I am a cat in the palace

The Dingshui River runs from east to west, and the Canglan River runs from north to north.

Hongzhou Yongding City relied on this water and land wharf to become the capital city of Hongzhou, and it is also the most prosperous city in several nearby counties.The Yongtai Wharf in Yongding City is one of the three most important wharves in the north and south of Daxia.

Rourou put me on his head, pretended to be a fur hat and walked into Yongding City.

There were also portraits of Rou Rou and Wei Yin painted on the gate of Yongding City, but the interrogation was not too strict. I made a little fool of myself and covered up a few people.

The city is very peaceful, and the turmoil in the capital does not seem to have a big impact on this place. The patrols in the city did not check the outsiders as much as the towns they passed by before. Too much, even if they want to fight, they will not be able to fight, and they have already passed that mental head.

Of course, there may be another important reason, that is, the prefect of Hongzhou didn't think His Royal Highness King Zhen, who was supposed to go north, would come to his territory out of nowhere.

"Our dark guard camp has a shop here. It's on the other side of the pier. Yingba is in charge of it. I've sent him a letter before. I saw his secret letter at the gate of the city just now. He said that it has been arranged. A merchant ship can go all the way north along the waterway to Jinjiang City, and just wait for the young master to pass, and the ship can be set off immediately."

Ying Er said that he was Wan Ji's deputy, Wan Ji was left in the capital, and he was mainly in charge of controlling the contact with the hidden guards along the way. Although he was not very talkative, he did everything smoothly and was very secure.

"Jinjiang City?" Rourou was a little confused, he didn't know much about Cangzhou, but as far as he knew, the capital city of Cangzhou should be Luocheng.

"Yes! Jin Jiang." Wei Yin took over the conversation without asking Ying Er to explain.

"Jinjiang is in the north of Cangzhou, close to the border between Great Xia and Yu State. The lord of Jinjiang City is your uncle Yanwei General Ling Wuzheng. As long as you enter Jinjiang City and have the protection of hundreds of thousands of Yanwei troops, you can be regarded as the hand of the false emperor. No matter how long it is, it won't reach you."

"Uncle..." The sensuality hesitated to speak, but I had no taboo, so I sneered at Wei Yin: "Tch!"

"Will General Ling protect Shang Xin? For so many years, he hasn't even sent a piece of paper. When does he remember that there is such a nephew as Shang Xin?"

I rolled my eyes at Wei Yin very displeased, in my heart I have a hundred disbeliefs in that General Ling.

Seeing that Zhen and Rourou were more or less hesitant, Wei Yin thought about it but suddenly smiled, "Does Your Highness really think that he has never received a gift from General Yanwei?"

"I've never seen it before." I lay on top of Rourou's head, even when Rourou was in her infancy, I still remember clearly, if there is no, there is no.

"Actually—when His Highness was six years old, General Ling once gave His Highness a gift."

"When I was six years old?" Shang Xin frowned suspiciously and thought hard.

I also frowned, "When was it delivered? If there is a gift from General Ling, Fulin and Mrs. Chen will definitely show it to Shang Xin. I don't remember seeing a gift from General Ling. "

"That gift has never left His Highness's side since he was six years old. Even now, he has always been by His Highness's side." Wei Yin said with a smile on his face.

Seeing his fox-like sly smile, Zhen and Shang Xin exclaimed almost at the same time: "Mr. Wei (Wei Yin)! It's you!"

"You are not the emperor who picks people from the crowd..."

Seeing Wei Yin's darkened face, I coughed lightly and stopped talking, "I thought you were the master chosen by the old emperor for Shang Xin, but I didn't expect that Ling... Ling Wuzheng found you."

Wei Yin stretched out his hand and stroked my hair vigorously, looked at Shang Xin in a blink of an eye, and said seriously: "Some people talk about their concerns, while others keep them in their hearts. Your uncle...although he has never told you What, but he has always kept you in his heart, he is your last relative in this world, and you are also his only relative in this world."

"Uncle, doesn't he have a wife?" Shang Xin doesn't know his uncle very well, and few people mention this uncle in front of him on weekdays, as if everyone is deliberately avoiding something.

It's just that now, this kind of taboo no longer makes sense.

Wei Yin was taken aback by Shang Xin's question, and said after a while: "Well, the general has always been single and never married."

Ling Wuzheng is almost ten years older than Shang Xin's mother, if Ling Guifei is 30 years old now, wouldn't this General Ling be nearly forty years old?

"However, General Ling has an adopted son and a daughter by his side, both of whom are loyal survivors who died in battle." Wei Yin added immediately.

"It seems that Xin misunderstood my uncle deeply." Rourou nodded. He has always been open-minded, and he has always admired his uncle from the bottom of his heart. At this moment, Wei Yin said a few good words, and immediately coaxed him into a frenzy. Rou felt ashamed of Ling Wuzheng.

But I still feel a little dissatisfied in my heart. Besides, I care about it from the bottom of my heart. How can I ignore it for more than ten years?Every year for Rourou's birthday, he would eagerly hope that this uncle could give him something, even if it was a congratulatory form, but that Ling Wuzheng didn't even bother to send him a piece of paper.

Sending a master here counts as caring?Which one of the prince's masters was not found by the prince's mother's family?What's more, it was Wei Yin, a cat-loving maniac, who gave me the gift. I have to endure his torture every day. I really don't like Ling Wuzheng's gift at all!

"The silk shop in front is Lao Ba's place. I'll go to check it out first. Your Highness and Mr. Wei, please sit here and eat something. If there's nothing wrong, I'll invite you to go there again." Even Ying Ba himself The supervised shop had been contacted beforehand, and Ying Er cautiously went to check it himself.

Wei Yin found a small stall, bought a few bowls of wontons and sat down with Rou Rou, eating wontons while waiting for Ying Er.

Rourou took a small plate, and he counted each of them and quickly ate up two large bowls of wontons. At the end of the meal, even the soup, Rourou, was poured into his stomach.

Along the way, Rourou's little picky eater in the palace has been cured.

Especially after eating the voles that I caught, he could stuff anything that could fit into his stomach without hesitation, and he didn't have any trace of the prince's coquettishness on his body.

As soon as the wontons were finished, Ying Er brought someone towards him.Because there were so many people, Ying Er didn't say much after coming over, but simply introduced to Rou Rou and Wei Yin: "His name is Zheng Lao Ba, and he is the manager of our shop here. Lao Ba, This is the young master and the young master's husband."

"Lao Ba has seen the young master and the husband. The young master and the husband are tired after traveling all the way. Go to the shop to rest for a while. I received news from the old house earlier that the young master is coming. I am Looking forward to the stars and the moon, looking forward to the young master's arrival, why have they all come to the shop and are still eating outside, but I specially asked my mother-in-law to cook sweet and sour pork ribs for the young master. I heard from people in my hometown that the young master loves it the most What I ate was sweet and sour pork ribs."

Yingba is a well-to-do middle-aged man, he looks in his thirties and in his forties, he walks with his belly bent and stooped, he looks like a complete small businessman.He was chubby, with thick flesh on his face, and his eyes, which were not that big, were squeezed even smaller, but occasionally he opened and closed with a naked eye, obviously his physical strength is not weak.

He babbled non-stop, and his demeanor was very attentive, but while he was speaking, he quietly looked at the expressions of everyone around him, including the diners around him, even Rou Rou and Wei Yin, I squinted my eyes slightly, this People are not simple.

Of course, those who can enter the dark guard and use the name of shadow, and can be ranked in the top ten, are all top people in the dark guard, and none of them are simple characters.

"Yo, I can't tell, this Yingba is quite good at doing business, this shop is not small." I had already got off Rourou's head and was being held in his arms.I whispered quietly, my voice was extremely low. After all, my monster-like existence is not very suitable for too many people to know.

"The dark guard battalion was set up by the emperor himself. It was originally to guard against princes from all walks of life, so the scale of the establishment is very large, and there are quite a lot of talents from all walks of life in it, but I didn't expect..."

It's just that he didn't expect that the real danger was not those powerful vassals, but his concubine's youngest son whom he loved wholeheartedly.

"His Royal Highness, are you going to rest here for a few days?" Arriving at the private house behind the shop, Ying Ba immediately changed his previous greasy businessman's face and tightened his expression. With a thumping sound, he knocked his head three times to Rourou.

Then the chubby fleshy face trembled, and when everyone didn't expect it, tears flowed down. When everyone looked at each other and didn't know what it meant, he wiped his face vigorously, with some He choked up and said: "My father and brother were framed by traitors back then, and they were imprisoned and sentenced to death. My mother sold her property and took me all the way to Beijing to sue. After taking all the money, she also accused my mother of stealing, and threw my mother and son on the street to fend for herself. My mother was a lady from a famous family, but she was in trouble every time. In the end, she couldn't even keep her clean reputation, and she vomited blood in a fit of anger And died. I was only ten years old back then, even if I sold myself, no one would take it, and I didn't even have the ability to buy a thin coffin for my mother, so I could only hold my mother's body and scold the sky for injustice."

"It was at that time that the emperor... the eldest son of the emperor passed by by chance. He helped the minister to bury his mother and rescued his father and elder brother. From then on, I thought that the emperor is the only master in my life. , I have to learn my skills, I have to learn the most powerful skills, and protect the emperor well, but—but I have no skills! I didn’t do it, I didn’t protect the emperor well—”

A fat man who weighed almost two hundred catties was so fat and trembling from crying, with tears and snot all over his face, he actually looked ugly and ridiculous.

However, none of the people present noticed his ugliness, and even Ying Er, who had always been silent and not good at speaking, felt a little wet in his eyes.Those in the dark guard camp who can have a shadow as their name are all selected by the old emperor himself, and they all stayed by his side. Many of them are people who have received great favor from him, and they treat the old emperor from the bottom of their hearts. Respect and love.

I silently looked at the fat man who was crying heartbroken, and the silent shadows, and suddenly I missed the old emperor a little bit.

The dark guard camp is the most carefully managed by the old emperor, and it is also the most powerful trump card. They were handed over to Rourou and became the biggest guarantee for Rourou. They are farther away than his title and even at the border. My uncle needs to be reliable and useful.

Rourou didn't cry, he walked up to the fat man who was still kneeling there, stretched out his hand and patted the fat man's shoulder lightly.

"This king will never let my father die in an unclear manner." There was a coldness and firmness in the fleshy voice that I had never heard before.

"Your Highness..." The fat man raised his eyes to look at Rou Rou with tears in his eyes.

"Get up, we still have a lot of important things to do, and the tears can wait until the time to sacrifice to the father and the heroic spirit."

"Yes!"

"This time I went north, I prepared a fleet of three ships. Half of the goods on board were cloth and half were dry goods. They were all common things in the north and south. It's just that the ships are too big and easy to catch people's eyes. Therefore, I chose these three ships. All of them are medium-sized ships, but the conditions on board are relatively simple, I am afraid that the young master will be wronged for a while."

"Treasurer Eight, you're being polite." Rourou shook his head, this was much better than being a savage who traveled through mountains and rivers for more than a month.

"All the people on the boat are my own people. As soon as I received the eagle letter, I specially transferred [-] people with particularly good water quality from the Jiangnan camp. The most worrying thing about boating on the water is not the officers and soldiers who are interrogating them, but the water that has passed along the way. bandit."

In these respects, Yingba, who has been in business and sailing all year round, is an expert. Rourou and Wei Yin didn't feel the need to say anything more, but they just confirmed the route with Yingba again, and the areas where they might encounter interrogation and water bandits along the way. We discussed together the things that need to be paid attention to on the way.

"The night is long and the dream is full. Let's rest for another night today. Since everything has been arranged, let's start tomorrow morning."

"Yes, Master!"