Gu Wu didn't know what to say and finally decided to remain silent.
Gu Wu secretly thought that only his general could calmly follow the princess's words.
Thinking of this, Gu Wu suddenly wanted to find the general as soon as possible. He really couldn't handle a princess like this.
Song Wan stared at the Daye soldiers filling the streets when an idea suddenly struck her. She looked at her two followers and asked, "What do you think? If we capture the old emperor of Daye's only child, will he be so angry that he'll come to the border town to capture me?"
Song Qi's eyes widened. "Miss, you want to catch him yourself?"
Song Wan glanced at him and asked, "Are you two going?"
He gave her a look that said 'you can't do it'.
Song Qi has long been aware of the gap between himself and the princess. He is now very self-aware, "Gu Wu and I are definitely not able to do it, but we don't know whether the Prince of Daye is really in this city."
"Whether it's there or not, we'll know if we go and take a look." Song Wan put her hands on her hips and straightened her back, looking around. "The border town is only this small."
"Then my young master won't look for me anymore?" Gu Wu asked.
"Looking for it, of course I have to." Song Wan hadn't forgotten the purpose of her visit. "Let's do these two things together."
In order to find out whether Prince Daye is in the city and whether Gu Yanji is hiding there, no matter which one he does first, he has to search the city secretly.
Song Wan planned to find a place to sit down and rest first. If she wanted to know the situation in the city without any effort, she had to go to a place where people ate and drank. There were many people and eyes, and once people drank, they would like to say anything.
Of course, the most important thing is that she is hungry and wants to eat meat.
No one was as anxious as Gu Yan. She had to rely on eating meat to slowly replenish the mental energy she had consumed. Fortunately, her mental energy was no longer in the same state as when she first came to this world, so even after so many days, not half of it had been used up.
Sanweilou is the largest restaurant in this border town. After Song Wan and the other two entered, they found a seat by the window.
Song Qi and Gu Wu sat to her left and opposite her respectively.
Song Wan ordered five plates of meat and three plates of big buns. The table was full, but there was not a single vegetable dish.
In the end, Song Qi called the waiter and asked for an extra plate of stir-fried cabbage.
The restaurant was bustling with activity. Song Wan ate while listening carefully to various directions, trying to gather information.
At the table behind her, there were one fat, one thin, and one short person. They must have been drinking too much and were talking without restraint.
"I heard that our Crown Prince personally led the troops in the attack on Dai Viet this time. I don't know what the situation on the battlefield is like now." said the dwarf.
"It must have gone very smoothly!" The fat man had an uncle who worked in the government office and knew some things that ordinary people didn't know. "We in Daye are not like Dayue, which would let the soldiers go to the battlefield hungry!"
His uncle said that Dai Viet was now a piece of window paper that could be punctured at will. With the young emperor on the throne and the government unstable, they in Daye were just waiting to unify the world easily.
The thin man was more rational than the fat man. "But the prince is the only prince after all. If he goes to the battlefield like this, what if something goes wrong?"
What could possibly happen? The Crown Prince was only leading the troops for the people to see. Who knew if it was the Crown Prince or a cat sitting in the tent? The fat man, drunken and rambling, told everything he knew, "The Crown Prince can't have a son anyway. I think the old emperor is just planning to let the Crown Prince die on the battlefield so he can appoint a new Crown Prince!"
The thin man didn't dare to respond to the latter part. He asked anxiously, "Are you saying that the prince is not in the army?"
"If the prince is not in the army, where else could he be? Could it be here? In Suicheng?" The dwarf laughed, but he knew it was impossible after thinking about it.
When Song Wan heard this, she had just finished eating three big meat buns, two plates of meat, and a vegetable leaf that she accidentally picked up.
Her intuition has always been accurate, and she agreed with the fat man's guess.
The three people were still talking, but soon, a team of well-trained soldiers came down from the second floor and walked straight towards Song Wan, making Song Qi and Gu Wu very nervous. They were ready to touch the swords at their legs.
It turned out that the group's target was the three men at the table behind them.
Song Qi and Gu Wu immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Song Wan had been eating calmly from beginning to end.
"What are you doing?" The fat man was drinking happily when suddenly something cold was placed across his neck. He opened his eyes and was almost scared to death. It turned out to be a long knife.
"What are you doing? Just follow us!" The soldiers didn't intend to waste time talking to the fat man, and directly forced him out of the restaurant.
The fat man wanted to struggle, "Do you know who my uncle is? He works in the government office and is the county magistrate's confidant!"
"On duty? A confidant?" The leading soldier sneered, "If you keep yelling, the county magistrate's life will be in danger!"
The thin man and the short man on the side were so scared that they broke out in cold sweat and kept wiping it with their hands, but they still couldn't avoid being taken away.
When other guests in the restaurant saw this scene, the wine glasses in front of them were knocked over and the wine spilled all over the floor but no one noticed.
The originally bustling first floor suddenly became as quiet as a chicken. They looked at the three people being taken away by the soldiers and swallowed in fear.
"It seems that the Prince of Daye is really here." Song Wan said after finally eating enough.
"Shh! Miss, those soldiers just left the restaurant and haven't gone far yet. Please keep your voice down." Although he knew the princess's ability, Song Qi felt that they should keep a low profile before finding General Gu and Lieutenant General Jiang.
"Don't worry, I know my limits." Song Wan lowered her eyes to glance at the almost empty table and asked them, "Are you full?"
Song Qi and Gu Wu nodded and replied at the same time, "I'm full."
"As long as I'm full," Song Wan said. She was also quite full. "Let's go find someone."
When Song Qi heard this, he hurriedly threw the silver on the table, stood up and followed Song Wan out of the restaurant.
"Miss, do you know where Prince Daye is?" Song Qi asked hurriedly.
"About the same." Song Wan looked at the plaque on the door of the restaurant, then glanced at the two other brothels nearby. "This restaurant is really interesting. It's actually located between two brothels."
Gu Wu twitched his lips, thinking that Song Wan was itching to go to a brothel again, "Miss, now is not the time to worry about whether it's a brothel or not."
"Of course I know." Song Wan glared at him, "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking!"
Isn't it just that he felt that she was delaying things and didn't go to save Gu Yan?
"Don't worry, your young master is not in danger of death for the time being." Song Wan assured, "At most he suffered a minor injury!"
"We haven't found the person yet, how come you know so much, Miss?" Gu Wu asked in disbelief.
"Of course I know, because your young master and I are in tune with each other!" Song Wan put her hands on her hips.
She had never taken out the spiritual power that she had left in Gu Yanji's body. If anything happened to him, she would definitely feel it.
It was also her fault that when she first broke into the Southwest Military Camp, she heard them talking about Gu Yan's sudden disappearance, and she was so anxious that she forgot about it.
She finally remembered this after eating a few plates of meat inside.
Gu Wu: “…”
He shouldn't have expected anything from the princess.
"Don't worry, Durian. Your young master is my man. How can I not care about the safety of my man?" Song Wan patted his arm.
Of course Gu Wu knew this, otherwise he would have been unable to resist fighting with the princess, even though he knew he could not win.
"I suspect that the Prince of Daye is in this brothel." Song Wan said with certainty.
Song Qi was calmer than Gu Wu. "Miss, are you saying that those soldiers were ordered by Prince Daye to come down and arrest people?"
"What else do you think?" Song Wan glanced at him. "There weren't just three of them discussing war in the restaurant. Why did the soldiers come down and arrest them only when they mentioned the prince's infertility?"
Although it was the first time I heard the word "infertility", it was not difficult to understand its meaning considering the actual situation.
Song Qi suppressed his laughter and asked, "So, this restaurant is in cahoots with the brothel next door?"
Song Wan guessed so. "There must be a secret passage in the middle that leads to both sides."
Don't think she didn't see that among the soldiers who just walked out of the restaurant, one of them didn't really leave, but turned back and went into the brothel next door.
"Then when are we going to catch them?" Song Qi suddenly felt a little regretful. He and Gu Wu followed him. If they had brought more men, they might be able to directly turn Daye, a border town, into a city of their Dayue.
Perhaps the previous conquest of Qiang City gave Song Qi the confidence, making him feel that taking down a city was not that difficult.
"Let's wait until night." Song Wan thought, "After all, it's easier to do bad things in the dark."
"And we have to find the owner of Durian first." Song Wan was not sure how many soldiers there were in the city. What if he didn't have enough mental strength by then?
"Within a day?" What Song Qi wanted to say was, "We are not sure whether the young master of Durian is in the city!"
"He's here!" Song Wan confirmed.
"Intuition again?" Gu Wu skipped a few steps and asked back.
But who would have thought that Song Wan would shake her head this time, "It's not intuition this time."
Song Qi was curious and asked, "What is that?"
"It's a feeling," she replied.
Song Qi and Gu Wu: "..."
The princess is probably treating them like fools.
On the outskirts of Chongcheng, there is Shangqing Temple.
Buddhist temple.
"Master, the donor has woken up!" The little monk hurried into the hall, stopped in front of the so-called master, and said in a slightly anxious voice.
"Amitabha, Guanzhen, how many times have I told you, don't be impatient when encountering things."
The young monk quickly put his hands together and said again, "Brother Guan Jing asked me to call Master over."
It’s strange to say, but the seriously injured person, for some reason, woke up once and started pulling his senior brother’s arm.
"Take the master there." The old monk stopped meditating and stood up from the cushion.
"Guan Zhen will take you there right away, Master." The little monk bent down and walked in front, leading the way carefully.
Inside the wing, Jiang Zhen held his injured arm and said happily to the bedside, "General, you're finally awake!"
Gu Yan leaned against the bed, rubbing her head and recalling the past.
After they discovered the location of the enemy's food and supplies, he asked Niu Tiedan to take people to destroy it, while he and Jiang Zhen attracted the enemy's attention along the way, giving Niu Tiedan and others time to destroy the enemy's food and supplies.
Who would have thought that the Prince of Daye would actually send 10,000 troops to pursue them.
Finally, by accident, they were forced into a tight spot and had to enter the border town of Daye, Suicheng.
As for the 10,000 troops sent by Prince Daye, according to the traces of their deployment, most of them were led into the deep mountains where there were many wolves.
Fortunately, they secretly eliminated the enemy cavalry who were coming to Chongcheng to give a tip-off on the way, otherwise he and Jiang Zhen would probably be caught before they even got close to Chongcheng.
After remembering everything, Gu Yan raised her eyes anxiously and asked, "Where is the monk who saved us?"
Jiang Zhen thought he would ask something else first, such as the princess's condition. "That monk just left. Speaking of which, after the general woke up briefly yesterday, he suddenly grabbed someone's arm and wouldn't let go. The monk named Guan Jing had to sit on the stool next to the bed and couldn't go anywhere."
He had to listen to Buddhist scriptures that he didn't understand for the whole night. The monk loved chanting so much that he didn't even feel sleepy after chanting all night.
Gu Yan's head seemed to hurt even more when she heard Jiang Zhen's words that he was obviously missing more than one muscle.
"Captain Jiang, don't you think you've seen that monk named Guan Jing somewhere before?"
"I've never seen a monk before." Jiang Zhenxin said, "But that Master Guanjing does look familiar. Hahaha, maybe it's because he's a monk."
Gu Yan was anxious: "......"
Song Wan, Song Qi and Gu Wu avoided the Daye soldiers and searched the entire Chongcheng city thoroughly, but they couldn't find even a single hair of Gu Yanji.
Gu Wu began to wonder, "Could it be that the Master is not in Chongcheng?"
Could it be that the general and Lieutenant General Jiang had managed to escape the enemy's pursuit and had returned to the southwest military camp?
"How could that be?" Song Wan didn't believe her feeling could be wrong. "Could it be that there is something we missed?"
"Miss, I've really searched through everything." Song Qi said.
They even searched everywhere that could accommodate a person, such as under the bed, in the cellar, and in the earthen stove.
"No, there's one place we haven't been to yet." Gu Wu had just accidentally glanced at a stall selling incense burners and suddenly said, "There's a temple ten miles outside the city called Shangqing Temple. We haven't been there yet!"
Gu Wu followed Gu Yanji and stayed in the southwestern border for several years. He would often disguise himself as an ordinary farmer or beggar to come to Chongcheng to inquire about news.
Gradually, he got to know more and more about Suicheng.
Just now he had been thinking about the city, but forgot that there was a temple in the suburbs.
"Outskirts, then we have to leave the city." Song Wan thought for a moment and said, "Well, you guys wait here for a while, I'll go and capture Prince Daye, and then we'll leave the city together."
Song Qi was surprised, "Miss, are you planning to catch it with your bare hands?"
The brothel where the Prince of Daye was staying was surrounded by Daye soldiers, and many secret guards were hiding in the dark.
"How about I pretend to be a client?" Song Wan's eyes lit up.
Song Qi had a bad feeling, "Isn't this too hasty?"
No one can change what Song Wan has decided. "Let's not be hasty. It's settled. You stay here and don't move. I'll be back soon."
Song Qi and Gu Wan didn't have a chance to react. In just a moment, Song Wan disappeared.
Gu Wu was silent for a moment and said, "Your eldest daughter's Qinggong is really becoming more and more bizarre."
Song Qi was quite proud of this and said, "Of course, my eldest lady's Qinggong is not something you and your young master can compare to!"
Gu Wu didn't want to see his smug look, and he regretted saying that.
He decided to change the subject, "Are we sure we don't want to follow?"
Song Qi: "Didn't the young lady tell us to stay here and not move? Besides, we would be a burden if we went over there."
Gu Wu: "We can't just stand here."
"You're right." Song Qi glanced at the deserted alley besides them and suggested, "I see there's a place selling meat-baked cakes for midnight snacks on the street over there. You can go and queue up and buy some. The young lady will definitely be hungry when she gets back from her work."
Gu Wu was confused: "What about you?"
Song Qi smiled and said, "I'll stand here and wait for the young lady to come back."
Gu Wu: “…”
In fact, when Song Wan was anxiously looking for Gu Yan in the city, he took the opportunity to use his mental power to search the brothel from top to bottom, inside and out.
Now she can even clearly see how many snacks are placed on the table in the second room on the left side of the second floor.
The walnut cakes just out of the pan were large, fragrant and crispy. After Song Wan came in disguised as a prostitute, she specifically asked for this room and asked the brothel's madam to serve her another portion of walnut cakes.
When the madam heard that she also wanted a walnut cake, she was stunned, "Sir, why don't you ask the girls to serve you?"
Song Wan took the walnut cake that the previous customer hadn't touched and stuffed it into her mouth. After swallowing it, she said, "A girl?"
The madam then smiled and said, "Yes, we have everything you want here!"
Song Wan patted the crumbs off her fingers, thought for a moment, and replied, "Then I want to have a red mole under the corner of my eye, big breasts, wear aqua dresses, and have the word Chuntao in my name."
After hearing the description, the madam's mouth twitched, "Oh, sir, you are talking about Miss Chuntao in the courtyard!"
"It's her. Let her serve me!" Song Wan touched the beard sticking to the corner of his lips.
"It's such a pity that Chuntao has other guests right now. How about this, I'll let Xia He come and serve you?" The madam bent down with a flattering look on her face.
"I want Chuntao." As he said that, Song Wan put down a thick stack of silver notes with a face value of one thousand taels on the table with a "pa" sound.
The madam was so engrossed in watching this that she couldn't even speak straight. "Sir, don't worry. I'll help you think of a way to make sure you can see Chun Tao!"
Song Wan took out a banknote from a pile of banknotes and handed it to her. "Go ahead, and remember to bring the walnut cakes over first."
The madam, blinded by the sight of money, grabbed the banknotes and stuffed them into her chest, saying hastily, "Okay! I'll arrange it right away!"
After the madam left, Song Wan continued to eat the walnut cakes on the plate. While eating, she thought to herself that she was very clever in bribing the madam with her banknotes.
That’s right, that stack of banknotes was taken by Song Wan from the secret compartment in the madam’s room.
There were still quite a few in the secret compartment, but unfortunately they were all banknotes, otherwise she would have taken them all with her.
The reason why Song Wan knew that there was a girl named Chuntao in the brothel was because she was the one serving Prince Daye.
The prince was not tired at all. He changed several women in more than an hour and did not seem to want to stop.
In addition to the walnut cakes, the biggest advantage of the room she chose was that it was right below where Prince Daye lived, and she could climb straight up to his room by climbing through the window.
Before the madam arrived, she took the opportunity to climb over and used her mental power to hypnotize the three secret guards hiding on the roof.
When Song Wan climbed up, the Prince of Daye was calling "Chun Tao" in ecstasy, and the girl named Chun Tao had just taken off her water-green skirt that could not block much of her spring light.
It was a live pornographic scene, but unfortunately she climbed up a little late and only took a glimpse, and Chuntao pulled down the bed curtain.
Song Wan finished a plate of walnut cakes when a new one arrived.
It would probably take a lot of effort for the madam to bring Chuntao here.
The time was almost up. Song Wan put all the walnut cakes into a special large purse and tied it around her waist. Finally, she picked up the silver bills beside her and stuffed them into her chest. She covered her face, opened the window, and climbed out.
As the upstairs business was about to end, Chen Mian lifted the woman's chin and said, "As long as you can bear my child, I will make you the Crown Princess."
When Song Wan, who was lying outside the window, heard this, she suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the prince came here and did not live in a restaurant or a big house, but chose to hide in a brothel. It turned out that he had not given up on having a child.
I'm afraid he made the same promise to the previous women.
Chun Tao smiled shyly, "I will definitely work hard~"
Chen Mian laughed heartily, but his eyes darkened. "But if you can't get pregnant within a month, then your life will be in jeopardy, huh? Do you understand what I mean?"
When Chuntao heard this, her face turned pale and her half-naked body began to tremble.
Chen Mian smiled perversely, "Don't be afraid, there's still a month left."
When Song Wan saw this scene, she couldn't help but despise it. He actually bullied a woman, what a coward.
No more waiting.
Chuntao felt as if she was in the clouds one moment and fell into a deep, cold well the next.
She didn't want to be a princess anymore, she just wanted to save her life.
"I beg your Highness the Crown Prince to forgive me. I am afraid I am not blessed enough to bear your child."
Everyone in Man Daye knew that, except for the miscarriage of the late Crown Princess, no other woman had conceived a child with His Royal Highness over the years.
"No?" Chen Mian's eyes grew colder. "Then this is the only way to die."
"Please, Your Highness..."
Before Chuntao could finish her words, a strong wind rushed in from the window that had been opened. When she opened her eyes again, the person on the bed had disappeared, even the bedding.
She was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly put on her clothes and ran out of the room screaming, "Ghost!"
The madam was looking for Chuntao. When she heard the familiar scream, she came over following the sound, but was stopped by several guards.
She had no choice but to ask across the aisle, "Chun Tao! What the hell! What are you talking about!"
Chun Tao shook her head, panicking, "It's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! He just suddenly disappeared!"
The secret guards and soldiers outside the door changed their expressions immediately when they heard her incoherent words. They quickly pushed open the door, only to see that the room was empty and there was no sign of life.
The leading secret guard drew his sword and pressed it against the woman's neck, threatening her, "Where's the Crown Prince? If you don't tell me, I'll kill you!"
Chun Tao was so frightened that she collapsed. She could only shake her head and said intermittently, "I really don't know! I just remember that a strong wind suddenly blew in, and when I opened my eyes again, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was gone."
The leader listened, looked sharply toward the wide-open window, sheathed his sword, and ordered, "Follow me!"
After he finished speaking, several groups of people came out of the brothel one after another.
Song Wan knocked the man unconscious and ran away wrapped in the quilt.
Along the way, he used his mental power to blow the silver bills he had taken from the brothel madam in all directions. Everyone was busy grabbing the silver bills, making the streets chaotic.
Controlling banknotes is much easier than controlling people, and it can also save some mental energy. After all, she hasn't found Gu Yanji yet, and the walnut cookies around her waist can't replenish much.
Song Wan returned to the alley carrying the person on her back and ran into Gu Wu who had just bought a bag of pork buns.
He was the first to exclaim in surprise, "Miss, is that what you are carrying?"
Song Wan took a breath and replied, "Yes, it's the Prince of Daye."
"Hurry up and go." Song Wan said to him, "Let's go to the temple you mentioned."
I hope Gu Yan is anxious, otherwise she won’t be able to kill everyone.
The three of them used their lightness skills to quickly run out of the city and head towards Shangqing Temple.
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