As soon as Bai Wanyi got off the carriage, she felt something was wrong and looked around.
When the Fourth Prince saw that she had gotten out of the carriage but did not get in, he asked, "What are you looking at?"
Bai Wanyi said: "I always feel like someone is spying on us and following us."
The Fourth Prince immediately became alert, pulled Bai Wanyi to stand under the eaves, and ordered people to go out and investigate.
The secret guard went and came back: "Your Highness, there are no suspicious people."
The Fourth Prince asked him to go down. "Did you hear that? I found this shop specifically. The boss and the others definitely don't know this is my place. The Crown Prince would never have thought that I would build such an important workshop in the city. Don't worry."
"Maybe I'm overthinking it." Bai Wanyi nodded and followed the Fourth Prince into the room, but she still felt something was wrong. She turned her head to look outside and closed the door carefully.
The Fourth Prince was very dissatisfied with the current progress: "It's been so long and you still haven't made one? Is this the result you want?"
Bai Wanyi counted the time on his fingers: "How long? It takes time to make anything. Your progress is pretty good, especially these things, which are not easy for you to make."
Bai Wanyi said seriously, "If you want it, I can assemble it for you, but it will explode. Do you want it?"
"What is a barrel explosion?" The Fourth Prince had never seen it before.
Bai Wanyi asked, "Do you know what gunpowder explosions are?" Seeing the Fourth Prince nod, she continued, "If the bullet explodes inside a firearm, not only will the firearm be destroyed, but the fragments can also injure people, and the person using it will be the first to bear the brunt of the damage."
The Fourth Prince could only stop thinking about other things: "What you mean is, there's no rush to do this?"
"Of course, I've been working on this for eight years now. How could it be that simple?" Bai Wanyi rolled his eyes at him again. "If you hadn't been unable to find out where those people were taken, this wouldn't have dragged on until now with no progress."
The Fourth Prince was very unhappy to mention this: "I can't find him, and there's nothing I can do. I've sent people to check everywhere, but you know, if they take such an important person away, they won't leave him at the original base."
"What's more, I was outnumbered five at the time and couldn't track them down."
The Fourth Prince's move offended the eldest son, the crown prince, the third son, and the fifth son. He didn't dare to touch the Queen for the time being. Of course, there was no need to tell Bai Wanyi this.
Not to mention telling her that someone had painted a turtle on her face. If he didn't stop, the paint that landed on her face wouldn't be from a brush.
Bai Wanyi looked at the Fourth Prince suspiciously. Seeing his expression changing, she didn't believe what he said. She felt that the person was most likely hidden by the Fourth Prince's men. He was afraid that she was hiding something, so he used threats and bribes to force her to come here to help him bring people.
So……
Bai Wanyi rolled his eyes, wondering if he would be deeply moved if he went to see the Crown Prince with the Fourth Prince's secret.
Yes, right?
A weak woman dared to deal with the powerful prince for him. Wow, it was exciting just to think about it. When she thought about the scene where the prince would be so moved that he would cry bitterly, she became even more excited.
These two people have a lot of ideas, but none of them is in the right place.
The Fourth Prince saw Bai Wanyi's eyes rolling around and frowned, "What evil idea have you come up with? If you don't want to teach me, then return the silver to me."
Bai Wanyi came to her senses. Pay back the money? What money? No money! She said: "You lent this money to Pingyang Hou. What do you need it for? Go and ask him for it."
The Fourth Prince sneered, "If you don't teach me well, I'll make sure your shop doesn't continue to operate!"
Bai Wanyi's face changed. The shop was her life's work, and this really hit her hard. She bit her lip, and her eyes instantly turned red. "I'm a weak woman, and I finally made a name for myself, but now I'm being robbed, and you're holding me back and won't let me leave. Although I don't have a mother-in-law at home, we do have an old lady in charge. They're not happy if I keep coming out..."
Bai Wanyi looked pitiful in an instant, which made the Fourth Prince, who was used to seeing beautiful women, couldn't help but soften his heart a little.
He patted Bai Wanyi's shoulder and said, "Just teach me well and make it as soon as possible. I don't want to touch your shops either."
Bai Wanyi groaned, but what she was thinking was, in the eyes of these powerful people, isn't it easy to discipline common people like them?
Her obsession with the prince grew stronger. As long as she became the queen, who would dare to humiliate her like this?
***
Xie Qing separated from Master Du and originally wanted to go directly to the palace, but then he remembered something and immediately turned to the Qin family.
Qin Wan heard someone was looking for her outside. When she saw the carriage, she knew who it was. She stood beside the carriage, frowning and questioning, her voice tinged with a hint of anger that she didn't even notice: "Why are you here again?"
Xie Qing said solemnly, "I'm going to the palace. You come with me and take the telescope I gave you yesterday."
Qin Wan wanted to refuse, but seeing his expression, she nodded and agreed: "Wait for me for a moment."
She was supposed to go to the palace today to measure the size of the mirror for the emperor, but she went there a little earlier.
Qin Wan asked Xie Qing's carriage to wait at the back door. Her carriage was accompanied by several maids. Under the cover of the maids, she boarded Xie Qing's carriage.
Xie Qing looked at the curtain that was rolled up beside him and sneered, "You are too cautious."
Qin Wan glanced at him sideways. "Since ancient times, the struggle for imperial power has been a bloody one, and now you, the Crown Prince, are hiding your abilities. This has caused a lot of trouble for your brothers. If I don't stay away from you now, what if someone uses me as a weapon? Wouldn't that be unfair?"
"What's more, if you fail, I don't want my whole family to be buried with you."
Xie Qing stared at Qin Wan, as if he could see through her the Qin family, the mountains of corpses and seas of blood in the past. He closed his eyes, raised his eyes and smiled softly: "Don't worry, I will keep you safe."
His voice was slightly low, like a vow, firm and pointing straight to the sky.
Qin Wan felt an inexplicable echo in her ears. The spacious carriage suddenly seemed much narrower. She couldn't help but lean back and turned her head away uncomfortably: "Why are you so anxious? What do you want from me?"
"About the telescope." Xie Qing looked at her shiny earlobes, feeling a strange dryness in his mouth. He raised his hand and opened the window, letting a ray of cool air in, cooling their slightly hot ears. "I went to Xiangguo Temple today. Standing in the pavilion on the back hill, I could see the palace's security at a glance."
"What?" Qin Wan turned around suddenly, and the hairpin on her bun swayed gently, brushing past her ears.
Xie Qing didn't dare look at her again. He lowered his head and played with the telescope: "It's an exaggeration to say that it has a complete view. But if someone is interested, with a telescope, and observes the palace from high buildings in the capital, they can get a clear picture of the security inside the palace, and even the security of the capital."
Qin Wan knew that the telescope could see far, but she hadn't thought it could be used for such things. Her voice was dry: "So? Because it endangers the safety of the royal family, this telescope can't be used anymore?"
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