Ji Xingzhi and Xiao Moyan walked out from the darkness. Looking at the backs of the two palace maids, Ji Xingzhi frowned and asked, "Your Majesty?"
It seems that someone pretended to be her and locked Rumei up in Shaosi Mansion. No one knows where Wu Fang is.
"Let's go and take a look." Xiao Moyan said.
Ji Xingzhi: "Yeah."
Ji Xingzhi and Xiao Moyan quietly followed the two palace maids and saw Ji Xingzhi...herself in a pavilion in the garden.
Ji Xingzhi looked at the man in the distance who was chatting and laughing with Xue Huoqing. Ji Xingzhi subconsciously pinched her face and said, "They really look alike."
Those eyes, those manners, that voice, they were exactly like hers! But compared to Ji Xingzhi's voice, it lacked a touch of femininity.
Xiao Moyan glanced at "Ji Xingzhi" in the pavilion and said calmly: "Not like it."
Ji Xingzhi was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then he smiled.
Because they were far away, Ji Xingzhi could only vaguely hear the person pretending to be her talking to Xue Huoqin about Ji Ruhua, but she couldn't make out what they were saying.
Seeing Ji Xingzhi's suspicious look, Xiao Moyan whispered what he had heard to Ji Xingzhi. After hearing it, Ji Xingzhi was furious and secretly clenched his fists.
Ji Xingzhi's original words were: "How can a filthy woman be qualified to be my queen? If it weren't for my father and mother, I would have driven her out of the palace long ago."
"I really want to tear his mouth apart!" Ji Xingzhi couldn't help but grit her teeth. Even she felt angry when she heard it. If Ji Ruhua heard it, she wondered what she would feel.
Xiao Moyan and Ji Xingzhi stayed for a while and then left the palace. Neither of them noticed that Ji Ruhua was standing at the other end of the pavilion and heard clearly the conversation between "Ji Xingzhi" and Xue Huoqin in the pavilion.
Not long after Xiao Moyan and Ji Xingzhi left, Ji Ruhua also turned around and left. Ji Ruhua's expression was terrifyingly calm, as if she didn't hear those unbearable words. She just left quietly, neither sad nor happy.
Only after Ji Ruhua had completely walked away and disappeared did the "Ji Xingzhi" in the pavilion stand up and look in the direction where Ji Ruhua had disappeared. She said, "She and Ji Xingzhi lived in the palace together for so many years. Ji Xingzhi even rescued her from the Ji family, brought her mother into the palace, and handed the entire harem over to her. You said Ji Xingzhi treated her so well, will she help us as the emperor expected?"
Xue Huoqian crossed his arms and said coldly, "This is not something we should worry about. We just need to complete the task assigned by the emperor."
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Ji Ruhua walked alone on the way back to Fengling Palace with a quiet look on her face. The journey that usually took less than half a minute took her a full three quarters of an hour today.
Xiao Juan, who was waiting at the gate of Fengling Palace, saw Ji Ruhua approaching from afar and hurriedly stepped forward to greet her: "Princess, where have you been so late at night? Why didn't you ask anyone to accompany you? If you don't come back, Xiao Juan is going to send someone to look for you."
Ji Ruhua smiled and said, "I was just walking around and saw that the moonlight was very beautiful. I watched the moon in the garden for a while and forgot the time."
Xiao Juan held a lantern and led the way for Ji Ruhua, saying, "Princess, next time you go out, you must ask Xiao Juan to come with you."
Ji Ruhua: "Okay."
Xiaojuan accompanied Ji Ruhua back to the bedroom. Ji Ruhua asked Xiaojuan to go to Ji Wenshui to get the pastries made by her mother because she wanted to eat them. Xiaojuan didn't think much about it and went happily.
In addition to Xiaojuan, Ji Ruhua's personal maid also has a little girl named Xili who was promoted not long ago.
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