Don't mess with the stupid concubine

Chapter 20 The Empress Dowager's Secret

"Your Majesty..." The trembling hands of the old palace maid hesitated to hand over the burden.

"Oh, bring it here!" The little maid snatched the bag from the old maid's hand and shook it vigorously!
Several pieces of clothes were shaken to the ground at once.

Caiyi looked at it, quite puzzled: "These are ordinary clothes, neither phoenix clothes nor phoenix crowns, nor silks and satins, why are you so nervous?"

"My lord, spare my life, my lord, spare my life!" The old maid kowtowed in fright and begged for mercy.

The little palace maid explained: "Mother, this old woman is so courageous, she dares to hide something bad luck!"

"Unlucky things?"

"Yes, ma'am, look, here is a set of black clothes, black clothes are not allowed in our Great Summer Palace, it will bring bad luck to Great Summer."

"My empress, please forgive me. This servant just thinks these fabrics are very good, and it would be a pity to throw them away. That's why..."

Caiyi's eyes suddenly lit up, and said, "Throw it away? Who threw it?"

"This..." The old maid was suddenly at a loss for words.

Caiyi said indifferently: "Drag it, and die!"

"I said, I said!"

The old maid hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, when this servant was carrying water and passing by Shouning Palace just now, Miss Ming'er came out to throw out trash..."

Caiyi reached out to pick up the black dress, looked at it, and asked, "Who is Ming'er?"

The little maid said beside her: "Your Majesty, Ming'er is the Empress Dowager's personal maid..."

"The queen mother?"

Caiyi was slightly taken aback, and then said: "You can go."

"Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you for not killing me." The old maid quickly got up and ran away.

The little maid reminded: "Empress, it's about Shouning Palace, it's best not to bother about it..."

"This palace has its own measure."

Caiyi said, and walked slowly towards the palace gate.

"Your Majesty, are you leaving the palace?"

The maids asked carefully, seeing that the master didn't answer, they didn't dare to ask again, but followed from a distance, for fear of disturbing the master's thinking and being punished by the master.

Caiyi thought about it carefully, the masked man in black who appeared at the entrance of the fake cave was wearing the same clothes as the old palace lady's bag.

Could it be that the man in black is the Queen Mother?
If it's the Queen Mother, then why is she helping that bastard?

Could it be that the bastard is a saint today?

But the dignified emperor, if he wants her, he can vent it to his heart's content when he sleeps tonight, so why bother?
While thinking about it, Caiyi left Fengming Palace and stepped into the Imperial Garden before she knew it.

When passing a corner, suddenly a person bumped out, and Caiyi was knocked back two steps unprepared.

But the person who hit her fell back and fell to the ground, leaving a mess on the ground.

"Slaves deserve to die, slaves deserve to die, my lady forgive me, my lady forgive me!"

The court lady who bumped into her was so frightened that her knees fell to the ground, her face paled.

Caiyi picked up a notebook with her pointed fingers, flipped through it casually, and said, "What are you doing?"

The palace maid said tremblingly: "Go back to your mother, the emperor has just been to the imperial study, and ordered the servants to send these yellowed books to the Shangshuyuan for re-copying, and then bring back the new ones."

"Oh...the imperial study room, where is it?"

"Go back to Niang Niang, walk straight from the path in the middle of the imperial garden, and go out the back door of the garden."

Caiyi waved her hand: "Go."

"It's the empress, thank you for not killing me." The maid quickly picked up the book and ran away quickly.

Caiyi couldn't help sighing secretly, this ancient court lady was really humble enough, she was about to be killed at every turn, she was really worse than an ant.

(End of this chapter)