Although Zhao Jingwen was reluctant, every word Qin Zhongwan said made sense.

"That being said, being a beggar is too..." He was speechless for a moment.

Qin Zhongwan felt uncontrollable irritation in her heart. She suppressed it, her voice was cold and calm, and her eyes looked at Gu Siyuan seriously, "What do you think, Your Highness?"

Gu Siyuan understood and said with a gentle expression: "Master Zhao, things are different now. I have wronged Master Zhao. At present, the soldiers and horses from Huzhou have not arrived, and the father's decree has not yet been conveyed to Xu County. We can only endure it." Don’t send it.”

Zhao Jingwen felt miserable, but His Highness the Crown Prince took the initiative to persuade him. No matter how high his official position was, he was still not as high as the Crown Prince!

So, under the moonlight, the three of them scratched their clothes with sharp stones and smeared them with dust. Their clothes were dirty and their hair was messy. When they raised their heads, the three of them looked disgraced.

The group of people failed to find Gu Siyuan, and they were unwilling to give up. They arrogantly thought that they were running far away, so they went straight down the alley and knocked on the doors of every house.

Little did they know, Gu Siyuan had already put on a disguise and led Qin Zhongwan to a ruined temple, where the three of them settled.

Zhao Jingwen was forced to hunched over and huddled in the corner in frustration.

The three of them were not alone in the ruined temple. At first glance, there seemed to be more than a dozen beggars lying inside.

They were lying in a state of disarray in one of the few places that looked clean.

The snoring was deafening. Qin Zhongwan carefully found a spot in the corner, picked up a few handfuls of clean straw and spread it on top. This was where they would stay today.

After a sleepless night, the three of them didn't get a good rest at all. They fled in the first half of the night and smelled the noisy stench of the ruined temple and listened to the snoring in the second half of the night. They didn't feel sleepy at all.

The early morning light spilled in through the cracks in the broken roof tiles.

Qin Zhongwan blinked his dry eyes, and finally spent the night safely. The searchers never thought that Gu Siyuan, as the crown prince, would deign to pretend to be a beggar.

"Gululu~" Zhao Jingwen covered his stomach. The few whole-grain steamed buns he ate yesterday had already been digested.

Even a grown man, he was embarrassed, and kept pressing his stomach in an attempt to suppress the voice of resistance. Although Qin Zhongwan and Gu Siyuan did not speak, they were not hungry, they just held back.

A sigh overflowed from Qin Zhongwan's mouth. The wave of people who searched him suddenly last night didn't even have the few coins with him.

"Do you have any money?"

Their eyes met, but no one spoke, and Qin Zhongwan was even more helpless.

The three of them came together and couldn't even get out half a copper.

In his previous life, Qin Zhongwan had never experienced such a difficult time, and it makes him sad to think about it now.

"You can't really go begging for food, right?" Zhao Jingwen choked. It was already a great humiliation for him to pretend to be a beggar. If he was really allowed to beg for food again, how could he go back to Kyoto to recover?

The conversation between the three was rudely interrupted by a beggar who woke up, "Hey, you guys are new here?"

"Do you understand the rules? This Temple of Wealth is the territory of our Beggar Clan. Have you guys paid? Come and sleep here."

Following the words of the half-grown man, the beggars woke up one by one, rubbing their eyes and faces, and they immediately surrounded the three of them with the same hatred.

"Which gang are you from? Are you trying to grab territory?!"

Gu Siyuan silently blocked Qin Zhongwan behind him, "No, I'm just passing by to stay for one night."

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