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Chapter 329 Catching wind and shadow

The skinny monkey chuckled: "'Forming cliques and factions' is certainly not what Mr. Zhong said. He used some wise men and some scholars."

"Recruiting talents?" Zhou Chang guessed that Zhong Yu had always had some complaints about Prince Rong's Boyin Academy, but he had never used excessive words.

"Maybe. Isn't it the same reason as when dumplings are cooked in the same pot, they tend to stick together? They who are educated must know better." The skinny monkey smacked his lips. He must have been thinking of dumplings again.

Zhou Chang didn't care: "Let's get back to the point. What does this have to do with the princess?"

"Ah..." The skinny monkey seemed to think about what he had just said. "By the way, I heard that it is very difficult to enter the Boyin Academy. You have to be recommended and not interviewed. You also have to check your family background and the background of three generations up. And the Boyin Academy was built by His Royal Highness Prince Rong, so this requirement is not excessive. Once you enter the academy, it's like you have one foot in the aristocratic circle of the imperial capital. From now on..."

"But these have nothing to do with going to Yaoyuefang?" Zhou Chang didn't have the patience to listen to this and had to interrupt again.

The skinny monkey curled his lips and said, "Why not? Your Highness, think about it carefully. If you want to enter the Boyin Academy, you have to go through the back door. To go through the back door, you need to find connections. On ordinary days, who can easily see His Royal Highness Prince Rong, but with the Boyin Association, it's different."

"What kind of good opportunity is this?" Zhou Chang still didn't think much of it. "If you want to see Brother Rong, why don't you just tell me? I can go whenever I say so."

"Your Highness, that's you. As for why the princess didn't tell you, you must be wondering..." The skinny monkey left the words half-heartedly, his meaning was obvious.

Zhou Chang listened carefully and understood.

Her marriage with Yuan Qi was a fake one, and she wasn't even sure what she felt inside, let alone Yuan Qi.

I'm afraid that until now, Yuan Qi still regards Prince Yi as an outsider in his heart.

There is nothing wrong in treating Prince Yi as an outsider, but when she has problems, she is determined not to ask Prince Yi for help. Instead, she goes around looking for others. Why is that?

The thin monkey knew Zhou Chang understood, and continued: "Of course, meeting Prince Rong is not the purpose. The purpose is to be able to give gifts openly and clearly, and to send them to the heart. According to what Manager Li said, the princess has already prepared a set of precious music, chess, calligraphy and painting..."

"Music, chess, calligraphy and painting are also a set?" Zhou Chang didn't really listen to what the skinny monkey said, but he felt more and more uncomfortable.

The skinny monkey didn't notice: "Anyway, I just prepared these four things."

"Go on." Zhou Chang suppressed his emotions.

The thin monkey had almost finished his words: "In short, the princess will probably take advantage of the Bo Yin Conference to send her to Prince Rong in order to get a chance for her brother to enter the school."

"Maybe?" Zhou Chang was about to be speechless, "Did you hear this, or did you think about it?"

"Well, I heard that the top scholar Wen was holding a conference in Yaoyuefang. The princess might go to Yaoyuefang, and it was Manager Li and the others who were worried that if the princess didn't know that the top scholar Wen was in Yaoyuefang, she might run into him and so they discussed it in private." The skinny monkey finally said everything he wanted to say.

Zhou Chang finally stood up from the rattan chair and walked outside the screen: "Yaoyuefang and Boyin Academy, since they are for your son to study, then it should be Master Yuan who goes there. It is not Yuan Qi's turn to worry about it."

"It is very reasonable for Your Highness to think so. However, Your Highness did not drink yesterday, so how could you forget everything? Didn't the princess say that Mr. Yuan had gone out of the city to discuss business and was not in the mansion, so there was no need for him to stay overnight? That's why Your Highness asked Her Highness to let her accompany her brother." The skinny monkey was speechless.

"Ah..., yes..." Zhou Chang's mind was already in a mess, but Prince Yi's thoughts wandered even further.

"Your Highness, Your Highness?" Zhou Chang was stunned and the skinny monkey called out twice.

"Let's go to Yaoyuefang." Zhou Chang didn't know if he had come to his senses or not, but this was the first thing he said.

"Ah? Your Majesty, why are we going to Yaoyuefang?" The skinny monkey was not surprised, but he was obviously not interested in places like Yaoyuefang. "I just said it's possible, but not necessarily. It's all the private discussions of those old ladies. If we want to go, we just need to go to Yuan Mansion."

"Go..." Zhou Chang had originally been sitting behind the desk, but his body stood up involuntarily.

"Where are we going? Or to Yaoyuefang?" No matter how the skinny monkey looked at him, he felt that something was wrong with his prince today.

"Let's go to Yuan Mansion first." Zhou Chang was still clear-headed.

So the skinny monkey drove the carriage, and Zhou Chang remembered to call Gao Yuan.

The three of them went all the way to Yuan Mansion.

As the Prince of Yi, it was certainly not convenient for Zhou Chang to go directly to look for someone. After all, he had promised Yuan Qi to let her stay overnight yesterday. If he turned around and went to visit her again, it would definitely make the Yuan family think too much.

Or it was Skinny Monkey who found an excuse and pretended to pass a message to He Xi on behalf of Mr. Zhong. The two of them have always had some dealings with each other.

Since He Xi was not there, Skinny Monkey took the opportunity to ask the doorman some questions.

As it turned out, Yuan Yu had been out for a few days and it was unknown whether he would be back today.

Yuan Qi did return home in the morning, and then he went out to inspect the shops accompanied by Manager He, and has not returned yet.

Zhou Chang sat in the carriage and made a decision without much thought: "Let's go to Yaoyuefang."

"Your Highness, why don't we go directly to Yaoyuefang?" Although it was Skinny Monkey who first brought up the matter, he had always been against going to Yaoyuefang. "It would be bad to go there, whether we meet anyone or not, right?"

Zhou Chang himself couldn't figure it out.

Why should we care about something that is just hearsay?

By the way, I have to go.

What if Yuan Qi really goes there and meets Wen Fei again.

It would be very bad if the two of them were seen together. If she went, it would mean that Prince Yi would be there, and then if someone said something, she could help out in time.

"Go..." Zhou Chang finally said only one word.

Yuan Qi will not return to the palace tonight, but she must know where Yuan Qi is, otherwise she will not be at ease.

The thin monkey looked up at the sky helplessly: "This time is too early, Yaoyuefang may not be open yet. What's more, Your Majesty, how can we have so much money to visit such a place? What if, what I just said, what I heard is false, doesn't it mean..."

Zhou Chang also remembered the key point and scratched his body.

Almost all of the ten thousand taels were used to buy goods, and now he has only a few taels of silver left.

However, the lack of money would not make her retreat. In the past month, those who had written IOUs had sent their money one after another, so Prince Yi's Mansion was not short of money.

"It's true that we don't have any silver, but it's still early. Let's go back home. Mr. Guan Zhong will ask for several thousand taels of silver." Zhou Chang still insisted.

The thin monkey said with a wronged face: "My Lord, if you went there and didn't see anyone, and the princess knew that you went to such a place later, you can't blame me."

"I see." Zhou Chang finally understood what the monkey was worried about.

There was no choice but for the skinny monkey to urge the carriage forward.

During the whole process, Gao Yuan sat there like a piece of wood.