The prince is very cruel

"But I promised Sima Yuan to take good care of her, so I hope the princess can help me keep it secret and keep an eye on her." Guan Ning said seriously.

How could Princess Cao not see that he was determined to leave? She wanted to dissuade him, but when the words came to her lips, she didn't know what to say.

Because what Guan Ning said was so right, so right that she couldn't refute it.

The Zheng family will definitely retaliate, and because of the special status of Prince Ping's Mansion, it is destined to be difficult to control the Zheng family. Even if Prince Ping is assassinated, the most that can be done is for the emperor to comfort him and for the Zheng family to restrain themselves. That's all. This is the consensus of those at the top of the pyramid.

She couldn't let Guan Ning stay in the palace for the rest of his life, right?

"But...but what are you going to do?"

"The Zheng family lost a son-in-law and had a young master disabled. These are not the most important things. The most important thing is that you slapped the Zheng family in the face. For such an ancient behemoth, this is unacceptable."

"Why don't we wait until the prince wakes up? Now that the prince has been assassinated, there's no way we can just let this matter go. If it gets to the capital, there's a high probability that both sides can take a step back." Princess Cao thought about it and came up with a very practical solution.

Guan Ning just smiled. He didn't want to be a coward, nor did he want to implicate anyone. If he didn't solve this matter, the assassinations and conspiracies would not stop, and more and more people would be involved.

And when King Ping wakes up, he will definitely stop me.

"Princess, you don't have to persuade me on this. I have my own plan."

"Just tell me, can you help me take care of my companions?" he asked.

Princess Cao smiled bitterly: "If I agree to you, when the prince wakes up and knows that I agreed, he will probably be angry with me."

Guan Ning smiled slightly: "It's okay, I will write a letter to the prince and say that I acted on my own will."

Princess Cao moved her lips, but finally gave up trying to persuade him. She knew she couldn't do anything.

"Okay... I promise you that Prince Ping's Mansion will protect the safety of your companions."

"Thank you, Princess." Guan Ning smiled and bowed, showing his great gratitude. He was grateful that the princess still cared about him during this period when the palace was leaderless.

Princess Cao was in mixed feelings. She glanced at him and felt as if the wind was whistling and the Yi River was cold, and that the hero would never return.

"The prince has praised you as a heroic young man more than once, and now that I see you, you are indeed a rare talent."

"I originally intended to keep you in the mansion to assist Bao'er, but now it seems that it is not suitable."

"If you can come back, and if you don't mind, I can arrange a marriage for you."

Guan Ning was stunned for a moment, and then he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"This……"

Princess Cao added, "It's normal for men to have three wives and four concubines."

Guan Ning understood that the princess wanted to establish a good relationship with him, and the marriage she was referring to was most likely with a close relative of Prince Ping's Mansion.

But he was in no mood to think about these romantic things now. He had too many things to do, but it was not easy for him to directly refuse the princess.

"This one……"

"Let's talk about it later."

"Thank you, Princess."

The princess smiled and nodded: "Okay."

In this way, Guan Ning completed all the preparations. That night, he specially asked Tang Xiang'er to set a table of dishes and invited Yuan Xiang to eat.

Because he didn't know what would happen next. It wasn't that he felt that going to Xingyang would be a death sentence, but he felt that it might be difficult to meet Yuan Xiang again.

That night, Yuan Xiang didn't know Guan Ning was leaving, and she insisted on competing with him in drinking capacity. As a result, Guan Ning got her drunk until she passed out and fell asleep.

Guan Ning carried the man back and looked at Yuan Xiang who was drunk and dreaming.

Panting heavily, "Auntie, auntie, you are lucky to have met me. If you meet another man, your hymen will be gone."

"Remember this from now on, you can only drink half a pound."

As he spoke, he took off Yuan Xiang's shoes, revealing a pair of rosy and lovely feet, and then covered her with the quilt.

Just as he was about to leave, Yuan Xiang suddenly grabbed him with great strength and said drunkenly.

"Don't leave!"

"Guan Ning, do you like me?"

Guan Ning was shocked at first, thinking that the girl was not asleep, but he found out that she was just talking drunkenly. He couldn't help laughing, with his hands raised high and his neck hanging.

"I say, Auntie, let go immediately."

"Otherwise, you'll wake up tomorrow morning and cry while holding your skirt."

"Guan Ning, you bastard, I'll beat you to death, I'll beat you to death!"

Listening to her unclear drunken words, Guan Ning's face instantly turned black. This woman was thinking about beating him to death all day long?

He reached behind his back and struggled to pry her hands away bit by bit. Then, looking at her pretty drunken face and her dishonest sleeping posture, he couldn't help but laugh.

Then he reached out and smoothed her hair and helped her ruffle the quilt.

"If you wake up again, I'll leave."

"Take good care of yourself."

"Don't go, don't go!" She made such a sound in her sleep. She didn't know if it was a coincidence or if she heard something.

"..."

The next day, at dawn.

Guan Ning got up before it was fully light. Tang Xiang'er accompanied him to the door. She stood by the mahogany door with two door god paintings pasted on it, tears in her eyes.

"Brother Guan, please come back soon."

Guan Ning turned around and smiled: "Don't worry, Brother Guan won't abandon you."

"Half a month is the deadline we agreed on."

"Then we'll leave Lingjun together." From his words, it seemed as if he had made all the plans.

"Yes!" Tang Xiang'er nodded heavily, and then watched him go. The slightly trembling tears in her eyes were the expression of a young girl's love.

Guan Ning set off without looking back. He was also afraid that he would become indecisive due to his sentimental feelings.

At the gate of Lingjun City, a man and a horse had already been waiting for him. The man was thin and ordinary, carrying a sword on his back. It was Yan Qing.

"I guess you can't ride a horse, so I brought one for you."

He blew a whistle, and a black horse with bright fur rushed out, neighing and stopping.

"Good horse!" Guan Ning praised, then jumped up, mounted the horse and pulled the reins.

"Why do you guess I can't ride a horse?"

Yan Qing is very depressed and always looks extremely depressed.

"Judging from your face, you are prone to romantic relationships. You are about to do something earth-shattering, and you may not know whether it will affect your life or death. You will definitely leave quietly."

"Riding a horse is too ostentatious."

Guan Ning was speechless.

"Can you tell fortunes and read faces?"

"A little bit."

Guan Ning was completely speechless. He had to admit that what this guy said was somewhat accurate. He did leave quietly.

"Then calculate, is this trip auspicious or ominous for us?"

"Can't figure it out."

Guan Ning looked down on him: "Then where are you pretending to be profound?"

"I'm not pretending. I'm telling the truth. You're destined to have romantic relationships." Yan Qing was calm, expressionless, with a melancholy brow, which was very attractive to women and made Guan Ning a little jealous.