"Princess."

"Princess."

The guard at the gate bowed respectfully.

"Yeah." Yan Yuning responded calmly.

"Where is the Crown Princess going so late?" the guard asked worriedly.

"Oh, the queen has sent a carriage to pick me up and bring me to the palace. You don't have to worry. Xuan Yanyu also knows it." Yan Yuning looked at the guards frankly.

"Crown Princess, why did Empress Xuan take you to the palace so late?" The guard looked into the mansion and saw that no one else came out except Yan Yu Ning. He asked in confusion, "Crown Princess, why didn't you let the maid follow you?"

Yan Yuning said calmly, "There are maids in the palace, so let Xiaowan and Xiaoyue stay."

"Princess, please wait a moment. I will go and ask for instructions from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." The guard saluted respectfully.

Yan Yu Ning's expression immediately turned cold. "What? You don't believe what I said? You even had to ask Xuan Yanyu for instructions, which delayed the time. How do you want me to tell the Queen?"

"I dare not." The guard knelt on the ground, "Crown Princess, you are not with anyone, please allow me to escort you to the palace."

Ever since the incident with Yan Shiyao, Guard Ye An had warned them not to let the Crown Princess get hurt again. It was already very late today, and the Crown Princess was about to leave the house without anyone around her.

Empress Xuan's carriage was not at the gate of the Crown Prince's Mansion. If he let the Crown Princess go, the Queen could not afford it.

"Yes." Yan Yuning took out Xuan Yanyu's jade pendant and waved it in front of the guards. "Your Highness the Crown Prince has given permission."

As she spoke, she handed the jade pendant to the guard and said with a low laugh, "What are you worried about? I can't run away."

The guard took the jade pendant and said in fear, "I dare not."

How dare he say that the Crown Princess ran away?

"Get up. I will be here at noon tomorrow. Xuan Yanyu knew that you might stop me, so he gave me his jade pendant. You can return it to him when he goes to court tomorrow morning." Yan Yuning said with a smile, not looking like she was lying at all.

In fact, she just picked up the jade pendant casually, and Xuan Yanyu had no idea about it.

The guard stood up hesitantly and said respectfully, "Then I will watch you get on the carriage."

Yan Yuning smiled slightly, "No, you guys stay at the Prince's Mansion. This is not the first time I've entered the palace."

"Princess...Princess Consort, where is Queen Xuan's carriage?" the guard asked again worriedly.

Yan Yuning curved her lips and said, "When I left the palace today, I told the Queen that the carriage stopped at a pastry shop not far from the Crown Prince's Mansion. I'm going to buy some pastries to eat on the way."

The guard was silent for a moment before bowing and saying, "Farewell, Crown Princess."

"Yeah." Yan Yuning raised her eyebrows and walked out of the house leisurely.

After Yan Yuning's death, the two guards thought more and more that something was wrong. First of all, the Crown Princess had never left the house alone without her maid.

Secondly, since the Crown Princess became pregnant, His Majesty has ordered that she must not be left without someone by her side.

Also, the carriage sent by Empress Xuan to pick up the Crown Princess to enter the palace did not stop at the gate of the Crown Prince's residence. The Crown Princess wanted to buy cakes, which was also very strange. What kind of cakes did the Crown Prince's residence not have? ?

The Crown Princess had to go out and buy it? ?

Thinking of this, one of the guards said, "I will inform His Royal Highness the Crown Prince immediately."

After saying this, he hurriedly ran into the mansion.

The pavilion is filled with joy.

The guard helped the drunk man to rest on the couch, took off his boots, washed his feet, and covered him with a thin blanket.

Just as she was about to turn around and leave, she heard Xuan Yanyu muttering in grievance, "Ning... Ningning, why... did you go to the palace and tell my father..."

The man muttered an incomplete sentence repeatedly, and the guards left the bedroom when they saw that he had no other requests.

"Is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince here?" the guard at the gate asked anxiously.

The guard who had just left the bedroom was startled by him and lowered his voice and said, "Keep your voice down, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is resting."