As soon as Xiao Ye finished reporting the situation, Emperor Jing came back, accompanied by the crown princes of the two countries and Prince Pingzong of Nanli, but Ji Tinglan was not there.
As Xiao Ye said, he is probably still dealing with Zhao Xingwen's affairs.
She looked across again. Zhao Xingwen's father-in-law, the Minister of Works, and mother-in-law were also gone. Zhang Ruying had probably just given birth and was unable to enter the palace with them this time.
I don’t know how she would go crazy if Zhao Xingwen died.
Su Li did not sympathize with her at all. In the original novel, even though she knew that Zhao Xingwen killed her original wife and was reported to the police by Abao, she not only did not blame him for being cruel, but instead blamed Abao for harming Zhao Xingwen and cursed Yu Niang for not being at peace even after her death.
Such a woman does not deserve any sympathy at all. What's more, she and Zhao Xingwen have repeatedly provoked her, and she has long wanted to teach them a lesson.
Now that Zhao Xingwen was killed by Princess Yulun, the couple had received the retribution and lesson they deserved, which saved her the trouble.
Halfway through the banquet, that is, in the second half, the ministers' families had already left one after another.
Emperor Jing, who was at the top of the table, spoke a few words to Consort Xian, and the other concubines followed suit and left one after another.
Su Li was no exception. She found her parents and left Ningkang Palace together.
Not all ministers who came to attend this banquet had to attend the second half of the banquet. As long as their official positions did not involve the content of the exchange, they could not attend, such as her father, and ministers like the Minister of Works and the Minister of Justice.
As soon as she left Ningkang Palace, she met Princess Yulun's maid who came to look for her.
"Princess An Ning, our princess asked me to tell you that I will be leaving today and will personally visit you tomorrow."
Su Li knew that the so-called visit actually meant going to see Abao and personally asking Abao whether he wanted to go back to Nanli with her.
She nodded and said, "Then I will respectfully await Princess Yulun's arrival."
After the maid left, Su Li and her parents went straight to the palace gate.
Just as they were about to reach the palace gate, two rows of guards came towards them. There were about twenty of them. Judging from their attire, they were the palace guards.
When passing by them, Su Li was stunned when he suddenly caught a glimpse of someone from the imperial guards.
That's Rob?
She had never seen Rob, but she remembered the description of his appearance in the original book.
He was tall and thin, with dark skin. Most notably, he had four black moles pointing downwards under his eyes...
Rob is from Nanli and is the most powerful secret guard under King Pingzong.
In the original novel, during the exchange between the two countries five years later, King Pingzong secretly brought the secret guards headed by Rob to Dajin, and handed them over to Prince Ning to be at his disposal.
Prince Ning also used this secret guard and almost killed Prince Chun, who had just become the crown prince.
In the original novel, during the exchange meeting between the two countries, King Pingzong did not bring the secret guards headed by Rob to Dajin. But now she saw him in the palace, and he was dressed as a palace guard. Even if she was slow-witted, Su Li knew something was wrong.
In the original novel, Prince Chun was not named the crown prince until five years later. Prince Ning was unwilling to accept this and colluded with Prince Pingzong to eliminate Prince Chun.
Now, because of her, Prince Ning was demoted to a prince, Concubine Xiao was banished to the cold palace, and Prince Chun became the crown prince five years earlier than in the original novel. Prince Ning could no longer wait five years.
So, he colluded with King Pingzong in advance and wanted to kill the prince during the exchange meeting between the two countries?
In the original novel, the prince and Ji Tinglan had already noticed something before that. I wonder if this time, they have noticed Prince Ning's plan like in the original novel.
Thinking of this, Su Li said to Su Zheng and his wife, "Father and Mother, I remembered that there is something I haven't told the prince yet. You should leave the palace and return home first. I will go back with the prince later..."
Regardless of whether Ji Tinglan and the prince noticed it or not, she had to remind them.
Su Zheng and his wife naturally had no objection and nodded: "Then we will go back first."
Only after watching the two of them leave the palace did Su Li walk back.
"Zhichang, go see where the prince is. Report to me at Anning Palace later and I'll go find him."
She thought he was busy, so she didn't want him to go to Anning Palace to see her.
"yes."
After Zhichang left, Su Li took Xiao Ye to Anning Palace.
Unexpectedly, Ji Tinglan came as soon as I arrived at Anning Palace.
Su Li was a little surprised: "How come you have time at this time?"
Ji Tinglan naturally took her hand and sat beside her: "I just finished the things at hand and asked Zhichang to look for me, but what's the matter?"
"I was just about to leave the palace with my parents when I ran into a group of imperial guards on the way. It wasn't their shift change time, and they didn't seem to be patrolling the palace."
The palace patrol teams usually consist of four people, and they don't walk with so many people together.
"I felt something was wrong, so I wanted to tell you..."
Under normal circumstances, it was impossible for her to know Rob, and it was even more impossible for her not to know that he was King Pingzong's secret guard. At this time, she could not directly tell him Rob's identity.
The human heart is unpredictable. From the very beginning, she had no intention of letting anyone know that she was not the original owner, and she would never tell anyone in the future, including Ji Tinglan.
Therefore, she could only plan to guide Ji Tinglan little by little to realize that something was wrong, and even to realize the plan that Prince Ning might implement.
She didn't want to, Ji Tinglan looked at her deeply.
Su Li looked puzzled: "What's wrong?"
Ji Tinglan curled his lips: "Ali, your suspicion is correct. That imperial guard is not the imperial guards of the palace, but the secret guards of Prince Pingzong of Nanli..."
He continued, "When Zhao Xingwen died, my people discovered it immediately and found the creed on him that he had conveyed a message from Prince Ning to Prince Pingzong. This confirmed that Prince Ning had long been colluding with Prince Pingzong and was trying to force him to abdicate..."
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