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Chapter 12 - Little San

It was only when the sky was about to turn dark that the Kaifeng City finally started to calm down.

At this moment, Kaifeng City finally imposed a curfew. Under these circumstances, if they did not have the Kaifeng Mansion's order badge, any random person wandering around on the streets would have been killed immediately! No one dared to come out now!

As for the inner palace, it had slowly regained its peace!

In the Eastern Palace, within the crown prince's chambers, Zhao Chen was anxiously waiting.

Normally, there would still be a few eunuchs and maids in the chambers. Tonight, all of these eunuchs and maids were driven away by Zhao Chen, and only he was left in the chambers.

"Why hasn't Wang De come yet? Was the time not ripe? Could it be that he will have to wait till the Jin Army surrounded Kai Feng before he can send that child over? " Zhao Chen secretly thought.

He was getting more and more anxious. However, the more anxious he was, the calmer he became! It was already the middle of the night, so he thought that Wang De would probably not come over. Thinking of this, he lightly sighed, and his heart was filled with disappointment.

However, at this moment, a light sound suddenly came from the window! Zhao Chen was shocked, he anxiously looked towards the window!

The window slowly opened without a sound, and a young man appeared in front of the window. It was Wang De!

Zhao Chen was overjoyed in his heart, but he quickly recovered and said blankly, "General Wang, are you the only one who snuck into the imperial palace? Did the kid ever bring it? "

He looked at Wang De with anticipation, and Wang De nodded.

After a while, Wang De jumped into the room from the window. In his arms was a child, and he then placed the child on the ground. The child's body became numb and he almost fell to the ground when Wang De caught him.

Zhao Chen took a deep breath, he lit a candle and looked at the child! He saw that the child was as tall as him, and the child's eyes were abnormally bright. There was a hint of craftiness in his eyes! The child's face was very delicate and pretty, and looked ninety percent similar to Zhao Chen's. If one did not look carefully, one would think that this was Zhao Chen's twin brother!

"Yes! It was too similar! It's really too similar! " Zhao Chen could not help but mutter to himself!

"Xiao San'er, this is the Crown Prince. Why aren't you paying your respects to the Crown Prince?" Wang De suddenly said.

The child looked at Wang De, and seeing that Wang De had nodded, he anxiously knelt down, and said: "This commoner, Xiao San'er greets His Highness, the Crown Prince!"

"Don't speak out loud, lest you alarm the others!" Originally, Zhao Chen felt that it was a little laughable that this child's name was "Xiao San". This term "Xiao San" had a special meaning in the future generations! But when he heard Little San'er's loud voice, Zhao Chen was shocked, and that Wang De was also shocked! Fortunately, Zhao Chen had already chased away the eunuchs and palace maids far away. Right now, there were no eunuchs or palace maids around his room, and no one had heard the sound from his side!

"General Wang, thank you!" Taking a deep breath, Zhao Chen said.

"Your Highness, the news of Jin Army crossing the Yellow River has come today, the entire Kaifeng City is in chaos! In the palace, countless guards were worried that their families would be robbed or that their families would be in danger, so they all ran back to their own homes! When the sky turned dark, the palace gates closed and the guards were unable to return to the palace! Because the defenses of the palace is far from normal, I was able to bring Little San'er into the palace! However, the palace is no small matter. I was discovered by a few guards along the way. I knocked them out! But they will soon recover. Tonight, the entire imperial palace will capture assassins! Therefore, I must leave immediately! " Wang De originally wanted to roughly explain the child's situation, but it was simply too late now, so he could only use an anxious voice to speak.

"Good!" I'll have to trouble General Wang, you can leave first! " Zhao Chen nodded.

"If that's the case, then this general will take his leave!" Wang De said.

Wang De was shocked! There were too many eunuchs, maids, and guards in the palace! If he was careless, he would be discovered by others. Once he was discovered, and if anyone cried out, then there would be endless numbers of masters surrounding him. With his status as a Xiantian realm martial artist, only death awaited him! Therefore, he had to be careful along the way!

"What does His Highness want the child to do?" Wang De was still guessing this question in his heart! If not for these few months of interaction, Zhao Chen had sincerely treated him as a friend and a teacher, making him feel that it was impossible to repay the "grace of the Sovereign King". He would never do such a thing for Zhao Chen!

As he headed east, he ran into more than ten groups of guards! When he arrived at the entrance of the palace wall, another chaos occurred in the palace. This time, the 'assassins' found out that there was an invasion, which was the temporary chaos caused by all the guards in the palace. Fortunately, Wang De had already reached the wall. Like a gecko, his body swam up and disappeared in a moment.

Inside the dorm, Zhao Chen was watching that child!

He sat there, and the child stood there! The child's eyes darted around as he surveyed his surroundings! If an ordinary child had come to this strange place, he would definitely be scared. However, this child did not look scared at all!

"Your name is Xiao San?" "What's your last name?" After thinking about it, Zhao Chen said.

"This commoner is called Little San'er, no surname." Little San'er said.

"No surname? How is that possible? " Zhao Chen frowned, and asked: "Who else is in your family?"

"This commoner was born without a parent, so I have no surname. All these years, I have been begging in Kaifeng City! A few days ago, General Wang found this commoner and made this commoner follow him! Today, during the day, he said that the Crown Prince wanted to meet with this commoner! "This humble one has been blessed for three lives to be able to meet the crown prince!" Saying that, Xiao San'er suddenly knelt down, and started kowtowing to Zhao Chen!

"So it turns out to be such a character!" Zhao Chen secretly thought.

Although the Song Dynasty was wealthy, the difference between the rich and poor was also the largest in all of history! During the period of the north and south Song Dynasty, there were countless peasant uprisings, including Wang Bo, Li Shun, Song Jiang uprising, Fang La uprising, Zhong Xiang Yang Me uprising and so on. In the Song Dynasty, the peasants' standard of living was extremely poor. It could even be said to be the worst dynasty in a thousand years! Countless farmers had starved to death, resulting in countless orphans. Many orphans were gathered in various cities, including the Kaifeng Mansion. Most of these orphans were begging for a living. Those who were weak and incompetent would freeze to death, while the rest of the orphans would have an exquisite face. They would talk nonsense whenever they saw someone, swindling them until they were unable to do anything. When they grow up, these orphans will be rascals! The rascals of the Kaifeng City were famous throughout the world! In the Water Margin, Yang Zhi had been framed by the Kaifeng Mansion, and ended up in the Da Ming Mansion, where he had no choice but to climb Mount Liang!

Seeing that Xiao San was extremely obedient on the surface but in reality, she had a sly face, Zhao Chen could not help but stand up, his heart a little restless.

He really did not know if this Xiao San was reliable, or if he was willing to replace him and go see the Nvzhen!

At this moment, Little San'er had stopped kowtowing, but she was still kneeling there, with a humble expression on her face.

"Are you willing to work for me?" Zhao Chen said after an unknown period of time.

"This humble one is naturally willing to work for the crown prince! [The Crown Prince is the monarch. How could I dare to disobey his orders?] Xiao San answered very fluently.

"Are you willing to do anything I want you to do?" Zhao Chen said.

"Of course!" Little San'er guaranteed.

The more fluent Little San'er was in answering, the more Zhao Chen was uneasy in his heart! What he had asked Little San'er to do was really unbelievable. If Little San'er showed up, it would be terrible!

"Your Highness, it's already the third fragment of the night, are you still not asleep?" At that moment, a sharp shout suddenly came from the door!

was shocked when he heard this voice. His body was frozen still as he broke out in a cold sweat! He wasn't the only one there, Little San'er was too!

After a long while, Zhao Chen finally reacted! The eunuch outside only reminded him to sleep, not to find that something was amiss here!

"I'm going to sleep! "What's the noise outside?" Zhao Chen calmed down, he heard the noise outside and asked.

"Reporting to Your Highness, there is an assassin entering the palace. The head stewards have ordered for the assassins to be found!" Your Highness, there will be more guards coming to the East Palace soon, if you disturb Your Highness, I hope that Your Highness can atone for your sins! " The eunuch said.

"No worries!" Zhao Chen said indifferently.

He lightly blew out the candle! In the darkness of the night, the child called Little San'er was still kneeling on the ground!

Zhao Chen had already planned for this, but now he felt that this plan had too many flaws! Forget about Little San'er's temperament, even if he could do something for him, there would be people tidying up his chambers every day. He couldn't possibly stop the eunuchs and palace maids from coming in, right? Little San'er was hiding in her bedroom, eating, drinking, and talking. What if someone found out?

"Your Highness, I'm sleepy." After an unknown amount of time had passed, Little San'er finally couldn't take it anymore as she knelt there.

No matter how crafty and clever he was, in the end, he was just a ten-year old child!

"Let's rise!" You are sleeping in my chamber today. From now on, you will be stuck here, unable to leave! You can't let anyone find out except me! You probably know that this is the Imperial Palace. If you are discovered by others, only death awaits you. At most, I only got scolded by the Emperor! " Zhao Chen said.

Hearing this, Little San's face finally showed a hint of fear, and his body was also trembling slightly!

"This commoner knows!" After a long while, Little San finally spoke.

"This bed is very big. Today, you will sleep with me in the bed!" Zhao Chen said.

"This humble one would never dare!" Unexpectedly, Little San refused.

Zhao Chen did not mind, as the status gap between the current era's monarchs and officials was too huge! After staying in the palace for a few months, he had slowly started to "follow the customs of the land". Thus, he no longer forced himself to stay. He slept on the bed while Little Three slept in a corner of the bedroom.

The next morning, Zhao Chen woke up early and saw Xiao San'er curled up in a corner. He could not bear it anymore and let out a long sigh.

Wake up Xiao San, order him to hide under the bed, do not make a sound! However, he left his room and headed towards the scenic garden, as he followed Wang De to practice martial arts.