After thinking for a while, Xu Huaigu decided that he still wanted to meet Princess Cangyang. Even the princess of a country has no choice but to express her plight in such a vague way. It can be seen that her current situation is not very good, so there must be something wrong with the court of Dayu. Xu Huaigu is a little worried.
After all, Dayu Country is the first line of defense against future monster invasions, and the current situation can be described as an undercurrent. The Demon Sect will definitely come to Dayu Country to cause trouble, and the people who come should be of high level. Then the corresponding righteous monks will not stand still, and there will definitely be a conflict between the two.
Therefore, the situation in Xingqing City should be far less peaceful than it seems on the surface. Secretly, the Demon Sect and Zhengdao have laid many plans, and Princess Cangyang was probably involved.
Although he had made a decision, Xu Huaigu still did not dare to act rashly. Since the other party is strong enough to pose a threat to Princess Cangyang, at least there will be monks stationed in Princess Cangyang's mansion, and their cultivation level must be not low. If Xu Huaigu goes there rashly, he will only be able to scare the snake away, and he won't even be able to escape intact. It can be done.
So he decided to stay for a few more days to explore more about the situation in Princess Cangyang's mansion before making further plans.
This tea shop is not far from Princess Cangyang's mansion, so it's a good place to stop and explore. Seeing that there were not many people in the tea shop, he simply sat down and pretended to have nothing to do and glanced towards the Princess Mansion to inquire about the surrounding situation. But until dusk, he didn't see the suspicious target, so he had to go back a little disappointed.
He drank the last cup of tea and smashed it in his mouth. He felt that he still couldn't get used to drinking tea and it had no taste.
He then thought of drinking.
However, he doesn't like drinking either. The wine is a bit too spicy, and after drinking, he tends to lose his mind and make many ill-considered decisions.
Xu Huaigu didn't like this kind of careless mistake very much. His cautious habit made him carefully plan everything before doing it, and strictly follow the plan, so for wine, which would have a great impact on the plan, He is very resistant to things.
Just as he was thinking about these random things, he saw a strange scene on a street corner where the night was approaching but the crowds were getting more and more crowded.
People were jostling and making noises nearby, but no one was passing by that corner. And it seemed that no one passing by had noticed the corner and didn't even look there.
There must be a monster when something goes wrong, so Xu Huaigu walked up curiously, wanting to see what happened.
As he got closer, he discovered that someone had set up a stall on the corner of the street. There is a woman in white sitting quietly on the ground behind the stall. There are several black paulownia wood oil-paper umbrellas on the side of the woman's white skirt. She is knitting the frame of an oil-paper umbrella in her hands.
The woman looked very delicate, and the oil-paper umbrella seemed to blend into one thing among the crowd. No matter how noisy the surroundings were, she seemed to only have eyes for the umbrella and nothing else, and the people around her also turned a blind eye to her.
Xu Huaigu felt that this woman was quite strange, and felt a little ominous.
He walked up, squatted down and picked up an oil-paper umbrella from the side of the woman's skirt, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it.
There is no engraved pattern on the paper, just ordinary rough oil paper with some yellowing. The umbrella handle is black paulownia wood, the umbrella frame is also very rough, and there are small pricking thorns in some places that have not been polished away.
No matter how you look at it, it is a very ordinary umbrella, and it can even be said to be a bit inferior.
Xu Huaigu looked at it for a while, becoming more and more strange. With this woman's appearance, there should be something unusual about this umbrella, but it turned out to be very ordinary, which confused him a little.
Just when Xu Huaigu was confused, the woman in white spoke: "If you don't buy it, don't read it."
Xu Huaigu was stunned for a moment, and then felt that this was only natural. It is with such personality that he is worthy of this otherworldly scene.
Xu Huaigu didn't want to leave yet. He asked, "How much does this umbrella cost?"
The woman then looked up at him and replied: "Sometimes it is worthless, sometimes it is more valuable than life."
She paused and said, "You can't afford it."
Xu Huaigu glanced at the woman suspiciously, feeling increasingly uneasy. He thought he must have met an expert, so he didn't dare to say any more words. He quickly put down the oil-paper umbrella, apologized and left in a hurry.
Xu Huaigu walked all the way to the door of Grandma Qin's house, but his mind was still occupied by this weird woman in white, and he always felt that something was wrong.
Although he did not feel the woman's cultivation level, he believed that the woman must also be a monk, and her cultivation level must be not low. She could see all the cultivation level and thoughts in him.
Those paper umbrellas must not be ordinary paper umbrellas, it’s just that I can’t see through them.
The most interesting thing is the last sentence the woman said, "You can't afford it." She seemed to have a murderous intention towards him?
But what he didn't know was that after he left, the woman looked up.
She smiled slyly and said, "Good boy, you are as cautious as a rabbit. Am I that scary?"
It happened that another woman in black walked through the crowd and came to her side. When she heard these words, she asked, "Isn't it?"
The woman in white smiled and said, "It seems so."
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Five more days passed.
Xu Huaigu was still exploring the situation around Princess Cangyang's mansion, but Huangtian paid off and he finally got some clues.
Once, he saw an old man wearing splendid blue-patterned clothes coming out of Princess Cangyang's mansion and passing by the tea shop where Xu Huaigu was.
Xu Huaigu used a little spiritual energy exploration at that time, and found that the old man's energy and blood were extremely strong, and he was definitely a martial artist.
Judging from his clothes, he should be a martial artist raised in the imperial court, but why did he come out of the princess's house? Is he the person responsible for monitoring Princess Cangyang? Could it be that the imperial court is monitoring Princess Cangyang?
Xu Huaigu is not sure yet.
But the next thing made Xu Huaigu convinced of this. Not long after the old man left, there was movement in Princess Cangyang's mansion.
The red lacquered door that had been tightly closed for the past few days was opened, and then a woman wearing a golden embroidered dress and a rosa on her shoulders came out.
This woman has a steady pace and an extraordinary temperament.
Xu Huaigu recognized it as Princess Cangyang at a glance. However, before she could walk out of the gate, the guards on both sides immediately stepped forward to stop Princess Cangyang, and there seemed to be a dispute.
Princess Cangyang seemed very angry and scolded the two guards angrily. The woman in green attire that Xu Huaigu had seen a few days ago was also beside Princess Cangyang. She also looked very angry and pointed at the two guards angrily.
But the two guards didn't let Princess Cangyang go out.
It was obvious at this point that the two guards who dared to disobey the princess must have the instructions and support of someone behind the scenes.
Not long after the argument, the old man hurried back and said a few words to Princess Cangyang. Then Princess Cangyang angrily tossed her sleeves and walked into the house.
At this point, Xu Huaigu can already deduce the general situation.
Something must have happened in the Dayu Kingdom's court, which led to Princess Cangyang being imprisoned. But judging from the fact that this old man was from the court, the person behind the surveillance and restriction of Princess Cangyang turned out to be the Dayu Kingdom's court.
Xu Huaigu looked thoughtful. After much deliberation, he still didn't know what happened to Dayu's court, so he decided to find out.
It happened that after the old martial artist persuaded Princess Cangyang to return to the mansion, he seemed to have something urgent to do and left in a hurry, leaving only the two guards guarding both sides of the princess' mansion.
Xu Huaigu started waiting again, but at night, the old man had not returned yet. Xu Huaigu made a quick decision and decided to go see Princess Cangyang tonight, otherwise he would definitely not be able to get in when the old warrior came back.
Night came soon, the sky was full of moonlight, there was very little moonlight, and the night was dark.
Xu Huaigu glanced at the door of the princess's mansion. The two guards had been replaced by two others, but they were still guarding the princess's mansion day and night.
Xu Huaigu sighed secretly in his heart.
It's really tricky.
But this didn't stop him. He looked at the two-person high wall and suddenly had an idea.
He inserted the short sword with a medium magic weapon into the wall. This kind of dagger has already surpassed the rank of ordinary objects. It is very sharp. It can penetrate three inches into the wall with one strike, and it makes no sound like cutting tofu.
Xu Huaigu smiled.
This sword was as useful as ever, and it reminded him of the long sword Bai Xiaoyu gave him. The "Xiaoyu" that was very heavy to him at the time was only in his hand now, but he was still used to using a short sword and could not easily use a long sword.
He jumped lightly, standing on the slightly trembling sword that was pressed down, then squatted down, used the force of his hand to draw the sword for a moment, jumped up, and took advantage of the night to roll into Princess Cangyang's mansion.
