With a warehouse full of supplies, I stood alone as king in this chaotic world, gun in hand.

"We've been guarding the palace the whole time and haven't seen any assassins. You'd better leave now!" Li Shan shouted coldly.

However, these guards had received the Crown Prince's death order to search the Zhenyuan Prince's residence, and they could not be dismissed by his few words.

"The Prince Zhenyuan's mansion is so big, and it's the middle of the night. How can you guarantee that you can defend against a highly skilled assassin? You'd better open the gates and let us in to search. Otherwise, if the assassin gets away and His Highness the Crown Prince blames us, neither of us will be in a good position."

"Our men tracked the assassin here and found him inside this palace. If you refuse to open the gates and allow us to search, you will be punished for harboring a thief!"

"If you want to find fault, you can always find a pretext. We said we didn't see the assassin, and that's it. Stop arguing here." Li Shan sneered and said:

"Our Prince, Heir Apparent, and Princess are all not in the manor! The Princess has instructed that none of us are allowed to open the gates of the manor without the master's order. Anyone who dares to trespass will be killed without exception!"

The Crown Prince's guards are now in a dilemma!

Everyone knows that Nangong Wu has very powerful weapons and is a woman of her word.

Several years ago, the Empress Dowager and Prince Rui staged a coup, arresting the Emperor and his princes. It was with their powerful weapons that Nangong Wu managed to save the Emperor and his princes.

Many people witnessed Nangong Wu's powerful weapon; the explosion was deafening, and even the Imperial Advisor was killed.

Moreover, Nangong Wu fears no one and dares to kill anyone. She can kill whoever she wants without hesitation, and she doesn't even respect the emperor. If they force their way in, they'll probably be carried out horizontally.

"How about... we look somewhere else first!" one of the guards said, sounding scared.

In this world, no one dares to offend Nangong Wu; anyone who dares to barge in will die.

"Several storehouses in the Marquis of Qingyang's residence have been robbed, and even the grain in two large granaries has been stolen! His Highness the Crown Prince has given a death order that we must not miss a single place. If we just leave like this, and the assassins are not caught, how will we explain ourselves to the Crown Prince when we return..."

"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat..." A burst of bullets landed at their feet.

The guards were so startled that they all retreated.

"I'll count to three. If you don't get out of here by then, you'll all die here!" Li Shan began to count: "One!"

"Let's go! We need to go back and report to the Crown Prince!"

Seeing that he was serious, the palace guards dared not linger and fled.

After that group left, no one dared to knock on the gate of the Zhenyuan Prince's Mansion.

Nangong Wu got up at dawn. Upon hearing Li Shan's report, she asked calmly, "Is the city under lockdown yet?"

"No, but it was delayed by more than half an hour, presumably in preparation for sealing off the city. Later, I don't know why, it was reopened, presumably because someone objected," Li Shan guessed.

"So that means the shops in the capital are open for business as usual?" Nangong Wu asked.

"Yes." Li Shan nodded. "There was quite a commotion in the capital last night, but the common people had to open their shops to do business in order to make a living."

"I understand. You will come with me out of the capital later. Prepare an ordinary carriage and have a few people wait at the side gate."

Now that we're back, we should buy some things in the capital.

"Yes!" Li Shan replied.

Nangong Wu tidied herself up and left the room.

Seeing that Steward Fang and Granny Feng were both waiting outside, he then gave the following instructions:

"Have someone pack everything up, I'll take it when I get back."

"This old servant understands."

Butler Fang and Granny Feng responded.

Nangong Wu left Zuimei Courtyard and headed towards the side gate.

Li Shan led five Flying Feather Guards who were already waiting there, along with several horses and an ordinary carriage.

Li Shan came forward and said, "Your Highness, we discovered someone was secretly watching us, and we executed them."

"Mm." Nangong Wu nodded slightly and walked towards the carriage.

"Please, Your Highness." A guard lifted the carriage curtain for her.

Nangong Wu boarded the carriage, handed each of them a money bag, and whispered, "When we get to the street, buy all the steamed buns and mantou from every steamed bun shop, no matter how many they have."

"Understood."

The Flying Feather Guard took the money bag and mounted his horse.

Li Shan originally intended to drive himself, but after hearing the task assigned to them by Nangong Wu, he let another Flying Feather Guard drive.

The carriage drove into a food street.

It was still dark, and although all the shops were open, the streets were deserted and there were hardly any people.

Upon seeing a steamed bun shop, the carriage stopped.

Li Shan walked up to the steamed bun shop and said, "Wrap up all the steamed buns and mantou that you've already made; we'll take them all."

"Ah!" The shop owner was taken aback for a moment, then exclaimed with delight, "Where would you like us to deliver this to, sir?"

"No need to send it, we want it now. You pack it up and we'll take it with us," Li Shan said.

"But..." the shop owner hesitated, "Young master, we used to deliver steamed buns with the steamer baskets. If you want to take them all away, we don't have bags big enough to fit them all!"

When making steamed buns for customers, they used small sheets of oil paper and hemp paper; they simply didn't have anything to pack so many buns.

"Li Shan, bring their steamers over," Nangong Wu's voice came through.

Upon hearing this, Li Shan said to the shop owner, "Just order the steamed buns, no need to pack them up."

"Alright!" The shop owner counted the buns and steamed bread. "Forty buns per basket, fifteen baskets are steamed; thirty-two steamed breads per basket, thirteen baskets are steamed."

Several Flying Feather Guards carried steamers into the carriage.

The car door is too small, and the steamer is too big to fit inside.

Nangong Wu reached out and, with the guard's body shielding her, used her mind to send the buns and steamed bread into her spatial storage.

After finishing at one steamed bun shop, they move on to the next.

They walked through more than a dozen streets, almost emptying all the steamed buns and mantou from every steamed bun shop, and an hour had passed.

"We're going to the meat market. We need to buy all kinds of meat, no matter what they are. Make sure you check carefully and don't buy any pork with parasite eggs. We need beef, mutton, fish, eggs, and all kinds of meat, including chicken, duck, and fish," Nangong Wu instructed.

The pigs here are not fed commercial feed, so they grow slowly and taste better than the meat she brought from her previous life. However, there may be parasites and meat from diseased or dead pigs, so she shouldn't eat it.

"Your Highness, our palace has shops that specialize in delivering meat and vegetables. If we need a lot, we can go to these shops ourselves and have them slaughter more pigs, sheep, cattle, fish, chickens, and ducks and deliver them to the palace. Moreover, they wouldn't dare to send us meat that is diseased," Li Shan suggested.

Nangong Wu thought for a moment and nodded, "Okay, then send someone to tell them that no matter how many they can kill, as long as they can be delivered to the corner gate of the Prince's Mansion before 11 PM."

If there's no time to remove the hair and gut the animal, you can have them slaughter it and bring the whole thing over. You also need to buy vegetables.