Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 238 3 Cobblers

Yesterday, Yizhen accompanied Ji Anni to the Imperial Hospital and had memorized the steps of changing the dressing. This morning, she went to the Imperial Hospital again and took on the job of changing the dressing herself, just to visit Ji Anni.

Ji Anni is now under house arrest by the Queen Mother, and it is very difficult to see her. If Yizhen hadn't found an excuse to change the medicine, she would have to wait until Ji Anni was released to reunite with her.

"Yizhen, it's so nice to see you. I'm almost bored." Ji Anni was so moved that tears welled up in her eyes. She was as excited as a prisoner who was finally seeing his relatives visiting him.

Yizhen smiled faintly, put the medicine box on the table, gently touched Ji Anni's shoulder and asked, "Xiao Zhao, does your wound still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore, but I can feel the pain for a few more days for you. Okay, I've decided. I'll feel the pain until the day the Queen Mother releases me, hehe." Ji Anni grinned.

If my wound healed, wouldn't Yizhen have no excuse to come visit me? So I just pretended to be in pain and let my wound never heal, so that Yizhen could come to help me change the dressing all the time. Of course, this idea was too optimistic.

Yizhen laughed, and that look of helplessness and doting seemed to say "there's really nothing I can do about you".

Yizhen's arrival made Shui Furong feel uncomfortable. She couldn't stand or sit, and she walked around the room, sometimes on the left, sometimes on the right, and couldn't stop for a long time. She didn't dare to look directly at Yizhen, and her eyes kept flying around in the space above Yizhen's head. Hey, Yizhen was the only one who was afraid of seeing Shui Furong, how could Shui Furong be afraid of seeing Yizhen?

"Shui Congfei, what's wrong with you?" Ji Anni couldn't help but ask.

"Ah, what's wrong? Nothing, nothing..." Shui Furong was still feeling uneasy.

At this time, Yizhen suddenly spoke. She turned around and smiled at Shui Furong, saying, "Shui Congfei, thank you for your letter."

As soon as she finished speaking, Shui Furong was like a volcano about to erupt, almost spewing hot air from her head. But it was not the heat of anger, but the heat of shyness. She didn't dare to look at Yizhen anymore, and continued to turn left and right in the room.

Ji Anni finally understood that it was because of the apology letter that Shui Furong didn't know how to face Yizhen. This was the first time they met after Yizhen received the letter, so Shui Furong cared about Yizhen's reaction.

However, Yizhen's answer was nothing more than "Thank you for your letter."

Ji Anni suddenly remembered the piece of paper with half of the word "Zhen" written on it that Die'er had stuffed into her, and her mood suddenly became heavy.

Did Yizhen read the letter? What did Shui Furong write that made Yizhen tear up the letter?

She wanted to ask but couldn't. A bunch of question marks were blocking her chest, almost suffocating Ji Anni.

"Xiao Zhao, let me help you change the medicine." Yizhen said as she began to undress Ji Annie.

Ji Anni's wound was on her shoulder, so she had to take off her shirt to change the dressing. If everyone was a woman, it wouldn't be a big deal to be topless, but the problem now was that there was a man here...

"Ahem." Ji Annie pretended to cough and glanced at Shui Furong a few times, reminding him that he should step away.

Shui Furong understood immediately. In fact, he had no concept of gender. Since Ji Anni cared about her, he should be a gentleman.

"Okay... I'll go out for a walk..." On the one hand, he wanted to avoid Ji Anni, and on the other hand, he wanted to avoid Yizhen.

After Shui Furong left, Ji Anni took off her shirt and Yizhen helped her remove the old gauze. The wound didn't hurt anymore, but after removing the gauze, she still felt "wow, it hurts so much" when she saw the dark red scar on her shoulder.

"Xiao Zhao, was it Concubine Shui who hurt you?" Yizhen suddenly asked.

In fact, Yizhen had noticed that Ji Anni's wound was not a bite wound, but a sword wound when she was at the Imperial Hospital yesterday. If it was really a fox demon, how could it hurt someone with a sword? There were only Ji Anni and Shui Furong in the Demon Temple that night. Ji Anni would not cut herself with a sword for no reason, so Shui Furong was the only possibility left.

Ji Anni knew that she couldn't hide it from Yizhen, so she had to confess everything: "Yizhen, you don't know, the situation was urgent at that time, I was possessed by a fox demon, Shui Congfei had no choice but to hurt me, otherwise I would still be a fox demon now."

"Possessed?" This statement is obviously different from the version of the fox demon biting people that is currently circulating in the palace.

"It's a long story, but luckily I survived the disaster." As long as she survived the disaster, Ji Annie would be satisfied.

As they were talking, Yizhen had already helped Ji Anni change the medicine. Her every move was very skillful, just like an expert in bandaging wounds. Ji Anni exclaimed "Wow", and admired her skills.

Yizhen felt a little embarrassed and lowered her head to quietly pack up the medicine box.

Ji Anni thought she was going to say goodbye and leave, and just as she was about to ask her to stay, she heard Yizhen ask, "Xiao Zhao, what is that?"

Yizhen pointed at the paper ball that Shui Furong had crumpled up when she entered the room just now and asked. Shui Furong was present just now, so it was inconvenient for her to ask. Now that Shui Furong had left, she was still very concerned about the paper ball and couldn't help asking.

Ji Anni scratched her head, a little hesitant, not knowing whether she should speak or not.

In recent days, she had really kept too many things from Yizhen, which always made Yizhen's eyes dark, as if she was very sad. In the final analysis, Yizhen was just concerned about herself. If she perfunctorily brushed off Yizhen's inquiry again this time, it would be unkind of a friend.

After thinking it over, Ji Anni decided to tell Yizhen. She slowly unfolded the paper ball, pointed at the strange circular pattern on it, and asked Yizhen, "Yizhen, have you seen this pattern?"

As the saying goes, it takes two cobblers to make a better Zhuge Liang. She and Shui Furong are just two cobblers, and there are too many things they are not capable of. If Yizhen is added, then there will be exactly three of them. Maybe Yizhen knows some clues?

Thinking this way, I no longer feel sorry for Shui Furong.

Yizhen stared at the strange pattern for a long time, her brows becoming more and more furrowed.

Seeing her deep thinking, Ji Anni had guessed her confusion. Alas, that was right. Yizhen was just an ordinary person like herself, not a Taoist master like Yun Zhen or Yuan Rong. How could she know the meaning of these curses?

Yizhen thought for a long time, but still had no idea. She shook her head and said, "I'm sorry, Xiaozhao, I don't know."

"Forget it, it doesn't matter..." Ji Annie crumpled the unfolded paper ball back into its original shape.

"Xiao Zhao, where did you see this pattern?" Yizhen asked the same question that Ji Anni had asked just now. It seems that anyone who has seen this pattern will instinctively ask about its origin.

Ji Anni didn't want to hide it from Yizhen, so she told the truth: "It was Shui Congfei who found it. It was on the pillow you slept on before."

"What..." Yizhen's face turned pale instantly, and it seemed that she was very scared.

Yizhen seemed to be very afraid of ghosts. She still remembered that when Yanniang told her that someone had died in her room, her face turned as white as a wax figure. She slept with Ji Anni that night. Later, Yanniang helped Yizhen change her room.

"Why is there this pattern on the pillow?" Yizhen was so scared that her voice trembled.

"I don't know either, it's too weird anyway. Yizhen, don't tell anyone else about this." Ji Anni warned.

"Besides you, do I have anyone else I can talk to..." Yizhen sighed softly, her eyes full of sadness. In this palace, Yizhen only has Ji Anni as her friend.

"Since Shui Congfei has apologized to you, you two can be friends from now on." Ji Anni tried to hint to herself that she should forget about Yizhen tearing up the letter. It would be great if Yizhen could make friends other than herself...

"Xiao Zhao, it's getting late. I'm going back first." Yizhen stood up, as if she didn't want to talk more about Shui Furong.

Ji Anni was also confused and didn't dare to keep Yizhen any longer. She was afraid that if she continued to talk to Yizhen, she would lose control and say everything she could and couldn't say in one breath.

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After leaving Wenhuayuan, Yizhen went to the Imperial Hospital to return the medicine box. The imperial physician asked her about Ji Anni's recovery from her injury, and Yizhen deliberately described the injury as more serious so that she would have an excuse to change the medicine next time.

Next, she went directly to the West Congfei Palace.

In the West Concubine Palace, Yizhen found Yanniang and told her that an earring she brought from her hometown seemed to have fallen into her previous room, and hoped that Yanniang would let her go in and look for it.

Yanniang was very sensitive about that room. Although she agreed to let Yizhen go in to search, the prerequisite was that she had to go with her.

So Yanniang and Yizhen came together to the ominous room in Dong Congfei's palace.

"Where did it fall?" Yan Niang asked.

Yizhen pointed at the pillow and said, "I wonder if it fell on the side of the bed."

Hearing this, Yanniang went over to look for her, and Yizhen followed behind her.

Yanniang turned over the pillow and found nothing unusual, but Yizhen could tell at a glance that the pillow had been replaced.

In the East Concubine Palace, Yizhen and Ji Anni lived in a row of rooms on the left side of the main entrance, and Shui Furong lived in a row of rooms on the right side of the main entrance. The bedding in the rooms on the left and right sides was slightly different.

Yizhen is a careful person, and those tiny differences did not escape her sharp eyes.

She was thinking about how to remind Yan Niang, but Yan Niang herself had already noticed the suspicious points.

Yanniang picked up the pillow and asked Yizhen, "Have you changed the pillow?"

Yizhen shook her head. Talking too much would only make people suspicious.

At this time, Yan Niang had already forgotten her original intention of looking for the earrings, and stared at the pillow in her hand in a daze. She thought for a while, and finally relaxed her brows. A chilling smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she said to herself: "I know who it is... No one else would be interested in this room except her."

After saying that, Yanniang walked towards Shui Furong's room, and Yizhen followed closely behind her.