Traveling through farming with the system, I cooked delicious food in ancient times

Inside the Prince's Mansion.

Mu Zhiyuan told the prince everything about following the Heilan Club in the street today to an abandoned house.

"Your Highness, the Queen Mother's birthday banquet will be held in the Imperial Garden?"

"It is indeed in the Imperial Garden... Are you saying that Black Orchid plans to bring gunpowder into the birthday banquet through the flowers brought into the palace?"

"Your Highness, please carefully check the flowers entering and leaving the palace to ensure the safety of the palace."

"What food have you and the restaurant manager prepared for the birthday banquet? The Queen Mother is very much looking forward to the craftsmanship of the private shopkeeper Liu."

Mu Zhiyuan stood up and prepared to leave: "I won't attend the birthday banquet. Mao Xi was arrested by the Black Orchid Society. I have to save her... I don't want to participate in this birthday banquet. If you really want to serve food, please do so. Your Highness, please serve two dishes for the two of us: roasted sweet potatoes and sweet potato porridge."

Before the prince could leave anyone, Mu Zhiyuan rushed to the inn where Nalan Jue stayed.

"Ahem... I, the prince's brother, am still so nostalgic for the life of the people. Come on, come into the palace."

Mao Xi was kidnapped by Heilanhui, and Mu Zhiyuan just wanted to find her immediately.

He first came to the inn where Nalan Jue was, where Lou Lan'er was already waiting.

"Nalan Jue, Lou Lan'er, have you found any clues? Where is Luda now?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, we already have a clue!" Nalan Jue asked Mu Zhiyuan to take a seat, "I arranged for a spy in Beidu to come and report that he has a scar on his face recently. The man who once transported rice and flour to Beidu is named Xiao Debao. He is a Hu merchant from the Western Regions, and he purchased that abandoned house personally, and it should be a stronghold of the Black Orchid Society in Beidu."

"Brother Mu, Brother Lu Da has already gone to find Yi Zhili and Huangcheng Division, and is searching for people and properties related to Xiao Debao. We should have news later."

Lou Lan'er comforted him. Seeing that Mu Zhiyuan was so worried that he didn't even drink any water, she offered him a cup of tea.

"A native of the Western Regions, my surname is Xiao." Mu Zhiyuan also had some knowledge of a few tribes in the Western Regions.

He deduced that there must be more than one house in the entire Beidu serving as the Black Orchid Society's stronghold, and Shu Xi was probably hidden in one of the houses.

For the current plan, we can only wait for the investigation results of the Imperial City Division.

Lou Lan'er is also impatient, and she is also worried about Shu Xi's safety: "Brother Mu, I want to go to the Imperial City Division to see if there is anything I can do to help. It's too uncomfortable to sit here and wait."

"I'll go with you."

The two of them said goodbye to Nalan Jue together, got up and headed towards the Imperial City.

Nalan Jue took a sip of tea and said calmly: "You're all impatient. This Black Orchid Society hides it really well. After all these years, I still can't find its headquarters, hum!"

He clenched his left hand, summoned his confidants, and said, "Follow them. If the Imperial City Division has the latest news, you can also help investigate to find out where the Black Orchid Society's lair is."

"Young man, take your orders!"

Three days later, in the imperial palace, in the imperial garden.

At noon, the Queen Mother's birthday banquet was held as usual.

Since the prince canceled the fireworks and magic shows, the birthday banquet was moved to noon.

All the flowers entering and leaving the palace were carefully inspected. The gardener who transported the flowers had been cooperating with the palace for twenty years. The old gardener was an honest man. The flowers were placed according to the prince's requirements. Under the sight of the palace guards, all the flowers were placed. Take them out of their pots and transplant them one by one.

When the old gardener saw King Ji attending the banquet, he felt sad in front of a pot of azaleas that had fallen over. He walked forward and said, "King Ji, I made a mistake. This azalea is a defective product that was redundant for this arrangement. Old slave. Not taking it away in time has stained your eyes."

"These flowers must have been cultivated in your flower garden for a long time... When the birthday party is over, they will be destroyed and thrown away. I just feel it is a pity!"

"Flowers bloom and fade as part of the four seasons. Your Majesty, there is no need to be too sad. The banquet is about to begin. Please hurry up and take your seat."

"Cough...cough..." King Ji coughed, "It's a pity that my body can't stand pollen, otherwise I would have asked you to move all the flowers that you want to remove after the birthday banquet to my house."

Seeing that the prince and King Liang were already seated, King Ji quickened his pace to the banquet place.

Mu Zhiyuan did not attend the Queen Mother's birthday party as he said.

The prince followed his suggestion and presented the queen mother with a very ordinary roasted sweet potato and sweet potato porridge.

The Queen Mother was the one who asked. She was kind-hearted and not angry: "Yuan'er still doesn't like life in the palace, let him go. Is this sweet potato the ration that saved the victims?"

Official: "Back to the Queen Mother, that's right!"

"Tomorrow is the completion ceremony of the Tianzun statue. I hope he will come."

The prince turned around and called his entourage: "Go to the Imperial City Department to find Prince Jia and ask him to go to Qiongtai to attend the completion ceremony at midnight tomorrow."

"Here."

The prince originally didn't want to notify Mu Zhiyuan to come to the palace to attend the birthday banquet, let alone the completion ceremony. Since the Queen Mother had spoken, she could only give it a try.

But he guessed that at this moment, Mu Zhiyuan was more anxious about his private cook.

As soon as the Queen Mother's birthday banquet ended, Princess Le'an came to the Prince's side.

"Brother Prince, why don't you see King Jia and Shopkeeper Liu? I even wrote a letter asking them to make some novel dishes to please the Queen Mother..."

"They have something to do. You girl, stop making trouble. You know that King Jia doesn't like living in the palace, but you still want to use the excuse of missing the Queen Mother and write a letter asking him to bring people into the palace..."

Right now, finding the place where Heilan would place the gunpowder and rescuing Liu Muxi is the key point.

The prince paused and stopped blaming. He didn't want the princess to be involved, so he didn't say a word about Miao Xi's disappearance.

"Go and rest quickly. You have to get up early tomorrow."

Seeing the prince leaving, Princess Le'an said angrily: "Humph! The prince brother must be hiding something from me. Someone! Go check outside the palace and see where King Jia is now and what is he busy with?"

In the Imperial City Department, Lu Da and Mu Zhiyuan looked through all the recent transaction records of Hu merchants in the Western Regions, especially the records of rice, flour, grains and flowers.

The clues obtained so far are only in these two directions.

And the records related to Xiao Debao are only about the abandoned house, and there are no other records.

The spies came to report that the Queen Mother's birthday banquet in the palace had ended, and there was no movement from the Black Orchid Society.

"Did we go in the wrong direction before? The target of the attack is not inside the palace..." Mu Zhiyuan cupped his chin and analyzed, "Have there been any large-scale celebrations outside the palace recently?"

Commander of the Imperial City Department: "Back to King Jia, the Tianzun statue in Qiongtai Temple has been completed. At midnight tomorrow, the officials will take the Queen Mother and the princes to pay homage."

"Is there any flower arrangements for the completion celebration? Could it be that the place where Black Gunpowder buys a house will be Qiongtaiguan?"

"When I returned to King Jia, the people who went to Qiongtai to arrange the decorations were also the gardeners who supplied the palace. They were also responsible for the birthday banquet. There was no mistake. They are all old flower slaves for decades."

The commander of the Imperial City Department has already strengthened the investigation of the personnel who arranged the birthday banquet, and they are all innocent people.

"Did you pay close attention to the flower arrangements at Qiongtai Temple?"

"This... not yet. At that time, the focus was on the Queen Mother's birthday banquet! It's my subordinate who neglected his duty!"

Mu Zhiyuan immediately took everyone to Qiongtai to watch it overnight.