Fortunately, Gu Yuzhi knew very well what it meant to not pry.

After learning what kind of bad things these people were doing, he lost interest in watching any longer.

Seeing that it was almost time, Xie Changshi took his leave and went back to his room to rest.

As soon as Xie Changshi slammed the door shut, Gu Yuzhi jumped up, his voice low but barely concealing his excitement: "Quick, let's go! Let's go!"

Cover it with a sack! Cover it with a sack!

The fun of putting sacks on people is something you have to do yourself; you can't truly appreciate it just by hearing about it from others!

Gu Yuzhi was overjoyed and walked very fast, leaving the others far behind.

Qi, the guard, and the others were not in a hurry and leisurely left the inn.

Sure enough, Gu Yuzhi was standing at the entrance of the inn, lost in thought.

He scratched his head, turned around to look at them, and pouted to express his dissatisfaction: "Hurry up!"

So slow and indecisive!

snort!

If he knew where these people were, he would have gone there himself!

It doesn't matter if he can't beat them, he can get Xueye to help!

Qi, the guard, said that Xueye's mother could create illusions, and Xueye had been following her mother around for a while, so she must have learned how to do it.

Gu Yuzhi's big eyes darted around as he pondered when to try it out on Xueye.

Prefect Ke pointed in the direction the masked man had left and said, "Your Highness, please go this way."

Gu Yuzhi was still walking forward in a hurry, but his attention was soon drawn to the vendors on both sides of the street.

Perhaps because there were Mobei Army soldiers in Quanzhou, many vendors were selling small daggers and similar items, and some of the scabbards were even inlaid with gemstones.

Gu Yuzhi stopped at one of the stalls, looking at the neatly arranged daggers. He liked them very much and counted them one by one. There were exactly five.

He could give one to each of his sisters-in-law...

Gu Yuzhi watched intently, while Prefect Ke and the others followed behind him, carefully protecting him and talking quietly.

General Lu's voice carried an ambiguous tone: "It's true, like general, like soldiers!"

Qi, the guard, blinked, puzzled, and asked, "Brother Lu, what makes you say that?"

General Lu turned to look at him with a strange expression. For some reason, he suddenly thought of the first time he met the young prince, when the young prince asked him if it was because Guard Qi lost to him in the competition that his ranking was lower than his.

Qi, the guard, felt that General Lu's gaze was a bit strange, and for some reason, he felt a little guilty: "Brother Lu?"

General Lu coughed lightly and looked away: "After I met with Prefect Ke, he told me about the dead prostitute."

"After this period of investigation, I can confirm that those who go to prostitutes during their days off are basically Bai Jiwu's men."

They claimed to be Bai Jiwu's men, but in reality, they were all men of the King of Chu.

It's just that we're on the street now, so it's not appropriate to call out the King of Chu by name.

Qi's guard recalled that even before the King of Chu went to his fiefdom, his backyard was already quite famous.

Not only did he have a full complement of principal wives and concubines, but he also had a considerable number of secondary wives and concubines. Moreover, according to rumors circulating in the streets, in order to expand his power, the Prince of Chu was basically indiscriminate in taking women into his harem...

If we say that the King of Chu was the one in charge, then it doesn't seem wrong.

Speaking of this, Prefect Ke's voice was somewhat wistful: "When Mr. Huo was in power, he was very strict in this regard. Although I was just a county magistrate at that time, I knew that the whole prefecture was very peaceful and orderly."

Before he was transferred to this post, the entire prefecture, from military camps to the prefectural governor, was controlled by the King of Chu's men. It seemed prosperous, but it was actually just a bubble that could burst at any moment.

In the years since he took office, he has tried his best to maintain the status quo of the state and prevent it from declining, but he still cannot reverse the downward trend.

Thanks to the young prince coming to the northern desert.

Faced with the various difficulties in the northern desert, the young prince was like a novice who could defeat a master with a flurry of punches. His moves were so unpredictable that the King of Chu's men made a series of foolish decisions, ultimately ending in failure.

Thinking of all this, Prefect Ke couldn't help but look at Gu Yuzhi, who was gesturing back and forth with several daggers, asking the vendors about their prices.

Just as Prefect Ke was about to step forward to help, he heard the young prince say in an unusually practiced tone, "I want to buy five, can you give me a discount!"

Guard Qi hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Young master, these daggers are all unsharpened; they're so difficult to even cut fruit. There's no need to buy them."

Gu Yuzhi replied, "I'm not buying it for myself! I'm buying it for my sisters-in-law!"

The sisters-in-law all love jewelry, so they'll definitely like these sparkly daggers that Teacher Shu mentioned.

As for the mother concubine.

Gu Yuzhi also had something to give to his mother, which was an even bigger dagger!

It is not only inlaid with gemstones, but also with two large pearls!

The guard whispered, "Your Highness, have you considered that the ladies might not like daggers? Besides, the inner palace wouldn't allow such a thing to exist."

If this were to fall into the wrong hands and be used for any purpose, regardless of who the owner is, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Gu Yuzhi blinked her big eyes at him, looking completely innocent, and said, "But didn't you just say that this dagger wasn't sharpened and couldn't even cut fruit?"

It was because of Qi's words that Gu Yuzhi's initial five points of interest in buying the item instantly rose to ten points.

Qi the Guard...

He had no choice but to shut his mouth and watch Gu Yuzhi happily haggling with the vendor. After a few rounds, the vendor looked at Prefect Ke and almost cried: "Prefect Ke, it's not that I'm unwilling to lower the price any further, but if I lower it any further, I'll lose money!"

He was filled with remorse.

If he had known this kid was so capable, he wouldn't have quoted such a high price in the first place...

The street vendors were heartbroken, but Prefect Ke and his entourage looked on incredulously.

Who taught the young prince how to bargain? Not only did he cut the price in half, but he also made the vendor give him the biggest dagger!

Can't you see this vendor is almost in tears...?

Listening to Manager Wen's words and seeing the vendor's genuine tears and his hands waving as if he wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible, Gu Yuzhi realized that the vendor's price could not be lowered any further, and he reluctantly agreed.

Spend less money on one gift, and you can save more money to buy more gifts!

After paying the money, Guard Qi dutifully picked up the daggers.

Thinking of the helpless feelings the ladies had when they received the daggers, Guard Qi felt a heavy weight on the daggers he carried...

Qi, the guard, watched Gu Yuzhi skipping and jumping ahead. Gu Yuzhi would stop at each new stall and talk loudly to the vendors. He had no airs of a prince and sometimes even received gifts from the vendors because of his cuteness.

He couldn't help but think of the gifts that the concubines in the harem would send him each time.

Given the ladies' tolerance for the young prince, they might actually like these flashy but impractical daggers...