Chapter 619: Sneaking Out of the Palace!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Relying on her imagination, Consort Yi believed her own delusional deduction.
“What’s there to be afraid of if someone dies?” Consort Yi continued, “In the game of imperial power, which emperor wouldn’t step on countless corpses to sit in that position? Tell my father and brother, and send someone to keep an eye on them! We must find Shao Zhongxi and keep an eye on him. We don’t have any information about Emperor Shu ourselves, so we can only use him to find Emperor Shu! He must be looking for Emperor Shu! Keep an eye on him. It won’t go wrong!”
“As you wish.” The person who had secretly pretended to be a eunuch received the order and left.
Even after the fake eunuch left, Consort Yi was still very excited with the news.
When Shao Zhongxi finds Emperor Shu, her men would immediately rush out and kill him. As long as they were sure that Emperor Shu was really dead, the civil and military officials would definitely urge the Emperor to quickly appoint another Crown Prince. Then, wouldn’t her son be the Crown Prince? The Emperor didn’t have any other sons, after all.
She was so excited that her mood instantly brightened. Coincidentally, the bird’s nest that she had asked someone to boil was also ready. Consort Yi asked someone to bring the bird’s nest and follow her to the royal study. She wanted to give it to Emperor Hao, who was in the royal study to approve the memorial.
“Your Highness, you’ve come at a bad time.” The head eunuch stood at the door of the royal study again and bowed to stop her. “The Emperor is discussing something with the Prime Minister, the Imperial Censor, and the other ministers. No one is allowed to disturb the meeting.”
Consorts were not allowed to be present when the emperor and ministers were discussing matters, so they naturally could not disturb them. Consort Yi knew this rule, so she smiled and said, “Then I’ll have to trouble you to find an opportunity to send this bird’s nest in when available.”
“Yes.” The chief eunuch agreed and respectfully took the drink with both hands. He felt strange that the consort seemed to be in a particularly good mood today, but he did not ask anything.
After Emperor Hao finished discussing with the civil and military officials, all of them left respectfully. Only then did the chief eunuch walk in and deliver a bowl of lotus seed soup that he had personally brewed.
As for the bowl of bird’s nest, he had already dumped it somewhere.
The Emperor had instructed that he had to be even more careful with handling things in the future. Even the things placed outside the house had to be paid attention at all times. They could not be careless, let alone the things that were taken in to be eaten.
Emperor Hao sat in front of the table, drinking the lotus seed soup while looking at the memorial that had already been opened on the table.
He was extremely diligent.
Just as he was thinking of something, suddenly, a guard hurriedly walked in. Even though there was no one else in the royal study, the guard still leaned into Emperor Hao’s ear and reported to Emperor Hao in an extremely low voice, “Emperor, it’s not good. The Empress has secretly left the palace and brought four maids dressed as men. The people guarding the palace gate can’t stop her at all.”
“What?! ” Emperor Hao was shocked. “Does anyone else know about this?” He asked in a low voice.
“It just so happens that the people guarding the palace gates are all our people. No one else knows.”
“That’s good.” Only then did Emperor Hao heave a huge sigh of relief. “Don’t let the news leak out. Since she wants to go out, let her go out for a while. If this continues, she will really fall ill.”
Their son had not been found. She was fine before, but now she was even more listless. She looked like she was about to fall ill at any time, making him worry.
“Yes, Your Majesty!” The guard immediately accepted the order.
After thinking about it, Emperor Hao wrote a secret letter to Shao Shuting and told him about this.
Shao Zhongxi was currently looking for someone and had no fixed residence. It was better to inform Shao Shuting in the military camp, lest his Empress was accidentally discovered by the Ji family when she was out. If that happened, it would be dangerous..
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