Chapter 91 Find the Person
"However, Consort Yue stopped them."
Yue Zhaorong arrived at just the right time. She did not embarrass Consort Li in public, but she had already sent someone to Yifang Palace to deliver a message to Consort Shu when she left Yilan Palace.
As the two groups were going back and forth, Consort Shu arrived with her entourage.
This time it's no longer a matter between Consort Li and Consort Mu, but between Consort Shu and Consort Li.
Lan Wu listened with great interest and asked Lian Qiao, "And then?"
"Then Consort Shu accused Consort Li of being intolerant and of damaging the harmony among the concubines over a trivial matter."
"Consort Li retorted that Consort Shu was always good at winning people over... Although they didn't openly break off relations, everyone present could tell that the atmosphere between them was tense."
Lian Qiao patted her chest cautiously as she finished speaking: "Later, Consort Yue asked Consort Mu to apologize to Consort Li, and she was punished by being made to copy palace rules in the palace, which was fine."
After listening to this, Lan Wu nodded thoughtfully.
Consort Li's personality naturally makes her unable to win over the masses, but Chu Mingheng has made her manage palace affairs with Consort Shu. Consort Shu tolerates her, probably hoping that she will cause a big trouble on her own someday, so that she will be the only consort left in the harem.
Chu Mingheng came over for dinner that night.
Lan Wu plans to ask him directly today.
Wine was placed on the table.
Chu Mingheng saw it but just laughed it off.
"Awu, if you want to know anything, just ask me." He stepped forward, gently placed the wine cup aside, and said, "I can't get drunk anyway."
Lan Wu looked up in surprise: "You can't get drunk?"
She felt a light touch on her cheek, and only then did she hear Chu Mingheng's voice: "A thousand cups without getting drunk."
This is troublesome.
No wonder she always saw Chu Mingheng drinking at banquets in her previous life, but he never got drunk. She thought it was just that the wine wasn't intoxicating, or that Chu Mingheng drank very little.
I didn't expect that he really couldn't get drunk.
"What should I ask Your Majesty? Will you tell me?" Realizing that this method wouldn't work, she decided to just ask him directly.
Unexpectedly, Chu Mingheng shook his head and told Lan Wu with a leisurely expression, "No."
Isn't this just ridiculous?!
Lan Wu blushed and stared at Chu Mingheng as if she wanted to bore a hole through him.
Why didn't you tell me?
"Hmm, it's not the right time yet."
How much longer?
Lan Wu looked at him suspiciously again: "Do you know what I'm going to ask?"
Chu Mingheng ordered someone to take the wine away and replaced it with soup for Lan Wu.
"You eat first, and we can talk slowly after you finish eating."
After dinner, Chu Mingheng asked Lan Wu to wait in the palace.
"Go and call them here."
A moment later, a familiar figure entered the hall.
Seeing that person enter the hall and bow, Lan Wu felt a sudden rush of heat to her head.
It's a hibiscus!?
Chu Mingheng stood to one side, flipping through the storybooks Lan Wu had been reading recently, without saying a word. Only Mu Jin spoke up from below, her voice not loud, but Lan Wu could clearly hear it.
"This servant was originally a servant of the Emperor, and was ordered by His Majesty to come and serve Your Highness."
After Mu Jin finished speaking, Lan Wu couldn't help but feel her face burning.
So that's how it is. She said she specifically asked someone to keep an eye on Mulan, but they couldn't find anything unusual. It turns out Mulan came from the imperial court.
"I was worried that you were short-handed, and I was also afraid that you would feel that I was having someone watching you all the time, so I didn't tell you about Mu Jin's identity. I didn't expect..."
He spoke slowly and casually, looking down at Lan Wu with a nonchalant air.
Unexpectedly, Lan Wu was quite wary and refused to use Mu Jin. She preferred to keep a silly palace maid with her rather than the clever Mu Jin.
“You…you get up first, I…” Lan Wu turned to look at Chu Mingheng.
Only when he saw her troubled expression did Chu Mingheng put down his book, walk over, and say to Mu Jin, "From now on, you will always be by your mistress's side. If anything happens to her, I will hold you responsible."
Mu Jin knelt down, bowed respectfully, and then withdrew.
When Lan Wu saw him coming, she asked him with some doubt, "Is it only hibiscus? What about forsythia?"
“Only Hibiscus.” He sat behind Lan Wu, removing the hairpins from her hair and placing them on the low table. “I also feel that it’s not enough. Perhaps we can have more people accompany you tomorrow.”
Lan Wu felt that she couldn't be blamed for being stupid; it was because the people in the imperial court were too capable. Choosing the safe Lian Qiao was actually a sign of her intelligence.
"I don't want to. It's not comfortable with a bunch of people following me around." She shook her head and rejected Chu Mingheng's timely suggestion.
Chu Mingheng felt a little regretful, as the others had almost made their choices.
"What skills does that hibiscus possess?"
Lan Wu thought about it carefully. In her previous life, Chu Mingheng knew about her underhanded methods in her palace before she could even use them. It was probably Mu Jin who informed on her.
Since Mulan served her, why was she inexplicably taken to Luoyingting in the end?
“She has practiced martial arts since childhood,” Chu Mingheng said, pinching Lan Wu’s cheek. “Her dance is different from yours.”
Lan Wu was furious; of course she knew things were different—there was no need for Chu Mingheng to remind her.
"I'll ask Mulan to teach me tomorrow, and I'll learn too." She snorted and turned her head away.
“There’s no need for her to teach. If A-Wu wants to learn, she can learn from me. Get up before dawn to warm up your muscles and bones, starting with horse stance.” Chu Mingheng said seriously, touching Lan Wu’s body inch by inch, and said softly, “A-Wu’s body is weak, so start with half an hour of horse stance first. This step is to train endurance.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Lan Wu turned over and hit him.
"I'm not going to study anymore."
"You're not going to learn anymore?"
Seeing Lan Wu trying to run away, Chu Mingheng pulled her into his arms first. His preemptive strike made Lan Wu forget what she originally wanted to ask him when she set out the banquet, and she was completely led by the nose by him.
"Mu Jin told me that you are investigating someone."
Lan Wu stiffened and silently lowered her head.
"Why bother investigating an old palace maid when you have nothing better to do?" Chu Mingheng lifted her face, his dark pupils looking into her eyes. "Is there anything A-Wu hasn't told me?"
Lan Wu pondered for a moment, looked outside the palace gate, and muttered softly, "You still say you didn't have someone watching over me."
She had been very careful in having Lianxi investigate this matter, so how did Mujin still find out?
It seems he really does have some skills.
However, Chu Mingheng now knows about it.
"I'm watching you. Now tell me, why are you investigating that old palace maid?"
Since things had come to this point, Lan Wu simply revealed a little bit, giving Chu Mingheng vague instructions.
"Hmm... I think I saw someone like that in my dream, an old, palace maid..." she hesitated, "but she wasn't that old, her hair wasn't white yet."
"What did she do to you?" Chu Mingheng succinctly revealed the key point.
Lan Wu pursed her lips, subconsciously shrank her neck, and snuggled closer to Chu Mingheng, but said, "I forgot... you should have hit me."
A moment of silence followed.
Lan Wu tugged at Chu Mingheng's clothes, unwillingly saying, "So Your Majesty, you must help me drag her out and prevent her from hitting me."
Chu Mingheng sighed softly and replied, "Alright, I will find her."
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