Handicraft Street is a long and narrow alley with stalls on both sides neatly displaying various handicrafts. As the alley is too narrow, neither cars nor horses are allowed to pass through.

Most of the vendors on the street sell handicrafts, but there are also those selling farm tools, cloth shops, hardware products, teahouses and taverns. It is a relatively prosperous street.

However, today many people went to the city gate to welcome Lord Shen into the capital. There were not many tourists on the streets, and some shops were still closed.

Jiang Yu quickly scanned the items on the stall. There was little that interested him, so he walked quickly.

Originally, Ye Wanqing wanted to stop and look at something that interested her, but seeing that Jiang Yu was walking so fast, she had to give up and try to keep up.

The three people were striding along the street. A Rao suddenly stopped and looked back at the darkness in confusion.

Seeing A Rao suddenly stop, Ye Wanqing asked, "What's wrong, A Rao?"

A Rao looked for a moment and found nothing unusual, so she said softly that it was okay.

The three of them walked all the way from the beginning of the Handicraft Street to the end of the alley, and in a blink of an eye they arrived at Nanmen Street, the most prosperous street in Yong'an City.

Since the grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven is about to be held, Nanmen Street is full of people decorating the streets.

Shop owners hung colorful lanterns high in front of their shops, and workers were making signs and decorations on the storefronts, creating a grand scene.

The three of them shuttled among the crowd. It was noon and the sun was scorching, so Ye Wanqing found a tea stall and sat down.

Jiang Yu seemed to be attracted by something and said he wanted to leave for a while.

Ye Wanqing was afraid that he would continue to talk and she couldn't respond, so she let him leave.

She and A Rao sat down and drank a cup of herbal tea, and also ordered a bowl of cool mint and mung bean soup, which was very refreshing.

"Prince, is it okay for you to eat something so cold right after your period ends?" A Rao lowered her voice and asked with a little concern.

After all, my mother said that the prince's cold body caused blood blockage, which was why he suffered so much pain every time he had his period.

It's not good to be so greedy for coolness.

"It's okay, it's okay. Your young master was only unwell for those few days. Now he's full of energy again." Ye Wanqing scooped the mung bean soup from the bowl and drank it in big gulps.

She was wearing a tight corset and a thick layer of bandages. In addition, she had been running with Jiang Yu all morning in such hot weather, so she was already very hot.

After drinking the cool and refreshing mung bean soup, I felt a little better.

The two waited for Jiang Yu at the tea stall for a long time but no one showed up, so Ye Wanqing called Ling Mo to go look for him, while she and A Rao wandered around nearby.

The two of them browsed the jewelry stalls for a while when someone suddenly passed by Ye Wanqing and said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "I want to save Murong Yan and Jiang Yu. At noon, I came to the Taipei Pier alone, to the Jufu Restaurant."

"What?" Ye Wanqing turned around in confusion, only to see the man hurriedly disappearing into the crowd. She immediately reacted and quickly called over the secret guard Mu Yunjin, saying to him as she chased him, "Quick, catch that man."

Mu Yunjin hurriedly chased after him, but unexpectedly, the man had excellent lightness skills and soon distanced himself from the people chasing him.

"Arao, did you hear what he said?"

A Rao nodded. She had good hearing and repeated, "He said we should go to the North City Pier to rescue His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Minister Jiang."

Ye Wanqing looked at the time. It was already 7:15 in the afternoon, and there was only 15 minutes left until 4:00 p.m. It would be too late to rush to the Taipei Pier from here.

"Prince, be careful, there might be a trap." A Rao warned cautiously, "You don't have any guards around you, and my martial arts skills haven't fully recovered. I'm afraid there might be danger."

"But Jiang Yu hasn't come back yet. Ling Mo went looking for him but couldn't find him. He must have encountered some danger." Ye Wanqing didn't have time to think and hurriedly ran towards the Taipei Pier.

There is a patrol team of the Imperial Guards patrolling the Beishi Wharf. Near the Jufu Restaurant is the Northern Patrol Battalion of the Imperial Guards, as well as the guards from the Canal Transport Guards and the Maritime Customs Inspection Battalion. Recently, they have been busy welcoming guests, and the personnel from all three groups are very vigilant.

In broad daylight, Ye Wanqing was not worried about encountering any danger.

But when that person mentioned Murong Yan, she couldn't help but worry.

Murong Yan had been busy preparing for the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony for the past few days, and this morning he'd just heard him say he was going to the Taipei City dock to greet guests. He had a guard of honor around him, but those people weren't his own, after all. If they got drugged or ran into that masked master like they had done at Wanxianglou last time, it would be troublesome.

This time he left the secret guard to himself, just in case he really encountered any danger, what should he do?

But at this moment, Jiang Yu has disappeared, which makes people worried.

Ye Wanqing looked up at the sun in the sky, hurriedly took a shortcut, passed through the crowded and narrow alleys, and ran towards the spacious Beicheng Street.

Suddenly, a man was seen standing at the entrance of the alley. He was wearing black clothes and a black robe, holding an iron-headed silver spear, with his face covered in black, blocking the exit of the alley.

It was the masked master from that day!

Ye Wanqing then realized that she had fallen into a trap and hurriedly wanted to retreat, but she saw several masked men blocking the road behind her, each holding a different weapon in his hand.

Now, all the roads in front and behind are blocked.

A Rao quickly spread out her arms and protected Ye Wanqing behind her.

"Prince Shen, I heard that your family is in the southern border and has tens of millions of assets. It just so happens that I am short of money. Why don't you lend me a few million taels to spend?" The leading man in black was holding an iron rod, and his voice was hoarse under his face scarf, obviously because he had swallowed some medicine or something.

A Rao clenched her fists and shouted fearlessly, "You know that my son is the heir of the Tingnan Marquisate, and that my maternal family is the richest in the southern region. How dare you come and provoke me? If anything goes wrong, can you bear the consequences?"

"So your young master is more powerful than the emperor. Brothers, if we kill this dandy again, we can become famous, right?" The man in black pounded his stick on the ground and laughed arrogantly. The four men behind him also laughed with their knives in hand.

"This little girl is also very pretty. Brothers, please be gentle and don't play her to death."

After that, there was another burst of obscenities mixed with laughter.

Ye Wanqing stared intently at the masked man holding a gun at the entrance of the alley, trying to remain calm. She said contemptuously, "Humph, my father is at the city gate. If you kill him, how can we survive?"

"I see you're here to seek wealth, right? It just so happens that my family is short of everything except money. Why don't you tell me how much your sponsor has offered for my life?"

"I'll pay ten times as much."