Seeing that Tang Xiu took Pang Xiao's Jian Sui Zi to the city gate, Yun Yun and Bing Tang couldn't help holding their breath.
Ji Yun whispered: "Princess, will Gong Zongqi make an exception to open the city gate?"
"It's hard to say." Qin Yining smiled, "It's not necessary to go to the city immediately, but just in time to catch up, let's try it."
Bingtang said: "If that person thinks about the old relationship with the prince, he will definitely open the door."
"Not at all." Qin Yining said, "It only depends on whether that person has an upright temperament or a smooth temperament. I asked Xiaotang to take the sword spike, and I didn't want to use the prince's token to impress anyone. I just heard that Gong Zongqi used to be under the prince's command, so it's easy for him to identify him. Otherwise, there are other ways to prove his identity. Whether it is nostalgic or not, the other party will let us in as long as he is tactful. After all, no one wants to offend the prince, right? It's just a matter of turning around and reporting a few words."
"So the princess expected that even if he was willing to open the door, he would turn around and report it?"
"Yeah. We came back in good faith, and we didn't come here to commit crimes, but we came back a little late. Just in time for this time, let them be accommodating. That's why the curfew and curfew are banned. People? There are so many Qinlou and Chu pavilions in the capital, if the curfew is really banned, all those fireworks places will be closed before they are built?"
Bingtang and Jiyun looked at each other and had to admit that what Qin Yining said was the truth. Whether in the Great Yan Dynasty or the Great Zhou Dynasty, certain laws restricted only ordinary people who did not have privileges.
There are very few people like Wang Ye and Wang Fei who have never been oppressed by their identity.
Just as several people were talking, there was a sound from the direction of the city gate, and after a while, Tang Xiu rushed back with a tall and strong middle-aged man.
"The humble Gong Wen, see the princess."
Qin Yining lifted the curtains of the car and said with a smile, "Mr. Gongqi is exempted from the ceremony. Our group originally planned to return before the curfew, but the road was blocked by ice and snow, so it was really too late to hurry and hurry. Gong Zongqi came and wanted to ask if we could be accommodating and let us go into the city to return to the house? Otherwise, it will be really hard to endure the cold weather.”
Gong Zongqi said with a smile: "If others can't, but the princess is an exception. The prince is loyal to the country, and the princess and the wife are the pillars of Da Zhou, but it's just a trivial matter of opening the city gate. Come."
"Don't dare to be, it's really embarrassing the flag."
"Where, where."
When the two were talking, the carriage and the team slowly moved forward.
Gong Zongqi followed beside the carriage, chatting with Qin Yining with a smile, and then asked, "Why didn't the lord and the princess go together?"
Qin Yining pretended to be surprised: "Isn't the prince back in Beijing yet?"
Gong Zongqi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Not yet."
Qin Yining nodded and said, "I received a letter from the lord, saying that the sage ordered us to go back to Beijing, so I hurriedly set off with someone. If the lord hasn't arrived, it must be coming these days."
"It turns out that the prince and the princess are on their way separately."
"Yeah." Qin Yining sighed, with a sad face, but didn't say much.
At this time, the group had reached the gate of the city, and when Mr. Gong gave an order, someone opened the dull door halfway.
Qin Yining's carriage and team entered the city gate smoothly.
Qin Yining got out of the car and thanked Gong Zongqi again and again. Gong Zongqi waved his hands again and again and said with a smile: "Princess, please don't do this. Now that there is a curfew in the city, it is more important for you to return to the palace for resettlement."
"Thank you, Chief Flag."
The group left the city gate and went into the city.
Gong Zongqi watched Qin Yining's team go away, turned around and went back to the top of the mountain.
Prince Zhongshun returned to Beijing, and the prince would arrive soon. Although he opened the door as soon as possible, he still had to report to the peak.
The streets of the capital city were exceptionally quiet in the dark, and the sound of wheels and horses' hooves appeared to be somewhat crisp in such a quiet environment.
Qin Yining closed his eyes for a while. They had returned to the palace, and they had to clean up for a while before they could rest. They didn't know what the palace had become if it had been left unattended for so long.
Seeing Qin Yining resting with his eyes closed, Bingtang and Jiyun didn't make a sound either. They tightened the dark blue cloak on Qin Yining's body, and then the two also fell asleep.
There is still a long way to go from the city gate to the imperial palace. Qin Yining was already tired after so long in the car. Xu entered the city smoothly to make her feel at ease. As she slept, the silver butterfly earrings on her ears swayed as the carriage moved, touching her fair jade neck all at once.
At this moment, there was a commotion in the originally quiet street.
Several young men in Jin Luo Yuyi walked on the quiet street with their shoulders hanging on their backs. In the cold weather, they were all flushed, their bodies were steaming, and their tongues were thick when they spoke, and their words were not clear. .
Apparently all of them were a little drunk.
"The new front row of Yuhua Building, that is a beautiful beauty, hiccup, you, whoever doesn't believe it, you will find out when you go there."
The headed young man wearing a sable-fur collar and a Yunjin cloak pointed in the direction of the Yuhua Building, and said with drunken eyes, "Tell you guys, that little lady can make your bones crumble with a smile."
"Haha, Ninth Young Master will brag."
"Hey, don't you believe it! Hiccup..." The young man known as Ninth Young Master hiccups for a long time, pointing to the corner and saying, "You guys, if you go to this young master, you'll know. If your bones don't Crisp, I, I'll ask someone to help you beat me!"
"Hahaha!" All the sons and brothers laughed unscrupulously.
On the silent street, their laughter was especially wanton.
Just as these people turned the corner, they suddenly saw a carriage slowly approaching, with a dozen or twenty men beside the carriage. There is no sign on the car, and the frame is just an ordinary flat-headed carriage. There is a swaying wind lamp on the car, which is on and off. At first glance, the team is of ordinary origin.
Ninth Young Master narrowed his eyes, pointed at Qin Yining's carriage and laughed loudly: "Ha, at this hour, there are still carriages that dare to walk on the street?"
The floating step took two steps, and the ninth son almost stepped on his left foot and stumbled on his right foot. He didn't care at all, and walked towards the carriage with three steps.
The driver and the guards of Jinghu had already spotted these drunken and playful boys who were on the way. Seeing that the well-dressed young man dared to ram his head in front of the carriage, he would be trampled under the wheel if he was not careful. The driver quickly dragged him. The reins pulled the carriage to a halt.
The carriage shook for a while, and Qin Yining opened his eyes in a daze, but for a while he couldn't get back to his senses.
"What's wrong?" She raised the curtain of the car strangely and looked out.
At this time, Young Master Jiu and his entourage had already got close to the carriage. Seeing that the carriage stopped, the dark blue thick warm curtain was suddenly lifted, and by the light of the mad wind lamp hanging on the carriage, I saw a delicate and delicate face.
"Oh, this, this is true!" The dude behind Jiu Gongzi was stunned.
Ninth Young Master's eyes lit up even more, and he came forward with shortness of breath.
Qin Yining was a little awake when the cool wind blew at this time. After seeing the situation outside, she lowered the curtain. He whispered to Mu Jinghu outside the window, "What's wrong?"
Mu Jinghu said: "It's okay, I met a group of drunks."
"Little lady!" Ninth Young Master was about to lean in front of the car door.
But the elite tiger guards immediately surrounded the carriage, and the tall and sturdy bodies of the men were like a wall, isolating the dummies from the outside.
Ninth Young Master couldn't help but get annoyed: "Why, you little lady still hasn't been seen by others? Why don't you want to win over old customers when you are in business?"
Qin Yining frowned, not wanting to pay attention to this person's foul language.
In the capital city, the Jinghu guards did not dare to act rashly without Qin Yining's orders. But for being so presumptuous towards those gangsters, he was already angry, standing upright one by one, guarding the carriage with their iron-like bodies.
Ninth Young Master kicked Jinghuwei's calf in front of him, but he nearly fell.
"You little lady, which girl are you from? You dare to walk on the street in the middle of the night, and you feel amazing that there are so many people escorting you? If you are in the flesh business, you must understand the rules of doing business! Could it be that you will never do business as a young master in the future? You are so disrespectful that you don't even say hello!"
Qin Yining sneered uncontrollably when he heard the drunk man say such words in the carriage.
Outside the carriage, Mu Jinghu rebuked unbearably, "Don't talk nonsense!"
"Nonsense? Can you be taken out of the building at this time, do you still say that you are a chaste martyr?"
Seeing that the ninth son was so clamoring, even though his mind was numb from eating too much alcohol, he still had some sense of restraint. Someone pulled the ninth son and said, "Don't do this, in case it's someone in the court. What about the family of a minister?"
"Impossible!" Jiu Gongzi said drunkenly, "You think that such a beauty is so easy to meet? I have seen many girls from Liuxiang, Huajie Street in Beijing, but I have never seen such a handsome one. She's a beauty, but didn't that woman go to find Prince Zhongshun? Could it be the princess who was picked up in the middle of the night? Stop laughing at my teeth!"
Hearing his words became less and less intrusive, Qin Yining said to Mu Jinghu outside the window, "Mr. Mu, ask him who he is."
Mu Jinghu asked, "Who are you! How dare you be so shameless and presumptuous!"
"Who am I? Ha, there are still people who don't recognize me?" Ninth Young Master laughed, as if he had encountered the most interesting thing in the world.
Ninth Young Master has never lacked people who hold him, so he immediately stood up and said, "You have eyes but you don't know Mount Tai, this is the Ninth Young Master in the palace of Changguo!"
Qin Yining understood clearly in the carriage, and her eyes lit up when she heard the words "Chang Guogong".
"It really didn't take much effort." Qin Yining sneered and told Mu Jinghu outside, "Mr. Mu, take down this ninth son!"