After kneading for a while, seeing that Yu Wantai's body was relaxed, Yan Muxi probably wouldn't care about what happened just now, so she spoke tentatively.

"I think Qinghuan plays the pipa well, Huazhi paints well, and Lingyin sings more pleasantly than the oriole on the tree."

"Whatever the Crown Princess wants to say, just say it directly." Yu Wantai didn't turn around and his tone was still calm.

"I just think that the girls live too far away. The prince is tired from going back and forth. I thought it would be better to move them to a courtyard closer to Shuangxinju. Then,..."

Yu Wantai suddenly turned around and their eyes met Yan Muxi's. The next words were stuck in his throat and he dared not say them.

"Could it be that the Crown Princess feels tired?"

"Hehe," Yan Muxi looked away and didn't meet his gaze, trying to raise the corners of her mouth, "What nonsense are you talking about, my Lord? If you don't want to, forget it. It's good to walk more, it's good."

Yu Wantai turned his head when he heard that. Maybe it was an illusion, but Yan Muxi seemed to hear him sigh.

After a moment of silence, Yu Wantai said, "When you see me in the future, you don't need to kneel down and kowtow to anyone else except the emperor."

"Okay, I'll remember it." Yan Muxi's tone and expression revealed that she was well-behaved and sensible.

Yu Wantai didn't like to see her pretending to be well-behaved. He married her into the palace because he hoped that she could live a comfortable life instead of living an uneasy life wearing a mask.

"If the Crown Princess feels bored, you can go out for fun anytime."

"Really? Can I really leave the palace and go anywhere?"

Seeing that Yu Wantai did not deny it, Yan Muxi couldn't suppress his joy.

Before, when she was in Yan Mansion, she could not leave the house without something. Even if she had something, she had to get Su's permission to leave the house openly.

Princess Rong hardly ever left the palace all year round, so she subconsciously thought that she could not leave the palace at will.

The palace was too big, and Shuangxinju was located in the center of the palace. With her walking speed, it would take her fifteen minutes to walk to the nearest corner gate, and she would inevitably meet servants of the palace on the way, so there was no possibility of her sneaking out of the palace.

Seeing her happy, Yu Wantai's eyes also smiled, "It's just a trip out of the house, why are you so happy? Whenever you want to go out, I will send a carriage to pick you up. There is no need to tell mother, she doesn't care about these things."

Yan Muxi felt that, apart from not touching her, Yu Wantai was nice to her in other aspects, and she should do something in return.

But she couldn't figure out Yu Wantai's thoughts, and didn't know who or what he loved, so it was not easy for her to make any blind arrangements on her own.

In fact, Yan Muxi envied grandma very much. Grandpa only had grandma in his life, and the couple's relationship was pure and clean from body to heart. It's a pity that it is difficult to find a partner like grandpa in the world.

When she wanted to marry into the Su family, she also wanted to avoid sharing a husband with others. She thought that even if she could not get her husband's love for the rest of her life, it was better than sharing a husband with others.

But since the moment she learned that she was going to enter the palace, she no longer had the extravagant hope of being together for the rest of her life.

Yu Wantai is a member of the royal family and the only male heir of the Rong Palace. There cannot be only one woman in the palace. Moreover, Yu Wantai has a bad reputation and it is impossible for her to keep herself clean for one person and ignore the inheritance of the palace's offspring.

Therefore, Yan Muxi did not have any unrealistic fantasies about Yu Wantai, and only hoped that she would be treated well and respected after entering the palace.

The prerequisite for being treated well and respected is to please the other person, cater to his or her preferences and be a qualified confidant, so no matter how uncomfortable she feels, she will try her best to cater to him or her.

The next day, Yan Muxi followed Yu Wantai out of the house.

The couple separated in front of the mansion gate. Yu Wantai went out of the city to the Colosseum in the northern suburbs, while Yan Muxi went to Changsheng Street in the northern city.

The North City is where officials and wealthy families live. There are generally no crowds of people on the streets. Most people travel by carriage, horse, or sedan chair.

Changsheng Street is the most prosperous commercial street in the northern city. There are many shops on both sides of the road, including teahouses, taverns, pawnshops, workshops and other shops. At just noon, the road is already crowded with cars and horses.

If you count carefully, Yan Muxi hasn't been out for a stroll for more than two years. Along the way, she lay by the car window and looked at the street view outside through the gap in the curtain.

Compared to the prosperity of the North City, she actually prefers the bustling commercial streets in the civilian area, where vendors can shout freely, children can laugh wantonly, and women can move among the crowd without any cover, unlike the women of high-ranking officials who are bound by rules and can only live their entire lives in the cage woven for them by their families.

However, there are pros as well as cons. Women from large families do not have to worry about their livelihood. Although they do not have freedom, they can have enough food and clothing and live a comfortable life that the poor envy.

Yan Muxi has seen the vicissitudes of life and experienced the sufferings of the world, so she longs for freedom but does not expect it too much.

Because she knows that she lives better than many people, and she should be content, because only by being content can she be happy.

"In front is the snack shop that the Crown Princess brought as a dowry. Would you like to go down and take a look?" Yin Xia asked, pointing at the luxurious shop across the street.

Yan Muxi glanced at the parked carriages and the long queues, "There are too many people, forget it! Qiuzhu just checked the bill yesterday, there's nothing to see if we go."

The dim sum shop does not sell traditional dim sum, but new-style pastries invented by Yan Muyun. The pastries are very popular among the ladies and young ladies in Luodu City. Since it opened, servants from various mansions have been lining up to buy them before dawn.

In addition to their own dowry shop, the Qian family’s pastry shop in Jiangnan also launched new-style pastries. Perhaps because southerners like sweet things, the new-style pastries were even more popular in Jiangnan than in Luodu City.

"Huh? Why do the people queuing in front of me look familiar?" Dong Yu suddenly pointed at a place and exclaimed.

Yan Muxi looked in the direction Dongyu pointed, and saw a tall and thin woman with her head and face wrapped tightly, leaving only her eyes exposed.

She also felt that the man looked familiar. He must be someone she had seen before, but she just couldn't remember where.

Dong Yu hissed and slapped her forehead, "I remember now, it was the witch doctor who cured Madam Man of the poison."

Almost at the same time, Yin Xia also recognized her, "It is indeed the female witch doctor who came to our house that day. Should we send someone to follow her?"

Yan Muxi thought for a moment and said, "Follow them. Find someone reliable to follow them and remember to pass on the instructions. It's better to lose them than to alert the enemy."

Ever since she left the house and went to the inn that day, the witch doctor seemed to have disappeared out of thin air and has never been found again.

Aunt Ming said that voodoo can only be planted by being in close proximity or by taking the eggs orally. The incubation period of the eggs can be long or short, but they must be awakened by blood before an attack. Once the insect is awakened, it will attack within three days.

It is difficult to estimate when the poison was planted on A-niang, but the insect was awakened just two days after they were released from the yard.

During those two days, A Niang did not leave the house, nor did she come into contact with outside food or unfamiliar faces.

Yan Muxi still hasn't figured out how the poisonous insect in A Niang's body was awakened and by who?

If you can't get rid of the poisonous snake hiding in the dark, you have to know how poisonous it is.

So she had to confirm whether the female witch doctor was just doing the job for money or whether she was Yan Yongchen's person.

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