"Jinzhi!! Jinzhi!!!" Mingyue sat up and hugged the quilt, screaming in panic.
Jinzhi, who was napping outside the room, was instantly frightened by her scream.
He hurried in and asked, "What's wrong, Your Highness?"
After she lit the candle, she found Princess Mingyue huddled in the corner of the bed, hugging the quilt, and looked quite frightened.
"Did you... hear any strange sounds..." Mingyue's voice was trembling slightly because of fear.
Jinzhi concentrated and held her breath, listening carefully for a long time, but she didn't hear any unusual sound.
"Your Highness, did you have a nightmare? I didn't hear anything..."
Not only she was on guard outside, but there were also several strong male guards, and they all said they heard nothing.
"I didn't fall asleep at all, how could I be dreaming! I really heard a woman whimpering just now!" Mingyue roared angrily when she heard Jinzhi doubt her.
But when she listened carefully again, she didn't seem to hear any unusual noises. Could it be that she was really too tired recently? Was she hallucinating?
But after she asked Jinzhi to turn off the lights for her and leave, not long after, the subtle "woooooo..." sound came again...
This happened several times throughout the night. Every time she turned off the lights and lay down, she would hear strange noises. As soon as someone came in, the noises would disappear.
Finally, because she was scared, she asked Jinzhi to move a stool in and watch over her as she slept.
Jinzhi had no choice but to do as she was told.
Sure enough, after Jinzhi came in, Mingyue never heard any strange noises again.
She fell into a drowsy sleep in the second half of the night.
Jinzhi was miserable. She could still take a nap outside, but inside she had to stay awake all the time and couldn't even take a nap.
The next morning, Yinhua had just gotten up and came out of the servant's room when she saw Jinzhi coming out of Mingyue's bedroom. She said good morning to Jinzhi in a bright and energetic manner, but when Jinzhi looked up, her dark circles under her eyes almost fell to her chin, which scared Yinhua.
"Sister Jinzhi, what's wrong with you?" Yinhua hurried forward and asked with some concern.
Jinzhi was so tired that she couldn't utter a word. At this moment, she felt that her soul was about to leave her body. At her age, she still had to stay in her master's room to guard her all night.
She waved at Yinhua and said, "You'll be on duty tonight." Then she went back to her room to catch up on her sleep.
At this time, Yinhua still thought this was a good job, and said thank you to Jinzhi from behind with a smile.
After all, the palace maid who keeps watch at night doesn't have to do any rough work during the day, and there is no one to serve at night, so she can even take a nap secretly. She likes keeping watch the most.
But when night fell, she realized that the job that was given up by others could never be a good job.
At first, she was happily sitting outside the door, daydreaming, and planning to chat with the guards tonight, and even secretly put a handful of melon seeds in her pocket.
Soon she heard Princess Mingyue's screams and calls. She hurried in, but unexpectedly, Mingyue said to her, "Yinhua, just sit there and don't go out."
Yinhua: ???
Mingyue made her sit on a chair and watch over her all night, not even allowing her to blow out the candles in the room, but watching her sleep with the lights on...
Only then did Yinhua realize where Jinzhi's dark circles came from.
That's how it came out...
The next morning, she walked out of Princess Mingyue's room with the same dark circles under her eyes as Jinzhi. In order to prevent such strange things from happening again at night, Jinzhi gathered everyone and prepared to patrol Yingchun Palace in the middle of the night to see where the strange noise came from.
However, they probably would never have thought that the strange noise did not come from outside, but from Princess Mingyue's room!
At this moment, two people were walking back leisurely from the tunnel humming little tunes.
"Axin, His Majesty has obviously had little contact with Princess Mingzhu. How does he know that there is someone named Yinhua on her side?" The person who spoke was Aqing, the secret guard sent by Ji Chenan to protect Jiang Ziyi.
"Your Majesty is as wise as a god. Anyone who dares to bully the Queen in Shen State is either someone close to the Queen or Princess Mingyue's people."
This new Princess Mingyue is said to be the Queen and Princess' biological daughter, so of course she has to send some of her closest people to accompany her to feel at ease."
"So Your Majesty guessed that among them, there must be the maid named Yinhua." Ah Xin still spoke coldly.
"Wow~ Then you can see through His Majesty's mind, and you are also very predictable." Ah Qing said with a smile.
"I want a beating!" Ah Xin raised his hand.
Ah Qing ran away happily.
She has always been aloof and quiet. Ah-Qing is much more lively than her, but sometimes her words are so mean that it's hard to tell whether she's being sarcastic or not...
There is a secret room in the master bedroom of Yingchun Palace. It can only be opened from the inside and not from the outside. To reach that secret room, one must first find a secret passage. This secret passage is only known to the royal family and the royal guards.
In the past, in order to deal with some concubines who were not convenient to be executed openly, the previous emperor would arrange them to Yingchun Palace. In the middle of the night, he would send secret guards to kill them quietly and pretend that they committed suicide.
Except for the emperors and empresses of all dynasties and the royal secret guards, no one else knew about it.
Therefore, for a long time, Yingchun Palace has become a strange place where bizarre deaths often occur, passed down from generation to generation by palace people.
In the past two days, Ah Xin and Ah Qing hid in the dark room of Yingchun Palace in the middle of the night.
When Mingyue is alone in the room, Ah Qing will make a woman's cry that can only be heard in the room.
When Mingyue called the maid in, she stopped, and when the maid left, she spoke again, and so on.
After all this trouble, either Mingyue or her maid went crazy.
Moreover, they also learned from the maid's name called by Mingyue that Yinhua had also come to Yao Kingdom. So they had to go back and ask His Majesty how to "entertain" her.
Because Yingchun Palace was too weird, Mingyue couldn't eat or sleep well whenever she stayed there. In addition, Ji Chenan had never come to see her. She wanted to move to another place, so she had to go out to find him. However, when she grabbed the palace servants and asked them where the emperor was, they all shook their heads and said they didn't know.
She also wandered to the door of the imperial study and tried to hide there, but was ruthlessly driven away by the guards.
She was furious and mad. She didn't want to stay in that haunted place for even a day! But unfortunately, His Majesty wouldn't see her, and His Majesty wouldn't say anything, so she couldn't move to another place.
However, since Jinzhi took the guards to investigate that night, there has been peace for two days.
But two days later, the terrible whimpering sound came back again.
Finally, Mingyue couldn't stand it anymore. She pointed at Yinhua and said, "You sleep in my main hall tonight."
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