Out of the hall palace, many ministers immediately approach and congrats the Crown Prince except Minister Zheng and General Chou who just walk away from the Hall after giving a proper greeting. But when Prince Li and Prince FengEr walk out from the hall, the Crown Prince speaks louder to Prince Li, purposely, letting everyone can hear them,
"What a surprise! My little brother is willing to do a performance with his wife...Does HuaMuTan force you to do it? I see you never change, Qi Huang Di...always weak to women huh?!" The Crown Prince laughs, "I am just kidding with you...but if you don"t want to do it, seriously, do you need my help to talk with Queen GrandMother?"
The intention of the Crown Prince is easily seen by anyone. Some ministers smile awkwardly, everyone knows that Crown Prince never like Prince Li especially after he married HuaMuTan. And the Crown Prince knows so well that Prince Li always hate to be called weak to women. It reminds him how the Crown Prince often mocked him when they were little, said that Prince Li was a coward who could hide behind his mother.
Prince Li clenches his fists to hold his anger. Prince FengEr touches his shoulder to calm him, he says to the Crown Prince,
"I think you get it wrong because it"s not HuaMuTan who asked it but Queen GrandMother herself, YiHuangGe!"
The Crown Prince stares in upset to Prince FengEr...
"Listen, SanHuangDi...I am the Crown Prince! You have to call me properly!"
But Prince FengEr bows calmly,
"Ah, Please forgive me,...I am not getting used to calling you like that...Besides, aren"t we all brothers in blood?"
The Crown Prince walks toward and faces Prince FengEr closely, speaks in a low voice which only can be heard by both princes.
"I am not the same as you! I am the only son of the empress, not sons of concubines like you! Just wait, when I get my own throne, I won"t let you both easily!" The Crown Prince
"Crown Prince..." Without they realize, Minister Hua has come toward the princes, greets them politely. Oddly the Crown Prince immediately changes his expression as a nice big brother to be seen by anyone around.
"Well, I can"t wait for your performance... hopefully you won"t disappoint Queen GrandMother...little brothers"
After saying that, the Crown Prince leave them, followed by some ministers who clearly still want to lick his shoes.
"It looks like I have disturbed your conversation?" Minister says it in regret.
Prince Li narrows his eyes as he puts his aware,
"No...no at all...Is there anything you want to say, Minister Hua?"
"Ah, I wish we can discuss furthermore for the gift delivery for the Queen Grand Mother."
Prince Li recites again about the gift,
"Right, we can discuss later in Li Mansion later..."
Minister Hua continues asks,
"Should we return together, Prince Li?"
Prince Li looks to Prince FengEr. He is still want to talk with Prince FengEr.
"No...you may go ahead...I will catch up you later, Minister Hua...ManQi, I think you may a.s.sist Minister Hua back to Li Mansion first..."
ManQi who stays beside Prince Li since the Prince went out from the Hall, just gestures obeying his order,
"Yes, Master.."
"Very well, I will be waiting for Prince Li at Li Mansion then..." Minister Hua excuses himself and walks away with ManQi.
As Prince Li and Prince FengEr walk out the palace together, Prince FengEr can"t hold his curiosity about the gift,
"What does he mean with the gift?" And then Prince Li explains the gift delivery and Minister Hua"s request about the permission and the guards.
"Oh, I see...well, you"re doing right to put guards with him, considering he can"t be trusted..."
Prince Li nods his head,
"I know...there is something fishy about him and YiHuangGe..."
Prince FengEr stops, he looks around and it seems n.o.body around them. He sudden gives a serious look to Prince Li,
"Please be careful, Wei Di...I want you to tell me in firsthand whether you"re doing any danger plan!"
Prince Li smiles to Prince FengEr,
"Don"t worry, SanHuangGe...Don"t you know me well? I won"t do any reckless plan...I will just observe them for now..."
"QiHuangGe...!!" Prince Li and Prince FengEr look to who calls. It is Princess Xixi, walking rushes toward them. She seems to run away from something or someone. Her face turns red caused by anger.
"Xixi...what happened?" Prince FengEr asks her when she approaches them.
Princess Xixi manages to calm her breath, "That...pervert prince!!"
Prince Li and Prince FengEr immediately know who Princess Xixi mentions about.
The calling "Pervert Prince" is only daring be used by Princess Xixi to call the Crown Prince...
"Are you okay?"
"Did he hurt you?"
Prince FengEr and Prince Li ask almost at the same time out of their worries.
"I am okay...He just teased me as usual, but I managed to step his foot and run away..." Princess Xixi says proudly
Prince Li and Prince FengEr look to each other,
"Step his foot? Xixi...!!"
"Don"t worry, I already say sorry properly...Besides, he deserved to get it,
do you know what he said, TaGe..he said as our Mom served FuHuang, I supposed to serve him as well... make me sick to hear it!!"
It"s no secret that the Crown Prince is a big pervert and he intends to target Xixi since they were teenager, but thankfully Princess Xixi still has flavor in Queen GrandMother so Crown Prince wouldn"t dare to take action furthermore than just giving inappropriate teases. But there are black rumors about how many ladies had been the victims of the pervert Crown Prince but there is no evidence nor witness who dares to speak out what the Crown Prince did.
Prince FengEr once again sighs, he looks sharply to Princess Xixi, he holds Princess Xixi"s shoulders,
"Xixi...from now, I forbid you to come to the palace..."
"What..its not fair..!!"
"Just listen to your brother, XiMei... You are not safe around The Crown Prince!"
"Ugh...ok, I listen to you QiHuangGe"
Prince FengEr wrinkles his eyebrows unpleasantly,
"Somehow I feel that you are her real brother than me...see how she obeys to you more than to me...?!"
From far they see a Eunuch and some servants come approaching them. They recognize the eunuch as a trusted eunuch of Queen GrandMother so they can guess the purpose of approaching,
"Prince Li FengEr, I am glad I still can pursue you...Queen GrandMother hopes she can see you for a while before you leave the palace..." explained the eunuch, which exactly what they thought.
"Right, it seems I can"t accompany you further, Wei Di..." Prince FengEr raises his eyebrows to Prince Li, indicates signal for a little help. Prince Li nods his head, as he understands,
"Don"t worry, I"ll send XiMei home safely."
But Princess Xixi doesn"t seem to agree with it.
"No, I also want to meet Queen GrandMa...!!" She gives an intense look, which showing her stubbornness so Prince FengEr gives up,
"Fine...fine...just stay close with me!"
He looks to Prince Li again,
"After I finish here, I"ll come to your place later...just wait for me before you do anything dangerous, WeiDi!"
"Ok...like I said, I just will observe first!"
Then they separate way and Prince Li ready to return to Li Mansion.