Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 217 The Beginning of Change

"When you asked to change rooms, weren't you afraid of offending the Queen Mother?"

I still remember that when she was training in Renhe Hall, Shui Furong asked Yanniang to exchange rooms with Yizhen, because that room was where her deceased sister had lived. Later, Yanniang took Shui Furong to meet the Queen Mother for this matter. Shui Furong probably told the Queen Mother that she entered the palace to investigate the cause of her sister's death three years ago, right?

If the matter was really related to the Queen Mother, would the Queen Mother deal with Shui Furong the same way she dealt with the Xi family three years ago? Although Shui Furong was known to be bold, it would be too reckless for her to deliberately confront the Queen Mother, right? Ji Anni couldn't help but sweat for her.

Shui Furong said confidently, "I'm not afraid that the Queen Mother will harm me, I'm just afraid that she won't. If she really wants to harm me, it means she's guilty, which means that my sister's death must be related to her. As long as she's guilty, she'll definitely show her hand. People who have done bad things will definitely leave evidence somewhere, and I don't believe I can't find it out."

Ji Anni finally understood that Shui Furong was risking her life to deliberately provoke and test the Queen Mother, which was a risky move. However, the Queen Mother didn't seem to have done anything to Shui Furong until now. Does this mean that the Queen Mother had nothing to do with this matter?

"Shui Congfei, what if we can't find out the cause of your sister's death?" Ji Anni asked worriedly.

Three years had passed since the incident, and the witnesses and physical evidence were hard to find. If Shui Furong wanted to continue investigating, she would face more difficulties than three years ago.

Shui Furong didn't like being scolded, so she said unhappily, "How can you not find out? As the saying goes, the net of heaven is vast and nothing can escape it. God will not let any bad guy go."

Seeing how serious she was, Ji Anni couldn't help but laugh.

"What are you laughing at?" Shui Furong pinched Ji Anni's arm fiercely.

The pain was so severe that Ji Anni wanted to cry and screamed "Ouch, ouch".

This water lotus is really heavy-handed, and she is not afraid of pinching herself to the point of hurting herself.

After the pain, Ji Anni said, "Shui Congfei, you speak so righteously, as if you have never done anything bad."

"What bad things have I done?" Shui Furong asked in a raised voice, obviously having completely forgotten all the bad things she had done.

Ji Anni reminded her, "On your first day in the palace, you wanted to rob Yizhen's room. Later, when you failed to do so, you decided to rob Yizhen's maid. Isn't that a bad thing?"

"This, this..." Shui Furong's face turned red and she stammered, unable to speak.

"Since you are a friend of justice and a messenger of public morality, why don't you return Yizhen's maid?"

Although Yizhen now has Die'er to serve her, she must have suffered a lot before this.

Shui Furong lowered her head and said, "She didn't come to ask me for it. If I just gave it back, it would be so embarrassing..."

After all the fuss, it turned out to be a matter of face. Ji Anni was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

"Even if Yizhen asks you for it, you will never give it back..." You might even bully Yizhen even more.

Ji Anni has already figured out Shui Furong's temper.

Shui Furong smiled embarrassedly, obviously what Ji Anni said was right.

"You shouldn't have snatched it at all." Ji Annie finally summed it up with one sentence.

"I did feel a little regretful afterwards..." Shui Furong turned her face away and said in a low voice.

In fact, she was not hopeless, she just couldn't bring herself to apologize to Yizhen. In the final analysis, it was still her temper that was at work.

As they were talking, they had already entered the palace and were heading deeper into the palace along the dusty corridors.

The wind was blowing coldly and everything looked bleak. If you were not careful you would bump into a spider web.

Ji Annie was most afraid of spiders. She was so scared that she grimaced and trembled all over. If she had a tail, she would have clamped it up long ago.

"Shui Congfei, let's go back. There doesn't seem to be anything interesting here..."

After walking for a long time, all I saw were spider webs and rat droppings. There were no monsters or ghosts at all.

Even if there is, it wouldn't come out all day to scare people, right?

"Since we all heard crying just now, it means there must be something in here." Shui Furong insisted and refused to back down, dragging Ji Anni to continue moving deeper.

"Maybe we all heard it wrong..." Ji Anni tried to think positively.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the strange crying sound rang out again.

Although the crying was not loud, the tone was extremely mournful, and Ji Anni got goose bumps all over her body.

"Shui...Shui Congfei, I...let's...go back..."

Ji Anni's voice was trembling, and it was several times more terrifying than the crying.

Shui Furong patted her and pretended to be calm, "You are useless. There is only one monster and we are two living people. Why are we afraid of it? I... I was not brought up to be scared. Today... Today I must see what is going on..."

"Wow, this is not a question of how many people there are..." Ji Anni wanted to cry but had no tears. The monsters knew magic and could kill people without them being seen, but what did she and Shui Furong know? At most, they only knew a few tricks of fist and foot skills. How could they defeat the monsters?

As the wind grew stronger, the mournful cries faded. But the fainter the cries became, the more terrifying they sounded.

At this time, the decayed palace began to creak and shake, as if it was about to collapse.

Ji Anni and Shui Furong hugged each other tighter and moved forward half a step at a time.

They turned a corner and passed through a small archway.

At this moment, the scene in front of me suddenly changed. It was no longer dust, mud, dead branches and leaves, but a charred courtyard.

There is a circular pattern with a radius of five steps in the middle of the yard. It was not formed naturally, but was the result of burning.

Could this be the site of the original execution at the stake? In other words, the Fox Queen was burned alive here?

Ji Anni's heart suddenly contracted. For some reason, the scene in front of her suddenly aroused a trace of heartache in her. As long as she thought of a woman who had been burned to ashes here, her body could not help but tremble.

Although Shui Furong was brave, she still showed a sad look after seeing the tragic site of the burning.

The wind was howling, blowing up dust all over the ground and blowing towards our faces.

The intermittent crying sounds surrounding my head became less and less real, like an illusion.

"Shui... Congfei, shall we... shall we go back?" Ji Anni clung to Shui Furong tightly, not daring to move forward. Her body felt cold, as if her blood was about to stagnate, but her heartbeat was getting stronger.

Shui Furong was also too frightened to take a step, but she was much braver than Ji Anni, and she raised her head and shouted towards the courtyard: "Who is howling like a ghost here? Whether you are a human or a ghost, come out and see us!"

As she yelled, the sobbing sound in the wind gradually disappeared...

"Shui Congfei, forget it... forget it..." Ji Anni was really afraid that Shui Furong would yell out some monster.

Across the courtyard, about twenty or thirty steps away, there was a small house with two doors.

From a distance, it looked like there was a huge rusty lock hanging on the door.

There were several pieces of yellow paper with red words written on them pasted on the lock, which looked a bit like the talismans used by Taoists.

There must be something locked in this room? Could it be the box containing the fox beads?

Just as Ji Anni was thinking, Shui Furong left her and walked towards the locked room alone.

"Shui Congfei! Shui Congfei!" Ji Anni didn't want to be left alone, so she hurriedly trotted to catch up.

Strangely, as soon as she took a step, she suddenly felt dizzy. The ground beneath her feet kept spinning, and the surrounding scenery became blurry as the ground spun. She couldn't even see the water lotus two steps away.

Ji Anni’s head became increasingly dizzy and heavy.

After a scream of "Ah", her body fell downwards.

"Concubine Zhao Cong!" Seeing her suddenly fall down, Shui Furong no longer cared to check the locked room, and hurriedly turned around and ran towards her.

"Concubine Zhao Cong, how are you?" Shui Furong helped Ji Anni up from the ground.

Ji Anni had a splitting headache and kept her eyes tightly closed. Only after Shui Furong's worried calls did she slowly open her eyes.

Unexpectedly, the moment she opened her eyes, Shui Furong was stunned with fright.

After two seconds of stagnation, she screamed "Ah!" and Shui Furong pushed Ji Anni away with a palm. Her face was as white as wax, and her pupils shrank into tiny dots because of fear. What on earth did she see that frightened her like this?