Chapter 171: Disguise

The Queen Mother had a gentle look on her face, a hint of a smile on her pale lips.

But Mammy's eyes widened.

It was like seeing a demon crawling out of hell.

The nanny understood the warning that the Queen Mother had not yet expressed.

Trembling with fear, he slowly took several steps back, subconsciously moving away from the Queen Mother.

The old skin on Mammy's face was trembling slightly.

"Your Highness, I am absolutely loyal to you. Please spare my life, considering I have served you for many years and came to save you tonight."

Mammy kept backing away.

A strange look flashed in the Queen Mother's eyes, and she stopped approaching, as if she was touched by her words.

"Loyal?"

The Queen Mother held the pointed candlestick like a dagger, her arm hanging down, the slender candlestick facing the ground.

"I will give you every chance to explain things clearly."

After the nanny breathed a sigh of relief, she knelt on the ground and expressed her loyalty as much as possible. She said slowly.

"Although I am the Regent's servant, I have never betrayed you. The main reason is that I was the Regent's informant in the palace before you entered..."

"By chance and coincidence, it was you, the Queen Mother, who left this old servant behind."

"But the Regent has only one command for me: protect the Queen Mother!"

The nanny waved her hand and hurriedly distanced herself from the matter.

"Of course, I haven't revealed anything about you, Her Majesty, to the Regent..."

The Queen Mother closed her eyes and murmured, "That is to say..."

"This is absolutely true. No wonder I never noticed it."

The Queen Mother suddenly opened her eyes, and there was a coldness in her narrow eyes.

She said nothing, and raised the candlestick.

Phew.

The slender tip of the candlestick pierced Mammy's heart at the same place as the wound on her own body.

The nanny knelt on the ground and raised her hand to grab the corner of the empress dowager's clothes.

"I didn't... betray..."

She fell down in an extremely humiliating position, with bright red flowing down from the corners of her mouth.

The Queen Mother kicked away the fingers that were tugging at the corner of her clothes, her gentle face filled with disgust that would not tolerate any sand in the sand.

"You were wrong. You shouldn't have kept it from me. What a pity..."

The nanny didn't want to die, so she used all four limbs to crawl out. After struggling for a moment, the bright vitality in her eyes completely disappeared.

The Queen Mother squatted on the ground, stretched out her slender fingers, and kept groping in the nanny's arms.

The slightly cool fingertips touched something soft.

Her eyes lit up and the corners of her red lips rose in surprise.

"Found it."

She took out the items she used for disguise, a total of two human skin masks.

The Queen Mother said slowly, "Madam, don't worry, I will definitely give you a dignified burial."

She exchanged clothes with the nanny and with some difficulty moved the nanny's body to the coffin in the center of the hall.

A mirror was found in the Weiyang Palace.

The candlelight flickered, and the palace was dimly lit. The Queen Mother faced the mirror and meticulously changed the face of the nanny lying in the coffin into her own, one-to-one.

"Okay, my face is really pretty."

The Queen Mother admired it with satisfaction, a hint of pride in her brows.

"After so many years, my disguise skills have become a little rusty, but fortunately, I am still quite satisfied."

The Queen Mother then changed her appearance, and in the mirror, she saw the face of an ordinary woman.

Suddenly, the woman's slender, white hands stained with red cardamom slowly touched her cheek, with an expression of endless sadness.

"Brother Xiujin?"

"Or... the Regent!"

She had once felt the ultimate love and trust, so when this trust changed, it was what made her feel the most sad and unacceptable.

A smile broke out on the Queen Mother's gentle face. She sneered and stared at the strange woman in the mirror for a long time.

He suddenly pushed the mirror over.

"People will change eventually."

In the narrow and long phoenix eyes, a crystal tear rolled down from the eye socket.

With a plop, it fell into the overturned mirror, reflecting a huge teardrop.

The dark coffin that was pushed open was covered again.

Only then did the Queen Mother carefully examine her own mourning hall.

Finally, she stood in front of her own tablet and looked at the posthumous title she was given.

This means that after her death, she will not be buried in the same tomb with the late emperor.

There was endless complexity hidden in her eyes, and a hint of guilt that she was unwilling to admit.

It was the guilt of taking revenge on Xin Hongying for her hatred for the late emperor, and it was a mother's debt to her child.

Never admit the debt.

The night wind blew the mourning hat covering her head, and the brief traces of tears were blown away. The empress dowager's figure was swept up by the thick darkness and gradually swallowed up.

At the corner of the palace, it completely disappeared.

Shortly after the Queen Mother disappeared, two people climbed over the wall in the dark night with great agility.

Bai Feng, wearing a nightgown, leaned against the wall with his back.

Miss Yi Han, who was also wearing a nightgown, showed her eyes and followed Bai Feng closely, urging him.

"Brother, hurry up, it will be too late if you don't hurry up."

Bai Feng's face was gloomy. He couldn't resist her and sighed softly: "Why are you in such a hurry? Go this way."

As soon as the two entered the mourning hall, they realized something was wrong. The room was deathly quiet and the air was filled with a faint smell of blood.

Miss Yihan exclaimed.

"Do you smell it?"

Bai Feng nodded, his dark face looking somewhat solemn.

The two looked at the finest coffin in the middle.

The two of them worked together to push open the dark coffin, making a slight sound.

Bai Feng had been deeply shocked by the Queen Mother's last words and no longer had any expectations of her.

He turned around, his voice cooler than the night wind.

"Okay, I'll go outside and keep watch for you. If the night watch guards come on patrol, I'll remind you."

His breath was moving and the smell of blood was very strong.

Miss Yihan looked at the Queen Mother lying in the coffin and said hurriedly, "Wait, the wound on her heart is not right. It's not the mark left by a dagger."

She reached out and touched the blood on her chest and said slowly.

"The blood is warm. She was just injured."

Miss Yi Han's eyes changed slightly, and she became serious. She stretched out her fingers to touch the pulse on her neck and the silver needle on her forehead.

She withdrew her hand and said firmly.

"This person is not my mother!"

Bai Feng was stunned and stopped walking away.

"Don't call her mother, she doesn't deserve it!"

Bai Feng pursed his lips tightly, suppressing the inexplicable emotions in his heart.

"You saved her because you couldn't bear to see the person who gave birth to us die in front of you. I understand."

"She can wake up on her own and find a scapegoat without our help."

"She doesn't need us, so why should we persist?"

Miss Yihan said slowly: "But, brother, I always feel that there is something else hidden here. Will she..."

"No hidden secrets!"

Bai Feng was hurt by the Queen Mother's vicious words, and his voice unconsciously rose as he roared in a low voice.

"There's not a single trace of us in her darkroom. She's simply forgotten about us!"

"Don't dream, at least you still have me."

"Let's go."