Quick Wear: Cannon Fodder

Ye Zhiqiu gave Banxia an affirmative look. She wanted to leave the palace, not to go to the royal temple to pray for blessings, nor to stay in the palace for a few days, but to fake her death and leave the palace.

Ever since the inner treasury was emptied of its silver, the emperor has become more and more unrestrained. Before he has full control of the military and political power, he has already started to take action against the Minister of Revenue, just because the Minister of Revenue forced him to use silver for disaster relief.

Facing such an ungrateful emperor, Ye Zhiqiu didn't think it was a good idea to continue staying in the harem and causing trouble for the emperor.

The country belongs to the emperor. If the world is in chaos, the civil and military officials can still serve as officials after the change of dynasties. There are only aristocratic families that last for a thousand years, and I have never heard of a dynasty that lasts for a thousand years. Dynasties that last for hundreds of years are considered dynasties, and it is not uncommon for short-lived dynasties to perish in a few decades.

At present, the power of the Ye family on the border is growing, and the civil and military officials in the court will find out sooner or later. Even if the Ye family does not value her as a daughter who marries out, she does not want to be used as a tool by the emperor to target the Ye family.

The emperor's position was unstable, and he had no time to play love games with Queen Liu. Without her taking the lead, both Queen Liu and Empress Dowager Li had average relationships with the emperor. It was time for her to leave.

Leaving would not affect her watching the show. She would definitely leave some people in the palace before leaving, who might be able to cause some trouble for the emperor at a critical moment.

The master was leaving, and although Banxia was worried, she made plans without hesitation. Leaving was not an easy thing, especially when the master wanted to take them with him, it was even more difficult.

It would be easy for a group of servants like them to leave the palace, as they could leave with just a word from their master. However, their master was the empress dowager, and she wanted to be buried with the late emperor even in death. It was not easy for them to fake their own death and escape.

There has never been such an example in all dynasties. Banxia was a person who had studied with his master. Even unofficial history has never heard of such an example. You can imagine how difficult this matter is.

Ye Zhiqiu knew it was difficult. If there was no system, she would not dare to come up with this idea. However, with the system plug-in, it should not be a big problem. She told Banxia about the plan. It would be enough if there was only one person around her who knew about it. Too many people would easily leak the secret.

Banxia was very excited. The fact that her master only told her proved that she was the first person in his heart. She didn't know the existence of the system, but for the trust of her master, she secretly vowed to fulfill her master's wish.

Ye Zhiqiu's plan was simple and crude. She pretended to be sick and died. With the fake death pill provided by the system, she believed that no one would find out. Of course, if this plan was to succeed, she needed the cooperation of the imperial physician. She could buy the fake death pill, but she couldn't change the pulse direction.

Fortunately, not all the doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau were smart. As long as she insisted that she was not feeling well, the doctors would not accuse her of faking illness. Taking a patient's pulse has always been the strong point of the doctors.

It was normal for her to be sick for ten days or half a month, and for her body to become weaker and weaker, or even die. Even if the emperor sent someone to check, they would not find anything unusual. But before that, she needed to let everyone around her go, and she could not be noticed by others, which was a difficult task.

She handed the matter over to Banxia. As long as she was willing to spend money, it would not be difficult to release a few palace maids quietly, even those who were her trusted palace maids.

Money makes the world go round. Banxia went straight to An Dahai, and the deal was done as soon as she paid the silver note.

An Dahai didn't know what Ye Zhiqiu was going to do, but he was happy to let the maid next to her go. He was also smart, he took the money and then turned around to report to the emperor.

The emperor was so overwhelmed by government affairs that he had no time to care about the fate of a few palace maids. He used to hate Ye Zhiqiu, but now he found that everyone in the world was against him. Ye Zhiqiu was the best one, not caring about his marriage, not competing with him for power, and apart from acting like a legitimate mother, she didn't seem to have done too many bad things.

Forget it, considering that his stepmother was about to die, he was kind enough to fulfill her wish.

The emperor murmured in his heart that Ye Zhiqiu was a mean person. Even if she was really dead, he was the emperor and would never do anything to a few palace maids.

When Banxia reported the news, Ye Zhiqiu sneered. The emperor was really saying that. If she hadn't come, according to the original owner's way, she would not have ended up well in the end. If the master's result is not good, how can the servant have a good result?

Forget it, she was about to leave the palace, and she didn't bother to deal with this mess. She wanted to leave early, before the world was in chaos, to see the beautiful mountains and rivers, and when she was tired, she would choose a beautiful place to retire.

As soon as she sent Shannai and others away, she took the fake death pill.

"My queen!" Banxia cried heartbreakingly even though she knew it was fake. She was afraid that if she didn't cry enough, people would notice something was wrong. The fake death pill in the system was very useful. Several doctors came together and found no problem. They all proved that she died of a cold.

Ye Zhiqiu didn't feel uncomfortable. She could feel everything around her, but she couldn't move. It was a strange feeling. However, the doctor sent by the emperor to check was fine. The one sent by her old rival Li was very rude. He actually pinched her secretly when she was not paying attention.

Damn it, she was already "dead", but they still didn't let her go. Very well, she would remember this grudge and give Li a big gift before leaving.

The person was dead, and the emperor didn't want to be a bad guy anymore, but the death of the empress dowager was a big event, and even though he disliked his stepmother very much, the funeral had to be grand.

Banxia cried enough, and finally stood up and took out the imperial edict that Ye Zhiqiu had written long ago. Because the national treasury was empty, there would be no need to hold a grand funeral, and all the money saved would be used for disaster relief.

The emperor was pleased with his stepmother's tact, and he also pretended to be a filial son. The new Minister of Revenue relaxed his brows. He was originally worried that he could not afford the money to hold a funeral for the empress dowager, so it would be much easier if he kept it simple.

Ye Zhiqiu lay in the coffin for a day and a night before Banxia found an opportunity to rescue her.

"Mother, are you okay?"

Ye Zhiqiu looked around. The palace guards who were on night watch were either half asleep or making excuses to be lazy. This made it convenient for Banxia to act, but they could not stay here for long.

In order to prevent others from discovering the problem, Banxia specially found a wild dog and put it in the coffin to act as a corpse, to avoid anyone noticing that the weight of the coffin was wrong.

"Help me leave first." Ye Zhiqiu changed into the palace maid costume that Banxia had prepared long ago, and the master and servant left the palace as quickly as possible.

Ye Zhiqiu was like a fish into the sea after leaving the palace. In an era without surveillance and ID cards, even if someone thought she looked familiar, as long as she refused to admit it, who would dare to say that she was the empress dowager who died young?

The palace was not peaceful without Ye Zhiqiu. The emperor was fighting with the previous dynasty and the harem alone, and there was no capable person available. There were many mistakes in the handling of important state affairs, and natural disasters continued. It was obvious that the dynasty was on its way to an end.

Ye Zhiqiu knew her own limitations and understood that she could not do anything with her personal strength when dynasties changed, so she simply lived in seclusion in the mountains with the people around her, and did not come out of the mountains until the new dynasty was established.

She was already quite old at this time, but still in good health, and she traveled around the world with her people again.