Chapter 11: It's not just a meeting in the water

As soon as it was dawn, Lu Xuan went to see the prince.

Empress Lu is the daughter of Chengguo Gong, as the only son of Empress Lu, the crown prince and Lu Xuan are cousins.

After talking about business, the prince asked, "Cousin Xuan, does Cousin Mo have any news now?" ”

Lu Xuan shook his head: "There is no news yet, I'll take someone to check later." ”

"Then Cousin Xuan, let's go, the queen mother and I are very concerned, but I believe that Cousin Mo must be auspicious." The prince said, coughing.

The prince has been weak since he was a child, and this kind of appearance is common to Lu Xuan.

"Your Highness, take care of your health, and I'll tell you as soon as I have news of my brother."

The prince nodded with a pale face and watched Lu Xuan leave.

The hall was silent, and the prince took a sip of the cup handed by the chamberlain, suppressing his cough.

Outside the imperial city, the steward of the Guogong Mansion was waiting there, and when he saw Lu Xuan coming out, he hurriedly greeted him: "The eldest prince." ”

Lu Xuan waved his hand: "Take me to meet those hawkers." ”

There were some scattered stalls near the city gate, and the steward standing behind the tree on the side of the road pointed to a few places, and said in a low voice: "The eldest prince, those who said that they had seen the second prince and the eldest girl Feng were those people." ”

Lu Xuan observed for a moment, and walked towards a merchant.

The merchant hurriedly smiled: "Childe, let's see what to buy." ”

Looking at this little boy's bearing, he obviously doesn't look down on what he sells, but he doesn't dare to offend.

Lu Xuan swept away all the girl's household gadgets, and was dazzled by them, and threw a piece of silver into the merchant's hand at random: "I bought them all." ”

The merchant was stunned at first, and then ecstatic.

God, finally let him meet this kind of money-throwing gentleman.

"Thank you, Childe." The merchant made a lot of noise.

His reaction attracted the attention of the surrounding vendors.

"Inquire about something."

The merchant hurriedly said, "Childe, please speak." ”

"I heard that you have seen the second son of the Chengguo Mansion and the eldest girl of the Shangshu Mansion go out of the city together, tell me how they dressed up that day."

After listening to Lu Xuan's questioning, the merchant was not surprised at all.

In the past two days, I don't know how many people have asked him these questions, and now that he has the money, he can speak more fluently: "That girl is wearing a pale green dress and a tuxedo, and the son with her is wearing a bamboo blue straight jacketβ€”β€”"

The merchant paused, pointed to the clothes on Lu Xuan's body and said, "The color and style are similar to what the son is wearing." ”

"Really?" The boy smiled, his eyes swept over the people here.

When the hawkers saw that they were being noticed by the young man who was generous, they came to their senses, and one of them said, "That's right, it's similar to what the boy is wearing." ”

A corner of broken silver arced gracefully in mid-air and fell into the hands of the open vendor.

When the others saw this, they echoed it.

"Can you describe what that boy looks like?"

Several people who tasted the sweetness scrambled to describe it.

Lu Xuan listened quietly, waited for a few people to stop, and said with a smile: "I listen, why do you think that son is similar to me?" ”

Describing the appearance of people, especially handsome young men who seem to be the same age, is nothing more than those words.

Several people were stunned for a moment, and subconsciously glanced at Lu Xuan.

The merchant was the first to speak: "That boy is about the same height as you, fat and thin, and handsome, at first glance it looks a little similar, but if you look closely, it doesn't look like it." ”

The young man's slender fingers pinched a piece of broken silver, and he seemed to smile: "Not like? ”

The silver glittered in the sunlight, as if the next moment it would make a graceful arc and fall into the hands of some lucky person.

The other person preemptively said: "No, that son is not as handsome as you!" ”

The others looked at each other with disdain.

Why do you still rush to answer, obviously I haven't carefully confirmed.

The broken silver in the young man's hand really drew a graceful arc and fell into the man's hand.

Now the others can't be silent.

"No, your eyebrows are more delicate."

"Yes, the complexion is whiter, too."

……

The steward, who was blocked by the tree, touched his nose.

How did the serious investigation news turn into praising the beauty of the eldest son?

Lu Xuan heard enough, and asked with a smile: "It's really not like it at all?" ”

"Not like, not like!"

"That's weird." The young man suddenly smiled, feeling a kind of cold of alpine snow, "I am the eldest son of the Chengguo Mansion, and I am twin brothers with the second son, and I wear the same clothes, how can I not be like it?" ”

The scene was silent.

The steward came over and said sharply: "Our eldest prince is asking." ”

A few hawkers still had an impression of the steward, and they couldn't help but be surprised.

This son is really the eldest prince of the Chengguo Mansion, so why don't the twins look like them?

Several people looked at each other, a little stunned for a while.

The young man's eyes were narrow and long, and he glanced at the merchant with a cold look.

At that moment, the merchant seemed to have fallen into an ice cave, and he blurted out in a cold spirit: "Oh, don't recognize the wrong person that day!" ”

As soon as these words came out, several people reacted, and they couldn't help but panic when they looked at the cold young man.

"Eldest son, I'm not talking nonsense, several groups of people came to inquire that day if they had ever seen young men and women dressed like that, just like ......the ones I had seen," the merchant explained with a white face.

The others said: "That's right, at first we didn't know the identity of the pair of young men and women, and the person who heard the question described the same as what we saw, so we thought that it was the second son of the Chengguo Mansion and the eldest girl of the Shangshu Mansion, but it was not intended to have a bad reputation......"

This movement has attracted many onlookers.

Lu Xuan's expression eased slightly: "It turned out that I made a mistake, so don't talk nonsense in the future." ”

"Yes, yes, yes." A few chicks nodded like pecks of rice.

Who dares to talk nonsense, isn't it a coincidence?

Lu Xuan turned to leave, leaving the onlookers' discussion behind.

The steward caught up: "Eldest son, what's going on?" ”

"I'll talk about it when I get home." Lu Xuan quickened his pace.

The streets were full of people, more and more lively, and there were exclamations from the small teahouses on the roadside.

"The eldest girl of Shangshufu is back?"

Lu Xuan stopped.

"Didn't you say that the eldest girl of Shangshu Mansion eloped with the second son of Chengguo Mansion, why did she come back?"

"Hey, you're all outdated rumors, the eldest girl of Shangshu Mansion didn't elope with the second son of Chengguo Mansion at all, but fell into the hands of a kidnapperβ€”β€”"

"What, it fell into the hands of the flower shooter? How did that little girl escape? ”

The well-informed man triumphed: "This is the anecdoteβ€”"

"Don't sell it, say it quickly!"

"The eldest girl of Shangshufu was actually rescued by a wild cat......"

The freshly baked gossip spread far away from the open window of the teahouse, and Lu Xuan's expression gradually became solemn.

Falling into the hands of a kidnapper and being saved by a feral cat sounds familiar.

The young man suddenly raised his eyebrows, and a face appeared in his mind: the girl who was temporarily ruled out by him because she was particularly able to eat.

Could that girl be Miss Feng?

Miss Feng and her second brother had a rumor of eloping, and happened to appear in the wilderness and begged him to take her back to Beijing.

Does she really have nothing to do with the disappearance of her second brother?

It seems that he wants to confirm whether the girl is Miss Feng first.

The young man walked in a different direction, and the steward was puzzled and asked, "Eldest son, where are you going?" ”

This is not the direction of returning to the government.

"The Ministry of Rites."

It turns out that it's not just a meeting in Pingshui.