Chapter 20 A strange combination of circumstances
At night, Ye Jinshu didn't sleep well again.

He got up in the middle of the night and hoe the ground for a while, then stared at the soul-nourishing grass he had planted not long ago for a long time. He did not return to his bedroom until daybreak.

Due to exhaustion, Ye Jinshu fell asleep immediately, but unfortunately he didn't sleep for long before he had to get up again to pay his respects to the Queen.

She is the princess and the queen's darling. Her time to pay respects is after the concubines leave, so she can sleep more.

But even so, Ye Jinshu's condition was visibly bad. The Queen felt distressed and did not keep Ye Jinshu for long, asking her to go back and rest.

It’s a pity that Ye Jinshu couldn’t fall asleep for long after he went back.

At noon, the sky began to clear up, and the warm sun shone into Anping Palace, warming the bodies of people who were basking in the sun.

Xiaohua quickly worked with the palace maids and eunuchs of Anping Palace to arrange an extremely soft and comfortable recliner for Ye Jinshu in the courtyard of Anping Palace, and also placed a sunshade umbrella next to the recliner so that the princess could have a good sleep in the warm sunshine.

Ye Jinshu was indeed hooked. As soon as he saw the recliner, he felt like he had received a special call and just wanted to lie on it.

At the same time, Xiao Cui also brought Ji Sui into the palace and carefully instructed Ji Sui to wait outside Anping Palace first. When the princess seemed to be taking a nap, she would come out to look for her.

At that time, Ji Sui would need to act ferociously and threaten the princess to go to bed quickly.

In order to make Ji Sui look more like a killer, Xiao Cui specially prepared a set of all black clothes for Ji Sui.

The inherent impression of killers is that they all wear black clothes, so the princess would be satisfied if they look more like this.

Never mind whether it is daytime or not, or whether wearing black clothes during the day would make one stand out; assassins and killers must be black anyway.

"The princess has someone secretly protecting her, so you must not have any bad thoughts." Xiao Cui reminded the princess again before leaving for her safety, and Ji Sui nodded quickly.

In his hand was the unsharpened knife that Ji Yanqing had specifically asked him to bring. He was full of questions about his trip to the palace. What kind of person would go outside the palace and find someone to force him to sleep with a knife?

With such doubts in mind, Ji Sui arrived at Xiao Cui's designated place and began to change into black clothes.

As the seasons changed, I thought to myself that if they really wanted to sneak into a place, they would definitely wear the common uniforms of that place and blend in with the surroundings so that they would not be easily discovered.

No one in the entire palace wears black clothes like this. If you wear it, you will become a sitting duck.

At the same time, a major event happened in the palace.

The people from the enemy country who were originally imprisoned in the dungeon of the palace were rescued by a man in black who suddenly appeared.

The man in black has not escaped from the palace yet, but the man from the enemy country is nowhere to be found. Now the entire palace is in chaos, and people are looking for the man in black everywhere.

Also found the harem.

The person in charge of the search was General Wei. He searched the harem on the emperor's orders and checked almost every residence of every concubine in the harem.

Since Ye Jinshu was next to the Queen, the guards were usually very strict, and it was judged to be less dangerous, so it was the last area to be searched. However, they did not expect that Ye Jinshu would find someone to force him to sleep today. In order to prevent the guards around from making a fuss and disturbing Ye Jinshu's rest, Xiao Cui specially reminded the patrolling people.

This resulted in Chu Si having an unimpeded escape route to Anping Palace following the route he had planned early in the morning.

Because it went so smoothly, Chu Si hesitated. Had he been discovered and was all this just a trap?
Chu Si simulated the rescue operation in his mind many times and went through his escape route countless times in advance, including where he should say goodbye to that person, where he should show up and make a noise to lure the pursuers to follow him, and where he should shake off the pursuers. Chu Si knew it all clearly.

In his previous plan, Anping Palace should be a place that can be used well. Anping Palace is surrounded by secret guards and escorts everywhere. Even General Wei's group would not dare to be too presumptuous, let alone conduct a large-scale search here.

As long as he arrived near Anping Palace in advance, changed into the Fourth Prince's clothes before entering the Anping Palace area, and then pretended to have a quarrel with Ye Jinshu and took the opportunity to destroy the black clothes, the matter would be left unresolved.

The guards of Anping Palace did not see any men in black, which also provides good evidence that the men in black were not here.

Hesitant about the abnormality in Anping Palace, Chu Si did not dare to act rashly for the time being. At this moment, he saw a palace maid coming out of Anping Palace. It was Xiaohua, the palace maid who often followed Ye Jinshu.

Chu Si acted decisively and moved in the direction Xiao Hua seemed to be going. When he found the right opportunity, he directly subdued Xiao Hua, holding her hands tightly to prevent her from screaming, and said, "I won't kill you, as long as you answer a few questions for me."

To Chu Si's surprise, Xiaohua was not afraid. Instead, she looked at him with a scrutinizing eye. In the end, she was even a little satisfied?

Seeing Xiaohua nodded, Chu Si let go of the hand that covered Xiaohua's mouth.

Unexpectedly, the maid got angry again. Seeing that he didn't let go, she cursed him viciously: "Sister Xiao Cui told you to wait for me in the changing room, why did you come here and dare to touch me? If you dare to do this to the princess later, I will chop off your hands."

Xiao Hua walked closer to Chu Si as she spoke. When she saw his sharp eyes outside the mask, she nodded and said, "Your eyes are fierce, and your move just now was also neat. Your acting was just like the real thing. You are worthy of being Sister Xiao Cui. The princess should be satisfied."

Chu Si didn't understand what the palace maid was saying, but he knew that he didn't have much time left and he had to find out what was going on as soon as possible.

Chu Si was about to ask, but he heard the sound of a large number of people rushing over here. General Wei and his men were coming faster than he had imagined. If he didn't leave quickly, he would be discovered.

However, according to the layout of the palace and the direction from which those people sounded, he could only flee towards Anping Palace.

Thinking of this, Chu Si had no choice but to give up his plan to change clothes and choose to hide in Anping Palace first. If the situation became urgent, he could only use Ye Jinshu as a hostage.

Chu Si directly stretched out his hand to clamp the palace maid in front of him, and threatened fiercely: "Take me in."

What Chu Si didn't expect was that the maid in front of him was clearly held hostage by her, but she was not afraid at all. Instead, she looked at him in confusion: "You are too into the role too early. Forget it. The princess is already preparing for a nap. Sister Xiao Cui is serving the princess. Let me take you in."

　I was going to post this in the early morning, but I got seafood poisoning last night. They said that the dirty stuff has reached our sea area this month, but I didn't believe it and ate it. I was hospitalized in the middle of the night, and I could only vomit foam. I figured it out.

　　People still have to believe in evil.

　　Damn it, I will never eat seafood again

　　
　
(End of this chapter)