Chu Younan naturally thought that Su Bei would dress up as a man and follow her. After all, that's what she thought yesterday.

But besides the coachman, there were Ling Xiao and Gui Zi. He looked at the coachman several times and it was definitely not Abei.

This girl, just gave up like that? This is not her usual style!

When the carriage arrived in front of the palace gate, Chu Younan got off and changed to the palace sedan chair, but still did not see Su Bei. He got into the sedan chair and sat down, when he suddenly heard Guizi talking to someone outside.

"Why are you here?"

"Shh! Don't make any noise, just take me in with you!"

It turned out that Su Bei was planning to follow Guizi in secretly.

Chu Younan coughed lightly and said, "Guizi, you stay too, and let Ling Xiao go with me."

After he finished speaking, he heard Su Bei muttering in his heart: Chu Younan, you big pig's hoof, you are too cruel, right? It's just to go in and take a look, what's the big deal!

Well, big pig’s hoof, Abei’s adjectives are all related to animals!

When he thought that Chi Man would also enter the palace today, he hardened his heart and said, "Move up the sedan chair!"

The sedan moved slowly, and Su Bei was cursing in his heart. He heard the noise coming from outside again.

"Please forgive me, Prince. Each person can only bring two attendants with him when entering the palace. You cannot bring so many people in!"

"Are there people arranged to serve our prince?"

The soldiers guarding the city would not call them princes, they must be Chiman!

Chu Younan hurried to find out what Chi Man was thinking. As expected, the guy saw Su Bei and was thinking of letting his servants take the opportunity to kidnap Su Bei! He quickly lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and gave Ling Xiao a few instructions.

At the city gate, Su Bei was unwilling to give up and was watching Chu Younan's sedan chair going further and further away. When she saw Chi Man, she was about to leave, but she heard Ling Xiao shouting, "Abei! Come in with me. The prince asked you to stay by his side!"

Su Bei breathed a sigh of relief, his heart leaping with joy, and he trotted into the palace gate.

The sedan chair went to a secluded place, Chu Younan got off, Ling Xiao and the sedan bearers retreated, leaving only Su Bei and Chu Younan.

Chu Younan's eyes were full of anger, with redness at the corners of his eyes as he walked towards Su Bei.

Su Bei looked around to see that there was no one around, then looked at Chu Younan who was approaching step by step, and suddenly became nervous, "Prince...Prince...I was wrong, I was wrong. This is the palace after all. I will punish you and let you go home first!"

The words "go home" slightly reduced Chu Younan's anger. He stood still and looked at Su Bei coldly, saying, "Chi Man has always been thinking about you. It is inevitable that we will meet at the palace banquet today. This is very dangerous."

Su Bei laughed awkwardly, "I really didn't know he was coming too. Now what do you say we should do?"

"I'll send you to my mother's palace. You stay there and don't come out!" Chu Younan told him the plan he had thought of in the sedan chair.

This is a best of both worlds solution to prevent any chaos at the palace banquet and ensure the safety of northern Jiangsu at the same time.

But Su Bei lowered her head in disappointment. She wanted to watch the palace banquet, not to experience looking up and seeing nothing but the sky.

Chu Younan wanted to say something when he suddenly saw two people poking their heads out from a distance.

Without saying a word, he quickly approached the two men, and scared them so much that they wanted to run away.

"Stop!" Chu Younan shouted loudly.

He noticed that the hairstyles and clothes of the two women were the usual styles of Gaoliu people, and immediately thought that the two people must have been brought in by Chi Man. The reason why they followed Chu Younan was probably because of Su Bei.

If Su Bei was really left with Concubine Yao, I'm afraid Chi Man would just send someone to take action.

Chu Younan looked at the two men with cold eyes and shouted in a deep voice: "Don't wander around in the palace! Follow your master closely!"

The two women immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

Chu Younan turned around and went back to Su Bei. This time he only said one sentence: "Follow me closely, and never leave my side!"

Su Bei was surprised and somewhat delighted, but he couldn't help but wonder in his heart: What if we go to the toilet? Let's go hand in hand? Chu Younan couldn't help but chuckle. After all, this palace was his Chu family's territory, and his father was not a foolish man. He shouldn't let Chi Man rob his people in public.

The palace banquet began at noon. Participants included concubines from the harem, ministers from the court, princes and grandchildren, and a brother and sister who came as envoys from Gao Liu.

Su Bei had seen Chi Man before, but he had never seen the girl who attended the event with him.

Yaruo looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old. She wore a red dress with narrow sleeves and a headdress of several pearl necklaces. She had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and her makeup was bold and heavy, revealing a bit of arrogance and disdain.

Chu Younan sat in the front row, just opposite to Chi Man and his sister. He told Su Bei to kneel on one side and pour the wine, then lowered his voice and said, "That woman is Chi Man's biological sister. I heard that she came here to choose a husband from among the princes."

"It seems that Prince Rui should be suitable." Su Bei said in a low voice.

Prince Rui was two years older than Chu Younan. He had been married before, but his wife died two years ago and he never remarried. Of the remaining three princes, only Prince Jin had not married yet, but he was already engaged.

Chu Younan said calmly: "Second brother has a mild temperament and may not like such a gorgeous and domineering woman."

Then let her enter the harem, it would not be bad to be the emperor's concubine! Su Bei muttered secretly.

Chu Younan remained calm. This was a good idea, but the brother and sister did not plan to do so.

Chi Man's eyes wandered over everyone, searching for Princess Mu Hui. He also glanced at Chu Yan's beautiful concubines with ill intent. His purpose was self-evident.

Yaruo looked at the four princes unscrupulously. She skipped over the childish Prince Jin, passed the gentle Prince Rui, glanced at Prince Mu who was sitting with his concubine, and finally landed on Chu Younan.

She was not as shy as the women in the Central Plains, but looked at Chu Younan frankly and passionately. After all, he was handsome and there was only a little servant sitting beside him, so it was obvious that he was unmarried.

Yaruo poured a glass of wine, raised it towards Chu Younan from a distance, and then drank it all in one gulp.

Chu Younan pretended not to see and did not want to respond.

Seeing this, Yaruo frowned in displeasure, and suddenly stood up, as if she wanted to say something, but was interrupted by a loud shout.

"Your Majesty has arrived! The Queen has arrived!"

Following a loud shout from Eunuch Wang, Chu Yan walked out in a dragon robe, and walked towards the highest throne with the queen amid the worship of the crowd.

As soon as the two of them sat down, the palace banquet began. No matter how domineering Yaruo was, she had to endure her temper.

As the person in charge of this palace banquet, Chu Younan naturally had to stand up and speak. Naturally, his speech was a magnificent speech on the friendly relations between the two countries, and then the Kabuki actors came on stage to entertain everyone.

After three rounds of drinking and several rounds of singing and dancing, Chi Man stood up with a little drunkenness, "Your Majesty, I brought my sister to the capital of Wu State for the sake of friendship between our two countries. I wonder which son Your Majesty plans to give to Yaruo?"

Chu Yan lowered his eyes, a little embarrassed, "Unfortunately, my three sons are all married, and only the youngest son is also engaged. Now only the second son has lost his wife and has not remarried. I wonder what the eldest prince thinks?"

Other countries would send beauties to the emperor for marriage, but the Gao Liu people were really arrogant and actually went beyond him, the emperor. But the Gao Liu military was not weak and should not be underestimated. Chu Yan really wanted to give them a warning.

Chu Younan knew about this because it had happened in his previous life.