The villain prince is three and a half years old

After letting the three princesses rest in the house for a while, Xia Jing introduced today's itinerary.

In the morning, they toured the capital city by carriage. At noon, they had lunch at Tianxianglou in the West Market and took a carriage trip to the West Market. In the afternoon, they went to the East Market and shopped in the shops carefully selected by the Xue family. When the sun rose, they set off to return to the palace.

This sounds a bit like a small tour group project, especially the shopping section at designated places in the afternoon. It would be even more like that if a shopping guide were arranged to talk for a long time.

But there is no way around this Xue family selected store. If it were an ordinary store, no one would feel at ease.

"Is there no incognito segment?" Yan Yushi lay on the table, a little disappointed.

"This is already a secret journey." Xia Jing said.

"Such a ceremony, ordinary royal relatives don't have this kind of treatment. Are they also traveling in disguise?" Yan Yushi muttered.

Xia Jing nodded: "For us, it's already very small."

How could one disguise themselves as a commoner on an incognito tour? What if someone accidentally killed you? Even if your life wasn't in danger, how frustrating would it be to encounter an aristocrat who treated commoners rudely and couldn't reveal your true identity?

So going incognito means being a little more low-key and pretending to be a young man from a wealthy family.

"I don't have any money with me, so I can't buy anything." Ning Sisi lowered her head, feeling depressed that she had missed the shopping session.

"It's okay, I'll go to the Qin family to borrow some money." Ning Xuenian patted his chest, very righteous.

Yan Yushi turned her gaze from them to Xia Jing: "Nineth Young Master must have prepared everything, so we don't need to bother."

Xia Jing glanced at Yan Yushi and said with a smile, "The silver is ready, fifty taels per person. It's fun to buy things with limited money."

Ning Xuenian pulled Ning Sisi and cheered, and Yan Yushi looked as if she had not expected it.

Xia Jing glanced at her again.

The Ninth Prince agreed to bring Ning Sisi out because Ning Sisi was his biological sister, and Yan Yushi had no such blood relationship. Xia Jing brought her along because he thought she was a little weird.

Chapter 170: Damn it, we got caught!

[Name: Yan Yushi]

【Age: 9】

[Identity: Princess of Yan]

[Intimacy: 62 (-12)]

Compared to when they first met, Yan Yushi's favorability has increased a lot, but the temporary intimacy is still negative.

Xia Jing initially thought that Yan Yushi was afraid that Yan Nanque's identity would be discovered by him, so she was very hostile, but now, he thought, maybe it wasn't entirely because of this.

As a hostage, Yan Yushi was supposed to stay in Tongde Palace, do nothing, and wait until she came of age to marry a prince or a clan relative, but in reality, she was a little too active.

Just now was an example. As soon as she arrived at the Xue family, she chatted a lot with Xue Zhixi. Xia Jing listened from the side, and those words seemed to be inquiring about the background of the Xue family.

In the palace, Xia Jing didn't notice Yan Yushi's movements, but he heard about it from the servants.

Yan Yushi was already nine years old, and her age could only provide her with limited protection. Moreover, although she was a princess, she was a princess of the State of Yan. The palace maids and eunuchs showed respect to her on the surface, but they did not revere her in their hearts.

Xia Jing once heard a palace maid in the laundry department muttering that the Princess of Yan had too many questions and was talking about all sorts of things.

The Ninth Prince first suspected that Yan Yushi was an undercover agent sent by the State of Yan, just like Ning Wanjun.

But on second thought, Ning Wanjun was married directly to the tribal leader, and had a certain status and power. The Ning Dynasty also had a certain influence on those border tribes, which made Ning Wanjun qualified to become a spy.

Yan Yu Shi was just a small gift, locked up in the harem. The State of Yan could not interfere with the Ning Dynasty at all, and could not provide shelter and help. Unless the high-level officials of the State of Yan were suffering from hysteria, it was impossible for them to have any expectations for Yan Yu Shi.

In other words, Yan Yu's poetry behavior should be spontaneous.

The Ninth Prince was too lazy to guess. No matter what the girl wanted, he would find out as long as he waited patiently.

……

After the rest, the Ninth Prince's tour group officially set off. Xue Zhixi also joined them as an assistant tour guide to assist the Ninth Prince in his work.

If it weren't for the concerns of others and other reasons, Xia Jing really wanted to hold up a small red flag and walk in front, cosplaying as a travel agency tour guide, using a small bee loudspeaker to introduce:

Hello everyone, welcome to the Ning Dynasty Two-Day, One-Night Tour. I'm your guide, Xiaojiu. Before we officially depart, I'd like to share a story about our driver...

Then they took out a bag of beef jerky and pretended it was a specialty from the driver's hometown. They talked about how poor the driver's hometown was and how much it needed everyone's help. They used words to force every tourist to buy a bag, and only then would the bus depart after they had purchased it.

Compared to these black-hearted tour guides, the Ninth Prince was too conscientious. After the three princesses got on the carriage, he didn't ask for anything and let them set off.

There were two carriages in total. Xue Zhixi was in the carriage with Luhua and Yuhe, introducing the capital to the two palace maids. The two palace maids had been in the harem for many years and had not seen the outside of the palace for a long time.

There are very few tourist attractions in the capital, only two, one is the Qingshui River and the other is the Grand Palace.

There is no need to visit the Grand Palace. After the carriage tour along Qingshui River, it heads towards Xishi.

As we got closer to the West Market, there were more vendors. Once we entered the West Market, the carriage was filled with the sounds of hawking.

In the carriage, three princesses and a prince shared two windows, Ning Xuenian and Xia Jing together, and Ning Sisi and Yan Yushi together.

"It's sugar painting!" Ning Xuenian had sharp eyes and spotted the rare vendor.

Sugar painting uses malt sugar, which is not new in the palace, but there are no masters who make sugar painting in the palace. Only a few palace maids and eunuchs have secretly learned a trick or two and can perform for their masters.

"Tanghulu!" Ning Sisi looked to the other side.

Candied haws were not on the menu of the imperial kitchen, but they could be asked to make them. However, Ning Sisi had obviously never made such a request.

Yan Yushi was not interested in sugar figures or candied haws, and stared at the porcelain shop.

Xia Jing thought about it and allocated fifty taels of silver to provide errand services to the three little princesses, allowing them to find servants to purchase things for them.

After a while, the carriage was filled with sweet smell. The three princesses held the sugar painting in one hand and the candied haws in the other, licking one and then the other, with sweet smiles on their faces.

The three people’s candied haws were the same, and their sugar paintings were surprisingly similar as well.

Ning Xuenian requested a simple drawing of a rabbit, as her zodiac sign was the rabbit. The rabbit's design was inspired by a comic strip circulating within the palace. No one outside the palace knew the drawing's origin or name; it was given by Emperor Kangning to the young princes, hence the name "Little Prince's Drawing."

Ning Sisi also ordered a rabbit, but it was a traditional rabbit. She thought of her General Shi.

Yan Yushi even ordered a rabbit, also a stick figure. She asked the sugar artist to flatten the rabbit so it looked plump.

"Here's a try." Ning Xuenian handed the sugar painting to Xia Jing.

Xia Jing was not polite and bit off one of the rabbit's ears.

Ning Xuenian laughed and said it was an eared rabbit.

Xia Jing didn't pay attention to her, but glanced at Yan Yushi out of the corner of his eye. Yan Yushi was lying by the window, holding her own fat rabbit, staring at it in a trance.

After having lunch at the Tianxianglou, which they had booked, the group went to the East Market.

There were few people in the East Market, many constables, and good public security. The group got off the carriage and moved around freely.

Several shops carefully selected by the Xue family are close together and all are cleared out to facilitate the princesses' shopping. They can also take a look at shops other than those carefully selected by the Xue family, but they need two people following them, one in front and one behind.

The princesses didn't like being surrounded by people, and since the Xue family had a good selection of goods, they just shopped in those stores.

The three of them originally acted together, but gradually developed their own preferences and separated.

Xia Jing followed Ning Xuenian and watched the girl pick and choose. She preferred some worthless little things to those valuable items.

"How about this?" Ning Xuenian picked up a gray jade and asked Xia Jing.

"Very ordinary." Xia Jing took it and looked at it, and suddenly an idea came to his mind, "It's easy to hold in the hand, and it would be a good projectile for a slingshot."

"That's what I thought!" Ning Xuenian picked up the gray jade and ran to the counter to pay.

Xia Jing felt that his mischievousness was not enough. At least when he came up with the idea of ​​using gray jade to make bullets, he felt a little guilty and felt sorry for the jade.

Walking out of the jade shop, Ning Xuenian held the gray jade in front of her eyes and looked at it with joy.

"Wait until I make another jade bow and then put the two together." said the girl.

It turns out that it is for viewing purposes only, not for real shooting.

They were about to go to the next store when they suddenly heard an argument coming from the East Market.

Ning Xuenian was curious, and Xia Jing had nothing to do, so he decided to go over and take a look.

As they got closer, they found that there were already quite a few onlookers. Xia Jing pulled Ning Xuenian to a restaurant nearby and looked down from the second-floor window, which was the best viewing spot.

Someone wanted to follow them upstairs, so Xiao Tianzi gave a silver note to the shopkeeper and booked the second floor.

Xia Jing and Ning Xuenian saw the core of the conflict: a dark and thin woman was arguing with two constables.

It’s hard to see the dark and thin woman’s appearance, but just by looking at her figure and skin, you can tell that she is not a beauty.

There was a wooden board in front of her with four large characters written on it with a brush - Selling myself to bury my father. There was also a line of small characters below the large characters, but it was too far to see clearly.

According to the gossip of the onlookers downstairs, a thin and dark woman has been selling herself in the East Market for half an hour, but no one is interested.

Who needs a servant when they can come to the East Market? Besides, the thin, dark woman is asking for an exorbitant price. The coffin for burying her father must be made of fir wood, which costs at least dozens of taels, while buying an ordinary maid is only four or five taels of silver!

The constable patrolled once every half an hour. When he saw her, he felt that she was an eyesore to the city and went to drive her away. However, the woman refused to leave and shouted that the constable was bullying her. An argument broke out and the stall selling human beings, which had been deserted, suddenly became lively and was soon surrounded by a crowd of spectators.

This was the first time Xia Jing saw this classic scene in real life and he watched it for a while.

The constable was too lazy to talk nonsense. He kicked the woman to the ground, tied her hands, and was about to escort her to the yamen.

The onlookers accused the woman of being disrespectful and said that she was delusional and her asking price was too high.

The woman lost her arrogance and fell to the ground crying.

The two detectives had seen this kind of farce many times. Based on the principle of "less trouble is more", seeing that the other party no longer resisted, they warned her sternly, untied the rope, watched her pack up and left.

The matter should have ended there, but when the thin and dark woman was packing up the signs, a middle-aged man came out from the crowd, waved his hand, threw two silver ingots, and turned away.

The silver fell to the ground with a crisp sound. The sunlight shone on the silver surface, flashing a dazzling light in everyone's eyes.

Silver ingots rolled in front of the woman. One ingot weighed fifty taels, and two ingots weighed a hundred taels in total, enough for the woman to buy the best fir coffin, or even a cypress one.

The woman, the constable, and the onlookers were stunned. When they reacted and looked around, the middle-aged man had disappeared without a trace.

The woman knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the place where the middle-aged man left.

……

"Someone got there first!"

On the second floor of the restaurant, Ning Xuenian was holding the silver in her hand, feeling very angry.

"You only have forty taels left, which is not enough." Xia Jing pinched her face.

"Where is the man who delivered the silver? I am a princess, I can just leave with the silver, how could he do that? Isn't it said that silver is hard to earn? He is such a spendthrift, isn't he afraid of being beaten?" Ning Xue muttered.

It can be heard that the Seventh Princess is very dissatisfied with the other party's actions.

"Because he has a lot of money." Xia Jing looked at the 3D map.

"How many? More than us?"

"I'm afraid there are more than us."

Xia Jing pulled Ning Xuenian across the street and into the teahouse across the street.

The teahouse was very quiet, with only three tea drinkers on the first floor. Two of them saw Xia Jing and Ning Xuenian and wanted to stand up, but the other one pulled them back.

The second floor of the teahouse was even quieter, with only two people there. The "prodigal" middle-aged man was standing behind a young man.

"Too..." Ning Xuenian was stunned. She subconsciously wanted to call out to the other party, but after saying one word, she reacted and quickly covered her mouth.

She tugged at Xia Jing's sleeve, trying to leave quickly, but it was too late. The boy turned his head and smiled at them.

"Why are my ninth brother and seventh sister here?" asked the young man.

"Let's go out and have fun." Xia Jing patted Ning Xuenian's head and comforted the girl. "Prince brother is really generous. He threw down a hundred taels and he's not afraid of not making a splash."

Xia Jing looked at the boy and thought that fate was a bit strange. This didn't happen in the game; it was purely a chance encounter.

Chapter 171 You are such a prince

"I'm just helping a filial daughter, why should I make such a big splash?" Ning Chunyou replied to Xia Jing.

"At least we have to make sure she really has a father waiting to be buried." Xia Jing pulled Ning Xuenian towards Ning Chunyou. "I heard that in stories, there's always a straw mat rolled up next to him."

"How could you treat my father's body like this? Even if she deceived me, let her do it." Ning Chunyou replied.

"Brother Crown Prince is quite open-minded."

Xia Jing and Ning Xuenian sat down next to Ning Chunyou. The Ninth Prince stepped on a stool and brought the fruits in front of Ning Chunyou to himself and Ning Xuenian.

Ning Xuenian picked up a piece of watermelon and buried her head in eating. The watermelon was so big that it covered her face.

Xia Jing grabbed a handful of melon seeds, cracked them twice, and put them back.