The Queen Mother kept her word and really prepared guards and carriages for Ye An. With a large following, he probably wouldn't have much freedom after leaving the palace. However, Ye An knew that this was the Queen Mother's condition, so he accepted it all without saying a word. After all, he also had his own secret guards...
Ye An has learned from An Yi that there are hundreds of secret guards. He was worried that it would be inconvenient to have An Yi follow him all the time, but now he doesn't have to worry about it at all. Once he leaves the palace, he, the emperor, will be the most important person.
Li Yao was unable to accompany them as he had to take care of matters related to the Xuande Hall, so Ye An allowed him to see him off. After listening to him muttering all the way, the carriage finally left the palace. Ye An really wanted to run away without thinking twice and never care about this palace again. But then he thought, since he had promised the Queen Mother to return safely, he could not go back on his word. What's more, he had such a bad constitution. Could he change anything even if he ran away?
……cannot.
Ye An sighed and looked back at the magnificent palace. Since there was no point in escaping, he could just be allowed to enjoy himself carefree among the people.
The carriage traveled safely for a long distance. When the palace was no longer in sight, Ye An winked at An Yi, who nodded. Immediately, a secret guard who looked very similar to Ye An came out and took Ye An's place in the carriage that the empress dowager had prepared. An Yi brought a set of coarse cloth clothes for Ye An to change into. The guards on the three floors closest to the carriage had been replaced by secret guards on the way. They protected Ye An and moved him among the pedestrians on the roadside.
This was the idea that Ye An came up with after he had An Yi around before leaving. The Queen Mother didn't allow him to ride in a carriage, so how could he go shopping? Ye An was relieved that Li Yao was not there. Li Yao would definitely not agree to let him slip away so readily. An Yi was a martial arts expert and was much more straightforward than Li Yao.
"An Yi, you should stay in the dark. I want to see the life of ordinary people by myself."
Ye An knew very well that the world outside the palace was a completely unfamiliar one to him, so he would not rashly abandon An Yi. Maybe there was still a place where he could use An Yi.
An Yi nodded and accepted the order, hiding his body in an unimaginable way fifty steps away from Ye An.
In order to avoid being recognized, Ye An smeared a little dust on his face. There was no one from the palace following him anymore. There were people coming and going on the street where he was, and no one would pay special attention to him because of his ordinary clothes. The boy who was out for some fresh air took a deep breath and tried to jog a few steps on the street. An Yi really picked a good place. The street was filled with the tempting aroma of food. Looking to the left, he saw an old man and woman selling steaming buns, siu mai and spring rolls. There were several diners waiting in line. The woman at the head of the line was holding a few buns. She thought the spring rolls were a bit expensive and raised the price in a low voice. Looking to the right, a young man was stirring the spatula in his hand non-stop, frying the chestnuts that were moving back and forth in the iron pan...
A dynasty that did not exist in his knowledge appeared so vividly before his eyes. Something in Ye An's heart seemed to be broken. This was the Great Wei. His original body, whom he had talked about countless times, had never come back once. This meant that he would be the emperor of this world from now on, and these lively people would also be his people.
Ye An laughed and took out a tattered purse from his pocket. The Queen Mother gave him a bag of copper coins and tens of thousands of taels of silver notes. Ye An hid the silver notes close to his body and usually used the money in the purse when buying things. In order not to attract attention, he deliberately asked An Yi to make the purse look old and put two patches on it.
He also queued up to buy steamed buns and spring rolls. He ate them all in one go and still felt it was not enough, so he bought some roasted chestnuts and peeled them while walking. The taste of these dishes is not much different from modern ones and is much more down-to-earth than palace cuisine. It's just a pity that there were no fried chicken legs for sale in ancient times. After all, a chicken grows from a chick to an adult by being fed by people, and there were not many ordinary families who could afford to eat chicken. It was a bit of a luxury to just pick up chicken legs and buy them.
At the end of the long street, he took a quick glance and saw someone making sugar paintings. Many children were surrounding an old man with a white beard who was making the sugar paintings. A spoon was scooping up the melted sugar threads, outlining patterns that had never changed throughout the ages.
Ye An remembered that he had tasted this sweet amber candy when he was very young, and he couldn't help but run over, waiting eagerly among a group of children. The naive boy made the white-bearded old man couldn't help laughing.
The old man said kindly, "Young man, what do you want?"
Ye An pointed at the flying bird on the table. The old man asked Ye An many questions, and Ye An answered randomly. The old man skillfully cast a flying bird candy for him. Ye An paid the money and carefully picked up the bamboo stick with the flying bird candy. He already had a lot of things in his hands, but he was still reluctant to put any of them down.
Right next to him, on the stone wall near the sugar painting stall, someone had painted a graffiti. The birds in the sky, the beasts on the ground, and the fish in the water were all lifelike. The only flaw was that the birds and beasts all had eyes, but the fish did not.
Ye An happened to have a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he felt uncomfortable seeing the fish without eyes. The wall stood on the street corner and was not privately owned. No one cared about the graffiti on the wall. After a while, he finally couldn't help but put aside the things in his hand, picked up a charcoal pencil that someone had dropped on the ground, and added eyes to the poor fish.
It's much better now. Ye An put the pen back to its place and ate some candy. The people around him somehow became crowded and blocked his way. Ye An thought that this was the case everywhere in the street. When he realized something was wrong, someone had quietly come up behind him and covered his mouth, and the sugar painting fell to the ground.
What’s going on? Oh no, An Yi! !
Ye An subconsciously reached for the jade whistle hanging around his neck, when a black cloth bag covered his head.
When he woke up again, he was lying on a haystack, his hands and feet tied with ropes. The silver bills hidden in his arms and the jade whistle around his neck were gone. There were five or six young men of about his age, with sad faces, around him.
Ye An understood that it was very likely that he and his money were kidnapped.
When you are alone and wandering outside, you will inevitably feel nervous and trembling, but you must not be defeated by fear. Ye An encouraged himself and calmed down. He first looked carefully and found that he was in a dilapidated house with the door closed. Apart from him and the other teenagers, there was no one else in the house.
Ye An tried to struggle against the rope. His hands were tied behind his back very tightly. So he whispered to the gray-clothed boy closest to him, "You were also captured, right? Let's help each other and try to untie the rope..."
The whistle is gone and An Yi doesn’t know where he is, so he has to find a way to save himself as soon as possible. If I could untie the rope, maybe I could escape.
Upon hearing this, the young man in gray turned around and rolled away. Ye An found that he was terrified and there were a few bloodstains on his face. He guessed that the young man had probably been beaten and was scared.
Ye An had no choice but to give up on the frightened boy and go look for other people to help each other. At this time, the door creaked and a man leaned over and pushed a boy in with force.
Ye An:! ! !
He saw that the man's face looked very much like the old man who had just made sugar paintings, except that he did not have the snow-white beard and his expression was fierce.
...It turned out that this person was the one who kidnapped him, and he even bought the sugar painting!
The young man who was pushed in stumbled and fell to the ground. His hands and feet were also tied, and he struggled as hard as Ye An.
Ye An aimed at the rebellious boy. Because his feet were tied, he could only keep his legs together and hop over like a frog. He took the initiative to ask, "Hey, are you okay?"
The young man didn't expect that someone would approach him here. He was slightly stunned and turned his head.
Although the lighting in the room was dim, Ye An could still clearly see the young man's handsome features. Although he was not very old, he was a very handsome man with very long eyelashes.
The boy asked cautiously, "What do you want to do?"
Ye An said: "I was also captured. How about we untie each other's ropes and escape together?"
"...Okay." The young man looked Ye An up and down and asked, "How do you solve it?"
The young man was dressed in brocade clothes, and he must be from a well-off family. No wonder he didn't understand. Ye An motioned for him to put his hands down first, turned behind him, put his mouth close to the hanging hand, and tore it bit by bit with his teeth.
The rope that trapped them was made of straw. Without a knife, they could tear it with their teeth, but it would eventually break.
The boy's body shook uncontrollably.
"You touched my hand, couldn't you be more careful?" the boy accused in a low voice.
"…Just bear with it."
Ye An was a little angry. He was the emperor after all. Even though she was a cheap commodity, he was still condescending. But now was not the time to lose his temper.
The rope on the boy's wrist was finally torn open. He touched the rope that tied Ye An with his backhand. The knot was complicated and difficult to untie.
The young man pulled out a sharp dagger from his boots and quickly cut the remaining ropes for Ye An and himself.
Ye An: “…”
Ye An said angrily: "Why didn't you tell me earlier that you had a knife!"
“Because I can’t pull it out.”
The boy smiled mischievously, and a small dimple appeared on his lips.
Ye An glared at the boy and stopped talking. The most important thing was to escape.
The boy went on to break the ropes of the others and gathered them at the door.
Ye An thought that the young man was going to mobilize everyone to break down the door, and hurried to stop him. It was obvious that there were people guarding outside, and the chances of success would be slim if he rushed out, so it would be better to lure the people outside in and deal with them one by one. Are they afraid that they can’t handle the sugar painting even if they all join together?
Unexpectedly, the young man said, "Don't be afraid. Someone will come to rescue us soon. Let's wait for someone to make a noise outside and run out together."
Ye An asked: "Who will come to rescue?"
Even he was not sure that the secret guards would arrive in such a short time.
The young man said proudly, "It's my brother. My brother alone can pick off all the bad guys out there!"
Ye An twitched his lips, not quite believing it. It turns out that this boy is a brother-con. When the sugar painting man pushed the boy in, he took a quick glance and estimated that there were more than ten people outside. More than ten against one another, how could it be impossible?
Ye An was about to say his own idea when suddenly there was a noisy voice outside. The boy's eyes flashed with a strange light and whispered, "Now!"
The people trapped in the house all obeyed the boy involuntarily. Ye An hesitated for a moment, but was held by the boy.
"Thank you so much for what you did. Please come with me."
The young man pulled him without giving him any chance to be refused and pushed the door hard. The door that should have been locked opened without any obstruction.
Ye An quickly shielded his eyes from the sudden sunlight with his hands and squinted his eyes slightly. He saw a large open space outside with a bunch of people lying in a crooked manner and a young man with an indifferent expression standing proudly with a sword in his hand.
This young man looks very similar to the young boy. They have similar looks, but on the young boy he looks delicate and graceful, while on the young man he looks elegant and refined.
Ye An's heart started beating wildly without warning. He had seen many handsome men, but he had never seen such a pair of black eyes, bright as the morning star, yet cold as a frost.
"Brother, you are here!"
The young man shouted happily, and then he recalled something and pulled Ye An to show off childishly: "What? I told you my elder brother would come to save us..."
The young man said calmly: "Ali, the traffickers have been caught, it's time to go back."
He nodded politely to Ye An who was a little further away.
Ye An nodded vigorously several times unconsciously, while secretly glancing at the young man - his elder brother.
Because this big brother is not only handsome, but also has a nice voice, steady and charming.
...It's really strange, why can't he control the urge to peek at others?
Maybe it’s because someone saved him.
Ye An turned to the young man and whispered, "You haven't told me who you are yet."
He was obviously talking to the young man, but for some inexplicable selfish motive, he included the other's older brother as well.
The young man smiled and said, "Me? My last name is Mu, Mu Li, and my eldest brother is Mu Ci."
Mu? It's an unusual surname. The Taifu of this dynasty is named Mu.
Ye An suddenly had an idea and pointed at the young man and said in a lost voice: "What is your relationship with Master Mu?"
The young man said proudly: "You also know Master Mu? To be honest, my elder brother and I are both from the Master's Mansion, and Master Mu is my father."
Taifu Mansion...If you call Taifu Mu dad, then you are Taifu Mu’s son.
Ye An remembered, damn it, wasn’t Master Mu’s son going to enter the palace?
He felt vaguely that he had forgotten something, but he couldn't care less at the moment. He turned to the young man with stiff limbs, thinking with a dazed and secretly happy mind, so this young man, his lifesaver, Mu... Mu Ci, is his future boyfriend!
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Ye Xiaoan forgot that the age for entering the palace is fifteen.
Don’t worry, big brother is going to enter the palace!
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