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Actually, there was nothing important in the palace today, so the Prince Zhan and the Emperor decided to return to the Duke Palaces as soon as they met. The emperor was a little unwilling, he planned to keep the Prince Zhan at the palace for dinner. The Prince Zhan didn't agree, and insisted on returning to the Duke Palaces.

After returning to the Duke's Mansion, the butler respectfully stood at the entrance to receive them, and reported, "'s daughter, Miss Liu of the Ministry of Industry and the son of the Minister of Industry, Young Master Xiao Ze, claim to be Miss Nangong's friend, and have already entered the mansion. Currently, they are being led by the Miss Nangong to a large courtyard, and are probably going to play cards."

The Prince Zhan frowned, he did not know why, but he was slightly unhappy. After enduring for a bit, Xiao Ze … Prince Zhan went back to his room to change his clothes, then thought about Xiao Ze … Suddenly, he remembered that back then at the Prime Minister's Palace, when he was going to discuss marriage with Wan Er, she was exactly named Xiao Ze.

At this point, the Prince Zhan could no longer sit still.

As expected, as soon as he pushed open the door of the large courtyard, Prince Zhan heard Wan Er's happy laughter. Prince Zhan did not care about the fear in the eyes of the servants in the courtyard, he directly entered the room.

The Prince Zhan saw that Wan Er, Liu Ru and Xiao Ze were sitting at the same table, as well as an unfamiliar attendant. The four of them were playing cards, and Xiao Ze claimed that it was his first time playing cards, and he had even sent Wan Er a few cards while he was still learning.

Prince Zhan's face was extremely dark, in the end he was unable to hold back and also went down to play his cards. He also did not need to look through his eyes, with this amount of cards, he was able to easily deduce that there were three families' cards. As expected, after going up on stage, he touched his hands, and Wan Er ran away angrily.

The Prince Zhan was stunned for a moment and then chased after him. Seeing that Nangong Waner was minding his own business and had increased his speed, originally, Nangong Waner ran towards the direction of the other courtyard with Ju Xiang following behind. Seeing that the Prince Zhan had caught up to him, Ju Xiang left tactfully. Seeing that Nangong Waner was speeding up, Prince Zhan used some strength and grabbed onto Nangong Waner's hand. Without changing his expression, Nangong Waner panted.

When Prince Zhan saw Nangong Waner rolling his eyes at him, with his cheeks bulging like a hamster, he laughed, "Alright, then I will win some of your money."

Nangong Waner looked as if his thoughts had been exposed, he looked straight at Prince Zhan, "I'm the dignified young miss of Assistant Minister’s Residence, and really don't like this little bit of money."

Prince Zhan looked at Nangong Waner's cute appearance and laughed, "Oh, I actually heard that from a high school and wide school in Assistant Minister’s Residence, it seems that it was really as the rumors said, huh. Originally, I wanted to use my experience and calculations to win against you, little girl, I really can't let go of my face. After which, Prince Zhan took out the silver that he had won from his pocket and was about to put it in Nangong Waner's hands.

Nangong Waner's anger had not subsided, although he did not know why he was angry, but he shook his hands in frustration and was not willing to accept it.

Prince Zhan sighed in her heart, "This little girl's temper is pretty bad when she pouts." Seeing that Nangong Waner's expression had eased up, he seemed to have calmed down by more than half, and with a smile he suggested to Nangong Waner, "Quickly take away the silver taels. Today, I will go into the palace and bring back two sets of imperial meals. I will bring you there for a taste."

Hearing these words, Nangong Waner hurriedly stopped himself. He accepted the silver taels, but he still had a fierce expression on his face, as he looked at Chu Xiuhan with an ugly expression. "Hmph, what imperial cuisine? Isn't imperial cuisine something the emperor eat?"

Prince Zhan replied indifferently, "The emperor wants me to stay for a meal at the palace. I saw that these two dishes are not bad, so I'll bring them back to the palace for you to taste."

Nangong Waner continued to roll his eyes, "Hmph, why did the emperor insist on letting you use the imperial cuisine? You must have begged for it for nothing, so you came back for it."

The Prince Zhan was speechless as he poked Nangong Waner on the head, "In this entire world, the only one who would dare to say such things to me is probably you."

For some reason, after hearing what the Prince Zhan said, Nangong Waner's face turned slightly red, but after a while, he regained his composure. Are you eating? I'm hungry. "

Nangong Waner blinked his eyes, he stood by the side of the table, his eyes staring straight at the two exquisite dishes placed on the table, he pointed to the fish and asked, "Isn't this the carp leaping over the dragon's gate?" Prince Zhan laughed, then dragged the fish over. He planned to separate the fish for Wan Er, but Nangong Waner anxiously stopped him, "Don't open it, I haven't seen enough."

The Prince Zhan speechlessly stopped and pulled a chair close to him, gesturing for Nangong Waner to sit down. "Come and eat dinner soon" she said as she picked up a dish for Nangong Waner.

"What's this called?" Nangong Waner looked at the dishes in the bowl in front of him and asked Prince Zhan in confusion.

"Bursting Buddha Hand", Prince Zhan remembered that it seemed to be this name.

Nangong Waner thought it was a bit creepy, so he put the dish back into Prince Zhan's bowl and said, "No, this name is too scary."

Prince Zhan was really helpless, "Oh, I just remembered wrongly, this imperial meal is called the pork ball." The Prince Zhan gave this imperial meal a new name.

"What a gracious dish!" As he said that, he took back the "pork ball" that was just delivered to the Prince Zhan's bowl and ate it. As if he felt that the taste wasn't bad, he ate a few more pieces.

This time, she only ate one piece of imperial cuisine, and most of the "pork balls" were eaten by Nangong Waner, while the "carp leaps to the dragon's gate" didn't want to move at all. Therefore, during this meal, Nangong Waner looked at "Carp Jumping Dragon Gate", and ate "pork balls". Then, the Prince Zhan watched Nangong Waner eat, and the Prince Zhan himself rarely ate a few bites.

Nangong Waner thought, "I really don't know what provided him with such a huge sum."

After dinner, Nangong Waner started to walk around the lake, Prince Zhan naturally followed beside him. Nangong Waner thought that Prince Zhan was very good at playing cards in the afternoon, and started to ask for advice, "Is this really your first time playing cards?"

"Yes." The Prince Zhan replied softly.

"Then teach me. I always try my luck. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose."

"Remember the other three families' cards. In addition to yours, you still need to count it as theirs."

Nangong Waner did not believe it, "How can you remember the cards from the other three families?"

Prince Zhan smiled as if he had something in mind, and said seriously: "Of course you can remember, if you don't remember your cards, you will lose, because if you don't remember your cards, others will also remember their cards."

Nangong Waner frowned as he thought about it, "Is recording a card a very common thing?"

"Look, this is the first time that Liu Ru has played cards, and she is also recording the cards."

Nangong Waner sighed, "No wonder I always lose when I play cards. How about I play cards in the future and you help me record my cards!"

Prince Zhan looked very satisfied, "Un, I'm preventing you from losing any more money. When I'm not around, it's best if you don't play cards." The way the Prince Zhan thought for others looked quite elegant, Nangong Waner quietly looked at the Prince Zhan.