After another two quarters of an hour, Ningxiang yawned. Seeing her like this, Sizhu couldn't bear it and softly ordered: "You should take a nap too, I will keep an eye on you."
Ningxiang immediately cheered up: "No, you have to look like you are on duty. I can just drink some water."
Sizhu didn’t try to persuade her again.
Ningxiang's words make sense. Nothing can compare to the safety of the empress. No one can be lazy at this time.
Even though it's broad daylight, don't be careless.
The two of them were talking and observing their surroundings.
At this moment, Ningxiang suddenly signaled to Sizhu: "Shh..."
"What's wrong?" Sizhu noticed that Ningxiang's expression was a bit serious, and her heart immediately rose to her throat.
"I seemed to have heard a strange sound just now." Ningxiang's eyes darkened.
Her hearing has always been good, so she probably didn't hear wrongly.
Seeing this, Sizhu hurriedly said: "I'll go and call Ji Rou over!"
Ningxiang didn't answer, still listening carefully.
Sizhu immediately ran to the cubicle and woke up Jirou who was sleeping during her lunch break.
Yingchun, who was sleeping next to her, also got up when she heard the sound, "Let's do this. Sizhu and I will go to the empress' side to serve you first, and we will go to the door to be with Ningxiang..."
Before she finished speaking, she heard Ningxiang's roar from outside: "Hurry up and protect your empress!"
Ji Rou heard the sound and rushed out.
Sizhu and Yingchun rushed into the inner hall. Mu Ci also heard Yingchun's voice and stood up immediately: "What happened?"
"My slave doesn't know, something must have happened." Sizhu was still frightened.
Fortunately, they are very thoughtful.
She really didn't expect that someone would dare to do it in broad daylight.
"I'll go out and take a look." Mu Ci was worried about Yu Rou Ning Xiang.
As soon as she raised her feet, Sizhu and Yingchun intercepted her at the same time: "My queen, you can't!"
"But they are outside, maybe we can help." Mu Ci lowered his face: "At this time, we should work together. Maybe I can come up with an idea after seeing the situation."
Sizhu and Yingchun looked at each other.
They suddenly felt that what the empress said made sense.
Although the empress does not know how to use martial arts, she is better than her because of her intelligence. They cannot just let Ningxiang and Jirou face danger.
Mu Ci didn't have time to wait for them to think clearly and walked past them.
This time Yingchun and Sizhu didn't stop her.
Mu Ci followed the sound and walked away. When she saw the scene outside, she froze in place.
What Jirou and Ningxiang were facing were actually a group of animals, including several rabbits that had eaten food, and many others were rats. Their crazy looks were so bloody.
Jirou was scratched on the arm by one of the rabbits, leaving a long bloody mark.
On the ground, there were several corpses of rats, and the scene looked very bloody.
There was even a mouse that was missing a leg, but it still attacked Ji Rou energetically. This unusual phenomenon was enough to prove the strong medicinal properties of the animal.
At this moment, a mouse suddenly rushed toward Mu Ci's face.
Mu Ci hurriedly retreated until Jirou stabbed the mouse to death with a sword.
The attacks of these animals are haphazard, but the best thing is that they are tireless and will not give up the attack as long as they still have breath.
"Attack with fire." Mu Ci looked at it for a while and made a decision.
Why waste time with these beasts? Burning them all to death can also burn out the medicinal properties in their bodies, so that future troubles can never be avoided.
Sizhu and Yingchun took action immediately and quickly lit several torches and threw them over.
The guards guarding outside Chenxiang Palace finally saw what was going on inside and ran in one after another. When they saw a large area of charred animal carcasses at the scene, they looked at each other.
"Nothing's wrong. You can go back and be on duty. There is no need to talk to the emperor about what's going on here." Mu Ci stared at the burnt animals on the ground, his eyes fixed on them.
None of the guards dared to stay. After leaving Chenxiang Palace, someone still went to Yanfu Palace. This person was Guard Zhao, and he reported the matter to Lord Long Live.
"What kind of animals were burned to death?" Dugu Liancheng asked casually.
"There are a lot of rats and a few rabbits. If I remember correctly, those rabbits were sent to Chenxiang Palace by the previous emperor." Zhao Wei replied truthfully.
"When did you discover something strange in Chenxiang Palace?" Dugu Liancheng asked with a straight face.
Mu Ci had a use for keeping those rabbits. She couldn't burn them to death for no reason. Those rabbits must be burned to death.
"Li Yu, send someone to find out what's going on." After thinking for a moment, Dugu Liancheng gave an order to Li Yu.
Tomorrow is Mu Ci's birthday, and something strange happened in Chenxiang Palace today. Someone must be trying to harm Mu Ci.
Mu Ci just entered Chenxiang Palace last night, and someone attacked Mu Ci so quickly, and they did it during the day, and the method was a bit special.
The person who wanted to harm Mu Ci was quite courageous.
Li Yu took the order and left.
However, he searched again and again and found no articles. He only knew that before Mu Ci had a meal, Yingchun tested poison as usual, but no poison was found in the food.
As for what happened later, I don’t know if Mu Ci ate the lunch sent by the imperial dining room.
The lunch process went as usual. After repeated inspections, nothing wrong was found.
Let’s go back to Chenxiang Palace.
The four maids quickly disposed of the animal carcasses on the ground, while Mu Ci stood in front of the main hall in a daze.
This person is very calculating. What the animal was poisoned was not poison, but at most a drug that would make it go crazy. If she took it, she would go crazy on her own, and it is unpredictable what kind of crazy things she would do.
If Jirou or Ningxiang try it, the power will be absolutely terrifying. They are both highly skilled in martial arts, and after being controlled by drugs, they are the best killing tools.
It would be ridiculous if she died in the hands of her own people.
If she doesn't eat it and just throws it away, animals will eat it.
There were so many rats coming out of the nest before, and they must have eaten the leftover food of the rabbits.
Moreover, the other party chose the time during the day, which is the time when vigilance is at its weakest. If Jirou and the others were not there to guard her, and those animals attacked her after she fell asleep, she might have torn these seemingly docile animals into pieces.
This man is very calculating.
She thought An Rong was very likely to pick someone to attack at such a time.
Tomorrow is her 20th birthday, and An Rong probably doesn't want her to live past 20, let alone walk out of Chenxiang Palace alive.
"Have you been frightened?" Sizhu was a little worried when he saw Mu Ci sitting motionless.
Mu Ci smiled back at her: "I'm fine. The injuries caused by Rou Ningxiang need to be treated with care. Have you sent the ointment?"
Sizhu nodded vigorously: "We sent them to Yingchun. They are just minor injuries, nothing serious. Don't worry, Madam."
Seeing that she was about to speak but hesitated, Mu Ci asked, "What do you want to say?"
Si Zhu looked at Mu Ci with complicated eyes.
She wanted to say that the empress did not need to wait in such a place to be harmed, as long as the empress admitted her mistake to the emperor.
But now is not the time to say these words.
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