38. Treasure Map?

 After discussing things with Liang Run, it was already late.

Happy times are always short-lived. Even if Zhao Yao didn't want to, he had to go back to the palace.

"Alas, how can a day go by so quickly?" A day is so short. He hasn't had enough fun yet and he has to go back to the palace. "The next time I go out of the palace, I have to wait until next month." When Zhao Yao thought about waiting for another month before going out of the palace, he felt that the whole world became gloomy.

Liang Run was reluctant to let his nephew go and wanted him to stay for a few more days, but as a prince, his nephew could not stay outside the palace for a long time.

  "A month will pass quickly."

  "The days are like years. One month is thirty years." Zhao Yao shrugged his shoulders and said with a bitter face.

  Liang Run was amused by Zhao Yao's bitter and vengeful look. He held back his laughter and changed the subject: "When will the King of Dai return to Beijing tomorrow?"

  "It seems to be in the afternoon." When it came to the King of Dai's return to Beijing, Zhao Yao's attention was successfully diverted. "When the second brother comes back, the capital and the palace will become restless."

  "You and sister should be careful in the palace. If anything happens, let your friends send me a letter and I will find a way to help you."

  Zhao Yao smiled at Liang Run in a soothing way: "Second uncle, the second brother's return will have no effect on me and my mother, so don't worry about us." The second brother's return will have the greatest impact on the crown prince. It has no effect on him, the unpopular prince.

  "Really no impact?" Liang Run felt that the King of Dai would definitely stir up a storm when he returned from the victory this time. He was worried that Zhao Yao and Liang Zhaoyi would be innocently involved.

  "My mother and I are not important people, how could we be involved?"

  As they were talking, Tongxi appeared at the door of the study. He knocked gently and reminded Zhao Yao, "Young Master, it's getting late, we should go back."

  "Second uncle, if you have something to do, write a letter to Laiman, and he will come to the palace to find me."

  "Okay."

  Zhao Yao explained some things, then changed into a beggar and prepared to go back to the palace.

  Liang Run sent Zhao Yao to the alley, "Yaoyao, you and your sister must be well in the palace!" Sometimes, he thought it was a good thing for his sister and Yaoyao to be in the palace. Sometimes, he thought it was not a good thing for Yaoyao and his sister to be in the palace.

  "Second uncle, you can rest assured that my mother and I will be fine." He and his mother were invisible in the palace. When the King of Dai came back, no one paid attention to them. "Second uncle, I'm going back. Dingyuan and Uncle Zhang will be handed over to you."

  "Don't worry, I will train them well."

  Zhao Yao said nothing more, waved to Liang Run, and left with Tongxi.

  Liang Run stood at the entrance of the alley and watched for a long time before turning back.

  Zhao Yao and Tongxi walked in the dim alley. Unexpectedly, halfway through, they met the beggars who had beaten Dingyuan before. Seeing Zhao Yao and Tongxi carrying bulging bags, they showed greedy looks and tried to snatch their bags without saying a word.

  After a while, several screams were heard in the dim alley, but no one else's attention was attracted.

  This kind of thing happens frequently, and passers-by are no longer surprised and will not meddle in other people's business.

  Several beggars who wanted to rob Zhao Yao were knocked to the ground, and they curled up on the ground with painful expressions.

  Zhao Yao asked Tongxi to teach them a lesson, which was a small revenge for Dingyuan.

  Before entering Pei's house, Zhao Yao asked Lai Man to check around to see if there was anyone hiding near Pei's house.

  Lai Man carefully checked around Pei's house and made sure that there was no one, so he came to find Zhao Yao and the others.

  Zhao Yao and Tongxi walked into Pei's house "sneakily". He did not rush back to the palace, but fed them first. Then, he went to take a look at several important rooms in Pei Mansion.

  Pei Mansion had been abandoned for twenty or thirty years. Many rooms were dilapidated and overgrown with weeds. Under the pale moonlight, it looked very eerie.

  Tongxi held a lantern to illuminate Zhao Yao. Seeing that Zhao Yao had been knocking on the floor, he asked curiously and puzzledly: "Your Highness, what are you doing?"

  "I'm looking to see if there are any secret passages." Zhao Yao knocked on the floor for a while, but did not find any secret passages or secret compartments. "I'm overthinking. There's nothing."

  "Your Highness, if there were secret passages or secret compartments here, they would have been discovered long ago."

  "That's right."   

  "Your Highness, if we don't go back, the Queen will be worried."

  "Then let's go."

  Before entering the secret passage, Zhao Yao told Lai Man and the others to guard the Pei Mansion. If there are any strange people coming to the Pei Mansion to look for things again, they must notify him.

  In Kunde Hall, Liang Zhaoyi has been waiting for Zhao Yao. Seeing that it was almost the end of the You hour, her son had not returned, which made her a little worried.

  Just when she was about to go to the cold palace, Zhao Yao and Tongxi came back.

  Seeing that her son came back intact, Liang Zhaoyi was relieved. She stretched out her hand and pinched Zhao Yao's chubby little face, and asked sternly with a stern face: "Why did you come back so late?"

  "It hurts... Mother, spare my life..." Zhao Yao begged for mercy, and said, "Something happened on the way back."

  Liang Zhaoyi heard this, then she let go of her hand, frowned slightly and asked: "What happened?"

  "I met a few beggars who wanted to rob us..." Zhao Yao simply told Liang Zhaoyi what happened on the way back.

  "It's good that you're fine. Go take a bath first and have dinner later." Although Tongxi was a eunuch, he was very skilled. With him by Zhao Yao's side, Liang Zhaoyi felt relieved about her son leaving the palace.

  Zhao Yao took a bath and changed into clean clothes. Liang Zhaoyi asked Guixing and others to bring the dinner directly to the side hall.

  Sitting on the couch, Zhao Yao had dinner while telling Liang Zhaoyi what happened when he left the palace.

  Liang Zhaoyi listened very seriously and agreed with Zhao Yao's idea of ​​asking Liang Run to adopt some beggars and orphans and train them. She was surprised that Shu sent people to Pei's house to look for something.

  "In the past two days, I have carefully looked through the books and letters left by Concubine Pei, and I didn't find anything special."

  "Mother, do you think there is anything in the Pei Mansion that is worth Han Zhong's risk of sending people to Beijing to find?"

  "It should be something important, but the Pei Mansion was ransacked and all the things were put into the national treasury."

  "Mother, do you think it could be a treasure map?" Zhao Yao speculated, "Back then, the Pei Mansion was extremely prosperous and must have been very rich. Could the Pei Mansion have taken precautions and transferred some treasures to other places? Then, Han Zhong knew about this." "

  Unlikely. Back then, the Pei Mansion was indeed extremely prosperous because of Concubine Pei's favor, but the Pei Mansion was not a big family. Even if the Pei Mansion made money at that time, it was unlikely to make too much." Liang Zhaoyi analyzed, "Besides, the Pei family did not expect Concubine Pei to fall out of favor, and it is impossible for them to secretly transfer a sum of treasures to other places just in case."

  "If it's not a treasure map, what is it?"

  "Not sure."

  "Forget it, never mind. Han Zhong won't send anyone to the Pei Mansion anyway." Zhao Yao was too lazy to think about it anymore and lowered his head to continue eating.

  "This matter involves Han Zhong, I'm afraid it's not simple." Liang Zhaoyi frowned and said with a serious face, "After all, Han Zhong is a remnant of the previous dynasty."

  "It's not simple or not, it has nothing to do with us, we don't need to care too much." Although Zhao Yao was curious about what Han Zhong was looking for, he also knew that curiosity could kill the cat. "If we care too much, we will get into trouble."

  Liang Zhaoyi nodded and said, "You are right."

  "Mother, did anyone come to see me today?" Zhao Yao asked, "Did my eight brother come to see me?"

  "No." Liang Zhaoyi said, "The Prince of Dai is about to return to the palace, and the Eighth Prince should not have time to take care of you."

  "That's right, my eight brother has to stay with my brother, the Crown Prince, so how can he pay attention to me." Zhao Yao finished his meal, put down his chopsticks, took the towel from Gui Xing's hand, wiped his mouth, and wiped his hands.

  "The Prince of Dai is back, I'm afraid there will be another storm in the palace." The atmosphere in the palace has been a little strange these days. The undercurrent hidden under the surface of tranquility is already surging.

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