[Forget it. Once the transmigrator arrives and sees my Milk Tea Shop and the like, they should come looking for me. I don't have a single lead on them right now, so going out to find them myself is out of the question.]
After thinking it over for a moment, Jiang Nuan made up her mind.
"Sister, Sister Yun, if anyone comes to the shop asking for the owner, arrange a time with them and send them straight to me."
Not wanting to miss any news of the transmigrator, Jiang Nuan gave them these instructions.
Although both women knew there was no transmigrator, they could not tell Jiang Nuan directly what they had heard in her thoughts, so they could only nod.
After the poetry gathering ended, An Yan and Yun Shining stayed behind to wrap things up. Jiang Nuan went to find Jin Yueyi, picked some peach blossoms with her, then returned to the palace.
Just as she was about to look for Xiao Xiao, a palace maid told her that her mother had already arrived at Hibiscus Pavilion, where she lived. Jiang Nuan hurried straight back to Hibiscus Pavilion.
"Nuan Nuan, you're back? Here's the thing: your brother, the Crown Prince, isn't getting any younger, so I'm planning to choose a Crown Princess for him. I came to hear your opinion."
As soon as she saw Jiang Nuan, Xiao Xiao explained why she had come.
"All right, Mother."
Jiang Nuan answered obediently, while saying inwardly:
[Oh, what a coincidence! I was just about to find Mother to talk about this! We absolutely cannot let Tang Miaoling become my brother's Crown Princess!]
At these thoughts, Xiao Xiao's hand paused on the portrait before she unrolled it as though nothing had happened.
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