Chapter 190 Ghost Market

The eldest princess slowly clenched her fists. She was very angry.

"Why are you so obsessed with Prince Brother?" she asked in great confusion.

"Don't be angry." Hu Xiner took two steps forward, but was pushed away by her.

The eldest princess said coldly: "I brought you here with good intentions, not to let you and Erdong suspect my own brother!"

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore."

Hu Xiner could understand her feelings, after all, she was her closest relative.

Ask yourself, if Mu Qing was suspected like this, she would also feel uncomfortable no matter what the circumstances.

She tried to change the subject, but the eldest princess was so angry that her face turned red: "Get out! All of you get out!"

In a fit of rage, she actually drove Hu Xiner and Erdong out of the palace.

Standing outside the palace gate, feeling the cold wind, Erdong felt a little apologetic: "If I hadn't brought this up, the princess wouldn't have been angry."

Hu Xin'er shook her head, looking tired. "It's okay. I know you're a straightforward person and can't lie. It's just that you can't read the book now."

Erdong was frowning.

Hu Xin'er guessed he was worried about the princess, so she tried to lighten the mood. "Come to think of it, how do you know so many bizarre anecdotes?"

Erdong replied, "I'm just an ordinary imperial guard. When I have free time, I like to hang out with my brothers, drinking and drinking. If I hear anything new, I'll go check it out. That's why I'm more knowledgeable than others."

"You are not ordinary." Hu Xiner was about to joke that he was the man favored by the eldest princess, but then she thought that the current atmosphere was not suitable, so she stopped talking.

She held back and asked, "What do you think of the eldest princess?"

Erdong paused and actually skipped the topic directly: "I suddenly remembered that there is another place. If you want to know the clue of the pen, maybe you can try your luck there."

He has a straightforward personality and chose to skip it directly, which means that the eldest princess is not hopeless.

I don’t know why, but Erdong just doesn’t want to be with the eldest princess.

Hu Xin'er thought slowly and asked casually, "What place is that?"

She actually didn't hold much hope. When the cold wind blew, she soberly remembered the knowledge she had learned in modern times, and she felt that there should be no witchcraft in the world.

Maybe Jiang Yao just used some hallucinogenic drugs or strange minerals to cause such a magical scene to appear in the Taoist temple.

Erdong perked up: "That place is called the Ghost Market. It's where people from all walks of life come to steal, rob, or sell things at high prices."

"Ah? Isn't that the free market in martial arts and fairy tales?" Hu Xiner was stunned.

Erdong smiled and said, "Come on, I'll take you there to broaden your horizons. This place is only open at midnight, and now's the perfect time."

Hu Xiner also became interested.

Erdong was a skilled martial artist, so it was no problem for him to take a woman away from the soldiers in the city.

Therefore, the two of them were not discovered along the way.

A quarter of an hour later, the two came to a place close to the mountain on the edge of the city. There was a small open space between the two mountains, with a few faint lights flickering.

No wonder it’s called Ghost Market, it’s indeed a spooky place.

"Is this the place?" Hu Xin'er was a little surprised. "This place doesn't look prosperous at all."

Erdong smiled and said, "You'll know when you walk in."

Hu Xin'er asked doubtfully, "Isn't there any soldiers guarding this place?"

Erdong explained, "The location of the ghost market changes frequently, and it only exists for a few short hours. It's also extremely secretive, with formations set up. If you chase directly to the light, ordinary soldiers won't be able to spot you."

He and Hu Xin'er pushed open the door of a house, and inside sat a woman embroidering with a sad face.

Erdong paid her six taels of silver as if he was familiar with the place, and then walked in through the back door.

Hu Xin'er lowered her voice and asked, "Then doesn't your Majesty know that there is such a place?"

Before he finished speaking, he found that many strange eyes were focused on him.

Erdong warned: "Don't whisper, the people here are all from the martial arts world."

It must be the "Your Majesty" in the previous words that caught the attention of these people.

Hu Xiner could understand this. In the martial arts novels she had read before, the relationship between the government and the underworld had always been unharmonious.

That's why I am treated differently.

Fortunately, everyone who comes here has some secrets of their own.

Seeing that Hu Xin'er was a newcomer, he ignored her.

The occasional malicious glances that were cast at him disappeared when they saw Erdong's muscles.

There are some temporary lamp stands in the four corners of the open space. Maybe because they came early, there are not many people setting up stalls.

As she was walking, Hu Xiner was suddenly grabbed by the hem of her skirt. She turned around and was horrified.

A skinny old man smiled at her ingratiatingly and said, "Girl, do you want some good stuff?"

There was a piece of cloth spread in front of him, which was his stall.

And on the stall, there were actually several human skulls!

Various white bones were scattered next to the skull. In the corner of the stall was a copper bowl filled with a black, sticky substance that emitted a disgusting stench.

Hu Xin'er was so frightened that she couldn't speak for a moment. Erdong said coldly: "Liu Sanxing, forcibly soliciting customers? This is against the rules."

The old man then slowly loosened his grip. Hu Xin'er hurried forward, his sinister laughter echoing behind her: "Hey, little girl, don't go! I still have a lot of beauty products here~"

Hu Xiner walked faster. She didn't dare to imagine what the old man meant by "beauty and skin care".

Erdong walked slowly beside Hu Xiner, shielding her from other people's inquiring gazes.

Most of the people in the Ghost Market are not good people, and they are all martial artists.

Hu Xin'er obviously had no martial arts skills, making her the only outlier here.

Erdong explained something to her softly, then gave a vicious smile to those who looked at him.

Those people were sensible and withdrew their malicious gazes.

But when Hu Xin'er listened carefully, she always felt that they were whispering about things like "court lackeys" and "dog thieves".

A child dressed as a beggar stumbled past them.

The child smelled bad all over, so Hu Xiner dodged to the side, not wanting to have any contact with him.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Erdong actually grabbed the child.

"This, this official..." The child trembled in Erdong's hands, tears streaming down his face with fear.

His ill-fitting clothes revealed purple bruises, obviously caused by whipping.

Erdong remained unmoved: "Hand over what you just stole!"

The child reluctantly handed over the purse, and Erdong let go of his hand. He saw the child running while cursing, and turned his head to make a face as he ran away.