With good luck, Gou practiced in the harem

Chapter 5 5. Spying outside the old house
"Boss, both bowls of noodles have extra meat."

Xiaoqing counted sixty Wen from the sachet, and handed it to the owner of the restaurant with some distress.

The boss looked quite feminine, and his voice was high-pitched, obviously he was a father-in-law.

But even the father-in-law, the boss doesn't know Xiaoqing's identity.

The imperial city has a huge area, and Xiaoqing has been keeping a low profile.

But the boss recognized Xia Yan. When he saw Xia Yan, he hurriedly saluted and said respectfully: "The villain has seen His Highness."

Xia Yan said: "Today we only eat noodles."

"Yes yes yes" the boss bowed and retreated.

At this time, there were quite a few people eating noodles in the restaurant. Most of these people were guards, officials from various departments and departments in the imperial city, and some dignitaries in brocade clothes. But they did not gossip, but hid far away. Xia Yan.

What's even more exaggerated is that some pretty female officials or female officers directly lost their copper coins and ran away quietly. I don't know what that means.

This frustrated Xia Yan's plan to eavesdrop on information through the restaurant.

After a while, a little eunuch brought two bowls of noodles.

This time, the meat on top of the noodles was so huge that there were two bowls of it.

Apparently, the father-in-laws are not people without insight. They don't know Xiaoqing, but they always feel that they can't be offended if they can stay by the side of the Third Highness, so they simply serve a bowl of water.
Xiaoqing ate happily.

Xia Yan was a little surprised, why Xiaoqing, as someone close to the queen, was still so short of money.

But he also quickly ate.

————It was detected that there is a bowl of big meat noodles in your body, do you want to exchange it?
———Exchange options: 1. Infuriating; 2. Excellent long chopsticks; 3. Fu Gonggong’s recommendation letter for opening a store
"Exchange true energy."

Xia Yan is not interested in option 2, and he doesn't know anything about option 3. The most important thing is that he still doesn't know how 2 and 3 will appear. Trying it in this kind of place may be too conspicuous.

As soon as the thought came to an end, a burst of mellow true energy flowed out from the orifice, and the warmth in the lower abdomen increased a bit, and the progress of opening up the space also increased.

Xia Yan glanced at the message, and his true energy changed from "second rate: (1/200)" to "second rate: (2/200)".

This may seem slow, but for others, it may not take several days of hard work to improve.

If possible, he would use the power of the prince to make the boss keep ordering big meat noodles until the shop went bankrupt, but he would not do this, because then he would immediately reveal his secrets.

Where, then, can he "do whatever he pleases"?

An answer immediately popped up: the Palace of the Third Prince.

Of course the third prince can dispose of his property as he likes, can't he?
But the problem is, he is just a fake third prince, a replaced third prince, if he really returns to the third prince's palace, will something happen?After all, he doesn't even know if the third prince has a concubine or not.

However, in this palace, the only place he can control at will is the third prince's palace.

Must go once.

There is no choice.

"Xiao Qing," he said.

The girl in Tsing Yi raised her head, sucked the strips out of her mouth with a "swoosh", and looked at him with wide eyes.

Xia Yan said: "Take me back to where I live."

"The Palace of Bliss?" Xiaoqing asked.

Xia Yan shook his head.

Xiao Qing thought for a while and said, "You want to go back to the Prince's Mansion?"

Xia Yan remained silent, as long as he didn't speak, the other party would probably add information.

Sure enough, Xiao Qing said: "But, you said before that the Prince's Mansion is haunted by ghosts, so you drove away all the maids and guards in the Prince's Mansion, and then moved out, sleeping in the palace arranged by the empress, why are you going back so soon?"

Xia Yan's pupils froze slightly.

A small thread is connected.

The third prince said that he was haunted by ghosts and was seriously ill. Then he moved out of the prince's mansion and slept in the palace arranged by the queen. Afterwards, he quietly changed to the former owner of this body.

Afterwards, the former lord was poisoned to death by the colorless and odorless Holy Water of Rebirth, and then he came across.

Is it like this?
wrong!

It's not like this!

If the Third Prince really wanted to use someone who looked like him to escape, then he could do it in the Prince's Mansion.

Why play this drama of "the prince's mansion is haunted, and then move to the queen's palace"?

In this way, there are very likely two possibilities.

First, the third prince's mansion is really haunted;

Second, the third prince was involved in some disputes. If he continued to stay in the third prince's mansion, bad things would happen, but he didn't want the queen to know about it, so he chose the rhetoric of "haunted", and Run to the Queen for refuge.

In other words, the third prince might have guessed that someone wanted to "replace him", but he didn't want to, but he didn't want to expose it either.

There are many treacherous things in the royal family.

Xia Yan thinks it's the second type. If so, then... a quick decision must be made.

Many thoughts flashed, the boy raised his head, looked at the girl in Tsing Yi and said, "You can go with me."

After Xiaoqing drank the last sip of big meat noodle soup, he let out a "ha" in satisfaction, and then said softly, "Okay, after all, the Third Prince's Mansion is not far from here."

The carriage was moving again, the wheels were rumbling, and many people could still be seen busy on the road in Xiaoxueli.

After about an incense stick, the carriage stopped in front of a luxurious mansion.

Xiaoqing looked into the carriage and shouted, "Here we are."

Xia Yan lifted the curtain to check.

Seeing him hesitate, Xiaoqing asked, "Is there really a ghost?"

Hearing what she said, Xia Yan was even more sure that it was the second possibility, because Xiaoqing's tone was obviously unbelievable. Moreover, this is the imperial palace.It would be too strange if the palace was full of ghosts and couldn't be dealt with.

Xia Yan said calmly: "I'm worried that the person who assassinated me before is hiding here."

Xiaoqing said: "If you are really worried, then we won't go in. Tonight we will rush back to Moon Shadow Palace overnight.

Waiting for tomorrow morning, I will send someone to move His Highness, and move all the important items to Moon Shadow Palace for His Highness.

Moon Shadow Palace is under the control of the empress, and anyone who wants to assassinate His Highness cannot reach it. "

Not to say earlier.
Xia Yan quite agrees with this proposal.

But it's all here.
Forget it, let's not go in, there may be a lot of risk here, especially now it's night.

If you really want to come, wait until your strength has improved to a fairly stable level.

In the middle of the night, Xia Yan returned to Moon Shadow Palace again.

After a tiring day, he lay down on the bed.

After a while, two court ladies came to the palace carrying wooden barrels. One boiled water, the other spread herbs in the barrel, and lit a soothing wood incense. These were the maids arranged by the queen to take care of his daily life and food.

Xia Yan did not refuse this arrangement, after all, he didn't come to warm the bed.

After a while, he was comfortably soaking in the bathtub with his hands stretched out.

He looked across the long wooden columns of the palace.

The light snow in the courtyard had stopped, and the red lanterns were shaking gently in the cold wind, making it extremely cold.
"Who?!"

Suddenly, he felt a sharp sense of dread.

Something seemed to be staring at him through the crack in the door.

And his shout also made the maid startled.

"Your Highness, what's the matter?" a maid asked.

Xia Yan said: "There seems to be something outside the door."

"No?" Another court lady said, holding up an ever-burning lamp and walked over. After walking for a while, she stopped in front of the wooden pillar outside the door, pointed to a long and narrow mass of darkness on the wooden pillar, and said, "Your Highness is Say this?"

Xia Yan thought for a while, then nodded in doubt.

The palace lady said: "It's just that there is a little black on the wooden pillars. Maybe it's because of the heavy humidity and the damp. This Moon Shadow Palace is also an old house."

The next afternoon.

Little snow and early sunshine.

The cold wind rolled up silver shavings and danced lingeringly.

Two carriages came from afar and stopped at Moon Shadow Palace.

The eunuchs and guards quickly got out of the car and began to move the contents of the car to the palace.

All the belongings and books in the Third Prince's Mansion have been removed.

This indicates that Xia Yan's first pot of gold has finally arrived.

(End of this chapter)