Chapter 403: Acquaintance

The emperor asked dozens of questions like this, until Lan Xiaolou felt that her knees were sore from kneeling and she could no longer hold on, the emperor's eyes flashed: "How did you and the empress know each other?"

Kunning Palace -

Jiangchuan and Xiaoxiangzi stretched their heads to look outside, Xi Que stepped forward and patted Xiaoxiangzi on the shoulder: "What are you two doing here? Your necks are almost stretched! Are you going to become a husband-waiting stone here?"

"Tsk!"

Jiangchuan glared at her: "What nonsense are you talking about? Let's see if there are people from the emperor's palace walking around here, maybe we can see Eunuch Tang sending someone out."

Xiaoxiangzi also said: "Yes! What is the empress's rule? Don't we really need our people to ask?"

"Alas..."

Xi Que sat on the railing of the corridor, frowning and saying, "I also want to inquire, but the queen said that the more it is at this time, the more we should not act rashly."

She looked around and complained in a low voice: "The emperor is a petty person. If he knew that our queen secretly inquired about Lan Xiaolou, he might think that the queen and him had an affair."

Xi Que entered the Jiang Mansion since she was a child and has always been Jiang Xinyue's personal maid. It would be a lie to say that she knows nothing.

But if you say that she knows everything, that is not right either. She really doesn't know what is going on between her queen and Lan Xiaolou.

Because every time the queen disguised herself as a man and went out, she stayed in the mansion and pretended to be the queen to fool the servants in the mansion. The cicada's

cries sounded particularly abrupt in the silence. The palace, shrouded in darkness, was like a huge beast with its bloody mouth opened wide, swallowing all the moonlight that was slanting in.

The fire was jumping in the main hall of Kunning Palace. Jiang Xinyue burned the letter she had just received, and a meaningful smile appeared on her worried face.

Shuangjiang closed the window: "Your Majesty, why are you..."

"Why did you hide it from your mother, Xi Que, my father, and everyone else, and deliberately let Concubine Tong bring the Rongsheng Opera Troupe into the palace?"

Shuangjiang nodded. Her intelligence was no longer enough in front of the Empress.

Frost could understand hiding things from Xi Que and the others, because Xi Que couldn't keep secrets, and her emotions were all shown on her face.

What she couldn't understand was why the Empress gave her handle to Concubine Tong.

"This palace is putting herself in danger in order to survive."

Just half a month ago, she kept thinking of some strange memories in her mind.

She knew that they were the memories of her original body.

Jiang Xinyue met Lan Xiaolou at a family dinner of the Jiang family. At that time, he was not yet the world-famous Cui Yu Lou, a famous actor in the capital, but just an unknown female role substitute in Cui Liyuan.

Learning opera was hard, and he had such a family background, but he was born with a good appearance and a good voice. It was normal for him to be envied.

"Kill this little bastard, how dare you steal my limelight? I am Master Mei's eldest disciple, and you can only take the stage when I am useless, don't you understand?"

"Master Mei has lost his voice, so it should be the eldest senior brother who should take the stage. Even if the eldest senior brother's foot is injured, there are still the second and third senior brothers. When will it be your turn as a new disciple to seek praise in front of the nobles?"

"Scratch his face, and when he is disfigured, he can't take the stage. I don't know how he can be so majestic."

"Stop!"

It was Jiang Xinyue who came out from the dark and stopped those who were about to cut Lan Xiaolou's face with knives: "You dare to hurt people in my house, I think you are going to die, come, catch them for me!"

At that time, Jiang Xinyue was still an unfavored concubine's daughter, and there was no servant who obeyed her orders around her, only a silly magpie.

But the group of people didn't know that just by looking at Jiang Xinyue's exquisite and noble face, they had already tacitly accepted her noble status, and several people ran away.

From then on, Jiang Xinyue and Lan Xiaolou became friends. When

she was bullied by her stepmother and stepsister, and her father didn't care about her, she often sneaked out of the house and went to the Pear Garden to chat and complain to Lan Xiaolou.

A few years passed, and as Lan Xiaolou's fame grew, the friendship between the two became deeper.

But Jiang Xinyue knew that once this relationship was exposed to the sun, both she and Lan Xiaolou would be hurt beyond repair.

So they could only meet secretly, not daring to let anyone know. But

the truth would eventually come to light, and the matter was discovered by the eldest senior brother who bullied Lan Xiaolou when he was a child.

The eldest senior brother forced Lan Xiaolou to trick Jiang Xinyue out and drug her, wanting to humiliate Jiang Xinyue and take the opportunity to become the Jiang family's son-in-law.

Lan Xiaolou refused, so he was drugged by the eldest senior brother and thrown into an underground casino. When he woke up, he had already owed a huge gambling debt that he could not pay off in three lifetimes.

After Jiang Xinyue found out, she sold all her gold and silver jewelry, silks and satins to help him pay off his gambling debts, and also sent the injured Lan Xiaolou back to Cang County.

They worshipped heaven and earth in Cang County, but did not pay respect to their parents, and Lan Xiaolou did not touch her body.

He always looked embarrassed in front of her.

As delicate and beautiful as she was, she was not worthy of a peasant like him.

So he gave up on himself, ran back to the capital, and entered the casino again.

He wanted to win all her money back...

After all, it was his fantasy. How could there be humanity in a casino where thieves rob each other?

Then came Jiang Xinyue's despair, his regret...

In the end, the two were separated by a palace wall and never met again.

Jiang Xinyue, who remembered her original memory, knew that such a big thing would be exposed sooner or later, and it would be impossible to hide it as long as someone was interested in investigating.

So as early as half a month ago, Jiang Xinyue had asked someone to find Lan Xiaolou, who had changed his name, and told him that if anyone came to him in the near future, or to someone who used to work in the opera house, it must be to harm them. They

had to join forces to completely resolve this hidden danger that threatened their lives.

Lan Xiaolou was no longer the powerless Cuiyulou that could only be bullied by others.

He is a treasure in the opera world, and many dignitaries are his connections. He heard the news that the Tong family was looking for people from Cuiliyuan... From that moment on, Concubine Tong fell into the trap designed by Jiang Xinyue and Lan Xiaolou.

There was already a faint white light outside the house. The emperor rubbed his brows and

said, "Wang Dequan, what time is it?" "Your Majesty, it's already the hour of the yin." The hour of

the yin?

It was almost dawn.

The emperor looked up in surprise and said, "No one has come from the empress's palace?"

When he took Lan Xiaolou away, he deliberately let Yue'er see it. If she still had this person in her heart, how could she not care about his life or death at all?

"Are you serious? You have no unfaithful intentions towards my Yue'er?"

After chatting for a whole night, he finally asked the question he wanted to ask the most.