Fan Zijin couldn't throw a tantrum at Little Madam Xia and could only keep a grumpy face outside. After knowing that Mu Yangling and Little Madam Xia had sent Princess Dali away, he only snorted coldly to express his understanding and didn't appear personally.
Qi Haoran was still in the military camp, so the officials of Ju Prefecture used Fan Zijin as a benchmark. Seeing that he did not appear, those officials who'd wanted to appear immediately changed their mind and only asked their family members to send them off.
The officials did not think that Fan Zijin was deliberately neglecting Princess Dali. They only thought that he was deliberately keeping a distance from Duan Yuqing since she was about to become the Emperor's concubine.