【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

Yun Xi's heart sank. Dead? Just like that? It hadn't been long since...

After a moment of stunned silence, she came to her senses and stuffed a piece of silver into the doorman's hand, "Just pretend you haven't seen me tonight."

The doorman looked at the silver in his hand and suddenly covered his mouth. What a damn broken mouth! Why did it say anything?

There was no time to be sad. Yun Xi had already run into the palace. Her invisibility talisman was very effective. She swaggered through the nearest city wall and ran towards where the servants lived.

It was snowing on New Year's Eve. Yun Xi left a trail of footprints wherever she passed, but they were soon covered by the wind and snow and disappeared without a trace.

Based on the little beggar's information, Yun Xi roughly pieced together a topographical map of the imperial palace. If Lu Zheng was really a eunuch, he must be living in the eunuchs' special residence outside the palace, not far from the palace.

Walking north through the palace and out through the wall, Yun Xi saw a low tiled house with several rows in front and back. Many of the houses were lit. There were many trivial matters in the palace during the New Year, and the eunuchs were extremely busy on New Year's Eve. It was estimated that few of them could go to bed early.

The invisible Yun Xi approached without hesitation, holding her breath, scanning the faces of the eunuchs one by one looking for her target.

Zhao Taoyao said that Lu Zheng had a fair complexion, slightly deep eye sockets, a high nose bridge, thin lips, and big ears. Zhao's mother said that Lu Zheng looked very strange, with brown pupils, not a simple light brown, but a very obvious brown. He was tall and strong, at least eight feet tall, or over 1.8 meters.

Combining these characteristics, Yun Xi quickly found the room in the middle of the third row. What was Lu Zheng doing at this moment? Was he leading people gambling?

Wow, he is so carefree. Today is New Year's Eve and everyone in the palace is busy as hell, but he still has the leisure time.

But Lu Zheng does look good, no wonder the original owner was so love-sick.

Yun Xi waited for a long time. These people ended their gambling reluctantly and went home. She followed Lu Zheng to the toilet. She accidentally walked over and glanced at him. He was still peeing while standing. Doesn't that mean he has no erectile function?

After Lu Zheng came out of the bathroom, Yun Xi carefully observed his Adam's apple and face until he returned to the bedroom, pushed a lamp, and entered the tunnel.

???

Yun Xi, who instinctively discovered a big secret, followed him in. Lu Zheng turned his head to look and always felt the breathing of another person. After confirming that there was no one hiding where the light was shining, Lu Zheng continued to walk down.

"What the hell."

Yun Xi breathed a sigh of relief after Lu Zheng left. After adjusting her breathing, she went down several meters and entered a secret room. There was a table in the room with a bronze mirror and some materials on it.

Lu Zheng picked up the materials and fiddled with them in front of the mirror for a while, then his original appearance was revealed. Compared to the soft facial features just now, this should be his true appearance.

Deep and sharp eyes, hooked nose, thin lips, and thick hair are the characteristics of grassland people. It seems that Lu Zheng is from the north and should be a spy from Beixiang Kingdom.

After Lu Zheng took off his makeup, he found a shovel from somewhere. Yun Xi held her breath and carefully leaned over to take a look. Lu Zheng found a wooden board in a corner of the basement and opened it, revealing an underground passage. Seven people came out from it, five men and two women, each carrying a shovel.

"How's it going? Did you dig it through?"

"Progress is slow in winter when the soil is frozen, so it will take time."

"It's more than ten miles from here to Huilinfang. It will take at least two months."

"The snowstorms on the grasslands are particularly severe this year, resulting in heavy losses of cattle and sheep. The pro-war faction in the court is making a lot of noise and can't wait to launch an attack on Dongpu. We must act quickly."

"It can't be helped. Concubine Yun hadn't established a firm foothold in the harem until September last year. It was only after you, Lu Sheng, entered the palace that she helped. Otherwise, she would definitely have caught up."

"It's no use catching up. The children we replaced haven't even taken power yet."

"It doesn't matter if you're in power or not. If you can make a difference, that's the icing on the cake. If you can't make a difference, that's not a big deal. It's just a backup plan."

"Fortunately, Beixiang trades with several countries, otherwise who knows how many people would have died this winter."

……

Wow, this is the Tao.

Yun Xi extracted a lot of information from these words.

First: The tunnel leads to Huilinfang, which means there is definitely a tunnel underground in Huilinfang leading to the outside of the city.

Second: Concubine Yun in the palace is in cahoots with them.

Third: There was heavy snow and wind on the grassland this year, and many cattle and sheep were frozen to death. The trade between the two countries also affected the Dongpu Kingdom, and the price of grain skyrocketed.

Fourth: Beixiang can no longer bear it and is preparing to march south to invade Dongpu.

Fifth: They have been in Huilinfang for more than ten years. Changing children is not their main task, digging tunnels is.

The decision to kill Yun Xi and the five children some time ago was probably because the tunnel was dug through and the original owner was no longer of any use, so he decided to kill them.

At that time, the female doctor examined her body and found that she had not given birth and had also been drugged. After she came here, she did not let the original owner freeze to death, and the drug was slowly excreted from her body, otherwise they would have succeeded.

After getting the information she wanted, Yun Xi walked out of the basement quietly, looked around Lu Zheng's room, found the money he had hidden under his pillow and in the dirt under his bed, and put it all into the mustard seed space without hesitation.

The invisibility talisman was effective for 24 hours. Yun Xi thought about it and found a place where no one was around to start writing the report letter. In short, she wrote down all of Lu Zheng and the others' plans. Afraid that the emperor wouldn't see it, she wrote two copies, one in the imperial study and one on his bed.

In ancient times, people could find people by their handwriting, so Yun Xi wrote the letter in pencil, not because she wanted to do good deeds, but because it was incredible that a commoner like her could send a letter to the palace. Emperors have always been suspicious since ancient times, and she didn't want to leave any clues.

The original owner's nine clans are still alive and well.

But as for the reward, she gets it herself!

The emperor's palace is the easiest to find. Just look for the largest one in the middle of the palace. Half an hour later, after putting the letter away, Yun Xi walked out of the emperor's bedroom and wandered around the huge palace. Finally, she found the fourth most prosperous palace in the palace.

"Is this the Yunfei Palace? The largest palace belongs to the emperor, the second largest belongs to the empress dowager, and the third largest should be the empress. Is there a noble concubine in the palace?"

Yun Xi decided to wait until dawn.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the palace began to get busy in the early morning. The emperor had to get up at midnight to eat an apple, and then start a series of court greetings and sacrificial activities. The palace would be very busy that day.

"Hurry up, Concubine Yun is urging us to make Tremella Soup. The sacrifice will take a long time, and we won't be able to endure it without eating something."

Yun Xi waited in the imperial kitchen for a long time, and finally heard someone talking about Concubine Yun, and hurriedly followed.

"Xiao Dezi, what time is it?"

"Your Majesty, it's three quarters past midnight."

"Change your clothes."

In his middle age, Emperor Shen Heng of Dongpu worked diligently to govern the country. He never slept in and only took a short nap on New Year's Day.