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Princess and the General - Chapter 331

Published at 23rd of June 2022 05:39:22 AM


Chapter 331

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Eldest Brother, Look at That Crooked Jujube Tree (Part Three)
The fruit seller immediately understood and pulled out the best and most beautiful candied date from their basket, “If princess does not dislike it, have a taste of my fruit. It’s really sweet!”

Yu Fu: “…”

Was he sure that he was helping her and not causing her more trouble?

With the fruit seller taking the lead, the other merchants on the side of the road also started to offer her their best goods.

Aside from fresh produce, there were also steamed buns and other similar items. These were not expensive items, but they represented the citizens’ earnest gratitude.

Yu Fu vaguely understood what Gu ShuBai planned and ordered for the items to be accepted, “I have already accepted everyone’s feelings. In the future, I will continue to take the people’s worries into consideration. I hope that everyone will be able to be at ease.”

The people were finally able to truly feel at ease.

What Yu Fu had accepted was not their food, it was their trust. Since she was willing to accept it, it was the same as providing the people with a promise.

It was a promise that she would step forward and speak up if anything similar ever happened again. She would have done this from the beginning, but it would be best to provide the people with a promise to give them a sense of security.

She climbed back into the carriage, and the carriage started forward once more. Gu ShuBai looked at her in approval, “Yu Fu, what would we do if you were a man?”

“What do you mean?”

Yu Fu was holding a skewer of candied haws. Taking a bite, the hard coating of sugar was exceptionally sweet.

The haw inside was soft and sour. The sweet and sour flavors mixed together so well that it was beyond description. She immediately extended it to Gu ShuBai to have a taste.

Gu ShuBai took a bite without receiving the skewer, “If you were a man, I would have to give up the title of most talented person of the younger generation in the capital. Look at how much the citizens love you. If His Majesty was still alive, it’s possible that not even he would be received so well.”

Yu Fu continued to eat her candied haws and seemed to have something on her mind, “That’s right. It must be shocking to have a princess in Eastern Ling receive this sort of support, right? If this was Northern Li or Western Kun, women are able to do even better.”

Gu ShuBai looked at her, and, refusing to back down, she looked back at him. Their eyes met, and the two reached a tacit understanding.

The carriage suddenly came to a stop, as the carriage driver reported: “Young general, young miss, we have arrived.”

The two exited the carriage and saw the alley before them. Because the alley was narrow, the soldiers had to stop the carriage outside the alley.

The two exited the carriage and continued on foot until they reached the innermost part of the alley. This was the location that the second prince had written down.

The courtyard gate was old and worn, and it was partially concealed. Gu ShuBai reached out to push it open, and the two doors creakily opened up.

This was a small courtyard. At the center of the courtyard was a short wooden stake with a wooden table. The small building only had a few small rooms, and it really resembled the sort of place that someone from jianghu would live.

The two went to the main room first. Inside, there was only a table, a chair, and a cabinet. They were all covered in a thick layer of dust, and there was basically nothing else.

Gu ShuBai walked toward the bedroom and even the bed had been rolled away. All that remained was an empty bedframe.

Even though it was evident that nothing had been left behind, Gu ShuBai smiled and said: “It seems that the other side put in some effort for the sake of deceiving the second prince. Someone did indeed live here for a long period of time. It’s just that it was not Baibu Yang.”

“Why does eldest brother say that?”

Gu ShuBai pointed to the middle of the courtyard, “There’s a wooden stake in the courtyard, but there is no target. The person living here should be from jianghu, but they would be training their legs and not with a bow and arrow. Look at this bed. Have you found anything odd about it?”

Yu Fu looked at the barren bedframe and inspected it from top to bottom. Suddenly, she noticed an area of the paved floor that had been sunken in under the bed.

She suddenly realized, “It seems that this person was indeed training their legs. This is where someone would step when getting in bed. Through that person’s actions, that part of the floor has started to cave in.”

Gu ShuBai nodded and said: “Baibu Yang borrowed the courtyard of that martial artist and pretended that it was his own. It’s very likely that he was invited into the city for some work but did not have a place of his own inside the city. At that time, he found someone and borrowed their courtyard to deceive the second prince.”

Yu Fu said: “Then we can investigate who used to live here. Since Baibu Yang sought that person out to borrow their courtyard, this person would also be a martial arts practitioner. They most likely have some sort of connection. Looking for this person will surely be more likely to succeed than going to search for Baibu Yang directly!”

This was also what Gu ShuBai intended, immediately calling for a soldier, “Ask the residents living within a three-block radius of this courtyard about the person who resides in this courtyard. Take note of anything that they might have to say. Also, go and ask about which market the people living in this area frequent. The merchants at that market might have some memory of this person.”

“Yes, this subordinate will go immediately!”

Yu Fu exited the courtyard and looked around before suddenly asking: “Eldest brother, do you think that Baibu Yang left this place after knowing that the task had been completed, or did he leave under some uncertain circumstances?For example, the eldest prince and Yin Shuo wanted to kill him to have him silenced.”

Gu ShuBai had not considered this question and looked around, “Everything that could be carried away has been taken, so it’s very hard to deduce the truth behind that. We don’t know if it was the owner who removed everything, or if they were taken after everything had transpired.”

Yu Fu said: “I’m guessing that it was taken after everything transpired. The person living in this courtyard definitely left in a hurry. They are likely still alive.”

“How do you know?”

Yu Fu pointed at a jujube tree in the yard. There were still a few rotten fruits on the tree, and it looked like they had been there for quite some time.

“Eldest brother, look at that crooked jujube tree.”





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