It is worth mentioning that he was not alone before. Yang Shixian and Fan Zhongming always accompanied him on his trips. However, Xiao Yuanjin's mood was different at that time. He did not want to drag down Yang Shixian and Fan Zhongming because of his leg disease, so he would directly order them to find other people to play with.
It was Yu Zizhen who helped heal his legs, and it was also Yu Zizhen who gradually changed his sensitivity and overthinking. The longer the two were together, the more he became like Yu Zizhen, and he felt peaceful, fulfilled and happy every day.
The day off that Yu Zizhen and Xiao Yuanjin had agreed to go to the temple fair soon arrived. Since Yu Zizhen also invited Fang Huaiying, Yang Shixian and others to go together, the news that they were going to travel together soon became an open secret in the school.
Xiao Shaoke, the eldest princess and the second prince also wanted to go, but unfortunately one of them was under the jurisdiction of the empress dowager, and the other two were under the jurisdiction of the queen. They simply did not have the courage to tell the empress dowager and the queen about this.
Wan Jingrong and Lu Heng, as usual, did not play with Yu Zizhen and the others. Since there was a rare temple fair, the two of them actually planned to go, but they planned to go with the children of officials who had similar temperaments and positions as them.
Instead, Wu Mingyu came over first and expressed his strong desire to play with everyone.
Of course Yu Zizhen would not refuse, so on the tenth day of August, a group of people led by Xiao Yuanjin and Yu Zizhen went to the outside of Ci'an Temple by car.
Ci'an Temple is one of the largest temples in the Beijing area, second only to Huangjue Temple in size. The temple fairs here are always the largest in scale, with the most people, the most colorful performances, and the most novel and diverse items for sale.
Yu Zizhen thought that since Xiao Yuanjin rarely left the palace, it would be better to go straight to him and let him visit the most worthwhile temple fair.
So even though she and others had already visited the temple fair outside Ci'an Temple, and some had even visited it more than once, Yu Zizhen still chose this place as the destination for her outing.
Early in the morning on August 11, she took a carriage to the palace gate and met Xiao Yuanjin, who was in casual clothes.
The eunuchs and guards who were responsible for accompanying and protecting Xiao Yuanjin also changed into casual clothes. Even the swords that were originally hung on the waists of the guards were disguised to avoid being seen by others as much as possible.
Yu Zizhen was very satisfied with this. After the guards moved the wheelchair and Xiao Yuanjin onto the carriage and rode their horses around the carriage, Yu Zizhen winked at Xiao Yuanjin with a cunning look on his face.
As soon as Xiao Yuanjin saw her lively face, his mood couldn't help but become better. He handed the purse to Yu Zizhen, who immediately reached out to take it and stuffed it into the system warehouse under the cover of her wide sleeves.
Ever since the first time they went shopping together, Yu Zizhen offered to help Xiao Yuanjin keep his money. Every time thereafter, Xiao Yuanjin would hand his purse to Yu Zizhen for safekeeping the first time they met.
The young eunuch who served Xiao Yuanjin was very worried. He muttered in his heart more than once, isn't their prince worried about what he will do next if he gets separated from the Prince of Zhenbei and is penniless?
If Xiao Yuanjin knew what they were thinking, he would definitely ask back expressionlessly, "Could it be that you and those guards will also be separated from me at the same time?"
If not, then why should he worry so much?
If so, then what he should have worried about at that time was not how to return to the palace or where to eat and drink, but the century-old problem of how to avoid assassination and save his life in that situation.
After the two completed the handover of the money, Yu Zizhen moved closer to Xiao Yuanjin and whispered to her about Wu Mingyu's general arrangements.
She didn't dare to say too much, because she couldn't explain where she got this detailed information that seemed to be following the other party invisibly.
Fortunately, Xiao Yuanjin didn't need to know those details. He just needed to know what was going to happen next, so that he could be prepared and not panic.
After saying this, Yu Zizhen and Xiao Yuanjin tacitly entered the study mode together. One of them was reciting medical books while the other was reading "The Great Learning". They made full use of the little sunlight coming in through the car window.
When the carriage reached the vicinity of the East City Gate, Chen Hushan, who was riding his horse, took a glance at the two people who were studying hard, and felt his stomach twitch involuntarily.
He rode to the window of the Zhenbei Palace's carriage, clasped his fists and saluted Xiao Yuanjin, calling him "Your Highness," before complaining to the two men with a bitter face, "Do you really have to fight so hard? Aren't we going out of town to have fun today?"
Yu Zizhen smiled and put away the medical book, "It's just boring sitting here."
Xiao Yuanjin nodded in agreement beside her.
Chen Hushan was speechless. He now suspected that the reason why Yu Zizhen took a liking to Xiao Yuanjin as soon as he saw him was probably because Yu Zizhen saw the same aura of a king of rolls in him as himself.
"Where are the others?" Yu Zizhen didn't give Chen Hushan the chance to continue to dislike her and Xiao Yuanjin. She quickly changed the subject, "Besides me and His Highness, who else did you see?"
Chen Hushan subconsciously looked around when he heard this, and said at the same time, "Shixian, Zhongming, and Huaiying are all at the city gate. It seems that the three of us are the last to arrive."
This time it was Yu Zizhen's turn to be speechless. She had long realized that although Chen Hushan was impeccable in his interpersonal dealings, he was actually very arrogant in his bones.
People like Wu Mingyu were not worthy of being his enemy in terms of status and ability, but they approached them with ulterior motives and bad intentions. Although Chen Hushan was polite to him like everyone else when they met face to face, privately, he did not take such a small person as him seriously at all.
Just based on what he just said, it was not difficult for Yu Zizhen to see that he had not remembered at all that there was actually someone named Wu Mingyu in their traveling team.
Judging from his usual behavior, Yu Zizhen felt that he probably classified Wu Mingyu as a bug that occasionally passed by his feet...
As expected, when they met up with Yang Shixian and the other two at the city gate, Yang Shixian looked in the direction they came from with some confusion. He asked Yu Zizhen and the others if they had seen Wu Mingyu. Only then did Chen Hushan exclaim in sudden realization, "Ah!" "If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten he was going too."
Fan Zhongming smiled knowingly. In fact, he had only just thought of Wu Mingyu after standing here for a while.
He and Chen Hushan were both smart people. Although they had not confirmed it directly with Xiao Yuanjin or Yu Zizhen, they were very confident in their own inference - Wu Mingyu had other intentions towards Yu Zizhen.
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