Zhao Shi said: "Some villagers said they saw several men with big swords on the mountain. They looked fierce and looked like bandits, so they came to report the news."
The fifth prince glanced at Yan Shiyue's expression: "Who saw it, and when? How many? What were they doing?"
Zhao Shi scratched his head, not knowing which sentence to answer first.
Yan Shiyue simply couldn't bear it: "Can there be someone who is more intelligent?? What kind of trouble will it cause if you can't answer one of ten questions??"
How the hell can he be a general? Well, it looks like his limbs are quite developed... but he's a little too honest!
The fifth prince comforted her: "I'm asking, I'm asking, you have a sip of tea and a break, don't be anxious."
He asked patiently and found out the matter.
After he left, Yan Shiyue said, "What do you think, Your Highness?"
Prince Chun looked at her.
In fact, he was a little confused. He thought to himself, weren't we here for Prince Yu's brother murder case? The order he received was to protect her. He really didn't know why she came. It couldn't be that she was really here to suppress bandits?
Isn’t that too ridiculous?
Prince Chunjun said: "I feel that this is not a year of famine, and there is no war, so it is unlikely that bandits will gather. If it does happen, there must be robberies and robberies, and it cannot happen every time."
I saw a few people speciously, so I thought it was just speculation and didn't need to pay too much attention."
Yan Shiyue nodded and asked the fifth prince: "Little fifth brother?"
The fifth prince said: "This is a dangerous place. When the villagers see someone walking together, they mistakenly think that there are bandits. If they are faced with a powerful enemy, there will be some. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the court to clear out and defeat the enemy again and again."
Yan Shiyue said in her heart that she was indeed an alien, completely different from their ideas.
She said, "I'm going to take a look, do you want to go?"
Of course they want to go, but Prince Chun doesn’t want to go. Does he dare?
So the next day, they went over to have a look.
Tianbao Mountain is quite big. In front of and behind Yan Shiyue Mountain, I rode a horse and walked around carefully. When I saw something wrong, I got off the horse and took a closer look.
A and a few others only stayed far away, the fifth prince followed suit, and Prince Chun also followed closely.
The three of them walked around in a big circle and looked at nearby villages and towns. It took a whole day.
When she returned to the inn she had booked temporarily, it was already dark, and when she came out after taking a bath, Prince Chun had drawn the map. Yan Shiyue was immediately very satisfied and said, "Your Majesty is interested."
"I don't dare." Prince Chun knew that this was the moment that he really got this man's favor, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Then Yan Shiyue said: "What do you think now?"
Prince Chunjun said: "I'm an official...don't lie."
She nodded.
While they were talking, the food was served, the fifth prince also took a bath and hurried in. The three of them ate and talked at the same time.
Prince Chunjun said: "Look at the road behind the mountain. There is no grass. It doesn't look like a road that has been untraveled for many years. If the imperial army comes once in a while, it shouldn't look like this. There are also faint ruts...
…It doesn’t look too old.”
He glanced at her carefully: "It's impossible, there's something hidden in this mountain..."
Yan Shiyue glanced at the fifth prince while eating her meal.
The fifth prince put down his chopsticks: "I think so too, and in Changpo Town, I think the way those people looked at me was a little strange, and they looked very guarded."
Yan Shiyue hummed.
She thought about it carefully: "I have a guess. I am thinking that it is possible that there is indeed a hiding place on this mountain, and I don't know when someone discovered it, and then these people hid here."
In order to ensure safety, I created the rumor of being haunted so that the villagers would not dare to go there. Then I would call for arresting the thief, and I would report it every now and then, so that these government soldiers would go in vain. If things go on like this, again,
If you report something about banditry, the government soldiers won’t take it seriously.”
This is the story of the boy who cried wolf.
Prince Chun thought for a moment, then stood up and exclaimed in surprise: "If this is really the case... then these people have big ambitions! They are definitely not ordinary gangsters!"
Yan Shiyue comforted him: "Don't be nervous, I understand."
Prince Chun had no choice but to sit down. He had never been on a battlefield in his life and felt guilty!
After Yan Shiyue had eaten, he first asked someone to spread the news of the eagle and asked the imperial guards from the capital to send a hundred fire-breathing gourds.
She also called Zhao Kuangyin and asked him to take his people and find a pretext to sneak into Changpo Town to inquire. If things were really as she suspected, there might be people from them in those towns, so be careful.
Then they called the shadow guards and asked them to go to the shops in the surrounding towns at night, mainly the rice noodle shops, to see if there was anything wrong with their account books, such as selling in large quantities, and if they could make a copy.
Then she said: "I will go up to the mountain tomorrow to have a look, so you don't have to go."
"No!" The fifth prince said, "I will go with you."
"No need," Yan Shiyue said, "You are so faceless and intrusive."
"I don't care!" The fifth prince said coquettishly: "I want to follow you, Yue'er..." He pulled her sleeve: "Didn't you say you were going to protect me? You can't leave me, I won't agree!"
Yan Shiyue couldn't resist.
She had no choice but to say: "Be good, I have other things for you to do."
Prince Chun looked on silently.
Then he said seriously: "Xiaoguan is ordered by the emperor to protect the Prime Minister. No matter what the Prime Minister says, I must go!"
Yan Shiyue raised her eyebrows.
She thought for a moment and said, "Okay."
Fortunately, the next day was the Qiqiao Festival. They first went to a famous local cloth shop and bought a suit of clothes for the Qiqiao Festival, as well as silk threads hanging on their waists and ears, etc. Then they went back. After a while, the carriage came out and the fifth prince
I also changed my clothes, rode a horse next to me, and joked with the people in the carriage from time to time, and the group headed to the Acupuncture Goddess Temple.
Then at the back door, two people came out quietly.
Yan Shiyue had already changed into cloth clothes, her face was painted yellow, and her eyebrows were thickened. She looked like an ordinary village girl.
Prince Chun's beard was slightly trimmed and shaved a little sparsely, wrinkles appeared on his face, and he looked twenty years older in an instant.
The two slowly climbed up Tianbao Mountain.
Yan Shiyue talked with Prince Chun from time to time: "Grandpa! What does this Jin Kuilian look like?"
"The leaves are octagonal and the seeds are purple."
"Grandpa, please slow down, don't fall!"
Prince Chun felt his heart tremble every time he heard her call her grandpa. He just hoped that the emperor would never know about this...
However, he really admired her ability. He had only been here for two days and he didn't see her talking much to anyone. She only spoke with a local accent. He didn't know if it was authentic or not. Anyway, he couldn't recognize the slightest Chang'an accent.
And she knew that this might be a gangster's den, so why did she dare to come up like this? Her shadow guards and dragon guards actually stopped following them even if they said they wouldn't let them follow?
Nothing will happen, right?
Just after the thought passed, a strong feeling of being watched emerged.
The next moment, a voice said coldly: "Stop pretending, I know you are Lady Fu!" (To be continued)