The eldest prince's target has never been the strong Jiang Chengyu of the Jiang family, but the quiet and gentle Dou Jingyi of the Dou family.
Seeing that the girls were lingering around their elders, he lured the three girls from the Jiang Yao family away with a seemingly clumsy trick of making tea, and then threatened them in a corner.
In this way, Dou Jingyi is left alone. All she needs to do is use a little trick, such as tea-making in the same way, or telling her that Jiang Chengyu needs help. Due to the friendship between the two families, she will step forward and successfully fall into the trap of the eldest prince.
"Oh, I'm just saying how could Concubine Ju use such an unoriginal trick? It turns out she has a back-up plan." Jiang Chengyu slapped his head straight, "What should I do, sisters? What should I do?"
"Of course we are going to save people, we must not let him succeed." Yao Siqing's eyes were filled with urgency.
The Jiang and Dou families are equally powerful. The Jiang family relies on their military exploits to build their family, while the Dou family relies on the children of powerful ministers. In terms of influence within the court, the Dou family is greater than the Jiang family.
Losing the support of the Dou family means that the fifth brother has lost half an arm.
Jiang Sheng was so nervous that her heart was pounding wildly, her palms were sweating and her ankles were weak. However, this was an emergency moment and she could not be allowed to be vulnerable at all.
For the sake of her fifth brother, she had to calm down, and her little head was spinning wildly.
"Let's go back to the banquet hall. It would be best if we can intercept him halfway. If not, we must tell the elders as soon as possible." Yao Siqing handled the matter quite appropriately.
Jiang Chengyu lost his mind and ran out.
At this moment, returning to the banquet hall to seek help from the elders is indeed the most appropriate thing to do, but it is not the fastest rescue.
What they want to save is not only the support of the Dou family, but also Dou Jingyi's innocent reputation.
Jiang Sheng shook her head, feeling like something was flashing by. She held on tightly, and then caught a glimpse of the specifications of the side room with her peripheral vision, and suddenly she had an idea and grasped the key.
"Wait a minute." She called to the two running girls, "Sister Yao, you have been to the Imperial City, do you know how many places in Yanhui Pavilion provide services to guests?"
Usually there are two side halls in a palace. The men on the left are served by eunuchs, and the women on the right are served by palace maids.
After all this calculation, the only place Dou Jingyi could go to was the right side hall where they were.
Yao Siqing reacted very quickly and said with bright eyes, "Xiao Jiang Sheng, are you saying that the eldest prince is likely to kill Miss Dou not far away?"
Instead of going back to the banquet hall to seek help from the elders, which might even leak out and lead to gossip, it is better to quickly search around and rescue Dou Jingyi quietly.
As soon as Jiang Sheng nodded, he was pulled by Jiang Chengyu and ran up and down, "Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and find him."
Yao Siqing was dumbfounded behind him, and after a while he picked up the hem of his skirt and followed.
I don't know if it was arranged in advance, but the side hall where the palace maid should be waiting was empty and cold.
Jiang Chengyu kicked open all the nearby doors, but couldn't find even a ghost.
"Go to the left side hall." Jiang Sheng made a quick decision.
Concubine Ju was so powerful in the harem that she could clean up all the maids in the right palace. She might also be able to disguise the left palace as the right palace and then deliberately lead people there in all directions.
The three girls pulled out their legs again, and this time they heard a faint sound.
Jiang Chengyu's eyes showed admiration, and Yao Siqing's face was full of appreciation.
Jiang Sheng scratched the back of her head in embarrassment. Unexpectedly, the blind cat bumped into a dead mouse, which made her guess right.
Doesn't this also prove that Concubine Ju's abilities are truly extraordinary?
The closer the people got, the louder the noise became. If you listen carefully, it was like they were pushing the door, accompanied by the urgent voice of the eldest prince, "Jingyi, Jingyi, don't be afraid, I'm coming."
It was obvious that he was trying his best to pretend to be a ghost, but in the end he still had to pretend to be a good person.
Just as the door was about to be pushed open, a woman's frightened scream came from inside.
Jiang Chengyu was so angry that he jumped forward and kicked the eldest prince to the ground before he could turn around. Seeing that he couldn't open his eyes, he decided to take advantage of his cowardice and throw his fist at him. Round arms twitch.
In the blink of an eye, the eldest prince's handsome face swelled into a pig's head, and he completely lost his ability to see.
"Who...who attacked me..." He struggled and stretched out his hand.
Jiang Chengyu held it with his backhand and broke it back, only to hear the bones cracking. Just as the eldest prince was about to scream, he fainted from the pain.
"Xiao Yu." Jiang Sheng was startled and rushed over to stop him, "Leave someone under your command, this is the prince after all."
Jiang Chengyu clapped his hands disdainfully and stood up, "It's not broken yet, and the waste can't hold it anymore."
Being beaten like this by a girl, the eldest prince is indeed worthy of the word "trash".
Jiang Sheng was stunned and once again felt that he might not have entered the palace to protect Jiang Chengyu.
He should be here to protect the daughter of the Dou family.
As calm returned to the outside, the nearly tattered door was finally opened, and the head sticking out cautiously turned out to be Qi Yue.
"Sister Qi family." Jiang Sheng was extremely surprised, "Why is it you, sister Dou family?"
"It's you." Qi Yue bit her lower lip and carefully looked around to make sure no one pulled Dou Jingyi out. "She is here, and we are all here."
Compared to the somewhat courageous girl from the Qi family, Dou Jingyi was more quiet and delicate. She was so frightened that she lost her mind. She shook for a long time before she managed to regain her composure, "You guys, it's great that you're all right."
Everything was similar to what Jiang Sheng guessed, but it was a little different.
After the three girls left, a palace maid did go to Dou Jingyi, but instead of asking her for a simple favor, she took Jiang Chengyu's jade pendant, hoping that the Dou family sister could help check whether there was anything wrong with the clothes.
The Dou family has a garment shop, which is quite famous in Fengjing City.
Both the Jiang and Dou families were wary of the eldest prince. It was reasonable for Jiang Chengyu to be afraid of tampering with clothes. The most important thing was that the jade pendant that the palace maid brought was a jade pendant only owned by the Jiang family.
Although she still had doubts, she was already convinced. When Dou Jingyi was hesitating whether to call her mother, Qi Yue stepped forward and said, "Mrs. Dou also has no power to tie a chicken. It's better for me to be able to fight twice." You’re a strong man, I’ll go with you.”
Later, they followed them to the side hall. Qi Yue had a good sense of direction and became suspicious at that time. After seeing the sneaky figure of the eldest prince, he immediately pushed Dou Jingyi into the house and locked the door bolt.
"You have seen the rest." Qi Yue spread his hands, "If I had known that the eldest prince was so careless, I would have blocked the door in fear and just stood up and knocked him out."
"No." Dou Jingyi pursed her lips and Wen Jing shook her head, "It is not appropriate for the Qi family to offend Concubine Ju now."
It's fair to say that the Qi family can't compare with the Dou family and the Jiang family, and they can't afford to offend the Ju family.
Qi Yue stuck out her tongue and murmured in a low voice, "Then if it really offends me, my father will be unlucky."
Dou Jingyi raised her head and looked at her, and they smiled at each other.
Surrounded by the girl's peach pink color, Jiang Chengyu even forgot to touch the jade pendant around his waist. Kuai Ren said quickly, "Weren't you at the gate of Gongyuan before... why now..."
