<h4>Chapter 141 - Use The Tassel</h4>


    "Your highness, did you not have a good sleep?" Wang Hao asked as he saw Sheng Li was yawning. Sheng Li looked at Ying Lili and recalled how she disturbed him the entire night. ''The biggest mistake of his life- Bringing Ying Lili and Hu Jingguo on this journey'' he realized.


    Ying Lili was showing her neck to Hu Jingguo. "The herbal medicine you gave was very useful. They are no more there," Ying Lili said as she moved her hand over her neck.


    "Thanks to my master who passed me all the knowledge of medicine. Do you want to study medicine? It may be useful to you. I will give you a notebook in which I have noted about various medicines," Hu Jingguo offered Ying Lili.


    "Okay. You can give me thatter," Ying Lili stated when Xiao Zhan came to her. "Your highness, please get into the cart." Ying Lili turned to him and nodded. She came towards the cart and got inside. Sheng Li was already waiting for her inside the cart.


    Mu Zuheng handed a cloth bag in which there were lunch boxes for them. Wang Hao thanked him and told him to get rid of that rest house. He hopped on the horse after putting the cloth bag inside the cart.


    "Let''s go," Wang Haomanded. Unlike the previous day, they were not speeding the horses. The coachman too started the cart, and they now left for the Southern Province.


    There was a pin drop silence between the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess. Both did not utter a single word as they both were angry at each other. Sheng Li was feeling sleepy, so he closed his eyes. Last night was trouble for him because he was forced to sleep on the floor.


    Ying Lili nced at him and found Sheng Li was sleeping. She twitched her lips slightly. "He should not have fought with me. How could he say I seduce everyone around me?" Ying Lili raised her hand to hit him but then stopped. Sheng Li''s head rested against the sidewall of the carriage, which was slightly ufortable for him.


    Ying Lili gently ced her hand on the side of Sheng Li''s head and brought it closer to her shoulder. A smile carved on her lips as Sheng Li''s head rested on her shoulder without any disturbance. "But he looks cute while he is asleep," Ying Lili murmured and held his hand in hers. She intertwined her fingers with Sheng Li''s.


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    Nianzu wasing from the court when Eunuch Chung informed him that a woman was asking about him at the Pce gates.


    "What?" Nianzu eximed. "What did she say?" Nianzu questioned Eunuch Chung.


    "That she wants to meet the Prince who is the Advisor of the Emperor," Chung replied. Nianzu halted at his ce and asked Chung if the woman showed something to the Pce gatekeepers.


    "I do not know, your highness. The gatekeepers send her away," Chung informed Nianzu who nodded.


    "Eunuch Chung, I will see youter. I have some important work outside the Pce," Nianzu stated.


    "Your highness, please take some guards with you," Eunuch Chung said with concern, but Nianzu refused and left from there. Nianzu came to the stable, took a horse for him, and left the Pce.


    Nianzu pulled the horse in the vige where he hade the other day with Lei Wanxi to drop Miss Chuntao home. Upon seeing the Prince there, the people bowed their heads to whoever saw him. Nianzu got down from the horse and started walking.


    The people there were wondering what the Prince was doing there. A ce like theirs was not meant to be visited by a Prince. The news of the Prince''s arrival in the vige reached the ears of the Vige Headman, Wuqing Pao who quickly left for the ce where the Prince was heading to.


    "Where does she live?" Nianzu murmured and looked at one man who was going to the fields.


    Nianzu stopped the man and asked, "Do you know where Miss Chuntao lives?" The man first greeted the Prince and then told the directions to the Prince. Nianzu got confused with the directions when the man offered his help to him.


    Nianzu agreed with that and followed the man. Nianzu was asking the man about his work when he heard the sound of a speeding horse cart. He turned to look when the cart stopped a few meters away from him.


    Wuqing Pao quickly came out of the carriage and greeted the Fourth Prince. "Your highness, you did not tell me about your sudden visit." Wuqing Pao then lifted his head and looked into the eyes of Prince Nianzu.


    "I was here to meet someone, so I did not find it suitable to tell the Vige Headman. Now, you havee, so I would like to meet youter in the evening. There is something I want to discuss with the Vige Headman," Nianzu asserted.


    Wuqing Pao nodded and told the Prince that he woulde to the Pce.


    "No, not the Pce. I will meet you at your residence. You shall leave then," Nianzu stated. Wuqing Pao bowed his head and left from there. Once the Vige Headman had left, Nianzu told the man to continue walking.


    Soon they reached outside the house of Chuntao. Nianzu noticed there was no one there, so he looked at the man who had shown him the directions. "Thank you for taking me here," Nianzu said, and took a pouch from inside his pocket. He forwarded it to the man. "It is to help me." The man thanked the Prince and left from there.


    Nianzu tied the horse from a wooden railing made around the house and walked in. He found there was no one there, so he decided to wait for her. He sat on a bedstead there and looked around.


    Almost an hour passed, but no one came to the house. He stood up and walked ahead when he saw Chuntaoing there. Chuntao was surprised to see a horse in front of her house when her eyes fell on the Prince.


    She bowed her head and greeted the Prince. "Miss, sorry foring inside the gate but I was informed that you came to the Pce to meet me," Nianzu politely said.


    "Yes, your highness. I wanted to pay you back, that''s why I came to the Pce but I was refused entry there," Chuntao replied. Her eyes were still lowered.


    "You do not need to, Miss Chuntao," Nianzu stated. "Why didn''t you use the tassel I had given you? It would have been easier to meet me then," Nianzu proimed.


    "I thought it will not be good to use a tassel. Your highness, I really want to pay you back. I will pay my debt in monthly installments. Please do not refuse, your highness," Chuntao stressed her words.


    Nianzu could not refuse her and agreed to that. "I wille here at the end of each month to take the money from you. The amount is less and I think you will clear your debts in a year. The Landlord had applied illegal interest rates on many people. You need to pay one hundred cents every month," Nianzu stated.


    Chuntao agreed and thanked the Prince for agreeing with that. Nianzu smiled. "I shall take my leave then. Use the tassel next time if you want to meet me," Nianzu asserted, and left from there.