Looking at the people around him, Xiao Zili smiled and said, "I apologize for my ignorance, Your Highness. I made this discovery by accident. Although I am not as capable as Your Highness in helping Father Emperor, I would like to do something within my power to help Father Emperor."
"I just don't know if the Right Chancellor will be implicated, after all, he's the Right Chancellor's relative by marriage. But I don't think so. And there's the Crown Prince here. I have other matters to attend to, so I'll take my leave now. You go ahead with your business, Your Highness." After saying this, he turned and left without looking at the Crown Prince's grim face.
When Xiao Zicheng saw Xiao Zili leaving, his face was gloomy and his eyes were full of murderous intent.
"Brother, is what Xiao Zili said true? Will this matter involve the Right Chancellor?" asked the Fourth Prince Xiao Zimu, who had been raised by Consort Xu since childhood and grew up with the Crown Prince. The two were the closest of friends.
Now it might involve the Right Chancellor, and I don't know if it will affect my elder brother, the Emperor.
"What's there to be afraid of? They're just in-laws. Just abandon them!" Xiao Zicheng said, turning and leaving the palace. He needed to find his maternal grandfather to ask about the situation.
He hadn't seen any of those letters, and as for Xiao Zili saying that his maternal grandfather was his in-law, he didn't know which one it was.
News of this quickly spread from the palace, and Imperial Censor Liu and Minister Chen led their men to investigate, not daring to delay for even a moment.
An Shuyi and Xia Hua were unaware of what was happening in the palace; they were still diligently cooking.
After finishing their meal, they continued their journey until they found a water source and stopped.
"Hua Hua, you go cook, I'll tan the fox fur."
Xia Hua nodded. Although it was a bit early, it would be a good time to eat once the food was ready. "Okay, then you can tan. What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you." As she spoke, she took out two fox pelts from the warehouse and put them in a basin.
"Anything is fine?" An Shuyi asked happily. Seeing her nod, she smiled and said, "Never mind, it's not convenient for us up in the mountains. Just make something simple. We can eat something better when we get back to the village tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll just make something simple." Xia Hua didn't say much, since they were still on the mountain and cooking wasn't very convenient. Of course, if Shu Shu wanted to eat, she was willing to make it even if it was troublesome.
The two divided the work and before they could even finish cooking and the fox pelt was tanned, a herd of sika deer appeared on the opposite bank of the river, and they didn't see the two of them.
An Shuyi and Xia Hua stopped what they were doing in unison, and a bow and several arrows appeared in their hands in an instant. Without hesitation, they nocked the arrows and shot them forward with unstoppable momentum.
Two sika deer were shot in the head by arrows and fell to the ground. The herd of sika deer was also frightened and scattered in all directions. But the two men clearly did not want them to escape, so they changed their arrows to three and continued to shoot at the sika deer. Then, one by one, the sika deer fell down.
Although they were fast enough, some deer still managed to escape. But with so many deer around, they didn't care how many escaped. When shooting, the two of them aimed at the male deer, while the female deer avoided them.
After putting the bow and arrows back into the warehouse, they went to the other side of the river to collect the deer carcasses. Once they had all collected them, they piled them together to count their spoils.
"Huahua, I killed four sika deer, how about you?" An Shuyi counted the ones she killed. She was still a bit slow, and she didn't use her bow and arrows very often. She also had to avoid the female deer, so she killed fewer.
Xia Hua looked at the ones in front of her and said, "I killed six, two more than you."
"Amazing," An Shuyi gave a thumbs up. "I'll clean everything here and put it in the warehouse. You can take the rest back with you, so we can eat sika deer openly and legitimately."
"Sure, you can put them all in your warehouse. I have too much stuff here!" He said, taking out several transparent boxes from the mall to store the cleaned meat.
He put Hua Hua's sika deer into the warehouse. "Hua Hua, go cook. I'll take care of these." He continued tanning the fox pelts, which were almost finished.
"Okay, I'll finish cooking and then come with you." Xia Hua continued cooking.
After tanning the fox pelts and drying them on tree branches, the sika deer are slaughtered. The bones with meat are placed in one box, the meat in another, and other items such as deer antlers, kidneys, and penises are placed in a third box. These can be used to make wine or dried and eaten.
She had only finished processing one when Xia Hua had already prepared the meal and came over to help her process it. By the time they finished, it was already dark, so the two of them had to hang up a light bulb and start eating. After finishing their meal, they packed up the food and climbed a tree.
Sitting in the tree, An Shuyi suddenly remembered that after selling the orchids, she hadn't checked what items she could buy in the trading system. No wonder she had felt like she hadn't done something and had been thinking about it for the past two days; it turned out to be this.
After telling Xia Hua about it, she opened the trading system to check. However, when she opened it, there was only one type of item available for purchase. Was this wrong? She then checked her balance: 22,000 taels. That's right, it had increased by 1,000 taels. Before, she had 2,700 taels, but when she bought cloth, grain, chickens, ducks, and geese, it became 21,000 taels.
The balance is 22,000 taels, so there's no mistake. But why is there only one more item she can buy? The trading system is becoming more and more capricious. Looking at that piece of paper, could this still be a recipe? But what kind of recipe is so expensive, 100,000 taels a piece?
She examined the paper closely and was so shocked that she fell from the tree, but was fortunately caught by Xia Hua.
"Shushu, what are you doing? Don't you know this tree is very tall? If you fall, you'll be a pile of mangled flesh." It really scared her to death. Luckily, she was right next to her. If she hadn't, she couldn't imagine what the consequences would have been.
An Shuyi patted her chest. Whether it was the trading system or almost falling off the tree, it had scared her half to death.
"Huahua, I sold that lotus petal orchid last time, so this time I can only buy one more thing."
Xia Hua patted her on the shoulder, "Buy one if you can. Why are you so excited? You scared me to death."
“Touch my fur, it won’t scare you,” An Shuyi explained. “You don’t understand. Even though it’s just one thing, and it’s just a piece of paper, it costs 100,000 taels of silver. But if you heard that, you would be just as scared as I am.”
Seeing Hua Hua's unpleasant expression, she didn't dare to keep her in suspense and continued, "That piece of paper is a pass that allows us to travel back to the modern era."
Xia Hua asked in surprise, "A pass to travel back in time? Your trading system is so powerful, tell me more about that piece of paper."
Although they are doing well now, it would be best if they could go back. If this pass could allow them to live to be seventy or eighty years old in this world and then travel back, wouldn't that be like getting decades of free life?
"A rectangular piece of white paper with a black pattern around the edge, looking rather dark, with 'Time Travel Pass' written on it, nothing else, 100,000 taels for it." That's why it scared her. Time travel! Not only did she want to, but Hua Hua wanted to too.
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