She has plenty of money, and booking an inn is a common practice for wealthy families when traveling. It is not considered disturbing the public or showing off, after all, this is how everyone behaves.
In the past, Shen Mingzhu was too low-key and didn't want to be known, so she never wanted to attract everyone's attention.
Things are different now. When they come back this time, they want to end things.
Xiao Xian and Shen Mingzhu's actions created a big problem for local officials.
They are not like those businessmen and common people from aristocratic families who simply come to visit because they have no official positions. They are officials of the Qin Dynasty. Should they come to pay homage to the prince?
If he doesn't come, he is the King of Yan. Not paying him an audience would be contempt and contempt for the royal family.
But if he visits him, he will definitely offend the imperial court, because they don't know what the emperor means.
At this time, King Yan, who was declared violently dead by the emperor, returned safely, bringing with him the eldest daughter of the Shen family who had been beheaded for public display. This was weird no matter how you looked at it.
If I go to pay a visit and the emperor finds out, I'm afraid I won't be able to serve as an official, and I might even be dismissed from my post and investigated.
But instead of going to pay homage, King Yan is now in his city, and the people are all watching. As a parent official, he pretends not to know, which is really a bit uneasy.
Especially Xu Wanke, the prefect of Yangzhou.
Although Xu Wanke made his fortune by relying on the imperial examination, he only entered the official career by virtue of his imperial examination status at the beginning. Later, because he was ingratiated with the Yan family and found a way, he won the Jinshi that year and entered the Hanlin Academy for two years.
Later, he married a concubine of the Yan family and was promoted to be a local official.
Because he was good at dancing and followed the Yue family's lead, he later prospered in officialdom and became really prosperous.
Now that he has become the magistrate of Yangzhou and leads the salt affairs of Yangzhou, it can be said that he has both real power and wealth. Especially in the two years since Xiao Xian and Shen Mingzhu left the court, the Yan family is no longer as low-key as before. The queen and the prince
After promoting some of the Yan family's children, Xu Wanke's life became even more prosperous.
It was true that Xu Wanke lived in Yangzhou and lived a comfortable life, but this did not include the time when Xiao Xian came.
Who doesn't know that Xiao Xian is a living hell, he has killed everyone who offends him, and that Shen Mingzhu, even the emperor can't kill her, yet she still dares to show her face in front of others.
Xu Wanke was like an ant on a hot pot. He was tossing and turning uncontrollably. His whole butt felt like it was being burned. There was still no good solution.
Especially when officials of all sizes within Yangzhou's jurisdiction quietly came to him for instructions on whether they wanted to visit them, he really felt like they were being roasted on the fire.
Xu Wanke had no choice but to summon his staff to discuss.
The final conclusion was to stand still, or pretend not to be in Yangzhou City, and wait for Xiao Xian to leave.
In this way, the court would not be able to hold him accountable. After all, Shen Mingzhu had been fine all the way. There were no officials to embarrass her at all, and there were no sea arrest documents issued by the court's Criminal Department and Dali Temple, so there was no need for him to get involved.
I feel uncomfortable.
Just pretend you don't know.
When Xu Wanke returned to the back house, Mrs. Xu and their second young lady Xu Jinchan were talking.
Seeing him come in, the two of them stood up to salute him. Mrs. Xu stepped forward to wait for him to change behind the screen, taking off his official uniform and changing into homely clothes.
Xu Jinchan fiddled with a bunch of flowers in his hand and said with a smile: "Father, I heard that King Yan and Miss Shen have come to our Yangzhou. Do you want to see them?"