Normally no one would live here. Even if the emperor came, he would only review the memorials in the room outside. If a room that has not been occupied for a long time is temporarily cleaned, it will have a dusty smell that has been unoccupied for a long time. But this

The room had obviously been prepared early in the morning, and even the bedding did not contain moisture from being stored for a long time.

"Miss, tonight, I will not sleep at all. I will just stay with you, and I will feel more at ease." Luo Yu said.

"No need." Ji Fuyin said, "You can rest when you need to. Nothing will happen to us tonight."

"How can you guarantee this, Miss?" Luo Yu lowered her voice, "Miss, don't forget, we are in Qifeng Palace right now!"

Ji Fuyin smiled at her, "Don't worry, I promise nothing will happen."

She had previously asked Mo Qi to find a way to notify Mo Li, and asked him to rush to the palace quickly. No matter where she went, he would follow her all the way. If there were any other weird things in the middle of the night, Mo Li would be close at hand.

He will not leave them alone.

Luo Yu was worried all night, and she looked very tired indeed. In addition, she couldn't resist Ji Fuyin, so she lay fully clothed on the makeshift imperial concubine's couch nearby, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Listening to Luo Yu's even breathing, Ji Fuyin gradually fell into sleep.

At the darkest hour of the night, just at this moment, a scream came from outside, waking Ji Fuyin from her sleep. Luo Yu also jumped in surprise and quickly rushed to the bed, "Miss!?"

"There's someone screaming outside. Don't rush out yet. Wait and see what's going on." Ji Fuyin blinked her eyes quickly and comforted Qingmei who couldn't wait to rush out.

She vaguely remembered an example from the previous dynasty. It was also in the palace of a certain concubine. Suddenly, there was a scream outside. The concubine was a little frightened and walked out of the room accompanied by her maid. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be someone else's voice early in the morning.

He had arranged a plan, waiting to lure her out, and then killed her with a knife in the chaos.

After the scream, the footsteps outside began to overlap. It seemed that many guards rushed into Qifeng Palace at this time, protecting the place layer by layer.

Then, Queen He's voice rang from outside, "What happened?"

Hearing her voice and judging from the previous footsteps, the outside was probably calming down now. Ji Fuyin put on her coat and walked out. When she opened the door, she saw He who was also wearing a coat hastily.

The Queen, as well as the guards surrounding the courtyard, and in front of Queen He, there was also a little palace maid who was pale and trembling.

"Empress, what happened?" Ji Fuyin asked. Luo Yu behind her wanted to follow him out, but she pushed her gently from behind. She stayed in the room until eleven.

"I don't know yet. I only heard the maid screaming." Queen He asked the little maid in front of her, "How is it appropriate to scream like that?! What happened?!"

"Back, back, Madam, someone, someone broke into Qifeng Palace! My servant saw it!" The little palace maid trembled and knelt on the ground.

Queen He was shocked, "What?! Someone broke into Qifeng Palace?! Who is so bold?! Did you see clearly?!"

"Back to the Queen, I didn't look very carefully, but judging from the figure, he must be a man. The clothes he wore should also be dark colors. It's hard to see clearly at night. I'm the one in charge of the night watch tonight.

When I came around from behind, I happened to meet that person face to face!"

"Oh?! Did you see where that man went?! He dared to break into Qifeng Palace at night. How audacious!" Queen He asked in a deep voice with a hint of anger.

The little palace maid stumbled and said: "Slave... I was scared at that time, slave..."

Speaking of this, the little palace maid was originally facing Ji Fuyin. Ji Fuyin could clearly detect that when the little palace maid said this, she kept looking around her from the corner of her eyes, and then she seemed to hesitate and think for a moment.

, and then continued.

"I didn't pay close attention to where the man went. I only saw where he ran out from..." The little palace maid raised her hand tremblingly and pointed to the study room where Ji Fuyin was temporarily staying. "I can see it."

Clearly, that man sneaked out of the study!"

"Study?!" Everyone gasped. Everyone knew that the person staying here tonight was Miss Ji Er. If a man sneaked out of her temporary room, it would mean

... This Miss Ji Er had an inexplicable affair with someone in the palace, and she cuckolded His Highness the Crown Prince!

Ji Fuyin raised her eyebrows slightly, her face expressionless, but she sneered a few times in her heart. Such naked slander clearly meant that she was going to use this against herself.

It seemed that he was right to let Luo Yu stay in the room. If Luo Yu had followed him out just now, some man would have slipped into the room by now. By then, he would really not be able to tell.

.

The little palace maid continued, "After the man met the slave, he seemed to be a little panicked, so he turned around and ran away. The slave was frightened and didn't know where the man went, but it seemed

, that man probably doesn’t know any martial arts, otherwise he would have just climbed over the wall and left."

"You said that person came out of the study?" Queen He gave Ji Fuyin a deep look, then turned to the little palace maid, "Are you telling the truth? Don't slander Miss Ji Er!"

"Everything I said is true! I saw it with my own eyes!"

Ji Fuyin chuckled lightly and interrupted the maid's words, "I slept in that room. If someone really went out of the room, how could I not know? Neither Luo Yu nor I heard anything.

, you just said you saw it with your own eyes, could it be that you saw a ghost?"

The little palace maid said aggrievedly: "I really saw it, otherwise, how could I dare to deceive the Queen?!"

"Okay, don't say anything to either of you." Queen He's expression became serious, and her eyes swept over the two people in front of her majestically, "You said, you saw someone coming out of there with your own eyes, and not even

You know martial arts, but you haven’t climbed over the wall to escape?”

The little palace maid nodded, "Back to the Queen, it is indeed true."

"Okay, if that person doesn't know martial arts, it means he has no way to climb over the wall and leave. It's only been half a quarter of an hour from when you saw him just now. That person must still be in Qifeng now.

Palace, whether the truth is what you said, let’s find out the person first.”

Queen He raised her arms and said in a deep voice: "You all, go and search for me! Every place in Qifeng Palace must be searched for me! If someone really comes in, they must not

Let him go. If this palace maid is lying, we must not unjustly accuse Miss Ji Er."

"Your Majesty, thank you, your Majesty, for justice." Ji Fu smiled happily, but a sneer mixed with a little anger was raised at the corner of her lips.

Queen He's words sounded like they were extremely fair, but in fact, the second situation she mentioned in tonight's palace search results would not appear at all. They must have arranged everything early and were just waiting.

Kill yourself with one blow!

After hearing Queen He's order, all the guards did not dare to stop for a moment. They divided into several teams and began a carpet search. Finally, half an hour later, someone came to report that it was on the wall behind Qifeng Palace.

On the road, suspicious footprints were found.

Queen He and others immediately followed the person who came to report, and Ji Fuyin also followed behind her. When they arrived, under the light of the torch, there were indeed several clear footprints on the snow-white wall.

"Mother, the mud on top is still half dry. That person must have just been out not long ago." Aunt Liang stepped forward to take a look, then came back and said.

It can be seen from the position of the footprints that the person who wanted to climb out of Qifeng Palace must not have any martial arts skills, otherwise the climb would not have been so difficult.

"This..." Queen He had a troubled look on her face, looking at Ji Fuyin in disbelief, "Miss Ji Er, could it be...?"

"Does the empress want to say that what the maid told the truth is that there is indeed a man hiding in my daughter's room tonight, and that man has escaped now?" Ji Fuyin said calmly without changing her expression, "It's just that

With a few words from a palace maid and these two lines of footprints, if I can make a conclusion next time, wouldn’t the empress be a little too arbitrary?”

"I don't want to think so, but how can we explain the footprints now?" Queen He shook her head slightly, "Miss Ji Er, don't blame me, it's just that this kind of thing happened in the harem, I

I have to put you under house arrest first."

"My Majesty, I know a little bit about the rules of the harem. As the master of the harem, it is natural for my Majesty to want to punish my daughter. However, without any evidence, I want to punish my daughter now."

Putting him under house arrest is really too arbitrary."

Ji Fuyin glared at the guard who came to restrain her, and said calmly, "How can the empress prove that the footprints appear, and they must be related to the servant? Even if the empress has taught the servants.

Fang, if there aren’t those cheap thieving slaves, it doesn’t necessarily mean that there aren’t those in other palaces.”

"Perhaps, these footprints are those of a daring little thief who entered Qifeng Palace to steal something, but happened to encounter the palace searcher. He was nervous and panicked, and fled from here without choosing a way, leaving behind these footprints. This is

How can it be related to my daughter?"

Queen He's eyebrows jumped slightly, but she still had a look of reluctance on her face, "I didn't want to do that, but the maid saw someone coming out of that room with my own eyes, so I only had to do this as a last resort.
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