Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

With this collision, Ji Anni and the human wall all fell to the ground.

"Ouch..." Ji Anni touched her buttocks and thought to herself that she had fallen twice this morning. First she fell off the bed and now she was knocked down by someone. It was really a blessing that never comes alone, but misfortune never comes alone. Was it the year of great misfortune for her? She must go to the temple to worship the Buddha tomorrow if she had the chance.

Before Ji Anni could get up from the ground, she heard the wall of people that she had knocked away speak: "Oh... Concubine Zhao Cong, it's already this late, why are you still here?"

The voice sounded familiar. Ji Anni took a closer look and recognized it as the eunuch who drove Yun Zhen's carriage yesterday.

The name seems to be... it seems to be, yes, Xiao Shunzi.

Ji Anni still remembered that Yun Zhen had praised Xiao Shunzi for being honest and kind.

Xiao Shunzi is here, does that mean Yun Zhen is also nearby? Ji Anni looked around hurriedly, but there was no sign of Yun Zhen at all. Apart from Xiao Shunzi, there was not even a single person in sight.

"Concubine Zhao Congfei, I will help you up right away." Xiao Shunzi said as he walked over and helped Ji Anni up.

Ji Anni moaned and asked, "Xiao Shunzi, where is your Taoist priest?"

Xiao Shunzi said, "The Imperial Master saw that Concubine Zhao did not attend the etiquette training, so he asked me to go to Concubine Zhao's palace to take a look. Who knew I would bump into Concubine Zhao."

Upon hearing this, Ji Anni hurriedly cried out in her heart: Oops, I'm late indeed. She quickly grabbed Xiao Shunzi's hand and asked, "Xiao Shunzi, tell me quickly, where is that etiquette practice?"

Xiao Shunzi was shocked when he heard this, and he also became anxious, and said with wide eyes: "Empress Consort, how come you don't even know this? We are in Renhe Hall. If we don't hurry up, the morning training will be over soon?"

"What?" Ji Anni was panicked when she heard it. She didn't expect that she overslept and missed half a day's class. She pushed Xiao Shunzi away and rushed forward. But after just two steps, she immediately turned back and pulled Xiao Shunzi to ask a series of questions: "By the way, Xiao Shunzi, where is the Renhe Hall? Is it far? Is Aunt Yang fierce? What is the punishment for being late? You won't make me stand in the sun with a bucket on my head, right?"

"My queen, please stop asking so many questions and just follow me." Xiao Shunzi hurriedly led Ji Anni.

But after running just two steps, Xiao Shunzi also stopped, stared at Ji Anni and looked at her carefully, and asked, "Madam, are you going to dress like this?"

Ji Anni had a ponytail on her head, and her clothes were wrinkled and stained with wine. She had just washed her face with well water, so there were still water droplets on her face, and a few strands of wet hair stuck to her cheeks.

Even though Zhao Ji was beautiful, this outfit... was still inappropriate in many ways.

Xiao Shunzi was a servant, so of course he didn't dare to tell his master what to do, but... seeing that Ji Anni didn't realize how rude her outfit was, he couldn't help but mention it: "My lady, why don't you go back to your room and change your clothes?"

"Alas, I'm already late for a long time, why do I need to change clothes? Come on, Xiao Shunzi, take me to Renhe Hall." Ji Anni was anxious, and secondly, she didn't know how to put on clothes. The one she was wearing was put on by Concubine Baogui yesterday. At that time, she stood there with her hands open as a hanger. Although she didn't do anything, it was obvious that it was very troublesome to see Concubine Baogui pulling here and tying there. If it was Ji Anni herself, she would definitely not be able to put on the clothes. Instead of that, it would be better to just go to the training like this, and at worst ask Yizhen to teach her how to comb her hair and dress herself in the evening.

Seeing that Ji Anni was not going to change her clothes, Xiao Shunzi didn't know what to say, so he just said, "Since the queen doesn't think there's anything wrong, then let's do this..."

Xiao Shunzi spoke slowly, and Ji Anni could no longer wait, so she grabbed Xiao Shunzi's hand and rushed forward, shouting, "Hurry up, Xiao Shunzi, hurry up..."

"Ouch, Madam, slow down... Ouch, Madam, we are going in the wrong direction, it's not over there... Madam, Madam..."

Xiao Shunzi's cries became more and more desolate and helpless. This was probably the first time he had met such a casual master, right?

***

After running for about ten minutes, I finally heard Xiao Shunzi panting and saying, "My lady, we're here... we're here..."

Ji Anni looked up and saw a very imposing eight-door gate standing horizontally on top of twenty or thirty steps. In the middle of the gate hung a large plaque with the three characters "Renhe Hall" inscribed on it. In front of the gate stood several large red pillars carved with gold patterns, which looked particularly majestic.

But Ji Anni didn't have the time to sigh at her majesty at this time. She lifted her skirt and climbed up the stairs in two steps. Her steps were so fast that even Xiao Shunzi couldn't catch up with her.

Xiao Shunzi had been running with Ji Anni all the way here, and was already out of breath. Now he had to climb the stairs again. He really had to use his hands as legs, and climbed up by "climbing". As he climbed, he shouted, "Mother, slow down... Mother, slow down..."

At this time, Ji Anni was already standing right below the large plaque that read "Renhe Hall", looking up and looking forward.

Looking through the gate, a very spacious square appeared in front of me. In a corner of the square to the north, a lot of people gathered. They were all women, lined up in two rows, as if they were practicing court steps.

It’s here…it’s here…it’s finally here…

Ji Anni didn't even have time to take a breath and hurriedly ran towards the crowded place.

Then all that was seen was Ji Anni running wildly across the extremely wide square.

When Xiao Shunzi finally crawled to the front door, Ji Anni had already run to the center of the square. Fifty or sixty steps away, Xiao Shunzi shouted but no one responded. He could only sigh repeatedly, "Oh... Madam, you can't run like this, you can't run like this..."

The palace emphasizes elegance, and everything must be done calmly. Even an ordinary maid cannot run around in the palace, let alone a concubine of high status. But Ji Anni didn't understand it at all, especially when she thought about being late and running out of time, she became even more anxious. Little did she know that her running made her the target of scolding.

At this time, the concubines who were practicing also noticed Ji Anni. They opened their eyes wide and looked at the person who was running towards them like a whirlwind. They were so surprised that they even forgot to practice. They all stopped and stared at Ji Anni.

Ji Anni finally ran to the two older palace maids, panting.

One of them was Aunt Yang whom I had just met last night, and the other one, who was a little thinner, must be Aunt Yu from the West Congfei Palace. Ji Anni knew that it was wrong to be late, so she bowed 90 degrees to the two aunts and apologized in an extremely loud voice: "I'm sorry, I'm late... But I promise that I will never do it again next time... Aunts, please forgive me."