allendalepharm Chapter 488 Midnight Visit
Chapter 488 Midnight Visit
Picking up the candlestick on the table, Jiang Youzhen entered the secret room holding the candlestick.
After walking down a few steps, Jiang Youzhen looked around while holding the candlestick, and found a secret room of about ten square meters. The height was about thirty centimeters higher than Jiang Youzhen, and he could reach the top with his hand.
The secret room was empty. Jiang Youzhen took a look and thought that this place could be used as a private warehouse in the future to store some valuable things.
But the really important thing is that Jiang Youzhen cannot be placed inside. She must put it in the space so that she can feel at ease.
After Qinglang and the others had put their luggage in place, Jiang Youzhen slept comfortably on the prepared bed.
In the middle of the night, there was a rustling sound coming from the bedroom, and Jiang Youzhen immediately had a long sword in his hand.
She gripped the hilt of the sword tightly, then looked toward the window. She found that the window had been pried open at some point, and a man in black jumped into the house and was walking towards her.
Jiang Youzhen's heart skipped a beat. She was attacked on her first night in Beijing? This person must be targeting her, right?
Could it be that those people in the capital city who were jealous of him sent someone to assassinate him? Who could that be? The Third Prince's people?
Or were they the ministers with conflicting interests in the court? At this moment, Jiang Youzhen had countless thoughts in his mind.
He tried to slow down his breathing. Seeing that the masked man in black was about to walk to the bed, Jiang Youzhen was about to jump up when the man in black suddenly stopped.
Turning around and sitting down at the round table, Jiang Youzhen was puzzled. What was this man doing in her room in the middle of the night? Was he not here to kill her?
"You're already awake, why are you still pretending to be asleep?" Suddenly a slightly hoarse voice was heard. Jiang Youzhen was startled and immediately rolled his eyes.
"Your Highness, are you still not changing your habit of hanging out in the middle of the night? Can you go through the main gate during the day?" Jiang Youzhen stood up, picked up a coat beside him and put it on.
After lighting the candlesticks, Jiang Youzhen gathered his sleeves and then looked at the Second Prince who was sitting at the table.
"He is dressed in black in the middle of the night. Could he be visiting from somewhere else? Does Your Highness need to do this kind of thing personally?"
Jiang Youzhen spoke sarcastically, then sat down at the round table and poured himself a cup of tea.
The second prince pulled down the black veil on his face and looked at Jiang Youzhen.
Jiang Youzhen sat at the round table with her long hair loose and without a hair tie. The dim candlelight added a touch of softness to her.
The sword-like eyebrows that were drawn in the past have been washed off, revealing delicate eyebrows and eyes.
If she were seen by outsiders, they would definitely doubt her gender.
He coughed lightly and moved his eyes downward, intending to shift his attention away from the other person's beautiful face. Unexpectedly, when he looked up, he found that the buttons of the other person's inner garment were not buttoned, revealing the slender collarbone and a very thin ribbon underneath.
His face flushed slightly, realizing what it was.
In fact, when it was late at night and everyone was asleep, he sometimes wondered how Jiang Youzhen had managed to trick the officers who searched him before the exam.
Sometimes he thought that this girl must look like a man after taking off her clothes, and then it would be impossible to tell them apart. Because he rarely accidentally glanced at Jiang Youzhen's chest and found that it was flat, and there was no trace of a woman's curves at all.
Ahem! He definitely didn't look at it intentionally, he just saw it by accident and was just a little curious!
It's normal to be curious about this kind of thing, right? Sometimes when I think about it at night, I feel something strange in my body, a feeling I can't explain.
When he looked away again, he suddenly noticed that the thin inner garment seemed to have some curves, and he couldn't help but look away in shock.
"Your Highness is visiting so late at night. Could he be passing by again?" Feeling the cold, Jiang Youzhen immediately wrapped his outer clothes tightly. It was already early winter.
"Well! I brought you so many gifts, shouldn't I ask you to thank me?" The second prince's cheeks were slightly hot. For the first time, he felt that it seemed that breaking into someone's house at night was not in accordance with the rules?
Jiang Youzhen was speechless, "You didn't give as much as the Fourth Prince! Don't tempt me with these petty gains, I have no shortage of money. Now that I'm in the capital, I must be careful and cautious. I don't want to join a faction in advance in the Imperial College and get into trouble."
She had only offered advice to the two princes before. Anyway, they would give benefits, so it didn't matter who she was offering it to. But if she was tied to someone's boat so quickly, she would not agree.
"Humph! You are so heartless. There are so many useless things in the fourth brother's warehouse. Are you grateful just because he gave you a little? I put a lot of thought into it, and you just waste my kindness like this?"
The second prince was a little annoyed and picked up the tea bowl on the table and drank it all.
Jiang Youzhen really wanted to say that if he wanted to drink, he could just pour it himself! What was the point of drinking hers?
"That's a good thing they were willing to do, but this house is really well designed, it's quite nice!" Jiang Youzhen pointed to the house as a thank you.
The Second Prince's expression eased a little, "The Fourth Prince is used to this kind of trick, but he is the most cruel and ruthless. He usually protects his subordinates, but once they are useless to him, or even cause trouble for him, he will abandon them. And he pretends to be heartbroken and has to do it, playing both the role and the role."
Hmm? Jiang Youzhen looked at the second prince suspiciously. This sounded familiar. Could he be wearing the same clothes?
"What's wrong? Am I wrong? Apart from these, has he given you any benefits?" The second prince snorted coldly. The fourth prince was too good at winning people's hearts.
"Ahem! Your Highness, did you come here so late at night just to complain and gossip about the Fourth Prince behind his back? You really have a lot of free time!"
Jiang Youzhen covered her mouth and yawned. After sitting on the boat for several days, she felt a little tired.
"This is not called telling his faults, this is called a kind reminder. You just came to the capital, and the relationships between the noble families are complicated. When you go to the Imperial College, just focus on studying."
Jiang Youzhen nodded. This old man came here so late at night just to talk about this? She was really sleepy!
Looking at Jiang Youzhen's drowsy appearance, his usually bright eyes were now half-closed, and the curve of his eyes was very beautiful. The second prince couldn't help but look at him a few more times.
This girl seems to be really good-looking!
He had never seen such beautiful eyes, sometimes clear, sometimes hazy, sometimes with a hint of charm, but more often with a hint of coldness and nobility.
Well... just a little worse than him! Jiang Youzhen's appearance is still worth seeing.
The second prince had never paid close attention to a woman's appearance before. When the women saw him, they would shyly lower their heads, and he never paid special attention to their appearance.
Among the maids serving in the mansion, except for those who were in charge of the chores in the house, he couldn't even recognize the names and faces of the others.
"In fact, I came here to remind you that Guo Cong'ai, the chief priest of the Imperial College, is a man of the Third Prince. He was born in the Guo family of Taiyuan Prefecture in the north. The Guo family and the Tong family of Concubine Yun's maiden family are relatives, and they have long been a follower of the Third Prince."
The second prince said as he poured himself a cup of tea. Unfortunately, the tea was already cold, and it was not convenient for him to have someone heat it up in the middle of the night.
After drinking a bellyful of cold water, the second prince felt a little unhappy.