Apart from a certain silly little boy, everyone in this group was a martial artist. Duke Zhongwu naturally noticed the people following them and frowned, asking in a low voice, "Fifth Young Master, Your Highness the Crown Prince, should we stop these people?"
Huo Chengche glanced back imperceptibly and shook his head almost imperceptibly. "No need. Let's see what they're up to first. Send someone to follow that servant who went to deliver the message and find out whose people they are."
"Yes," Duke Zhongwu replied, glancing sideways at himself. He saw the peddler who had just been sitting at the tea stall immediately nod and stand up, carrying his shoulder pole and greeting people with a smile, while following the brown-clad servant in front of him at a distance.
Huo Chengche glanced at the peddler, and then glanced at Duke Zhongwu.
When his uncle heard that he would be responsible for cleaning up the mess with Xuandi, he was really well prepared! He even suspected that Xuandi might have replaced everyone on the street with his own people.
As for those peddlers and vendors who should have been setting up stalls, although Duke Zhongwu was somewhat of a scoundrel, he wouldn't do such a thing as bullying others with his power. He must have dismissed them with money.
"Uncle, you must have spent quite a bit of your secret stash this time, right? Your little treasury must be quite empty now, right?" Huo Chengche, who was holding his wife's soft little belly, was in a great mood and even had the mind to tease Duke Zhongwu with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Duke Zhongwu immediately looked distressed and rushed over, forgetting his earlier defiant attitude. He acted as if he were seeing his own father, pouring out his grievances:
"Yes, yes! Your Highness, you know best what's going on in my family! You see, for your and the Fifth Prince's safety, my personal savings are almost gone! I've truly exhausted myself, worrying myself sick and heartbroken! Your Highness, look at you..."
Duke Zhongwu reached out and playfully pinched Huo Chengche's finger, his suggestive eyes fixed on him. When Huo Chengche glanced at him with a cool look, Duke Zhongwu immediately put on a fawning smile that resembled a chrysanthemum with wrinkles all over his face.
"Heh," Huo Chengche looked at the Duke of Zhongwu who was complaining about being poor, and felt no sympathy for him. "Uncle, instead of begging me, you should rely on yourself. Do more decent things and less nonsense, and Grandmother will definitely increase your allowance. Otherwise, no matter how much I give you, Grandmother will still confiscate it all."
As Duke Zhongwu listened to Huo Chengche's every word, he was so poisoned that he almost bled from all seven orifices.
Finally, Huo Chengche added leisurely, "Also, I must remind you, Uncle, that the money you gave was not for me, but for the Fifth Young Master, right? You should ask the Fifth Young Master for it."
Arranging people around is for safety, but clearing everyone off the street isn't for their safety; it's to protect the people from being tormented to death by Xuandi.
And let's cover it up, since no one will see it and it won't reach Emperor Chongjin's ears.
As for keeping an eye on Xuandi to prevent him from causing trouble? Duke Zhongwu knew all too well: Heh, let alone stop him, if he dared to utter another word of advice, Xuandi would make sure he didn't see the sun rise tomorrow!
Huo Chengche's words completely shut Zhongwu Gong up—he wouldn't dare ask Xuandi for money even if he had the guts!
A quarter of an hour later, when the three people and the baby arrived at the gate of the Jingzhao Prefecture, the Duke of Zhongwu had just dismounted when he was bumped by a child running wildly towards him.
Without stopping for a moment, the child hurriedly said "sorry" and ran away.
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