qingqing rushed back into the house and asked Gan Lin and Gan Yuan to pack their luggage quickly. Without saying a word, she asked the doorman to lock the carriage for the palace at the back door of the princess's mansion.

After her luggage was packed, Jiang Qingqing fled as if there was a monster chasing her from the princess's mansion.

The three of them fled the princess's mansion in a panic. On the carriage back to the palace, Gan Yuan was puzzled.

"Your Highness, why do you want to return to the palace so soon? Don't you want to live alone?"

Jiang Qingqing lifted the car curtain with lingering fear, and made sure that no one was chasing her. Then she breathed a sigh of relief and put the curtain down.

Why did she flee in such a hurry?

Firstly, there are differences between men and women. She was indeed embarrassed to live in the same place with an adult male. Although she and Jiang Chen had lived together after they became adults, one was a biological brother and the other was a pseudo uncle and nephew.

No, no…

It’s not that she doesn’t believe Xiao Linting.

She mainly didn't believe in herself.

She was afraid that she would get carried away at night and peek at the emperor's uncle's muscular body. She was really...

Thinking of this, Jiang Qingqing couldn't help but think of the large area of ​​wheat-colored skin and the tight muscles.

"Ahem!" She coughed awkwardly to stop herself from thinking, and quickly changed the subject. "Jiang Chen must have missed me a lot since he hasn't seen me for a long time. Let's go back to the palace to see him and relieve his longing for his sister."

The carriage drove away in a cloud of dust. After entering the palace, Jiang Qingqing went straight back to Huaning Palace.

Just as I arrived at the main hall of Huaning Palace, before I had time to breathe a sigh of relief, the palace maid who had received the news from the front hall hurried back at the palace gate.

Over the past five years, Jiang Qingqing has cultivated a group of trusted palace maids in Huaning Palace to listen to what is happening around her.

They recently moved out of the princess's mansion, but Jiang Chen has not moved out of the palace yet. Jiang Qingqing was worried that if everyone was taken away, there would not be so many spies in the palace, so she left two palace maids in Huaning Palace.

The trusted palace maid had just stepped into Huaning Palace and was walking in the courtyard when she saw the figure of the young girl in the main hall, and her eyes suddenly lit up.

The step that was originally intended to go to the backyard to look for Jiang Chen suddenly changed direction.

She walked to Jiang Qingqing's side, saluted respectfully, and then said, "Your Highness is back."

Jiang Qingqing nodded. Just as she picked up the teacup to take a sip of tea, she heard the palace maid reporting the news from the front hall.

"Today is the day when all countries send envoys to the palace to meet His Majesty. I saw someone in the front hall... If Your Highness knew about this, he would probably be shocked."

The palace maid spoke fluently, but at the critical moment, she kept the question in suspense.

Jiang Qingqing raised her eyelids and looked at the palace maid.

It was not surprising for neighboring countries to come to the palace to meet the emperor. On her birthday in previous years, the first-rank envoys from countries like Li would personally come to Beijing to congratulate her on her birthday.

Just looking at the shocked expressions of her trusted palace maids, she knew too well the personalities of the palace maids she had trained.

Unless they encounter something truly unexpected, they always behave calmly.

Therefore, Jiang Qingqing couldn't help but start thinking boldly in her heart.

"Could it be that the Li Kingdom sent someone I didn't expect?"

Speaking of the love, hate and vengeance among neighboring countries, everyone in the capital and the palace of Tianqi knew that Jiang Qingqing's enemy was the hatred between the eldest brother and daughter of the Li Kingdom.

According to the news received from Li State some time ago, Han Qiming should be busy fighting for the throne, so at this stage, he is least likely to leave Li State.

Then only Han Qingyi is left.

The trusted palace maid listened to Jiang Qingqing's guess, opened her mouth slightly, and looked at Jiang Qingqing in shock.

Then he stretched out a thumb from his narrow sleeves and raised it towards Jiang Qingqing, saying with admiration and emotion: "As expected of our Highness, you are smart and talented."

Jiang Qingqing sneered.

"At this critical moment, sending Han Qingyi here means that Han Qiming is either trying to make peace with me by sending my biggest enemy here. Or Han Qiming is threatening me by sending someone who annoys me to my coming-of-age birthday. Obviously, both sides are enough to make me entangled for a long time."

Jiang Qingqing sat lazily on the main seat in the hall, crossing her legs and shaking her feet.

The movements looked easy, but there was still a layer of solemn emotion on that sweet face.

"Don't just stand here like an idiot. Go talk to my brother and ask him what he thinks." Jiang Qingqing stood up and patted the non-existent wrinkles on her body. "Gan Yuan, Gan Lin, come on, go out with me. Let's go meet old friends."

After Jiang Qingqing left Huaning Palace, she went straight to Kunning Palace.

According to the message just conveyed by the trusted palace maid, the current process of entering the palace to meet the emperor is most likely to be with the Queen.

Although most of the envoys from neighboring countries were men, in order to express their submission, they would often send a woman with some fame in their own country to the capital to pay homage to the Queen.