At that time, the queen was furious in the palace.
She didn't understand how Xia Qinglu had climbed into the emperor's bed. If she said it wasn't premeditated, she wouldn't believe a word of it.
Otherwise, how could this happen to be such a coincidence?
How could a minister's sister appear in the imperial garden?
And there was no one following him.
How could he have happened to meet the emperor who had gone out to sober up?
The Queen felt that this was obviously a premeditated act. Perhaps Xia Qinghe had deliberately sent her sister to the Emperor's bedside so that her own official career could rise rapidly.
Whenever the queen thought about what she saw last night, she felt furious.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She raised her hand and threw all the teacups on the table to the ground. The crackling sound echoed in the empty palace, making the palace servants standing by and serving her dare not even breathe.
Hearing this, they immediately knelt down and silently begged the queen to calm down.
But the queen had witnessed her husband making love with another woman in bed, so how could she calm down?
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and her chest was heaving up and down from being so angry.
Nanny Chang walked in from outside, first glanced at the little palace maid who was kneeling trembling on the side and frowned, then walked gently to the queen's side, and patted the queen's back gently with one hand to help her calm down.
"My Lady, calm down."
The queen turned around and saw that the person coming was Nanny Chang, so she swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
She sat there in silence for a long while before slamming the coffee table and asking in a deep voice, "Has that vixen entered the palace?"
Hearing this, Nanny Chang sighed first, then nodded, "Yes, Concubine Xia has moved to Ganlu Palace."
The queen closed her eyes, knowing that the matter was a done deal. Even if she died of anger here, it would not change anything. Maybe someone else would take advantage of it.
So, she closed her eyes for a long time before slowly exhaling. She slumped her tense back somewhat dejectedly. "Forget it, Madam Chang, can you find out what happened last night?"
When this matter was mentioned, Nanny Chang also felt a little strange.
"Last night, the Emperor went out to sober up. On the way, he asked Eunuch Li to go back to the palace to get a cloak. As he passed by the Imperial Garden, he fell in love with a palace maid sweeping the garden. However, this palace maid somehow became Concubine Xia."
After hearing what Nanny Chang said, the Queen's expression became solemn. She slowly turned around, with a look of disbelief in her eyes.
"What do you mean by somehow becoming Concubine Xia?"
Nanny Chang shook her head. "I asked the maids and eunuchs on duty last night, and they all saw the Emperor holding a maid. They originally thought the Emperor took the maid to the deserted palace, but they didn't expect that the person with the Emperor in the end was Concubine Xia. What kind of incident happened in between that no one saw?"
"Is that so?" The Queen gasped and looked at Nanny Chang in disbelief. "Do you know who that maid was?"
Nanny Chang still shook her head, "I don't know, I only know that she was the palace maid responsible for sweeping the imperial garden."
Hearing this, the queen narrowed her eyes and said nothing.
Seeing this, Nanny Chang tentatively asked, "Your Majesty, do you think this is Concubine Xia's plan?"
"What do you mean?"
"It's true that the emperor fell in love with a palace maid while drunk, but Concubine Xia deliberately intercepted her and silenced several palace maids and eunuchs."
The queen remained silent, but still felt that this did not make sense.
After a while, she raised her head and said, "Go and call all the palace maids who were responsible for sweeping the imperial garden during the palace banquet last night."
"Yes." Nanny Chang had just responded, but before she finished speaking, someone came to report that a palace maid had died in the imperial garden.
The queen frowned.
How could it be such a coincidence?
The Queen didn't say anything. Nanny Chang stepped forward and asked, "How did he die?"
"Sudden onset of typhoid fever. It is said that he has been ill for several days, but no one has discovered it."
When she heard it was typhoid fever, the queen couldn't help but cover her mouth and nose with the handkerchief in disgust.
Seeing this, Nanny Chang didn't ask any more questions and just shook her hand in disdain, "There's no need to report such a thing. Just take it out and bury it."
"yes."
The young eunuch hurried out.
Nanny Chang glanced at the Queen and said tentatively, "Your Majesty, one of the palace maids has typhoid fever. Why don't you let them in for now? If someone is sick and doesn't know it, they will pass the disease on to Your Majesty."
The Queen nodded and said, "It's up to you to decide how to handle this matter."
She paused again and said, "However, you should take care of Concubine Xia. Don't let her have an easy life."
Upon hearing this, Nanny Chang immediately nodded in understanding, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. Concubine Xia has made you so unhappy, so she must pay something for it."
The queen nodded, only to feel a splitting headache. She waved her hand and asked Nanny Chang to leave, then sat there alone, feeling sad.
Until the moment he saw Zhou Li outside the palace, Songyan still felt a little dazed.
She even pinched her cheek hard until the intense pain brought her back to her senses.
Seeing her actions, Zhou Li immediately stepped forward and pulled her hand down, frowning and looking at the skin that was red from her pinching herself.
"Why are you so stupid? Do you still think you are dreaming?"
Hearing his gentle voice, Songyan immediately nodded heavily.
Although her face hurt, she was extremely happy in her heart.
After leaving the palace, she could no longer restrain her feelings and hugged Zhou Li's neck tightly with both hands.
"Ali, it's you, is it really you?"
Zhou Li hugged her back without hesitation, "It's me, it's really me. Now that you're out, you don't have to go back anymore."
Hearing his words, two lines of tears suddenly appeared in Songyan's eyes.
She didn't expect that she would actually leave the place she dreamed of escaping from.
She originally thought that Zhou Li was just trying to comfort her last night, but she didn't expect that he actually did it.
But how did he do it?
Songyan felt that he had too many questions in his mind.
Zhou Li obviously noticed it too. He took Song Yan's hand and walked towards the carriage. "Let's go back first. I'll tell you everything on the way."
When Zhou Li went to pick up Song Yan, Sang Liwan and the others did not show up.
She was sitting at the stone table drinking tea with Jun Moyi under the moon.
"I underestimated the prince. It turns out that it is so easy for him to arrange for the people in the palace to escape."
Jun Moyi smiled and said, "Fortunately, those idiots in the palace haven't found Song Yan yet. If she had registered with the Queen, it would not have been so easy for me to get her out."
Fortunately, Zhou Li brought it up early.
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