After discussing things with Liang Run, it was getting late.
The happy time is always short-lived. Even if Zhao Yao doesn't want to, he has to return to the palace.
"Hey, how did the day go by so fast?" The day was really too short. He had to go back to the palace before he had enough fun. "The next time I leave the palace, I have to wait until next month." When he thought that he would have to wait a month for the next time he left the palace, Zhao Yao felt that the whole world had become gloomy.
Liang Run was reluctant to leave his nephew and wanted him to stay for a few more days. However, as a prince, his nephew could not stay outside the palace for a long time.
"A month will go by quickly."
"Every day is like a year, one month is like thirty years." Zhao Yao shrugged his shoulders and said with a sad face.
Liang Run was amused by Zhao Yao's expression of bitterness and hatred. He suppressed his laughter and changed the subject: "When will the acting king return to Beijing tomorrow?"
"It seems to be the afternoon." Zhao Yao's attention was successfully diverted when he mentioned the return of the king to the capital. "When the second brother comes back, the capital and the palace will become uneasy."
"You and your sister should be careful in the palace. If anything happens, ask your bird friends to send me a message, and I will find a way to help you."
Zhao Yao smiled reassuringly at Liang Run: "Second uncle, the second brother's return will have no impact on my mother and concubine, so don't worry about us." The second brother's return will have the greatest impact on the prince's brother. It had no impact on him, an unpopular prince.
"Is there really no impact?" Liang Run felt that King Dai's return after winning the battle would definitely cause a storm. He was worried that Zhao Yao and Liang Zhaoyi would be innocently involved.
"My mother-in-law and I are not important people, how could it involve us?"
While he was talking, Tong Xi appeared at the door of the study. He knocked gently and reminded Zhao Yao: "Master, it's getting late. We should go back."
"Second uncle, if something happens to you, just write a letter and give it to Lai Man, and he will come to the palace to find me."
"good."
Zhao Yao explained some more things, then changed into a beggar and prepared to return to the palace.
Liang Run sent Zhao Yao to the entrance of the alley, "Yao Yao, you and your sister must have a good time in the palace!" Sometimes, he felt that it was a good thing for his sister and Yao Yao to be in the palace. Sometimes, he felt that it was not a good thing for Yaoyao and his sister to be in the palace.
"Second uncle, please rest assured that nothing will happen to me and my concubine." He and his concubine were relatively transparent existences in the palace, and no one would pay attention to them when they came back on behalf of the king. "Second uncle, when I go back, Dingyuan and Uncle Zhang will be left to you."
"Don't worry, I will train them well."
Zhao Yao said nothing more, waved to Liang Run, and left with Tongxi.
Liang Run stood at the entrance of the alley and stared for a long time before turning back.
Zhao Yao and Tong Xi were walking in the dark alley. Unexpectedly, halfway through, I encountered the same beggars who had beaten up Dingyuan before. When they saw Zhao Yao and Tong Xi carrying bulging bundles, they looked greedy and went to snatch their bundles without saying a word.
After a while, several screams rang out in the dark alley, but they did not attract anyone else's attention.
Things like this happen often, and passers-by have long been accustomed to it and won't mind their own business.
Several beggars who wanted to rob Zhao Yao were thrown to the ground. They huddled on the ground with painful expressions.
Zhao Yao asked Tong Xi to teach them a lesson, which was a small way of avenging Dingyuan.
Before entering Pei Mansion, Zhao Yao asked Lai Man to check around to see if anyone was hiding near Pei Mansion.
Laiman carefully checked around Pei's house to make sure there was no one, and then came to find Zhao Yao and the others.
Zhao Yao and Tongxi walked into Pei's house "sneakily". He did not rush back to the palace, but instead fed them first. Then, he went to look at several important rooms in Pei Mansion.
Pei Mansion has been abandoned for 20 to 30 years. Many rooms are dilapidated and weeds have grown. Under the pale moonlight, it looks very eerie.
Tongxi held a lantern to illuminate Zhao Yao. Seeing Zhao Yao knocking on the floor, he asked curiously and doubtfully: "Your Highness, what are you doing?"
"I'm looking to see if there is a secret passage." Zhao Yao knocked on the floor for a while, but did not find any secret passage or secret grid. "I'm overthinking it, there's nothing wrong with it."
"Your Highness, if there was a secret passage or secret compartment here, it would have been discovered long ago."
"Too."
"Your Highness, if we don't go back, the queen will be worried."
"Then let's go."
Before entering the secret passage, Zhao Yao told them to guard Pei Mansion. If another strange person comes to Pei's house looking for something, he must be notified.
In Kunde Hall, Liang Zhaoyi has been waiting for Zhao Yao. Seeing that it was almost the end of the Youshi period and her son had not come back yet, she was a little worried.
Just when she was about to go to the cold palace, Zhao Yao and Tong Xi came back.
Seeing that her son came back intact, Liang Zhaoyi breathed a sigh of relief. She reached out and pinched Zhao Yao's chubby little face, and asked sternly, "Why are you back so late?"
"It hurts... Concubine, please spare my life..." Zhao Yao said while begging for mercy, "Something happened on the way back."
When Liang Zhaoyi heard this, she let go of her hand, frowned slightly and asked, "What happened?"
"We met a few beggars who wanted to rob us..." Zhao Yao simply told Liang Zhaoyi what happened on the way back.
"As long as everything is fine, go take a bath first and have dinner later." Although Tong Xi was a eunuch, he was very skilled. With him by Zhao Yao's side, Liang Zhaoyi was relieved that her son would leave the palace.
After Zhao Yao finished taking a shower, he changed into clean clothes. Liang Zhaoyi asked Guixing and the others to bring the dinner directly to the side hall.
Sitting on the couch, Zhao Yao told Liang Zhaoyi what happened when he left the palace while having dinner.
Liang Zhaoyi listened very seriously and agreed very much with Zhao Yao asking Liang Run to adopt some beggars and orphans and train them. He was surprised that Shu sent people to Pei Mansion to look for things.
"In the past two days, I carefully looked through the books and notes left by Concubine Pei, and found nothing special."
"Concubine, do you think there is anything in the Pei Mansion that is worthy of Han Zhong's risk of sending people to Beijing to find it?"
"It should be something important, but Pei's house was confiscated and everything was included in the treasury."
"Mother, do you think it could be a treasure map?" Zhao Yao speculated wildly, "Back then, the Pei Mansion was very prosperous and must have been very rich. Will the Pei Mansion take preventive measures and transfer a treasure? Go to other places. Then Han Zhong found out about it."
"Unlikely. At that time, the Pei Mansion was indeed extremely prosperous because of Concubine Pei's favor, but the Pei Mansion was not a big deal. Even if the Pei Mansion made money at that time, it was unlikely that it would be too much." Liang Zhaoyi analyzed, " Furthermore, the Pei family did not expect that Concubine Pei would fall out of favor, and it was impossible to secretly transfer a fortune to other places just in case."
"That's not a treasure map."
"Not sure."
"Forget it, never mind, Han Zhong won't send anyone to Pei Mansion again anyway." Zhao Yao was too lazy to think about this matter anymore, lowered his head and continued to eat.
"This matter involves Han Zhong, I'm afraid it won't be simple." Liang Zhaoyi frowned and said with a serious face, "After all, Han Zhong is a remnant of the previous dynasty."
"Jian is not simple and has nothing to do with us, and we don't need to care too much." Although Zhao Yao was curious about what Han Zhong was looking for, he also knew that curiosity could kill a cat. "If we take it too seriously, we can get into trouble."
Liang Zhaoyi nodded and said, "You are right."
"Concubine, did anyone come to see me today?" Zhao Yao asked, "Brother Bage didn't come to see me, did he?"
"No." Liang Zhaoyi said, "The King is about to return to the palace, and the Eighth Prince probably won't have time to take care of you."
"That's true. Brother Bage has to stay with the prince brother, so he doesn't have time to pay attention to me." Zhao Yao finished his meal, put down the chopsticks in his hands, took the towel from Guixing's hand and wiped his mouth, and then wiped his hands.
"When the king comes back, I'm afraid there will be another turmoil in the palace." The atmosphere in the palace has been a bit strange these days. The undercurrent that was previously hidden beneath the surface tranquility was already surging.
