Chapter 132: Doesn’t Zhao Shen want me?
Meng Tianshu nodded repeatedly in agreement.
Xiao Xun narrowed his eyes and said, "Since you agreed, stay here until it's done. Don't run around. It's not safe outside now."
Meng Tianshu said without hesitation: "Okay."
Only then did Xiao Xun leave with Xiao Ting in satisfaction.
Before leaving, Xiao Ting said to Meng Tianshu with a smile: "Brother Tianshu, I will come to see you often."
Meng Tianshu: "Have a safe journey, cousin."
When no one could be seen outside, the shopkeeper said to Meng Tianshu, "Sir, this..."
As soon as he opened his mouth, Meng Tianshu shook his head at him: "Let's go back to my room and talk."
The shopkeeper then realized something, walked out of the private room, and followed Meng Tianshu to a room reserved for him on the top floor.
This room was designed by Meng Tianshu himself and contains a secret room.
The two of them stood still in the secret room, and the shopkeeper said angrily, "What on earth does the second young master of Prince Yong's Mansion want to do? How could he do this to you?"
Meng Tianshu changed his previous ignorant expression and sneered, "Yongzhou is far away from the emperor, the prince of Yong has the final say, and the prince is not at home, so the favored second son will naturally rise in status. He really takes himself seriously."
The shopkeeper found this a bit awkward to respond to, so he said, "From what he said, he wants to put you under house arrest. What did he ask you to do?"
This time, Meng Tianshu's eyes were covered with frost. "A few days ago, the people from Mobei almost broke into Suzhou. Did you know?"
The shopkeeper was shocked. "What do you mean? Wasn't it just a small-scale attack that was stopped by the Border Guard?"
Suzhou is located on the border and is not very stable. Small tribes in the northern part of the desert often come to plunder, but they usually just take the things and run away.
So they got used to it.
I heard that a few days ago, the people from Mobei launched a surprise attack in the middle of the night, fought a battle with the border defense army and then retreated, so ordinary people didn't take it seriously.
But looking at the young master's expression, it seems that this is not the case.
Meng Tianshu glanced at him and said, "My uncle asked you to open a restaurant, do you really think you're a restaurant owner? You don't even know about the recent big changes in Suzhou?"
The shopkeeper said, "Of course I know about the incident at the government office. I heard that General Liu of the Border Guard even led his troops there personally. However, it happened so suddenly and there were no signs beforehand, so we don't know the details. What do you know, sir?"
Meng Tianshu said, "I don't know either, but you just heard that the man who won the lantern is the prince of Changxing Marquisate. Do you think a prince of a marquisate would appear here for no reason? Also, his wife is the daughter of General Ji."
The shopkeeper was obviously not ignorant of the world, and immediately remembered something: "Isn't the prince of Changxing Marquis's Mansion a disabled person?"
Meng Tianshu seemed to think of something interesting: "Obviously, not only is he not disabled, he can also run around."
Shopkeeper: "What's going on?"
Meng Tianshu is one of the few smart people in the world, so even if he didn't know anything before, he had a rough idea of what happened since the incident in Suzhou and Zhao Shen and Xiao Xun gathered here.
"What else could it be? Yongzhou is too small to accommodate Prince Yong. He extended his hand to Suzhou, and the Emperor had his claws chopped off."
Meng Tianshu said coldly, "If it was just a fight for the throne, I wouldn't bother paying attention to the Xiaos' abilities, but he dared to collude with the Mobei people..."
He didn't finish the rest of his words, but the shopkeeper understood what he meant.
The Meng family doesn't care who becomes emperor, but they will never tolerate anyone collaborating with the enemy and committing treason.
"So what are you going to do, sir?"
Meng Tianshu smiled and said, "Doesn't Zhao Shen want me? Send him a message and ask him to find a way to get me out of Suzhou quietly. I can help him."
Shopkeeper: Sir, would you like to listen to what you said?
What do you mean Prince Zhao wants you?
He has a wife, and she's the daughter of a great general. Can you take a beating?
The shopkeeper acted very quickly. When Zhao Shen took Ji Yunshu back, he had already received his letter.
Zhao Shen held the letter and smiled.
Ji Yunshu asked, "Whose letter made you so happy?"
Zhao Shen looked at her and smiled, "How do you know that it's the person who wrote the letter, not the content of the letter, that makes me happy?"
Ji Yunshu asked again: "What was in the letter that made you so happy?"
"It's Meng Tianshu. Xiao Xun has been targeting him. He said that if I can get him out of Suzhou, he will help us."
Ji Yunshu raised an eyebrow: "He actually knew your intentions?"
Zhao Shen couldn't help but chuckle, "He's from a noble family and is renowned for his intelligence. How could he be just as he appears? From the moment I appeared before him, he knew what I was going to do. He even made such a quick decision, so he must have known what Xiao Xun had done."
A respectable aristocratic family would never tolerate anyone colluding with outsiders.
Ji Yunshu wasn't too surprised. "Xiao Xun has considerable influence in Suzhou. Even if he doesn't dare to act rashly now, it would be easy for him to trap someone, especially someone like Meng Tianshu. If he can't use him, he would rather kill him than let him go."
Zhao Shen said, "You forgot one premise. No matter what he does, he can only do it in secret. Just like once our identities are made public, he won't dare to act rashly. He also won't dare to publicly kill the eldest son of the Meng family."
"So you plan to take Meng Tianshu away openly? They said they want to get him out quietly."
It was obvious that Meng Tianshu didn't want to completely break up with Xiao Xun.
"Just disguise yourself. In fact, as long as he leaves, Xiao Xun will know what's going on. Our journey back won't be peaceful anyway, so one more person won't matter."
Ji Yunshu had no objection.
Everything was calm for the next two days, and then the new Suzhou prefect finally arrived.
After Zhao Shen handed over the things in his hands, he decisively took Ji Yunshu away.
The night before they left, Gu Xing went to the restaurant and brought Meng Tianshu out.
So Meng Tianshu got on the carriage that Zhao Shen and Ji Yunshu were carrying on their return journey.
This time the carriage was traveling on the official road, and Ji Yunshu specially put several layers of cushions on the carriage, making it much more stable and comfortable.
Meng Tianshu saw the couple opposite him, one reading a book and the other reading a storybook, and felt they were extremely bored.
He looked outside and said, "This journey won't be peaceful. Aren't you worried at all?"
Zhao Shen said: "Don't worry, what is coming will eventually come."
Meng Tianshu turned around and asked Ji Yunshu, "He's so old-fashioned and boring, how can you bear to live with him?"
Ji Yunshu didn't even take her eyes off the notebook in her hand: "Just look at his face."
Meng Tianshu: This reason is really powerful.
He actually wanted to talk to Ji Yunshu from the beginning, but he felt embarrassed.
But now seeing that Ji Yunshu didn't seem like the type of woman who followed rules in every move, he asked curiously, "You were the one who actually told him how to solve that problem that day, right?"
He could see that Zhao Shen had no idea when he asked the question. After Ji Yunshu whispered something in his ear, he suddenly seemed to get it.
Ji Yunshu thought this person was really noisy and looked away from the notebook in his hand: "I also have a problem here. If you can solve it, I will tell you."
Meng Tianshu instantly became interested: "What's the problem? Let me tell you, there are very few problems in this world that can stump me."
Ji Yunshu felt that he dared to say such things simply because he had too little experience.
She asked lightly, "How many out of a hundred people could be born on the same day?"
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