I will only protect you for the rest of my life58

Even Gardenia was taken directly back to the palace and given a one-month ban.

On the surface it was to punish her for escaping earlier, but in fact it was to protect her in disguise. It was not a good thing for a favored little princess to be involved with the prince at this time.

Zhi Nai didn't pay much attention to the turmoil in the court. She only listened to the system reports every day and wrote letters to Shen Nanqing from time to time.

It was mid-July when I was released again.

On the half of July, the Ghost Festival, even though the capital was not stable, the emperor granted permission to postpone the curfew for two hours so that the people could pay homage to the souls of the dead.

Both sides of the wide street were almost lined with lanterns. River lanterns were floating on the river in the distance. Occasionally, sky lanterns passed overhead. It seemed like there was only one orange left between the sky and the earth, bright and lively.

Gardenia sneaked out of the palace. She picked around the stalls, chose a ghost mask and put it on. She lowered her head and took out the silver coins from the purse at her waist. Then her eyes were attracted by the candied haws that was shouting not far away. Along the way, Wander over.

Suzuran followed her, struggling to squeeze through the crowd, her expression broken.

"Little... Miss, please run slowly and wait for me!"

In addition to those selling lanterns, the small stalls on both sides of the street are naturally indispensable. And because it is the most prosperous capital, in addition to snacks, silks, hairpins, there are also many rare items from other places, even not far away There are also dark-skinned young people performing fire-breathing performances, and people are coming and going on the streets.

After squeezing for a while, Suzuran gave up. She stood on tiptoes and looked both ways, then chose to go around to a place selling sugar cookies and wait.

Sure enough, it didn't take long before a little girl wearing a ghost mask and holding candied haws and candy figures appeared in sight.

Linglan breathed a sigh of relief and quickly stepped forward to hold her, not caring about the difference between master and servant at this moment.

"Miss, please stop running around, be careful of being discovered."

Although there were many secret guards following her, Suzulan still felt that tonight would not go well, otherwise the atmosphere in the palace would not be so tense.

A few days ago, he ordered the concubine of the prime minister's palace to be the prince's concubine. He was naturally concerned about the royal family's face and suppressed the reason. However, when the wedding was approaching, the three princes' party suddenly reported the prince's young master. You must know the recent rumors that he was the prince's young master. The young lady of the family is interested in the prince.

To say what the common people are most interested in, it is of course gossip. They can't tell who the big shots are. They only know that the relationship between these three people is very complicated, and various reasons are being circulated.

Gardenia subconsciously turned her head, and then handed the candy man in her hand to her.

"Here, I bought this for you."

After stuffing it, he touched the ghost mask on his face and tried to struggle.

"I wore a mask and not many people paid attention to us."

"...Miss, do you have any misunderstanding about yourself?"

Thinking that many princesses and princes would come to join in the fun tonight, the little girl frowned and reluctantly agreed.

"Then let's go to the hotel."

Linglan gave a pleased smile and took her away for fear that she would regret it.

It would be nice if Miss Nanqing was around in such a lively scene, as she could stop the princess, but the Prime Minister's Mansion is not stable these days, and the two have not been in contact for a long time.

Thinking of this, she remembered something again.

"My lady said earlier that she would bring some gifts to Miss Nanqing. Do you want to arrange for guards to send them to the Prime Minister's Mansion?"

Gardenia thought for a moment and shook her head.

"No, we will go to the Prime Minister's Mansion later. How long until the lantern competition starts?"

Suzuran answered clearly and glanced into the distance again.

"It's probably still half an hour."