"If you have the time to worry about him, you might as well do some serious business. Have you settled the things that I asked you to do before?" Xiao Qing suddenly sat up.

Riko pursed her lips and replied with difficulty, "Liu Suifeng has always been carefree. He was elusive, and could only be met by chance. If you really want to find him, then …"

Xiao Qingyi knitted her brows: "Then there shouldn't be any news at all, right?"

"Right now, we can only hear his whereabouts. According to his direction, he should be heading towards the capital. However, it will take us some time to find him."

The young miss was really stubborn. Although she said that she didn't care about the condition of the crown prince, she secretly sent them to find this strange doctor in the martial arts world.

However, the Crown Prince was just a normal sick man, so the young miss was making too much of a fuss.

Xiao Qing lowered her gaze. She knew that Riko would not correct her misunderstanding, so she placed her hand on her knee and fell into deep thought. "Finding someone is indeed troublesome. Looks like I have to think of a way to lure that person out."

"Li Er, you go …"

"Fourth Miss." Someone knocked on the door.

Xiao Qing Ran cast a glance at Ri-er before lying back on the bed. Ri-er nodded and left, returning not long later.

"Miss, the Crown Prince's Palace has sent a message saying that there are lanterns burning in the streets of the capital tonight. The Crown Prince would like to invite you with him."

The Crown Prince was very considerate, even though he was still thinking about the young lady when he was sick.

Today was the annual Begging Festival, and she was still thinking that before this, the Crown Prince would always accompany the Young Miss at this time of year. Wasn't this year's Young Miss a little too lonely?

Xiao Qingran's expression was gloomy and she seemed to be completely uninterested. "Go and answer him. Since the crown prince is sick, take care of yourself. His health is the most important."

Riko was stunned as she looked at her in astonishment. "Why? Young miss, don't you like liveliness? "

Every year, Miss Kusanagi would stay up late to sleep.

"No reason."

Actually, no one knew that she didn't like liveliness at all. Previously, she liked to go everywhere just because she was together with that man …

It was just rising.

With your loved one, no matter if you were noisy or quiet, you were happy. It was just that these disguises were no longer necessary.

"Miss, what has happened to you recently?" Riko could not understand no matter how much she thought about it. She had the nagging feeling that the Miss was purposefully avoiding the crown prince.

Were the two of them angry?

"Li'er, you don't understand. Sometimes, it's better to not see each other."

Especially when the two of them were hiding knives in their smiles.

Rio'er frowned in confusion, but in the end, she nodded and went out to reply.

Xiao Qingran stretched lazily and wrapped her body with a blanket: "I'm very tired today. I'm going to sleep. I won't see anyone and I won't go out."

"Yes."

Xiao Qing obviously did not want to see anyone, but that did not mean that others thought the same.

Four hours later …

Xiao Qingyi sat on the bow of the ship, looking at the waves beneath her feet.

So what was going on now?

It was one thing for Su Qian to express his feelings for her by showing her the lake, but it was also fine for the other officials and young ladies to join in the fun and increase the atmosphere on the ship.

But!

Why was that man, Su Qianhan, also on this ship?!

The corner of Xiao Qing's mouth twitched violently. She quietly moved towards the edge of the boat and hid in a corner to lower her presence. However, this did not stop the line of sight on her.

"Why didn't you go inside?" Su Qian Xing walked over with two cups of wine in his hands. "Are you angry? I'm sorry I didn't greet you in advance, but I'm a bit uncomfortable today because I'm afraid that if I follow you out like this, you won't have enough fun, so I got these people to come over. "

Xiao Qingxi pursed her lips and gave him a somewhat polite smile: "No, it's just that I feel a little stuffy inside so I came out to take a breather. Don't think too much about it."

"Are you thirsty? "Here." Su Qian Xing passed the wine cup to her.

Xiao Qing was startled and shrugged her shoulders helplessly. "You forgot, I never drink."

She was more allergic to alcohol than to alcohol. One cup was too serious, but that was about it.

"It's alright, this is fruit wine that belongs to the sweet drink category, you can also drink it." Su Qianxing was always able to show his consideration in this regard.

Although Xiao Qing Ran was not interested in this kind of thing, she knew that it was not the time to be falling out with them. She took it with her lips curled up. On the surface, she could not show anything: "Many thanks."

"Wow, why are you being so courteous to me?" Su Qian Xing smiled helplessly as he reached out to help her to retract her sleeves.

Xiao Qing Qing was stunned by his familiar action, and looked at him absentmindedly.

Her gaze caused Su Qianhan to be stunned. She then asked in a soft voice, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Qingran's hands trembled slightly. She pursed her lips and looked away unnaturally. When she turned around, her eyes had already regained their clarity: "No, I just feel that the fruit wine is very good. Can you bring me some?"

"Of course, as long as you like it." Su Qian Xing nodded as though he had always been that good-natured in front of her. "Give me a moment."

Xiao Qingran smiled as she watched him turn around and leave. The light in her eyes dimmed little by little, and the hand holding the cup unconsciously clenched as well.

Everyone said that women were gentle sabers, and that sabers could cut people's lives.

Actually, that's not it. A man's gentleness is really a form of torture, a type of torture that makes people willingly accept it and be sliced into pieces.

This man used six years to break through all of his defenses and made her hide herself for him, disguising herself as another person. But in the end, it was also him who dragged her into the deep hell.

Xiao Qing Ran closed her eyes, hiding the pain and hope in them.

"This King had thought that your relationship with the crown prince was closer than Jin Jian's, but I didn't think that it would only be on the surface." Su Qianhan had appeared out of nowhere and was fiddling with a dagger instead of a bottle of wine.

Xiao Qing Ran had already sensed that someone was approaching, but didn't want it to be him. However, she wasn't surprised because she had been used to meeting this man by chance lately.

"Since when did Duke Han enjoy gossiping about other people's private matters?" Xiao Qingyi's tone was indifferent as she gazed at the lake beside her. Although she replied him in a casual manner, her mind had already wandered off to who knew where.

When Su Qian Han saw her empty gaze fall on the lake's surface, he felt a strange sensation as though he was looking at an illusion.

He slightly frowned as he twirled the dagger between his fingers and laughed in a deep voice, "I am too lazy to care about your matters, but didn't the crown prince specifically invite me here so that I could watch a show where you guys have deep feelings for each other? Since This King is here, of course, we have to give him our appreciation. "

Xiao Qing was surprised for a moment, but she turned around. "Did he really invite you over?"

Although Su Qianxing had just mentioned it, she remembered that this man wasn't someone who liked to join in on the fun. If he wasn't interested, Su Qianxing wouldn't have invited him out.

Su Qian Han did not say anything, but his cold expression explained everything.

Xiao Qing lowered her gaze, thinking that Su Qianxing was probably unhappy about the matter of the black booklet being stolen. She was only trying to use the Beggar Festival's reputation to pull this person out and establish her authority as the crown prince.

As for the person in front of him …

"Your Highness, don't worry. Although we didn't reach an agreement last time, I will keep my word. Whatever you want to do, I will not interfere." Xiao Qingran probed, "However, there are more people on this ship. If Your Highness …"

"Boring." Su Qianhan suddenly said a word to interrupt her.

Xiao Qing was stunned, did she not react at all: "What?"

Su Qianhan frowned and repeated the same sentence twice. "I only came out because I felt it was a little boring."

As he said this, he glanced at Xiao Qing Ran meaningfully: "But I didn't expect that this place would also be boring."

The corner of Xiao Qing's mouth twitched. The worry that she had felt because of Su Qianxing was broken by the man's words.

It had to be said that this guy was really good at destroying the atmosphere!

"Does Your Highness mean that I'm a boring person?" Xiao Qing grinded her teeth as she glared at him: "I'm sorry that I'm so bored. Since Your Highness doesn't like it, you don't have to come over and talk to me, right?"

Su Qianhan didn't say anything and just sized her up before turning around and walking away.

Gone? Again!

Xiao Qinggran: "…"

Damn it, that was why she said that she truly owed this man a debt from her previous life!

By the time Su Qianxing returned with the wine cup, only Xiao Qingren was left. She had already finished all the wine in the cup and originally did not have much alcohol left in the fruit wine.

"Qingyi, here."

Xiao Qing pursed her lips and accepted the wine pot. She subconsciously wanted to thank him, but then she suddenly remembered that she shouldn't have been too far away from him. Afraid that this man would be suspicious, she changed the topic, "Why did it take so long?"

"I was afraid you might be bored, so I came up with some fun ideas." Su Qian waved his hand and immediately, someone brought out a table covered with ink and paper.

"Qingyi, take a look." Su Qianxing walked to the table and spread out the paper.

Only then did Xiao Qing Ran clearly see the calligraphy and paintings on it. However, they were not famous calligraphies and calligraphies that mostly focused on the elegance of charades.

"These are some of the puzzles I've been looking for. Interesting." Su Qianxing spread these items out in a patient manner.

Xiao Qing Qing pursed her lips to show that she didn't have a cold. Although she didn't hate reading, she wasn't really interested in these things.

"I was just wondering why the crown prince suddenly disappeared. So he ran here to take a break." Xiao Xi Yu came out of the cabin. She was wearing a simple silk dress and was elegant and generous. She pulled on her sleeves and clasped her hands together, then walked in front of the two of them.

"The Crown Prince has gone too far. Although our sister is here, we were called here by the Crown Prince. How could you leave us alone?"