Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Yun Zhen sent Ji Anni back to the East Concubine Palace and handed her over to Aunt Yang. Aunt Yang was holding an umbrella and wanted to go out to find Ji Anni. When she saw Ji Anni being sent back by Yun Zhen, she breathed a sigh of relief and said with a hint of reproach: "My Concubine, why did you kneel for so long? You worried me to death... Then it rained heavily again, My Concubine, are you okay?"

Ji Anni smiled and said, "Don't worry, Auntie. I'm fine. Thank you for your concern."

"Go back to the house." Aunt Yang looked at Ji Anni's rain-soaked face with distress. Although she was the one who punished Ji Anni to kneel in the Renhe Hall, it was just a formality, just to avoid the empress dowager holding her responsible for not disciplining her in the future, so that she could have an explanation. Unexpectedly, Ji Anni really knelt until the moon was at its highest point in the sky. What a stubborn girl, Aunt Yang couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

"Yunzhen, thank you today." Ji Anni said goodbye to Yunzhen, handed the umbrella back to him and smiled at him.

Yun Zhen said: "Have a good rest. You still have to continue learning etiquette tomorrow. If you continue to act like this, I don't know how long your body can hold out..."

Ji Anni stuck out her tongue mischievously.

At this time, I only heard Aunt Yang say, "My Lady Consort, you don't have to go to Renhe Hall tomorrow."

"No need to go?" Ji Anni was shocked when she heard it and asked hurriedly, "Why?"

"Look how nervous you are..." Aunt Yang smiled and brushed away the wet hair that was stuck to Ji Anni's face. "You've been in the rain for so long, your body must be exhausted, right? Have a good rest tomorrow."

Although Ji Anni believed that she was in good health, she didn't need to ask for leave now. Aunt Yang actually took the initiative to give her a day off. How could she refuse? She nodded and thanked her hurriedly: "Thank you, aunt. Thank you, aunt. Aunt, you are such a kind person."

Seeing Ji Annie's grateful expression, both Aunt Yang and Yun Zhen laughed.

"Don't thank me, just go back to your room, take a shower and go to bed." Aunt Yang patted Ji Annie's hand.

Ji Anni thanked him several times again. The good news of tomorrow's holiday had completely diluted the sadness in her heart. She dragged her tired body and ran to her room happily. Although her clothes were soaked by the rain, Ji Anni looked particularly energetic from behind.

Watching her running away, Aunt Yang couldn't help but whisper to herself, "Although this child is always getting into trouble, she is quite interesting... I have been in the palace for 30 years and have never seen a child like this..."

Yun Zhen also stared intently at Ji Anni's back as she ran along the front porch, and replied, "She is like a ray of light in this palace, as if she could split the dark haze of this harem. But I don't know... whether this is a good thing or a bad thing."

Ji Anni herself didn't know it yet, but in just two days, she had made the name Zhao Ji the hottest topic in the palace.

Whether it was the maids, eunuchs, or guards, even the concubines in the four palaces and eight courtyards, everyone began to quietly discuss this strange concubine. She was not afraid of the queen mother, nor the princess... It seemed that she was not afraid of anything, but she was afraid of seeing her friends get hurt, afraid of seeing her friends being punished for her. She always looked brave, but sometimes she would cry quietly.

In the past two days, Yun Zhen asked herself countless times, is it right or wrong to let her enter the palace? But she didn't get an answer.

Finally, Yun Zhen told himself that maybe everything was God's will. And the only thing he could do was to follow God's will, right?

***

When Ji Anni passed by Yizhen's room, she suddenly wanted to knock on the door and go in to see Yizhen. Because Yizhen's head was scalded by the princess with boiling water today, she didn't know whether the injury was serious. But she looked up at the sky again, it was too late, Yizhen was probably asleep.

Feeling that it was inconvenient to disturb her, Ji Anni quietly returned to her room.

Unexpectedly, I sneezed just after closing the door.

Oh no... Ji Anni realized that she didn't know where to get hot water for a bath. She wanted to ask Aunt Yang, but she was sneezing one after another and didn't want to go out. So she rummaged through the boxes and cupboards, found a towel to wipe herself, and then rolled onto the bed to sleep.

I was so tired today that I fell asleep as soon as I closed my eyes.

In the dream, I vaguely saw my grandfather and parents, who were anxiously looking for me everywhere. Ji Anni stood beside them and said to them, "I'm here, I'm here", but no one heard her. Ji Anni became more and more anxious, and finally she shouted - I'm here!

Then there was a crisp "pop" sound.

Ji Anni opened her eyes and realized that everything was just a dream. It was already daybreak and she could even hear birds singing.

Oops, did I oversleep again?

Ji Anni hurriedly got up from the bed, but heard a strange noise coming from outside the door.

When she opened the door, she saw a little palace maid in green clothes squatting on the ground picking up the pieces. When she saw Ji Anni, she knelt on the ground and said tremblingly, "Madam, please spare me, please spare me, I am clumsy and broke your pearl and white fungus soup."

Only then did Ji Anni understand what the "pop" sound she had just heard was. It turned out to be the sound of the little palace maid breaking the porcelain bowl.

"Get up quickly. I don't blame you." Ji Anni helped the little maid up. Seeing that she was actually crying, she quickly comforted her, "Don't cry first. I really don't blame you. It's just a broken bowl. I used to break things all the time. Once I even broke a whole set of coffee cups. It almost broke my mother to death."

"Coffee cup..." The little palace maid blinked, obviously not knowing what coffee was.

Ji Anni was too lazy to explain, and just said, "It was just drinking, so forget it if you don't understand. By the way, what's your name? What are you doing outside my door? Did I scare you by yelling just now? Oh... those were all dreams. My voice is a bit loud when I talk in my dreams. I even scared away all the dogs in the neighborhood once."

Ji Anni spoke a lot of terms that the little maid didn't understand. Seeing the little maid's increasingly confused look, Ji Anni realized that she had said unnecessary words, so she said simply, "Forget it, you don't have to care about what I'm saying. I'm an alien, and I speak an alien language. You just need to tell me your name and what you're doing here."

The little maid finally understood what Ji Anni said, wiped the tears from her face and said, "My name is Die'er, and I'm here to bring soup to the queen."

"Die'er...Die'er..." Ji Anni repeated this name silently several times. Why did it sound so familiar to her?

By the way, Die'er, isn't that the name of the little palace maid who was assigned to serve me in the palace but was snatched away by Princess Tianning?

"Are you that Die'er?" Ji Anni hurriedly pulled Die'er into the room, stared at Die'er's face, and looked at her carefully for a long time before suddenly realizing that she had never seen Die'er before and didn't know what Die'er's face looked like. Even if she could see a hole in Die'er's face, she wouldn't know if she was that Die'er.

So she changed her strategy and asked, "Die'er, are you Princess Tianning's maid?"

Die'er said, "Princess Tianning asked me to come back and continue to serve the Concubine."