As the imperial capital of Jingsheng, Licheng is prosperous.

On both sides of the clean and neat streets, all kinds of restaurants, cloth villages, incense shops, medicine halls, and signboards from all walks of life abound.

Even after the twilight of the day, the city gates were about to close, and the flow of people in the streets was not scarce. And those who were anxious to enter or leave the city also lined up unhurriedly, waiting for the soldiers stationed in the city to complete the search, and then they went to think about their destination.

At the south gate of Licheng, until the last person finished searching, a loud trumpet remembered, and the city gate was closed by the garrison.

Then, at this moment, suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves coming quickly from the official road outside the city.

The soldiers stationed in the city couldn't help but stop the action of closing the door in their hands curiously, and looked at the source of the sound, only to see a man with the appearance of a young man, riding a tall horse, rushing over at the fastest speed.

Immediately, the young man was driving the horse, and his mouth kept shouting: "Wait a minute, there are still people going into the city!"

As he spoke, the horse had reached the gate of the city, and the young man pulled the reins and stopped the horse less than a foot away from the gate, and the horse's head was facing the gate that was closed on the horse, and he snorted with a sigh of relief.

The young man hurriedly dismounted, quickly walked in front of the leader of the soldiers, took out a silver ingot from his pocket, stuffed it into the hands of the city gate guard commander with the documents to enter the city, and said with a smile: "I hope that the leader will make it convenient, let me enter the city today, this is the little brother to honor your masters, go to the city to drink a little wine." ”

The leader of the city shook the silver ingots in his hand, which were full of ten taels, and his eyes suddenly lit up, but when he saw a large number of carriages and horses behind the man, he was stunned, his face sank, and he said with some displeasure: "It's past the time to enter the city, if you are alone, now there are so many things and goods, it is better to wait for the city gate to open tomorrow." ”

"I hope the official master will be accommodating, my grandfather is sick now, you see this cold and dew, and there is no place to rest nearby, just make it convenient, let's go over." The young man secretly stuffed a piece of silver in the hands of the garrison soldiers, and begged bitterly: "My grandfather is not good at holding on to this illness, I need to find a doctor to take a good look at it earlier." “

"This ......" The leader of the city looked at the two ingots of silver in front of him, which was enough for him for two years, although he was happy, but he looked at the more than ten carts of goods behind him, and suddenly hesitated.

Although it is peaceful now, but after all, this is the imperial city, if something goes wrong because of the greed for this silver tael, and the thief enters the city, it is a big crime that he can't eat and walk.

The eyes of the leader of the garrison kept shuttling between the silver taels and the cart of goods in his hand, and just when he was hesitating, a low and hoarse voice suddenly came from the only canopy carriage in the convoy: "Yan Yi!"

The young man who was called Yan Yi was the young man who negotiated with the leader of the garrison, suddenly heard the shout, immediately turned around and walked to the carriage, bowed his head respectfully into the carriage and asked, "What does the young master command?"

There was no sound in the carriage, and in response was a copper token handed out of the carriage window.

Yan Yi was stunned, and called out with some uncertainty: "Young Master?"

"Take it!" the man in the car remembered again in a low voice, still just two words.

Yan Yi took the token in his hand, turned around and walked to the city gate, held the token in front of everyone, and shouted in an unusually loud voice: "Yan Shaoting, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, asked to enter the city with a business document!"

Those soldiers stationed in the city originally saw Yan Yi walking back and took a token, and were curious about what it was, but when they heard his words, they looked at the token again, and when they saw the appearance of the token, their eyes suddenly widened in astonishment, and they were stunned.

After a while, the leader of the city was the first to come back to his senses, and hurriedly clenched his fists in the direction of the carriage and said: "The villain doesn't know that it is Yan Gongzi, if there is any offense, I hope Yan Gongzi will forgive me." ”

The leader didn't know that the car was actually the eldest prince of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, but now when he heard the identity, he immediately panicked, and he didn't care about distinguishing the authenticity, so he hurriedly let go.

You must know that this Yan Gongzi is the elder brother of Yan Shaokang, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and the current Marquis of Zhenyuan is the most important saint today, so even Yan Shaoting, who has no official position, is too high to offend in the eyes of ordinary people.

A token allowed Yan Shaoting and the others and dozens of carriages and horses to simply enter the city after a quarter of an hour had passed when the city gate was closed.

"Young master, if you do this, sooner or later the old lady will get the news, won't your years of hard work be in vain?"

On the road, Yan Yi rode a horse, slowly driving on the side of the carriage, thinking of the scene at the city gate just now, he couldn't help but ask curiously.

"It's okay!" the two words came from the car in a low voice.

"Then young master, are we going back to the house or to the shop?" Yan Yi sighed, and then asked.

"Shop. Yan Yi couldn't help frowning when he heard the response of the people in the car again, feeling a little strange.

But what was strange, he couldn't say why, so he had to follow the carriage silently and walk to the newly opened shop.

By the time their carriage and horses arrived at the shop on East Street, it was already completely dark, but when they walked in, they saw that the shop was brightly lit and the door was wide open, and at the door stood a man who thought he was slender.

This person is the man who appeared in the courtyard of Master Liu in Mufu during the day, Qi Huanyu.

"Young Master Qi!" Yan Yi saw this person, and immediately dismounted and greeted him respectfully.

Qi Huanyu nodded, raised his head and glanced at the goods on the carriage.

Seeing this, Yan Yi immediately opened his mouth and instructed the group of people who were driving the carriage behind him to move the goods on the carriage into the shop, and then said to Qi Huanyu with a smile: "No wonder the young master said to go back to the shop first, it turned out that he made an appointment with the young master Qi." ”

"Wait!Who is in the carriage?" Qi Huanyu suddenly interrupted Yan Yi's words, and asked vigilantly in the carriage, his expression a little stern.

"Young Master Qi, what's wrong with you? Of course it's the young master in the car, the young master has been calculating the matter of the shop over there recently, but he accidentally contracted the wind cold, so he has been sitting in the car all the way. ”

Qi Huanyu didn't listen to his explanation, raised his hand and quickly stretched out into the sedan chair, and with a second pull, he pulled out the people in the carriage.

Yan Yi glanced at Qi Huanyu strangely, he was a little surprised that he would make a move, but when he saw the people on the car from Ma Chen, he was immediately dumbfounded, and exclaimed in disbelief: "Second prince?!"

Yan Yi never thought that what made him feel strange along the way turned out to be this.

He obviously saw the young master get into the carriage, how could he become the second prince when he didn't know it?

It was hard to believe that the young master of his family would slip away under his nose, Yan Yi regretted a step after being hit, and stared at the current second prince Jingling for a while.

"Attend His Royal Highness the Second Prince. After the shock, Yan Yi did not forget to kneel down to salute and say goodbye, and when he saw Jingling shaking his hand indifferently and jumping off the carriage, he immediately stepped forward and asked worriedly: "His Royal Highness the Second Prince, my young master...... When did you leave, but where did you go?"

"Hehe, I guess it was when I read the letter on the carrier pigeon. Jing Ling glanced at Yan Yi and said with a light smile, his smile mixed with the meaning of teasing him.

Yan Yi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and immediately gritted his teeth in annoyance and sighed, it turned out that since noon, the young master of his family had disappeared......

Qi Huanyu smiled on the side to adjust the atmosphere of the two people: "Okay, okay, I guess he went to see that woman in advance, if I knew that this was the case, I might as well have a good cup of tea there and wait quietly." ”

Mu Tianxiang sat at the table and looked carefully at the book in her hand, which Xie Tianlan sent her at noon, a thin book, about ancient spices.

She was originally worried about what to do next, but at this time, she just took this book to pass the time, by the way, to learn about ancient spices, and replenish her brain inventory.

It's just that it's not modern here, and as soon as it gets dark, you have to light candles.

At this time, the dim light of the candle, jumping and jumping, made her feel drowsy and sleepy, and in the corner of the room, Yujin and Luzhu were also dozing shoulder to shoulder.

Mu Tianxiang closed the book and stretched a big waist before she opened her mouth to wake up the two girls, but suddenly frowned, turned around and shouted in the direction of the window: "Who?!"

Her words suddenly woke up Yujin and Luzhu in their sleep, only to see the two of them stand up in a hurry, and asked Mu Tianxiang with a panicked face: "Miss, what's wrong?"

Mu Tianxiang ignored the two, got up and walked quickly to the window, and then swished, pushed the window open entirely, and looked outside.

Poked his head out of the window and glanced left and right, but did not see any figures, at this time Yujin and the others had already walked behind Mu Tianxiang, and asked in a panic: "Miss, are you okay?"

"It's okay!" Mu Tianxiang frowned and retracted her body, turned her head to look at Yujin, and then turned her gaze to the window.

Just now she could clearly smell a faint fragrance wafting in the air, which was somewhat similar to what she had smelled in Master Liu's room during the day, but it was a slightly different smell, which wafted in from this window.

Mu Tianxiang closed her eyes and sniffed hard, and the smell could still be faintly smelled, but it was much lighter, indicating that the person standing here at that time had left.

Who is the person who is coming, what is the purpose, could it be that they are here to harm her?

Mu Tianxiang shook her head, feeling that her idea was wrong.

If someone really came to harm her, I'm afraid she would have done it a long time ago, after all, there were only three powerless women in the room, and the person just now could disappear from the window in an instant.

"Okay, it's okay, let's go and rest. Mu Tianxiang closed the window, turned around and pushed Yujin and Luzhu into the house, but her frowning brows never let go.

"What an alert woman!" On the roof outside the house, a tall figure in the darkness breathed a sigh of relief, listened attentively to the movement in the room, and only raised the corners of his mouth and smiled lightly for a long time, turned around and disappeared into the night, heading in the direction of the Lin Ting Garden.

Thanks to Zhang Xiaomai for the sachet, thanks to the 3 peace charms where the restaurant has, and thanks to the peace charms of ╰ァ Proud Wind _ Lonely Han ╰☆. Thanks to the long comments of shredded radish vermicelli, cold moon skull, moon shadow into the sea, and reading fans fainting in the morning, Mo Da o(∩_∩)o