Sure enough, what I saw was a familiar tall figure leaning leisurely on the carriage, holding a book in his right hand.

The man was wearing a bamboo moon-colored robe. His forehead looked smooth and full, his nose was high and straight, and his posture was casual and lazy.

If the same posture was performed by Chu Yunyi or Qin Yao, it would appear frivolous, but on Gu Jue, it had a kind of leisurely and quiet elegance.

Chu Qianchen often felt that if Gu Jue was not the Prince of Chen, he would have been one of the famous scholars of the Wei and Jin Dynasties who traveled all over the country on horseback.

He has always been an independent person, free, happy and casual.

Just looking at him, Chu Qianchen couldn't help but smile brightly and called out, "My Lord, how long have you been waiting for me?"

She knew it was him.

He's here to pick her up! "Soon." Gu Jue said softly, his cold eyes showing a hint of warmth the moment he saw her.

Chu Qianchen couldn't wait to sit next to him and looked up and down at the robe he was wearing.

This bamboo moon-colored gown was made by Chu Qianchen himself. It is just the right size, and the cool color sets off Gu Jue's fair skin.

The more Chu Qianchen looked at Gu Jue, the more he felt that he was handsome in every way, and suddenly he wanted to make him another set of clothes.

But it was almost November now, and winter clothes were too rushed, so she decided to make him spring clothes, which were much simpler than winter clothes.

She made a decision happily in her heart, and boasted proudly: "My cooking skills are really good!"

As she spoke, she smoothly adjusted his collar, and the tip of her little finger accidentally touched his neck...

Gu Jue's neck trembled slightly, and then he grabbed her right hand and rubbed her cold fingers, "Are you cold?"

Chu Qianchen wanted to say that it wasn't cold, but when the words came to his lips, they inexplicably turned into: "A little bit."

Gu Jue took out a cloisonné gourd-pattern sleeve stove from his wide cuffs and stuffed it into her hand.

The sleeve stove was warm, and her cold hands were immediately warmed up, right down to her heart.

Chu Qianchen smiled even more happily, "I like the prince the most!"

There is no one better than him in this world.

The bright eyes smiled into a pair of crescent moons, and they were like feathers gently touching the lake of someone's heart.

It created circles of ripples.

Gu Jue's thin lips moved slightly, wanting to say something, but Chu Qianchen had already grabbed his hand and put it on the sleeve stove, "My Lord, your hands are too cold, you need to warm them up."

"..." Gu Jue couldn't say what he was about to say.

Whatever, his little girl is still too young.

Don't be in a hurry.

Gu Jue thought to himself, and put his hand on the back of her slightly cold hand, letting her palm touch the sleeve warmer, while he touched her hand.

She can't escape anyway.

Amber looked at this scene and was still hesitating whether she should get on the carriage to serve tea to the two masters. She suddenly changed her mind, put down the potted plant in her hand, took back her right foot that had already stepped on the footstool, and silently closed the door of the carriage for the masters.

She put away the footstool and sat next to the coachman.

After a while, the red-wheeled cart began to move forward along Chang'an Avenue.

There were not many people walking on the street, the carriage was quiet and peaceful, and the scent of angelica dahurica was faintly permeating the air.

Seeing Chu Qianchen laughing endlessly, Gu Jue's lips curled up slightly and asked, "Was the flower viewing banquet fun?"

Chu Qianchen thought about what happened in the palace and felt that it was indeed quite interesting to some extent.

She nodded and said, "It's fun!"

As long as it's fun. Gu Jue's eyes softened, and he thought: She should go out and play more often, he was much more "lively" when he was her age.

"Can I take you horseback riding another day?" Gu Jue suggested.

Chu Qianchen nodded hurriedly, as if afraid that he would go back on his word.

Gu Jue often felt that even if he sold her, she would still count the money for him.

However, he couldn't bear to do so.

Gu Jue held her little hand even tighter. The back of her hand became warm, which warmed his palm as well.

Chu Qianchen imitated him and leaned lazily against the wall of the carriage. Gu Jue placed a large red pillow under her lower back to make her lean more comfortably.

Chu Qianchen got up very early this morning. When his whole body relaxed and calmed down, he felt a little sleepy and his head almost rested on his shoulder.

"I also gave my mother acupuncture today. She fell asleep, so I came out." She yawned lazily and said, "My mother is in good health."

She leaned on his shoulder and looked up at him, blinking her beautiful, delicate eyes.

He uttered a soft "hmm".

Chu Qianchen adjusted his posture slightly and asked again: "Prince, do you know the Yuan family? It seems..."

She tried hard to recall what Yuan Zhitong had said in her memory, "Oh, yes, he is the former Qingzhou governor, who just returned to Beijing to report on his work."

Gu Jue thought for a moment and asked, "Yuan Youjie?"

As she looked around, the little daughter's delicate look was revealed, and Gu Jue knew clearly that she would only show such an expression in front of him.

Gu Jue's eyes narrowed slightly, and his heart seemed to tremble slightly twice.

Once, he thought that his heart had been trained to be indestructible on the battlefield, but when he met her, he realized that he was wrong.

His heart was as soft as water, and even his voice was much softer: "The Yuan family's hometown is in Bingzhou. They are also a family of scholars for generations. Many Jinshi have been born in the family throughout the generations."

"Yuan Youjie's great-great-grandfather was once the Minister of Personnel, and he was considered a capable official. The Yuan family's recent generations are a little lacking..."

"I remember that Yuan Youjie was appointed by the late emperor as the official in charge of the imperial ceremonies in the 13th year of the Zhengde reign. Calculating the time, he has been the governor of Qingzhou for six years. It is time for him to move on."

The Qingzhou governor was already a high-ranking official, and perhaps Gu Jue was the only one who could so calmly say something like "the Yuan family has been a little lacking in recent generations."

Chu Qianchen nodded and said, "Yuan Youjie's wife Tong has a history with my mother. I heard that she is my mother's cousin. The queen just kept the girl from the Yuan family in the palace as a companion to the third princess."

The Queen's move was rather crude. Everyone could see that she had gotten the Queen Mother's cousin from somewhere. It was clearly Xiang Zhuang dancing with a sword, aiming at Pei Gong.

To put it bluntly, the Queen's "valuation" of Yuan Zhitong was because of the Empress Dowager.

Chu Qianchen spoke briefly and to the point, and without further ado, Gu Jue understood and said casually, "The Queen is thoughtful."

"Now that the Queen is trying to win over the Prince, I don't think she would have any ill intentions towards my mother." Having said that, Chu Qianchen still frowned slightly.

In any case, as long as Queen Mother Yin stays in the palace for one day, the prince will always have an additional weakness that will be constrained by others.

If the Queen Mother was a Concubine Dowager, the prince could still use some benefits to exchange with the Emperor and take her out of the palace to support her. However, Queen Mother Yin was the Queen Mother and the Emperor's stepmother, and the Emperor would never let her leave the palace.

There is absolutely no room for negotiation on this point.

Gu Jue lowered his eyes, tapping lightly with his slender index finger, and did not speak for a long time.

Chu Qianchen knew him best. He knew at a glance that he was thinking, so he didn't disturb him.

Her hands had already warmed up, and she carefully poured two cups of tea.

He drank one cup himself and handed the other to Gu Jue.

After taking two sips of tea, Gu Jue looked at Chu Qianchen who was holding the tea obediently.

At this moment, he had understood that the word "fun" she said was probably not the kind of fun he had understood before.

"You, what did you do in the palace?" Gu Jue looked at her with a subtle look in his eyes.

Chu Qianchen blinked again and obediently started talking about the opera in Changyin Pavilion, her appreciation of flowers with Queen Mother Yin, and Anle and Princess Changning playing pot-tossing. In the middle, she also mentioned that she and the Queen Mother said that she and Gu Jue would play pot-tossing together for her to see...

Gu Jue interrupted and said one word: "Okay."

They will play pitch pot together tomorrow!

"Yeah." Chu Qianchen smiled sweetly, nodded vigorously, and continued speaking, ending with her accompanying Queen Mother Yin back to Shouning Palace.

Finally, she thought of something and pointed to the pot of orchid that Amber had just brought up and said, "I also got this pot of the king of flowers!"

Since this pot of orchid was rated as the king of flowers by Empress Dowager Yin, it caught her eye, so the Queen had it sent to Shouning Palace, and Empress Dowager Yin then gave it to Chu Qianchen.

Gu Jue looked at the pot of orchids with purple flowers, then looked at the orchid of the same color in Chu Qianchen's hair, and said with a smile: "Mother has a good eye!"

This flower really looks good on her.

At this time, the carriage turned right, and Chu Qianchen's body fell slightly towards Gu Jue.

A corner of the curtain on one side was blown up by the wind. The wind was a bit cold, and Chu Qianchen shrank subconsciously.

Gu Jue raised his hand to close the curtains, and his eyes happened to glance at the posthouse outside the window. The posthouse was guarded more strictly than usual, with twice as many soldiers, because the envoys of Nan Hao were now staying in the posthouse temporarily.

Their carriage was driving so fast that it left the post house behind in the blink of an eye.

Gu Jue closed the curtains with his hand, and then changed the subject: "Just now, Nanhao's envoy Andaman once again asked the emperor to marry the third princess on behalf of the crown prince of Hao Kingdom, and the emperor has agreed."

"The third princess should return to Nanhao with the envoys."

Gu Jue's voice was calm and peaceful, he was just stating one thing.

Chu Qianchen: “…”

Chu Qianchen even forgot to drink his tea and opened his eyes slightly.

What she was thinking about was not the third princess, nor the marriage between the two countries, but Chu Qianhuang.

Chu Qianhuang was determined to go to Nanhao, and was so obsessed that she was almost crazy. Now that she was stripped of her status as a study partner and lost this opportunity, what would Chu Qian do? !

Just now, the Queen took away Chu Qianhuang's study partner. Ostensibly, it was because Chu Qianhuang was rude to her, but Chu Qianchen knew in his heart that this was just an excuse made by the Queen.

Even if nothing happened today, Chu Qianhuang would still be a study companion in the near future.

Things are different now. Concubine Chu used to support the Queen and the Crown Prince, but now she has ambitions. Concubine Chu and the Second Prince have become enemies of the Queen.

In this situation, no matter how much the Third Princess liked Chu Qianhuang, the Queen would not be able to tolerate Chu Qianhuang. How could she allow the girl from the Chu family to stay with the Third Princess, let alone accompany the Third Princess to marry Nanhao?

However, considering Chu Qianhuang's persistence in Nan Hao, she probably won't give up.

(End of this chapter)