The eldest lady is soft and soft, but the surly prince dotes on her openly and secretly.

Chapter 20

This sentence really made Xiao He hesitate.

"I have always regarded you as my sister. How can a sister protect her sister?" Yu Jinhe continued to be persuasive.

Xiao He stopped crying, "Then I'll ask the Prime Minister to save you! He definitely can't bear to see you being tortured like this."

She said as if she was about to leave.

Yu Jinhe quickly stopped her, "No! Don't tell anyone about this. Just say that I asked you to go back. You are the only girl in the palace. I'm afraid that no one else will take care of you when you leave. There are many girls in the palace. I don’t need you right now.”

Xiaohe opened his mouth and hesitated.

"Listen to me." Yu Jinhe emphasized his tone.

Xiaohe pursed her lips and said, "Okay, I'll listen to the lady."

After that, he turned around and left.

After dealing with the person he missed most here, Yu Jinhe breathed a sigh of relief, and then seriously thought about his way out.

She walked around the ancestral hall and tried to push the window. She found that the window had been nailed shut from the outside by several wooden bars and could not be pushed open at all. After pushing a few more times, a warning came from outside, "Princess, The prince asked you to stay well, just stay here and copy the family rules these days!"

Yu Jinhe couldn't help but cursed in his heart, Gu Jingming must be a dog!

"I'm just a weak woman. Why do you have to guard me so strictly? You surround me so tightly that I don't have any room to breathe. It's really uncomfortable." Yu Jinhe pretended to be weak.

Yu Jinhe poked a hole in the window and was immediately seen by the guard opposite. The guard immediately frowned and said, "Princess, please face the wall and reflect on your fault."

Yu Jinhe snorted, "Your Majesty just asked me to shut up and think about my mistakes, but he didn't say that I must face the wall."

The gatekeeper was speechless.

Yu Jinhe took a quick look and saw that there were more than ten people surrounding the door. She couldn't help but gasped, "With so many people looking at me, are you really afraid that I will fly away?"

The person at the door still didn't speak and regarded her as a ball of air.

Yu Jinhe couldn't bear it and said, "You should pay attention to me."

The guard at the door said expressionlessly, "The prince said not to talk to you, and not to believe anything you say."

Yu Jinhe almost laughed angrily. It was good. It seemed that although Gu Jingming didn't get along with him much, he still understood him.

Gu Jingming's personal guards are not like the servants of the palace. They are full of character and will not talk to her if they don't talk to her.

After talking for a long time, Yu Jinhe's mouth was dry, and the guards didn't even glance at her.Yu Jinhe was convinced.

The guard glanced at her, opened the door very considerately, and handed her a bottle of water.

The ancestral hall that Gu Jingming mentioned was actually nothing. After all, most of the deceased royal family members stayed in the imperial mausoleums. The ancestral hall was just a place used by the royal family to hold meetings or implement family laws.

There was a set of pear wood chairs in the middle, freshly picked flowers and a lamp on the coffee table, but nothing else.

The maid who brought her lunch at noon also brought pen, ink, paper and inkstones for copying the family law. Yu Jinhe had never been in the habit of treating her badly. She ate her lunch in a few seconds and continued to think about how to escape.

The security of the palace was tighter than he thought. Yu Jinhe stayed in the ancestral hall for two days and probably figured out the situation inside. Counting the movements of the watch, they usually changed shifts every six hours, and the shift change time was very short. , there is no gap to choose from, there are about 12 people outside, each guarding a corner, and there is no place where they can crawl, except in the sky and on the ground.In the past, Yu Jinhe must have been able to break out of the tight encirclement, but this body couldn't help her do so.

Yu Jinhe thought about it and finally thought of a way.

Just a little adventurous.

She looked at the oil lamp that was still burning slowly, and the light of the flame danced a few times on the dark wall.

Yu Jinhe took the oil lamp, lit the pear blossom chair in the middle, and piled all the things that could be burned nearby. Then they became the pillars of the ancestral hall. Even if a large part was empty, there was no need to worry about not being able to burn it.

Seeing the fire getting bigger and bigger under his eyes, Yu Jinhe didn't make a sound, but quietly hid in a corner, waiting for people outside to find him.

She soon heard the voice of the guards outside, "What's going on? Why is there so much smoke inside?"

Someone looked inside through the window that Yu Jinhe had punctured before, and the voice finally changed a little, "It's on fire! Go find water!"

The people outside did not panic. They were well-trained in finding water and calling people. Soon, they brought wooden buckets and poured water into the place where the fire was the strongest.

Yu Jinhe originally wanted to sneak out when the fire was at its worst and they were all in a mess, but what happened was beyond his imagination. They didn't even look panicked at all. If he ran out rashly, he would definitely be guarded. Found it by a few people at the door.

Yu Jinhe rolled his eyes and could only adapt to the situation. He looked around and climbed up through the pillars to the beam before they noticed it.

The smoke and dust below made her almost sneeze several times, but she finally suppressed it.

"Where is the princess? Didn't you see her?"

"This place is so big. Even if it was on fire, she didn't make a sound. And it's so empty. How could a fire break out so easily? Could it be that she knocked over the oil lamp while she was sleeping and was burned unconscious without reacting? Bar?"

There is no place in the ancestral hall to copy family rules. In recent days, they have observed that Yu Jinhe would lie on the edge of the stool to write. This conjecture is not completely impossible.

"Is the prince here?" The guard's voice finally sounded serious.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a steady sound of footsteps at the door, and then Gu Jingming's twitchy voice said, "What's going on?"

The fire has almost been put out, and now it can be seen clearly that there is no body under the pear chair that was completely damaged by the fire.

The guard breathed a sigh of relief, "There won't be a fire here for no reason. It should have been ordered by the princess. She is gone."

"You can't even look down on anyone?" Gu Jingming lowered his voice.

The guard clasped his fists and said, "I didn't see anyone going out from the door, and the windows were sealed. The princess may have discovered a secret passage."

Yu Jinhe clenched his fists nervously.

She has been here for so many days, but she has never studied whether there are secret passages in the ancestral hall.

"Then why are you still standing there? Chase her." Gu Jingming said coldly, "If the princess cannot be chased back today, then you will all come back to take advantage of her."

"Yes!"

The guards were ordered to leave, but another guard came forward with a hesitant face and a piece of paper.

(End of this chapter)