"Miss, let me go take a look for you." Having received Ji Fengyao's signal, Xique happily ran into the house. But she had only reached the door when she cried out in alarm, covering her eyes as she ran back: "Oh my god, I'm going to go blind! Six people in the house are messing around like crazy!"
Everyone: "..." Their eyes are indeed blind, and two of them are eunuchs from Consort Yin's palace!
Your outburst has dragged Consort Yin into this mess as well.
Huixiu's gaze darkened, and she called out softly, "Your Majesty."
Consort Yin turned back and gave her a look that said, "Take it easy." If anyone else had said those words, she would never have let it go, but since it was these two bandits who said them, she really couldn't get angry, otherwise it would be an attempt to cover up the truth. Because it was obvious that no one present took the ignorant words of these two bandits to heart.
Since those people failed to harm Ji Fengyao, Consort Yin naturally wouldn't let everyone stay here and watch the spectacle.
She's already done enough to win over that old hag, the Empress Dowager.
"Zhao Yi, find a few more people to beat those shameless bastards in the room to death and drag them out. If anyone asks about them or mentions them in the future, beat them to death as well," Consort Yin instructed calmly. Then she turned to the people present and said, "Since there is nothing to do here, everyone should go back to the banquet and watch the play."
After saying this, Consort Yin, holding Nie Meier's hand, turned around and walked out of the courtyard first.
Ji Fengyao waited until they had walked quite a distance before following behind.
As the group walked along a waterside path near Changyin Pavilion in the Imperial Garden, a woman dressed as a palace maid quietly poked her head out from the hillside and pushed two washbasin-sized stones straight down the slope towards Ji Fengyao.
The two stones, one in front and one behind, blocked Ji Fengyao's retreat, leaving her only room to move forward and dodge.
If Ji Fengyao were to flee forward, she would inevitably alert the palace maids behind Consort Yin, thus giving them an opportunity to approach and harm Nie Meier.
Without a second thought, Ji Fengyao grabbed Xique and Linshuang and leaped into the pond beside them, then swam away.
Following closely behind Ji Fengyao, Consort Jia was still burning with anger. By the time she realized what was happening, she had already entered the range of the falling rocks. Danger was imminent. Consort Jia and Rongju instinctively leaped into the air, nimbly dodging the attack, thus revealing their martial arts skills to everyone present.
Ji Fengyao and Xique helped Lin Shuang, who couldn't swim, up in the middle of the pond. Seeing this, they couldn't help but squint.
Hehe, Consort Jia's true colors are showing.
Hearing the commotion behind them, Consort Yin and her entourage turned around and saw a palace maid behind Huixiu reaching out as if to push her.
"What do you want to do?" Hui Xiu exclaimed in shock and anger.
"No, no... I was just... I was startled from behind..." The palace maid immediately knelt down in panic and begged for mercy.
Having climbed all the way to the rank of Consort Yin, how could she not see that this palace maid was suspicious? Her eyes flashed with a chilling light as she coldly said, "Drag her away and beat her to death. If there are any other people in her family, execute them as well!"
"Your Majesty, spare me! I didn't mean it! Please forgive me this time, Your Majesty..." the palace maid cried out in panic, as two eunuchs dragged her away.
Ji Fengyao floated up and down in the water, shouting at the top of her lungs, "Damn it, Your Highness, the artificial mountain in your palace is so flimsy! If it weren't for my maid and me being good swimmers, we would have been crushed to death in the palace today."
The ladies: "..."
Consort Yin: "..."
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