The next day after staying up all night to break into his house and pick the lock, Xiao Nanhui overslept as expected.
The bloody shirt that she accidentally saw last night appeared in her dream. It seemed to come alive in her dream and chased her with its fangs and claws bared.
She felt a little listless, but had to cheer herself up.
Soon she would be accompanying the emperor to Yu'an, leaving her with little time to investigate in Quecheng. However, the fragmented clues still left her in a state of confusion.
Thinking of the belt last night, she became interested again. She wanted to take another look at it during daylight, but as soon as she left her yard, she was blocked by Dujuan at the door.
Xiao Nanhui felt guilty and thought that his actions had been exposed. He was about to confess and get leniency, but unexpectedly, the other party took the initiative to take out two roast geese and put them on the stone table.
Du Juan's cooking skills are excellent. If Xiao Nan were to come back and judge, she would even be as good as most restaurants in Quecheng.
Therefore, apart from fresh vegetables, poultry and eggs, there are rarely ready-made foods bought from outside in the house.
Take the roast goose from Xin Heng Ji for example. The craftsmanship is indeed exquisite, and the taste has remained authentic for ten years. However, Du Juan regards it as a challenge to her own cooking skills and hates to see this roast goose in her house.
There is only one exception.
That's when Dujuan got into some trouble.
The last time Du Juan took the initiative to treat her to roast goose, she was forced to queue outside Xianluobu Manor for a day and a night for a piece of limited-edition satin.
Xiao Nanhui stared at the two packets of roast goose covered with red paper on the table. His mouth felt dry and he suddenly lost his appetite.
"Sister Dujuan, you haven't used up the material from last time..."
"What's the matter with the material?" Du Juan blinked her big eyes, as if she had completely forgotten about the cloth shop and even more so about her previous record of buying roast goose. "What I want to talk to you about is a serious matter."
Well, it seems that one roast goose was just a small errand to help buy some fabrics, but these two roast geese required her to do some serious work.
Not far away, the Shrike had followed the smell and was removing the oil paper from the roast goose with shining eyes.
A look of sadness began to appear on Xiao Nanhui's face.
She hadn't felt it before, but now she finally began to envy this brainless man.
Master Yao Yi Yao was not lying to her about being simple-minded and having fewer worries.
"This matter is both big and small. For you, it's just a matter of running errands."
Dujuan lowered her head and pretended to be doing needlework while mentioning it as if she didn't care.
However, the more she did this, the more uneasy Xiao Nanhui felt.
It feels like there is a loose rock hanging over your head, but you don’t know when it will fall.
Sure enough, the next moment, the other party threw the "boulder" at her.
"The Xuanyuan Palace has a new young prince, and they're planning to hold a full-moon birthday banquet. I've prepared the gifts, so you can take them with you and represent the palace."
Du Juan spoke of this matter lightly, as if she was not going to visit some royal prince, but the pancake stall selling flatbreads on Dingyu Road.
But as soon as she heard the key words "Prince Xuanyuan's Mansion", "Little Prince", and "Birthday Banquet", she felt like she was struck by lightning and could not move.
She had always thought that children's memories were not that strong.
But when Du Juan mentioned those words, the scene of herself standing in the back garden of Prince Xuanyuan's mansion and knocking out one of Su Pingchuan's teeth with a bow stance and punching him appeared in front of her eyes almost instantly.
"No, no, no." She retreated repeatedly, feeling her tongue swell up. "Who am I? It's not appropriate to attend such an occasion. I'd better not go..."
She had just taken half a step back when Dujuan stretched out her claws and rudely pulled her back.
"Your status is just right. You don't know that such occasions are full of those ignorant and gossipy concubines. The Marquis's status is sensitive now, so he should avoid such things. He must not let anyone take advantage of him."
Thinking of the people he met at Yan's house that day, Xiao Nanhui nodded involuntarily, but then he felt something was wrong.
Wait, since they are just blind gossips, why do you think she can handle it?
She suddenly remembered the Mrs. Bo whom she met at Yan's house that day, and she became completely dejected.
"Sister Dujuan, I think this matter still needs to be..."
The second half of Xiao Nanhui's weak words were forcefully blocked by the other party.
"It's settled. You take the Shrike with you. The two of you will have company and can look after each other."
Xiao Nanhui glanced at someone not far away who was drooling as he compared two roast geese to see which one was fatter and which one was thinner, and he had great doubts about Du Juan's statement.
"It'll only take half a day, at most we'll be back after dinner. You're a soldier on the battlefield, are you afraid to enter a palace?"
She would rather go to the battlefield ten more times than enter the palace once.
Xiao Nanhui wanted to cry but had no tears. After being depressed for a long time, he could only stand up in grief and anger and go forward to snatch back the roast goose that belonged to him.
She was going to the execution ground anyway, so she had to eat her fill before setting off.
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Half an hour later, Xiao Nanhui was already standing in front of the gate of Prince Xuanyuan's Mansion.
Looking at the threshold that was higher than her calf, Xiao Nanhui's regret was about to overflow.
If it were someone else, she would probably not be willing to come even if she was given a hundred taels of gold. However, Dujuan sent her away with just a roast goose.
It’s unfair, so unfair.
The steward who welcomed her into the mansion seemed very efficient, being in charge of the entire place alone. But perhaps because he was too capable, he respectfully accepted her invitation and then disappeared.
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