Women dressed as men: powerful officials

After leaving the school, Xu Yuan didn't know where to go.

You can’t do anything else until school is over.

After looking around the street, Xuyuan decided to find a teahouse to stay in.

Sishui County is one of the most important towns in northern Tianqi.

Therefore, there are many businessmen coming and going, and there are even more people from all over the world in the teahouse.

She can learn a lot by spending a day in the teahouse.

For example, the current situation in the capital, the movements of the prince's party, or... some news from the north.

There must be a reason why Shen Yichuan appeared like water.

She wanted to find out as soon as possible why Shen Yichuan came, and also know whether Shen Yichuan was the only one who came to Sishui County.

In her memory, the entire Grand Tutor's Mansion was behind the Crown Prince.

But now Shen Yichuan seems to have come for Song Xiujing.

The man Song Xiujing is going to marry is the third prince. So is Shen Yichuan the prince's man or the third prince's man?

If you can’t figure out a wish, just don’t think about it.

He took out a few copper coins from his sleeve, entered the teahouse, and sat down near the window.

This is her habit. If something happens, she can escape immediately.

This life is hard-earned and should be cherished.

Not long after, the waiter came over to greet him. Seeing Xu Yuan dressed up, he couldn't help but remind him, "Little brother, don't steal your own master's money to drink tea."

Xuyuan's clothes were very worn out from being washed, and it was obvious that his family was not rich.

Besides, don’t kids nowadays have things they like to buy?

Learn from the adults and drink tea in a teahouse.

For a moment, the waiter didn't know how to persuade the young man in front of him.

"Don't worry, bro. I'm not stealing money from our family."

Xuyuan ordered the cheapest tea and explained, "I just want to find a place to read."

When the waiter saw Xu Yuan really took out the bamboo slips, he guessed that he must be a person who likes reading, so he asked, "Little brother, why don't you go to the private school?"

"Well..." Xu Yuan hesitated and didn't say anything.

After the waiter thought about it, his face was full of sympathy. He looked at Xu Yuan and said, "If you want to read, you might as well go to the second floor, it's quieter. This floor is full of soldiers, I'm afraid it will disturb your reading."

Xuyuan smiled and replied, "I don't have that much money with me, so I can just read here."

"No money is needed. A few days ago, many people came and booked the entire second floor for a month. They left yesterday, and the second floor has been vacant. Now they will not receive guests. You can go upstairs and read a book."

The waiter wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Little brother, you are still young. If you can study, don't give up. If I, your elder brother, had studied hard, I would have been a minor official. How could I be a waiter here?"

After the waiter finished speaking, he let out a long sigh.

When I was a child, I felt that studying was hard. It was like this every day, spring, summer, autumn and winter. I was too bored, so I just made jokes to get by.

Now, as I serve tea and water in a teahouse, I regret that I did not study seriously.

Therefore, when shop waiters see children studying now, they will advise them against it, for fear that the children will follow their old path.

Hearing what the waiter said, Xu Yuan was a little surprised, but after a moment, she said: "Brother, if you want to do something, just do it. Don't worry about whether it is the right time or not, and don't think about how it was in the past, because the best time is now. If you don't try, how do you know that you can't do it?"

"That being said, I'm old..." Before the waiter could finish his words, guests from other tables urged him to hurry up, so he could only smile and say, "I'll get busy first."

Xuyuan nodded, "Okay."

The waiter left in a hurry, and Xu Yuan also unfolded the bamboo slips. She lowered her head, her attention was not on the bamboo slips, but on listening to the voices around her, screening out reliable information.

"Have you heard? The north has been in turmoil lately."

"Why is it not peaceful? Wasn't the road going smoothly before?"

Hearing those words, Xu Yuan also raised his head slightly.

"It is said that a batch of tribute was intercepted, and the court has sent people to investigate. The person who came is a high-ranking official."

"Which merchant is so bold that he dares to intercept the tribute?"

"Ordinary bandits don't have the guts to do that. Who did it?" The person who spoke pursed his lips.

Everyone at the table suddenly realized, "No wonder, they are the only ones who are so brave! I'm afraid we'll have to fight another war this year."

"Yes, I heard that it was the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum that the Third Prince specially presented to the Queen. Moreover, there was more than just this good thing in the tribute. What a pity."

"Is there not enough of this kind of stuff in the royal family? But why haven't I heard of any thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum in Shuozhou County?"

"There's none in Shuozhou, but there is in Hanzhou."

After hearing what the two people said, Xu Yuan felt a sinking feeling in his heart for no reason.

In his previous life, Xu Yuan had also heard about the robbery of the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum that was presented to the queen by Hanzhou County.

That batch of tribute included not only thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, but also countless precious herbs and the city defense map of Hanzhou County.

After the tribute was robbed, the imperial court quickly sent people to investigate, but there were no clues, so they had to urgently change the defense of Hanzhou County.

When she heard about this incident, three years had passed since the tribute was intercepted, so she did not think about what was involved behind this incident at that time.

After hearing it now, Xu Yuan felt that there was something weird about this matter.

Hanzhou and Shangjing were separated only by Xiangzhou County.

But if you start from Hanzhou County, go to Shuozhou County, and then go to the capital, you have to pass through Dingzhou County in the middle.

Anyone with a bit of common sense would choose to go directly through Xiangzhou County instead of passing through Shuozhou.

Could it be that someone wants to come to Shuozhou in person on the pretext of escorting tribute?

For no reason, Xu Yuan thought of Shen Yichuan.

The time when Shen Yichuan arrived was almost the same as the time when the tribute was lost.

Shen Yichuan, Song Xiujing.

These two names kept interweaving in Xuyuan's mind.

In a flash, Xu Yuan thought of the possibility and couldn't help but be secretly shocked.

The tribute was presented by the third prince to the queen.

Shen Yichuan came for Song Xiujing.

Song Xiujing returned to the capital to marry the third prince.

Therefore, Shen Yichuan is the third prince's man.

The robbery of tribute was originally a play by the third prince.

The Third Prince would certainly not let the future Third Royal Consort into the palace without doing anything, so he used the tribute matter as an excuse to send Shen Yichuan to Sishui County to find Song Xiujing first.

Now that he thought about it, Xu Yuan understood that no matter in the past life or this life, nothing would happen to Song Xiujing that day in Cheng Mansion, because Shen Yichuan was there at that time.

And Shen Yichuan's subsequent temptation must have been because of what she did in Cheng Mansion.

Similarly, this can also explain why Shen Yichuan appeared in the school.

Because the third prince wanted Song Xiujing to understand the capital city and become the sharpest sword for him to seize the military power of the Song family.