The ugly concubine counterattacks the beautiful lady, the evil prince should not love her too much

Yang Qianqian was stunned for a while, looked at Xiao Zhiyuan, then reached out and was about to lift the car curtain, but was stopped by Xiao Zhiyuan: "Let me do it!"

He blocked her behind him and gently lifted the curtain.

Outside, there was a wide road. The small town had long been left behind, and there was no one around.

"Where is the man in black?" Xiao Zhiyuan jumped off the carriage and looked around.

"Let's go!" Yang Qianqian pouted, "Look at us, I don't know what to say, can you drive a carriage?"

Xiao Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Li, Hu, Li, Bing, Xing, Gong, all the things related to the official posts in the court, we have to learn them when we are in school.

Although I couldn’t take the exam, I did learn everything.”

Driving a horse-drawn carriage is one of them. Why not learn it?

"That's good. Now that we have a carriage, it will be much closer for us to go to Cangzhou. Do you know the way?"

Yang Qianqian was very happy. She sat on the shaft of the cart and swung her legs.

"Yes, I'm from Jiangnan to the capital, and I passed through Cangzhou on the way!"

Xiao Zhiyuan followed his instructions and picked up the whip beside the carriage. "Go in and sit down. We will go slowly. There should be a market town ahead."

"Okay!" Yang Qianqian sat in the car and then remembered something else, "By the way, you just said you can't take the exam, why?"

Xiao Zhiyuan paused for a moment as he whipped the whip, then said in a relaxed tone, "It does not conform to the court's rules for recruiting officials."

"What rules?" Yang Qianqian didn't quite understand.

"That's right. Criminals within three generations and their descendants, descendants of detainees, and... illegitimate children are not allowed to take the exam!"

After Xiao Zhiyuan said this, his eyes looked straight ahead without a trace of emotion.

He once said that his father died very early, so he took his mother's surname.

But even if it is a posthumous child, it is unlikely to take the mother's surname unless the child marries into the mother's family, right?

"Did someone in your family commit a crime?"

Yang Qianqian still picked a lighter one to ask, and Xiao's mother said that her family used to run a dumpling shop, so of course she couldn't be a member of the Ji family. That left only two.

"No, I'm an illegitimate child!" Xiao Zhiyuan said this in an extremely calm tone, as if a huge stone fell from his heart when he said it.

"I'm sorry, I lied to you. I kept saying that my father was dead, but actually... I've never seen my father. My mother and I were kicked out by our family."

"I'm sorry..." I didn't expect Xiao Zhiyuan's life experience to be like this.

What was even more unexpected was that Xiao's mother, who looked so weak and gentle, could be so bold as to have an affair with someone before marriage and even leave a child.

What courage this took in ancient times when people were so feudal and conservative.

She believed that Xiao's mother must love that man very much, otherwise, how could she have such courage?

However, things have come to this point, and it is obvious that this is an old scar in Xiao Zhiyuan's heart.

No matter how curious Yang Qianqian was, it was impossible for her to get to the bottom of it.

So he imagined the classic scene of "Your Majesty, do you still remember Xia Yuhe by the Daming Lake?" in his mind, raised his eyebrows, and shut up after considering the situation.

Fortunately, the place where the man in black had them stop was not far from the next market town, probably because he was dressed all in black.

Driving a carriage would have been too ostentatious, so they just threw the carriage to them and let them drive it themselves.

After all, in this era, men generally had to learn how to drive a horse-drawn carriage. With Xiao Zhiyuan around, he was not worried.

There was no conversation along the way. When they arrived at the market town, they both knew what to say and what not to say. They just ate well, dressed warmly, and slept well, and headed towards Cangzhou.

The journey from Beijing to Cangzhou takes about twenty days. I don’t know if it’s because we passed through the misty forest, but the journey seemed shorter. After about seven days, Cangzhou was already in sight.

I don’t know if it was because of the protection of the man in black, but no one came to assassinate her along the way.

Although she never understood why a killer suddenly appeared and wanted to kill her, but because of the way?

I hope everything can go on peacefully.

After entering the north gate of Cangzhou, Yang Qianqian finally felt relieved.

This is a busy street. I guess even if there is a killer, he wouldn't dare to kill people here, right?

Even someone like Leng Yue, who is known as the world's number one killer, would go to a secluded street to settle grudges. How could those killers be better than him?

"Let's go and eat something first!" Yang Qianqian smiled. They had to fill their stomach first before they could deal with the matters in the Cangzhou shop.

After all, they were a month late, and the shop was in such a mess. They would probably lose a lot of brain cells soon, so the best solution was to eat first.

But now that the shop matters are settled, it’s time to go see my brother. I don’t know how he and Princess Shuoyu are doing, I hope they are living in harmony and happiness.

Xiao Zhiyuan really cooperated with her tacitly along the way. He understood what she was thinking as soon as she spoke.

Without thinking, he asked passers-by about the best restaurant in Cangzhou City and went there without stopping.

They ordered a bunch of special dishes. They had spent quite a bit of money on food recently.

Most of my clothes were left in the small town I escaped from. Fortunately, I brought enough money with me, otherwise I would be begging on the streets now.

The two men were drinking soup and eating big chunks of meat without caring about their image, when they saw a commotion downstairs in the restaurant.

"Go away, go away, you beggar, where did you come from? You are dirtying my house!"

"Master, please be kind. I've been hungry for three days. Just give me some leftovers. Please, please, please!"

Yang Qianqian and Xiao Zhiyuan looked down from the second-floor window and saw a woman with a cane at the door of the restaurant. She was dressed in rags, had unkempt hair and a dirty face, and was kneeling at the door of the restaurant with a broken bowl in her hand.

Judging from her voice, the woman should not be very old.

"Go away, find somewhere else to go. You're so young, go to a brothel. But looking at your appearance, I guess even brothels don't want you, haha..."

The two shop assistants burst into laughter and hit the woman with a wooden stick, "Get out! Get out now!"

"Stop!" Xiao Zhiyuan shouted, walked out of the private room and went downstairs.

Yang Qianqian didn't know what nerve this touched, and was afraid that something might happen to him, so she quickly followed him and walked towards the restaurant entrance.

"Don't hit her, let her in and eat something. How much she eats is on me!"