When Lingchan arrived at the East Palace, she saw the eunuch beside His Royal Highness leading a group of people, waiting respectfully at the door.
She supported the maid's hand and stepped forward, and asked calmly: "Where is His Highness the Crown Prince?"
"His Royal Highness is still busy right now." The eunuch bent down and replied humbly.
"Is this how he neglects his mother and concubine?" Lingchan chuckled. Different from her gentle tone, the content was quite sharp.
The great eunuch was covered in cold sweat and said, "Your Highness... Your Highness, he is feeling a little unwell. He is afraid that he is more sick than the empress..."
"Then I should go and see him," Lingchan said with a smile, "I think he will get better faster if he sees me."
"... His Highness ordered that no one be allowed to disturb..."
"Tsk," Lingchan said with a cold face, "Stop talking nonsense and hurry up and lead the way."
The chief eunuch took Lingchan to the study room where His Royal Highness often stayed when working.
The window of the study room was opened, and the clear sunlight fell on the floor. Dust swirled and fell in it. The room was quiet, but there was no figure of His Royal Highness.
Lingchan raised her eyebrows.
The eunuch also had a puzzled look on his face, "I saw His Highness the Crown Prince here when I just came here. Could it be that he went to pay homage to His Majesty?"
"If I don't see Tantai Zhi today, I won't leave."
Lingchan's voice was casual. She stepped across the light and shadow on the ground and sat on the wooden chair behind the table. "The imperial edict clearly asked him to assist me, but he avoided me. Did he not take the edict seriously, or was he in conflict with those people?" You are like a sour scholar and don't want to work with a despicable woman like me?"
"Or maybe His Highness the Crown Prince is also a lustful person. Having a palace full of girls is not enough, but he is also reluctant to part with the soft jade Wenxiang in his private prostitution, so he uses this method to deliberately slow down the progress of the work? "
The eldest eunuch is a man who has been in the palace all his life, but now he is dumbfounded by this nonsense and unreasonable words.
Where did his prince come from? There is only one master in my heart and eyes, and this master is here to say sarcastic remarks that hurt my heart!
The prince had been smart for more than ten years and when he met this woman, he suddenly realized all the foolishness he had never had since childhood.
"I don't!"
A head suddenly popped up on the window sill. His Royal Highness looked slightly red and looked over angrily.
——Look, when someone provokes you, you can't help but get out of your own way.
"Then what are you hiding from?" Lingchan asked, holding her chin with one hand.
"..."
What is His Highness the Crown Prince hiding from? Everyone present knew it.
But Tantai Zhi calmed down. The red cloud of embarrassment on his face dissipated, and his face was as white and hard as a crown jade. "My father has an edict, and I dare not disobey him. I will do my best to help the imperial concubine and the empress abolish private prostitution."
"My dear concubine, please look at the booklet on the wooden table. This is the place where private prostitutes gather the most after I read through the county records, material records, maps, etc. in the capital..."
The prince reported the work he had done in a clear voice. He lowered his head slightly and clasped his hands in front of his abdomen. His voice was calm, neither humble nor overbearing, clear and logical. Looks like he's in full working order.
If you ignore him standing outside the window, among the flowers, this scene really looks like a monarch and his ministers are having a duel at court.
Ling Chan ignored the booklet placed at the top of the wooden table with conspicuous large characters on the cover. She looked around and said, "Where is it? Why didn't I see it?"
Tantai Zhi quickly crossed the window sill and walked calmly to the desk.
He bent down slightly, lowered his eyes, and looked at the floor motionlessly, but his hand accurately touched the booklet and placed it in front of Lingchan.
"You didn't even take a look at it, how did you know it was this one?"
Tantai Zhi said calmly: "I know everything on the desk very well. I don't need to use my eyes to accurately judge which book the empress needs..."
His posture looked very natural, he was very talented, and he was full of gentlemanly demeanor. He didn't look embarrassed at all when they first met him. Lingchan stared at him, but she couldn't find any wavering on his face.
Lingchan stretched out her hand and pressed Tantai Zhi's head on the desk.
The books and ink on the table fell to the ground, and the white porcelain paperweight made a crisp cracking sound.
The guards and eunuchs in the East Palace screamed urgently, "Your Highness the Crown Prince!"
"My dear, stop it!"
In this commotion, Lingchan leaned close to Tantai Zhi's ear and asked softly: "Why don't you look at me?"
"Do you look down on me like them?"
The muscles under the palm tensed up in an instant, ready to attack, like a wild beast about to explode at any time.
But Tantai Zhi slowly took a deep breath and forced himself to relax.
He made a gesture, and the guards who had already rushed to the desk looked at their Highness being pinned down on the table by a frail little girl, looking at each other in shock.
Your Highness, are you asking them to retreat?
They silently studied the scene in front of them.
The tall Crown Prince was pushed face down on a wooden table by a little girl. The table was very high and the Prince was also very tall. The little girl had to stand up from the chair and pressed her arms horizontally against His Highness' head. He put most of his body weight on His Highness.
After a while, he was so tired that he blushed.
Given the disparity in height and physique between the two, this seemed more like a joke than a kidnapping.
As long as His Highness the Crown Prince thinks, he can easily overthrow the person on his body.
Several people stood still. Tantai Zhi knocked on the table impatiently, as if to drive people away. The people in the East Palace gritted their teeth and quietly exited under the leadership of the eunuch, not forgetting to drag them away before leaving. Guan Qin and other maids followed Ling Chan.
The room suddenly became quiet, except for two slow breathing sounds.
Tantai Zhi said: "I have absolutely no intention of doing this. Please take a closer look."
"Then what do you mean?"
Tantai Zhi said in a calm voice: "Abolition of private prostitution is a good thing that benefits the country and the people. However, no one in the civil and military circles in the court thought or saw it. Only the empress has outstanding vision and extraordinary knowledge. I admire you very much and will definitely help your empress succeed. Get this done.”
He paused for a moment and said in a sincere voice: "Please don't be distracted by the slanderous words in the court. You are an excellent person with a noble character. You are definitely not something that a sleazy person can speculate on."
Tantai Zhi's head was pressed on the desk, and Lingchan couldn't see his expression. She could only see his smooth and regular black hair. Like his voice, it was regular and never overstepped or offensive.
Such polite persuasion is like a sincere teacher and a respectful and polite junior.
It's just not like the Tantai Zhi who mutilated himself in Lingchan's room a few months ago with red eyes.
[Chanchan, he has changed so much. 】The system whispered. [Not at all like the fool who was easy to deceive half a year ago. 】
[Love really makes people grow,] Lingchan licked the soft flesh in her mouth and said enthusiastically: [Let me test it. 】
Let her tear off the mask on Tantai Zhi's face.
