"Xiao Ru!"
Shen Ning shouted.
"Ah, Miss!" Xiao Ru's face immediately became frightened, panicked and confused, and she hurriedly hid the person behind her.
But it was too late.
The man tilted his head and Shen Ning recognized him.
"Xiaosi?"
Xiao Si turned around and saluted her.
"Meet the Queen."
Although he tried to act as if nothing had happened, the embarrassment flashed across his face.
Shen Ning became suspicious.
"What are you doing here?"
Xiaosi straightened up, but lowered his head and didn't answer.
"Where's Mo Chuan?" Shen Ning asked.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..." Xiao Si's face flushed red, and after a long time he hesitated and whispered: "This slave is here to ask Miss Xiao Ru if the Emperor is here."
"He didn't come, where did he go?" Shen Ning wondered.
"He... He left with that Qi Yanyu. He has been gone for more than two hours and has not come back. I feel very worried."
"Mo Chuan and Qi Yanyu?"
Shen Ning couldn't help but frown: "Where have they gone?"
"My servant doesn't know that Qingying originally followed the emperor, but there is no news about Qingying. According to other secret guards, they seem to... seem to have... gone, gone..." He hesitated.
Shen Ning scolded: "Tell me, where did you go?"
Xiaosi whispered: "It's that kind of secret den."
"Secret hall?" Shen Ning frowned, and then she understood.
The so-called secret shops refer to places that do not have bright signs but secretly do some shady business.
This kind of secret hall exists not only in Western Chu, but also in Northern Qi.
She thought of the Qingguan where Qi Yanyu took her, and the two waiters inside sang a good song, as if they were singing from heaven, and she couldn't help gritting her teeth.
Qi Yanyu was most familiar with this kind of place. Without even thinking about it, Qi Yanyu must have taken Mo Chuan there.
"Queen, please don't be angry. The Emperor will definitely not go to that kind of place. Maybe the secret guards were blinded. Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." Xiao Si still stammered to defend Mo Chuan.
Shen Ning had already raised her hand.
She looked at Xiao Si with a half-smile: "Where is the secret room? Take me there."
Xiao Si suddenly made a clever move: "I don't know, I don't know."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Shen Ning's face was straight.
Xiao Si immediately grimaced and regretted so much that his intestines turned blue.
He glanced at Shen Ning and hesitated: "If you must go, you'd better change your clothes. Women can't get in there."
Shen Ning understood.
She turned around and went back to her room, quickly changing into men's clothes and coming out.
Looking at herself dressed as a man in the bronze mirror, she felt novel and interesting.
When he came out of the room, even Xiaosi didn't recognize him at first glance.
"Emperor, Empress?" Xiaosi and Xiaoru were both extremely surprised.
"Call me Mr. Shen."
Shen Ning said without changing his expression.
"Sen, Mr. Shen." Xiao Si swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Xiao Ru looked excited and shouted: "Miss, I want to go with you. I also want to change into men's clothes."
Shen Ning suddenly had a headache and said with a straight face: "Nonsense, how can you, a little girl, go to a place like that? Just stay here obediently."
Xiaoru pouted aggrievedly.
Shen Ning asked Xiaosi to lead the way, and the two of them walked around the alleys of the capital, and finally entered a remote alley.
Even though it was broad daylight, the alley was still dark.
There is only one house in the whole alley, but there are two big red lanterns hanging in front of the door. A girl in red is leaning on the door, looking bored and eating melon seeds.