Updated: 2012-08-31

There was laughter and joy in the side hall, and it was very lively. After learning that Zhao Yuzhao was in the rain last night, several princesses came to visit her and chattered there about Tan Zong.

During his words and deeds, several princesses expressed their envy of Zhao Yuzhao. Tan Zong was both civil and military. He not only eliminated the rebellious season of Jiangnan, but also won the title of Wengui and impressed Sima Qingfeng, the "King of the King of the King". He was undoubtedly the best among the princesses such as Dashun.

Zhao Yuzhao's cheeks were flushed and a sweet smile was on the corner of his mouth. It was indeed a pleasant thing to hear that someone he loved was praised.

In addition to Tan Zong's both civil and military affairs, there is another extremely important reason that outsiders do not know, that is, Tan Zong is an alien who can discuss knowledge with her.

"Princess, Lord Tan is asking for a meeting." Just as everyone was chatting and laughing, a palace maid walked in and said to Zhao Yuzhao.

"Come in quickly." Before Zhao Yuzhao could speak, a princess in green sitting beside her said with a smile.

"Please pay homage to all the princesses." After Tan Zong entered the door, he saw that there were several princesses in the room, so he hurriedly bowed to salute them.

"Mr. Tan, my sister Yuzhao has even been wet for you. If you have a conscience, why don't you go and ask my father to give me a marriage?" Princess Green-clothed looked at Tan Zong and said to Tan Zong seriously.

"Secretary...Secretary..." Tan Zong was slightly stunned when he heard this. He did not expect that Princess Green would force him to marry Zhao Yuzhao, and he didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"Why, Lord Tan doesn't want to?" Seeing that Tan Zong became nervous, a palace maid in red decided to tease him and asked with a cold face on purpose.

"You are the one who listens to Princess Zhaoning." Tan Zong couldn't say it even if he didn't want to, otherwise he would have been seeking death. He quickly reacted and said loudly.

Hearing this, several princesses chuckled. It seemed that Tan Juezha was also a "fearing" person. He was so obedient before he even married Zhao Yuzhao.

"Mr. Tan, what are you here?" Zhao Yuzhao saw that his sisters teased Tan Zong a little embarrassedly, so he smiled and asked softly, relieving Tan Zong's siege.

"The official is going to go back to the inn, so I'm here to say goodbye to the princess." Tan Zong bowed to Zhao Yuzhao and said in a deep voice.

"Sister, since Lord Tan is leaving, you won't go out to see him off." Knowing that Zhao Yuzhao and Tan Zong must have something to say, the previous princess in green snatched in front of Zhao Yuzhao and said to Zhao Yuzhao with a smile.

When several princesses around him heard this, they all smiled and coaxed him, asking Zhao Yuzhao to send him off.

Zhao Yuzhao knew what the sisters meant. Anyway, the matter between her and Tan Zong had been settled, and only Emperor Qingping had given him a marriage, so he stood up openly and walked towards Tan Zong with a smile.

Seeing this, Tan Zong bowed to Princess Green Clothing and others, and followed Zhao Yuzhao to leave the side hall.

"Let's have a walk." The carriage that took Tan Zong back to the inn was parked at the entrance of Kunning Palace. Zhao Yuzhao glanced at the carriage and said to Tan Zong with a smile. She found that Tan Zong was much more restrained when he saw her today, and his words and deeds were full of respect. This was not what she hoped.

"Princess, please!" Tan Zong was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then turned sideways and reached out to make a gesture of asking for help.

Zhao Yuzhao walked towards the road to the side of the city. Tan Zong followed her slowly. Behind the two were a group of palace maids, eunuchs, guards and the carriage, following them from afar.

"Go to my side." Not long after walking, Zhao Yuzhao turned his head and looked at Tan Zong, and said in a sweet voice.

Tan Zong hesitated for a moment, quickened his pace, and walked side by side with Zhao Yuzhao. The two of them didn't know what to say, but they remained silent along the way and walked silently along the road.

"Tan Zong, can you become my friend?" When he arrived in front of a courtyard, Zhao Yuzhao suddenly stopped, turned around and looked at Tan Zong beside him, and asked with a smile.

"Princess, we are already friends now." Tan Zong was stunned for a moment and said with a smile.

"The friend I'm talking about is the kind of friend who has no identity difference." Seeing that Tan Zong had not understood what he meant, Zhao Yuzhao explained with a smile, "For example, if I call you Tan Zong or Brother Tan, you can call me Yuzhao or Zhaoer."

"Your Highness Princess, this is absolutely impossible. Your Highness Princess is a golden branch and a jade leaf. As a subject, how can Tan Zong call the princess' name directly? This is a great crime of disrespect." Tan Zong was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed to Zhao Yuzhao and said in a deep voice. Even if Zhao Yuzhao really becomes his wife in the future, he cannot call Zhao Yuzhao's name according to the rules, but he can only call him Princess Zhaoning respectfully.

"I asked you to shout, I will take care of you if something happens. If you call me Princess Zhaoning or Princess again, that would be a great disrespect to me." Zhao Yuzhao smiled sly at Tan Zong, walked forward with a relaxed step. This was her first step to improve her relationship with Tan Zong.

"Princess Palace..." Tan Zong was anxious when he saw this. This matter was not a joke. If someone with a heart made a fuss, he would not be able to take it away, so he chased Zhao Yuzhao, hoping that she would change this ridiculous idea.

"What are you calling me?" Zhao Yuzhao stopped, raised his eyebrows and looked up at Tan Zong.

"Yu...Yu...Yu Zhao!" Tan Zong looked at Zhao Yuzhao who was staring at him with frosty face. His Adam's apple moved, swallowed a hard saliva, and said stammeringly.

"Don't worry, I will tell my father about this, so you don't have to worry." Zhao Yuzhao smiled at Tan Zongyanran, turned around and left with both hands.

"This emperor's daughter is really hard to serve. She changes her face faster than reading a book!" Looking at Zhao Yuzhao's back, Tan Zong let out a sigh of depression, and forced himself to chase after him.

The palace maids and eunuchs along the way saluted after seeing Zhao Yuzhao and Tan Zong. Although most people did not know Zhao Yuzhao who had been outside the palace for many years, and did not know who Tan Zong was, the followers following them clearly showed their noble identities.

"This is the Siyuan Bureau, which is in charge of the fruits and vegetables in the palace. I am a little thirsty. Let's go in and find some fruits." When I walked to a courtyard, Zhao Yuzhao stopped and said to Tan Zong with a smile.

Tan Zong looked up at the courtyard gate and saw three big words "Siyuan Bureau" written on it. So he nodded and walked into the door with Zhao Yuzhao.

"I'm sorry, two people, Siyuan Bureau is important, and outsiders are forbidden to enter." The two eunuchs guarding the gate did not know Zhao Yuzhao and Tan Zong, and thought they were powerful children who entered the palace, so an eunuch blocked their way and said with a serious expression.

"Bold, you dare to stop Princess Zhaoning's way." Zhao Yuzhao smiled helplessly at Tan Zong. It seemed that the fruit could not be eaten this time. Before she could turn around and leave, a middle-aged eunuch following Kunning Palace behind him quickly walked forward and shouted loudly at the eunuch who blocked the road.

"Princess Zhaoning?" The eunuch who blocked the road suddenly turned pale when he heard this. Who in the palace didn't know that the princess Zhaoning was the one whom Emperor Qingping loved the most. She was so scared that she knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to Zhao Yuzhao, "I don't know Mount Tai, and offended the princess. Please forgive me, please forgive me."

"If you come, drag it down, you will be responsible for the twenty-one boards, so that this eye-opening thing will have a long memory." The middle-aged eunuch waved his hand at the eunuch who was kneeling on the ground and said in a sharp voice.

"Princess, please spare me, please spare me..." Several eunuchs immediately rushed up, raised the eunuch who was kneeling on the ground and left. The eunuch was so scared that he kept begging for mercy to Zhao Yuzhao. If he had to take the 20th throne, he would have to lie on the bed in a month.

"If you don't know, don't blame him, let him go." Zhao Yuzhao didn't want this matter to ruin his interest. He waved his hand at the middle-aged eunuch indifferently and walked into the Siyuan Bureau with Tan Zong.

"You are a blind eye." The middle-aged eunuch snorted at the eunuch who blocked the road, bowed and followed behind Zhao Yuzhao and Tan Zong. The eunuchs immediately let go of the eunuch who blocked the road and followed quickly.

"Thank you, Princess Zhaoning, Princess Zhaoning..." The eunuch who blocked the road knelt on the ground in amazement, kowtowed to Zhao Yuzhao's back with gratitude. Zhao Yuzhao's simple words saved him from the pain of flesh and blood.

When the eunuch in charge of the Siyuan Bureau heard that Zhao Yuzhao was coming, he rushed over to serve him and diligently led her and Tan Zong around the various warehouses where fruits were piled up. As long as Zhao Yuzhao liked, he immediately asked the eunuchs to put them in the basket to facilitate Zhao Yuzhao's people to take them away, and to please them as much as possible.

Zhao Yuzhao selected a lot of fruits, such as cantaloupe, grapes, mangoes, etc., which are all extremely rare seasonal fruits on the market. They were transported from all over the country to the capital for the enjoyment of the high-ranking and powerful people in the royal family and the capital.

There is a pavilion in the Siyuan Bureau. After picking up the fruits, Zhao Yuzhao led Tan Zong to the pavilion to eat fruits. While eating fruits, he smiled and asked Tan Zong to have some strange stories in society, which made the nervous Tan Zong feel much more relaxed. He opened up the conversation and talked with Zhao Yuzhao. The relationship between the two became much more harmonious invisibly.

In order to eliminate Tan Zong's grudge against him in his heart, Zhao Yuzhao's move took great pains. In the past dynasties, except for the emperor who gave marriages directly, many princesses pursued the princess, but few princesses pursued the princess, and what was spread was a good story.

Perhaps because he had eaten too much fruit, Tan Zong was a little anxious when he left Siyuan Bureau, so he asked an eunuch to take him to the toilet.

The toilet was in the southwest corner of the Siyuan Bureau. The eunuch who led the way drove out several eunuchs who were convenient inside and invited Tan Zong in with great compliment, which made Tan Zong feel a little amused and urinated. There was no need to drive everyone out. If this was not the palace, he would just find a corner to solve the problem.

After going to the toilet, Tan Zong threw a ingot of five taels of silver to the eunuch who was standing bent at the door. The eunuch took the silver with a smile and thanked Tan Zong with a flattering look. The eunuch like him who was at the bottom of the palace was money. Only with money can he climb up and get rid of the fate of being bullied.

Then, Tan Zong walked casually to the gate of Siyuan Bureau. Shortly after passing through an arch, a thin eunuch with a basket of apples and bananas in his hand came towards him. When he came to Tan Zong, he suddenly staggered and fell at Tan Zong's feet. The apples and bananas in the basket immediately rolled to the ground.

The eunuch who was following Tan Zong accidentally stepped on a banana, screamed immediately, tilted his body, sat on the ground, then held his butt with both hands, grinning and moaning there, it seemed that he had fallen lightly.

Just as the thin eunuch stood up in panic, Tan Zong noticed that his hands and arms exposed outside his sleeves were green and purple, as if he had been beaten, and his brows frowned slightly. It seemed that the palace was not peaceful.

"May I ask, is the young master Tan Zongtan, a guerrilla in Jiangnan in the Supervision Office?" Tan Zong, as an outsider, could not control the affairs of the palace and was about to step away when suddenly, the thin eunuch who stood up asked in a low voice.

"It's my official." Tan Zong was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and looked at the thin eunuch in surprise, feeling that the eunuch seemed to have something to say to him.

"My benefactor saved the young man. I am so grateful that I can't repay you. I'll kowtow three times." After confirming Tan Zong's identity, the thin eunuch quickly kowtowed down and kowtowed him three times.

"Are you Liu Tieshan?" Tan Zong was stunned for a moment when he heard that the other party called his benefactor and said that he had saved his father, and then understood and looked at the thin eunuch in surprise. He did not expect that he would meet the fourth boy Liu Lao Hao here.

"My benefactor, it's the little one. Now he is working in Siyuan Bureau. The master has changed his name to Xiao Deqing." Liu Tieshan got up from the ground and said respectfully to Tan Zong.

"You are a blind person, you're going to die... you're going to die in the family." At this time, the eunuch sitting on the ground was smoking and stood up while rubbing his butt and cursing at Liu Tieshan. He originally wanted to call him Master, but when he thought of Tan Zong beside him, he changed his words to call him Mijia.

Liu Tieshan ignored the eunuch who scolded him, but just looked at Tan Zong respectfully, his eyes flashing, and his eyes were filled with expectations and a look of enthusiasm.

Tan Zong noticed Liu Tieshan's rather strange eyes. He was slightly stunned at first, and then he understood. His eyes couldn't help but show a look of surprise: Could it be that Liu Tieshan wants to defect to him and create this encounter?

Several eunuchs in the distance noticed what was happening here and hurriedly walked over. Tan Zong looked at Liu Tieshan, reached out and took out three silver notes of one hundred taels from his body, walked forward, and at the moment when he was in a wrong position with Liu Tieshan, he stuffed them into his hand.

Seeing this, Liu Tieshan couldn't help but show an excited blush on his face. He stuffed the silver notes into his body without looking at it, then squatted down and pretended to calmly sort out the apples and bananas on the ground.

The eunuch who was slipped by a banana hurriedly chased Tan Zong. When he passed by Liu Tieshan, he kicked Liu Tieshan to the ground, and then left cursed. He was from Kunning Palace and could not control Liu Tieshan, so he could only vent his personal anger in this way.

As Tan Zong walked, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He was really searching for something without any effort. He was thinking about how to find a reliable eye-to-ear in the palace to find out the news and grasp the movements in the palace. Unexpectedly, Liu Tieshan took the initiative to join him, saving him a lot of trouble.

All Tan Zong can do now is to give him some money. As for whether he can make a living in the palace, he can only rely on his own efforts and opportunities.

Judging from today's incident, Liu Tieshan must be a scheming and versatile person. He must have inferred his identity from Zhao Yuzhao, so he designed this encounter. Tan Zong couldn't help but have a lot of expectations for him.
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