Not from the government? Who's that? Xiao Wenxuan's heart tightened.

"Lord Wang, forgive the offended officials...... In Zhuzhou, there are only ...... Only the guards of the Pingwang Mansion have always been ...... in uniform clothes.

Cao Bingsheng left half a sentence and didn't dare to say it. Although Xiao Wenxuan grew up in Beijing with the emperor since he was a child, he is the son of King Ping.

Xiao Wenxuan looked at him with a slight squint in his eyes, and only spoke after a while: "Is there Xiao Wenchen in Lord Cao's arrest list?" ”

"Back to the king of Ningjun, since the official received the holy decree, he sent troops to besiege the Pingwang Mansion as soon as he received the holy decree. According to the list of personnel of the Ping Wangfu, except for the prince of Ping Wang, all of them were arrested. ”

Didn't catch it? It's not surprising that Wuying and Li Feng both let him run away when they looked at it, not to mention ordinary officers and soldiers.

"Is there any news from Xiao Wenchen?"

"The king of Huining County, Xiaguan is wanted to search for the whole city, and there is no news yet."

"The princess is missing, and this king suspects that it was Xiao Wenchen, so he has to trouble Lord Cao to send someone to find it. Master Cao found paper and ink for me, and I will draw a portrait of the adult. ”

Lord Cao hurriedly sent people to prepare. The disappearance of the princess in the territory under his jurisdiction is not a trivial matter, and everyone must be found with all their tails, and they may not have saved the Wusha on their heads. If the princess has three longs and two shorts, I'm afraid he won't be able to keep it.

……

Xiao Wenxuan sat in the mansion for a few hours, he painted it well, and Su Muling's portrait came to life under his pen.

Xiao Wenxuan drew nearly 100 in one breath without eating or drinking, until he was so tired that his fingers cramped and he couldn't hold the pen before he let go.

Fang Ping spread out the portrait to dry on the side. Master Cao personally sorted it out, and showed Xiao Wenxuan the draft of the missing person notice.

"The prince saw that it was not suitable, and the lower officials told them to change it."

Xiao Wenxuan glanced at it, and pinched the fingers of his right hand, which had become stiff due to holding the pen for too long, and said lightly: "Add a sentence: those who can provide clues will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, and those who find the princess will be rewarded with a thousand taels." The silver is out of the king. ”

In these years, money can make the devil grind, as long as there is white money there, I am not afraid that the eyes of the masses will not glare.

Lord Cao hurriedly asked someone to add Xiao Wenxuan's words word for word.

"Lord Wang, it's not early, the mighty Lord is waiting for you to eat."

Lord Cao didn't dare to say that he was also waiting, and used Wei Yao as an excuse.

Xiao Wenxuan didn't have much appetite, but Wei Yao was an elder in the end, so he didn't want Wei Yao to wait, so he looked at the thick pile of portraits and instructed Lord Cao: "Hurry up and post it." Remember, inform the king as soon as there is any news. ”

"Yes." Lord Cao welcomed Xiao Wenxuan to the dining room.

……

In front of the gate of the Pingwang Mansion, a large number of officers and soldiers guarded it.

Half a month ago, Lord Cao, the prefect of Qizhou, received an order from the emperor and led people to arrest more than 100 members of King Ping's family, as well as nearly 100 members of King Ping's staff in the palace, and imprisoned them in the yamen and a ruined temple respectively.

Xiao Wenxuan showed his sign, and the guard at the door respectfully invited him in. The whole palace was extremely deserted, as if it was an empty house, except for the guards standing guard in front of each courtyard, there were no other miscellaneous people.

Xiao Wenxuan returned to his Qingfeng Garden. The guard guarding the door saw that it was the prince of the county, and he knelt down to salute, and raised his hands to return the sign to him. Xiao Wenxuan didn't say much, accepted the sign, told people not to disturb, and then stopped coming out.

***

Half a month ago, the pomegranate with a big leg injury was already able to go down to the ground on crutches. Since they were brought here by Chen Sheng and Blue, they didn't dare to leave this courtyard.

Fortunately, when Su Muling sneaked out, he hid the silver ticket he brought from Songjiang on his body, but he didn't worry about eating and drinking.

Outside, although King Ping left, as soon as the news of their disappearance spread, King Ping's Mansion must order a search for the whole city.

Su Muling and Pomegranate couldn't go out, and Chen Sheng and Blue took care of their diet and daily life.

Blue spoke with a strong accent, and his appearance was different from that of the Ming people, so Chen Sheng asked him to be responsible for Su Muling's safety and did not let him go out. I am responsible for purchasing and going out to inquire about news.

The pomegranate hurt and couldn't do anything, but Su Muling practiced his cooking skills on Immortal Island, and he just practiced again.

In addition to cooking, Su Muling also took on the burden of teaching Bru Da Ming.

Blue's Daming dialect is all learned from everyone's mouth, and many times the words do not reach the meaning, and many times they can't understand it.

When Blue learned that Su Muling offered to teach him to speak, he was so happy that he almost jumped up and hugged her again.

Su Muling reluctantly set a few rules for him, one of which was to ask him to know that Daming was different from other countries, and he still paid attention to whether men and women were intimate or not, so there could be no physical contact between him and her, of course, except as a last resort.

"When is it a last resort?" Blue stared at Su Muling with a pair of innocent eyes, affectionately.

Blue is a few years older than Su Muling, and he is also well-informed in the rivers and lakes, but as long as he is in front of Su Muling, he takes the initiative to abandon everything and becomes her little fan brother.

"As a last resort...... Just like pomegranates, you can't take care of your own situation, you know? ”

Blue scratched his head, then nodded again. Some aggrieved said: "I don't want to hug her, I just want to hug you." ”

Su Muling covered his face.

Pomegranate has good ears, and when she heard Blue's words in the house, she laughed out loud and threw out a sentence outside the house: "You just think, I still don't agree." ”

In this way, several people stayed here. Chen Sheng is in charge of purchasing, Blue is in charge of guards, Su Muling is in charge of cooking, and Pomegranate is in charge of recuperating from injuries.

Next door to the courtyard where Su Muling lived was a young merchant and his widow, who met Chen Sheng in front of the door several times, and warmly greeted the neighbor who had moved in for more than a month but did not show up much.

Chen Sheng didn't want to attract attention, so he only replied lightly every time and hurried into the hospital.

More than a month has passed, and this day is duanyang.

Su Muling calculated the time, King Ping and his entourage should have arrived in the capital, King Ping's failure is doomed, capture King Ping, the emperor will definitely order the arrest of the rest of the party and the extermination of the family. At that time, she will no longer have to hide here, and she can go home to reunite with Xiao Wenxuan.

Su Muling took out two hundred taels of silver tickets and a list from his purse and handed them to Chen Sheng: "Although it is not as good as at home here, but today is a festival, you go and buy some items for the festival, and then go to buy a table of wine and food." This list is what I used with Pomegranate, and I bought it together. ”

Chen Sheng glanced at the list, all of which were fabrics for women and objects for women.

The clothes on his and Blue's bodies were bought from ready-made clothing stores from the inside out, but Su Muling's was different. You can go outside and buy two coats to deal with, but you have to make your own close-fitting clothes.

When Chen Sheng followed Wei Huai'an, Wei Huai'an's side was clean, and they had never touched women's things. However, Chen Sheng knew that it didn't matter if he didn't buy it, as long as he picked up expensive ones, he would definitely be fine if they were good ones for the princess.

After more than a month of recuperation, Pomegranate can walk on crutches on his legs.

Duanyang Festival, it was lively outside, and there were people walking around in the alley. Everyone made an appointment to go to the temple fair and watch the dragon boat race. It's a pity that they have to hide here and can't go out.

Su Muling was so suffocated, but she could only lie on the rocking chair in the courtyard and bask in the sun with pomegranates to relieve her boredom.

Near noon, Chen Sheng came back with all kinds of things in his hand, hung wormwood on the doors of the courtyard, and inserted a handful of hollyhocks into the bottle and put them in the hall.

Next, he put down a few paper bags and a jar of iris wine in his hand, and said to Su Muling, who heard the sound.

"Miss, everything has been bought, and I have ordered the best restaurant in the east of our city, and I will be able to deliver it in half an hour. There is still a period of time before leaving the meal, so the young lady eats a zongzi to cushion her stomach. ”

Since they fell into hiding here, Su Muling asked them to change their names, and the word princess was not suitable for their current situation.

Chen Sheng opened several paper packets respectively, which contained a wide variety of rice dumplings and fragrant candy seeds, white balls, and perilla in different shapes.

Su Muling smiled and picked up a corner dumpling, put it under her nose and smelled it.

Blue, who had just set up the dishes and chopsticks in the west wing, came over, and saw that Su Muling was holding a small green thing in his hand, he was very curious, and he also picked up one and put it under his nose and smelled it, and the fragrance of zongzi immediately coiled around his nose.

"What is this?" Blue was amazed.

When I was mixing with Su Haoran in Songjiang before, I tasted a lot of delicious food that Anji Country didn't have. Now that he has come to Qizhou, Chen Sheng goes out to buy every day, and he can often see things he has never seen before.

"Today is the Duanyang Festival here for us, and every household has to eat zongzi during the festival, which is one of them called Lingzong, which is ...... Well? …… This ......"

Su Muling's eyes widened in surprise as he looked at the blue ...... who put the unpeeled zongzi into his mouth and chewed it heavily

Blue was looking forward to eating the world's delicacies again, but after swallowing it, his facial features were all twisted together: "You? Eat this on holidays? "It's too unpalatable, isn't it?

"Hahaha!"

"Hahaha......"

Su Muling and Chen Sheng couldn't stand up with a straight smile.

……

"That's not how zongzi are eaten...... You have to peel the leaves on the outside. ”

Su Muling held the horn dumplings in his hand and showed him with his own hands. Su Muling's fair-skinned and slender fingers flipped a few times on the zongzi, the zongzi leaves were peeled off, and the zongzi meat was handed to him.

"Eat."

Blue hesitantly took it and took a small bite carefully, well, delicious! Tasting the sweetness, Blue began to eat bitterly one after another.

"Miss, I see a bunch of girls buying this, and I've bought some for you and pomegranates."

Chen Sheng took out a few Baisuo knotted with five-colored silk threads from his pocket, and a few delicate embroidery sachets and handed them to Su Muling.

Su Muling beckoned the pomegranate over, and the two tied each other Baisuo and put on a sachet of incense, rejoicing like a child.

Su Muling also took out three purses and distributed them to the three of them, the purses were embroidered by herself, and they contained a hundred taels of silver tickets. Chen Sheng and Pomegranate both knew that Su Muling was generous and accepted it gladly.

But Blue refused the silver ticket, but happily put the purse on his body, and pressed it with his hand from time to time.

"I can ask for the purse, but I don't want the silver ticket."

Su Muling didn't force it, after all, Blue was a prince and had his own pride.

At this time, there was a knock on the courtyard door, and Chen Sheng put away his purse and said as he walked: "The food must have been delivered." ”

Before opening the door, Chen Sheng still asked in a low voice vigilantly, "Who?" ”

"It's me, Jin Mantang's buddy, who delivers food to the uncle."

The courtyard door opened, and Chen Sheng was about to let people in, and several steel knives were pointed at Chen Sheng......