"We're here to pay our respects to the Empress. Why are you stopping us?"
At this moment, there was a commotion at the gate of Su Lijin Palace.
The three concubines glared angrily at the palace maids and eunuchs blocking the door, and the atmosphere was tense.
The palace maids and eunuchs all knelt down with a thud. A maid in charge also bowed and said, "My three masters, please don't embarrass us servants. The Empress will not be seeing guests for the time being. You may return."
"Humph, what kind of master raises what kind of servant, even you dare to treat us so perfunctorily?"
A concubine in a green dress sneered and glared at the maid on the ground.
The concubine in blue skirt suddenly winked at her. The concubine in green skirt was stunned for a moment, then showed a hint of understanding.
The concubine in the green dress twisted the maid's hair and said viciously, "Do you want me to punish you before you become obedient, you dog slave?"
The maid was twisted so hard that it stung. She tilted her head, not daring to move: "I dare not. Masters, please don't embarrass us."
At this moment, the concubine in blue skirt and another concubine immediately took advantage of this gap, jumped over the people on the ground, and ran in.
"Your Majesty, we are here to pay our respects to you!"
"Empress, please come out quickly!"
The two of them shouted loudly on purpose and rushed into the bedroom, but they did not see Su Lijin at all.
"I was wondering why you were stopping us. Turns out the Empress isn't in the bedroom again. Humph!"
The three concubines immediately stood at the door and shouted arrogantly.
The sound spread far away, and many palace maids from other palaces came to watch.
A palace maid quietly watched the excitement over there, smiled, and ran back quietly.
"You said the queen is not in the bedroom again?" Concubine Shu sat up from the chair.
The breathless maid laughed and said, "Yes, just now a concubine made a scene at the gate of the Empress's palace and rushed in to look for her. Despite all the commotion, the Empress didn't show up at all. She's not even inside!"
"I didn't expect that the Queen would never change her bad habits!"
Upon hearing this, Concubine Shu's face turned mocking. "She's disappeared from the palace so many times, and everyone has seen it. How come she manages to reappear so quietly every time?"
Thinking about the last time Su Lijin was under house arrest and could not be found, Concubine Shu was filled with suspicion.
"Logically speaking, it's such a huge palace, filled with people. She can't just disappear like that. There must be something fishy going on!"
Walking back and forth, Concubine Shu pondered Su Lijin's disappearance. Suddenly, she stopped and said abruptly, "A secret passage! There must be a secret passage! How could I have forgotten this!"
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that everything matched up perfectly. Concubine Shu was certain that Su Lijin must have mysteriously disappeared through the secret passage!
This guess almost solved all the doubts. Concubine Shu couldn't wait to tell Xiao Zhaolin about this discovery: "Go and invite His Highness quickly."
She knew that Xiao Zhaolin was paying his respects to the Empress Dowager in her palace today, so she immediately sent someone to invite him.
Soon, Xiao Zhaolin, who had just greeted everyone, was invited over.
After hearing Concubine Shu's news, Xiao Zhaolin narrowed his eyes and asked, "Are you telling the truth? The Queen left the palace through the secret passage?"
Concubine Shu's eyes were filled with excitement as she nodded and said, "It must be a secret passage. Otherwise, how could the Queen disappear without a trace so often under everyone's noses?"
Xiao Zhaolin's eyes were full of scrutiny, and he had obviously begun to think about the secret passage.
"The palace is heavily guarded. I don't believe she can fly away with wings!"
At this point, the mockery on Concubine Shu's face deepened: "The Queen is always so good at acting, saying something about copying Buddhist scriptures. Ha, how come there is no trace of the person who actually copied the Buddhist scriptures?"
"During the last time she was under house arrest, she wasn't allowed to leave the palace. Didn't she suddenly disappear then? If it wasn't a secret passage, how could she have vanished out of thin air?"
This series of attacks all pointed towards the secret passage.
Xiao Zhaolin looked up, his sharp, calculating eyes filled with excitement: "If this is really a secret passage, that would be great!"
"Go and find the secret passage for me, the sooner the better!" he said.
Concubine Shu smiled and nodded, her face full of pride: "Don't worry, Your Highness! Even if I have to dig three feet into the ground, I will definitely find the secret passage!"
That bitch Queen, just wait for her to find out!
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After meeting Jianghu Bai Xiaosheng, Su Lijin left through the backyard.
"Let me go! Let me go!"
Before she could take a few steps, she suddenly heard a familiar cry and stopped in her tracks.
Following the sound, I turned the corridor and frowned when I saw the scene in front of me.
"What are you two doing!" she yelled and kicked away the man's hand that was grabbing the little girl.
Pulling over the tearful child, Su Lijin, with overwhelming force, slashed the other man's waistband with a sword. The man's face turned pale and his pants fell to the ground.
"Ah! Murder!" The two men looked at her in horror.
Su Lijin raised her head and said, "Get out of here quickly if you dare to come over here again. I can't guarantee that you won't lose any limbs!"
The two men had long been drained of their bodies by alcohol and sex. One of them was kicked and couldn't get up for a long time. Now that he saw how powerful her swordsmanship was, he was so frightened that he dared not act rashly.
The two looked at each other, weighed the pros and cons, then immediately ran away.
After the others ran away, Su Lijin squatted in front of the little girl and said, "Are you Xianxian?"
The little girl was none other than the fairy she had met once before. With tearful eyes, she knelt down and kowtowed, "My benefactor, you saved me twice. I will definitely repay you."
Looking at this thin little girl, Su Lijin suddenly felt pity for her.
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