Working part-time as a wife is too busy

Chapter 18
"Why?" Xuemei was the only maid beside her, if she didn't follow, Gu Xiaoya couldn't find anyone else.

Xuemei knelt down and said: "Miss, please forgive me for being rude! Miss, it's not that this servant doesn't want to follow you into the palace because of your ugly appearance. It's because this servant knows that you have important things to do when you enter the palace tomorrow. The slaves will definitely attract attention, and will definitely attract those wives and ladies to pay more attention to you, and then you will be more troublesome when doing things."

Gu Xiaoya, Tang Li, and Yi Yi investigated the Nianhua Yixiao murder case and never concealed it from Xuemei, and she also knew that when Gu Xiaoya went to the palace for a banquet tomorrow, she was actually looking for Tang Juan's whereabouts. Xuemei knew about this dangerous trip. It is precisely because she knows that she does not want to be a burden to Gu Xiaoya.

According to the regulations of the imperial palace, the female family members of all officials enter the palace according to the order, and the family members of officials above the third rank can bring a maid into the palace with them.

The Rong family is the family of generals of the second rank, and Rong Yao is the major general of the third rank personally appointed by the emperor. According to the regulations, Gu Xiaoya can let a maid follow her into the palace.

It's just that her face is too conspicuous, and the dual identities of the young wife of the General's Mansion and the Fourth Miss of the Gu family have been criticized by the royal family. In addition, she is an extremely ugly maid. If she disturbs the empress and other nobles, Or someone with a heart would make a fuss about it. At that time, let alone Gu Xiaoya track down the murderer and rescue Tang Juan, it would be difficult for her to escape by herself.

I didn't expect Xuemei to be so considerate, Gu Xiaoya thought about it, so Xuemei stayed in the mansion when she entered the palace on the second day, and Yi Yi turned into a groom to send her to the gate of the palace, and then met Tang in the dark. Li used lightness skills to sneak into the inner courtyard of the palace.

Success or failure depends on one move. After Gu Xiaoya got off the carriage, she put away her cold aura, lowered her eyebrows, was cautious, and her clothes were not colorful. If she hadn't shown her post, even the guards in the palace would think she was inconspicuous. the maid.

All the female relatives who participated in the Spring Banquet were taken to the Anchun Garden by the maids and eunuchs. Except for a few high-ranking ladies and concubines who went to the Queen’s Fengyi Hall to talk first, the others had to go to the Anchun Garden Wait for another two hours to see the queen.

However, the Anchun Garden is very large and has beautiful scenery. There are also places to rest and talk in the pavilions and waterside pavilions. There are exquisite tea and snacks in the palace, and there are piano, chess, calligraphy and paintings for everyone to relieve boredom.

Gu Xiaoya kept a low profile, where would she stand if there were few people around, and slipped out of the Anchun Garden while no one was paying attention to her.

Before entering the palace, Yi Yi had already given her a more detailed map of the palace, so when she left the Anchun Garden, she carefully avoided the eunuchs and maids in the harem, and went to the Yuhe Palace where Anqing was located.

The Jade Lotus Hall is the residence of the emperor's favorite concubine, Concubine Lin, and An Qing is the eunuch on duty in front of Concubine Lin.The Empress held a spring banquet today. The three favorite concubines, Concubine Lin, Concubine Lu and Concubine Liu in front of the emperor all went to Fengyi Hall early to pay their respects. They would not return to their own palace until the spring banquet was over. Naturally, all the eunuchs on duty followed suit up.

In order not to attract attention, Gu Xiaoya knocked out a little maid in the Jade Lotus Hall, changed into her clothes, hid the little maid, and went to An Qing's room first.

Tang Li once secretly checked An Qing's room when he was away, but found nothing, so he had to return without success.But Gu Xiaoya always felt like a conceited and perverted guy like Nianhua Yixiao, but what he lacked most was a sense of security. He couldn't hide Tang Juan in a place beyond his control.

In addition, although An Qing had superb lightness skills, his status as a eunuch on duty restricted him from moving around at will, so she concluded that Tang Juan must have been hidden by An Qing in the Jade Lotus Hall, and she was probably in An Qing's own room.

After careful searching and deliberation, Gu Xiaoya finally found a movable mechanism on Anqing's bed. When she pressed it, several steps leading to the dark place underground appeared under the bed.

Going down the stairs, as Gu Xiaoya expected, she saw a woman on the verge of collapse in the small secret room illuminated by the night pearl.

"Are you Tang Juan?" Gu Xiaoya looked at the woman hiding in the corner with even more frightened eyes because of her arrival, and there was a pear blossom chair in the secret room, and there was an unfinished handkerchief on the chair. The three characters "Nianhuayi" are embroidered, and the character "Smile" has not yet been embroidered.

Tang Juan nodded desperately. At the moment she heard footsteps, she thought it was the terrifying murderer who had returned, but she didn't expect it to be a woman with a cold face.

"Don't be afraid, I'll rescue you right away. It was your brother Tang Li who asked me to come looking for you." After being imprisoned in a secret room for nearly six days, Gu Xiaoya could tell that Tang Juan almost collapsed completely.

As soon as she heard the word "Tang Li", Tang Juan couldn't stop crying. In the past six days, she was hoarse and shed tears. She was so frightened that she was about to go crazy. Fortunately, someone finally Come save her.

Gu Xiaoya just supported Tang Juan out of the exit of the secret room, but at this moment she heard a loud voice: "There is an assassin! Catch the assassin!"

Immediately afterwards, the orderly and quick movement of the guards in the palace, and even the shouts of the eunuchs and maids, all became a mess.

Suddenly, a black figure slammed open the door and came in, and Gu Xiaoya could smell a faint smell of blood from this person.

The man in black did not expect that there would be two women in the room he temporarily hid in. His long sword blazed with cold light, his long eyes were as clear as the sun and the moon, his pupils were as black as lacquer, and his eyes were as sharp as knives, although he did not have any killing intent , but also heartbreaking.

"The emperor has an order: catch the assassin and kill him without mercy! Go in and search!" A group of guards has already broken into the Jade Lotus Hall loudly, and the footsteps are getting closer.

Even dared to break into the palace of the favorite concubine without permission, these guards were by no means stupid, the man in black must have done something that made the emperor catch him and execute him.

"Go into the secret room!"

The death of the man in black seems to have nothing to do with her, right? !After the three of them hid in the secret room, Gu Xiaoya regretted it!

Gu Xiaoya protected Tang Juan and quietly leaned against the cold wall at the bottom of the steps in the secret room. The slender man in black was like a dormant giant lion, staring at the closed bed of the secret room.

It seems that as long as someone dares to open the door of this secret room, he can instantly kill the other person, ruthlessly, quickly, and mercilessly.

"That man will never escape far after being poisoned by the red snake venom. Search carefully for me. If you are alive, you want to see the person, and if you die, you want to see the corpse!" The resentful voice of the commander of the royal internal guard came from above his head.

(End of this chapter)