Chapter 187 There is another man in the princess's room

The smile on Pearl's face froze.

The princess didn't even call them in to serve her while she was bathing, which clearly showed that there was already someone serving her in the room.

As the princess's personal maid, how could she not know about the princess's daily habit?

But when Lord Wen asked such a question, it was obvious that he didn't know that there was another man in the princess's room.

"This servant will go in right away."

Zhenzhu looked calm and bowed after she finished speaking.

Wen Yi swallowed deeply.

What kind of people are the maids around the eldest princess? They look indifferent, but they are full of schemes.

Her nonchalant look made it clear that she was waiting for him to leave before going in.

"I will be busy now. Princess, if you have any instructions, please call me."

"yes."

Wen Yi: ...

He turned away speechlessly.

Looking at Wen Yi's departing back, Zhenzhu breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

Coincidentally, at this time, Agate also came back after finishing his work.

Seeing her standing outside, he looked at the closed door in surprise and asked in a low voice, "Why are you standing outside?"

"I didn't dare go in without the princess summoning me." Pearl frowned.

"Is there anyone in the princess's room?"

Agate almost screamed out loud and quickly covered her mouth with her hands, very surprised.

"But when I came up just now, I clearly ran into Lord Wen. Lord Wen was the only one who barely caught the princess's eye among the people accompanying him. If it wasn't him, then who was the person in the princess's room?"

"I guess." Pearl turned her head and glanced into the room through the door. "It should be the Lord Secret Guard!"

Secret guard?

"The princess is accompanied by secret guards when she travels. How come I didn't know?" Agate seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and her eyes flashed with surprise. "Could it be that the princess has always been accompanied by secret guards?"

"certainly."

Speaking of this, Pearl felt a little proud.

Although they both served the princess.

But it is obvious that she is closer than others, so naturally she knows more than others.

"The princess has always been accompanied by secret guards, and every time she travels, two more secret guards will be added to her entourage. However, I don't know which secret guard was in the princess's room today."

Agate couldn't help but roll his eyes at her. "Okay, okay, I know the princess favors you. Okay."

"Hey." Pearl bumped her with her shoulder. "Why are you so sore?"

agate:……

"I don't want to bother with you."

Agate pouted, turned her back, and her eyes were red, as if she had suffered some injustice.

"Okay, I won't tease you anymore. Look at you, you're crying over such a small thing!"

Pearl put her arm around her shoulders.

"Actually, I'm telling you, I know there are secret guards around the princess. It wasn't the princess who told me, I discovered it myself. Every time the princess summoned them, because I know some martial arts, my hearing is better. After listening so many times, I'm almost certain that there are always secret guards around the princess. But I swear, I definitely didn't listen on purpose!"

The expression on Agate's face finally eased a little.

Next second.

She asked curiously:

"According to what you said, people with kung fu skills have better hearing than those without kung fu skills. Then, can the secret guards in the princess's room also hear what we are saying?"

pearl:……

She's not supposed to be here, she's supposed to be there.

Xuan Qing, who had been standing beside Su Yunyao's bed, heard the sound outside the door, slowly turned his head and looked towards the door.

He has always been interested in the gossip of palace maids.

I don't know if what they talked about today was related to me, but I ended up listening to a lot more.

Xuan Qing's brows tightened unnaturally.

Zhenzhu's words, "Among the people accompanying her, only Lord Wen barely caught the princess's eye," were like a needle piercing his heart.

Wen Yi?

Prefect of Shengjing Prefecture.

In fact, he was a little surprised when he heard the emperor ask the prefect of Shengjing to protect the princess to go to Dongliao.

After all, there's something like protecting the princess.

There are so many military generals in the court, and it is impossible for the fate of the Shengjing prefect to fall on him.

Just like last time, the emperor asked Shen Qiu Nian to protect the princess when she traveled.

First of all, everyone knows that the princess has admired Lord Shen for a long time.

Secondly, the memory of Daxia's crushing defeat at Xijing was fresh in people's minds. Although Chen Qiu Nian could not fight, he was a minister of the first rank in the court. When he went to the military camp to offer advice and suggestions, he could more or less help stabilize the morale of the army.

Could it be...

Was it the princess who proposed the arrangement of having the prefect of Shengjing protect the princess as she went to Dong Liao?

Although he guarded the princess every day.

But when the princess went to Xuan Zheng Hall, he would no longer follow her, but return to the guard post.

Therefore, he naturally didn't know what the princess and the emperor talked about in Xuanzheng Hall.

Xuan Qing sighed secretly in his heart.

He was just a secret guard and he shouldn't have been so close to the princess.

When the princess flirted with him for the first time, he should have refused or reported it to the emperor.

If the emperor knew about this, he would definitely choose someone else from the Xuanyi Guard to replace him.

But he didn't.

At first he didn't know why he didn't have it.

It's the reluctance that comes from the heart.

He concealed this matter and committed a capital crime.

Xuan Qing sat down beside Su Yunyao's bed.

Just as the princess said, she couldn't sleep well when she changed her place.

At this time, I don’t know if he was sitting on the bed with too much force, disturbing the princess’s rest.

Su Yunyao frowned uneasily and turned over.

Her white hand accidentally fell on Xuanqing's leg.

Just that unconscious touch made Xuanqing's body suddenly stiffen.

Suddenly, my breathing stopped.

Su Yunyao seemed to have just turned over, and after a while, she fell into a deep sleep again.

Just a strand of hair from her temples fell on her lips.

Xuan Qing then secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He raised his hand and was about to lift up a strand of Su Yunyao's hair.

Suddenly, footsteps were heard outside the door.

Pearl and Agate, who were guarding outside the door, saw that the person coming was Wen Yi. They looked at each other with complicated eyes and knelt down to salute.

"Lord Wen."

Wen Yi didn't seem to have taken a shower. His hair was dry and the clothes he was wearing were the same as when he left just now.

Seeing both of them standing outside, his brows furrowed deeply.

"Why are you all standing outside? Don't you need to go in and serve?"

Pearl and Agate exchanged another glance. "In reply to Lord Wen, the princess has already gone to bed. I'm afraid I'll disturb her rest, so I'll just stay outside."

Upon hearing this, Wen Yi's brows furrowed even tighter.

"After all, this isn't the palace. How can you let the princess stay in there alone for so long?"

Pearl naturally understood this, but there was another man in the princess's room, so she really didn't need them to serve her.

But how should she explain this matter to Lord Wen?