"Right, Kaede. Didn't my father ask you to consider becoming an official in the Imperial Academy? Have you thought about it?" Xiao Xiahan asked.
" My answer is still the same. I'll have to disappoint Grand Tutor Xiao..." Feng Qi said apologetically.
" Actually, I think that your decision is right, Feng. After you become an official, you won't have so much freedom. You have to do things according to others every day. If you don't do well, you'll get into trouble. You'll be on tenterhooks all day…" Xiao Xiahan raised both hands and feet in agreement with this wise decision.
" I thought Xia Han would help your father persuade me to enter the Imperial Academy…" Feng Qi was surprised that Xiao Xia Han had such an unusual idea. She was not like others who thought that being an official was a good thing to glorify the family and have a bright future.
If you wanted to be an official, you had to be clear about one thing, and that was to be prepared to lose your head at any time. If the emperor was unhappy one day, he might just let your head fall to the ground…
"I wouldn't do such a boring thing…Once you enter the court, you definitely won't be able to avoid falling into the struggle of the Imperial Party. "If you remain neutral in order to protect yourself, I reckon that you will definitely be devoured by these wolves and tigers not long after you enter.”Xiao Xiahan said sinisterly.
"Although what you said makes sense, you can stop talking in such a sinister tone. It's scary!”Feng Qi suddenly felt that the people she knew seemed to have two personalities. One face on the outside was another face facing her. Ye Qiannan was one, and Xiao Xiahan in front of him was another. Could it be that his magnetic field attracted freaks so easily?
"Why didn't Young Master Ye come to look for you today?”Usually, at this hour, Ye Qiannan would have already come here to report. Why was he still nowhere to be seen so late today?
" Who knows…Who told him not to come because he was annoyed…" Feng Qi felt a little disappointed. Could it be that it was really a habit…Ye Qiannan had only appeared a little later, and she was already worried and missing him…
" As expected, we shouldn't talk about others behind their backs. We just mentioned you, Young Master Ye, and you appeared…Your Highness, Young Master Yun…" When Xiao Xiahan saw Huangpu Chengde and the Crown Prince's follower, Yun Huaiyi, who had come in with Ye Qiannan, she immediately wiped the crumbs of snacks from her lips without leaving a trace. She reverted to her original appearance of an icy beauty who kept people at bay and bowed respectfully to Huangpu Chengde.
"Your Highness." Feng Qi also stood up and bowed. She didn't forget to secretly give Xiao Xiahan a look, telling her to be careful not to say anything that she shouldn't have said and cause unnecessary suspicion from the Crown Prince.
" I didn't interrupt Miss Xiao and Brother Zhen's discussion, did I?" the crown prince asked." I see you're talking and laughing. I wonder if I can have the honor of celebrating with you…"
"Your Highness, we are just chatting casually. There is nothing interesting. But why did Your Highness come with Qian Nan?”Feng Qi asked.
"Oh, I just happened to meet Young Master Ye at the entrance, so I came with him. It's fate.”The crown prince smiled." I'm here today to congratulate you, Brother Zhen.”
"Congratulations? What do I have to congratulate you for?" Feng Qi asked, but she had a bad premonition.
"Brother Zhen, you're so mean. How could you keep such a big secret from me? If I hadn't heard it from my subordinates, I wouldn't have known how long you were going to keep it from me!”The Crown Prince's smile was very fake, but Feng Qi was not happy at all. Could it be…
"Please speak clearly, Your Highness. I really don't understand what Your Highness means.”Feng Qi asked.
"Brother Zhen, did you really not get any information?”The Crown Prince also felt strange this time. There was no reason for Feng Qi, the party involved, to be ungrateful for such a big matter.
"Your Highness, don't keep me in suspense. Young Master Zhen is anxious!”Xiao Xiahan also felt that the Crown Prince, Huangpu Chengde, wouldn't come looking for her for no reason. There must be something very important, and this matter was related to her new friend.
"It's like this. My father has ordered Brother Zhen to take over the position of Hanlin Academy Scholar (the position Wang Chen held before he was exiled). If Wang Lin finds out about this, I wonder how angry he will be!）。”the Crown Prince said.
"What's going on?" I haven't replied to Grand Tutor Xiao about my decision yet, but the imperial edict has already been issued. This matter is going to blow up. His identity did not allow him to be a scholar of the Imperial Academy!
"Your Highness, is this news reliable?”Xiao Xiahan asked with a frown. She had never heard her father mention this. Moreover, his father and Feng had made an agreement before that they would seek Feng Qi's opinion. How could such a thing happen?
"Looks like Brother Zhen really doesn't know. But it's good that you know in advance so you can be mentally prepared.”The Crown Prince knew Feng Qi's true identity, but he was very confident that only Yun Huaiyi and he knew about it. Therefore, he felt that as long as he and Yun Huaiyi kept Feng Qi's identity a secret, nothing would happen.
The Crown Prince had thought too simply about this matter. He knew Feng Qi's true identity, but he didn't know the two of them. Her arch-enemy, Wang Lin, knew her true identity. If he accepted this imperial edict in a daze, once Wang Lin exposed his identity as a woman disguised as a man, it would be the crime of deceiving the emperor. He had to think of a countermeasure…
" Zhen Feng, thank you for taking care of me, Your Highness. I'll make the necessary preparations. I won't see you out..." Feng Qi's attitude was very polite, but her words were not polite at all. She directly ordered him to leave.
Feng Qi didn't have the mood to deal with Huangpu Chengde at the moment. She had to let the irrelevant people leave quickly so that she could calm down and think about things.
" You…" The Crown Prince's face immediately darkened, no longer as pleasant as before." Then this Prince will take his leave!" "Huaiyi, let's go…" He flung his sleeves and turned to leave.
"Feng, you actually dare to order the Crown Prince to leave. Aren't you afraid that he will make things difficult for you after you become an official?”Xiaoxia Hanpei admired Feng Qi's courage.
"You're still talking! What was going on? Could it be that your father made the emperor directly issue an imperial edict for me to become an official without my consent?”Feng Qi said angrily.
" This, I'm not very sure, but my father shouldn't do such an immoral thing..." Xiao Xia Han was a little embarrassed at this moment." Forget it, I'll go back first today. I'll go back and ask my father what's going on. I'll tell you the answer tomorrow."”
"That's the only way. Xia Han, when you go back, you have to ask Grand Tutor Xiao.”Feng Qi said.
" En, then I'll take my leave first. Young Master Ye, please have a seat…"
"Feng 'er, how are you going to deal with this matter?”Ye Qiannan hadn't said a single word since he entered and Xiao Xiahan left. It was only now that he finally spoke his first sentence.
"Qiannan, did you also get the news that I want to enter the Hanlin Academy?”Feng Qi recalled that Ye Qiannan and the Third Prince, Huangpu Chenghong, were good friends. He should have known about the Emperor's decree.
"En, this imperial edict was issued very suddenly. When I first learned of it, I was also caught off guard. As soon as I received this news, I came to inform you. I didn't expect the Crown Prince to actually come so quickly.”This was also the reason why Ye Qiannan and Huangpu Chengde didn't say anything after entering. The Crown Prince was in the Imperial Palace, so it made sense for him to know the contents of the imperial edict so quickly. However, if it was said by Ye Qiannan, the meaning would be unclear. It was easy to link it to Ye Qiannan being involved with someone in the imperial court, and furthermore, someone who held a high position.
"Did the Third Prince tell you the reason for this imperial edict?”Feng Qi hoped to get some reliable information from the Third Prince so that she could come up with a countermeasure.
"The specific reason is not very clear, but I can be sure that this imperial edict should have a lot to do with the two of them. The Emperor had only met two people before he issued the imperial edict. One was the Crown Prince, and the other was Grand Tutor Liang and Jing Xiao. It was just that he did not know which of the two had contributed more.”
"I didn't expect the Crown Prince to have a share. Just now, he came here to inform me of this news. He really didn't have good intentions.”Feng Qi snorted and sneered.
" Then, Feng 'er, how are you going to deal with this matter? You're a woman…If you're really a man, you don't have to worry about this…"
"If there's really nothing I can do, then I can only take a risk.”
"Feng 'er, you mean to say that you are going to tell the emperor that you are a woman?”
" Hmm…If there's no way to make the Emperor retract his order, this is the last resort…" Feng Qi was mainly worried that someone would stab her in the back.
"..." Ye Qiannan felt that Feng Qi's actions were too dangerous. However, since things had come to this, there was nothing he could do. If he had no other choice, he would do his best to ensure her safety.
……
"This Queen is really angered to death. This Feng Qi actually dares to be so impudent to this Queen. If it wasn't for this Queen's son, Imperial Father, pleading for mercy, does Feng Qi really think that she can enter the Imperial Academy with just a poem?”The Crown Prince said with a livid expression.
" Your Highness, please calm down. It's that Feng Qi who failed to recognize Mount Tai. She doesn't know how to be grateful…When she enters the Imperial Academy, there will be no one to avenge Your Highness…" Yun Huaiyi said with ill intentions.
" Humph... Don't talk about Feng Qi entering the Imperial Academy. As long as she is in the capital, I will have a way to kill her..." He would not let Feng Qi off just because she was a woman. If she was a beauty, he might have taken pity on her. However, she was so good-looking that no one would be interested in her even if they wanted to be gentle.
"Your Highness is right. The world will be yours sooner or later…"
A few minutes after Huangpu Chengde and Yun Huaiyi left Xinglin Medical Hall, Xiao Xiahan also came out of the clinic. Xiao Xiahan sat on the sedan chair that Feng Qi had prepared for her, because the carriage she had come in had already been driven back to the manor. Originally, he had ordered the coachman to pick him up at half past five, but now he had to go back early, so he had to take the sedan chair that Feng Qi had found.
As soon as Xiao Xiahan returned to her residence, she dismissed the person carrying the sedan chair and quickly walked back to the residence.
"Mother, have you seen father?" Xiao Xiahan asked.
"Your father is in the study room. Is there something urgent that Han Han is looking for your father in such a hurry?”Madam Xiao asked with concern. Her daughter, who had always been calm, would actually be anxious one day. Madam Xiao was more or less curious.
" Mother, I really have something urgent to talk to Father about. I'll talk to you later..." Xiao Xiahan went straight to the study.
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