After the group of people walked away, the leading palace servant stood up, and the others followed suit.

"Who is that distinguished person?" someone asked in a low voice.

"It's Concubine Jiang."

"Noble Concubine Jiang?" the person asking exclaimed, "I heard that Noble Concubine Jiang is extremely favored and is more powerful than the Empress in the harem."

The leading palace servant said coldly, "Stop talking nonsense."

She swept her cold eyes over the two palace servants who were whispering, "It's best to keep what you just said to yourself. If it gets out, you won't see the sun tomorrow."

The two palace maids who were named were trembling with fear.

The leading palace servant said to the others: "If you want to live long in this harem, you must remember to do more and talk less. Don't listen to what you shouldn't listen to, and don't say what you shouldn't say."

Su Yin listened to the words of the leading palace servant and nodded secretly.

This person is pretty good.

Although she looked very strict and unkind, she actually talked about the way to survive in the palace. Many newcomers to the palace did not understand this principle and thus lost their lives.

The leading palace servant took them to the new palace, handed them over to the housekeeper who was in charge of training, and then left.

Su Yin and Su Xinguang parted ways here.

After nightfall, the smoke makes people in the house fall into a deep sleep, so they don’t wake up in the middle of the night to find that someone is missing from the bed.

When Su Yin walked out of the house, Su Xinguang was already waiting outside.

"Walk."

The two walked in the dark, passed through the palace walls, avoided the patrolling guards, and carefully lurked all the way to their destination.

This is a palace located in the deepest and most corner of the harem. The people living here are old palace maids and eunuchs who are old and dying.

“Cough, cough, cough”…

From time to time, coughing could be heard coming from the house, and it was obvious that the cough had been going on for a long time.

Yingyi had stood outside the house without him noticing and pushed open the door.

The people in the house heard the noise and raised their eyes with difficulty. The moonlight shone into the house through the open door. Because they were facing away from the light, they could not see the appearance of the person who came, but the tall and straight figure made them feel strange and oppressed.

Ying Yi walked into the room and moved aside.

Su Yin and Su Xinguang walked into the room one after another. The old lady on the bed, who looked withered and dying, tried hard to open her eyes, wanting to see who was coming, but there was no panic on her face.

This kind of calmness is not something that ordinary people can have.

Ying Yi lit the oil lamp in the house and said, "Everyone around has been dealt with, no one will disturb us."

After saying this, Yingyi consciously left the house, closed the door, and stood guard outside.

This is an extremely small and low corner room, which should be used to accommodate those palace ladies who are suffering from long-term illnesses and are about to die.

When the oil lamp was lit, the old lady lying on the bed covered with a thin mattress squinted her eyes and looked at the two uninvited guests.

"Who are you?" The old lady's voice was a little hoarse, and she seemed to have difficulty speaking.

Su Yin and Su Xinguang stepped forward.

The old lady finally saw the person clearly in the dim light of the oil lamp. She swept her eyes over the two of them, and when she saw Su Xinguang's appearance, her pupils suddenly widened in disbelief.

She just stared at Su Xinguang blankly, then turned her gaze to Su Yin. After a careful look, she murmured, "Really, really like her!"

"Is she okay?"

"Are you talking about Aunt Lianqiao?"

The old lady listened to the familiar yet strange name and murmured, "I haven't heard anyone mention this name for a long, long time."

She seemed to be lost in thought. When she raised her head again, there was sadness in her eyes. "She's dead, isn't she?"

Su Yin did not deny it and nodded.

The old lady sighed softly, "When?"

"She died the year she parted with you."

The old lady was stunned and looked at them in surprise, as if she didn't believe it, as if asking, then why do you exist?

Perhaps seeing the confusion in her eyes, Su Yin said softly, "Back then, she carried my father away, but was hunted down on the way. She had no choice but to hand my father over to someone else to raise. As for herself, she died in that hunt."

Although the old lady was old, she had a clear mind and knew that the two children in front of her already knew their own life stories.

The moment she saw them, she understood the relationship between her and Lian Qiao, which they had already found out.

"Since you already know, what do you want from a dying man like me?"

"Madam Hongxiu, we want to know if Aunt Lianqiao left you anything? Or did she say anything to you? We want to know what happened back then." Su Yin directly stated her purpose.

Nanny Hongxiu slowly sat up, leaning weakly against the wall, looking at the two of them with her old face.

She didn't hesitate at all, nor did she say anything, she spoke slowly and eloquently.

"I thought that incident would be buried with me."

"It seems that God couldn't bear it and let you find me at this time."

"Lian Qiao and I were both palace maids. She was sold to the palace by her parents. She had many brothers and sisters, and life was hard at that time. She was pretty, and her father originally wanted to sell her to a brothel to make more money."

"Her mother felt sorry for her child and begged her with tears. It happened that the palace was recruiting people at that time. Lian Qiao secretly signed up without telling her father and was favored by the palace purchaser. Now her father couldn't sell her to a brothel."

"You don't know how proud she was when she told me that. It seemed like she was very happy to make her father lose face."

"I am different from her. My parents are dead and I am the only one left in the family. My uncle occupied my family's land and my aunt kicked me out of the house. I had no land to live on, so I chose to enter the palace to make a living."

"We two poor people just became friends."

"Life in this palace is like walking on thin ice. I just want to live a good life, so I took the initiative to take on the job of cleaning the imperial garden that no one else wants to do. Lian Qiao is different from me. She wants to go higher."

"I didn't understand at that time. Because I often heard those old people in the palace say that the closer you are to the noble, the easier it is to die. Although it is glorious to follow the noble, you will die faster. I don't want glory, I just want to live a good life."

"I tried to persuade her not to push forward, but she said to me."

"'Hong Xiu, if I don't climb higher, my father will sell all my sisters to a shabby place. Only if I climb high enough and get more money, he will not do this, and he dare not do it. If sacrificing me can make my sisters live well, I will be satisfied.'"

"She even smiled and said to me, 'As soon as my three younger sisters are married and promised to someone else, I will find an opportunity to retire from the noble man's side and find a boring job like me, and the two of us will support each other through life.'"