Lu Qiqi walked out of the flower garden, passed through a long corridor, and arrived at a small garden.

The small garden is beautiful, and there is a rockery not far from the pavilion, which looks quite well-organized from a distance.

Lu Qiqi followed the direction in which Wu Qi's maid had left, and after passing through the long corridor, she found that this was the only destination.

The garden has two exits, one to the east and one to the west.

She randomly chose an exit and started walking west.

As Lu Qiqi approached the artificial hill, she heard a noise behind it, so she slowed her pace and approached quietly.

If she had known she would hear such horrible noises, she would never have chosen to go west.

"Your Highness, you haven't come to see me for so long, have you grown tired of me?"

"Little thing, don't you know how much I pamper you?"

"It's just that I haven't seen Your Highness for so long, and I've missed you!"

"Then let me pamper you properly!"

Good heavens! In broad daylight, they actually dared to stage a live sex show in the palace garden!

This was the first time Lu Qiqi had ever heard such frivolous words in all her years of life.

She thought that since the woman addressed the man as "Your Highness," he must be the emperor's son, and there were many concubines in the harem.

Tsk tsk tsk, I never thought she would run into something like this.

What a stroke of luck!

Intermittent panting could be heard from behind the artificial hill. Lu Qiqi had no interest in eavesdropping, so she quickly turned around and headed towards the east exit.

After passing through the flower gate at the east exit, Lu Qiqi found herself back in circles.

However, this place is located in a secluded part of the garden, and there is an artificial lake under the pavilion.

If she wants to go back, she has to cross a wooden bridge.

Just as she reached the center of the wooden bridge, a group of women appeared out of nowhere and blocked both ends of the bridge.

Her first thought was that Wu Qi had sent people to drown her in the lake.

So she subconsciously hid poisoned needles under her sleeves, so that if these people got close, the needles would prick them.

"Lu Qiqi, you have no way out. The girls on both sides of the wooden bridge who have been harmed by you, are you going to jump into the water yourself, or are we going to push you in?"

Lu Qiqi looked over at the sound and saw Li Minjun standing at the bridgehead, looking at her imperiously, her eyes blazing with fire as if she could devour her at any moment.

Now Lu Qiqi understood that these women were the ones who had ambushed her and Lu Yao at the Spring Banquet.

The effects of the itching powder haven't stopped them, and now they've started having malicious intentions again.

Lu Qiqi looked down into the lake. The lake water was emerald green and the bottom was nowhere in sight. The depth of the water was impossible to estimate.

If a person who cannot swim falls in, even if the water only reaches waist level, it can still kill them.

She looked up at the group of women, all dressed in flamboyant clothes, but she never expected them to be such venomous people.

Li Minjun had just come out of the Empress's palace and had just been scolded by the Empress, so she naturally held a grudge against Lu Qiqi.

She had originally planned to have someone lure Lu Qiqi onto the bridge, but unexpectedly, Lu Qiqi took the bait herself, which saved her a lot of effort.

Seeing that Lu Qiqi didn't move and still had a faint smile on her lips, completely unlike the tearful pleading she had expected.

Li Minjun instructed the two noble ladies closest to her, "You two won't shed tears until you see the coffin! Go up and give her a hand!"

The two noble ladies looked at each other, hesitant to make a further move.

One of them spoke up, "Princess Anyang, what if someone dies in this?"

Li Minjun turned to look at Qian Duoduo and said coldly, "You don't need to worry about that. I just want to teach her a lesson."

Once she falls into the water, someone will jump in to save her; she won't be harmed.

Besides, with so many of us here as witnesses, what's there to be afraid of?

Qian Duoduo didn't want to cause trouble. She had only planned to watch Lu Qiqi fall into the water, but unexpectedly, Li Minjun assigned her to do it herself.

After thinking it over, she said, "Why don't we all go up the bridge together? Then when it comes to punishment, we can just say we accidentally fell into the water while crossing the bridge?"

Li Minjun was so angry that she couldn't stand Qian Duoduo's timid appearance and walked onto the wooden bridge without thinking.

When someone took the lead in doing bad things, the women on both sides of the bridge also came onto the bridge.

Lu Qiqi stood on the bridge for a long time, never expecting that these people would come up with such a stupid idea.

The wooden bridge was built by the best craftsmen in the palace, and it could easily support the weight of a mere dozen or so people standing on it.

The only mistake these women made was not expecting Lu Qiqi to know martial arts.

"thump!"

"thump!"

"thump!"

The women who originally wanted to push Lu Qiqi into the water all jumped into the lake and thrashed about with their hands.

"Help!"

"Help! Someone, please!"

Li Minjun had already arranged for people to rescue the person who had fallen into the water, and more than a dozen palace maids who had been castrated ran to the bridge upon hearing the commotion.

When they saw the group of women who had fallen into the lake, they were stunned for a moment, and then jumped into the lake without thinking to save them.

Lu Qiqi stood on the bridge, watching the palace servants jump into the lake like dumplings being dropped into a pot, and kindly gave them instructions.

"Quick! That area is about to sink!"

"Pull people ashore from the bridgehead!"

There's still one person here!

The commotion caused by the women falling into the lake was so great that the Empress, who had just returned to her palace in anger, rushed over with her wives and concubines without even having time to drink her tea.

When the ladies arrived, they saw Lu Qiqi calmly directing the palace servants to do everything in her power to save people.

The lake water was icy cold in spring. The women who were rescued were all shivering, pale, and had purple lips. Several of them even fainted from fright.

The Empress was furious upon seeing this scene.

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