Chapter 81 Don’t want to let go
Ye Jinshu never expected that these people came to Anping Palace not to yell at him why he treated Ye Ruoyan like that, nor to take her to the dungeon in the palace, but just to ask her why she was digging the soil outside the palace?
Ye Jinshu was very confused. Is it true that digging soil outside the palace is now a heinous crime?

Although he was puzzled, Ye Jinshu still told the truth honestly: "I wanted to see what the difference would be when using different soils to grow the same thing, so I sent people out of the palace to find some different soils."

Hearing this answer, Chu Si breathed a sigh of relief. Without doubting the truth of Ye Jinshu's words, he said to Chu Yi: "Brother, I said this was a misunderstanding."

But Chu Yi did not respond immediately. Instead, he looked at Ye Jinshu and asked deliberately, "Is it just for farming, not for destroying evidence?"

Chu Yi said this while carefully observing Ye Jinshu's expression.

He thought that as long as Ye Jinshu looked even a little scared, he would stay and comfort her, telling her not to be afraid, and also take the opportunity to enhance the relationship between them.

Ever since Ye Jinshu got angry with him because of Ji Yanqing, Chu Yi clearly felt that Ye Jinshu's attention to him was getting less than before.

He felt a little anxious about this situation, but at the same time he had more important things to do. Most of the time, he could only choose one of the two.

He hoped that Ye Jinshu would continue to pay attention to him as before. Even though he would sometimes do things that would make Ye Jinshu sad, he hoped that Ye Jinshu would continue to watch over him.

But to Chu Yi's disappointment, Ye Jinshu did not feel sad when he heard his deliberate question, and even made an expression as if it was natural, as if Ye Jinshu knew that he would definitely raise such questions.

Such speculation made Chu Yi feel a little uncomfortable, but he couldn't say it out loud.

All I heard was Ye Jinshu saying sarcastically in a calm tone: "Your Highness the Crown Prince, how do you want me to answer this? I just said that I was just farming, but Your Highness asked again. Do you want me to give a different answer? You can just say no."

As time passes since Ye Jinshu's rebirth, she becomes more and more familiar with the world she currently lives in, and becomes more and more unscrupulous.

Her initial caution and fear towards the prince was purely out of instinct, but now she and the prince have fallen out several times, so this time would not be a big deal.

After all, she will be thrown into the manor in the future. Even if she has a good relationship with the prince now, it will return to zero when he marries Ye Ruoyan. In this case, it is better to be zero from the beginning. If it is a negative number, she will still make a profit.

Now Ye Jinshu summed it up in one sentence: I am not afraid of death, and I am even less afraid of living.

That's not right. She had to tell those little sisters what was going to happen to them before she died.

Chu Yi was stunned for a while after hearing Ye Jinshu's words. He actually just wanted to see Ye Jinshu sad because of his suspicion, so that he would have an excuse to comfort Ye Jinshu.

But he forgot that the Ye Jinshu who would be sad because of his distrust, the Ye Jinshu who would cry and make a fuss because he didn't come to Anping Palace for a few days, the Ye Jinshu who would always look at him whenever he appeared, was long gone.

The reaction from Ye Jinshu to the previous sentence only confirmed this point.

Chu Yi felt a little uncomfortable, but he had thought of this possibility. It was just that before Ye Jinshu spoke, he could still hold on to illusions, but now he didn't even have any illusions.

"I'm sorry Jinshu, I'm not doubting you, I'm just asking a routine question." The Crown Prince, who had hit a wall, put the blame on the routine questioning, and received a puzzled look from Chu Si.

Are there really such routine inquiries?

Chu Si didn't understand, but respected her. Moreover, Ye Jinshu, who was not polite even to the prince, looked even more dazzling! Ye Jinshu didn't know how dazzling she was in Chu Si's eyes as she was preparing to fight the prince.

It was rare for Ye Jinshu to hear the prince apologize. In the past, especially when it came to things related to Ye Ruoyan, the prince would never give in.

She thought back to when she was wrongly accused and suspected before. Did anyone listen to her? No.

Even when she defended herself, her explanation was only characterized as sophistry.

Apologizing to her is the first time she has encountered this after so many rebirths. Does this mean that her fate will change in this life?
But Ye Jinshu thought about it again. She couldn't think of any better ending than being thrown into the manor. After all, she didn't want to compete with Ye Ruoyan, nor did she want to marry the prince. She just wanted to be alone.

Ye Jinshu didn't even dare to imagine how happy and wealthy she could live in Zhuangzi if her sisters could escape the fate of being exiled to Zhuangzi with her and continue to live a powerful life.

Ye Jinshu suddenly came to her senses when she saw Chu Yi's face. She couldn't think about it anymore. In such a serious occasion, if she thought about it again, she was afraid that she would laugh out loud.

"Jinshu, you said you needed different soil. Can you let me see what you are growing now?"

Ye Jinshu nodded. She was happy to let people see the land she cultivated. This was the result of her hard work. If it weren't in the palace, she would have wanted to show off to everyone.

Ever since the emperor expanded the Anping Palace for Ye Jinshu, the area of ​​Ye Jinshu's farmland has also increased.

It is precisely because of this additional area that Ye Jinshu will use it to verify the impact of different soils.

But when Chu Yi saw what Ye Jinshu was planting again, he suddenly realized that no matter whether Ye Jinshu was planting rice, millet, or some other vegetables that Chu Yi couldn't name, they all looked much better than what Chu Yi had seen in the fields outside the palace.

When Chu Yi first saw these things planted by the people outside the palace, he did not realize that they were planting the same crops as Ye Jinshu. The area of ​​Ye Jinshu's crops was very small, but they grew very well.

However, those planted by the common people outside the palace looked very small, and many of them would become sick and rot.

Ye Jinshu's here is very healthy.

Chu Yi has actually been thinking about how to make the people believe that Ye Jinshu is innocent. It is useless to just rely on their belief, and even producing evidence is useless.

Ye Jinshu is the eldest daughter of the Ye family who has been favored by the emperor and empress since childhood. Even if she is said to be innocent, the people will think that it was after the incident that the powerful people pushed innocent people out to suffer for her.

This might be able to suppress public anger for a short period of time, but once Ye Jinshu encounters the same thing again, the new and old grudges combined may not be so easy to calm down.

Chu Yi didn't want Ye Jinshu to face such a situation, because once such a situation happened, it would mean that he, as the crown prince, would have to give up Ye Jinshu.

At least now, he doesn't want to let go.

(End of this chapter)