It had been half a day since she left the capital. Su Ningxin opened the curtains slightly and looked at the missing capital behind her. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart,
[The emperor really didn’t send anyone to chase her. Is it because he was so anxious that he lost the queen? Or do you still believe in my character too much, thinking that Gu Ran must not be me, but someone else pretending to be him?]
Although Su Ningxin felt that it was very unpleasant to look through the gap like this. If she had her own way, she would definitely stick her head out, but considering her image as a lady, she could only aggrieve herself.
Chu Jihan sat next to Su Ningxin and watched her pretending to be slow, but her eyes were moving flexibly, which was completely different from her posture.
Listening to Su Ningxin's guess, Chu Jihan couldn't help but secretly curse, do you still expect the emperor to let you go? He was just about to catch you and put you in jail to be tortured. Wasn't it because I entered the palace and stabilized him, saying that I would follow you and monitor you. If you have contact with the queen, you can find the queen.
As for whether Chu Jihan will tell the emperor if there is really news about the queen, it can only depend on the situation. Anyway, Daming Mansion is his territory, and the emperor will not go to Daming Mansion to do anything to him. He told the emperor that besides letting him After Su Ningxin left smoothly, she also told herself to run out of the capital quickly. He didn't want to be left in the capital to bear the emperor's wrath as Su Ningxin had planned.
The car from Anjun Prince's Mansion was moving very fast, not slowly. Su Ningxin looked at it for a while and then put down the curtain. Just as she was thinking about talking to Chu Jihan about something to ease the embarrassment of being alone, she heard someone outside. The voice said, "Prince Princess, the princess is awake. Please come over and talk."
Chu Jihan raised the curtain and looked at the guard on horseback, "Concubine, are you awake? Let the convoy stop on the roadside to rest, and we will go to the town ahead to stay overnight."
"Yes." The guard responded and went to other carriages to inform the news.
The carriage stopped to let the maids and guards in the carriage get out and walk around. Chu Jihan and Su Ningxin went to the carriage of the prince and princess to visit the princess. The princess seemed to be in good spirits and could comfort them that she was fine.
"You guys should go out and rest first. I have something to say to Ning'er." The princess stopped Prince An who kept talking and waved them out.
"Okay, concubine, please talk to Ning'er slowly." Chu Jihan responded, then pulled Prince An out by his clothes.
Seeing the father and son go out, Princess Anjun sat up in a flash, startling Su Ning, who was kneeling in front of the couch.
The princess stretched out her hand to hold Su Ningxin's hands in front of her, her voice filled with tears, "Mother, why is it you?"
Su Ningxin pulled her hand back in discomfort, but the princess pulled her hand too tightly, so Su Ningxin could only give up and said in a guilty voice, "Concubine, this matter is a long story..."
Before she could finish speaking, the princess interrupted her, "You don't have to say it, I understand."
The princess lowered her voice and asked cautiously, "You are in such a hurry to leave the capital, but the emperor knows your identity?"
[He has always known that the reason why I ran away in a hurry was not because I stole the queen, but this cannot be said.]
Su Ning thought for a while and nodded silently. She was not lying.
She was indeed in a hurry to leave the capital, and the emperor already knew her identity. Both were positive, but there was no causal relationship between the two.
Seeing her nod, the princess immediately imagined a big drama in her mind. Concubine Chen had always been criticized in the palace for her simple temper and flamboyant behavior, but she had no scheming and didn't know how to guard against others. The queen always disliked her but did not say anything.
Until the queen finally seized an opportunity and framed other concubines by injuring herself, causing the emperor to be furious and purge the harem. A year later, concubines frequently had troubles. In the end, only the queen was left in the huge harem, and Princess Anjun guessed what was going on. This must be the reason.
What happened next was logically deduced by the princess. Concubine Chen was also affected in the great purge, but because she had been benevolent to the Marquis of Xuanning, she received help from the Marquis of Xuanning, who changed her identity and sent her to Xingxing. Go to Yuan Mansion.
Wait a minute, what if it's not because of Concubine Chen's relationship with the Xuanning Hou Mansion, but because of her own son
The princess immediately covered her mouth in horror. Her son was the emperor's secret guard. Although he usually didn't go to the harem to avoid suspicion, he could actually go in if he wanted to. Could it be that Xiaohan had a deep love for Ning'er when she was Concubine Chen? So when the emperor was cleaning the harem, he directly used his identity as a secret guard to help Concubine Chen escape
The more the princess thought about it, the more scared she became. No wonder the two of them were eager to leave the capital. This was a serious crime of deceiving the king. If they stayed in the capital, the entire county and prince's palace would be guilty. But it would be different when they returned to Daming Mansion. No one knows Concubine Chen, and the emperor can't deal with them without evidence. What's more, the emperor won't really tell the world about the marriage between the concubine and the secret guard, right? The marriage was granted by his own decree.
Wanting to understand the connection, the princess looked at Su Ningxin with pity in her eyes, "I'm sorry, I still remember how high-spirited you were when I saw you in the palace, but now you are so cautious. It shows that you are really frightened by the emperor. .”
Su Ningxin: "..." What kind of divine development is this
She tried hard to recall, had she seen him in the palace? It seemed to be the Thousand-Autumn Festival, when all high-ranking wives came to the palace to pay homage to the queen. In order to portray the image of his domineering concubine to the core, he planned to go to the court to make a scene.
It happened that a nobleman whose name he forgot happened to play into his hands. She was talking ill of herself to the maid next to her, but he caught her. It was not because she was dozing off and she gave her a pillow, so he asked the eunuch next to him to slap her in public for all the wives to see.
Su Ning didn't expect that such arrogant and domineering behavior would actually be high-spirited in the eyes of the princess, but her current standard of a girl would actually be cautious
The princess was still lamenting the uncertainty of the world, "The emperor is really someone who doesn't miss old friendships. You have followed him since he was an inconspicuous and down-and-out prince. He actually doesn't even understand the reason why a wretched wife should not go to court. You actually do it for I killed you to please the queen."
[No, no, no, he did not kill me, but the Queen.]
"Mother Concubine," Su Ning paused for a moment, finding that it was hard to explain this matter, so she said, "Mother Concubine, what you said makes sense."
Princess Anjun patted Su Ningxin's hand comfortingly, "Just live a good life with Xiaohan. Even if I risk my life, I will protect you and never let anyone in the palace make things difficult for you again."
Su Ningxin looked at the princess's firm eyes and felt a little shaken in her heart. In the end, she could only say with a gentle smile, "Thank you, concubine."
[Concubine, even with your support, I am willing to risk my life to protect you.]
(End of chapter)