05 Sudden accident
Xiao Yi seemed to be very familiar with the inner palace. He led her left and right, avoiding all the guards and palace people, and soon arrived at the back wall of Zhaoyun Palace.
Yun Zhi was about to say thank you, when he felt a tightness on his back, and then his feet were in the air, and he was grabbed by Xiao Yi and jumped onto the palace wall.
Squatting on the wall, Xiao Yi looked around cautiously and urged in a low voice: "Come in quickly, I saw Zhao Yue bringing someone over."
Yun Zhi exclaimed, "Who is Zhao Yue?"
"Prince's personal guard." Xiao Yi whispered, jumped off the palace wall, and mouthed to Yun Zhi, "Let's go!"
"Hey, Xiao..." Yunzhi wanted to stop him and continue asking about the empress of Yan Kingdom, but he only watched as the figure disappeared in the blink of an eye.
There was a commotion from the palace gate, as if someone was really coming.
Yunzhi quickly jumped off the wall by using the rockery on the side, ran back to the window behind the main hall while avoiding the palace people, and climbed in with all his strength.
As soon as she landed, she heard someone knocking on the door, "Princess! Second Miss! Are you awake? Can I come in?"
It's Xinsui, who came with her from An Guogong's palace as a dowry.
Yun Zhi hurriedly walked to the door again. When she passed the big wedding bed, she glanced in subconsciously. Prince Ning still maintained the posture when she left, wrapped in a quilt and sleeping soundly.
Such a loud noise didn't bother him at all. It seemed that it wasn't a bad thing that he couldn't hear it sometimes.
Yunzhi sighed silently, walked to the door, raised his hands to straighten his clothes, and calmed down.
He raised his hand to rub his eyes, yawned and opened the door, looking at Shinho blankly, "What's going on?"
Shinsui looked like he was about to cry, and he was even more frightened and aggrieved when he saw her: "Second Miss, someone came from the Crown Prince's palace just now, saying that the eldest lady... the Crown Princess has disappeared, and the Crown Prince ordered a search of the whole house. Palace, Commander Zhao from Zhaohua Palace has arrived at the outer palace, General Gu is stopping you, please let me inform you and His Highness Prince Ning first."
"Who is missing?" Yun Zhi was afraid that he heard wrongly, "Crown Princess? The eldest lady of our house?"
Shinsui began to choke, "Yes, I heard from Commander Zhao that His Royal Highness is extremely anxious and has already taken people to our house."
What happened to Lu Yunsheng?
Yunzhi suddenly remembered that half a month ago, when she had just woken up after jumping into the lake for the second time, she had asked Lu Yunsheng if she would marry the prince. At that time, Miss Lu had no answer. Could it be that she was running away from the marriage because she was unwilling to marry?
No, if you are running away from marriage, why should you escape after arriving in the palace? The palace is heavily guarded, wouldn't it be easier to escape in Anguo Duke's Mansion?
Yunzhi thought for a moment, then walked towards the front hall.
Xinsui quickly grabbed her, "Second Miss, where is His Highness Prince Ning?"
"Oh, I almost forgot." Yun Zhi turned around and ran all the way to the bed. He first called out "Your Highness Prince Ning" twice. Seeing that there was no reaction at all, he sighed helplessly, climbed up on the bed and moved behind him, raised his hand and poked him. After tapping his back twice, he subconsciously called out softly: "Your Highness Prince Ning, His Highness Prince Ning, wake up quickly!"
But Prince Ning seemed to be very drunk and was sleeping soundly. Seeing that poking the person's back couldn't wake him up, Yun Zhi had the courage to touch the person's face and pinch him twice.
This time, Prince Ning finally made some movement, but he just reached out and took away Yun Zhi's hand and threw it aside. Then he shrank into the bed and rolled further in, and stopped moving again.
"..." Yun Zhi suddenly felt envious of this man's sleep quality, and whispered in a low voice: "Your sweetheart is gone and you can still sleep, otherwise it will make others sad. You dog men are real dogs!"
She had heard in the past month and a half that Prince Ning was obsessed with the eldest lady of the Lu family. It had been spread throughout Luozhou City in the past few years.
As he said that, he couldn't help but let out a sigh, jumped out of bed, ran to the door, and walked to the front hall with Shinho.
Xinsui didn't hear clearly what was going on inside. She was only worried that not telling Prince Ning would be disrespectful. She even thought about stopping her, but didn't.
When they arrived at the front hall, Gu Zhuliu, the personal guard of Prince Ning, was leading his men to confront Zhao Yue, the prince's personal guard. One said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has an order," and the other said, "His Royal Highness Prince Ning must not be disturbed." Both sides refused to give in and were at war with each other.
I don’t know what else they said before, but Zhao Yue and his men even lit up their weapons.
Yun Zhi couldn't help but clicked his tongue, "Good guy, those who knew it were coming to Zhaoyun Palace to find someone, but those who didn't know it thought they were arresting someone."
"What are you doing?" Yun Zhi stepped forward and stood in front of Gu Zhuliu. He glanced at the weapon in Zhao Yue's hand and said, "Want to fight?"
As he said that, he raised his eyes and glanced at Zhao Yue. His eyes were full of kindness, but Zhao Yue's heart suddenly thumped. Just as he was about to speak, someone beat him to it.
"Princess." Gu Zhuliu bowed slightly and explained, "The princess is missing, and Commander Zhao came to look for her."
"What?!" Yun Zhi's acting skills were on point, his eyes were two parts shocked, three parts sad and one part disbelieving. He even staggered back half a step, "The Crown Princess is missing?"
He took another step forward, as if he wanted to grab Zhao Yue's arm, but he retracted his hand halfway and looked at him in shock, "Commander Zhao, are you Commander Zhao? What happened to my sister? What on earth is going on? What's going on? Isn't today the wedding night? Where is His Highness the Crown Prince? "
Four or five questions in a row brought the unbelievable emotion to the extreme.
Zhao Yue was at a loss due to her performance, so he only conveyed the prince's order in a deep voice: "The prince is missing, and His Highness the prince has an order to search the entire palace and Anguo Palace. Please forgive Princess Ning and let me wait inside to search. "
Yunzhi was already holding back tears, "How could this happen to my sister? She was fine when we entered the palace together in the afternoon! How could this happen?"
"Please allow Princess Ning to allow me to enter the inner palace to search." Seeing her sad look, Zhao Yue seemed not to hear what he was saying, and repeated: "This is the order of His Highness the Crown Prince."
Yun Zhi raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corner of his eyes, "Since it is the prince's order, how can I not allow it. General Gu, please go and wake up your highness."
Gu Zhuliu was puzzled: "His Highness specifically gave instructions before going to bed, telling his subordinates not to disturb him tonight. With His Highness's temper, I don't dare to find him unhappy."
Zhao Yue looked at Yunzhi after hearing this, with some expectation in his eyes.
Yunzhi smiled awkwardly, "I just called, but I didn't wake him up." After a pause, he said seriously: "Well, Commander Zhao is also here under orders, let's not make it difficult for him, forget about the inner hall, I We can guarantee that His Highness Prince Ning is sleeping alone inside, and there is absolutely no one else. Commander Zhao, just search the outer hall, as long as there is less noise."
Zhao Yue frowned slightly. Although he was dissatisfied, he could only agree.
The prince's people searched Zhaoyun Palace and found nothing, so they left.
Yun Zhi suddenly stopped him, "Commander Zhao, I wonder where my sister's maid Xin He is now?"
Although he suspected that Lu Yunsheng was escaping from the marriage, he thought on second thought that there were a lot of shady things going on in the palace. If it was the prince's rival who caused trouble, wouldn't Lu Yunsheng be in danger? Due to professional instinct, even if there is still a big fog in front of him, Yunzhi can never stand by and watch the people and things around him.
Zhao Yue recalled it and replied: "That little maid is still in Zhaohua Palace."
A rich young lady from a high-ranking family has never been out alone. If she had to run away, she would not dare to leave alone, especially in the palace late at night. But if she didn't run away, it would be bad.
Thinking of this, Yun Zhi hurriedly asked: "Can you take me to see Xinhe?"
Zhao Yue said: "I'm afraid this will be a lot of inconvenience."
Yunzhi felt strange, "My sister is missing. I'm going to ask her maid. Is there any inconvenience in this?"
Zhao Yue looked troubled, glanced sideways at Gu Zhuliu, and then whispered: "Princess Ning, according to your Majesty's decree, not everyone can go to the Prince's Zhaohua Palace."
After a slight pause, he added a special sentence: "Especially the people from Zhaoyun Palace."
"..." Got it, it's King Ning's fault again! It seems that the rumors that King Ning killed his siblings are also true.
Why does her husband sound so much like the villain in a TV series?
Thinking that he had pinched the villain's face just now, Yun Zhi couldn't help but get excited, quietly hugged his arm, smiled awkwardly, "Okay, I'll trouble Commander Zhao to search carefully."
Zhao Yue responded and took the people away.
Yun Zhi did not dare to return to the inner hall.
The outer hall was silent, and Yun Zhi found a soft chair and sat down.
Gu Zhuliu stood beside her for nearly two quarters of an hour. Seeing that she was nestled in the chair with no intention of moving, he couldn't help but ask, "Princess, aren't you going in?"
Yun Zhi was already starting to feel sleepy. Hearing this, he sat in his chair and smiled bitterly, "No, it's quite spacious outside."
Gu Zhuliu didn't know why, and after a while, he began to persuade her: "Otherwise, you should go in."
Yunzhi shook his head and said in a perfunctory tone, "Go ahead. I can't sleep without my sister."
Gu Zhuliu looked at the person sitting on the chair who was so confused that he was shaking, blinked his eyes twice, and uttered a questioning "Huh?"
Yunzhi ignored him.
She was so sleepy. In the past two days, she had been in a state of excitement because she was busy planning to go to Yushulou, and she almost didn't sleep a wink.
No, once I was free, my eyelids started to fight, and I fell asleep after a while.
Just when Gu Zhuliu was thinking about whether to go to the inner hall and call His Highness out, His Highness Prince Ning, who had been "sleeping drunkenly" just now, came out on his own.
Seeing the person on the chair, Ning Wang Huan Chengyao was stunned. He first stopped Xinsui who was about to salute, and then asked what was going on using sign language. Then he smiled helplessly, leaned over and picked up the person and brought him into the inner hall. .
He carefully put the person on the bed, then raised his hand to pull the quilt to cover her, and he also lay down on his side.
Staring at the sleeping person next to him, he curled the corners of his mouth and stared at her for a while. He couldn't help but reach out and pinch her delicate face.
She frowned in her sleep, and he was startled. He quickly stood up, but before he could move his hand, he was pulled aside by her.
The person didn't wake up, but he said vaguely: "Brother Pei, don't make trouble with me, I have to get up early tomorrow..."
His hands and the smile on his lips froze instantly.
After being stunned for a while, he sighed softly, tucked the quilt back into place, and then stood up and left the inner hall.
