"I'll take a look, you take your time." Suspecting that Yuzhu was walking slowly, Xu Zhiyi gave a word of advice, and then chased after her.

At the corner of the side hall, she wanted to stop him who was hurrying, but she couldn't resist the curiosity in her heart, so she quietly followed. All the way through the side hall, verandah, moon gate, forest path, chase straight to the back mountain of the imperial tomb in front of the Shinto, completely lost the trace.

"Boom, boom—"

"Chir, chirp, chirp—"

Xu Zhiyi stood in front of the wide and straight Shinto for a moment, and was about to return the same way when a crisp sound of insects came from behind her. She followed the sound and looked behind the stone statue of Weng Zhong on the side of the road, and saw a girl in a green dress kneeling in the grass, a pair of mud-stained hands pressed motionlessly on an open straw basket.

"Girl, ...... are you?!"

"Shhh

Xu Zhiyi squatted down next to the stone statue curiously. A moment later, she saw a green grasshopper jump into the straw basket in her hand.

"Ha, I've finally caught you!" The girl's fingers flicked quickly, and in an instant she covered the straw basket.

When the girl in the green dress covered the grass cage and sat up, Xu Zhiyi couldn't help but be surprised: "Lord Hejing?!" ”

"Princess...... Hello sister! Recognizing Xu Zhiyi in front of her, Shu Mei showed a shy and embarrassed expression on her face, "Only here are the feathered grasshoppers, this year's spring is too cold, and the female insect I bred died, so I had to catch another ......."

Looking at Shu Mei's shy expression, Xu Zhiyi remembered that her aunt said that she was "very different from ordinary boudoir women, she likes to raise little pets such as gnats and butterflies, and none of the things that her daughter's family should learn are decent", and couldn't help laughing, "Last time, my aunt said that I was the same kind of person as the county lord, and I saw you today, and it was really interesting." ”

"Does the princess's sister also like to raise gnats?" Shu Mei asked.

Xu Zhiyi shook her head, "I like to have bigger pets. ”

"Bigger?"

"Well, I like horses."

Shu Mei's mouth opened wide in surprise.

"When I was a child, I spent some time with my grandfather in the military horse farm, and I found that the horses were very humane, loyal and honest, and I gradually fell in love with raising horses."

"Well, I also have a very human horse called Ji Zhao. But I'm not very good at raising it, and I feel like he's been hungry and thin lately......"

"Hungry and thin? What kind of auspicious omen? Xu Zhiyi squatted a little tired, so she simply learned to relax her eyebrows and sat down in the grass.

"I don't know. The auspicious omen was given to me by a friend, and it was naughty......"

The two sat in the grass and talked about raising horses. Over the years, Xu Zhiyi has been playing the role of a famous lady and a stable princess in front of people, and she does not dare to easily expose her true preferences, for fear of being disliked and despised by the noble ladies in Kyoto. At this moment, facing Shu Mei holding the gnats, he was extremely relaxed and relaxed, and the topic was gushing endlessly as soon as the topic was opened.

Until Yuzhu followed all the way to find it, the two were still unsatisfied. Xu Zhiyi invited Shu Mei to go to the dormitory to change her clothes, and had a meal in the temple together. When they were leaving, she also promised to go to Shufu as a guest another day to see the good signs for Shu Mei.

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The Kusu River, where the Xili Wangting is located, is a river valley area under the Hora Mountain, and the Kusu River formed by the melting water of the ice and snow on the mountain winds and winds at the bottom of the mountain, and the slopes along both sides of the river are the dense settlements of the Xili people.

Unlike the felt tents in the distant pasturelands, the Xili people who settled in Kusu were keen to imitate the Nanyue people in the Xiqiguan area to build stone houses. Jade is produced in the area of Hora Mountain, and every Xili person likes to inlay various colors of Gobi jade from the river beach on the wall.

In the evening, when the sun sets over Mount Hora, the stone houses all over the city are refracted in a dazzling shade of light and shade in the afterglow of the setting sun.

The fat powder caravan led by Shen lived in the merchant inn on the west bank of the Kusu River. At this moment, he stood in front of the stone window of the inn, frowning at this stone town with its own mystery. Compared with the rows of wooden houses in South Vietnam, the stone buildings are more calm and heavy, and they are not afraid of fire......

"Brother Shen, Tajili has accepted the gift we gave and promised to take us into the summer palace tomorrow." Sun Zhi walked into Shen Zhi's room and said with a smile on his face.

After the Wushu Sect sent the eldest princess of Fuguo back from Mutak, they kept her grounded in the summer palace on the east bank. In order to prevent her from escaping, a battalion of men was sent to guard her. Shen Zhu couldn't get close to the eldest princess, and when he was distressed, he met Sun Zhi, the procurement manager of Tianxianglou, who also lived in the Xingshang Inn.

Sun Zhi never mentioned the matter of returning to Fengling when they met, but only talked freely about their friendship with Shen Zhi, and the topic always showed how he had rich connections and deep friendships in Kusu City. Shen Zhi told him with a sincere face that he was entrusted by the Nanyue Imperial Court to take back the grounded princess of Fuguo, and asked him if he had a way?

The safety of the eldest princess of Fuguo is related to the war situation between the two countries, and Sun Zhi immediately said that as a citizen of South Vietnam, it is his duty to share the worries of the country. He said he knew Tajiri, the procurement manager of the summer palace. Shen solemnly asked him to help contact the princess.

"It's great to be able to enter the palace tomorrow. In a moment I will arrange for someone to get ready, and as soon as the princess is picked up, we will leave Kusu City. Shen walked back to the round table in the room, poured a pot of tea, handed it to Sun Zhi, and invited him to sit down and talk about it.

"Now the question is, we can get into the summer palace, but how do we get the princess out?" Sun Zhi took the tea and said worriedly, "Tajiri said that the guards of the summer palace are very strict, and the number of people must be checked when entering and leaving......"

"That is, if we go in, we can only get a few people out?"

"Yes, even the items you carry have to be checked." Sun Zhi took a sip of tea and nodded.

Shen elbows pondered: "This means that one of us who will enter tomorrow must stay in the summer palace. ”

"Brother Shen means stealing beams and changing pillars?!"

"In any case, the eldest princess of Fuguo must be rescued first. As for those who stay inside......"

"I know a makeup master Nie Jiuniang who lives in seclusion, if she is hired to go in with her, she will change her appearance for the princess and then stay and pretend to be a princess, so that even if she wears a goof, she can buy us more time."

"Brother Sun actually got acquainted with such a kitsch person?" With a calm face, he was surprised, "This time it really helped me a lot, and it helped South Vietnam a lot." ”

"Brother Shen is polite. Although we are businessmen, it is also a supreme honor to be able to serve the imperial court. Sun Zhi paused, and then said: "It's just that the commission for hiring Nie Jiuniang is not low, and I'm afraid that the gold and silver I brought out of the country this time is not enough......

"How can you let Brother Sun break the bank again? This commission is naturally recorded by Agarwood. ”

"Okay, I'll go and contact Nie Jiuniang and ask her to prepare in advance."

"Shall I let Trian go with you?" Said calmly.

Sun Zhi immediately shook his head and said: "Don't hide it from Brother Shen, that Nie Jiuniang committed a crime in South Vietnam and was wanted by the government, so Yi Rong fled to Xili to live in seclusion. ”

"Oh, if that's the case, then I have to bother Brother Sun to run away." He bowed his hand and thanked him.