"Where is this?"
Looking at the crowded streets and the brightly lit shops, Wang Xiaohai had a hazy feeling of unreality. They had just come out of a dark and silent secret passage, which formed a sharp contrast with the noise on the street.
"Wanyu Street in the west district of the capital." Princess Shu was more familiar with the capital than the imperial palace. She recognized this place immediately. She had been there several times.
"Wanyu Street?"
Wang Xiaohai felt that the name of the street was very appropriate, because there were people talking everywhere on the street. Although there were not as many as ten thousand people, there were still thousands of people.
"Make way!" Wang Xiaohai kept pushing passers-by away and took Princess Shu to the other side.
"Can we find the man with the short mustache now?" asked Princess Shu.
Wang Xiaohai looked around at the dense crowd of people moving around. He shook his head and said, "Even the great detective can't do it, because he's not a wooden man and will keep moving."
"What should we do now?" asked Princess Shu.
"Of course we're going back to the princess's mansion." Wang Xiaohai lowered his voice and said, "If Lin Cun gets the tiger talisman and can't find us in the palace, he will most likely leave the palace and return to the mansion to look for us." Wang Xiaohai knew that for Lin Cun, it would be easy to find a place with fewer guards and climb over the wall. Even if the wall was dozens of meters high, he would not fall to death, unlike Princess Shu who could not jump so high, let alone climb up.
"but……"
Princess Shu wanted to say something but stopped herself. She saw that there were too many people around her and was afraid of revealing the secret.
"Are you afraid that the Third Prince Zhou Jian will send troops to surround the princess's mansion?" Wang Xiaohai immediately understood what Princess Shu meant.
"Keep your voice down." Princess Shu reminded.
"Don't worry, it's okay even if he heard it," Wang Xiaohai said. "Most people around here are ordinary people. What's the big deal if he heard it? Could he report you? At least you have to go to the authorities to report it. I guess in ancient times, suing a royal relative wouldn't be so easy. You might even have had to roll a nail board first. It's normal for ordinary people to discuss killing the emperor privately. Anyway, they don't have phones to record it."
"What cell phone are you talking about?" Princess Shu didn't understand the new words Wang Xiaohai said.
"I doubt Zhou Jian will send troops to surround the mansion. Now that we can see you from afar, why would he fall into your trap?" Wang Xiaohai said, "At most, he'll send one or two guys to quietly guard outside the mansion, confirming you've entered, and then report back. Then he'll send troops to surround the mansion and catch you in the act!"
"What should we do? We can't go back." Princess Shu felt a little hungry. "Let's find a place to eat first."
The two of them had dinner at a three-story restaurant on Wanyu Street. Wang Xiaohai found a compartment on the third floor, which was blocked by a screen with a landscape painting, making it convenient for them to talk.
The waiter brought tea and Wang Xiaohai ordered ten dishes before the waiter left satisfied.
"Can you finish all this?" Princess Shu blew away the hot air and took a sip of the fragrant tea.
"Don't worry, I'll pay." Wang Xiaohai still had some money.
"Ah!" Princess Shu finally realized that she didn't have a penny on her. Usually when she went out, the two brothers Heilin and Heisen followed her and paid for her.
"I'll pay you back when we get home," Princess Shu said. "Tenfold!"
"You don't have to pay me back, just promise me to do your best to fight for the throne." Wang Xiaohai didn't care. He didn't need this little money. There were planets made of gold and even diamonds in the starry sky. If he wanted to find them, he could get them. Gold, silver and jewelry were only slightly more valuable than dirt in the universe.
"You have saved me so many times, I promise you." Princess Shu said.
"You mean that if I don't save you, you won't agree?" Wang Xiaohai felt that Princess Shu had something else in her words.
"That's right. If you don't save me, I will die. How can I agree to it?" Princess Shu said a very logical sentence.
Wang Xiaohai was stunned, thinking that her words were a bit grammatically incorrect, but he didn't know how to refute them.
Neither of them spoke after that. It was hard to talk while eating because it was easy to swallow.
The ten dishes were quickly wiped out. Princess Shu only ate one dish, and the remaining nine dishes were cleaned up by Wang Xiaohai.
When walking down the stairs, Princess Shu slipped and almost fell down.
A flying knife shot out from a tricky angle, flashing with cold light, flying towards Princess Shu's throat——
At the critical moment, Wang Xiaohai slapped the handrail of the wooden ladder, and a piece of mahogany was knocked away by him, colliding with the flying knife in the air. The mahogany was pierced by the flying knife, but the direction of the flying knife also changed, and it suddenly stabbed into the door of a room on the second floor, scaring passers-by to fall down and urinate all over the floor.
Wang Xiaohai noticed out of the corner of his eye that a man wearing a leather hat fled out of the door after failing to assassinate him.
"Leave now!"
Wang Xiaohai pulled Princess Shu and ran quickly, and soon rushed out of the tavern.
"Boom—boom—"
The restaurant behind him suddenly exploded, with smoke and flames billowing.
Countless screams were heard in the street, and all the pedestrians ran away in panic. Many people bumped into each other and fell to the ground, and were then trampled over.
"How do you know the restaurant is in danger?" Princess Shu patted her chest. She felt a little nervous and scared. If it were a few seconds later, she and Wang Xiaohai would have been blown to pieces.
"I smell sulfur," Wang Xiaohai said, noticing the government fire brigade rushing towards him. "You have to change your clothes."
"Why?" asked Princess Shu.
"I wonder how people knew what you looked like, that you were a princess, and why they were trying to assassinate you?" Wang Xiaohai said. "Because you were wearing royal attire, they'd rather kill the wrong person than let him go. So wherever you went, people would try to assassinate you."
"Really? My clothes don't have any special markings!" Princess Shu said. "The fabric is similar to what those merchants wear outside."
"You underestimate others too much. These guys are not stupid. They are very smart. They can guess your identity after just one look." Wang Xiaohai said as he and Princess Shu walked to a cloth shop next door and bought a cloth dress for Princess Shu to change into.
The two returned to the street. The chaos had subsided and all the shops continued to operate as if the explosion in the restaurant in front had never happened.
"Is there a house for rent outside the princess's mansion?" Wang Xiaohai asked.
"That street is where high-ranking officials live, how could it be rented out!" said Princess Shu.
"We need to find a room near the princess's mansion, preferably one that can see the main gate." Wang Xiaohai said, "This way we can know when that guy Lincun will come back, and we won't be afraid of being surrounded by the soldiers sent by Zhou Jian." Wang Xiaohai was confident in fighting with only a few hundred soldiers, but if there were thousands of soldiers with archers, Wang Xiaohai would have no choice but to flee. Moreover, with Princess Shu by his side, the number of enemies he could defeat would have to be reduced.
"I know there's a governor's mansion diagonally across the street. He's gone back to his hometown, and the house is empty. If we go there, we can see the gate of my mansion." Princess Shu thought for a moment and said.
The two of them found a coachman on the street and took a carriage there.
The main thing is that the carriage has a shed and curtains where you can hide.
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