Chapter 21: The Second Prince

What is he doing here, sneaky.

Tang Shu followed.

The shopkeeper's room was empty. Tang Shu peeked in through the crack in the doorway, as if he was rummaging for something. After a while, he found a few letters, and Xu Shuda seemed to be reading them. If Tang Shu is not mistaken, those letters should be Gu Jianmo's letters to the shopkeeper and his wife.

He is a native of Puhe Country, so what information does he want to hear from it? After all, as far as she knew when she met Gu Jianmo last time, those soldiers were called Gu Jianmo What is Captain Mo, uh, what kind of official is the captain...... It should be okay to let Xu Shuda come over and steal information?

The person inside suddenly turned around and walked leisurely to the back of the door, without the slightest sense of being a thief. Tang Shu stood motionless at the door, thinking about how to behave next so that she wouldn't be too embarrassed.

"What are you doing sneaking out there?" The person inside suddenly pushed open the door and spoke, Tang Shu was frightened.

All right...... was discovered, but who was the one who was sneaking, he was clearly the one who was stealing chickens and dogs, and he was nervous about something. Thinking like this, Tang Shu's aura instantly returned.

"Didn't I ask you that?" Tang Shu said very solemnly.

"Are you coming in?" Xu Shuda was not nervous at all after being exposed, but invited Tang Shu very elegantly to come in.

Tang Shu didn't think this was a good thing, she was very cautious, "No, who knows if you want to pull me to bear the charge of stealing with you?" ”

"Hah! Who told you I was stealing? Besides, if I did steal, would you be able to get away with it? We're standing on a rope. ”

"Who's ...... with you"

"Huh?" Xu Shuda's eyes suddenly looked at her fiercely.

"It's okay......" Tang Shu admitted, "Then why don't you steal people's letters here?" ”

"Peek." Xu Shuda smiled evilly.

“…… Isn't this a family letter, is there anything to peek at? ”

"Family letters are nothing to look at, but the people who write family letters are good-looking." Xu Shuda continued to laugh evilly.

Tang Shu thought of Gu Jianmo's face, and nodded sincerely, "Well, this is true, what does it have to do with you whether people look good or not?" ”

"Just kidding, I'm just trying to confirm two things." His expression suddenly became serious.

"What?"

"One is the identity of the person who wrote the letter."

"Isn't he just a school captain?" Tang Shu asked suspiciously.

"As far as I know, he was originally a great soldier in the barracks, but he was only promoted to the rank of captain." He glanced at Tang Shu hesitantly and said.

Tang Shu really didn't expect Gu Jianmo to have made military exploits in the barracks, she originally thought that he was just going to eat and drink, just like herself, but she didn't expect that he was still an excellent player? I remember that when I watched TV back then, there were people in it who were framed because they were too powerful, "probably because they were excluded...... How do you know? Have you been to the barracks? ”

Xu Shuda naturally skipped Tang Shu's second question, "No, Shi Xu has a good rule, strict military regulations, and is very good at employing people, if there was a person like Mo Jian, he would have been promoted a long time ago." ”

Tang Shu agrees with this sentence very much, but what the hell is Mo Jian?

"You said that the captain who wrote the letter to the shopkeeper is Mo Jian?" Tang Shu asked in surprise, isn't that Gu Jianmo? Could it be that Mo Jian is his pseudonym? Why are you still worried that your name will be known, is he very unsightly Tang Shu thought so, but did not say it.

Xu Shuda pondered, "You have also found it, it is very similar to the name of the second prince of Taiguan Kingdom." He said as if he understood.

“…… Second prince? "Now Tang Shu is in a circle, what does Gu Jianmo have to do with the second prince?

The corners of his mouth hooked, and he said more and more certainly, "The second prince of Taiguan Kingdom, the rumored figure who looks like an immortal, his ability does not live up to his face at all, heh, a dignified prince can be so quietly mixed into the military camp...... If I hadn't gotten news from the palace that the second prince had disappeared in the past few days, I really wouldn't have thought of this layer. After speaking, he glanced at Tang Shu meaningfully, "Speaking of which, your amnesia may be because he was injured, it's really fate." ”

"What...... Gu Jianmo is the second prince? He also ......, "Kill Tang Shu?"

Oh my God, what kind of mess is this?

"How do you know for sure?"

"What are you looking for these letters for?"

"It can't be a handwriting check, is it?" Tang Shu asked guessingly.

"Hmph, it's not particularly silly."

"Then you didn't come here to look for me, but to check his handwriting?" Tang Shu instantly understood.

Xu Shuda smiled, "It's also an unexpected gain to find you." ”

When I think of Gu Jian, isn't he a person who seems to have a good background and looks really good? Why did he upgrade to a prince, and also, kill Tang Shu?

"Why kill...... I? Tang Shu trembled.

"I calculated that you just went to the palace before you had an accident, if my information is correct, Gu Jian Mo was on duty near the Hidden Scripture Pavilion that night." He narrowed his eyes, and his voice suddenly erupted with anger, "One day he will regret doing this!" ”

This anger made Tang Shu stunned for a moment. He hadn't completely recovered from this fright, and his mind quickly turned to reason, "What he means is that Gu Jianmo, who was originally the prince, disguised himself as Mo Jian, mixed in the military camp, and helped Shi Xu make a lot of contributions. Why didn't he just go to the barracks as a prince? I really don't understand. Of course! The most important thing! He also killed Tang Shu? No wonder, no wonder when he first saw Gu Jianmo, he wanted to say that he had seen her on the roof of his house...... So Tang Shu went to the palace the night before yesterday, stole the Scripture Pavilion, was caught by Gu Jianmo, and was injured, and after escaping from the palace, the injury recurred and hung up, and then swapped with his own soul that happened to hang up in another time and space? It must be so! And also! If he is a prince, it is said that the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper's wife who have taken care of him since he was a child...... It can't be eunuchs and palace maids, right? No wonder, no wonder the shopkeeper's voice was so thin, and the two of them didn't have children yet......" Thinking of this, Tang Shu felt a little sympathetic to them.

But for a moment, Tang Shu thought...... I remember that Gu Jianmo said at that time that all the money she got from selling her to Huayue Building would be handed over to the state...... He is the prince and handed over to the country, isn't it handed over to him? Now it seems that it is not a private appropriation! Swindler! Another chance to be a rich man! Tang Shu wanted to cry without tears.

I really don't know if Gu Jianmo will be crazy when he sees that he has been slandered by Cheng Yulou so that someone is convinced......

"Someone's coming." Xu Shuda's voice brought her back to reality.

The door was still ajar.

The shopkeeper muttered, "Why is this door still open?" ”

Tang Shu, who was shrunk into a ball in the closet, didn't dare to come out, but Xu Shuda next to him was very leisurely, he grinned as if he spoke with his lips, "Just knock her out if you are discovered." ”

Tang Shu also grinned and said with her lips, "This behavior is too animalistic, I won't do it!" ”

Xu Shuda didn't understand her 'brute' mouth shape. Tang Shu looked nervously outside the wardrobe, and didn't take care of him seriously.

The shopkeeper seemed to be looking for something.

Tang Shu could see from the letter in her hand that she came to release the letter. The shopkeeper lady put every letter sent by Gu Jianmo in a small mahogany box on the top of the closet. However, from the empty wooden box she had just removed, and- Tang Shu glanced at the circle of stationery in the roll around Xu Shuda's waist. Everything in front of me couldn't be clearer, wasn't the letter that the shopkeeper's wife was looking for was at Xu Shuda's?

I have never been so desperate in my life - watching the shopkeeper climb up the bench, right in front of the closet, the dark blue skirt is only a board away from her, Tang Shu watched the movement of the skirt with wide eyes.

There was a rustle from the top of the closet, an envelope she couldn't find.

"Oops! What can I do? Does this letter mean that he has grown legs? Why can't I find it anywhere? It's not a thief, is it? The shopkeeper jumped down from the stool and muttered to herself suspiciously.

"Did you fall through a crack in the closet?"

The shopkeeper thought so, resting her elbow on the back of her other hand, and rubbing her fingers against her chin.

Tang Shu, who was looking out of the gap in the cupboard, even felt that her eyes were looking at her for a moment, and sweat seeped out of her hands. She was afraid to let her know that she was sneaking here, even if she didn't actually do anything.

Because others are good to you, you don't want to disappoint them at all.

If you don't care or trust you, you'll be unscrupulous.

All the sounds around her, the sound of the bench moving, the voice of the shopkeeper's wife talking to herself, as well as the sound of her own heartbeat, and even the sound of Xu Shuda's breathing, all the sounds gradually amplified in her ears.

She closed her eyes tightly.

Don't open! Don't open! She couldn't stop praying in her heart.

"Ruoyun! I went to the kitchen to help, I couldn't get busy, Ruoyun ......, "It's the shopkeeper." He was calling her.

Tang Shu suddenly opened her eyes as if relieved, and the hands that had reached into the handle retreated.

It wasn't until her navy blue patterned cloth skirt disappeared behind the closed door that Tang Shu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why do you care so much about that woman? She has such a good relationship with Gu Jianmo, if she knows your identity, she will only turn against her. Xu Shuda suddenly spoke.

Tang Shu, who had been suppressed for a long time, suddenly heard him speak, and her heart skipped a beat, and then said, "Then let's talk about it then." ”

"You're really not the same as you used to be, if he sees you......" He sighed before he finished speaking.

Tang Shu felt that he should be in his mouth, that Yuan Yanyu. Xu Shuda seemed to care about his thoughts. Who is this Yuan Yanyu?

"How long will you sit here when you're gone?" Xu Shuda changed the topic and swaggered open the closet door.

“……”

"Are you going to stay here for a long time?" Xu Shuda asked her, did Tang Shu know that he was asking about continuing to stay in this tavern?

"I'm not going to go with you anyway." Tang Shu said.

"I won't force you, I'm not qualified to force you. Then I'm gone, I have other things to do. He looked like he wanted to laugh.

Tang Shu watched him leave. Like a falcon flying in the sky, it quickly disappears.

Tang Shu, who was about to leave, glanced at the somewhat messy wardrobe.

That letter seems to have fallen into it when Xu Shuda got up just now.

Tang Shu tidied up the wardrobe and wanted to put her back in the mahogany box on the top of the cabinet, but paused. Fingers run over the white paper.