binnovel Chapter 362 Suspicion
Chapter 362 Suspicion
"Your Highness, our Fifth Princess is not in the back hall. I don't know when she left."
The eunuch hurried away and hurried back, reporting with a smug face.
"Where did she go?"
The eldest prince Qin Mingyu pursed his lips, his tone was calm, and his displeasure was clearly written on his face.
"Perhaps, perhaps he went to the Xuxue Academy? I dare to guess, but I dare not conclude."
"Go and ask someone to invite her back."
Qin Mingyu stared at the eunuch, the anger in his eyes made people feel cold.
"Yes, Your Highness, I will go right away."
The eunuch hurriedly ran out of Lanlin Hall.
On the palace road outside Lanlin Palace.
"Your Highness, the Crown Prince must be pissed off by you!"
Tong Guan, the personal palace maid, followed behind the fifth princess Qin Jingshu, looking behind her from time to time, furtively, for fear of running into the eldest prince.
"It's just right to be angry to death."
Qin Jingshu raised her pretty face, the annoyance in her eyes disappeared in an instant, and her dimples were embedded on both sides of her face when she smiled. She turned around briskly, her skirt fluttering.
"Your Highness, let's go somewhere away from people."
The palace maid Bi Di on the other side stared with her eyes wide open, covering her chest, looking terrified.
"You are the only one who is nosy and so fake. Let's go to the Second Princess."
The fifth princess Qin Jingshu gently poked Bi Di's heart with her finger.
Soon he led the two of them into a winding path.
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"Second sister, here I come!"
The fifth princess Qin Jingshu stuck her little head out from behind the door and called out to the Hengshan Princess Qin Mingyue with a smile.
Qin Mingyue raised her eyes and looked straight at her fifth sister Qin Jingshu without saying a word.
Qin Jingshu blinked twice and asked in confusion, "Why is Second Sister looking at me like this?"
She stood up, ran to Qin Mingyue with light steps, sat down beside her, hugged her arm, and rubbed her gently with her face.
"Aren't you afraid?"
Qin Mingyue, the second princess of Hengshan, raised her hand and pinched the face of her fifth sister Qin Jingshu, and asked softly.
"What are you afraid of? Why should you be afraid?"
Qin Jingshu widened her eyes and tilted her head slightly, with obvious confusion in her eyes.
"As expected of my princess's sister, she is quite courageous and doesn't look like Little Twelve at all. She must have taken after our father."
Qin Mingyue smiled.
“My twelfth brother has been used to being suppressed by my eldest brother since he was a child, but I am loved by my father, the emperor, and my mother, and I am taken care of by my second sister, so naturally I am not as timid as my twelfth brother.
But I am not afraid of this big case that my second sister mentioned because I have done nothing wrong, and...my second sister will protect me, right?"
It wasn't her who burned Huang Zhongling, a concubine in Chuxiu Palace, to death, and it wasn't her who spread the rumors against the Seventh Prince.
She only went to school for three years, read a few history books, and had only a few familiar faces serving her. Her mother was a mere concubine, so how could she bribe people to do such a big thing for her?
It was done so perfectly that it drew applause from everyone.
She didn't feel guilty about sacrificing the life of a eunuch who said he would be loyal to her.
The eunuch named An Shengbo was buried in the snow by her on the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, with only his head exposed, and was frozen for an hour. He almost died and survived. Isn't it normal that he holds a grudge against her?
How could he follow her instructions and spread rumors about his seventh brother?
The fifth princess Qin Jingshu leaned her head on Qin Mingyue's shoulder, her heart and eyes full of innocence.
Qin Mingyue lowered her eyes and smiled sweetly. When she looked at Qin Jingshu, the admiration in her eyes was clearly visible. She raised her hand and touched Qin Jingshu's head.
"I have arranged some simple palace affairs for you. I will have to hand over the palace power soon. After I leave the palace, these will no longer be my responsibility.
As long as you are careful and cautious, you can do this part of the palace affairs I assign to you well. There is no profit in it and it won't make the concubines jealous, but it can be a stepping stone for you.
Whether you can do this job well, turn it into power in your hands, and make the Queen Mother value your ability and give you more support, it all depends on you. "
When a princess reaches adulthood, she must leave the palace, so no matter how much power she holds, it will only be temporary.
A concubine who has a daughter would want her daughter to exercise and would not object. A concubine who does not even have a daughter does not have the right to object.
With her precedent, there will probably be many princesses like the fifth sister who want to taste the power at a young age.
Qin Mingyue touched Qin Jingshu's hair and pursed her lips.
The fifth sister used the people around her to divert the suspicion directed at the Pepper Palace to the Lanlin Palace, but this was actually not safe because Shunpin had always been her mother's yes-man.
But just when she was about to leave the palace to start a new world, she was caught off guard. It was too hasty.