After Geng Youran and Qianxue returned to the courtyard, they found Yinzhen drinking tea inside the house.
"This humble servant greets Your Highness. May Your Highness be blessed."
"Get up."
"Your Highness, when did you arrive? Why didn't anyone tell me?"
Yinzhen took Geng Youran's hand and naturally pulled her onto his lap.
"I didn't have much to do this afternoon, so I thought I'd come and see you after I finished. Xiao Anzi said you went out, so I'm just waiting here with some tea."
"The prince is quite considerate."
"Then, shouldn't you give me some reward?"
As he said this, Yinzhen's hands began to wander:
"Sir, there are other people in this room."
Geng Youran shyly stopped Yinzhen's hand.
"Besides you and me, who else is in this house?"
Geng Youran sat up slightly and looked to the side. She realized that Qianxue, Gao Wuyong, and the others had left sometime earlier and had even 'thoughtfully' closed the door.
"Sir, it's daytime."
"It got dark very quickly."
Then Geng Youran's mouth was gagged, and when the two woke up again on the bed in the inner room, it was already dark outside.
Geng Youran glanced at Yinzhen, who had his eyes closed, and then hissed as she tried to prop herself up with her arms.
Something's not right. Yinzhen has almost never been this unruly before.
"woke up?"
Geng Youran turned her head and found that Yinzhen had already opened his eyes and was smiling at her.
"Sir, you were awake a while ago?"
Yinzhen nodded, then pulled Geng Youran back into his arms.
"I heard you went to Yun Gege's place this morning?"
Geng Youran stopped, then looked up.
"How did you know, sir?"
Yinzhen smiled but didn't say anything, and Geng Youran quickly guessed what he meant.
"Since you knew, why didn't you go and 'play the hero'?"
"Because I feel that there is another beauty who needs your comfort."
Geng Youran gently patted Yinzhen's chest, then leaned back into his arms.
The two remained silent for a while, but Geng Youran couldn't help but speak first.
"Master, you should go see Wanru. She is the one who needs your comfort the most."
Although Yinzhen was somewhat displeased, he did not show it because he knew Geng Youran's temperament.
"I know, I will go see her tomorrow."
In modern times, Geng Youran would absolutely not compromise on pushing the person she likes towards someone else; she might even go crazy.
But this was ancient times, and reason told her that this man could not and would not belong to only her.
All she could do was keep her in his heart.
After a while, Gao Wuyong knocked on the door from the outside:
"Your Highness, the Thirteenth Prince has arrived. He says he has something to discuss with you."
"Come in."
Yinzhen got up and drew the curtains on the bed, then asked Gao Wuyong to help him tidy his clothes.
Before leaving, Yinzhen said to Qianxue, who was standing at the door:
"Tell your master that he will have dinner with us when he gets back."
"yes."
After seeing the prince off, Qianxue entered the room and saw that Geng Youran had already put on her undergarments.
"Why did you get up, Princess? I thought you wanted to lie down for a while longer."
"It's not even evening yet. If word gets out, wouldn't the prince be embarrassed?"
Qianxue said "Yes" and quickly walked over to help her princess tidy up.
"Princess, when the Prince left just now, he said he would have dinner here and asked you to wait for him to return."
Geng Youran nodded, indicating that she understood.
On the other side, the Thirteenth Prince, Yinxiang, was pacing back and forth in his study.
"Thirteenth Brother."
"Fourth Brother, you've finally arrived."
What happened?
"Fourth Brother, my men have sent word that Father Emperor is preparing to appoint Lu Zhensheng as the Governor of Gansu."
"Oh, so that's what happened. What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
The thirteenth prince was taken aback.
"Fourth Brother, you don't seem surprised at all."
Yinzhen picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, then sat down at the desk and gestured for Yinxiang to sit down as well.
"I originally thought that Father Emperor would appoint our people. But then I thought, we've been getting too much attention lately, and more and more people in the court are having opinions about us, which isn't a good thing."
Yinxiang was puzzled:
"Fourth Brother, why bother with those people? Most of them owe the national treasury money, and they're only doing this because they resent you for asking them for their debts. Sooner or later, we'll have to take care of these parasites."
"We definitely need to clean up, but it doesn't necessarily require us to do it. Although Father Emperor is in poor health now, it doesn't mean he's deaf and blind and doesn't know anything. Father Emperor has long seen through what Eighth Brother and Ninth Brother are planning for Fourteenth Brother, but he just doesn't want to say it."
"Fourth Brother, do you mean that Father Emperor plans to give them a hard time?"
Yinzhen raised his head from the desk, his eyes resolute, and said:
"Bestowing the title of Governor of Gansu upon Lu Zhensheng is like giving them a sweet treat, but sweet treats aren't so easy to come by; they have to exchange them for something else. Trading a few parasites for a first-rank Governor of Gansu isn't a bad deal for them."
After hearing his fourth brother's words, Yinxiang was finally relieved.
"Fourth Brother, you're really something."
Yinzhen smiled:
"This idea wasn't mine."
"Oh? Fourth Brother has a master by his side?"
Yinzhen smiled but didn't say anything. He couldn't very well say that he learned this idea from the methods of the women in the backyard, could he?
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