However, Crown Princess Li Yuanzhen and Princess Xian Yao Li Yuanying are different. Ji Zhen can ignore Li Yuanying, but she has to accept the invitation of Crown Princess Li Yuanzhen. Ji Zhen has to agree to enter the palace immediately.

After seeing off the messenger, Yu Bojun waved away his attendants and closed the door. The four of them looked solemn.

"Bojun, is there any news from the northwest?" Ji Zhen looked at Yu Bojun meaningfully.

"No, everything is normal." Yu Bojun knew what Ji Zhen was asking, but due to the presence of Yu Jingxi and Zhao Youqing, he just nodded and didn't say much.

However, in Ji Zhen's heart, nothing is more important than the Northwest. Knowing that the Northwest is fine, her tense nerves relaxed a little.

After relaxing, Ji Zhen's brain started to work quickly.

If it wasn't about the Northwest affairs, why did Li Yuanying and Li Yuanzhen ask her to come to their house to talk at the same time under the pretext of giving gifts?

Ji Zhen turned his gaze to Zhao Youqing, and Yu Bojun also looked at Zhao Youqing.

"Youqing, is there any unusual movement in Princess Xian Yao's mansion?" Ji Zhen stared at Zhao Youqing without blinking.

"No." Zhao Youqing answered quickly, but Ji Zhen frowned.

Yu Bojun knew at a glance that Ji Zhen did not believe what Zhao Youqing said.

In Yu Bojun's cognition, Zhao Youqing's existence is like a double-edged sword. He has always had a close relationship with Ji Zhen, and Ji Zhen also protects him very much, but their relationship once plummeted because Zhao Youqing entered Princess Xianyao's mansion as a guest official. Yu Bojun personally saw every letter delivered by the messenger to the capital, but there was one letter that Ji Zhen never opened, and that was the letter from Zhao Youqing.

Ji Zhen said that was betrayal.

But half a year later, a young man came from the capital. He was very handsome and looked like a servant. Ji Zhen met him alone, closed the door, and the two talked in the study for nearly two hours before he left.

Then, Ji Zhen locked herself in the study and did not come out even for dinner. The light in the study remained on until late at night, and the door was never opened. Everyone had no choice but to ask Yu Bojun to come.

Yu Bojun stood quietly outside the door for a stick of incense, then began to knock on the door. He didn't make any sound, just knocked on the door again and again, stubbornly and calmly.

Yu Bojun didn't know how long he had been knocking on the door until Ji Zhen suddenly opened the door from the inside and looked at him with a pair of big red and swollen eyes from crying. He reached out his hand, hugged her in his arms, gently stroked her back, and whispered:

"You've been crying for so long, are you hungry? Do you want to eat something and save your energy for crying again?"

Ji Zhen burst into laughter in his arms and had dinner with him.

Later, Ji Zhen began to write back to Zhao Youqing. She no longer put the letters from Zhao Youqing in a box, but opened them directly. Sometimes Zhao Youqing told her some interesting things in Beijing, and she would tell him about them.

But Ji Zhen's expression was no longer as carefree as before. He had watched her sitting alone on the top of a high tower many evenings, looking quietly into the distance, which was the direction of the State of Yan.

Yu Bojun never asked about Zhao Youqing and her, because he really didn't want to hear about other men from Ji Zhen. But this time was different. The princess and the three princesses of Xian Yao were scheduled to meet at the same time. If the problem was not in the northwest, it must be with Ji Zhen. But what was it about Ji Zhen that they wanted?

"Your Majesty..."

Just as Yu Bojun was about to speak, Ji Zhen raised her hand and stopped him. She smiled at Yu Bojun, stood up and said:

"Bojun, it's getting late. I have to go to the palace, so I won't drink with you anymore."

After that, she looked at Yu Jingxi. Yu Jingxi was young after all. With the three people's faces so solemn, his already pale face became even paler. Ji Zhen's smile softened a bit, she sighed, patted Yu Jingxi's hand gently, and comforted him:

"Don't be afraid. Going to the palace is not like feeding a tiger. Don't worry."

Yu Bojun's eyelids jumped when he heard Ji Zhen's words. He frowned and reminded:

"Your Highness, be careful with your words. There are ears on the other side of the wall."

Ji Zhen raised her eyebrows indifferently, glanced at the closed door of the flower hall, and said coldly:

"Bojun, you are the one who should be cautious. I was working part-time in the East Camp, but the people from the Princess's Residence and the Eastern Palace found your villa directly. The road is long and windy, and the ground is dusty. You should clean this yard thoroughly."

Ji Zhen looked at Yu Bojun deeply, and Yu Bojun nodded silently. Ji Zhen then looked at Zhao Youqing and said to Yu Bojun:

"Even so, goodbye."

After saying that, without even looking at Zhao Youqing, he left the villa with Ye Feng.

Zhao Youqing stood side by side with Yu Bojun, watching Ji Zhen and Ye Feng disappear quickly from their sight. Then he bowed to Yu Bojun slowly and said:

"I have delivered your message. Thank you, General Yu, for your hospitality. It is getting late and I have to hurry back to report. Goodbye."

Yu Bojun returned the greeting respectfully and politely escorted the man to the carriage. It was not until Zhao Youqing's carriage raised dust and turned into a small black dot that Yu Jingxi, who was standing next to Yu Bojun, asked:

"Brother, didn't Master have something to ask the guest master? Why......"

Before he finished speaking, Yu Bojun secretly shook his arm and said to him:

"It's getting late. You shouldn't go back today. Just stay in your original courtyard."

Yu Jingxi looked at the sky and was about to say that it was still early when Yu Bojun patted his shoulder and whispered in his ear:

"Tell Mingyue to watch over the house at night and don't sleep. Unless I call you, no matter what noise you hear, don't come out."

Zhao Youqing came here in the carriage of Princess Xian Yao's mansion. He turned through the dense forest slowly and saw Ji Zhen and Ye Feng riding on horses, walking slowly.

Hearing the sound of the carriage wheels behind him, Ji Zhenle stopped his horse, turned it sideways in front of the carriage, and said to the driver:

"I forgot to tell you in the other courtyard just now. Her Highness the Princess asked me to come to the palace just now. I really can't see Her Highness Xian Yao. Please go back and inform him. I appreciate Her Highness Xian Yao's kindness, but I don't want the twenty male favorites. Please enjoy them yourself. If Her Highness has any urgent matters and must see me, please let me know as soon as possible."

After that, Ye Feng dismounted and handed the reins to the driver. The driver rode away as ordered, and Ye Feng tied Ji Zhen's horse to the back of the carriage, and took the driver's place. Ji Zhen got on the carriage, and the carriage drove forward again.

The thick curtains were pressed down by a heavy object. Zhao Youqing and Ji Zhen sat opposite each other. There was complete silence in the carriage.

Amid the sound of horse hooves, Ji Zhen was the first to speak:

"You have already kept silent in front of the princess's spy. Now it's just you and me here. Do you really have nothing to say to me?"

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