Su Mingyu raised her eyebrows. "The King of Yu comes to my courtyard every day right after the morning court. He doesn't seem to be up to anything."
"So!" Wu Yurou frowned. "I think he just doesn't trust us."
Su Mingyu raised her eyebrows and smiled. "Just give him what he wants."
"How are we supposed to find so many people for him?" Wu Yurou thought Su Mingyu had gone crazy, and her voice rose involuntarily.
"Can't you tell him that the journey between the two countries is long? If so many people set off together, it would be bad if the emperor found out. So they can only enter the capital in batches."
Su Mingyu lowered her eyes and looked at Wu Yurou. Her bright eyes were filled with deep scheming.
Wu Yurou thought it made sense. She gave a silly smile and nodded. "Okay, I'll go and prepare."
Watching Wu Yurou's departing back, Xia Mian walked up and handed a note to Su Mingyu. Su Mingyu took a look and then threw it to Xia Mian. "Burn it."
Xia Mian nodded. "But... Mistress, although the King of Yu trusts you a bit more than before, he still has no intention of setting you free. What should we do?"
Compared to Xia Mian's nervousness, Su Mingyu was quite calm. "The King of Yu would never let me go. No matter what I say, he won't. All I want is for him to relax his vigilance against me."
Just like now, although there were still many eyes watching around her courtyard, it was obviously better than before. At least she could contact Qi Yue, right?
Seeing Su Mingyu so calm, Xia Mian felt less nervous. "Zhizhu..."
For so many days, Zhizhu had been staying in her room. As long as Su Mingyu was around, Zhizhu would never be seen.
Su Mingyu lowered her eyes. "I know about this. Let it be for now."
As long as she was okay. As for her mood, Su Mingyu couldn't care less for the moment. The matters at hand were more important.
Not long after seeing Wu Yurou off, the King of Yu came to the courtyard.
These days, he came almost every day. Sometimes he came to have a meal, and sometimes he just came to look at Su Mingyu. After Su Mingyu showed less hostility towards him, the two could get along peacefully. Until one day, the entire mansion of the King of Yu suddenly seemed to be on high - alert. All the guards and soldiers appeared at once and surrounded the mansion tightly.
The other maids were terrified, but Su Mingyu's courtyard remained as calm as usual.
Su Mingyu was sipping tea while reading a book. However, her eyes seemed to be looking at something more than just the book.
Xia Mian, who had been staying with her, came out from somewhere. She leaned over and whispered something in Su Mingyu's ear. Su Mingyu's face darkened a bit, but it wasn't too ugly.
She put down the book, got up and walked to the courtyard gate. Just as she was about to go out, a guard stopped her. "My lord has given orders that no one is allowed to move around."
"I'm just staying in this mansion. I'm not going anywhere." Su Mingyu lowered her eyes and looked at the guard, with a hint of threat in her eyes. "I'm feeling stuffy now and I want to take a walk. If you stop me and make me feel bad, and something happens to the child in my belly, do you think the lord will forgive you?"
Everyone in the mansion of the King of Yu knew how well the King of Yu treated Su Mingyu these days.
Being questioned like this by Su Mingyu, the guard was a bit scared. He tightened his grip on the blade nervously, but finally stepped back and made way.
Seeing this, Su Mingyu snorted. "That's more like it."
Walking out of the courtyard, Su Mingyu went straight to Wu Yurou's courtyard. All the maids in the courtyard were gone. After searching every corner of the courtyard, she couldn't find Wu Yurou. Su Mingyu looked around the courtyard and frowned.
If Wu Yurou had left on her own, things obviously wouldn't be like this. It meant that she had been kidnapped. But who could it be?
Just as Su Mingyu was thinking, she suddenly heard a muffled sound from behind. She turned around abruptly and saw a huge wardrobe.
Su Mingyu walked forward nervously and knocked on the wardrobe door. "Wu Yurou?"
The sound inside became louder. Su Mingyu quickly opened the wardrobe door, but there was nothing but clothes inside.
Just as Su Mingyu was puzzled, she noticed that the right handle of the wardrobe had more friction marks than the left one.
So Su Mingyu lowered her head and studied the handle. After looking at it for a while, she grabbed the handle and pulled it back. Sure enough, a secret room appeared behind the wardrobe. Su Mingyu didn't go in. She just stood at the door and whispered, "Is there anyone inside? Is it Wu Yurou?"
She heard a muffled sound from inside, but it wasn't very clear. Su Mingyu frowned. After thinking for a while, she finally picked up an oil lamp and walked in.
The corridor wasn't very long. After walking a few steps, Su Mingyu saw the person making the sound. She was blindfolded, with her ears and mouth stuffed, and tied tightly to a pillar.
Looking at the person, Su Mingyu felt a bit disappointed. It wasn't Wu Yurou.
Where was Wu Yurou?
While thinking, Su Mingyu walked to the person's side and untied the ropes on her body.
After untying the ropes, Su Mingyu saw clearly that although this person wasn't Wu Yurou, she was the most capable maid beside Wu Yurou.
Su Mingyu took out the cloth stuffed in the maid's mouth and asked, "Where's Wu Yurou? Why is she missing?"
"Miss... Please save our princess!" Xiaoqian's eyes welled up with tears immediately. She knelt in front of Su Mingyu crying and pleaded with her.
Su Mingyu helped her up. "Let's go out first."
If someone came later, it would be hard for them to explain. Closing the secret passage in the wardrobe, Su Mingyu looked at Xiaoqian and asked, "What exactly happened? Why are you the only one here?"
Xiaoqian cried bitterly. "I don't know. Early this morning, before dawn, the princess suddenly called me into her room and said something about taking action today and it being too late. Before I could react, she knocked me out. When I woke up again, I found myself in the secret passage."
Su Mingyu frowned. She knew about today's action. Most likely, the King of Yu was going to raid the palace and force the emperor to abdicate.