Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 319 A guilty conscience

Lai De rolled into the garden with the barrel, covered in dirty water and mud, like a dog that had just rolled out of a mud puddle, miserable. After hearing the noise, Concubine An and Ning Shuang rushed out. Concubine An saw Lai De just getting up from the ground in a mess, and asked in a shrill voice, "Where did this slave come from? What happened?"

Ningshuang recognized De as the guard who had just climbed out of the window to look for the poisonous snake, and asked, "Shouldn't you be looking for snakes in the lawn behind? Why are you here? And this wooden barrel... Oh, Consort Zhao..."

Ningshuang then remembered that Ji Anni was preparing bath water in the room. After Ningshuang reminded her, Concubine An also guessed that something was a little unusual. She asked Lai De, "Didn't I ask you to find the snake? Why are you carrying a wooden barrel?"

Lai De answered in a messy manner: "When I passed by the Majesty's window just now, the Majesty asked me to pour out the bath water for her."

At this time, Ji Anni was hiding behind the door and eavesdropping on the conversation between Lai De and Concubine An. When she heard this, she secretly clenched her fists, thinking that this was bad, Lai De had said the wrong thing, and he would definitely be questioned by Concubine An again.

As expected, Concubine An immediately accused, "How could you just enter the queen's room?"

Lai De hesitated and was unable to answer. He couldn't say that he saw Concubine Zhao Congfei hanging clothes on the windowsill, right?

Seeing Lai De was speechless, Ji Anni, who was hiding behind the door, came out and said, "I let him in. Don't make things difficult for him."

After Ji Anni came out, she closed the door very carefully with her heel, thinking that her action was silent and Concubine An would not notice it. However, Concubine An's eyes were like detectors, watching Ji Anni's every move and not missing any of her small movements.

Seeing Ji Anni close the door with her heel, Concubine An immediately realized that something might be hidden in the room. She raised her eyebrows and asked, "What's wrong, sister? Why are you closing the door? Is there something shameful hidden in there?"

Ji Anni's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly replied, "No, nothing."

When she lied, she didn't dare to look into Concubine An's eyes. Her gaze wandered here and there, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell that she had something to hide.

Concubine An sneered, "Humph, you are clearly guilty of a crime." Then she rushed forward and tried to push open the door.

"What do you want to do!" Ji Anni blocked the door with her body, preventing Concubine An from breaking in.

Concubine An was even more certain that there was something wrong with Ji Anni's room, and sneered, "Humph, there really is something hidden."

After saying that, he started pushing and shoving Ji Anni at the door.

"I've already said that there's nothing..." Ji Anni was also irritated by her. She exerted more and more strength, wishing she could pick up Concubine An and throw her over her head like a sumo wrestler.

"Then why don't you dare let me in?" Concubine An was not as strong as Ji Anni, but her voice was several pitches higher than Ji Anni's. When she yelled, Ji Anni's eardrum felt like it was about to be pierced and she felt a sharp pain.

Lai De saw that Ji Anni and Concubine An were so angry that their eyes turned red, and he hurried forward to persuade them to stop fighting: "Your Majesty, calm down, calm down, and talk it out nicely."

Unexpectedly, he failed to make peace with the old man, but instead attracted a scolding from Concubine An: "You have no right to speak here, why don't you go and find the poisonous snake!"

Ningshuang hurriedly winked at Lai De, indicating that it was not appropriate for him to stay here for long and he should slip away.

Lai De couldn't leave Ji Anni alone to fight. It was not right for him to leave, nor was it right for him to stay. He didn't know what to do.

At this time, Ji Anni also said to him: "Laide, go do what you should do, and leave this to me."

Humph, a mere Concubine An, Ji Anni didn't believe that she couldn't be stopped. If it were in modern society, trespassing would be illegal, and if you wanted to search a room, you should apply for a search warrant first. In order to defend the dignity of modern law, Ji Anni decided to fight to the death.

"Concubine Zhao Cong, if you don't move out of the way, I'm going to tell the Empress Dowager." Concubine An used the Empress Dowager's name to pressure Ji Anni.

"Hmph, what else can you do besides recruiting helpers? If you can push me out of here today, I'll let you in."

"Ningshuang, why are you still standing there!" Concubine An turned around and glared at Ningshuang who was just watching and didn't come up to help.

The two ladies pushing and shoving each other outside the door was already ugly enough, and now there was a palace maid, and the three women were twisting together, which was even more farce than a farce. Ning Shuang didn't want to step forward to join the fight, but Concubine An's angry eyes were really scary. She had no choice but to step forward, hugged Ji Anni's right arm, and pulled Ji Anni against the wall.

At this time, the other guard besides Lai De hurriedly turned his head away, pretending that he saw nothing, and subconsciously moved his body a little further out of the Taoyuan Gate to prevent Concubine An from discovering him. Otherwise, if Concubine An asked him to join the melee later, it would be even more embarrassing.

Ji Anni's right hand was pulled by Ningshuang, and her left shoulder was pushed by Concubine An. She was about to collapse, but she thought quickly and used all her strength to rush towards Concubine An.

Concubine An was caught off guard. If she hadn't held on to Ji Anni's clothes tightly, she would have been knocked away.

"Zhao Consort, are you not going to let me go?" Consort An almost fell down. After she stood firm, she stopped fighting with Ji Anni and shouted in a threatening way, "You are just a concubine, what qualifications do you have to block my way?"

"Even if I am a concubine, a concubine has her own privacy. You cannot infringe on human rights."

"Privacy? Human rights?" What are these things? It was the first time that Concubine An heard of these things.

"In short, I won't let you in today, so just give up." Ji Anni didn't want to fight with Concubine An. She just hoped that Concubine An would give up quickly, so that she wouldn't be forced to bully a weak woman like Concubine An.

"Okay, then I won't go in, but Concubine Zhao, remember, I won't just let it go." Concubine An seemed to see the difference in strength between her and Ji Anni. If she forced her way in, she would definitely not be able to get in, so she temporarily changed her strategy and took a step back to advance. She pretended to have given up and turned around to leave. When Ji Anni thought she was going to leave, she suddenly turned around and rushed towards Ji Anni's door. Ji Anni didn't expect her to turn back suddenly, and was so scared that she was stunned and didn't have time to stop her.

Then there was a loud "bang" and the door was forcibly slammed open by Concubine An. It was even more exciting than a police and gangster movie.

"Empress!" Ningshuang was frightened, fearing that Concubine An was injured somewhere.

Although the collision was very painful, when Concubine An saw that the door was opened by her, she forgot all the pain in excitement. Without waiting for Ji Anni to react, she rushed into the room and scanned the room as quickly as possible.

It’s so strange. There is nothing strange in the room. What did Ji Annie hide?

"Ningshuang, search the room." Concubine An didn't believe that Ji Anni didn't hide anything.

"Yes." Ningshuang responded and began to search the house.

Now it was Ji Anni's turn to feel strange. She could clearly see the quilts and bedspreads hanging in the middle of the room as soon as she opened the door. Why did Concubine An ask Ningshuang to search?

Ji Annie turned around in confusion and looked into the house. She couldn't believe that all the sheets and bed sheets that were hung in the room a moment ago were gone, and even Prince Ming's clothes on the windowsill were gone.

The windows were tightly closed and the room was tidy, without a single thing out of the ordinary.

How could this happen? The fact that there was nothing unusual was the biggest anomaly. Ji Anni suspected that she had encountered a ghost.

While Ji Anni was in a daze, Ningshuang had already searched the room briefly and came back to report to Concubine An: "Your Majesty, I didn't find anything..."

Concubine An watched Ning Shuang search every suspicious place without blinking. She knew that there might be no secrets in the room, but she was unwilling to admit defeat. She gave a firm order: "Search carefully, there must be something wrong in this room!"

Ji Anni didn't want to see Ning Shuang rummaging through her room, so she said unhappily, "Noble Concubine An, don't go too far."

After seeing all the sheets disappear out of thin air, Ji Anni was no longer afraid that Ningshuang would search the room again, but Concubine An's blatant search made Ji Anni extremely disappointed in her character.

Ningshuang checked the room again, but still found nothing. She came back and asked Concubine An, "My Lady, what should we do?"

Concubine An pursed her lips, unable to swallow her anger. Ji Anni looked at her triumphantly, to see what else she could do.

"Let's go." Concubine An suppressed her anger and left the room with Ning Shuang. Before leaving, she turned back and glared at Ji Anni, using her fierce eyes to warn her: Don't be too complacent, we'll see!

"Goodbye, Concubine An. I won't see you off." Ji Anni waved at her back and came outside the door to see her off.

Only after seeing Concubine An obediently return to her own room did Ji Anni finally breathe a sigh of relief and close the door again.

That’s great, we were safe this time, but... where did the sheets go?

Ji Anni scratched her head and searched the room like Ningshuang did. She searched under the bed, in the closet, and everywhere where the sheets could be hidden, but still found nothing. This was strange, could the sheets fly away?

She looked around the room again, wondering. If there was anything suspicious in the room, it was the window that should have been open but was now tightly closed.

Ji Anni took a breath, walked forward, and pushed the window open with one hand.

As sunlight poured in through the window, she also saw a familiar figure squatting outside the window.

"Laide?" Ji Anni called out the name in surprise and joy.

Next to Lai De there was a pile of half wet and half dry things, which was the missing quilts and bed sheets.

After seeing this scene, Ji Anni immediately understood. It turned out that Lai De, who had just been driven away by Concubine An, had climbed into Ji Anni's room through the back window in order to help her conceal the truth, and took all the sheets out of the window.