On this day, Su Rong and Fengling arrived in the capital, with ten days left before the scientific examination.
Fengling asked in a low voice: "Master, should we find a place to stay? Or should we go to Sir's mansion to find the eldest son?"
Su Rong took a look at the sky and saw that it was already evening. Her stomach growled with hunger, "Let's find a place to eat first!"
Fengling nodded, "Looking for a random one?"
Su Rong said "Yes", walked a few steps, and suddenly said: "No, let's go to the East Palace. The food in the East Palace should be very good, and it doesn't cost any money."
Fengling: "..."
Is this a free thing?
Su Rong doesn't care, in terms of comfortable food and comfortable living, there is no place in the capital that can compare with the Imperial Palace and the East Palace, right? She needed a good meal and a place to take a flower petal bath and sleep comfortably.
After riding into the capital and passing the city gate, Su Rong visually checked the direction of the imperial city and followed the road to the East Palace.
Fengling endured it for a while, but couldn't help but remind her, "Master, don't we need to freshen up and change clothes before visiting the East Palace? Are we going to go there in disgrace like this?"
It's not that he dislikes himself, it's actually that the two of them are probably covered in two pounds of dust, and they can't even see their original appearance. Just running to the East Palace like this, isn't it dirtying His Royal Highness's precious land?
The East Palace should be spotless, right?
Su Rong didn't take it seriously, "A few months ago, when I rescued the prince in the hill behind the Chenghuang Temple in Jiangning County, he was in such a mess that I didn't dislike him and rescued him anyway."
The implication is that he is not a man of good moral character and good at performing well? Will you dislike her?
Fengling was convinced, "Okay!"
You are the master, you have the final say!
So, without further delay, the two of them went all the way to the East Palace.
The East Palace is so big that both the front and back doors are heavily guarded.
Su Rong thought about it for a while, then went to the back door and said to the gatekeeper: "Please go and report to His Highness the Crown Prince that someone from Jiangzhou wants to see you."
The gatekeeper looked Su Rong up and down with doubts in his eyes, but he did not show any disgust. He asked in a routine interrogation: "Why don't you go through the front door?"
"Isn't this inconvenient?" Su Rong blinked.
The gatekeeper paused and asked, "So, do you have a token?"
"No!"
The gatekeeper hesitated for a moment and wanted to send the person away, but he was afraid that it was really the person His Highness wanted to see, which would delay His Highness's business and be punished. He said "Wait a moment" and went to report it.
Fei Ling leaned close to Su Rong's ear and commented, "No one looks down on others. This shows that His Royal Highness manages the family well."
Su Rong said "Yeah".
Many gatekeepers in Gaomen Mansion were corrupted by the phrase "dog eyes look down upon others." After all, she and Fengling really didn't look like distinguished guests now. They were gray-haired, dusty, and not in the least bit good-looking.
Prince Yan Huisheng came out of the study and was about to have a meal when he heard someone report that a man and a woman were waiting at the back door, saying that someone from Jiangzhou came to see him and asked for instructions from His Highness.
Yan Huisheng's footsteps suddenly stopped, "Did you ask for your name?"
The man's face changed slightly, and he apologized quickly, "Your Highness, please forgive me. I, I saw that those two people were dusty and dusty... I only asked if they had any tokens. The two people said they didn't have any, so I forgot to ask... …”
The man turned around quickly and said, "I'll ask you now, little man."
Yan Hui shouted to him, "That's it, go alone!"
The man was shocked and quickly got out of the way, thinking that it was lucky that he didn't send people away casually, otherwise he would have been in big trouble. How long ago did His Highness the Crown Prince come out to greet people in person? Except for His Majesty, even when the Queen came to the East Palace, His Highness the Prince only greeted her out of the study or bedroom.
Yan Huisheng paced towards the back door. Her steps were not big, but she was walking fast. The gatekeeper had to jog all the way to keep up.
On the way, he met Zheng Xi, the steward of the East Palace. Seeing Yan Huiwei walking in a hurry, he asked doubtfully: "Your Highness, are you leaving the palace?"
"no."
Zheng Xi was puzzled and wanted to ask, "What are you doing?", but when Yan came back
The sound had already faded away. He quickly grabbed the gatekeeper behind him and asked in a low voice: "What's going on? What are you going to do, Your Highness?"
"There is someone coming from Jiangzhou, and His Highness said he would pick him up at the door in person." The man said quickly.
Zheng Xi was startled and quickly followed him without thinking.
Su Rong originally thought that he would have to wait for half an hour at least. After all, the East Palace was too big. Reports were handed in layer by layer. Yan Huisheng was the prince. If there was any delay, he would have to wait for this time. But unexpectedly, the gatekeeper found someone. She couldn't find the housekeeper, so she went directly to Yan Huisheng's study to report it. She only waited for two or three cups of tea before the back door opened from the inside, revealing a noble figure.
Wearing a dark brocade robe with python patterns and gold rims, he is tall and slender, his face is like jade, and his whole body is full of nobility and grace.
He saw the man standing against the wall, and the woman squatting at the wall, waiting boredly. The two of them were as gray and gray as the gatekeeper had described, and they were stunned for a moment.
"Master, get up quickly, the Crown Prince is here." Feng Ling recognized the four-clawed python robe on Yan Huisheng's body and was frightened. She thought this was the Crown Prince, right? Is the prince so approachable? Instead of having someone take them into the palace gate, did they come to pick them up in person?
Su Rong had also seen the person, and stood up slowly, walked away from the wall, walked to a distance of three steps away from Yan Huisheng, stopped, stretched out his paw to greet him, "Hello, Your Highness, I am Su Rong."
Yan Huisheng suddenly saw Su Rong like this and was stunned. He searched his memory for the figure who saved him by the river. He couldn't match the number anyway, but he felt strong in his heart and smiled, "You... Are you... just coming to Beijing?"
"Yes, I came to join you." Su Rong didn't dare to pat the dirt on his body for fear of choking Yan Huihui, "I'm so tired from fighting all the way here. I don't want to go to my elder brother to disturb his exam preparation, and I'm too lazy to find a place. I have to work hard to arrange it myself, so I came to you directly."
The implication is that you plan to eat your own food, drink your own food and live in your own place, so you can save yourself the trouble and don’t have to worry about it.
Yan Huihui laughed, covered her lips and coughed, then nodded with a smile, "Welcome."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Fengling, "Who is this?"
"My guard."
Fengling stepped forward, half a step behind Su Rong, and bowed her hands in greeting, "Fengling, I would like to pay my respects to His Highness the Crown Prince."
Yan Hui nodded, his expression returned to its original state, and he turned around and told the housekeeper, "Go to Yuzhen Pavilion, which is closest to Gu's bedroom, and ask someone to clean it out immediately."
Zheng Xi opened his eyes wide and responded quickly, "Old slave, go right now."
After he finished speaking, he asked tentatively: "You two, please come with me, old slave?"
Yan Hui waved her hand, "Go and clean up first, and take them there alone."
The housekeeper was even more frightened, nodded repeatedly, and hurried forward.
Yan Huisheng made a gesture of invitation to Su Rong, and Su Rong stepped up to follow him. Feng Ling sighed inwardly that his master was such a great savior, and followed the two of them into the East Palace.
As the two people entered, the back door of the East Palace was closed again. After this incident, the gatekeeper repeatedly warned himself that he must guard the door in the future and treat everyone who comes with caution.
Just as he was thinking about it, Yan Huisheng, who was walking in front, suddenly turned around and said to him, "Well done, I'll go to the accountant later to collect the reward."
The man was overjoyed and quickly knelt down to thank him, "Thank you, Your Highness!"
Yan Huisheng turned around and asked Su Rong, "Is the injury healed?"
"alright."
"When did you set off from Jiangzhou?"
"Ten days ago."
"Is it because the road was not peaceful after walking for so long?" Yan Hui frowned, "You said those who fought all the way here were injured?"
"I was poisoned once." Su Rong said easily. "Fortunately, I had the foresight to collect a lot of poisons and antidotes in advance, otherwise I might not have been able to come to the capital intact."
Yan Hui pursed her lips, "Still Nan Chu's killer?"
"Well, there are five groups of people." Su Rong said: "It seems that not only Queen Nanchu wants to kill me, but the five groups of people are going in different ways. Obviously they are not under the instruction of one person."
When she first left Beijing, it was the Queen of Nanchu
The people sent again were right and generous, but the ones who followed were not.
"Is there any counter-attack?" Yan Huisheng thought that if she failed to kill her and was let go, Nanchu would soon know that she had come to the capital.
"No one has been let go." Su Rong did not hide Yan Hui's words. After all, if we want to cooperate in the future, integrity is the most important thing.
Yan Huisheng paused again and praised, "Awesome."
Su Rong waved her hands and said modestly, "It's not bad!"
Yan laughed back.
Su Rong found that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seemed to like to laugh a lot, and because he was good-looking, he had a pretty smile. She silently thought to herself, no wonder he won the hearts of the people with such no airs.
When they arrived at Yuzhen Pavilion, they saw Zheng Xi and his people working back and forth. Seeing Yan Huisheng and her people coming, Zheng Xi quickly said: "We have sent warm water from the kitchen. The two distinguished guests can take a bath first and then have dinner." , when everything is tidied up, the old slave will also lead the people to arrange the place here."
Yan Huisheng nodded and said warmly to Su Rong: "Go take a bath!"
Su Rong nodded, followed a palace maid for two steps, and suddenly asked: "Is it a bath with flower petals?"
The steward kept saying, "Yes, yes."
Su Rong was relieved.
Fengling muttered, "I don't want the petals."
The butler quickly said, "You don't."
