The divine doctor's concubine emptied the palace and went into exile

Chapter 396 Gaffe

The Seventh Prince smiled awkwardly: "Just asking, just asking."

"It depends on your performance. Maybe someday, when I'm in a good mood, I'll give you a helping of alms." Shang Ruoyi said lightly.

Upon hearing this, the Seventh Prince's eyes lit up.

Until the end of the auction, Shang Ruoyi no longer had any items she liked.

At night, Shang Ruoyi came to the window, took out a gray bird from the space, and tied the written note to the body of the gray bird. She had been away from Tianshun for so long, and she didn't know what the situation was over there.

That day, Lanqing Palace caught fire. Just when she wanted to use space to escape, Ling Feng's voice suddenly appeared. It was him who led the two of them to escape through the secret door.

She never expected that Ling Feng was so familiar with the secret passage in the palace.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

"It's me." Ling Feng said in a low voice.

"Come in." Shang Ruoyi whispered, "What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"

"Excuse me, but there is one thing I want to confirm with you."

"what's up?"

"Can you let me see the map you took today?" Ling Feng looked cold and a little anxious: "This is extremely important to me."

Shang Ruoyi handed him the fragment: "How, you know?"

He looked at the map and said in a deep voice, "I've seen it."

"When? Where?"

Ling Feng whispered, "In my father's secret room."

Shang Ruoyi was startled when she heard this.

"When I was very young, I accidentally broke into my father's secret room. In the middle of the secret room, there was a fragment of this map. I wanted to take it, but my father beat me up and ordered me not to mention it again. Not long after, our Ling family was wiped out, and I never saw this map again."

Hearing him say this, Shang Ruoyi couldn't help but frown. The Ling family had a copy of the map, but it was missing. Her mother, the Wei family, also had a copy. These two were merchant families that had existed in the previous dynasty. No one knew where the Cong family got their copy from. According to Cong Fangzhi, someone had already targeted their family. Now there was still a copy in the Western Regions. It seemed that the demise of the Wei and Ling families were both related to this map. Now they only needed one more piece to complete the map.

"The one in my father's secret room is different from this one." Ling Feng pointed at the map and said, "I remember it very clearly. There was a bright yellow mark on that map."

I guess that's where the treasure is.

After Ling Feng left, Shang Ruoyi entered the space again and poured energy into her eyes several times, trying to complete the rest of the map, but she failed after many attempts.

"Never mind. Forget it."

The next morning, Shang Ruoyi had just finished her breakfast when the Seventh Prince came over and said, "Now that the auction is over, do you want to go to the Imperial City for a stroll?"

Shang Ruoyi nodded. She originally wanted to go to the capital of the Western Region as well. “Before that, I want to go somewhere.”

She walked out of the Lu family and was about to go to the house that the Qiao family had given her when she saw a carriage parked at the door.

"But Mr. Rujun?"

Shang Ruoyi raised her eyebrows slightly. The Seventh Prince behind her saw her and whispered, "Butler Zhou." He walked to Shang Ruoyi and said, "He is the butler of the City Prince's Mansion."

"This old servant pays his respects to the Seventh Prince."

"No gift."

Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "What's the matter?"

"My master invites you." Butler Zhou said softly, "My young master said that you must come."

"Young Master?" Shang Ruoyi said calmly, "Is your young master Princess Luoyun or the prince?"

"He is the prince."

Since her brother invited her, she naturally had to go.

The carriage drove for a while and finally stopped.

After getting off the carriage, an ancient house appeared before our eyes.

"Sir, please come in."

When Shang Ruoyi walked in, her eyes lit up.

This house actually feels somewhat familiar, and it does not look like the style of the Xiling royal family.

Just as the Seventh Prince was about to enter, two guards with swords stopped him outside the door.

"What does it mean?"

"Seventh Prince, I am truly sorry, the prince has only invited Master Rujun."

The Seventh Prince thought he had heard wrongly: "This prince can't even enter the door?"

"To be honest, this house was designed by our princess. Without the prince's approval, not only you, but even the emperor cannot enter."

"You!" The Seventh Prince glared at the guard, then turned to Shang Ruoyi and said, "I'll wait for you in the car."

If someone else said such words, it would be disrespectful, but if the King of the City said so, even the civil servants who chattered all day long would not dare to say a word.

Butler Zhou brought her to the main hall, where Prince Cheng and Jun Zeqian had been waiting for a long time.

As she walked in, a smile appeared in Jun Zeqian's eyes, and the King of the City looked a little dazed, as if he had seen an old friend.

He couldn't believe that there could be two strangers in this world who were so similar.

"Greetings, Prince."

Her voice reached his ears, and the City King came back to his senses.

"I wonder why the prince and the prince called me here?" Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "Could it be that the prince wants to get back at Princess Luoyun?"

"I am not that narrow-minded." The City King smiled and said, "I just want to take a look at the fragment of the map you took."

"Your Highness is interested in this?" Shang Ruoyi took out the fragment and said, "I have been very interested in Qimen Dunjia and map anecdotes since I was a child. When I saw this fragment at the auction that day, I couldn't help myself. I didn't mean to argue with Your Highness. If I have offended you, please forgive me."

"It doesn't matter." The city king's eyes fell on the map, with a hint of disappointment in his eyes: "This is not the piece I'm looking for."

He rubbed his fingers on the map a few times, and the material was exactly the same as Jiaer's.

He returned the map to Shang Ruoyi and whispered, "I remember you once said that your mother had passed away. Have you ever seen him?"

"Cough, cough, cough." Jun Zeqian coughed softly a few times and his eyes fell on Shang Ruoyi: "Your mother passed away?"

Shang Ruoyi nodded without any guilt: "That's what my mother said."

Jun Zeqian looked at his father with some sympathy. What had happened back then that made his mother so determined?

"So you haven't met your father?"

"This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the prince." Shang Ruoyi smiled: "You are asking so many questions that I will think I am your long-lost child."

"Puff! Cough cough cough." Jun Zeqian originally wanted to drink some tea, but ended up spraying it all out. This was the only time he lost his composure since he was born.

He looked at Shang Ruoyi and couldn't help but smile bitterly. His sister was really brave!

He looked at his father, and sure enough, his father was also startled.