If not abolished

Chapter 270 Secretly Leaving the Palace (2)

"By the way, since Your Highness mentioned the palace maid who was close to Agui, I have to talk to Your Highness about this matter."

"What? How can this be related to me?" The prince was confused.

"Your Highness, you are only listening to half of the rumors. Do you know who that palace maid is?" The Crown Princess kept the secret.

"Who?" The prince really couldn't think of it.

"Your Highness, do you still remember that Sister Guo's palace caught fire and she was rescued by a palace servant?"

"I have some impression of this. How come Agui is close to the palace maids in Concubine Guo's palace?" After being reminded of this, the prince remembered that there was indeed such a person.

"That's right. The rumors about Agui now are about this palace maid. Your Highness, what do you think we should do about this?" The Crown Princess threw the question to him.

The prince never interferes in such matters, and this time, on one side is his own son, and on the other side is his favorite concubine, so he would not say anything more. "What's so difficult about this? If the girl is good and Agui likes her, just give her a status. He is not a child anymore, and he can't handle this matter by himself. Let's not interfere." The prince also came to comfort her and let her relax.

"As the saying goes, if you raise a child for a hundred years, you will worry about him for ninety-nine years. I am not as reassured as Your Highness. If he goes too far, I will still say a few words."

The prince said casually: "Anyway, I will not interfere in this matter. You are the mistress of the East Palace. Whatever you say is what it is. You just take care of it." The prince let her do it.

"Your Highness, you say this now, but don't come to hold me accountable when someone instigates you." The Crown Princess said somewhat resentfully.

"What are you talking about? You and I have been married for many years, how could we be instigated by just a few words? Don't think too much. I just heard about it and asked you to come over to ask about the situation. When have I ever not trusted you?" The prince immediately adjusted his attitude.

"Your Highness said that, and I feel relieved."

When the Crown Princess came out of the main hall, she immediately saw a person hiding in the corner. He looked like someone from Concubine Guo's palace. It seemed that he was still not giving up and was so anxious to see her make a fool of herself.

The palace maid seemed to sense that she was staring at that direction, and hurriedly hid again.

The Crown Princess naturally would not bother with a maid like her, and left immediately.

"The Crown Princess is really capable. She convinced His Highness in just a few moves. Concubine Guo was originally planning to flatter you, but she didn't realize that you and His Highness have been in love for so many years, and she can't break it with just a few words." Yun Jin said after returning.

The Crown Princess was washing her hands. "I didn't bother to get angry with her for what she did before. Otherwise, she thought she could have such an easy life."

Concubine Guo

"You said she went to see His Highness, and came out fine? She wasn't even scolded?" Concubine Guo couldn't believe it. How could this be? It was so different from what she had expected.

"I am also surprised. But the prince came out safe and sound, and it seems that Your Highness has no intention of punishing him." The maid came back and replied.

Before the two of them finished their conversation, they heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had sent someone over.

"Mammy, I wonder if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked you to come here because he has something to tell you?" Concubine Guo greeted her with a smile.

"Greetings, Concubine. I'm here to pass on a message to His Highness. His Highness said that Concubine should reflect on her mistakes in seclusion in the palace for the next few days and copy the late Queen's "Internal Training" ten times. She can go out only when she finishes copying. Keep her mind calm and avoid being easily fooled." The nanny said this with an expressionless face and then left.

"How abominable! Instead of waiting for His Highness to punish the Crown Princess, I ended up losing more than I gained. It must be the Crown Princess who said bad things about me in front of His Highness." After everyone left, Concubine Guo was so angry that she smashed a set of tea sets.

"Your Majesty, anger is harmful to your health. Please calm down." said a palace servant on the side.

"Why? Your Highness doesn't believe anything I say, but believes everything she says. This is simply too much." She was going crazy.

The palace maids thought: My queen, you said you were going to ask the Crown Princess for favor that time, but what happened? Their queen likes to provoke the Crown Princess, and the Crown Princess is generous, and she will not care about the competition for favor as long as it does not violate her bottom line. But if her bottom line is violated, then it will be the same as their queen, and there will be no good consequences.

The Crown Princess also heard about this afterwards and only said one sentence: You really need to calm down and avoid jumping around for no reason.

Zhu Zhanji thought about it for several days before deciding where Hu Shanxiang would live after leaving the palace.

After everything was ready, Hu Shanxiang, under the arrangement of Zhu Zhanji and the Crown Princess, only took her personal assistants Lingzhi and Yannan out of the palace. In order to avoid arousing suspicion, there was still a substitute in Qingyun Palace. As long as people who were not close to Hu Shanxiang could hardly notice it.

Everything was ready outside the palace, and Hu Shanxiang could stay there directly after arriving.

Zhu Zhanji took the opportunity of going out of the palace to personally send the person out, but he couldn't stay for long and had to say goodbye to Hu Shanxiang after a while.

"This is one of my villas. Food and other daily necessities will be delivered here every five days. People in the villa will not talk nonsense and will not approach your yard. You can walk around freely, but you cannot go out. In order not to arouse suspicion, I am afraid I cannot watch over you very much. You must take good care of yourself." Zhu Zhanji warned repeatedly.

"Don't worry, Your Highness. I know. I promise you that my child and I will be fine and will be waiting for Your Highness to come and pick us up." Hu Shanxiang assured him.

"Okay, I will definitely take care of those things as soon as possible and take you back to the palace."

Zhu Zhanji was about to leave when he finished speaking. Hu Shanxiang suddenly thought of something and asked, "Your Highness, will you spare Wu Yingyue's life?"

"It depends on what she has done. Considering the past...if there is a chance, I will save her life, but if it is a serious crime, then I can't do anything."

"But she is, after all, Qi Yu's..."

"That's not something that happens in this life. What's more, no matter whether she is good or bad, I will never have anything to do with her in this life." Zhu Zhanji said firmly.

Hu Shanxiang knew that he was determined, so she didn't say anything more. She had been thinking that if she had the future... After all, Sun Ruoji was out, and Zhu Zhanji only had two sons. One was impossible, and as for the other, it seemed that she could not even hope for it now. Forget it, maybe this was her fate.

Hu Shanxiang settled down there peacefully. Although she couldn't go out, she felt it was still better than the palace.

The Crown Princess was relieved when she heard that Hu Shanxiang had left the palace safely. This way, if someone wanted to attack Hu Shanxiang, at least she could rest assured.

Maybe God was helping him. Wu Cheng had been sending people to keep an eye on Wu Yingyue, and now he finally found her trace.

"Your Highness, you asked me to keep an eye on Wu Yingyue, and it paid off. I finally found her. She always met with a eunuch, and the location changed frequently, but I have already found out the other party's situation."

"Really? Whose man is he?" Zhu Zhanji actually had a guess after a period of speculation, but he just wanted to get more definite evidence to prove it.

"This eunuch is from the Food Department. Because he is inconspicuous, no one would think of him. However, he can often move around the palace. Such a person is the best to contact others without arousing suspicion. So I missed him when I checked."

"It's not your fault. There are so many people in the palace. How many of them belong to other people? It would be easy to find out in a short time. Then who belongs to this eunuch?"

"This eunuch was originally sent to the palace by His Royal Highness Prince Zhao, but His Royal Highness Prince Zhao is not in the capital all year round, so almost all the manpower in the capital has been transferred to His Royal Highness Prince Han. Now His Royal Highness Prince Han has also left the capital, so the one who is in charge of these people now is..."

"It's Zhu Zhanqi, right?" Zhu Zhanji spoke first.

"Your Highness is smart. Before His Highness the King of Han left the capital, he gave all his men to the Prince of Qi, so Wu Yingyue is also one of theirs. I'm afraid that Wu Yingyue's target has been you from the very beginning." Wu Cheng now thinks that Wu Yingyue has approached His Highness time and time again, and is willing to be by His Highness' side at all costs. In addition to wanting to gain status and become a phoenix, she may have other purposes.

"I remember that on the first and fifteenth day of every lunar month, the Prince of Qi would come to the palace to pay his respects?"

"Yes, the nearest time to pay respects is three days from now."