Chapter 116: It's as if I forced you

Ji Yunshu's smile froze on his face, where else could it be?

She called Bai Ling aside and asked, "How is the prince's health? Is he able to fight?"

Bai Ling said, "The external injuries look scary, but they are actually just flesh wounds, nothing serious. However, the internal injuries are quite serious. If we fight now, I'm afraid it will harm our bodies."

Ji Yunshu nodded: "I understand."

She returned to the kitchen and the cook had already brought out the prepared mooncakes.

Ji Yunshu tasted it and found it tasted unexpectedly good.

She put a few on a plate and went to find Zhao Shen, but Zhao Shen was still looking at something in the yard.

Seeing her bring the mooncakes, he smiled and said, "Didn't you say you would make them yourself? You've finished them so quickly?"

Even though he had never made mooncakes before, he knew that it was impossible to make them so quickly.

"Try it. This is a mooncake from Suzhou. I think it tastes better than the ones in the palace."

Zhao Shen actually didn’t like eating this kind of sweet and greasy food, but after hearing what he said, he still took a small piece and started eating it.

Ji Yunshu watched him slowly eat a small piece of mooncake and asked with a smile, "Is it delicious?"

Zhao Shen: "Not bad."

Ji Yunshu poured him a cup of tea and said unhappily, "If you don't like it, you don't have to eat it. Why are you acting like I'm forcing you to eat it?"

"You didn't force me, I did it willingly."

Zhao Shen suddenly said in a low voice.

Ji Yunshu's heart moved. She could actually feel that after finding Zhao Shen this time, he treated her differently than before.

Although it is hard to tell whether this difference is due to gratitude for saving him or something else.

But she didn't have time to think about that now.

Ji Yunshu curled his lips and said, "Since you don't like mooncakes, I won't do anything. You may not have time to eat them anyway."

Zhao Shen paused before saying, "You know?"

Ji Yunshu was furious: "How stupid am I in your eyes?"

Zhao Shen said: "I'm afraid you'll worry..."

"Wouldn't I be worried if you left secretly? Tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival. I thought I was lucky enough to spend it with you, but you want to abandon me."

"Don't talk nonsense when you're angry. How could I abandon you?"

"Can you guarantee your own safety? Can you guarantee that nothing will happen?"

Before Zhao Shen could say anything, she continued, "You can't, and you still say you don't want to abandon me?"

Zhao Shen felt that he was in the wrong, so he didn't argue with her. Instead, he explained in a gentle voice, "You should know that we have to go to that place. And I will bring enough people with me. I don't plan to do it myself."

Ji Yunshu knew that she had actually thought about going, so since it was already like that, she didn't beat around the bush anymore: "I want to go too."

Zhao Shen subconsciously objected: "It's too dangerous. You can wait for me in Xingqing Mansion for a day. If everything goes well, I will be back tomorrow."

Seeing that he was determined not to take her with him, Ji Yunshu rolled his eyes and did not insist: "Okay then."

After saying that, she got up and left.

Gu Xing, who had watched the whole process, said: "Madam seems very angry."

Zhao Shen: "Are you free and have nothing to do? Have you found all the people hiding in Suzhou?"

Gu Xing: "...I've had people search the entire city, but they can't find the masked man in black you mentioned. People who cover their heads and faces are the hardest to find."

"Is there anyone who can escape your eyes?"

As the commander of the royal secret guards, Gu Xing is naturally capable.

"These people are specially trained, and they seem to be very familiar with the royal secret guards. They will recognize me as soon as I appear. If I deliberately hide, they will naturally be able to avoid me."

Zhao Shen didn't know what to say. The royal secret guards should be in the hands of the emperor, but the emperor also needed to protect his own children.

After several generations, many princes of the royal family also had them.

If they want to train a team specifically for the royal secret guards, they can definitely do it.

"That person's identity must be very serious. I always feel that we can't catch him. We are going to be in big trouble."

Gu Xing said: "The man the Madam gave me was quite useful. He was very familiar with the behavior and habits of those people. He caught people in the places I pointed out, but unfortunately they all died."

Zhao Shen frowned. These people were trained to be death warriors rather than killers.

It is very difficult to capture them alive, and even if they are caught, they will try to commit suicide, so it is basically impossible to get anything out of them.

Gu Xing looked puzzled. "We've dealt with quite a few of these people over the years. A bunch died when we wiped out the Hades Palace last time, and there have been a lot of deaths lately, too. They've even committed suicide. Where do you think they got all these people?"

Zhao Shen said, "They should be using the royal family's method of training secret guards, and also using poison control. If we can't catch the person behind this, we won't be able to kill all of them."

They can train anyone to be a killer or spy at any time.

Unfortunately, the person behind the scenes is hiding too deeply, so even if they already know who it is, they cannot act easily.

In the past six months, he and the emperor have been trying to find something to hold against Prince Yong, but the other party is too cautious.

Nothing can be traced back to him.

If you want to overthrow a prince of the royal family who has a fiefdom, it is impossible without sufficient evidence.

Gu Xing was also the emperor's confidant, and he knew what he meant. He comforted him, "As long as we investigate step by step, we will eventually find him. Speaking of which, we have made much smoother progress in the past six months. We even know who is behind this. If we handle the Suzhou incident well this time, we will have eliminated part of his power."

He originally wanted to comfort Zhao Shen, but the more he talked, the more he realized that their progress in the past six months was extraordinary.

They brought down a Jingzhao Yin in the capital, got rid of a Yama Palace in the underworld, and now they discovered something wrong in Suzhou.

He believed that as long as the Suzhou issue was handled properly, those people would be able to behave themselves for a while after suffering such huge losses.

Zhao Shen finally smiled: "Isn't it? We are lucky after all."

After being unlucky for so many years, he felt that Ji Yunshu was his lucky star.

"Okay, let's stop talking about this. Go make some arrangements and we'll set off before dark."

Gu Xing responded and went to do the work.

He was very efficient. Before dark, Zhao Shen rode a carriage out of the city and headed for the garrison camp.

Before leaving, he went to look for Ji Yunshu, but Bai Ling stopped him at the door and said bluntly, "Madam said she doesn't want to see you."

Zhao Shen thought Ji Yunshu was angry, so he didn't care. He smiled and said, "Tell her that I will come back tomorrow to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with her."

Bai Ling didn't say anything.

In fact, Ji Yunshu took Yin Ye out of the city before Zhao Shen.

Yin Ye was a little uneasy: "Isn't it inappropriate for us to leave like this? Are we really not going to tell the prince?"

Ji Yunshu said, "He's worried about my safety and doesn't want to take me with him. I can't cause trouble by being around him."

Yin Ye was surprised: "I thought the Madam was angry. Actually, if you talk to the Prince nicely, he might agree to take you with him. You are more than capable of protecting yourself now, so you can't be considered a nuisance, right?"

Ji Yunshu rode forward, "What's there to be angry about? Am I such an ungrateful person? If he doesn't want to take me, I can go by myself. I have to make this trip because I have a bad feeling."