Spring Drunk Chang'an

Xiao Chuo was familiar with the old owner of Qingyun Crown.

It wasn't that he had ever sent anyone to the crown. Rather, the old owner of Qingyun Crown was the Empress Dowager's nominal substitute. When the Empress Dowager was alive, she often entered the palace.

The Empress Dowager was Xiao Chuo's grandmother. She loved him very much and wanted to see him every day when he was young.

After a while, there will always be a chance to run into the old champion.

When Xiao Chuo was little, she was extremely pretty, like a pink baby. The old master of the Qingyun Guan was very close to the Empress Dowager, and he loved her very much. Even after the Empress Dowager passed away, he did not break off contact with Xiao Chuo. However, Qingyun Guan was a place for "imprisonment" after all, a place for female members to practice seclusion, and as a man, it was not convenient for Xiao Chuo to enter or leave.

We met less and less frequently.

However, every time there were three festivals, two birthdays and the Queen Mother's memorial day, the old master would always come out to pay his respects to the Prince and have a cup of tea.

"I should be able to get the medicine if I personally visit the old crown master."

Xiao Chuo was very confident.

"It's such a coincidence that the Crown Prince is familiar with him. It seems that God feels sorry for Brother Yu and doesn't want him to suffer!"

When he was at his wit's end, he suddenly encountered a ray of hope. Song Bin couldn't help but sigh, "Good boy, you know all the old Taoist priests. You have a really wide network of contacts!"

He couldn't help but pat Xiao Chuo on the shoulder.

Slaps as big as a palm leaf fan hit Xiao Chuo's shoulders again and again, making his eyebrows twitch. He looked ruthless, but muttered silently in his heart:

The network is so wide that he knows the old Taoist priest! !

Grandpa, this doesn't sound like a good thing!

Isn't this a satire on me?

"What nonsense are you talking about? If you can't speak, just shut up!" Old Madam Song gave her husband a stern look, then smiled gently and said, "Brother Yu, we are already so grateful to Your Highness for taking care of us. It's a pity that we have to trouble you again this time. When Brother Yu gets better in the future, I will definitely let him repay Your Highness."

"Although his academic knowledge is average, he is very clever and has some talent in the subject of Mo."

"Yes, yes, yes, I must thank Your Highness. Without you, I wouldn't have recognized him." Upon hearing this, Song thanked him repeatedly, her voice tinged with tears. "Your Highness, thank you. Auntie really, really doesn't know how to thank you enough!"

"Grandmother and aunt, there's no need to be so polite. Liu Yu and I are brothers." Xiao Chuo waved her hand.

I feel that Old Madam Song and the Song family are much more normal.

"Qingyunguan is a place for women to cultivate themselves. As a man, it is not appropriate for me to go in and out as I please. So please let Miss Chang'an accompany me."

He said suddenly.

Liu Changan was stunned and instinctively wanted to refuse.

Her feelings towards Qingyunguan were too complicated and she didn't want to face it at all. She had been to Yuantan Temple countless times since her rebirth, but she had never set foot in Qingyunguan, which was near Yuantan Temple.

The female Taoist priests in Guanli helped her a lot, taught her knowledge, and gave her warmth, but they also imprisoned her for five years.

She didn't want to hate them, but she could never be grateful to them either. In this life, she just wanted to be a stranger who didn't know each other.

She didn't want to see them.

but……

Before Liu Changan could reply, Song Shi had already agreed in a flurry, "Okay, okay, let Changan go with you."

"Good girl, thank you for making the trip."

She didn't know Liu Chang'an's hesitation, so she naturally didn't think too much about it.

"This this……"

Facing Song's expectant and sincere eyes, Liu Changan said: "...Okay."

She could never refuse the lady.

"Then come with me." Xiao Chuo looked at her deeply, turned and left.

Liu Chang'an bit his lip and followed reluctantly. The two of them left the main courtyard, one in front and the other behind, and got on the carriage in the outer courtyard. After telling the driver where to go, the coachman whipped the carriage and it sped out of Duke Cheng'en's mansion.

The guards followed slowly.

Xiao Chuo couldn't stand being disturbed, so he asked all the servants to leave. Only he and Liu Changan were left in the carriage.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, dressed in moon-white casual clothes, sat behind a small table, half-closed his eyes, and slowly sipped his tea.

Liu Changan knelt in front of the window, his watery almond eyes staring blankly at the scenery outside.

My heart is in turmoil.

When she thought about going to Qingyunguan, the place where she was imprisoned for five years in her previous life, she felt a little overwhelmed. Her hands were twisted together, and her red lips were bitten with deep teeth marks...

"You don't want to go?" Suddenly, the prince's voice sounded.

Liu Changan was startled, and suddenly turned around, staring at him blankly, "What did you say, what?"

"You don't want to go to Qingyunguan!" Xiao Chuo's indifferent gaze fell on her.

Liu Changan clenched his fists and subconsciously lowered his eyes, avoiding his gaze. "No, no, why would I not want to go? It's just, it's a little, a little..."

She didn't know how to explain?

Your Highness the Crown Prince doesn’t know about your past life?

"What's going on?" Xiao Chuo raised an eyebrow and leaned forward slightly, her upper body casting a shadow over Liu Chang'an. "Is it strange?"

He spoke in a deep voice, as if unintentionally, yet also as if testing, "Chang'an, are you really familiar with the Qingyun Crown?"

"You even know that the Queen Mother once gifted the old crown master with a miraculous medicine?"

How do you know?

Xiao Chuo was really confused.

Qingyunguan - the place where the female members of the family were forced to "cultivate in seclusion" was very quiet and few people knew about it. Liu Changan only joined the mansion as a servant last year, and the Ningguo Mansion had never sent anyone there. How could she know about such a place?

Of course, as a hereditary servant of a wealthy family, Liu Lai must have known about it, but how could she talk about such an unlucky place with her unmarried daughter?

Besides, even if we talked about it, we wouldn't talk about the Queen Mother's reward, right?

Even Xiao Chuo herself had never heard of such a thing.

"Where did you hear that?"

He approached slowly.

The little girl had some secrets in her heart that she had never told anyone, including him, but...

he wanted to know.

But I can't bear to force him. After all, he has revealed some flaws today, so naturally I have to test him.

"I, I..." Liu Chang'an was stunned, not knowing how to answer. She just couldn't bear that Liu Yu had finally had hope of recovery, but was still delaying it. She also didn't want to see Song Shi sad, so she suppressed her anxiety and told him the news she knew. Unexpectedly, there was a loophole.

The old Duke and the others clearly didn't hear it and didn't ask about it, so why is the Crown Prince so perceptive?

What's the point of thinking so clearly?

She, she doesn't want to hurt anyone, wouldn't it be better to just let it go?

Liu Changan couldn't help but purse her lips, her cheeks turning red. She racked her brains to think of a reasonable excuse. After a while, she lowered her head and said, "Xiaoyue mentioned Qingyun Temple to me. As for the old crown master, he was once rewarded by the Empress Dowager, yes..."

"Yes……"

She hesitated for a long time, unable to figure out how to explain it in a way that would be both reasonable and not arouse suspicion. Finally, looking at the prince's smiling eyes, she simply said, "I happened to meet some young monks at Yuantan Temple. They mentioned it in their casual conversation, and that's how I found out."

"Little monk?" Xiao Chuo raised her eyebrows even higher, teasing with a half-smile, "So you know about the female Taoist hat?"

What kind of monk is that!