The queen is sober in the world, and she is winning every step of the palace fight.

"Sister Ying, what are you doing here?"

Outside Changle Palace, Concubine Su stopped Zhishu, who looked panicked.

"Just passing by, didn't do anything."

Zhishu bowed slightly and continued on her way.

"Wait a minute." Concubine Su blocked her way and looked at her suspiciously. "Why do I see my sister coming out of Changle Palace? Everyone is at the birthday banquet. You came to our Changle Palace, is there something going on? Where are the palace servants serving you? Why are you alone?"

Zhishu suddenly pushed her away.

Just raise your feet and run.

Concubine Su frowned and said, "Stop her!"

The two palace maids who followed her hurriedly chased after her and blocked Zhishu's way again.

"Get out of the way, I need to go to the bathroom!"

Zhishu rushed around, just wanting to run away.

Concubine Su became more and more certain that there was something wrong with her. She walked up to her in a few steps, and the three masters and servants surrounded Zhishu, preventing her from escaping.

"Sister Ying, if you need to use the restroom, there's a changing room in Xianyue Palace. Why did you come to Changle Palace? If you're in a hurry, why don't you go to the side hall of Changle Palace where I live?"

"Why are you stopping me for no reason?"

Zhishu was very anxious.

From time to time, he glanced at Changle Palace.

Concubine Su thought about it, then grabbed Zhishu's sleeve and pulled her into Changle Palace with a smile.

"Don't be polite, sister. Just follow me. Everyone has urgent needs. Why be shy?"

He forcibly dragged Zhishu into the palace.

I thought to myself, no matter what this Ying Cainu does in Changle Palace, she can't escape.

"Why is there no one in the main courtyard?"

Consort Su was suspicious.

The more I feel that Zhishu has ulterior motives.

She wanted to pull Zhishu to the main hall of Concubine Xian to see what was going on.

Zhishu refused: "Don't go over there!"

"What's wrong, Sister Ying?" Did you do something bad while no one was around in Changle Palace?

When asked by the other party, Zhishu seemed to be hesitant to speak.

In the end, nothing was said.

She just struggled hard to break free from Concubine Su's pull.

Consort Su acted decisively, signaling to her maids to keep an eye on Zhishu. She quickly walked towards the main hall, skirting several clumps of flowers and trees, and a rockery, before arriving outside in a flash.

There was no one guarding the entrance to the palace as usual.

Empty and quiet.

The palace door was ajar.

I could vaguely hear a strange sound.

"Is anyone there?" Concubine Su called softly.

No one answered.

Two muffled sounds were heard from the inner room, along with a woman's moaning, which was very suggestive.

Concubine Su was puzzled, but she did not dare to enter Concubine Xian's residence without permission, so she walked along the window to the outside of the inner room.

Peek inside quietly.

The diamond-shaped window is half open.

The window screen is transparent, and the scene inside can be vaguely seen.

A painted screen fell to the ground, revealing a large bed with a gauze curtain half-closed behind it.

Two naked women's bodies were lying on the bed, hugging each other and stacked on top of each other.

A breeze came into the room, and the curtains swayed gently.

The woman's low moaning voice made people blush and their hearts beat faster.

Concubine Su was so frightened that she fell to the ground.

But I didn't feel any pain at all.

She was stunned.

The two overlapping people in the room...

She could see one of the faces clearly, it was clearly the virtuous concubine!

She immediately understood why Zhishu ran away.

She wants to run too!

If she hadn't run away after encountering something like this, what was she waiting for? Was she waiting for the virtuous concubine to discover her peeping and then kill her?

The virtuous concubine is cheerful and generous, but she is absolutely cruel when dealing with people in private.

Concubine Su climbed up from the ground with weak hands and feet, turned around and left.

"Master?"

Her maid was still stopping Zhishu.

"Let's go back to Xianyue Palace first."

Concubine Su had no time to explain to the maid and quickly walked out of the palace gate.

He also whispered: "Don't mention this matter, just pretend we never came back!"

"...Yes, my lady."

Zhishu sneered at her with a knowing look on his face: "Now you won't invite me to the side hall where you live?"

Consort Su said perfunctorily as they walked: "The side hall where I live is quite far away. You have to go around from the corner gate and pass through a peach forest. Otherwise, I will take you to the palace next door to change clothes."

Zhishu didn't expose her either.

The group quickly left Changle Palace.

However, she met a group of people head-on that made Concubine Su pale.

Surrounded by palace maids and eunuchs, and accompanied by several palace concubines, the person sitting on the golden lotus sedan chair was actually the empress dowager!

"Why is the Queen Mother here?"

Concubine Su glared at Zhishu nervously.

"How should I know?" Zhishu's face was cold.

"You weren't the one who snitched?!"

"Snitch?" Zhishu raised an eyebrow in surprise. "What secrets are there to tell?"

"You asked knowingly!"

Su Xuanshi was extremely angry.

If the Empress Dowager saw what was happening to Concubine Xian, she would be finished! Then she, who lived in the side hall of Changle Palace and depended on Concubine Xian, would also be finished!

Zhishu looked at the crowd a few feet away and said calmly:

"Before I came here, I saw Pan Gengyi running out of Changle Palace. He ran quite fast."

When Concubine Su saw Pan Gengyi accompanying the Empress Dowager in her sedan chair, she was skeptical.

As he walked towards the crowd, he lowered his voice and asked, "Why did you come to Changle Palace?"

"I was going to Guanlan Courtyard and was just passing by here. I happened to see Pan Gengyi running away."

"You went in to take a look out of curiosity?"

"What are you looking at?" Zhishu looked puzzled.

As they were talking, the two of them had already met the Queen Mother and her entourage.

Concubine Su didn't have time to question Zhishu anymore and quickly bowed and greeted her.

Zhishu also bowed.

"Give Way."

The Queen Mother, however, had a cold expression on her face and was rude to the two of them.

The two men immediately retreated to the side of the road.

The empress dowager's sedan chair went directly into Changle Palace.

Concubine Su wanted to struggle a little longer.

As the sedan chair landed, the empress dowager walked down holding the hand of a palace maid and headed towards the main hall.

Consort Su hurried over and said with an apologetic smile, "Empress Dowager, why aren't you at the birthday banquet and are you here at Changle Palace?"

She had a high voice.

I hope someone in the main hall can hear it.

"Step aside!"

The Queen Mother's face darkened.

Years of accumulated power frightened Concubine Su so much that she shuddered and knelt down involuntarily.

Pan Gengyi had a gloating smile on his face and ordered the palace servants: "Why don't you go in? Please ask the virtuous concubine to come out!"

A group of palace maids rushed towards the main hall.

Concubine Su was terrified.

He looked towards the main hall and then at the Queen Mother, not knowing what to do.

Zhishu was one step faster than her. She stood in front of the group of palace maids and stretched out her hand to block their way.

"Wait! The virtuous concubine is not over there."

The Queen Mother looked gloomy and said nothing.

Pan Gengyi asked on behalf of the Queen Mother, "Ying Cainu, how do you know that the virtuous concubine is not here? Then tell me, where is she?"

Zhishu stared at the other person and said, "You are below me in rank. Isn't it against the rules to address me like that?"

Then she bowed to the Empress Dowager and said, "I don't know where the virtuous concubine is, but there's no one in the main hall. I called out to the door just now, but no one answered."

"There's not even anyone guarding the temple." Pan Gengyi snorted, "That's quite strange. We should go in and see what's going on."

"Tohka, take two people in."

The Queen Mother didn't want to listen to the arguments of the lower-ranking palace concubines.

Direct order.

So Nanny Shixiang took two palace maids, bypassed Zhishu, and went to the main hall.

Zhishu said sternly, "Empress Dowager, I dare to say something. The virtuous concubine is not in the palace. If someone breaks into her inner chamber without a valid reason, it will be bad for both the virtuous concubine and the intruder, and will cause criticism."

"Who are you?"

The Queen Mother looked at Zhishu coldly.

"She is Ying Cainu, a title bestowed upon her by His Majesty. She used to be a maidservant in the Smoke and Cloud Palace."

When Pan Gengyi mentioned Zhishu's identity, his tone was full of contempt.

She was also a palace maid.

But, she was a palace maid from Ciyu Palace.

She thought she was more noble than the maids in Yanyun Palace.