After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

Realizing that something was wrong, Xiao Yuanjin did not dare to give Yu Zizhen any more suggestions, but Yu Zizhen still bought a lot of things and went back.

It wasn't until the two of them felt hungry that Yu Zizhen took Xiao Yuanjin to the teahouse to rest.

She ordered the best tea in the teahouse, and then asked the waiter to serve them eight signature snacks of the teahouse.

The waiter agreed and went to the kitchen. There was no one else in the room. The eldest prince asked Yu Zizhen worriedly, "You bought so many things, do you have enough money to pay the bills?"

"Enough." But she didn't want to use her private money to buy gifts for King Zhenbei and others.

Xiao Yuanjin breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. He put aside his worries and began to look at the teahouse curiously.

The first floor of the tea house is full of individual guests who come to listen to the music, while the second floor is full of semi-open private rooms that can look down.

These private rooms are distributed in a circle around the high platform on the first floor. Guests sitting in the private rooms can also clearly hear the sounds of storytelling, singing, and allegro playing from the high platform.

If the guests in the private room do not want to share the excitement with others, but want to have their own independent space, then they only need to close the door to isolate the eyes of others and most of the sounds in the teahouse.

One of the reasons why Yu Zizhen chose this place as a resting place for their trip was that the private rooms in this tea house had very good sound insulation measures.

The two of them sat in the private room and listened with interest to the singing girl singing a ditty for a while.

The girl came out to perform with her father. When she sang, her father sat next to her and played the erhu with a focused look on his face.

Yu Zizhen listened with great interest, and from time to time he would hum along in a nonsensical way.

She thought that Xiao Yuanjin would also like the ditty that the girl sang, but to her surprise, compared to the ditty that the girl sang that suited Yu Zizhen and most people's aesthetics, Xiao Yuanjin preferred the girl's father's erhu performance. That unique piece of music.

He pointed at the erhu and asked Yu Zizhen, "What instrument is that?"

In Daqi, Erhu was passed down from the Hu people, so it has only been spread among the people in a small area. Naturally, the eldest prince who has lived in the palace for a long time has no chance to see it.

But this instrument, which was different from mainstream instruments, attracted his attention when he first saw it.

Yu Zizhen raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's the Erhu. Your Highness is interested in this?"

Xiao Yuanjin nodded, "It's very special."

Yu Zizhen smiled, "Then I'll give one to Your Highness, as the Mid-Autumn Festival will be here soon."

Xiao Yuanjin will definitely give her a gift during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Instead of racking her brains to think about what she wants to give back then, she might as well take advantage of the fact that Xiao Yuanjin has something she likes and just buy it for him to play with.

However, Xiao Yuanjin rejected Yu Zizhen's proposal, "I bought it and there is no way to learn from it. It would be too wasteful just to look at it."

Yu Zizhen stroked his palm and said, "This is easy to handle! I will buy a few of these erhus and put them in the palace, and then I will find a master who is proficient in this art and keep them in the palace, so that His Highness can learn at any time."

It just so happened that she also planned to bring Xiao Yuanjin out more often in the future, so as to create opportunities for him to practice martial arts.

Originally, she was going to make up an excuse for taking people out of the palace frequently, well, think of one now, but wasn't it a coincidence? Xiao Yuanjin happened to have something that interested him, but that was not available in the palace.

While the two were talking, the waiter came with a big tray to bring them refreshments. When the waiter put down his things and walked out, before Yu Zizhen could introduce to Xiao Yuanjin which one she thought was the most delicious, the little eunuch accompanying Xiao Yuanjin picked up a little of each with his chopsticks and started his poison testing process.

Yu Zizhen's mouth twitched slightly, but she did not stop the little eunuch's behavior.

Although she has asked the system to be closely monitored, it is said that it should not be poisonous, but she is not afraid of ten thousand, just in case. If Xiao Yuanjin is really poisoned, then she will not be able to take Xiao Yuanjin out of the palace in the future.

Xiao Yuanjin looked at Yu Zizhen with an apologetic look, "I'm sorry to disappoint you."

Yu Zizhen waved his hands repeatedly, "Be careful when sailing a ten thousand year ship. They are right to be more cautious."

When the young eunuch heard this, he immediately felt very fond of Yu Zizhen.

Despite such an episode, Yu Zizhen's interest remained unabated during the subsequent tea and snacks.

She enthusiastically introduced the restaurant's signature dim sum to Xiao Yuanjin, and made an appointment with Xiao Yuanjin to bring him to taste the restaurant's other signature tea next time.

The two sat in the teahouse for about an hour. Seeing that it was almost noon, they got in the car and returned to Zhenbei Palace.

At the Zhenbei Palace, Mr. Jiang and the chief steward Yu Tong had already been waiting outside the main entrance of the palace.

They were different from the Lu clan who became arrogant when they gained power. Even if the eldest prince came, a crippled prince who had no chance of taking the throne, Mr. Jiang and Yu Tong did not show any contempt at all.

After receiving the news, they not only arranged for people to take care of the Zhenbei Palace early, and ordered the people in the kitchen to fully assist Mrs. Zhang in preparing the freshest and best ingredients for this lunch, but they also planned to open the main entrance according to the rules and kneel down to greet her. The eldest prince enters the palace.

This is the first time that the eldest prince has felt such heartfelt respect from others in his life.

He was a little flattered. As soon as the carriage stopped, he quickly raised his hand and said to Mr. Jiang, Yu Tong and others: "No courtesy, no courtesy."

Mr. Jiang and Yu Tong then took the lead and stood up. They half-bowed their waists and respectfully invited the eldest prince into the mansion.

Yu Zizhen put his face to the window and stood shoulder to shoulder with Xiao Yuanjin, "We won't get out of the car. We'll see you at Lu Mingxuan later."

The eldest prince had trouble with his legs and feet, and Yu Zizhen didn't want him to get out of the car and be watched by almost all the servants in the mansion, so he had already ordered the coachman to drive the carriage directly into the mansion.

She even prepared a soft sedan so that Xiao Yuanjin could take the soft sedan to her Lu Mingxuan later.

Mr. Jiang and Yu Tong said yes, and then respectfully retreated to the connection between the door and the wall, waiting for the carriage riding by Yu Zizhen and the eldest prince to drive into the palace.

Yu Zizhen and Xiao Yuanjin got off the carriage at the doorway between the first entrance and the second entrance. Yu Zizhen waved to the soft sedan that had been prepared by the chief attendant beside her.

Xiao Yuanjin was carried into the sedan by the palace guards he brought, and the wheelchair placed on the carriage was also taken down by another guard.

Everyone gathered around Xiao Yuanjin and Yu Zizhen to the entrance of the third courtyard. Xiao Yuanjin got off the sedan chair and put on a wheelchair. Then Yu Zizhen placed all the other guards except the leader of the guards in Ning Yuanzhai next to Tingfeng Xiaozhu.

She sent her guard leader Feng Yuan to accompany her temporarily. Later, Mr. Jiang and the chief steward Yu Tong would come over to entertain these palace guards with Feng Yuan.

As for the leader of the palace guards, after he sent Xiao Yuanjin to Lu Mingxuan, Xiao Yuanjin asked him to stay with his subordinates.