Chapter 195: Serious in front of others, but behind their backs...
He had just visited Li Qiu'er and ordered people in the Imperial Hospital to take good care of Li Qiu'er. He also arranged for his own people to guard there, so nothing would happen to her. However, he tossed and turned in bed for some reason and couldn't sleep.
"Qiu'er will be fine. Why should I worry about her?"
Mu Nanzhou talked to himself to comfort himself, but who knew that Xu Yanyi's figure suddenly popped up in his mind.
Damn it!
What he was thinking about was that vicious woman!
Don’t think about it!
Mu Nanzhou closed his eyes angrily and pulled the quilt over his head!
*At three o'clock in the morning, Xu Yanyi got up from the bed and looked outside from the window. The palace maids and eunuchs who were on night watch were all drowsy there, and patrolling guards passed by from time to time.
Xu Yanyi observed for a while and then climbed out from the rear window.
The original owner grew up in the palace since childhood. Even though she didn't come back often in the past three years, there haven't been many changes in the palace. Relying on the original owner's memory, Xu Yanyi walked through various small paths to the Yuqing Palace.
"Why does it feel like there are more guards than during the day?"
Xu Yanyi hid behind a rockery to avoid the team of patrol guards. She looked at the Yuqing Palace in front of her and counted them silently. There were indeed a lot more guards than when she entered the palace during the day.
If the Yuqing Palace was sealed because of the Ninth Princess's accident and people were arranged to guard it, there wouldn't be more guards at night.
Are they telling the outside world that the Jade Purity Palace was sealed because of the Ninth Princess, but are there actually other reasons?
Xu Yanyi rolled her eyes. No matter what, she had to take the painting away to study it today.
She looked around the Yuqing Palace. The Yuqing Palace had a main entrance and two side entrances, but they were all strictly guarded by guards, as if there was some shameful secret inside.
Just at this moment, a palace maid came out in a hurry. She looked around, buried the thing in her hand that was obviously burnt to ashes in the ground, and stepped on it a few times to flatten it out of sight. Only then did she feel relieved.
Xu Yanyi attacked quickly, fiercely and accurately, knocking the palace maid unconscious with one palm. She quickly changed the palace maid's and her own clothes, and tied her hair into two buns like the palace maid. Then she picked up the palace maid's badge and took a look at it.
It turned out to be someone close to the Queen Mother.
The empress dowager was obviously frightened before. Shouldn't she be chanting Buddhist scriptures in her own bedroom so late at night? Shouldn't her personal maid be accompanying her? Why is she here?
Xu Yanyi thought about it and dug out the things buried underground. Basically, they were all burned to ashes, with only some scraps left. But even so, Xu Yanyi could see that these scraps were all top-quality materials, and were made of extremely expensive and rare snow-melt silk.
The only person in the entire palace who used snow-melted silk was the Queen Mother.
In other words, these things that were burnt into ashes should be the Empress Dowager's clothes?
Why are they burning the Queen Mother's clothes in the middle of the night? Is this a proper way or...
Xu Yanyi quickly took out the handkerchief of the fainted palace maid, covered her mouth and nose with one hand, and held the copper plate that the palace maid had just burned to ashes on with the other hand, and walked to the door of Yuqing Palace with her head lowered.
The guards stopped her.
Xu Yanyi thought about it and realized that she had heard the voice of that palace maid when she met the empress dowager before.
The throat moved, and Xu Yanyi opened her mouth and spoke in the same voice as the palace maid: "I just burned something and it choked me. Cough cough cough cough... What are you doing to me? Don't you recognize me?"
The guards were stunned and quickly took a quick look at her in the dim light. Xu Yanyi covered half of her face with a handkerchief, but the badge hanging on her waist was deliberately exposed.
"Oh, it's Aunt Jinyu. Come in."
The guards quickly made way.
Xu Yanyi walked in with her head lowered, holding the copper plate.
After walking for a while and waiting until no one was staring at her, Xu Yanyi breathed a sigh of relief. After all, she had been a voice actor before and had even won a national gold award. She could imitate anyone's voice, no matter if it was male or female, young or old, or even the voice of any animal, with absolute ease.
After entering Yuqing Palace, Xu Yanyi didn't care why the empress dowager's maid was here. She walked straight towards the main hall. She knew her purpose, which was just the painting left by the late emperor. She couldn't care less about what other people had.
As soon as Xu Yanyi walked outside the main hall, she saw several eunuchs and maids guarding outside.
This is the imperial palace, so it is normal to have eunuchs and maids here. But what is abnormal is that they are all the empress dowager's people!
Depend on!
Was the Queen Mother so frightened that she ran to Yuqing Palace to sleep?
But if we talk about fear, then shouldn’t the Queen Mother be even more afraid after what happened to the Ninth Princess in Yuqing Palace?
Just as Dr. Xu was wondering, he heard laughter coming from inside.
"You idiot, where did you learn this trick? You serve me so comfortably!"
"Your Highness, I learned this move from the erotic paintings. It took me a long time to learn it."
"Your Majesty, your skin is so smooth and fair, even better than those little girls'!"
"Stop talking nonsense to me! I was so scared by Mu Nanzhou and Xu Yanyi today that I couldn't sleep at all. Chanting Buddhist scriptures is useless. You made me come here at this time. I'm really asking for a beating!"
"Your Majesty, I just want you to be happy. When you are scared, no matter what sutras you recite, it will be useless. Only when you are as happy as a god will you forget everything else. Your Majesty will surely sleep well later."
"That's right, I will give the Queen Mother a massage..."
"Where are you pressing? Oh, I'm going to kill you..."
Depend on!
Is it so fierce?
Xu Yanyi felt her face was a little hot!
No wonder the Jade Purity Palace is more heavily guarded at night than during the day. It turns out that the Empress Dowager and those eunuchs are here at night... causing chaos in the palace!
This is too exciting!
Xu Yanyi thought that she should not disturb other people's happy life.
But the painting is in the main hall. Why don’t she go back to sleep and come back tomorrow morning?
The Queen Mother is only about 45 or 46 years old. Even if she is fierce, she won't fight until dawn, right?
Thinking of this, Xu Yanyi was about to leave when she accidentally stepped on a dead branch on the ground, making a slight sound.
The eunuchs and maids guarding the main hall door immediately looked over here and said in unison: "Who!"
Xu Yanyi moved her wrist, and the little black snake slid down and swung past the eyes of those people.
"Was that a snake?"
"Am I seeing things? Why are there snakes in the palace?"
"Stop talking. What are you doing standing there? Hurry up and grab it. Otherwise, what will happen if it crawls in?"
"Yes, yes, bring a basket to hold it!"
The eunuch and the nanny quickly went to get the family belongings.
Xu Yanyi turned around subconsciously and took two steps. Who knew that the door of the main hall opened, and an eunuch poked his head out and saw Xu Yanyi's back at a glance. The eunuch stared at Xu Yanyi's clothes and shouted: "Aunt Jinyu, the Queen Mother is calling you, hurry up!"