Chapter 4*All False and True

Qingluan went downstairs to go to the kitchen. It happened that Li Laba, the delivery man, was unloading meat, vegetables, fish and eggs and other things in the kitchen. In his spare time, he squatted on the stool under the kitchen and smoked cigarette bags to ask the cooks for some cheapness. When he was being scolded by several cooks, Qingluan came into the door.

Several chefs quickly shut up and did things. Qingluan was the princess's maidservant. Although she was not their leader, the girl had a bad temper and everyone dared not provoke her easily.

Li Laoba recognized Qingluan and quickly put off his cigarette bag and said hello. Qingluan checked the meat and vegetarian dishes sent in and nodded, "Yes, they are all carefully selected dishes. Thank you for your hard work."

Li Laoba smiled and said, "It goes alone, this is the dish sent to our chef of Qingwangfu County. Naturally, it is the best in the town."

Qingluan smiled and said, "That's right, Li Laoba, I have something to do for your hard work."

"What do you say about hard work? Isn't this killing a villain? What's the matter, girl?

Qingluan said, "The princess has been obsessed with planting flowers recently. After the end of the year, it will be the season to grow flowers in March. The princess saw a kind of flower when she was in Chengdu Prefecture and liked it very much. Unfortunately, she has never seen it in our Ningxia Town. You people who run outside are very knowledgeable. Maybe you have seen this kind of flower for the princess. How about getting some flower seeds to make the princess happy?

Li Laba hurriedly said, "Isn't this a trivial matter? What flower? It's easy to find a name."

Qingluan frowned and thought, "Oh, I forgot about it. Well, you go upstairs with me to see the princess, and the princess will tell you the name of the flowers and the color and shape of the flowers, which is also easy for you to find."

Li Laba opened his mouth and said, "See...see the princess?"

Qingluan said, "What's the matter? The princess doesn't eat people. What are you afraid of? Maybe the princess will get a reward."

How can Li Laba be afraid? It's just a surprise how people like him can see the princess. As soon as he heard that there might be rewards, he was even more angry and nodded to thank him.

Qingluan smiled and said, "Come on, pick up the basket and come with me. If this is done, the princess will definitely reward you greatly."

"Thank you, Miss Qingluan, thank you, princess!"

Li Laoba carried the basket on his shoulder and followed Qingluan upstairs. Qingluan knocked in front of the princess's door and said, "Princess, the maidservant brought Li Laiba here. You can ask him yourself."

A woman said in the room, "Bell him in."

Qingluan pushed the door open and knocked the curtain for Li Laoba and said, "Go in."

Li Laoba was at a loss. The fragrance of the room spewing from the open curtain had made him dizzy. He also saw the magnificent decoration in the room, the carpet on the floor, and the shoes full of mud. He was even more proud that he could not move.

Seeing his hesitation, Qingluan couldn't help stretching out his hand and pushing him on the back. Li Laoba staggered in. Before Li Laoba could get up from the ground, he heard a humane above his head: "This brother, I'm sorry."

Li Laoba was still stunned, but he felt a heavy hit on his neck. His eyes were black, and he fainted without even seeing the princess sitting in front of him.

Wang Yong withdrew his hand, and Li Laoba lay upright on the carpet with a pale face. Princess Ping'an asked worriedly, "You didn't kill him, did you?"

Song Nan smiled and said, "I just fainted and woke up half an hour later. Not to mention that this face and figure are really similar to the Wang Yong brothers.

Wang Yong touched his face and said, "Am I so ugly? I seem to be better-looking than him.

Song Nan suppressed her smile and said, "Of course, you look much better than him. Don't talk too much. Take off his clothes and change them. If you delay for a long time, you may have trouble."

Wang Yong immediately took off Li Laoba's short jacket and cotton trousers, put them on them, took Li Laoba's down-eared hat and put them on his head, and then hung his waist card for entering and leaving the royal palace on his waist. Qingluan made some tricks on Wang Yong's face according to Li Laoba's appearance, cut off the fluffy beard on Li Laoba's face and glued it to Wang Yong. After finishing it, he looked at Wang Yong, and he was a good cook.

While dressing up Wang Yong, Song Nan explained how to cover up Wang Yong's disappearance after he went back. It's okay if no one visited him. If someone came to visit or invite him to a banquet or something, Song Nan said that he was uncomfortable. In order not to arouse suspicion, Song Nan asked Wang Yong to find someone to put on his brocade guard's helmet. A pretends to be, even if he shows his figure, it is enough to dispel other people's doubts.

Wang Yong nodded repeatedly and said, "This is a good way. Adults are fair-skinned and well-proportioned. I can only let Miss Yang pretend to be you. She is about the same height and her skin is white. Wearing armor will be chaotic."

Song Nan said, "You and Lord Yang and Hou Dabiao discuss how to do it. Anyone can do it, as long as they don't reveal the trap. In addition, tell them that on the lantern night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month tomorrow night, the princess will help me sneak out of the house, and you and Hou Dabiao will lead someone to pick me up at the lantern market.

Wang Yong answered and saw that his dress was correct. He arched his hand and went out to carry the basket and went downstairs. Qingluan deliberately pretended to have something to do and secretly led Wang Yong.

Stand upstairs, he watched Wang Yong's thick back disappear from the window and the inspection cards set up by several royal guards in various passages. Song Nan breathed a sigh of relief. Wang Yong was able to sneak out, which made him feel at ease.

"How to deal with this person?" Princess Ping'an frowned and pointed to Li Laba, who was lying on the ground in an untidy coat.

Song Nan thought for a moment and said, "I can only keep him in captivity first, and I'm not afraid that someone will come to look for him. After all, in full view of the public, he has gone out of the house to see where to hide him."

Princes Ping'an said, "There is no place to hide him upstairs. There is a flower house on the north side of the yard. It's winter now, and no one goes in and out. Where can he be locked?"

Song Nan nodded and said, "Well, I will send him away when it's dark, but now I can only hide in the room."

After saying that, Song Nan immediately started, blocked Li Laoba's mouth with a towel, blindfolded his eyes and stuffed his ears, and then wrapped him in a quilt, tied it like a big rice dumplings. He said, "Brother, I can only wrong you first. After the matter is over, I will definitely compensate you."

Then emptied the big box in the corner of the room, threw Li Laoba in, closed the lid, took out the dagger and pierced two ventilation holes on the side of the box.

Princess Ping'an stared at Song Nan's busy work. When he turned around and sat at the table, she suddenly asked, "Who is Miss Yang in the snow tower?"

Song Nan smiled and said, "Lord Yang Yiqing's daughter was originally in the capital. This time I came here, she missed her father, so she brought her here."

"Is she your wife?"

"No, no, don't talk nonsense. My wife is Princess Shuyi of the British Mansion, and her name is She."

"It turned out that Lord Wang said that there was also a princess in your house, who was your Princess Shuyi. She must be extremely beautiful and gentle." Princess Ping said with a smile.

"Where is the appearance, but the temper is by no means gentle." Thinking of the little princess's whist, Song Nan's face showed a gentle smile.

Princess Ping An sighed gently and said, "You must be very happy, and Princess Shuyi must also be very happy. That's good."

Song Nan couldn't answer. He knew that the princess in front of him had been married, but her husband died in less than a year and had been widowed for four or five years. The happiness of others may evoke her sadness.

The silence in the room was a little embarrassed. In order to hide the embarrassment, Song Nan reached out and took the teacup to drink tea. Suddenly, she saw that Princess Ping'an looked different and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"You... you took the wrong teacup again." Princess Ping said softly.

Song Nan lowered her head in astonishment, and the faint lipstick mark on the mouth of the teacup in her hand seemed to be in her eyes. She quickly put down the teacup awkwardly. Princess Ping'an recovered as usual and reached out and handed a silk handkerchief and said, "Wipe your mouth."

Song Nan smiled awkwardly and wiped her mouth twice and took it to see it in front of her, but she saw two light red colors on the white silk handkerchief, which was the lipstick marks on the teacup, as if she had kissed Princess Ping'an through a teacup as a medium. Thinking of this, I couldn't help looking up at Princess Ping's red mouth. How could Princess Ping't know what Song Nan was thinking, and a red cloud flew up on her face.

The atmosphere in the room was a little ambiguous. In the disturbing thoughts, the situation of sleeping together last night also surged into my mind, which made the two people's faces fever. After a long time, Princess Ping'an first regained her composure and asked, "Since you dared to enter the palace, why were you found to make such a big noise?"

Song Nan said, "We were well prepared, but unfortunately some mistakes have been made."

"What's wrong with that?"

Song Nan took out a piece of white paper from her arms and said, "It's this map that caused trouble."

"Oh?" Princess Ping'an curiously took over and opened it on the table. She only looked at it and said, "Where is this map painted? Is it my Qingwang Mansion?"

Song Nan said, "Yes, it's the Qingwang Mansion painted. Unfortunately, I'm afraid it's full of mistakes."

"It's not only full of mistakes. It's simply wrong. Except for the correct painting of the three halls in the front hall, other places are scrimbled. Who painted this map for you?"

"What? Is it completely wrong?" Song Nan said in surprise. Originally, although Zhu Changshun was familiar with the royal palace, after all, he was a slave, and many places could not be seen in full. It was inevitable to make mistakes when painting, but unexpectedly, except for the three halls in front of the royal palace, all the rest of the places were wrong, which was intentional.

"Look, our west building has moved seven or eight courtyards to the east, and the garden behind it is also empty. The garden of my royal palace is in the west. Why is this Buddhist hall in the north? It should be on the side of the Southeast Sanjin Heart Hall, and all these courtyards and stable halls have been moved, which is simply a mess. Princess Ping An pointed to the map.

Song Nan frowned and said nothing. Zhu Changshun seemed to have intended to do so, but Song Nan was not worry about this. He thought of a serious problem. If Zhu Changshun intended to do so, who would have instructed him to do so? How could he know that he wanted to break into the royal palace to ask Zhu Changshun to deliberately paint? If you cheat yourself with a fake map, don't you say that your intention to enter the royal palace is already known? What's the matter with that? If this person has told King Anhua, then...

Song Nan's scalp is numb.

"Lord Song, Lord Song?" Seeing Song Nan in a daze, Princess Ping An shouted twice in a row.

Song Nan came to her senses, reached out and threw the map into the fire basin, watching the rising flames swallow the paper into ashes.

"Princess, I think I should be honest with you. I want to tell you the purpose of my entry into the palace. I wonder if the princess is interested?"