My Lord, the princess doesn't want you anymore.

These past few days, Wen Ding has been keeping an eye on Wang Li.

He had been crawling in a nearby wheat field, and still found nothing unusual.

In the early morning of that day, at the darkest moment before dawn, he yawned.

It was just a matter of yawning, and he inhaled a wisp of strange fragrance. Then, he knew nothing.

When Mei Xueer woke up early in the morning, she felt uneasy.

Normally, at noon, someone would come to replace Wen Ding. Today, it was Wen Jia who replaced him.

Mei Xueer felt uneasy and urged Wen Jia to go and check it out early in the morning.

In the afternoon, Wen Jia came back panting.

"Where is Ding?" Mei Xueer looked behind him anxiously.

Wen Jia took out a cloth bag from his arms and said, "This is what we found in the wheat field. Xiao Ding is missing. The wheat field is in a mess, but there is no trace of him on the road. There is no one at Wang Li's house either."

Mei Xue'er's brain buzzed. She recognized it as the cloth bag that Wen Ding used to store the little turtle.

The turtle is there, but the man is gone.

Winding would never abandon the turtle, and the bag was always tied firmly to his belt so it would never fall off.

There was only one possibility, that Wen Ding opened the small cloth bag in a hurry.

"It's all my fault for being careless. I knew that Helian Lanfeng was insidious and cunning, so I shouldn't have let him go alone." Mei Xueer was a little distraught.

Although Wen Ding is usually a man of few words, he is always thorough and meticulous in everything he does.

At this moment, holding Wen Ding's cloth bag containing the little turtle, she felt like she had lost something very important.

Wen Jia, Wen Bing, and Wen Wu: "Princess, Xiao Ding must have been captured by that bastard. Let's go find him now and bring him back."

"Yes, if I'm alive I must see you in person, if I'm dead..." Before Wen Bing could finish his words, he was slapped on the head.

"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Wen Wu was anxious and angry, "Princess, just let us go."

Wen Jia took a deep breath, "Shut up! If we all go, who will protect the princess? Don't forget what our primary responsibility is!"

Everyone fell silent for a moment, and the air was filled with a sad atmosphere.

It was Xiao Ding who was seriously injured last time while protecting Nanxing and Wen Bing, so even now his skills are not as good as before, and he is definitely no match for Helian Lanfeng.

Mei Xueer looked at the cloth bag in her hand, took out a little turtle, and said self-reproachfully, "You are all my brothers and friends. There is no reason for me to ignore you. Jia, you are the best at tracking. Think of a way to save Xiao Ding."

Although this sentence, coupled with the princess's actions when she said it, was somewhat ambiguous, no one cared about that at the moment.

Wen Jia was even more touched. The princess treated them really well and regarded them as friends.

They were born to be secret guards working for their masters, how could they have such good fortune?

It was enough for the princess to have this heart. As the leader of this group of secret guards, although he was anxious about Wen Ding, he understood his mission better and knew what was important.

Mei Xueer saw through his thoughts and said, "Go ahead. If any of you dies, I will feel guilty for the rest of my life even if I become the ruler of heaven and earth."

Wen Jia's nose felt sore and he understood what the princess meant.

Everyone has a bottom line or principle for doing things. In life, there are things that we should do and things that we should not do.

He turned and left.

Suddenly, Mei Xueer said "Huh", opened the cloth bag in her hand, and shook out all the little turtles. "One more is missing."

Wen Bing hurried forward and checked one by one, "Princess, the fourth one is missing."

"Old Four?" Mei Xueer was stunned for a moment before she realized that she had numbered each turtle. Except for "Old Four", all the other turtles of Wen Ding were here.

"Could it be that one of them crawled out of the bag and ran away?" Wen Wu said.

Wen Bing shook his head, "Impossible."

He blindly believed that the turtles given by the princess were all spiritual and would never retreat immediately when they saw the situation was not right and abandon their masters to run away.

Moreover, although Wen Ding didn't talk much, he was very kind to these turtles. Wen Bing had seen him put the turtles under his quilt several times before he went to sleep, and he always personally dug earthworms in the corner to feed them.

Every time Wen Ding coughed, a few little turtles would crawl over smartly and rub against his legs to ask for earthworms to eat.

Wen Jia didn't have time to study how "Ding Lao Si" disappeared at this moment, he just wanted to find out how Wen Ding disappeared. He hurried out, but was stopped by Xixin at the door.

"Miss." Xixin walked past Wen Jia and went straight to Mei Xueer. "I think the most important thing right now is to protect your safety. But a secret guard is dead. They were born for their master and die for their master."

"Shut up!" Mei Xue'er shouted, "You know, they are all my friends... Forget it, I won't say these useless things, you won't understand anyway."

"Miss..." Xixin bit her lip and said nothing else, but was still indignant.

At the door, Gu Jia, who used to be a secret guard, looked at Xixin and Mei Xueer with a complicated look, "Miss, Wangli and Xiaoding should be in Helian Lanfeng's hands now. Wangli is old and doesn't know martial arts. Can I go with Wen Jia to get him so that I can take care of him. You know, my martial arts are not that good, but my Qinggong is okay."

When Xixin heard this, she gave him a complaining look. Before she could get angry, Mei Xueer spoke up, "Okay, I'll feel more at ease if you can go with me."

She had already seen that Gu Jia and Xixin were not completely on the same page.

Gu Jia has more humanity that an ordinary person should have.

As for Xixin, there is only revenge and blind loyalty in his mind, and he has no bottom line for revenge.

Mei Xueer had spoken, and Xixin did not dare to refute no matter how unwilling she was. However, in her heart, she cursed Gu Jia, the "disloyal and unrighteous traitor", and her ancestors.

***

Thousands of miles away is the Changguo Imperial Palace, Yanqing Palace.

Concubine Ru knelt on the ground carefully.

In front of him stood a noble lady wearing a purple dress with a beautiful figure. She squinted her eyes and looked down at the woman who climbed onto the dragon bed as a palace maid, with a look of disdain and arrogance on her face.

"My dear Concubine Cheng, please understand. My sister has never been disrespectful to you..."

"Sister?" Concubine Cheng interrupted her with a sneer, "You are worthy? You are just a shameless bitch, and you dare to call yourself my sister?"

Rupin shuddered and quickly changed her words, "Your Majesty is teaching me a lesson, sister, I am not worthy... It's just that I have had a high fever for several days and have been bedridden. When I heard that Your Majesty was coming, I didn't dare to kneel down to greet Your Majesty with such an unbearable sick face, so as not to pollute Your Majesty's eyes, so I dressed up a little. So I was unable to greet you outside the palace gate in time, please forgive me."

Seeing her being so humble, Concubine Cheng became even more arrogant and walked around her slowly. "Are you blaming me for coming at the wrong time?"

"I dare not, I dare not. Your Majesty, please be magnanimous and forgive me this time..." Concubine Ru kowtowed quickly.

Until her forehead was bleeding, Concubine Cheng said impatiently, "Alright, alright, aren't you afraid that the blood of a bitch will pollute the ground of this palace?"

After speaking, he walked away.

When she reached the door, she stopped but did not look back. "I warn you, don't think that your precious son can ascend to heaven now that the crown prince is gone! The son of a whore, even if his biological father is a real dragon, the son is still a bastard! All these years, thanks to my kindness, Yanqing Palace has a place for you and your son to stay. If you know how to be grateful, that's fine, otherwise..."

"I dare not..."

Concubine Cheng snorted heavily and walked out of Yanqing Palace quickly.

Only after hearing that Concubine Cheng had completely walked away did Concubine Ru dare to slowly raise her head.

The personal maid Jinxiu hurried forward to help her master up, with a look of indignation on her face, "These days, this Concubine Cheng has been bothering you all the time. When the prince comes back, you need to have a good talk with him."

"Shut up!" Rupin turned her head away and said sternly, "Trouble comes from the mouth. From now on, don't make up stories about Concubine Cheng behind her back!"

"Your Highness..." Jinxiu felt very aggrieved. "I feel sorry for you. Our prince is highly valued by the emperor, but Concubine Cheng dares to bully you so arrogantly. She just doesn't take you seriously. Your Highness can tolerate it, but I can't!"

Upon hearing this, Concubine Ru became so angry that she could not even stand steadily and quickly sat down on a chair.

Jinxiu quickly asked the palace maid to get a wet towel and put it on Rupin's forehead, while she calmed her down and said, "I have overstepped my bounds, please punish me, Your Majesty."

Rupin sighed, "Concubine Cheng's rank is second only to the Empress, so she should teach me a lesson. Besides, I was born in a humble family, so what she said is not wrong. You need to be careful with your words and actions so that we can survive in this palace. If you continue to speak without restraint, I'm afraid that my Yanqing Palace will not be able to protect you. Do you understand?"

Jinxiu lowered her head, bit her lip, and said softly, "I understand."