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Chapter 379 The Socially Horrible Princess and Her Secret Guards 3

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There was only one queen in the emperor's harem, and that was Yun Wu's mother. However, she passed away shortly after Yun Wu was born.

The emperor never married anyone else, so he only had one daughter, Yun Wu.

Anyone with a discerning eye in the hall could see that the emperor loved the little princess very much.

"Your Majesty, I have wanted to meet the princess before, but I never had the chance. Now I finally meet her. The princess should be about the same age as my son."

Prince Jin said with a smile on his face. The young man sitting next to him was his son Xiao Che.

The most famous person in the court today is Prince Jin. He is the only prince from another family and he is attending the banquet with his son Xiao Che.

"Yes, Awu is now at the age to get engaged. I remember that your son seems to be a few months older than Awu."

There was a faint smile on the emperor's face. Prince Jin turned to look at Xiao Che and then signaled with his eyes.

"Why don't you get up and meet the princess?"

Xiao Che is the eldest son of the Prince of Jin's Mansion. Although he is not a member of the royal family, with this title he is the most outstanding among the young masters of aristocratic families in the capital.

Especially his father, Prince Jin, although he was a powerful official, he was granted the title of a king of a different surname because of his military achievements a few years ago. He has been in the limelight in the past two years.

Today was Xiao Che's first time to attend a banquet in the palace, and to be honest, he didn't have much interest.

Just now he was sitting in his seat with a lack of interest and his head down. Even when he heard the eunuch announce "The princess has arrived", he did not raise his head.

He bowed his head politely and followed everyone else in paying respects, without even seeing what the princess looked like.

Xiao Che slowly stood up from his seat and looked towards the princess' seat covered by a screen on the steps.

Through the gauze of the screen, he could vaguely see the petite figure of the woman sitting behind the screen.

"Xiao Che from Prince Jin's Mansion meets the princess."

Xiao Che raised his hand and bowed. He had a handsome appearance and a dignified bearing, and was a handsome young man.

The emperor narrowed his eyes slightly as if he was looking at him, and he was waiting for the response from the princess sitting behind the screen.

Suddenly, Xiao Che frowned slightly. He seemed to see the person behind the screen...

Eating something very seriously.

"Princess, princess?"

Fennel called out in a low voice, and Yun Wu then raised her head from her sleeve, with pastry crumbs still on the corners of her mouth.

"That's Prince Xiao..."

Fennel lowered her voice to remind her. Yun Wu was still a little confused and looked through the screen at the man who stood up at the steps.

Yun Wu quickly sat up straight, cleared her throat twice and said:

"Prince Xiao... you are polite."

Her voice was soft and pleasant. Xiao Che was slightly stunned. Then he bowed again and slowly sat down again.

As soon as he sat down, he suddenly saw a small round piece of cake rolling down from the gap under the screen.

Xiao Che was sitting at the bottom of the stairs, so he could see it clearly.

The half-bitten piece of cake rolled down two white marble steps and stopped without anyone noticing.

Xiao Che raised his head and looked at the screen. The little princess behind the screen seemed to be looking for something in her sleeves.

He wanted to laugh, but he took a sip from the wine cup to hide his smile, because the half-eaten cake that the princess was looking for had fallen.

He felt that this princess who seldom went out did not seem to be as eccentric as the legend said.

On the contrary...it's quite cute.

"The Crown Prince is now old enough to get married, and it's time for the Prince of Jin to look for a suitable match."

The idle old prince, Prince Ru'an, who was sitting opposite, said this. He also had something in mind, because he had a granddaughter who had not yet found a marriage.

But Prince Jin looked down on Prince Ru'an because he was just an idle prince who didn't even have the right to attend court.

The Prince of Jin actually had other plans when he brought Xiao Che here today.

"My son's marriage is not a big deal. What's important now is the princess's marriage. Your Majesty only has one princess, so this marriage is naturally the top priority."

Prince Jin bowed and said, with a fawning smile on his shrewd face towards the emperor.

Yun Wu, who was hiding behind the screen eating a new dish, suddenly paused and swallowed with difficulty.

"Why did you mention me again..."

Yun Wu muttered in a low voice and angrily poked a cake on the table with her chopsticks. The cakes at the banquet were too sweet, so she didn't eat them.

Oh, I really want to go back to Changle Palace. I wonder if Sister Rong Jin has made the sour jujube cake...

Speaking of the princess's marriage, the atmosphere at the banquet became a little subtle.

The emperor turned his head and looked at his beloved daughter, who was sitting behind the screen, poking at pastries with chopsticks out of boredom.

He smiled, and the solemnity on his face disappeared, and then he said:

"It's time for Ah Wu to get engaged, but I still have to carefully select among the doctors in the capital, and it depends on Ah Wu's opinion."

Prince Jin kept smiling, he was just testing whether the emperor had a definite candidate in mind.

But from what the emperor said, there is no such thing yet. That makes things easy, as his son Xiao Che has not yet found a marriage.

The emperor has only one daughter, the princess, and no prince to inherit his throne. A few years ago, someone proposed to adopt a princess from the royal family as the crown prince, but the emperor refused.

Therefore, Prince Jin wanted Xiao Che to marry the princess so that he could take the imperial power into his hands.

But this matter cannot be rushed today...

The adults at the banquet in the palace were chatting and laughing. Although Yun Wu had grown up, she didn't want to interrupt at all because of her strange fear of strangers and crowds.

What she cares about is that her father said he would arrange a marriage for her...

"marry?"

Yun Wu quickly shook her head and put these things behind her. She was raised in the deep palace and didn't understand them well.

Since my father has already said that he will choose carefully, let's talk about it later. Anyway, she is not engaged yet.

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Far away in the Changle Palace, the quietest area in the imperial palace, there were not many palace servants coming and going, and the backyard of the palace was empty.

In the small kitchen in the backyard, a tall woman in a plain winter skirt was making sour jujube cake on the table.

The slender, white hands had distinct joints, were broad and strong, and had thin calluses on the palms.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew, and a rustling sound came from the beams above the kitchenette.

Rong Jin's expression did not change, as if he hadn't heard anything at all, and his thin lips, which were stained with a little lip balm, were slightly pursed.

I calculated the time in my mind, reached out and took a wet towel to open the lid of the steamer. The smell of sour jujubes wafted out along with the rising hot smoke.

The next moment, a masked man in black jumped from the beam and knelt not far behind Rong Jin.

"Little Lord."

The man in black knelt on one knee on the ground and raised his hand to bow respectfully. Rong Jin's eyes did not change, and he was still taking care of the prepared sour jujube cake.

"I have already found out that the governor of Nanyang County is a relative of the King of Jin..."

Rong Jin paused, then turned his head, his pair of eyes narrow and deep, showing a half-smile and affectionate look.

"Next time you enter Changle Palace, be more careful so that no one sees you."

He said in a deep voice, his voice was not at all as soft and gentle as it was in front of outsiders.

The voice was clear and cold, and you could tell it was a man's voice right away.

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