Qiao Yuange and Shu Fei sat next to the table. Shu Fei and the nanny drew a map of Concubine An's courtyard on paper and carefully analyzed where the snow lotus should be.
Shu Fei reached out to smooth her hair and started to get serious.
She said, "I can't be sure whether she has the snow lotus with her. We need to search the entire courtyard thoroughly, and we need to do so without Concubine An being present. What do you think we should do?"
Qiao Yuange said, "The simplest way is to lure Concubine An out, and then take everyone you can with you to search all the rooms."
Shu Fei nodded, stretched out her hand to count the number of maids she had, and said: "I only have one maid, and there are only one maid in the courtyard of Concubine An. There are not enough people."
The eldest nanny waved her hand and said, "I have the Four Vajra Warriors, and I can find two maids, so I should have enough manpower."
Shu Fei looked at the head nanny with gratitude, and a hope suddenly rose in her heart. She felt that there seemed to be a chance for her to get the snow lotus this time.
Then Shu Fei frowned and said, "What if... Concubine An actually doesn't have Xue Lian?"
Qiao Yuange and the nanny were both silent.
After a long while, the eldest nanny said, "Although the snow lotus is rare, it is not unavailable. I heard that Prince Qiao had one before."
Having said this, the head nanny looked at Qiao Yuange.
Qiao Yuange looked puzzled and said to the nanny, "The Prince Qiao you are talking about is my father?"
The nanny nodded and said nothing.
When Shu Fei heard this, her eyes lit up, and she grabbed Qiao Yuange's shoulders and said, "Does your father have it? Is it with you? Can you give it to me?"
Qiao Yuange shook his head and said, "But I have nothing."
The slight good impression Shu Fei had for Qiao Yuange disappeared in an instant.
She said to Qiao Yuange with an unpleasant expression: "You have nothing? What happened?"
The eldest nanny quickly helped and said, "What Qiao said is probably true. Her father spent all his family property to ask for a Tianshan Snow Lotus, saying that it was for curing his wife's illness. His wife was in poor health and was always sick."
"But before he could give the snow lotus to his wife, that incident happened. Prince Qiao died on the battlefield, and his wife died. As for the snow lotus, since his wife didn't eat it, its whereabouts are unknown now."
"How could Qiao Yuange not know?" Shu Fei pointed at Qiao Yuange and said.
The eldest nanny showed an embarrassed expression: "In fact, at that time, the Qiao girl was still young, and Prince Qiao had become a figure that everyone wanted to beat. No one was willing to take over the orphan Qiao Yuange, even though Prince Qiao was extremely wealthy. Taking over Prince Qiao's home was equivalent to taking over his reputation as well. So even if you are interested in the family fortune, you still have to consider the reputation."
"In the end, it seemed that it was the eldest aunt of the Qiao family who took over, and probably all these treasures are in her hands." The eldest nanny said slowly.
Shu Fei finally breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Qiao Yuange a little embarrassedly and said, "I'm sorry, I was too nervous. Then let's get started?"
Concubine An hurried over to the Queen Mother, kicked the chair next to her away, and then said to her in a loud and arrogant voice: "You are living a very comfortable life. Have you ever thought about how I have been living during this period? Why did you tell Concubine Shu that I have snow lotus?"
"And that Shu Fei actually reached out and hit me. If you don't give me an explanation today, I won't leave!"
Concubine An rushed in, but the Queen Mother sat there and said calmly, "This is your own business. What do you want from me? I just said that you might have snow lotus, but I didn't say anything more."
"Besides, you have had the snow lotus in your hands for many years. Since you can't get it yourself, what's wrong with giving it to Concubine Shu to save her father's life? Does that thing have any other effects?"
The Queen Mother spoke quite frankly, but in fact she was just setting a trap for the Concubine Dowager.
The concubine was so angry that she pointed at her own face and said to the queen mother: "I tell you, we have been fighting for many years, and it was all just a small fight. Now that the late emperor has passed away, we should have handed the stage to the young people, but you are still trying to hurt me. Aren't you going too far?"
The Queen Mother looked at the Concubine Dowager with disdain and said in a cold voice: "Since you have said this, I will not be polite. We old bones are not trying to win favor. After all, the previous emperor is gone, what is there to win favor for? We are actually just planning for our own family now. You think so, and I think so too."
"We all have our own purposes, why are we talking so much?"
The concubine gritted her teeth in anger and spoke word by word: "I will not let Shu Fei beat me today. You all saw it. Remember, either you do it and punish Shu Fei, or wait for the emperor to come and ask him to demote Shu Fei. Anyway, no matter what, I will not give up!"
The Queen Mother took a breath.
She knew the Concubine too well.
The Queen Mother herself was a person who liked to give up, but she was the only one who did not give up on her position.
But the concubine dowager is not like that. She has been competitive all her life and wants to fight for everything. Except for the position of empress dowager that she did not get, for everything else, she would bite it back even if it was a mosquito that bit her.
"Then you can wait until the emperor comes. I am too tired. I am also old now. I don't want to care about these things at all."
The Queen Mother waved her hand and gave up completely.
The concubine was so angry that she wanted to die. At this time, the maid beside the concubine hurried over, her face red, out of breath, and said to the concubine in horror: "Oh no, your courtyard is turned upside down. Even your bedroom has been turned upside down..."
The Toffee barely reacted, her eyes rolled back, and she passed out.
When the Queen Mother heard the maid say this, she burst out laughing, then patted her knees and said loudly: "Oh my God, there is such a character in the harem, who can make the concubine faint from anger. I have lived for so many years, but this is the first time I have encountered this. Who did this? I really should take a closer look!"
When the maid saw that the concubine had fainted, she was at a loss and said to the queen mother, "Her Majesty, what should we do? Should we call the imperial physician?"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
