Peach Blossom.

There was no time to lose. Tao Ye was worried that Wang Jing might go to Yongchang at any time, so she wanted to go to Situ Mansion immediately.

Before leaving the temple, Tao Ye wrote down the addresses of every move she made as a child, and asked Li You to remember them and tell them to her mother after he returned to the modern era, so that his mother would believe that she was really still alive.

Li You had no choice but to agree to help: "Tomorrow, I will definitely complete the task and go to Ghost Mountain to report to the Ghost King. The abbot has always thought that you are my sister. I will leave these things for setting up the stall in the temple. I think you will need them in the future. I will take care of your mother for you...until you return to her..."

Tao Ye nodded, her eyes were already filled with tears, and she hugged Li You tightly once, it was a farewell hug.

It was a dark night, and the night watchman on the street struck a gong, announcing "It's three o'clock in the morning" in a melodious voice. The road was a little wet, as if it had just rained a little. Tao Ye walked fast, and not only were the soles of her shoes wet, but even her trouser legs and the hem of her skirt were covered with mud.

She had already thought of a way to enter Situ Mansion, which was the method she planned to escape from the palace last time but failed to implement in the end - using green blood to make the trees grow taller than the walls.

Anyway, she has been identified as a "monster" by many people of this era, so she might as well be bold and unbridled and become a "monster"!

She came to the vicinity of Situ Mansion and walked around the wall, but she didn't see a single tree!

In desperation, Tao Ye picked up a wooden stick and stuck it into the ground outside the wall. Then he bit his finger and dripped a drop of green blood on it, but the wooden stick didn't change at all!

"What the hell?" Tao Ye was shocked.

She recalled the day she escaped from the palace. Although the wood would quickly grow new branches as long as it came into contact with green blood, it seemed to be very regular. The new branches only grew towards the person who attacked it, like a protective umbrella...

Could it be that... because no one is attacking her now and she doesn't need protection, the green blood is useless?

Tao Ye was very angry and cursed at the stick: "Fuck you! Why don't you grow taller?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the wooden stick suddenly grew taller and thicker, scaring Tao Ye so much that she took a step back.

She looked at the stick. Although it had grown taller and thicker, it was still a bare stick...

Tao Ye smiled helplessly: "Brother, you are so straight and smooth, I can't climb up!"

The wooden stick seemed to understand, and immediately grew several medium-length branches on both sides. The distance between every two branches was the same as a ladder.

Tao Ye was very satisfied, so she climbed up the wooden stick and put her foot on the top new branch, but found that her hands still could hardly reach the wall.

This time, Tao Ye spoke more politely: "Can we grow taller?"

The wooden stick suddenly grew like a hundred-story building, and Tao Ye, who was riding on the top floor, could overlook the night view of the entire Jiankang City! No... Tao Ye had been frightened into acrophobia!

"Damn it! Why are you so tall? I'm trying to climb over that wall, not to go to the sky!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the wooden stick suddenly retracted at lightning speed. If Tao Ye had not clung to the branch tightly, he would have flown into the air.

The wooden stick was finally as high as the wall. Tao Ye raised her head tremblingly, her hair messed up by the strong wind: "Brother... even if we play free fall, we can't go this fast... Fortunately, I don't have high blood pressure or heart disease..."

Tao Ye slowly moved from the wooden stick to the wall, and then looked inside the wall. The ground nearby was flat, just like outside the wall, without a single tree.

"Hey! Um, can you come inside to pick me up?" Tao Ye looked at the wooden stick.

The wooden stick really jumped out of the soil outside the wall, crossed the wall, and stabbed into the soil on the ground inside the wall.

Tao Ye stared at the stick nervously: "Oh my god! Is this possible? If you had known, wouldn't you have just carried me over? Why are you jumping up and down so much?"

She landed safely on the ground following the stick, and then ordered: "Alright, alright, return to your original state! Otherwise, I'm afraid the Wang family will be scared to death when they see it!"

The wooden stick turned back into the small wooden stick it was at the beginning.

"Your IQ... is almost as high as mine when I was a kid!" Tao Ye sighed at the wooden stick and hurried to the backyard.

There was no one patrolling the Situ Mansion at night. There were only one or two guards on duty at the front door, the back door, and the corner rooms of each courtyard, but most of them were actually sleeping.

Tao Ye tiptoed to the middle courtyard and approached Wang Jing's room. She found that the door was open, but there was no one in the room.

Where should Wang Jing be at this time?

Tao Ye recalled that Wang Jing had said during the day that he would go home to say goodbye to his mother and go to Yongchang to find his father as soon as possible. So, perhaps Wang Jing took this opportunity to have a candlelight chat with his mother at night?

She walked carefully to the west courtyard again. When she passed a window, she heard a voice coming from inside the window, like a dream: "Mother..."

Tao Ye's heart suddenly felt a little nervous, as if she had been stabbed by a needle. She could tell that it was Yu'er's voice.

It turned out that Yu'er had been taken to live next to her grandmother's room.

At this moment, she had an impulse. She really wanted to go in and take a look at Yu'er.

Just as she reached the door, she heard the voice of the maid Xiuping again: "Go to sleep! Your mother is blessing you in heaven!"

Tao Ye didn't move forward anymore. She stepped back, feeling very sad.

She wondered, if Mantangjiao could really see from heaven, would she want her to take care of the father and daughter, or stay away from them?

She walked a few rooms forward and arrived outside Xiao Rui's room.

Sure enough, the light in Xiao Rui's room was on, and Xiao Rui was talking: "Is it because Gillian is no longer here that you no longer value your life? So whenever our family is in trouble, you must be the first one to charge into battle?"

Wang Jing's voice came from the room: "Both parents are alive, how dare their son take their lives lightly? My eldest brother holds an important position, my third brother is young, and I am the only one who has no time. I also have a foot disease and rarely see people. Of course, I am the most suitable person to travel far away."

"It may not be easy for others to know your whereabouts, but if the princess returns from the palace...it is impossible that she doesn't know..."

"It is a serious crime for an official's family to leave the capital without permission. I don't think she will tell anyone."

Xiao Rui paced in the room and was silent for a moment.

Wang Jing continued, "Father has been followed by Chen Ji for a long time, but he may not know it. I must find him as soon as possible. As long as he can present the map of the eight vaults to King Yongchang before Chen Ji does, he can get King Yongchang's protection, and Chen Ji will not dare to attack father easily!"

Hearing this, Tao Ye roughly guessed that the piece of paper with pictures and words on it that Chen Ji had copied through the mirror before should be the "Eight Treasury Location Map".

But she didn't think it through. It had been several months since Chen Ji got the map of the eight treasuries. If he wanted to present it to Prince Yongchang for credit, he should have presented it long ago. What was there in the way for Wang Jing to do it now?

Xiao Rui was obviously worried: "Will Prince Yongchang... definitely make some unusual moves?"

Wang Jing said: "When a young emperor ascends the throne, the government will inevitably be unstable. Prince Yongchang has suffered for many years on the border, so it is unlikely that he will miss this opportunity. If he gets the treasury, he will be even more confident. If he does not take the opportunity to attack, wouldn't he be a fool?"

Xiao Rui was silent for a while, still wandering around the room.

Seeing his mother's hesitation, Wang Jing presented many great reasons, "Mother, why do you think the Queen Mother forced the ministers to stay in the palace that day? Since the founding of our dynasty, there have been eight emperors, four of whom passed the throne from father to son, and three of whom passed the throne from brother to brother! The bad thing is that Emperor Xiaozong passed away too suddenly, and there was no edict of succession! I went to inquire later, and found out that those ministers wrote their names on the petition, "Respectfully requesting the eldest prince to ascend the throne", and only then were they allowed to leave the palace and go home!"

Xiao Rui nodded: "Fortunately you stopped your elder brother that day..."

Wang Jing sneered, "It wasn't just my eldest brother who was absent from the court that day! Someone was more informed than us! It's funny, Master Shen was fine the day before, how come he suddenly fell seriously ill that day? Even Queen Shen said that she was kidnapped by thieves on her way back from visiting her father. The mother of a country actually disappeared like this! Mother, do you believe it? I guess the Shen family father and daughter probably guessed that Prince Yongchang might seize power, and they didn't know who would win or lose in the future, so they just hid away! Not to offend either side!"

Tao Ye, who was listening outside, became even more confused. She thought that the court officials might still have a chance to remain neutral, but Queen Shen was the Queen and Si Yu's legal wife. Was there still a chance for her to stand on the side of Prince Yongchang?

Xiao Rui could see that his son had made up his mind, so he just sighed: "When are you going to leave?"

"I'll leave tonight. I want to be quiet. If my eldest brother and third brother see me, they might come looking for me. I'll leave the city as soon as the gate opens."

"What if the soldiers guarding the city recognize you?"

Wang Jing thought for a moment and said, "Tomorrow is the first day of the national mourning. As the Grand Marshal, Chen Xi must be focusing on protecting the palace and has no time to take care of the city gates. Moreover, Chen Xi probably doesn't know about Chen Ji's situation, so he didn't expect me to leave the city. The soldiers guarding the city remember me as a cripple. As long as I disguise myself as an ordinary farmer and temporarily don't use my walking stick, I shouldn't be easily recognized."

Xiao Rui had no choice but to agree, and then he told Wang Jing a lot of things to bring and things to pay attention to.

After a long time, Wang Jing came out of Xiao Rui's room.

When Tao Ye heard the footsteps, she suddenly had an idea. She took a step forward and ran quickly to Wang Jing's room. She took off her shoes and hid them under the quilt.

After a while, Wang Jing also returned to the room, turned on the lamp first, and saw at a glance a pair of embroidered cloth shoes and a bulging quilt beside the bed.

He walked forward and pulled back the quilt.

"Surprise!" Tao Ye suddenly poked her head out and made a face at Wang Jing with a smile on her face.

Then, Tao Ye could see that Wang Jing was indeed "surprised", but he didn't seem "happy"...

Wang Jing stared at Tao Ye, his eyes looking deep: "How did you get in?"

"I'm a demon! Of course I came in using demonic methods!" Tao Ye smiled and joked with Wang Jing.

But Wang Jing didn't smile. He turned his back and looked out the window, looking a little sad.

Tao Ye seemed to feel something was wrong: "You...what's wrong with you?"

"When we were little, Gillian would often hide from me and play. The place she would hide most often was under the covers."

"Ah?" Tao Ye hurriedly put on her shoes and got out of bed: "Sorry... I'm sorry..."

Wang Jing shook his head and forced a smile.

Tao Ye couldn't help but feel a little curious: "You two... knew each other when you were kids?"

Wang Jing nodded slightly: "We were engaged since childhood."

Tao Ye widened her eyes in astonishment: "How dare Chen Ji propose marriage?"

Wang Jing smiled again, but his smile was still as pale and powerless as before: "That's why Gillian called him "shameless" and threw all the gift boxes he brought in onto the street."

Tao Ye suddenly remembered what Wang Jing said, "I guess Chen Ji killed Ah Jiao because he found you, who has a similar temperament to Ah Jiao, so that you can successfully replace Ah Jiao and sneak into my house."

This made her feel even more guilty.

Wang Jing no longer paid attention to Tao Ye. He sorted out a few pieces of clothing, put them in a cloth bag, and said casually, "Thank you for coming to see me, but I'm leaving for Yongchang soon, so please don't stay here!"

"I'm not just here to see you..." Tao Ye walked to Wang Jing's side, mustered up her courage, and expressed her determination: "I want to go to Yongchang with you!"