Since Yuan Xiaodong arrived in Jinling, he has cut off contact with the outside.

As soon as I came, Jinling's Jinghong Tower had been burned, and the people in Jinghong Tower didn't know where they went.

Second, Jinling Jinghong Building and several Jinghong Towers in the south of the Yangtze River did not listen to He Ran's command.

Third, this move to the capital, not all the people in the palace went south, at least half of them still stayed in the capital, and most of the nails that Li Jinxiu buried in the palace before were old.

King Qi was suspicious, but all the older ones didn't bring them with him when they went south this time, including Yuan Xiaodong's godfather, the great eunuch Yuan Ying.

King Qi thinks so, the older ones have been in the palace for many years, and the relationship is intertwined, there are many people from Min Lan, and many are the eyes of the clan and nobles, so King Qi left them all in the capital.

The palace maids and chamberlains who moved the capital with them this time are under the age of twenty-five.

None of Li Jinxiu's nails followed south, and all of them stayed in the palace.

Only Yuan Xiaodong had the shortest time to enter the palace, and he was the only one who came with the emperor.

Knowing that the nails he had buried in the palace had been left behind, Li Jinxiu immediately sent people to mix among the people who went south, and also came to Jinling together.

It's a pity that although these people arrived in Jinling, they couldn't get into the temporary palace.

King Qi is very cautious, half of the people used in the temporary palace are brought out of the palace, and the other half are people in the palace of King Qi, all of whom he is used to and absolutely reliable.

After Yuan Xiaodong arrived in Jinling, he lived in the back garden with the emperor, although he was lively and enthusiastic and likable, but his identity as the emperor's close eunuch firmly encircled him.

He wanted to leave the palace, or contact outside the palace, but he couldn't.

Even so, Yuan Xiaodong still made a friend with his social cow physique.

This friend's name is Zeng Fu, a native of Qingzhou, and he is an old man from the Qi Palace.

He entered the house at the age of eight, and he is only fourteen years old this year.

Yuan Xiaodong used to have a godfather Yuan Ying in the palace, and Zeng Fu had a cousin.

His cousin was the eunuch Tang Gonggong, who was in charge of purchasing.

Zeng Fu and Tang Gonggong are just distant relatives, if they are outside, the two families may not move around for a year or two, but when they arrive at the palace, they are relatives.

From the palace to the current temporary palace, Gonggong Tang has taken Zeng Fu with him.

Buying is a fat difference, which means more oil and water for an old fritter like Grandpa Tang.

But for a small servant like Zeng Fu, the biggest advantage of this errand is that he can often go out to play.

I don't know how Yuan Xiaodong caught up with Zeng Fu, in short, these two young servants of the same age became friends.

But what Yuan Xiaodong can do for Zeng Fu is to tell him the news he heard from the outside, for the time being, Yuan Xiaodong doesn't dare to let Zeng Fu help him contact the people sent by Li Jinxiu.

One is that he can't believe it, and the other is that Zeng Fu has no professional training, so it is easy to show his feet.

Now, Yuan Xiaodong has received a task from the emperor to assist and accompany the emperor to escape from Jinling.

With such a high risk, Yuan Xiaodong must get in touch with the outside of the palace.

Yuan Xiaodong believed that the person sent by Li Jinxiu must be near the temporary palace.

The predecessor of the temporary palace was the palace, and it is conceivable that the palace was surrounded by dignitaries and dignitaries, so there were no residences of ordinary people in this vicinity, but there were shops.

Zeng Fu said that there were originally two grocery stores in this vicinity, both of which had been open for many years, but after the emperor moved in, these two grocery stores were ordered to close down.

The grocery store is the business of those big families in the neighborhood, and the business is very good, otherwise it would not have been open for twenty or thirty years.

Yuan Xiaodong thought about it, he found Zeng Fu, and said to Zeng Fu: "The grocery stores here are all closed, and the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in the nearby neighborhoods are temporarily gone, where can I buy them?" ”

Of course Zeng Fu didn't know, but he remembered it.

When he came back from outside that day, he made a detour to the place where the two grocery stores were.

The shop was locked, and a piece of red paper was pasted on the side of the shop, but half of it had been torn off.

If there is only one shop, it will be fine, and both shops have the imprint of red paper.

If it were someone else, it would definitely not care.

But Zeng Fu didn't want to go back to the palace, he wished he was outside every day.

There happened to be a mother-in-law passing by, this mother-in-law looked like the housekeeper of a large family, Zeng Fu stopped the mother-in-law and asked: "Auntie, do you know where to sell oil, salt, sauce and vinegar near here?" ”

The housekeeper looked up and down, and guessed Zeng Fu's identity.

The little eunuch in the palace doesn't know why he is outside.

Could it be that there is no soy sauce for cooking in the palace temporarily?

There are many families in Jinling, the family is high, but today's royal family is too unbearable, a little emperor with an unknown background, a queen mother who has been imprisoned by the first emperor for more than 40 years, and after arriving in Jinling, these two will not be people, and they have burned at least three generations of Jinling people's dream love building.

Of course, the deterioration of the emperor and the empress dowager's reputation was also intentional by King Qi.

The more unbearable these two are, the higher the prestige of King Qi will be.

Today's Jinling, not to mention a family that has always paid attention to its heritage, is an ordinary person, and it has no good impression of today's royal family.

Therefore, when she saw a little eunuch, this woman was not surprised at all, and she asked angrily, "Why are you inquiring about this?" Do you even have to smash the last job for others? How many years have people opened shops here, and you won't let people open them when you come, have you ever asked if they have money to live, and if there is any surplus food at home? ”

Although Zeng Fu was greedy for fun, he had been with Gonggong Tang for a long time, and as soon as he heard it, he knew that the two families must have changed places and continued to open shops, and they were still doing neighborhood business in the vicinity.

The torn red paper, the Eight Achievements are used to guide the direction.

Zeng Fu smiled, turned around and ran.

The mother-in-law looked at his back suspiciously, and quickened her pace, no, she had to tell the two families to be careful these days, don't let the people in the palace come to the door.

Seeing that his mother-in-law was gone, Zeng Fu came back again, this time he learned well, and took out the addresses of the two shops from the mouths of two seven or eight-year-old children.

Sure enough, the shop is still open, but there is no sign.

Behind the houses of dignitaries and dignitaries, most of them will have a back alley, and the back alleys are all occupied by those people in the house who drag their families with their mouths.

These two shops are renting houses in this back alley.

The two shops are not together, they are quite far away, and they rent two such houses respectively.

Zeng Fuda was very proud when he heard the news, and felt that he could become an official in the yamen, this is a natural detective.

He triumphantly shared this matter with his good friend Yuan Xiaodong, but he didn't notice the glint in Yuan Xiaodong's eyes. (End of chapter)