vstars Chapter 311 Yunhua Palace
Chapter 311 Yunhua Palace
"Shouldn't you be leaving? My master is quite formidable and has a bad temper. If he knew you were lingering in this illusion, he would probably be angry."
Yi Moxu glanced at Jiuxiao, as if suddenly remembering something, and couldn't help but lower her eyes and chuckle softly.
"Huh?" Jiu Xiao really couldn't understand it. How could this happen? He was talking and then suddenly started laughing?
What is he laughing at?
Before Jiuxiao could figure it out, Yimoxu lowered his head, straightened his sleeves, and waved to Eleven: "Let's go, your mother is urging you to go to sleep."
Eleven pouted and stood up: "Okay, then I'm going to sleep."
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Inside the palace, Ye Qing'an had returned to her private prison, where her previous masterpieces still remained on the walls and floor.
Ye Qing'an glanced at it, then lowered her head, suddenly feeling a pang of regret—regret for using the pill to heal the wound so quickly…
If we keep it, it might come in even greater use.
The door to the dark cell was wide open. Ye Qing'an walked to the door, calmed his mind, and listened to the breathing, footsteps, and voices around him. Probably no one would have thought that Ye Qing'an was still here.
Ye Qing'an quickly left the dark prison, blending into the darkness, and walked towards the path that Yi Moxu had drawn earlier.
The purpose of this path was unknown, but just as Yi Moxu had said, Ye Qing'an did not encounter a single person along the way.
Not far away, palace guards carrying torches occasionally passed by, seemingly searching for something.
It's probably what Jiuxiao said, that Yiyun Kui issued an order to search for her throughout the entire palace, right?
Ye Qing'an quickened her pace.
"Do we really have to search every inch of the ground?"
"That's just the Emperor exaggerating. A general search of all the palaces, big and small, will suffice."
"That's Prime Minister Ye's legitimate daughter. If we can't find her, I'm afraid it won't be good."
"Prime Minister Ye's legitimate daughter? Don't you know that the one who was lost was Prime Minister Ye's first wife's legitimate daughter?"
"The legitimate daughter of the first wife, isn't that a legitimate daughter?"
Hearing voices from not far away, Ye Qing'an stopped and smiled slightly.
"That's quite different. The eldest daughter of the first wife was quite famous in Wangjing City back then—a complete waste, unable even to cultivate. I heard that Prime Minister Ye also despised her greatly..."
"It is said that right after she came of age, before she was married, she had a relationship with a wild man from who-knows-where in the temple, which became common knowledge. She later became pregnant and was expelled from the Ye family by Prime Minister Ye. A few months ago, for reasons unknown, she returned to the Ye family."
"I'm afraid Prime Minister Ye wouldn't care much about such a legitimate daughter."
"Besides, so what if we can't find her? Does Prime Minister Ye think he can turn against the Emperor? After all, Prime Minister Ye is a subject, while the Emperor is a ruler. If the ruler wants his subject to die, the subject has no choice but to die. Moreover, it's just a daughter who's been lost in the palace."
Ye Qing'an listened with a smile, but in her heart she felt a little regretful. The spiritual energy restriction in this palace was really too annoying. Otherwise, she could have just used the sound-stealing bubble technique to let Ye Qinghao hear what she was saying.
I wonder what he'll think.
They arrived at Yunhua Palace quickly. The night was still dark, but the palace was brightly lit, with its gates wide open and palace servants coming and going from time to time.
Ye Qing'an circled the walls of Yunhua Palace, and through the exposed upper half of the palace roof, he roughly judged the layout of Yunhua Palace before choosing a spot to climb over the wall and enter.
Just as she had expected, inside were Yunhua Palace's small kitchen, woodshed, and storage room filled with miscellaneous items. In the dead of night, there were no palace servants around.
It was still early, so Ye Qing'an decided to hide in the shadows and head towards the main hall.
Soon, they arrived at the main hall's sleeping quarters. Ye Qing'an, with her sharp hearing and keen eyesight, could faintly hear the voices inside the hall even through a window.
"How is it? Has the person I sent to inform my brother returned?" A woman's voice rang out, sounding somewhat anxious. It must be Consort Yun, Gu Ya Yun.
"Not yet," a palace maid replied. "I have already sent people to guard the palace gate. Once Eunuch Xinli returns, someone will come to report."
"He's still not back?" Gu Ya Yun took a deep breath, extremely agitated. "It's been so long already, enough for one person to make two trips from the palace to the Gu residence and then back again. Why hasn't he returned yet? Could something have gone wrong on the way?"
"Your Majesty, please don't panic. We are probably being watched by everyone in the palace. We must not give ourselves away because of our panic."
Gu Ya Yun slumped into a chair: "Are the Imperial Guards and the Imperial Bodyguards still searching the palace?"
"Yes, they're still searching. I just went out to take a look, and they've already searched the Xing'an Palace area. They should be able to find us here soon."
Gu Ya Yun nodded slightly, then raised her hand to press her temple: "I feel my eyelids are twitching very badly today, and my heart is also very uneasy. I'm afraid something is about to happen. After thinking it over, the only one who might be in trouble right now is Ye Qing An."
"How could a perfectly healthy person just disappear from the palace without explanation? There must be something fishy about this. I suspect that someone in the palace is trying to frame me."
"Consort Lan's behavior earlier was indeed quite strange. I think that if it is as I suspect, and someone deliberately took Ye Qing'an away from that dark prison in an attempt to frame me, the most likely culprit is Consort Lan."
Ye Qing was surprised. Consort Lan?
Gu Yayun said that Consort Lan's behavior had been somewhat strange. Just how strange?
Could it be that Yi Moxu sent someone to say something to Consort Lan?
However, Gu Yayun did not elaborate, and Ye Qing'an was not in the palace at the time and did not know what had happened in the palace, so she had to give up.
"Take some more men and search Yunhua Palace thoroughly, from top to bottom. Don't miss any place. Confirm once again whether Ye Qing'an is in our palace or not."
"Yes."
The palace maid replied, "This servant will take care of it immediately."
Hearing the noise, Ye Qing'an quickly hid in the flower bushes in the garden and peered out through the gaps in the leaves.
Sure enough, not long after, a palace maid led six or seven palace servants out of the main hall: "Call all the palace servants over, and after a thorough inventory, everyone will follow me to search our palace carefully."
"Yes."
Six or seven palace servants quickly dispersed, leaving only the palace maid standing there, her gaze fixed on the gate of Yunhua Palace, lost in thought...