Jiang Ru blinked, still not understanding the whole story. She looked at Ye Xiuchen, as if asking him if he understood?
Ye Xiuchen touched his nose, sat down at the table, poured a cup of tea, pushed it in front of Xiao Chengyi and said, "Okay, you'd better just tell the truth."
Anyway, he didn't understand the high priest's thoughts at all.
Xiao Chengyi picked up the tea cup and took a sip, and said in a calm voice: "Although the high priest captured Yan Yan, the queen may not trust him that much.
After meeting the third princess, the high priest knew her determination and must rescue Yan Yan. In order to prevent the third princess from being in danger, he could only bear all this by himself.
The purpose of setting up a trap to arrest us was to prove his loyalty to the queen and to act like he was hurt by the third princess in front of everyone.
Only in this way can the high priest gain the queen's trust and believe that he will not betray Southern Xinjiang for the sake of the three princesses!"
Ye Xiuchen frowned: "What if we didn't escape in the palace that day?"
Xiao Chengyi shrugged: "If we don't escape, we can only wait to be caught. But even if the ancestral temple doesn't catch fire, the high priest will secretly let us go."
Ye Xiuchen was skeptical: "Do you really believe in the high priest?"
Xiao Chengyi said: "I just believe in his feelings for the third princess."
The high priest is a smart man. Since he already knows the determination of the three princesses, he will not go all the way. If he insists on becoming their enemy, he will definitely lose the three princesses in the end.
Only by working together can he get what he wants.
Ye Xiuchen: "..."
Well, as expected, no one can match Xiao Chengyi in terms of brains. He always has a feeling of being in control of everything he does.
He asked: "Then what happened yesterday?"
Xiao Chengyi's eyebrows moved, and he took out a token from his arms and put it on the table: "It was my idea. The Queen is watching me too closely. Only by letting her relax her vigilance can I sneak into the Gu Palace to save Yan Yan."
Jiang Ru picked up the jade pendant, looked at it, and said in surprise: "It's the high priest's token."
She remembered how Xiao Chengyi had disguised himself as the high priest just now, and immediately understood his intention: "Do you want to use your identity as the high priest to go to the Gu Palace to save people in an open and honest manner?"
Xiao Chengyi nodded: "The Gu Palace is heavily guarded. It's definitely not possible to break through forcefully. If you want to rescue Yan Yan, you have to outwit it."
Ye Xiuchen knew that Xiao Chengyi's disguise skills were excellent, so he asked curiously: "Did the high priest give you this token?
Since he is determined to help us, why doesn't he personally come forward to rescue people? After all, he knows Gu Palace better, doesn't he? "
Xiao Chengyi's eyebrows moved slightly: "I'm also curious, why does he help us secretly instead of blatantly?
It was the same when he set up a trap to lure me to southern Xinjiang. He obviously had the means and ability himself, but he had to borrow my hand to do it.
After thinking about it, there is only one possibility, and that is that he wants to find a scapegoat for what he has done, so that he does not have to bear the crime of subjugating the country!"
Ye Xiuchen was shocked: "Then you still cooperate with him?"
It is clear that the high priest just wants to use Xiao Chengyi to achieve his own goals. If Southern Xinjiang is really destroyed, then everything is done by Xiao Chengyi and has nothing to do with the high priest!
He actually made a good calculation.
Xiao Chengyi's eyes narrowed and he clenched his hands involuntarily: "That's better than being his enemy. I don't care what kind of stigma I carry, as long as I can save Yan Yan, I will do whatever it takes!"
Even though he knew that the high priest had ulterior motives and wanted to blame everything on them, he had no other choice.