Traveling through troubled times: Princess disguises herself as a man and becomes a soldier to earn

Royal Palace

Jiang Li returned to the palace before dawn, but he was a little hungry, so he turned around and prepared to look for something to eat. He knew he would not eat until he was full. He found the imperial concubine's palace directly.

Looking at the deathly silent palace, he inexplicably felt that something was not right. He slipped into the palace, looked at the cakes on the table, took out a cloth bag and put them in, eating them one bite after another.

When I was about to leave, I heard a woman's charming voice. This voice... was strangely familiar, but I didn't know who it was. I turned my head and saw a gossipy gleam in her eyes.

Which empress is having an affair? No, which kind-hearted person is cuckolding her father? It's such a fun thing, she must join in the fun. When her father is not doing anything in the future, she will use this to piss him off to death.

Hehe, interesting.

Jiang Li ate some cakes while tiptoeing over. With the help of the moonlight, he could see clearly that there was a door on the wall. It was amazing that he even dug a secret passage for an affair. He was really thoughtful.

When her father passed away and her mother felt lonely, she could make such arrangements for her mother. It was better than being a widow.

Ahem, I’m getting off topic. I went down the ladder and the woman’s voice became louder and louder as I got closer.

"Ayun, I'm so tired. I should go upstairs to avoid being discovered. Now is a critical moment. We should be more patient."

The man's intermittent voice came: "Wait! Wait! Wait!"

The ambiguous voice makes people imagine.

Jiang Li paused: This king?

She frowned. Her father and brothers were all dead, so where did the prince come from? She had heard from Bi Yue that in the battle for the throne, all the princes died and only her father survived by chance.

It wasn't because he was powerful, on the contrary, it was because he was too useless and posed no threat on a normal day, so the princes spared his life. Unexpectedly, he got the upper hand and sat on the throne in the end.

Just think about it, the emperor must be so angry that he would vomit blood. He originally wanted to select the most suitable one to be the emperor, but in the end, his sons fought each other to death, leaving the most useless one alone.

Jiang Li inexplicably felt that the man's voice was somewhat familiar. He became curious and stuck his head out along the wall. He could only see the man's back and a vague figure in front of him, who was clearly a woman.

I can’t see clearly, damn it, why don’t you turn around?

Curious, so curious! !

He felt so uncomfortable that he unconsciously exerted force on his hands and did not even notice the cake fell to the ground. The two people who were immersed in love naturally did not notice the slight movement. They did not know how much time passed before it ended.

Jiang Qiyun turned over, closed his eyes and leaned against the pool wall, looking satisfied: "Rou'er, how did you find time to come to see me?"

The imperial concubine laughed tenderly, "Hateful! It's that old thing that came to find me. His fat and greasy body is so disgusting. If he didn't come to find you, I would have been disgusted for a long time."

"Pfft, so you came here to relieve your boredom."

Jiang Li, who was hiding in the dark, also saw the man's face clearly when they turned around and leaned against the pool wall. He looked exactly like his father, with the only difference being a teardrop mole at the corner of his eye.

I was shocked. There was no plastic surgery in ancient times. Who was this person? How could he look so much like my father? How could he be hanging out with the imperial concubine and even call himself the king?

He must be my father’s brother, but why have I never heard of him?

I leaned against the wall, ready to listen again, when I heard a voice from somewhere: "My lady, is the secret door closed?"

The imperial concubine shuddered and remembered that she was so anxious to be intimate with Ayun that she seemed to have... forgotten to close her secret passage. She stood up, and drops of water flowed down her cheeks and into her collarbone.

Realizing that he was naked, he quickly sank down and shouted, "Lan Xin, go and close the secret door, go quickly."

Damn, where did Lan Xin's voice come from? These two people are hanging out, do they need others to watch them? No, it seems to be coming from the wall, which means Lan Xin is not in the secret passage.

If you want to close the door, you can only come in from the outside.

Thinking of this, Jiang Li walked up quickly and hid in the closet. Sure enough, the door was pushed open the next second. With a click, the door of the secret passage was closed and the footsteps slowly faded away.

It was dead silent outside. Jiang Li waited for a while and made sure that everything was OK before slipping out through the window. He returned to his palace and lay on the bed. He was still a little dazed, with the man's face always in his mind.

"What is going on? Who is that man?"

She kept thinking about it in her mind, but she couldn't figure out what was going on. It was not right to replace the prince with a cat. Her subconscious told her that she must get to the bottom of this matter.

Once the truth is found out, the Imperial Concubine can be completely overthrown, and the Queen Mother will naturally be much safer in the future. Those concubines are not as vicious and resourceful as the Imperial Concubine.

Jiang Li fell asleep while thinking.

Early next morning

When Lan Xin was cleaning the hall, she found something wrong. She followed the scattered cake crumbs on the ground and looked up. It was the door to the secret passage. Could it be that someone had come into the hall last night?

Who could it be? Has the Empress' affair been discovered? If that person tells others, the Empress will die, and they won't be able to escape either.

My legs went weak and I almost fell to the ground.

The imperial concubine's voice came from behind: "Lan Xin, what are you doing here? Why don't you get up quickly and help me wash up? What are you thinking about?"

Lan Xin turned around and saw that there were other palace maids behind her. She had to suppress the words that were on the tip of her tongue. After the people left, she closed the door and whispered a few words into the imperial concubine's ear.

"What? Say it again."

She knelt on the ground with a plop, her face pale. "Your Majesty, it's true. I just found some cake crumbs on the ground. I followed them and found that...that secret door. All the cakes on the table are gone."

"Perhaps, someone came in last night. Damn it, I didn't notice it."

The imperial concubine gritted her teeth and said, "Calm down first. Don't let anyone find out. It may not be a human. It could be a rat, a cat, or something like that. Be careful and make sure it's a human or a beast that came in last night."

Lan Xin crawled over and looked carefully. She saw half a footprint faintly appearing on the cake crumbs. Her heart sank. This pattern was not theirs. Someone must have come in.

"My lady, it is indeed a person, but there is only half of the footprint, and the pattern is a little unclear. It looks like the pattern on the soles of other palace maids' shoes. It belongs to a woman."

"...Find out. If it was a palace maid who sneaked in, kill her cleanly and don't let anyone find out."

The imperial concubine gave the order, her brows furrowed, still feeling uneasy.

Who on earth has the guts to come to her palace and eat secretly? Eating is a small matter, but she is afraid of being seen by her, something that should not be seen, that would be the worst.

Nothing can go wrong at this critical moment.