Chapter 1071 The one who should have died, the lady-in-waiting Chun Yan
The imperial palace, the palace maids’ quarters.
The lady-in-waiting in the lady-in-waiting uniform walked stiffly on the path of the palace maids’
quarters. From time to time, the young lady-in-waiting greeted her.
The lady-in-waiting walked forward without responding.
The young lady-in-waiting looked at each other, and although they were curious, they did not dare to say much.
The lady-in-waiting walked all the way inside to the palace where she lived. When she entered the room, there was no one.
The lady-in-waiting’s pale face did not show much expression. She found her bed according to her memory, walked over, and lay down stiffly, motionless.
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On the other side, another lady-in-waiting came out from Feng Ze Ze and stuffed a purse into Li Ma Ma, the supervisor of this palace.
Nanny Li is the personal nanny that Chu Beihe prepared for Jiang Xuxu. Her main job is to help her understand and get familiar with some things in the palace, and also to handle trivial matters in the palace and some irrelevant people for her.
In addition, Nanny Li is also responsible for recommending female officials for the future queen.
The selected female officials will follow the queen into the harem as her right-hand men in the future.
Therefore, many female officials have been eyeing this position early on.
After hearing that His Majesty suddenly issued an edict to make her the queen yesterday, they started to compete overtly and covertly.
Nanny Li is one of the people they focus on currying favor with.
But in fact, everyone knows that Nanny Li has an apprentice in the palace, and Nanny Li naturally reserved the position of female official who follows the queen for this apprentice.
But since yesterday, her apprentice has been missing, so even if Nanny Li wanted to recommend her to the future queen Feng Zeze, she couldn't.
As a result, she was left out by the female official named Su Shang.
Looking at the purse that Su Shang stuffed in front of her, Nanny Li's eyes flashed with a hint of sadness, and after a while she said,
"Your Majesty has entrusted all the trivial matters in the palace of Miss Feng to me. Since you want to take the lead, I will give you this opportunity, but if you do something wrong, I can pass your name on or mark your name out again. Do you know?"
Su Shang's heart tightened when she heard this, but her face was still sincere and harmless,
"I know, Nanny, thank you for giving me the opportunity."
Seeing that Nanny Li finally took the purse, Su Shang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After leaving the palace, Su Shang still walked in a disciplined manner, but her steps were obviously a little more brisk.
From tomorrow on, she will be a female official serving the Empress!
From now on, her status will rise sharply, and no one can compare to her except those around His Majesty!
Thinking of this, Su Shang's steps became more brisk, and there was a little more joy between her brows.
And this joy froze in her place when she returned to the palace where she lived and saw a figure lying straight on another bed that should have been empty.
Her neck seemed to be strangled by a pair of hands, and she almost used up all her strength to prevent herself from screaming in fear, but the whole person still seemed to be fixed in place and unable to move, with her eyes staring at the room.
Perhaps her posture standing outside was too strange, and Qingge, another female official who had just returned from the same room, stepped forward and asked curiously,
"Su Shang, what are you doing standing here? Why don't you go into the room?"
As she spoke, she looked into the room, and when she saw the person lying in the room, surprise instantly flashed in her eyes. She quickly stepped forward and pushed the person on the bed awake.
"Chun Yan! Where did you go last night?! The nanny is furious, why did you show up just now?!"
The girl called Chun Yan sat up a little stiffly, with an unclear emotion on her slightly pale face, and her voice was hoarse,
"I didn't go anywhere."
Qing Ge saw that she looked unhappy, and couldn't help but reached out to touch her forehead. The next second, she was shocked,
"Oh, why is your face so cold? Are you frozen? I don't know where you went in such a cold day. You didn't come back all night. Aren't you afraid of freezing to death outside..."
Qing Ge, Chun Yan and Su Shang lived in the same room, and they had a close relationship. At this time, while chattering, she pulled the quilt next to her to cover Chun Yan. Seeing Su Shang still standing at the door, she couldn't help but urge him,
"Su Shang, what are you still doing there? You've let the little warmth in the room go! Come in quickly and add some more charcoal, Chun Yan is frozen."
Su Shang was startled by Qing Ge's shout, and he suddenly came back to life. Although he wanted to escape desperately in his heart, he could only walk stiffly inside.
He didn't dare to approach Chun Yan, but walked to the stove with stiff hands and feet and added charcoal.
Perhaps because he was too nervous, Su Shang's hand accidentally touched the edge of the stove and was immediately burned.
"Ah!"
Seeing this, Qingge didn't bother to question Chunyan, and walked over helplessly,
"Why are you so careless? You are going to serve the Queen, be careful not to offend the Queen by being so careless!"
As the oldest in the room at the age of 19, Qingge felt that she was really worried about her two younger sisters.
Su Shang was in a mess at this time, and she couldn't hear what Qingge said at all. She was about to turn around and leave, but as soon as she turned around, she saw Chunyan, who was originally sitting by the bed, standing in front of her without knowing when.
Suddenly facing that pale and slightly stiff face, Su Shang's pupils trembled visibly, and her breathing also choked. After a long while, she spoke with a trembling voice,
"Chun, Chun Yan..."
Then, Chun Yan looked at her expressionlessly, and after a while, she grinned at her with a slightly stiff smile, and said in a voice like the voice of a ghost from the underworld,
"Be careful..."
Su Shang didn't know how she had withstood the other party's gaze, or how she had climbed onto the bed.
But that night, she lay in her quilt, shaking like a sieve, but she didn't dare to escape from the room.
She didn't sleep all night. All night, her eyes were on Chun Yan, who was lying upright and motionless on the bed the whole time, and she didn't understand what was going on.
Chun Yan, why did she come back?
She was obviously...supposed to be dead!
What on earth is this person now?
Is she a human or a ghost?
With such fear, Su Shang stayed awake until dawn, and only closed her eyes and fell asleep when she couldn't bear it anymore.
However, she didn't know that when she finally fell asleep, Chun Yan, who had been lying straight and motionless, turned her head towards Su Shang little by little. In the dim room, she looked at him with cold eyes, and hatred was revealed in her eyes.
After a long while, a stiff sneer slowly appeared at the corner of her mouth.
Are you scared?
This has just begun.
...
Although Chun Yan is back, she can't go to work because of illness.
Su Shang was so scared that he didn't sleep all night. Although he felt weak and had a splitting headache, he still forced himself to get up.
Firstly, this was her first day to meet the future Empress, and secondly, she was unwilling and did not dare to stay in the same room with Chun Yan.
If possible, even if she had to keep vigil for the Empress tonight, she did not want to return to this room!
Jiang Xuxu did not know what Su Shang was thinking, but when she saw the female official brought in by Nanny Li who was said to be in charge of her daily affairs, Jiang Xuxu almost instantly smelled an unusual breath from her.
That was - corpse breath.