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Chapter 30 Outside Donghua Gate

Whether it was Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, Empress Cao and Concubine Miao, they naturally didn't feel at ease to let their precious daughter Zhao Huiruo leave the palace alone. This time, they still asked Zhang Maoze, the deputy chief of the eunuch, to accompany her, and sent six extra martial arts guards to protect her.

Like the previous two times they left the palace, all eight of them changed into ordinary people's clothes. Zhao Huiruo was still dressed as a man and dressed as a young man from an official family, and Zhang Maoze disguised himself as an old housekeeper, and the six big guards accompanying him were servants.

This time, Zhao Huiruo had the heavy responsibility to leave the palace. After she left Funing Palace, she asked Zhang Maoze who was accompanying him: "Part wise, it's not too late now. If it's daytime, where is the latest prosperous place in the palace?"

As the deputy chief of the escort squad, Zhang Maoze served with Song Renzong Zhao Zhen since he was a child. After Song Renzong Zhao Zhen took power, he accompanied him whenever Song Renzong Zhao Zhen went out of the palace to hold a sacrificial ceremony or went out of the palace to understand the people's conditions.

In addition, Zhang Maoze also took charge of the Imperial Kitchen, and he personally inquired about the Imperial Kitchen purchasing vegetables and flesh in Tokyo, so he naturally had some understanding of the prosperous places in Tokyo.

After Zhang Maoze thought for a moment, he replied: "Princess, the young man has accompanied the official family out of the palace many times. From this, he learned that outside the Donghua Gate of the palace, the market is the most prosperous, and the ban is here. All food, new flowers, fruits, fish, shrimps, turtles, crabs, quails, rabbits, and golden jade. They are nothing but the wonders of the world.

"If the taste is tens of ten, the guest needs 10000 flavors to drink wine, and it will be found as soon as possible. When the food is over, fruits, melons and vegetables are newly launched, and eggplants and gourds are newly released. Each pair can be 30,000 or 50,000 yuan, and the combinations are divided into high prices. If the princess goes this time, it will definitely not disappoint the princess."

After hearing what Zhang Maoze said, Zhao Huiruo went straight to Donghuamen without saying a word.

Zhao Huiruo, holding the token, showed to the imperial guards and could enter and exit freely when he left Donghua Gate. None of them took a carriage, but hiked.

At this time, it was already mid-March, and there were many rivers in Tokyo, and the climate was relatively cool.

The group of eight left Donghuamen in the palace. After walking for about two minutes, they arrived at the bustling street outside Donghuamen. Zhao Huiruo, who was walking in front, walked slowly on Donghuamen Street and looked around on both sides of the street. He found that as Zhang Maoze said before, this was indeed a prosperous place in Tokyo.

After walking around like a flower for about half an hour, Zhao Huiruo remembered that she had left the palace on behalf of her father, but she had a very important task and then she calmed down her mood to watch the lively street market.

Just a glance, Zhao Huiruo immediately found that about ten feet away from her, there was a restaurant called "Xiele" on the south side of the street. On the exterior wall of the side room on the east side of the main entrance of the restaurant, there was a white and eye-catching word "demolished".

At this moment, five big men in coarse cloth clothes were lifting tiles and demolishing beams on the roof of the side house, which immediately aroused Zhao Huiruo's curiosity. She walked in front of her and waved her hand and took Zhang Maoze and six big guards forward.

"Brothers, why do you want to demolish this side house facing the street?" Zhao Huiruo, who walked closer, asked knowingly.

Facing Zhao Huiruo's inquiry, a big man who stood on the roof and stopped working, replied with a puzzled look: "Young Master, don't you know? Two days ago, the restaurant opened by our shopkeeper Liu was identified as an illegal building that invaded the street and occupied the road by the street. Kaifeng Mansion also posted a notice that we must demolish it within three days.

"Now tomorrow is the last deadline. If we fail to demolish this side house by yourself before tomorrow noon tomorrow, the street company's tolls will come to demolish it forcibly. Instead of letting the street company's tolls do it, we might as well demolish it by ourselves.

"We will demolish it ourselves, and the bricks and rafters of this side house can continue to be used. If the street company's manpower comes to demolish it, that's another matter!"

Then, another man stood on the roof, wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, and sighed: "You young man, you are from a wealthy family. I guess you have been staying at home these days and only read the books of sages and turn a blind eye to the things outside the window!

"You don't know that a few days ago, the street department marked more than 200 illegal buildings in Hanlin Lane, which only lasted one day. In the end, the dignitaries and nobles living in Hanlin Lane still demolished themselves.

"Even the dignitaries and nobles living in Hanlin Lane dared not to oppose Kaifeng Prefecture and the street officials. Although our shopkeepers had made friends with some officials stationed in Beijing, no one dared to plead for our shopkeepers.

"It seems that this time, the illegal buildings that invade the streets and occupy the roads are very strong. Our shopkeeper has no way to ask for advice. He is looking at noon tomorrow, and there is no way to demolish them."

After hearing what the man said, Zhao Huiruo bowed and left, and continued to walk along Donghuamen Street.

Not far away, I saw more than a dozen shops facing the street, with white "demolition" written on the exterior walls, and some people were also doing the demolition of bricks, tiles and beams.

Not only that, Zhao Huiruo also went to several alleys along the street and saw many families who invaded the streets and occupied the roads. He had moved his exterior walls one or two meters away, all within the boundary of the "top wood" on both sides of the alley.

After walking forward for about a moment, he saw the notice posted by Kaifeng Prefecture at the intersection of a cross street. Although Zhao Huiruo likes to practice martial arts on weekdays, he has not missed reading and literacy.

After a while, Zhao Huiruo recited all the text of the notice posted by Kaifeng Mansion, reaching a level of being familiar with it.

It was about to be the time of You, and the sun was setting in the west. At dusk, it was almost two hours before Zhao Huiruo left the palace. After searching along the streets and alleys of Donghuamen, she felt that her father Zhao Guan’s family’s concerns should be too much.

Just as Zhao Huiruo was about to leave Donghuamen Street and returned to the palace on the same road, she had just turned around and left about a cup of tea when she heard a familiar and unfamiliar baritone coming from behind: "Young master, young man, please stay. Today, we meet again. I have something to ask you, can I borrow a step to speak?!"

When Zhao Huiruo stopped, turned around, and looked closely, about ten feet away from her, the guy who was disgusted with her actually trotted over with a smile.

At this time, Zhao Huiruo thought that it was not a good thing for this annoying guy to find him, and he had no common language with her. As the smoke screen came, his father was still waiting for her news in the palace, so it was not worth staying for this guy for a moment.
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