Shu Blossoms

Chapter 286

Zheng Wei walked to a slightly desolate small courtyard door, she searched in the bushes beside her, and sure enough, she saw a familiar kit again, the second child used to secretly hide pastries and sweet-scented osmanthus candies in it on weekdays.

Zheng Wei picked it up calmly, stuffed it into his sleeve, reached out his hand to feel inside, there were no more pastries and candy, only some scum left.

She took a sniff on her nose, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and then looking at some corners behind her, the smile on the corner of her mouth gradually became dangerous.

The person who was hiding in the corner and staring at Zheng Wei looked up and found that Zheng Wei was gone. He was startled, and hurriedly searched around. Suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder from behind. He subconsciously turned around and found Zheng Wei. Wei Wei stared at himself with expressionless eyes.

He subconsciously took two steps back before reacting to salute, "Princess!"

"Have you found the prince and the second prince?"

Zheng Wei's faint voice was not angry but pretentious, his legs were weak, and he shook his head hastily, "Not...not..."

"Then what are you doing here? Watching the county?"

"Going back to the princess, the prince and the second prince have not been found, nor have the thieves been caught. His Royal Highness Mausoleum is worried about your safety, and also afraid of offending you, so he sent the two of us behind to protect you!"

Seeing that his partner was exposed, the other person was afraid that the person would say something wrong in a panic, so he hurried over to explain.

Seeing his calm demeanor, neither humble nor overbearing, Zheng Wei looked at him seriously for a moment in surprise, he is a character.

This person's words are impeccable, Zheng Wei would not want to offend them for no reason, send them away, thought for a while and said lightly: "Follow?"

Then he took a few quick steps and walked in the opposite direction. When he reached a small path in front of the East Palace, Zheng Wei seemed to have noticed something. He quickly walked over and picked up an object from the ground. The two people behind hurriedly followed, and asked cautiously: "But Have you found anything?"

"En!" Zheng Wei spread out his hand to reveal the kit inside, and said in a heavy tone: "This is the kit of the Second Prince!"

The man looked at it as an ordinary kit, and asked with some doubts: "How do you know it belongs to the second prince?"

Zheng Wei twitched the corners of his mouth, and smiled subtly: "The second child loves to eat!"

Then he handed the kit to him, and the man took the kit and opened it to see that there were a lot of rice cake crumbs and a sweet taste inside.

The man also only glanced at it, and hurriedly returned it to Zheng Wei, and said softly: "This road can only lead to the East Palace and Donghua Gate, this subordinate will report to His Royal Highness Mingling King and send more people to search."

Then hesitantly looked at his companion and told him: "Be sure to protect the princess well!"

Zheng Wei looked at his leaving back, and then said to the people left behind: "Go to the East Palace and ask, is there any suspicious person appearing today?"

"The lowly job protects the princess..."

Zheng Wei interrupted him, "I'm doing fine here, the two princes don't know whether they are alive or dead, if they have a good or bad relationship, we're afraid we'll all be buried with them! If you can find them, wouldn't this credit go to the sky in one step?"

This person was obviously tempted, hesitant, Zheng Wei added more fire, "I won't run around, just look around to see if there are any other discoveries, you go and come back quickly, if the two princes are rescued, the Princess I will give you credit myself!"

"Thank you Princess!" He thanked Zheng Wei and walked to the East Palace.

Zheng Wei saw him entering the East Palace, so she ran to the small courtyard where she found the kit.

She remembered that there was a hole in the back wall of the courtyard that only allowed one person to pass through. It was made by those little servants who sneaked out of the palace. At first, she just simply covered up the hole.

She remembered that a few days ago the two little fellows were arguing about going out of the palace, but Zheng Wei didn't agree.

She suspected that these two brats might have taken the opportunity to sneak out of the palace?
Zheng Wei ran all the way to the entrance of the cave, and found that the previous cover was gone.

She was about to climb out when she found another jade pendant at the entrance of the cave, which belonged to the prince.

Zheng Wei was already sure that these two brats had escaped, she had to find them out before the imperial guards found out that they had escaped from the palace!

Getting out of the hole, Zheng Wei walked out of the palace city after distinguishing the direction to see if there were any objects left by the crown prince and the second prince.

I don't know if she looked in the wrong direction or the object was picked up by someone, but she didn't find it again along the way.

It is the closest to Jianchun Gate and Dongyang Gate, and not far away is Qingxi Bridge. After passing Qingxi Bridge, it is the residence of those noble princes. These two little guys have been there before, and they are arguing to go to Xishi and Nanshi to play. Will cross the Qingxi Bridge.

But the fastest way to go to Xishi and Nanshi is to take a boat and go down the river directly into the Qinhuai River.

In summer, there are quite a few boats from various families in Qingxi, most of them are those nobles who go out to enjoy the scenery, but now there are only a few boats on the river, and these boats cannot be boarded without the guidance of acquaintances.

Zheng Wei wasn't sure if they went south along Qingxi, or got mixed into some other boat.

After she made up her mind, she went to the Qingxi Bridge to inquire first, and asked if she had seen two four or five-year-old children. After asking more than a dozen people, there was no news. Yuan Wang, ask him to find more people to help him find it.

But she was also afraid that if the two little guys didn't meet the nobles, and they were cold and hungry, and they were being bullied, she would feel very distressed.

If she wanted it any more, she might as well go to King Ling, and it would be quicker for him to send someone along Qingxi to look for it.

But today's matter always felt a little strange to her, and she felt that the matter of the two princes sneaking out of the palace should not be publicized.

She didn't know who to ask for help for a moment, and suddenly thought that Xiao's mansion was not far from the East City, so she hesitated whether to go to Xiao's mansion to see if Xiao Yucheng was at home, maybe she could ask her for help!

Just when Zheng Wei was hesitating, she suddenly saw an old man sitting next to Qingxi, so she thought about asking again.

"Ah Weng, can you see two dolls this tall nearby?"

Zheng Wei was afraid that the old man would ask loudly.

The old man looked up at Zheng Wei, and then slowly said: "I didn't see the two dolls, but I saw a young man of about this height brought two little dolls onto the boat!"

Zheng Wei was startled, and hurriedly asked: "Whose ship is it?"

"It seems... It's Lanling Xiao's ship." The old man thought for a while, and finally nodded with certainty, "It's Xiao's ship, and their ship is leaving today."

Hearing this, Zheng Wei excitedly bowed to the old man again and again, then ran towards Xiao's mansion.

When she ran to the gate of Xiao's mansion, she saw Xiao Yucheng get on his horse, wearing armor, he seemed to be going back to the city.

"Xiao Yucheng!" Zheng Wei shouted, then ran towards him.

When Xiao Yucheng heard the familiar voice, he was in a daze for a moment. He hadn't seen her for half a year. These days, he was stationed in the military camp and she was stationed in the palace. If His Majesty hadn't promised him before he became seriously ill, he would I couldn't help but go to Zheng's mansion to guard again.

When Zheng Wei jumped up and sat behind him, and the horse under him kept churning in fright, Xiao Yucheng came to his senses and realized that this was true!

"Princess, you." Xiao Yucheng wanted to ask,

Zheng Wei interrupted him directly, "Hurry up, go south along Qingxi!"

Only then did Xiao Yucheng realize that she was sweating profusely and her face was full of anxiety. Instead of leaving immediately, she asked, "If you want to take a boat, there is still a boat from my family on Qingxi!"

"Great, take me there quickly!" Zheng Wei looked happy.

Xiao Yucheng didn't ask any more questions, riding obediently, feeling the slender arms of the person behind him tightly around his waist, the corners of his mouth were slightly pursed.

(End of this chapter)