The old woman packed up the wanted poster and hurried into a dilapidated house.

This is the poor settlement in the capital, inhabited by poor people or outsiders who come to the capital to work.

The houses here are also dilapidated.

After the old woman entered the house, she immediately locked the courtyard door and the door to her room.

Then she uncovered the bedding and straw mat on the bed and uncovered a two-foot square wooden board.

Looking inside, there is a dark secret passage.

The woman picked up a copper bell, knocked three times at the entrance of the secret passage, and then stepped in.

Below the secret passage is a large underground secret room.

The woman hurried down to the secret room and called out in a low voice, "Master, it's me!"

The straw pile in the corner rustled and two people crawled out. They were Liang Chaozong and Yao Jinse, who had been on the run for many days.

The two were in a very bad state because they had been hiding from place to place for days.

They had already changed into the coarse cloth clothes of the poor people and wore wooden hairpins on their heads.

The two men had dark circles under their eyes and their faces were sallow, obviously they had not slept well for many days.

"Mrs. Song, you're here!" Liang Chaozong said with a faint expression.

At this time, Yao Jinse bent down and pulled someone out of the straw pile. It was the empress dowager who was also in an embarrassed state.

"Have you brought the food?" The Empress Dowager asked Song Po before she even stood up.

Grandma Song placed the bamboo basket on the table. "Yes, yes, yes. There are sesame cakes and some braised food in the basket. I'll cook some food for you later."

Yao Jinse and the Empress Dowager immediately surrounded them, not caring about their dirty hands, and grabbed the sesame cakes from the basket and started eating them.

At this time, Song Po took out the wanted poster from her sleeve pocket and handed it to Liang Chaozong: "Master, look, this has been posted for the past two days."

"I heard that the Dali Temple had already beheaded those dozens of people at Caishikou yesterday."

Liang Chaozong's eyes fell on the wanted poster. He pursed his lips tightly and said nothing.

When Yao Jinse heard this, she walked over while chewing a sesame cake and took the wanted poster in her hand to look at it.

"Husband, we're actually on the wanted list! This makes it even harder to escape."

The Empress Dowager looked at the wanted poster, her face sullen, and she cried, "You said you were going to take me away, but now you're all on the wanted poster and can't take care of yourselves, how can you take me away!"

"If I had known it would be like this, I would have stayed in Fanyin Temple. At least I could have enough to eat, sleep well, and live a peaceful life!"

Yao Jinse sighed helplessly: "Mother, how can you say such a thing?"

The Empress Dowager recalled the suffering she had endured over the past ten days. Her eyes were sore and tears flowed down her cheeks. She pointed at Yao Jinse and cursed, "I thought you were marrying an imperial merchant, but I didn't expect you to marry a prince who had lost his country!"

"There are so many men in the world, why marry someone like this?"

"If I had known that you had escaped from the Sky Prison that night, I would never have gone with you!"

Ever since the Empress Dowager privately recognized Yao Jinse and her mother, Yao Jinse had never told her Liang Chaozong's true identity.

It was not until midnight that day when her daughter and son-in-law rescued her from Fanyin Temple that the Empress Dowager discovered that her son-in-law was definitely not a businessman.

Later, they took her to a secret room to hide. Through their conversation, the Queen Mother discovered that this son-in-law was actually the prince of a fallen country.

She immediately regretted her decision. If she had known her son-in-law was a desperado, she would never have gone with them.

Liang Chaozong glared at the Empress Dowager coldly, then changed his expression to a gentle one.

"Mother, we're only trapped here temporarily. Don't panic, I've already made a plan. We just need to wait for a while, and someone will naturally lead us out of Daxia safely."

Liang Chaozong's voice was very steady and his tone was gentle, giving people a very reliable feeling.

After hearing this, the Empress Dowager calmed down a lot.

Seeing this, Yao Jinse hurriedly joined in to comfort her.

…

In a blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed since the palace banquet where exotic ingredients shined brightly.

These days, although the entire capital was shrouded in news about the escape of the fallen crown prince Liang Chaozong, the temptation of delicious food could not be resisted.

At the end of the palace banquet that day, Emperor Mingxi rewarded every guest who came to the banquet with the first batch of precious exotic ingredients.

Moreover, he specially asked someone to write down their cooking methods one by one and distributed them to everyone along with the ingredients.

After returning home, these princes and ministers happily asked their chefs to prepare the dish in the same way and then let the whole family taste it.

After tasting the food, the whole family praised it highly. They only regretted that they had believed the stupid rumors and not tasted these delicacies earlier.

Delicious food has a unique charm. There is no need to spread it deliberately. People who have tasted it will enthusiastically tell those who have not eaten it.

In this way, in just over ten days, everyone in the capital, from princes and nobles to wealthy merchants, ordinary people and even street beggars, knew about these new delicacies.

For a while, the only things people on the streets were talking about were where Liang Chaozong had gone and roasted corn and scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

"I heard that scrambled eggs with tomatoes are best served with white rice."

"I heard the roasted corn is the best!"

"No, no, no! My sister-in-law works in the kitchen at Mr. Zhang's house. I heard her say that stewed beef brisket with tomatoes is the most delicious."

In order to taste the new food as soon as possible, many wealthy families went to major restaurants in the capital to inquire whether they could eat it.

However, even if restaurants use their connections to find out the recipes for these new delicacies, they cannot buy the ingredients and can only worry.

When Xia Miaoyuan learned about this, he immediately came up with a good idea.

She was close to the source and got the precious ingredients from King Jin first. She immediately added these new delicacies to the menu of her own Royal BBQ restaurant.

After several years of operation and development, Xia Miaoyuan's Royal Barbecue Restaurant now has 30 branches in the capital.

Thirty barbecue restaurants launched new delicacies at the same time. As soon as the news came out, all thirty restaurants were packed on the same day.