The guard immediately waved his hand and took them away.
Not long after, Xiao Chengyi and Ye Xiuchen were brought to the high priest's house, and they were invited into the room. The high priest was sitting behind the curtain as before, but the atmosphere in the room was obviously a little solemn.
Without waiting for them to speak, the high priest said: "Hand over the third princess."
Ye Xiuchen looked confused and didn't know what was going on.
Xiao Chengyi was also a little surprised. He frowned and asked, "What does the priest mean by this?"
The high priest said in a cold voice: "The third princess is missing. I sent people to search all over southern Xinjiang but could not find her. I asked, where did you hide her?"
His tone was not as gentle as usual, and it could be heard that there was some anger in it.
Xiao Chengyi said: "Didn't the priest hide the third princess? Could it be that the priest wanted to turn against her and deny her?"
His tone was solemn and his momentum was not lost at all.
Xiao Chengyi had known about the disappearance of the third princess for a long time, but he thought it was the work of the high priest and didn't pay attention to it. But now the high priest actually asked him for someone.
The high priest clenched his hands and said in a deep voice: "I have not found her. After thinking about it, there is only one possibility, and that is that you, the regent, have not kept your integrity and have done something secretly."
"Oh."
Xiao Chengyi sneered: "Master Priest, you think too highly of me. This is your southern territory. What can I do under your nose?"
The high priest said: "I know everything about the regent's abilities. How dare you say that you don't know what I am thinking?"
Xiao Chengyi did know what he was thinking, and it was precisely because he knew that he chose to help him succeed, but he didn't expect to be beaten down.
He sneered softly and said: "So? The priest thinks that it was me who did it? Haven't you ever thought that maybe the third princess knew your plan and escaped on her own?"
"impossible!"
The high priest did not believe that the third princess escaped on her own. He said: "Although you are helping me, are you really confident that I will ascend the throne and become the king of Southern Xinjiang?
With the regent's thinking and methods, there must be a way out, and the third princess is your way out.
Xiao Chengyi, as long as you hand over the third princess, I will agree to any condition you have. If you don’t agree, I don’t mind being your enemy in Nanyue, so you have to think clearly.”
Xiao Chengyi was so angry that he lost his temper. He rubbed his forehead and said, "If I didn't capture the third princess, how could I hand her over to you?
In my opinion, you underestimated the third princess. She may have seen our plan a long time ago, so she escaped under the pretext of chasing the second princess.
Instead of wasting your efforts here, you should think of ways to find her as soon as possible. If she leaves southern Xinjiang, the only place she can go is Nanyue. If you let me go back, I promise you that I will help you find the three.
Princess."
After he knew the purpose of the high priest, he made a perfect plan, which was to deliberately lure the second princess, pretend to cooperate with her, and then find someone to inform the third princess.
With the temper of the third princess, if she knew that her second sister was colluding with the Nanyue people, she would definitely not stand idly by. As expected, the third princess acted quickly and immediately led troops to besiege the second princess's mansion.
It's just that the second princess is not a vegetarian. She escaped through the secret passage, but who would have thought that the third princess would go after the second princess and never return.
Xiao Chengyi thought that the high priest intercepted the three princesses on the way. After all, as long as these two princesses disappeared, the high priest would definitely win the throne of southern Xinjiang.
All the plans went as Xiao Chengyi expected, but the disappearance of the third princess became a mystery. If it was not done by the high priest, then there is only one possibility.
The third princess had long known about the high priest's ambition and used a trick to escape from southern Xinjiang.