Li Hongyuan saw everything as soon as he came out.
"Chashan, what's going on?"
"In response to your Highness, I acted according to your wish and have acquired all the food stalls along the road, forbidding them from selling anything to that pedantic scholar He Tang," replied Chashan, "Including this candied hawthorn."
Li Hongyuan was so amused that he burst into laughter. "Is this what you understood from my instructions?"
"Yes it is. Aren't you feeling jealous over the Princess Consort?"
"Me, jealous?" Li Hongyuan scoffed. "I just can't stand Jiang Ning's lack of decency. She is a married woman, pregnant no less, yet she roams around all day, openly eating, drinking, and laughing with different men. It's utterly... disgraceful!"
Chashan: "That's why your servant did as I did. In the end, that pedantic scholar slunk away, and the Princess Consort had to pay for her own osmanthus cake. However..."
"However, what?"