The regent's spoiled princess wakes up

Chapter 292 Don't Regret It!
Zhao Shuang looked at her son with a smile in the corner of her eyes, shook her head and said, "I don't want to talk about it."

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At noon the next day, when the boat arrived at Daoshancheng Wharf, Zhao Shuang took Ah Tao off the boat to buy some Jiangnan snacks, and asked Hu Lan and Xiangdong to take care of Ah Chen on board.

As soon as the mother and son got off the boat and landed, A Tao ran excitedly, and Zhao Shuang ran behind, out of breath.

After walking around the market, a place on the pier was suddenly crowded with people, as if there was a painted boat with fluttering colored silks parked, which was more magnificent than their passenger ship with carved railings and painted buildings.

"Father! Father!" A Taohu pointed at the tide-like crowd on the pier and shouted.

"Don't bark!" Zhao Shuang hurriedly covered his mouth, and glanced at the crowd again, but he didn't find the familiar figure, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I really saw father just now..." A Tao broke away her hand, still muttering.

"You must be delusional." Zhao Shuang felt a pain in his heart. The child must have missed his father, so he held his hand tightly, knelt down and asked, "Does Ah Tao miss his father?"

A Tao nodded first, then shook his head, seeing Zhao Shuang's worried expression, he said sensiblely, "A Tao doesn't want Father."

When they left Shangjing this time, Zhao Shuang deliberately avoided Yang Xuan's eyes and ears through careful planning. Even if Yang Xuan found out and chased after them, he should be behind them. How could he reach Daoshan City now?

Zhao Shuang led A Tao back and forth on the pier, because A Chen was still on the boat and did not dare to leave the boat too far, so she bought some portable maltose for A Tao on the pier, and after frying the fruit, Kind of snacks.

The mother and son were walking back holding hands when they heard a commotion, and the crowd on the pier gathered in the direction of the painting boat just now.

To prevent being dispersed by the crowd, Zhao Shuang hugged A Tao in a hurry, and after boarding the boat, she asked the boatman, "Boatman, what's going on over there? Why are everyone watching the fun around that boat?"

"Oh, that boat is Ruyizhao's painting boat. This Ruyizhao is a famous brothel in Daoshan City. This year's oiran girl Baoqing lives on the painting boat. Today is the first time Baoqing girl receives guests. It is natural to watch the excitement. A lot." The boatman is an old man in his 50s, who seems to come and go to Daoshan City often, and is very familiar with the things in this area.

"Even if it's an oiran, it won't be... men and women suddenly ran over to see it? And I see that the boat has been parked for a long time, why did everyone suddenly gather around it?" Zhao Shuang wondered.

"Oh! I heard that Miss Baoqing picked up a distinguished guest just now, and that guest spent a lot of money as soon as she boarded the ship. According to the rules, Miss Baoqing wants to sprinkle money on the water to sacrifice to the God of Wealth and the God of Water. Miss Baoqing did more than sprinkle money today. I heard that there are still a lot of broken silver coins." The boatman glanced at the direction of the boat, and said with a hearty smile, "Once the money is scattered, everyone will go away."

"So that's how it is." Zhao Shuang sighed, originally thought that these people were impressed by the beauty of the oiran, but it turned out that it was because of money, "Boater, let's rest enough, let's set off later."

"Yes, yes." Just as Zhao Shuang was about to lead Ah Tao upstairs, the boatman stopped her again and said, "Madam, just now...a young man sent a letter."

"Letter?" Zhao Shuang took it in doubt.

"It was sent by a handsome young man just now." The boatman smiled and took out a letter with a gold background and red seal from his sleeve, "He said, it's a letter from your master to your wife, you must read it."

Zhao Shuang's heart tightened.She left Beijing this time and pretended to be an ordinary official's wife, so wouldn't her master be... Could it be that Yang Xuan already knew her whereabouts?

"Thank you." She took the letter, quickly dragged Ah Tao upstairs, and opened it to read.

Sure enough, it was Yang Xuan's personal letter.

The letter first said that Princess Yi'an had been sent back to Xiyuan Road, and that she would never be allowed to enter the capital, and then scolded Zhao Shuang, saying that she had eloped with her child and violated the agreement between the two, and that she was required to go to the capital in person. Regret yourself.

"Tonight at Haishi, if you don't come, I will spend the spring night with Baoqing."

Zhao Shuang crumpled the letter up and threw it out of the window, "What a joke! Still repenting? I think he is an emperor, so stupid!"

She has already planned to abandon the wealth and honor in the world and go back to practice on the mountain, so why worry about it?Yang Xuan used the airs of the emperor to suppress her, and even threatened her with a brothel girl, Zhao Shuang suddenly felt disgusted.

Xiangdong watched her read and throw away the letter in one go, and couldn't help feeling a little worried, "Empress, is it the emperor's letter?"

Zhao Shuang sat by the window and teased Ah Chen, as if she didn't hear him.

The passenger ship continued on its way, and the Ruyizhao painting boat followed not far behind the passenger ship.

"Empress, that ship seems to be following us all the time, is there a problem?" Hu Lan glanced at the painting boat behind vigilantly.

"Let him follow, I want to see, can he follow all the way to Xunyang City?" Zhao Shuang took a sip from the teacup on the table.

After all, Ruyizhao is a brothel in Daoshan City, and the boats usually drift back and forth in the waters near Daoshan City, and generally do not travel long distances to continue southward.

"Hulan, last time you said that there was news about my master in Xunyang City, what happened next?" Zhao Shuang untied the gourd from the wall and shook it in his hand to see if the elixir inside was still there.

"An informant from Xunyang City came to report that he saw Daoist Cheng Ling appearing near the Yongchang Hou Mansion, and then went to Cangcui Mountain, and then disappeared." Hu Lan replied.

Going to Yongchanghou's mansion by spirit, probably because he wanted to see the place where Honghu had stayed in the past.

"Green Green Mountain?" Zhao Shuang recalled that it was an island in the middle of the lake in the west of Xunyang City. The mountain was not high, but it was surrounded by water.

Since Chengling appeared there, the entrance to Yuanqing Illusion must be near Green Mountain.

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Cool summer nights.

On Ruyizhao's painting boat, a handsome young man in azure blue auspicious cloud brocade robe is drinking alone against the moon.

Standing aside by Ping Feng, he secretly sighed.

Although there were colorful lanterns hanging on the boat and colorful silk fluttering, there was no sound of silk and bamboo, not even human voices, and it was all quiet.

Yang Xuan thought it was noisy, so the musicians of Ruyizhao stopped playing and singing.

"What time is it? Is it Haishi?" Yang Xuan leaned out of the window again, and glanced at the double-decker wooden boat in front of him.

Except for the bow and stern of the wooden boat, a lantern was lit. The lanterns in the cabin had already been extinguished, and the people on board seemed to have fallen asleep without any movement.

"Go back to the emperor, just arrived at Haishi." Ping Feng quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead.

They rushed from Shangjing City to Daoshan City, and the emperor temporarily decided to board Ruyizhao's painting boat, wanting to make the empress anxious.

But now... the agreed time has come, and the empress has not come yet, how will the emperor end up?

"Did you deliver that letter?!" Yang Xuan kicked the cabin floor irritably.

(End of this chapter)