When I walked into the rockery, I saw it was empty.

Huamei's eyes swept across the winding rockery corridor, "Xiaoxiu, did you hear it wrong?"

One meter away from the three people, in the shade of the rockery, a eunuch was covering the mouth of a woman in palace dress, holding his breath and waiting for them to leave.

The woman's face turned purple and her eyes were filled with tears. She dug hard at the eunuch's hand, trying to free her neck.

At the same time, his feet kept kicking the ground, trying to make some noise.

Chu Yingxiu listened carefully, and all she could hear was the whistling sound of the wind blowing through the narrow corridor; nothing else.

"I must have heard it wrong," Chu Yingxiu smiled embarrassedly, "I don't have enough internal strength, and I haven't learned the skill of Master to listen to the heartbeat to determine the direction..."

"Wait, Kosode, you heard me right."

Su Yinyue stared at a pearl earring that had fallen into the grass not far away.

As he walked slowly towards it and was about to bend down to pick it up, he caught a glimpse of a piece of clothing out of the corner of his eye.

I looked up suddenly and met a pair of frightened eyes.

"There are two people here, come quickly!"

When the eunuch saw that someone had discovered him, he grabbed the woman in palace dress by the neck and slammed her hard against the rockery. He didn't care whether she was dead or not, and punched Su Yinyue.

The nobles in the palace live a life of luxury and are lazy. Once they are left alone, any eunuch can deal with them.

Seeing her swiftly avoid it, the eunuch was visibly stunned.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Su Yinyue grabbed his arm, dragged him closer, and raised her hand to hit him on the temple with a horizontal fist.

The woman who had hit her head on the rockery collapsed and landed right on her punching arm.

The movement was slanted.

The eunuch immediately sprinkled a handful of powder on her.

Su Yinyue didn't dare to be contaminated by the powder of unknown origin, so she quickly closed her eyes, covered her mouth and nose, and stepped back.

"princess!"

The two men fought back and forth for less than two seconds before Huamei and Chu Yingxiu ran over quickly and saw the eunuch's fleeing back.

Chu Yingxiu took the initiative to say: "I'll go after her."

"Don't! You are not familiar with the palace's terrain. If you get lost, I won't be able to find you." Su Yinyue stopped her and pointed at the woman who was lying on the ground. "She is not dead. You will know if you ask her."

As he spoke, Su Yinyue helped up the woman whose forehead was bleeding.

After wiping the blood with a handkerchief, a cut appeared at the hairline, and the blood was flowing from here.

"Stop the wound, and the bleeding will stop after a while."

Seeing that the woman was conscious, Su Yinyue grabbed her hand and let her fix the handkerchief on her forehead herself.

The woman grabbed her arm, eager to tell the truth, "...I, hiss hiss..."

His voice was so hoarse that he couldn't utter two complete words.

Her face was pale, her lips were trembling, tears were streaming down her cheeks, and her watery eyes were filled with fear, like lotus petals in the drizzle, so pitiful.

Su Yinyue pressed the horrifying purple circle on her neck, guessing that her vocal cords were injured, and said, "You hurt your neck. If you can't speak, don't force yourself to speak."

The woman shook her head, her watery eyes filled with anxiety, and she insisted on speaking in a hoarse voice.

Su Yinyue looked around and saw a few drops of blood from her forehead scattered on the ground.

He took her hand and dipped his fingertips in it, "Write it on the ground for me to see."

“…hiss, no…”

Hearing this, the woman waved her hands wildly and became even more excited.

Chu Yingxiu was suspicious, "What is she gesturing?"

The experienced thrush said, "You can't read?"

The woman nodded repeatedly.

Since she can't speak and can't read, it's a bit troublesome to find out what happened from her.

Although there is a way, it will take at least an hour or two to do it.

Su Yinyue didn't want to be late and give the Queen an opportunity to make a fuss, so she asked the girl, "You don't look like a palace maid, where is the maidservant beside you?"

The woman's eyes lit up, she stood up with the help of the rockery and walked towards a place.

He had only taken two steps when he stumbled and fell to the ground.

Without the skirt covering her feet, Su Yinyue could see clearly that her feet were as small as water chestnuts and she had difficulty walking.

"You can't even walk steadily, how are you going to find your maid? I'll carry you on my back."

Su Yinyue half-knelt in front of her and said, "Tap my shoulder if you want to go somewhere."

Huamei stepped forward and said, "Princess, how can you do this? Let this servant do it."

Chu Yingxiu also said: "I have martial arts skills and great strength, I will do it."

"I'll carry it first, and you guys will take over when I get tired."

Su Yinyue did not try to be brave, and turned to ask the woman: "Are you a lady from outside the palace who came to attend the garden party, or are you a lady in the palace?"

"If she is a lady from outside the family, she is one. If she is a lady from outside the family, she is two."

The woman held up two fingers.

Su Yinyue nodded and patted his shoulder, "Come up, and when you find your maid, you can go with her."

Anyway, she had to hang out in the Imperial Garden and kill time, so it would be nice to do some good deeds while she was there.

I walked around the rockery but couldn't find anyone.

I looked around again, but still couldn't find it.

Su Yinyue looked at the group of palace maids and eunuchs walking along the corridor and asked, "Should I ask them to take you back to your residence?"

“Woo woo…hiss…”

The woman hugged Su Yinyue's neck with one hand, pointed in a direction with the other hand, and whimpered in her throat.

Except for the familiar palace servants, she now doesn't trust anyone else.

Huamei asked tentatively, "Do you want the princess to take you back to your residence?"

"Uh-huh!"

The summer days dawned early, and the palaces where concubines lived were built around the imperial garden.

The Queen's Inmyeong Palace was also built nearby, so there was plenty of time to go back and forth.

Su Yinyue held her thighs with both hands, "Show me the way."

After walking and stopping along the way, the four of them arrived at the gate of Guanju Palace.

The palace attendant on duty recognized the woman at a glance, "Lady Xue, what's wrong with you?"

And called out the woman's personal maid, "Sister Hongzhu, come out quickly, Concubine Xue is injured!"

Hongzhu ran over from the Liyu Pavilion in the side hall, and seeing Lady Xue's appearance, she exclaimed, "Lady, didn't you go out with Luzhu to pick flowers to make flower cakes? How did you get hurt? Where is Luzhu?"

The noisy noise alarmed Qi Shunyi, the queen of Guanju Palace.

She came over gracefully, holding the hand of a palace maid, and recognized Su Yinyue at a glance, "Princess Yu? What happened to Sister Xue?"

Su Yinyue briefly explained what happened, and Qi Shunyi was a little surprised, "Someone actually tried to murder a concubine?"

"Today's palace banquet will keep the Imperial Concubine busy. Tomorrow I will ask the Imperial Concubine to clean up the palace and prevent this from happening again."

The palace power that was taken away from Concubine Zhao by Ren Zhaorong returned to her after the Fang family was exiled.

Qi Shunyi ordered her personal maid to invite the imperial physician to prevent Concubine Xue from having a scar on her face.

"Hongzhu, help Sister Xue go in and have a rest." Qi Shunyi touched Lady Xue's forehead and said distressedly, "Sister has only been in the palace for three months, and she has encountered such a disaster. It's really pitiful..."

"Hey, only the Empress, the Imperial Concubine, and the Imperial Concubine are eligible to go to the Wonderful Treasure Garden at today's palace banquet. The Emperor didn't want to leave us sisters out in the cold, so he specially asked Bai Wanrong to host a banquet in Hanyuan Hall and invited us sisters to join in the fun."

"I was originally thinking of going with Sister Xue, but now that she's injured, it seems like we can't go..."

After listening to this, Su Yinyue understood why Lady Xue didn't recognize her.

It turned out that she had just entered the palace.

After saying goodbye to Qi Shunyi, Su Yinyue turned and went to Renming Palace.

In the courtyard, the ladies of honor were sitting or standing around the queen, marveling at something.

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