The two hurried over.

There is a street food stall on the side of the road.

The stall owner was a middle-aged woman, wearing an apron around her waist, wielding a wok by the stove at the entrance and stirring vegetables.

That spicy aroma is coming from that pot.

"Only when I smell this, do I realize how hungry I am." Yang Ruqing stroked her belly and smiled.

Xiao Ya Xue sniffed hard, "Me too."

Yang Ruoqing glanced at the sky. "It's past mealtime, and we're still hungry. Why don't we go in for a meal first and then return to the inn?"

Xiao Ya Xue said, "Good, good."

As the two were discussing, the middle-aged woman had warmly greeted them.

"Come in, come in, ladies! My stall is small, but I have all sorts of food inside. We have snacks from every direction - north, south, east, and west! Come take a look!"

Yang Ruqing watched as the woman in the pot stirred something, yellow was bok choy, she recognized it.

But when stir-fried with Chinese cabbage, there was a wide, pale green thing similar to dough but thicker and rougher than dough. I don't know what it is.

So, she pointed at the pot and asked the woman, "Boss, what is this you're cooking? It smells so delicious."

The woman smiled and said, "This is stir-fried bean threads, made from soybeans. It's delicious! Would you two ladies like a bowl to try?"

Yang Ruqing glanced at Xiao Yaxue, who nodded readily.

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Yang Ruqing then turned to the woman and said, "Two bowls of stir-fried bean threads, extra spicy, and also fry two omelets and put them on the bottom."

"Alright, two young ladies, please sit inside first. I'll get your stir-fry ready in a bit!"

The simply furnished shop was fairly clean and tidy.

Yang Ruohong and Xiao Ya Xue found a table and sat down, each pouring themselves a cup of hot tea.

Looking at the bustling crowd on the street, Yang Ruqing mused, "Prince Yu seems to have put in quite a bit of effort. He even knows my father and Tang Ya's itinerary for today."

He had Zhao Laoqi get in touch with them, pretending to be Yang Huazhong and using a similar tone of voice.

Thus, it can be seen that the investigation into the Yu Wang involved her and the information about her family members.

"I originally planned to wait another three or five days before returning to the village. Judging by the current situation, I think I'll go back tomorrow."

"My father and Uncle Luo are both here, I'm not at ease." she added.

"Qing'er!" Xiao Ya Xue suddenly spoke, interrupting Yang Ruoqing's thoughts.

"What's wrong?" Yang Ruqing asked.

Xiao Yaxue said, "Since King Yu knows the itinerary of your three uncles today, he wouldn't have them arrested to blackmail you?"

Yang Ruqing frowned and shook her head without hesitation.

"It's impossible!"

She said, "With Tang YaZi and that day's Song present, even if King Yu sent the entire Yu Wangfu guard, it would be difficult for them to take my father and Uncle Luo away from their hands."

Besides, there's also Mu Zi Chuan with them. He is the top scholar of this imperial examination, a student favored by Grand Tutor Hua Gai Dian.

"With such accomplished scholars and warriors by my father's and Uncle Luo's side, they won't be in any danger."

"But, it's not the open threat we fear, it's the hidden one. The guards of Lord Song, and the soldiers of the Luo family, are both absent from the capital."

"So, to avoid any unforeseen problems overnight, let's finish our bean threads and head back right after. We should pack everything up quickly and set off for Changping Village early tomorrow morning." Yang Ruqing said.

“You can run from a monk, but you can't run from the temple. What about Haitangxuan?” Xiao Yaxue asked.

Yang Ruqing said: " Haitangxuan has the protection of King Chen, so there's nothing to fear."

“The person the Prince Regent is targeting is me. As long as I avoid this storm, he's helpless.” she said.

Xiao Ya Xue nodded. "It seems... maybe, there's a bit of truth to it."

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"Alright, let's do it this way then. We can't afford to fight them, so let's just leave the capital and lay low for a while!"

The two's conversation came to an end as the stall owner brought over two bowls of freshly cooked stir-fried bean threads.

"Wow, this looks so delicious, I'm drooling!"

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Yang Ruqing took a deep breath of the fragrance and said.

Xiao Ya Xue couldn't wait to grab her chopsticks and urged Yang Ruo Qing, "Stop talking and eat quickly. Eat up so we have the energy to run away."

The two of them wolfed down their food, and in no time, their mouths were all red from the spiciness.

Fortunately, there was tea prepared beforehand on the side. After drinking it heartily, Yang Ruqing called over the stall owner to settle the bill.

“Ten wen per bowl, a total of twenty wen.” The middle-aged woman said.

Yang Ruqing smiled and nodded, just about to pay, when a vendor carrying a load of "feathered eggs" happened to pass by the door.

Several people on the road surrounded the man selling 'maochidan' eggs, asking for the price and then paying.

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"This stuff is good for health, I'll buy a few for my kids."

"I want some too, my child loves to eat them..."

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“My daughter-in-law is pregnant, so I also bought two to supplement her body…”

All the pedestrians at the gate were there.

In the shop, the stall owner, this middle-aged woman, saw it and said to Yang Ruqing, "Girl, don't rush to pay. Sit down first, and I'll go buy two quail eggs."

“My mother-in-law hasn't had much of an appetite these days, so I bought two to change things up for her.”

Having said that, the middle-aged woman scurried out of the small stall and joined the crowd to buy two hairy eggs. Then she hurried back into the stall.

“Haha, I finally bought it, it’s still hot.”

The woman was overjoyed, like a general who had just won a battle. Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!

Yang Ruqing then handed over one or two silver coins.

"Check, please," she said.

The woman saw the few silver coins in Yang Ruoqing's hand and looked somewhat embarrassed. Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate! ?

She smiled and said, "Young lady, a bowl of bean threads is ten wen, two bowls are twenty wen. You're giving me so much money, I can't even make change with my small business!"

Yang Ruqing smiled happily: "Boss, these two silver coins are for you, keep the change."

“Ah?”

The middle-aged woman was stunned, thinking she had misheard.

When she came to, she shook her head like a metronome.

"That's not how it works! We agreed on ten coins per bowl, and that's what we stick to. You can't just change the price like this..."

Yang Ruqing, however, directly grabbed the woman's rather oily hand and placed a few silver coins in the palm of her hand.

“While others buy duck eggs for their children, you buy them for your mother-in-law. That’s truly remarkable.”

"This bit of silver, it's not much, you take it to buy some tasty food for the old folks," Yang Ruqing said.

Upon hearing Yang Ruqing's words, the woman was even more astonished.

On the face weathered by wind and smoke for too long, a simple and grateful smile appeared.

...and also somewhat surprising.

"Since we've just met, how could I accept such a great favor from you? I feel uneasy in my heart..." the woman said.