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Chapter 169 The Five Powers of Imperial Concubine* (5)

For the first time, Song Yuesheng felt that there was something wrong with the system's judgment method.

The hidden story of the world background only added 4%. They are so stingy and are really a miser.

She looked at the bedroom across the wall and recalled everything she had just discussed with Wenman.

The task value has not been reached, so you can only continue with the original plan.

As the saying goes, strike while the iron is hot and deal with people in a timely manner.

Song Yuesheng made a decision, and like a nimble cheetah, he quietly avoided the patrolling imperial guards and moved towards the palace gate.

However, the closer you get to the palace gate, the more imperial guards there are, as if they are deliberately guarding the road leading out of the palace.

In order to avoid the people in front, Song Yuesheng turned back and saw a shadow of another small team suddenly appearing from the distant corner.

She did not panic. She turned around quickly and, with her agility, quickly jumped over the wall into an unknown place.

Judging from the number and frequency of patrols, there are far more imperial guards now than when she was laying the mines.

The palace is peaceful today, with no murder and no arson.

She also avoided people when she went to look for Wen Man.

Besides, exploring the world background was her own reasoning and she didn't tell anyone.

Why are these imperial guards increasing their patrols?

Song Yuesheng waited for a while and found that there was no chance to leave the palace.

She clicked her tongue.

I can only go to see Mrs. Song again tomorrow night.

Song Yuesheng accurately grasped the blind spots of the imperial guards' patrol vision, and slowly and carefully returned to Jiangxue Palace along the way.

At the corner just a short distance from the Jiangxue Palace, she accidentally caught sight of Commander Zhou. He was talking to several imperial guards in a low and serious voice, as if they were discussing something important.

Song Yuesheng knew that he couldn't stay here for too long, otherwise he would cause unnecessary trouble.

So she ordered the Sparrow Spirit to eavesdrop while she continued to return to the palace carefully from another route.

With the system in hand, I can hear your voice at the same time.

Through the Sparrow Spirit's retelling, Song Yuesheng found out the reason.

Someone attempted to assassinate Xiao Guixi but failed.

In order to capture the escaped killer, all the imperial guards were mobilized to control all the intersections leaving the palace.

To be honest, in Song Yuesheng's view, such a high-profile arrest operation seemed more like a carefully planned drama.

Xiao Guixi set up a stage and either invited people to act in the play or to watch the play.

As night fell, Song Yuesheng sat alone on the wall of Jiangxue Palace.

She glanced at the imperial guards still patrolling in the distance and couldn't help but sigh.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

Then she jumped lightly and jumped down from the top of the wall.

"My queen, you are finally back! I have walked around the Jiangxue Palace several times."

Qiao Yue grabbed Song Yuesheng's arm excitedly, as if she was afraid that Song Yuesheng would sneak away again.

After a moment, she shook her head frantically again and her face turned as pale as paper.

"No, Madam, please leave! Your Majesty... Your Majesty and Young Marquis Ye are still in Jiangxue Palace. Qiao Xin said that the people who came here are not kind, so she asked me to find you and tell you to go out and hide."

Qiao Yue pointed at the palace wall and urged anxiously.

Song Yuesheng raised his eyes, shook his head and said to her, "Take me to see them. If they don't leave, you and Qiaoxin will not be able to rest all night."

Qiao Xin's eyes moved over her, struggling over whether to speak or not.

The person opposite was wearing a tight nightgown, with her hair tied up with a simple hairpin. She didn't look like a concubine at all.

Song Yuesheng noticed her thoughts and patted the back of her hand with a smile: "Don't worry. They are both smart. I haven't appeared for such a long time, they will definitely guess something."

In a side hall of the Jiangxue Palace, candles were brightly lit, and Song Yuesheng slowly walked into the main hall.

Xiao Guixi sat in the main seat with a deep look in his eyes, while Young Marquis Ye, who was sitting below, had a gloomy face, as if someone owed him tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Hearing the footsteps approaching, the two men's eyes fell on Song Yuesheng at the same time, as if they wanted to see through her.

Song Yuesheng bowed slightly and saluted Xiao Guixi, then raised his head with a faint smile on his face, as if he didn't care about the tense atmosphere in front of him.

Qiao Yue and Qiao Xin knew they couldn't bear to watch this scene, so they consciously closed the door and walked out.

The two men stood in front of the side hall, guarding the people inside.

"I have forbidden your footsteps, but you can still go out at will. Song Yuesheng, judging from your appearance, this should not be your first time going out. You have repeatedly disobeyed my orders. Do you really think I dare not kill you?"

Xiao Guixi's voice was low and powerful, revealing an unquestionable majesty.

"She is the only daughter of the General's Mansion. If she dies, the General's Mansion will not easily forgive her. After all, General Song has fought on the battlefield for so many years. If he wants to rebel, he has the support of his confidants."

Ye Heyou's voice was firm and powerful. He looked straight at Xiao Guixi without backing down.

Song Yuesheng waved his hands hastily and denied it three times: "No, my father didn't intend to rebel, don't put such a big accusation on me."

"Can't you hear the hidden meaning in your words?" Ye Heyou raised his eyebrows frivolously, as if he was not happy to hear this.

Song Yuesheng nodded, with a sly look on his face: "Of course I can hear it. So, I have good news for you two."

Xiao Guixi frowned slightly, and a look of displeasure flashed in his eyes.

He was about to speak when he heard her say.

"Wen Man is not dead, she is alive again, and now she has become Concubine Wen."

The expressions of the two people suddenly became very intriguing.

After a while, Xiao Guixi found his voice again.

"Who did you listen to?"

"She just said it herself." Song Yuesheng found a seat and sat down with a smile on her face. "Okay, you can go now. Go find her and continue your relationship."

Ye Heyou stared into her eyes and pursed his lips: "I didn't, that day..."

Song Yuesheng raised his hand to interrupt him.

"Young Marquis, you will leave for Una City tomorrow. With a powerful enemy at hand, you should not be trapped by petty emotions. It will not be too late to come back after you have defeated any enemy."

Xiao Guixi found it extremely annoying.

He looked at her coldly: "So it was you who spread the rumors in the palace. Song Yuesheng, how did Wen Man provoke you? Why do you hate her so much?"

Song Yuesheng was so angry that he laughed.

"Is it really okay to put the blame on someone else? Xiao Guixi, it was clearly Wen Man who targeted me for no reason first."

She looked at her superior with a hint of sarcasm in her eyes, "Xiao Guixi, you haven't forgotten, have you? I met Wen Man for the first time during the spring outing last year on the third day of the third lunar month. Then, she asked you for help under the pretext that her kite fell on a tree. When you helped her, she said sarcastically that my parents were not from an aristocratic family and became monks because of fighting in the war."

"Tell me, how can I bear it?"

Song Yuesheng's voice gradually became lower.

"But what I never expected was that Wen Man didn't give up. She ran into me everywhere and made trouble for me all the time. Whether it was at a banquet held by an aristocratic family or on the streets, she would find an opportunity to sneer at me and speak ill of me."

Song Yuesheng sneered, spread his hands and continued.

"But I can understand. Xiao Guixi, you have been blinded by love and have lost even the most basic ability to distinguish right from wrong. You only blindly protect the person you love."

Even though Song Yuesheng now knew that these inexplicable targeting was because Wen Man was a person who traveled through the book, she still didn't understand where Wen Man's sense of superiority came from.

The plot of the mission given to her by the system is different from reality. How can Wen Man guarantee that what is written in the book is exactly the same as the reality she saw with her own eyes?

When a person travels to another world all alone, isn't the most urgent thing to do going home?

The past scenes flashed quickly before Xiao Guixi's eyes, and some unnoticed details were magnified infinitely.

But he refused to admit that he was wrong.

He glanced at Song Yuesheng and said indifferently: "I will strengthen the inspection of the imperial guards in the future. Song Yuesheng, don't even think about leaving Jiangxue Palace."

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned and left, as if he had forgotten Ye Heyou's existence.

"Song Yuesheng, you..." Ye Heyou looked at her and didn't speak for a long time.

He wanted to ask her if she jumped down from the sycamore tree that day to see if the things she had hung were still there.

I want to ask her if she is still interested in Xiao Guixi.

but……

He has no position.

The long silence was like an abyss in the dark night, swallowing everything around it.

Ye Heyou could only suppress his inner turmoil and remained silent for a long time. In the end, he only asked: "You knew that Wen Manman was still alive. What were your plans? Do you still want to continue to target her?"

"No, no, no." Song Yuesheng waved her hands. "As long as the former Queen Wen Man is alive, there will be no place for people like us. I just hope that Xiao Guixi can drive out all the women who don't want to stay in the harem. No matter what the reason is."

"When I leave the palace, I will definitely light some firecrackers to celebrate my escape from suffering."

Ye Heyou was stunned, but saw her walking towards him step by step.

"Oh, right! Young Marquis, can you please do me a favor?"

Ye Heyou snorted: "Why don't you ask your secret guard for help? He is very familiar with your general's mansion."

Of course Song Yuesheng would not say that Yan Ge was not there, she complimented him with a smile.

"Well. I was careless last time. I forgot that General Ye and my father often went on expeditions together. Young Marquis, if you help me, when you come back from Una City, I can agree to one condition of yours. No matter how big or small, I will never break my promise."

However, Ye Heyou remained unmoved. He shook his head and said, "No."

"The battlefield is changing rapidly. If I can't come back, then I won't be able to ask you for compensation. If I come back and you don't acknowledge me, who can I go to for justice?"

Song Yuesheng stroked his chin and thought: "That makes sense. You wait here for a while, I'll go get something."

After saying that, she turned and left.

Ye Heyou was worried that she would find an excuse to leave, so he quickly followed her.

Song Yuesheng went to the study. She sat quietly in front of the desk, picked up a pen and dipped it in ink, wrote on a few pieces of rice paper, and put them in an envelope.

Then she took out a sandalwood box from under the table, opened it gently, and took out a domino with four small black dots engraved on it.

Song Yuesheng looked around, then picked up a hairpin from the shelf nearby and scratched her index finger without hesitation, and a bright red drop of blood immediately gushed out.

Ye Heyou was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed her slender wrist, with a bit of panic in his voice: "Hey, what are you doing!"

"Give you a token."

He didn't hold on very hard, so Song Yuesheng easily broke free.

"Young Marquis, please give this letter to my mother. When you come back, bring the dominoes to me and I will keep my promise." As she spoke, she used blood to paint two small dots on the dominoes red. "Here, for you."

Ye Heyou looked at the dominoes in his hand and pursed his lips. After a while, he reached out and tapped Song Yuesheng's forehead.

"If you hurt the enemy by one thousand, you will lose eight hundred of your own. Song Yuesheng, you are really good at asking others to do things for you."

"gone!"

**

From that night on, Xiao Guixi told the public that the assassin was arrogant, and in order to protect the ladies in the palaces, he ordered the imperial guards to patrol all the palaces in the harem.

Of course, the place guarded by the most imperial guards is the Jiangxue Palace.

Song Yuesheng basks in the sun every day and listens to news about Wen Man.

So uncomfortable.

The matter that she asked Ye Heyou to hand over to Mrs. Song was soon settled.

But within ten days, the play of Phoenix Nirvana had already reached the palace. Qiao Yue would ask the little palace maid who delivered food every day about the latest version of the play, and then tell it vividly to Song Yuesheng and Qiao Xin.

"Phoenix Nirvana" tells the story of a young girl who wanted to avenge her husband who had passed the imperial examination and abandoned his first wife to marry a princess. She went through many hardships and eventually grew up to be a female prime minister. She sent the unfaithful man to prison and benefited the people.

As the play spread more and more widely, the news that the late queen was not dead exploded in Linjing like a firecracker.

Some people associate Concubine Wen with the play "Phoenix Nirvana", believing that Concubine Wen is the living former queen who concealed her identity in order to take revenge on the emperor.

They also said that the late queen would definitely become the prime minister of the dynasty like in the operas, and some even spread rumors about the empress.

There was a lot of discussion outside the palace, and there were many rules inside the palace, but it couldn't stop some people from talking behind the scenes.

Outside, Xiling and Gao Qian were causing chaos, and inside, rumors were undermining the foundations of the country.

Xiao Guixi immediately ordered the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple to arrest all those who spread the rumors.

On the surface, the gossip was curbed.

This delicate balance lasted for a month, until Xiling and Gao Qian each sent five envoys to Linjing for negotiations.

They had only one condition for withdrawing their troops: to send Song Yuesheng and Wen Man to marry the princess.

As for who would go to Xiling and who would go to Gaoqian, the envoy did not specify.

"Miss Song."

The low voice broke the tranquility of Jiangxue Palace.

Hearing the unfamiliar voice, Song Yuesheng turned around immediately.

I saw Qiao Yue and Qiao Xin falling to the ground, with a man standing behind them.

Judging from his clothes, he is from Xiling.

We discussed the negotiation results in the morning and went to see the marriage candidate in the afternoon.

So impatient.

Song Yuesheng looked at the uninvited person with an unhappy expression: "This is the Daning Palace, the Xiling envoy, you are too arrogant."

"Please forgive me, young lady. I have no ill intentions. These two young palace maids are just temporarily unconscious, and their lives are not in danger."

The Xiling envoy saluted Song Yuesheng respectfully.

He looked at her and said, "Miss Song, the prince said that you saved his life, so he ordered me to rescue you and go to Xiling with me to enjoy life."

Song Yuesheng opened her red lips and said, "I don't know your prince."

The battle at the front hasn't been defeated yet, but they're already thinking about getting people.

Still two concubines.

"The prince said that since he is still alive, he will definitely not be as ignorant of people as before. He also said that no matter who the queen thinks the prince is, he will repay you."

This sounds familiar.

Song Yuesheng rubbed his fingers and asked tentatively: "Is your prince Yan Ge?"

The messenger nodded.

"The prince's real name is Wenren Ge, and Yan is the surname of the late queen who passed away ten years ago. Miss Song, the prince loves you deeply, so please don't let him down."

No wonder there are years of war in the plot.

So it’s because of the fight for the heroine Wen Man?

Song Yuesheng clicked his tongue, with the corners of his lips curved.

"I have not lost the war yet. Although the two countries are at war, envoys will not be killed, but your prince should have told me what kind of character I am. If you don't leave, I will kill you immediately."

"Please consider this carefully, young lady." The Xiling envoy sprinkled powder on Qiao Xin and Qiao Yue, then turned and left.

Song Yuesheng sneered.

Consider a hammer.

Yan Ge’s target is Wen Man, and she is just an accessory.

If she went to Xiling, she would be unfamiliar with the place and many people would try to make things difficult for her.

Fighting all day long is tiring and brings no benefits.