CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

The trading city that was once just a stopover city for traders and visitors who travelled far to the capital area, has now developed into a bustling city and is growing rapidly. The main streets are already full and crowded with people, not to mention the traders who opened stalls on the roadside, from the small to the large shops.

“Candied fruit, candied fruit three one taels!” exclaimed the confectioner among the many other merchants there.

“Your Majesty, I want candied fruit!” shouted BaiYing from inside the carriage, soon the young man show his head out of the curtain.

“Your Majesty”

“Just sit down Ying!” said the Crown Prince with a flat and calm voice.

In the late afternoon when the group passed through the big gates, after showing the passbook with the stamp of every city official they visited, all the number of followers in the group including the last one, XuYi can enter the city.

“Young master Xu, you should stay away from us, this is not a safe place,” said ShinYa who’s riding beside XuYi.

The young man nodded, of course, that was indeed his plan, he would certainly be so close or sticks with them if he have to.

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The group entered the city centre, no matter how busy the road was, the large number of Crown Prince’s entourage does become the main attraction of the main road, although the passerby looks like they don’t bother to pay much attention to them, as the small town’s main street was already bustling with so many other people who are busy doing their own business.

XuYi pointed at one of the rather large buildings sides by side with another in a small street, the Orchid Restaurant, which as XuYi expected was already full of visitors.

BeiYau glanced at one of his men to approach the diner and take a look at the situation, with there being quite a number of them there would probably only be a few people entering the diner and the rest would eat near their horses.

The diner was indeed very crowded, but fortunately, there was still one large table available for the Crown Prince, BaiYing, Lan’er, Elder Yi, ChenMing, ShinYa and XuYi to sit and have dined together, while BeiYau remained with his soldiers with a group of horses and carriages, were stop and take a rest at the small field across the street.

“Your welcome Customers! Servant will help you with orders!”

“What is the most favourite menu at this diner?” ChenMing exclaimed, the servant haven’t answered yet when Elder Yi shout out his.

“Two casks of Lady Tongue wine, please warm it up first.”

Everyone turned to Elder Yi, even the Crown Prince.

“Ready, two barrels of Woman’s Tongue are on the way! Is there anything else, Customer?”

“This old man, what don’t order some food first, Ying is starving,” BaiYing whispered.

Elder Yi chuckled.

“Hehehehe this is more important, a little kid like you wouldn’t understand”

BaiYing puffed out his mouth. What a shameless old man, ChenMing exclaimed inwardly.

“Eh, what’s your mainstay menu, provide all the best, and if it’s not delicious, we won’t pay for it” ChenMing exclaimed to save time, the skinny young waiter with front teeth like a donkey smiled broadly.

“Hehehe of course customers, our mainstay menu is guaranteed to be so delicious, we have ten mainstay menus and five complementary menus, twelve dessert menus, eight types of drinks...”

“Ahem! Waiter, whatever menu you have put all on this table and twenty more complete rice menus with large portions to take away, we have guards resting across the road, can you hurry up?” ChenMing cut in with a flat smile at the maid, the maid opened her eyes wide, he nodded quickly.

“Of course customers, a complete rice menu with large portions will slide!”

BaiYing and Lan’er smiled in amusement at the maids who had rushed off, the maids’ faces made BaiYing quite amused.

“Sis, that person is very funny.”

“Yeah, he looks a lot like XiaoQe” said Lan’er, both of them laughing amusedly after that.

“Hahahaha yeah, Ying just noticed that”

LuoXiang looked around, the large number of guests and the overlapping voices of people’s chatter made it difficult for them to speak freely there.

“Our journey will take another two days before arriving at the capital, Prince Chen I think we need to order more food for the trip,” said the Crown Prince.

ChenMing frowned, thinking for a while.

“Em, one day we will travel at the border of ChangSan city, in less than a day we will arrive at the capital, Your Majesty, ChangSan city has many diners that’s famous for their delicious food, I don’t think there is need to order so much food”

LuoXiang thought, he knew that too, but the matter of catching up to that mercenary group made him think that they wouldn’t be able to stop too often reducing the amount of time being wasted.

“Your Majesty, can I do some shopping later? Ying’er saw that there was a perfume shop near the entrance of the alley, it looks quite famous, I want to buy gifts for sister Fan’er” BaiYing said, Crown Prince turned his head, he pinched BaiYing’s nose exasperatedly.

“This boy, why is it always that you have in mind? Their perfume is so many already, they bought some perfume every time they go out to the city, why are you so busy buying it again?”

BaiYing furrowed his brows.

“That’s different, Your Majesty, the smell of perfume from each region is different. After all, how did Your Majesty knows that Sis Fan’er has a lot of perfume? Your Majesty, have you ever been to her room?”

Hearing the question, the Crown Prince stuttered, BaiYing’s big eyes were still looking at him intently.

“Eh that, well, because many people say that, including the Queen Mother”

BaiYing narrowed his eyes, looked at the Crown Prince for a moment as if suspicious of him.

“Hmm, very suspicious”

“Suspicious for what? Has your brother ever slept in another room than YingYing’s?” BaiYing’s eyes widened when he heard the Crown Prince’s loud voice as he said it, everyone sitting at the table heard it very clearly.

“Your Majesty, don’t talk too loud.” The young man tried to cover the Crown Prince’s mouth, but LuoXiang’s held his.

“So what? Let it be, everyone here already knows, is it still a secret?”

ChenMing and ShinYa held back their laughter, while Lan’er covered her mouth with a chuckle.

“Well still, that’s right...but..” BaiYing’s face was red with embarrassment, Crown Prince who had been putting on a tense face earlier couldn’t help seeing BaiYing’s adorable face, he pinched his cheeks.

“This kid, why are you so cute?”

“Your majesty”

Not long after, the dining table was filled with all the menus of the famous diner’s mainstay, there were so many delicious looking foods that made Bai Ying’s saliva dripping because of it.

“Wow, this looks delicious.”

“Well yeah, if it’s not good, we don’t have to pay,” said ChenMing.

“The food menu in this diner is famous for its taste, Young Master, I don’t think you need to worry about it,” continued XuYi.

Crown Prince slid the red-spiced meat chunks into BaiYing’s rice bowl.

“Here, eat more Ying, we’ll be no more stopping after this.”

BaiYing nodded with a big smile until his eyes disappeared, he looked at the other food on the table and slid a piece of duck meat into the Crown Prince’s bowl.

“Your Majesty, this is Your Majesty’s favourite, I hope it is fit to your taste.”

Crown Prince smiled, he glanced at ShinYa and others to quickly start their meal without hesitation.

“Master ShinYa please”

The young shaman smiled, he bowed his head before starting to eat, being at the same table with the Crown Prince and the Viceroy was a very hard thing to imagine would happen, he became very nervous.

ChenMing glanced at XuYi who was taking food non-stop.

“Ahem Young Master Xu, you, can finish all that?” he asked looking at ChenMing’s bowl which was already full of many side dishes.

XuYi turned his head towards his bowl, which he had unknowingly almost fallen over from being too full.

“Hehe sorry, I’m too excited”

.....

It didn’t take much, they finally finished their dinner.

LuoXiang held BaiYing’s hand tightly, the two of them standing on the side of the road preparing to head towards across the street. Such a crowd of people kept everyone on their toes no matter what.

Crown Prince took BaiYing across the road when from the end of the road he saw several horses speeding at high speed, not stopping their running even though they saw them crossing in the middle of the road.

“Hiatt! Hiatt!”

Crown Prince’s eyes went wide, the person sitting on the horse didn’t see them? Immediately he let go of BaiYing’s hand and pushed him back to the side of the road.

“Your Majesty!”

Meanwhile, he retreated across the street.

“Your Honour!” BeiYau might be too late to notice it, the young man immediately darted towards the horseman and tried to stop him even though it was already too late.

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