Logically speaking, shouldn’t the most intriguing person in the deep palace?

"... Maybe he's too favored, even the people in the palace dare not provoke her. After all, this is a princess who doesn't even want to provoke her."

Zhao Yu thought to himself.

While thinking about it, Zhao Yu coughed and quietly changed the topic: "Cough, madam, tell me to prepare delicious food in the mansion and entertain the princess..."

Hearing this, the quiet girl said respectfully: "I have given instructions, and I have ordered someone to burn water for the princess to take a bath and relieve her fatigue."

Seeing this, Zhao Yu turned around and asked Princess Xiangrui, "Princess, do you think there are any instructions?"

Seeing that Zhao Yu and his wife were ready, Princess Xiangrui was also very happy and nodded and said, "Let's do it first, I'll go take a shower first..."

Seeing this, Jingnv took Bier and three maids, personally led Princess Xiangrui to the inner courtyard: "Please, please."

"Um."

Seeing Princess Xiangrui and her party heading to the inner courtyard, Zhao Yu also turned around and was about to talk to Takagi and Cai Zheng to see if they could find out any information.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned around, he heard someone calling behind his back: "Person Zhou, please stay."

“Hmm?”

Zhao Yu turned around in surprise, and then realized that it was Xin'er, the palace maid next to Princess Xiangrui, who called him.

He smiled and said, "I wonder what the palace maid Xin has to give?... Besides, I am no longer the commander."

Xin'er showed a embarrassed and embarrassed smile on her face when she heard this, and said softly: "Don't play with Xin'er. Although Xin'er is stupid, she can see that County Governor Li was forced to remove the position of Zhou Duwei..."

Hearing this, Zhao Yu couldn't help but feel a little interested and chuckled and said, "You can see, but she can't see?... Then why don't you tell her?"

"This..." Xin'er smiled again with an embarrassing but polite smile. After hesitating for a moment, she apologized to Zhao Yu: "Please don't resent the princess. In fact, the princess is not bad-hearted. The princess is just... she has been in the deep palace for a long time and does not understand the worldly style. There are some things that the princess doesn't know that she has done wrong, but she just comes from everyone else... like us, she doesn't dare to say it clearly."

"Is that stupid princess in love too? She was also deceived when she was in the palace?"

Shaking his head slightly, Zhao Yu felt a little pitiful of the stupid princess, who had always lived in a false world full of flattery and compliment.

Once a person like this loses the capital to survive, perhaps to put it bluntly, one day he will no longer be favored, or if he loves her, he will die today, and then the fate will definitely be extremely miserable. Even if others don’t target her, she will not be able to survive, because she, who has always been favored by stars, may not be able to accept a real world.

He asked curiously: "Miss Xin Palace, I think you seem to be with the princess, why don't you point it out? I think you should understand that it's not good for the princess to be like this now."

Hearing this, Xin'er's face showed a difficult and complicated look, and bit her lip and said, "Xin'er alone is not enough to change the princess's idea, and more..."

Seeing her expression, Zhao Yu knew that there must be some reason, but he was not curious about it, and he was not interested in reversing the cognitive view and values ​​of the stupid princess. Just as the governor Li told me, I endured it last month and sent the trouble princess back to Handan. Why bother with the effort to do thankless things?

Thinking of this, Zhao Yu changed the topic and said, "Since that's the case, Zhou won't ask more questions... The palace maid Xin called to live here, I wonder what instructions did you give?"

Hearing this, Xin'er shook her head and said with apology: "Xin'er just wants to apologize to the lieutenant on behalf of the princess, please don't hate the princess... During the period of disturbing the mansion, Xin'er will also try her best to persuade the princess to dispel the princess' prejudice against the lieutenant."

"That's it?"

"Um."

After taking a deep look at Xin'er in front of him, Zhao Yu smiled slightly.

To be honest, he has a good impression of this worldly-minded palace maid, although the other party looks good.

He smiled and bowed, "Then I'll trouble the palace maid Xin."

"No trouble, no trouble... Thank you for your understanding."

Realizing that Zhao Yu had agreed, Xin'er smiled again on her face. After saluting Zhao Yu Yingying, she turned around and headed towards the backyard.

Perhaps because of his fondness, Zhao Yu glanced at Xin'er's slim back for a few more times, then he then withdrew his gaze and turned toward Takagi and Cai Zheng.

When the two were still waiting not far away, it was obvious that both of them noticed Zhao Yu's actions to walk towards them, but were interrupted by Xin'er, so they waited in the distance. Until now, Zhao Yu walked towards them again, they came forward.

"My Palace Maid Xin is really a pretty good woman, right, Wei Duwei Zhou?"

While holding his fists to Zhao Yu, Gao Mu joked with a smile. He might have noticed that Zhao Yu had just glanced at Xin'er's back a few more times.

"Why is this person a little familiar? He said this after only more than an hour of getting to know each other?"

Zhao Yu looked at Takagi strangely and said with a smile: "Two, if you don't dislike me, I will ask the kitchen to prepare some wine and food, let's talk privately first."

Takagi and Cai Zheng looked at each other and nodded: "Okay."

It can be seen that these two people are smart people and know what Zhao Yu is going to do.

After a while, Zhao Yu invited Gaomu and Cai Zheng to the side hall in the front yard and ordered the kitchen to prepare some side dishes for wine.

Because it is not a regular meal, the dishes are relatively simple. A plate of beef, a plate of chicken, and some dried fruits are all good dishes for wine.

Gao Mu and Cai Zheng were not restrained and immediately started eating and drinking with Zhao Yu.

After drinking two bowls of wine together, Zhao Yu began to inquire about the purpose of Princess Xiangrui's departure from the palace: "I heard that Brother Gao is the chief of the palace guards who are responsible for serving at the palace gate, and Brother Cai is the chief of the police patrol in the palace. How could the two serve as the princess' guards?"

"It's hard to describe it."

Takagi took a sip of wine and smiled bitterly, "That day, I and my brothers were on duty at the palace gate as usual, and then I saw the princess leading people to break through the door. Not only did she say that she also ordered us to cover and escort them as guards... Zhou Duwei also knew, how dare we disobey? Of course, the princess would do whatever she said."

"So that's it... Where is Brother Cai?" Zhao Yu turned to ask Cai Zheng.

Cai Zheng chuckled and said, "I am about the same as Brother Gaomu......That day I took people to patrol the palace, and saw the princess and a few palace maids want to leave the palace. I wanted to come forward to dissuade me, but the end..."

At the end of the conversation, he shrugged helplessly.

After listening to the story of Takagi and Cai Zheng, Zhao Yu felt quite incredible.

After all, the palace is the most strictly guarded place, so why did that princess break out of the palace casually?

"Didn't you report it in time?" Zhao Yu asked with a frown.

"How dare I?" Takagi said with a wry smile: "The princess said, whoever dares to report it will kill you. I still want to save this life to marry and have children..."

『…What about the promised 'the heart is not bad'?

Zhao Yu's mouth twitched slightly twice.

He was about to speak when he saw Takamu take a sip of wine and say, "...I didn't report it at that time because I thought the palace would receive the news immediately and send someone to chase the princess, so I followed the princess. Unexpectedly, the palace didn't send anyone to chase it until we broke out of Handan..."

“Hmm?”

Zhao Yu keenly felt that this matter was not simple.

He had previously found it strange that even if Takagi, Cai Zheng and others dared not disobey Princess Xiangrui's orders, they were forced to take the princess to leave Handan, but during this period, the palace would always get news in time, right?

According to the degree of love for that princess today, once she heard the news, she would definitely send someone to chase her. Even if Princess Xiangrui is too arrogant, would she still dare to ignore her orders of "Your Majesty Grandpa"?

However, Takagi said at this moment that they had not encountered someone sent to chase him in the palace for a long time. Does this mean...

"Brother Gao means that someone in the palace secretly helped the princess and concealed the news for the princess?" Zhao Yu asked with a frown.

"It should be." Takagi nodded and said, "Your Majesty has always loved the princess. If there is no special situation, you will never let the princess leave the palace."

"Who do Brother Gao thinks it will be?" Zhao Yu frowned and asked, "I have concealed my whereabouts for the princess."

Just as Takagi was about to speak, Cai Zheng smiled bitterly and said, "That's not something we can speculate at will."

After saying that, when he saw Zhao Yu, Takagi looked at each other and said in a low voice: "Two, you should not discuss this privately at will."

“…”

Takagi opened his mouth and nodded silently.

Cai Zheng is right, talking about such things in private can easily cause trouble.

"...Is it intentionally interrupted? This Cai Zheng."

Zhao Yu glanced at Cai Zheng quietly.

He keenly felt that compared to Takagi who knew everything, Cai Zheng's reaction was a bit abnormal, just as Takagi was about to open his mouth.

"This Cai Zheng is probably not simply coerced by the princess... Maybe it was the person behind him who concealed his whereabouts for the stupid princess. But why?"

Zhao Yu picked up the wine bowl.

In his opinion, the person behind Princess Xiangrui who deliberately lets go to the palace is nothing more than two possibilities.

First, it was purely kindness. Seeing that the princess who had been in the deep palace for a long time wanted to leave the palace, she secretly helped her and asked her to go out to see the world.

Second...

『…That’s malice.”
Chapter completed!