A few moments earlier:
"Brother Nianzu, do you not think that this place is not good to converse about a private matter? Shall we talk sometime later regarding this?" Ying Lili suggested.
"Your highness, this is the perfect place for the conversation. The Palace has spies and if we will converse in the private, many suspicions will arise," Nianzu asserted politely.
"If there are spies, then it means they could be among those servants," Ying Lili proclaimed.
"They are loyal. The servants assigned to you this time are loyal to the crown prince so, they will never betray you. I have only one who is with me since my birth," Nianzu pronounced and looked at the bamboo flute in his hand.
