diskusbooks Chapter 437 The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Chapter 437 The enemy of my enemy is my friend
The nanny didn't expect that the Queen Mother would be so tolerant towards the little princess of the King of City. If any other prince or princess dared to shout here, the Queen Mother would have sent people to beat her out long ago. How could she still have a smile on her face?
"Where's the queen? Such a big thing happened in the harem, why is she nowhere to be seen?"
"The Queen is seriously ill. All matters in the harem are now in the hands of Concubine Xiao."
The Queen Mother frowned when she heard this: "Although she holds a high position, she still lacks something and is not qualified to take on this important task."
At this moment, the noise outside became louder, and the Queen Mother said in a deep voice: "What's going on?"
A maid came in and said, "Her Majesty, it's Concubine Xiao. She said something was lost in Chengqian Palace and she's searching the whole palace!"
"Ridiculous." The Queen Mother's voice was extremely cold. Upon hearing this, the maids in the room hurriedly knelt on the ground.
"If you can't even keep an eye on something, what else can you do? If something is lost, the whole harem will be in turmoil. It's really unruly. The previous Buddhist scriptures were copied into the dog's stomach." She patted the cushion beside her: "Send someone to tell them that if there is an assassin, arrest him immediately. If not, just close the palace door and go back to your own palace to dig it up, don't disturb others' peace."
"Yes."
Shang Ruoyi almost laughed out loud when she heard what the Queen Mother did.
I didn't expect this old lady to be so cute.
At this time, in Chengqian Palace, Concubine Xiao stood at the door of the side hall, looking at the empty room inside, her heart boiling with anger.
"How is it possible? How could so many boxes of stuff just disappear like that? There was no sound at all? The mechanisms didn't work." She almost fainted.
"You two damn things, did you really not see anyone suspicious?"
"My lady, we have been guarding the door and have never left. There is really no one coming in or out!"
"Then tell me, where did all the things in here go?"
How could the two maids know? They dared not say that they had left for a while without permission.
She just kept shaking her head: "My lady, we really don't know!"
The maidservant beside Concubine Xiao walked over and slapped her hard a few times: "Tell me! What's going on?"
"Your Highness, this is unfair! We servants really don't know what happened. If someone really stole something, there might not be any noise at all!"
Concubine Xiao suddenly remembered the things that had disappeared from the Queen's secret room overnight.
The techniques used in these two places are exactly the same, they must have been done by the same person.
At this time, Nanny Wang came in. When Concubine Xiao saw the people around the Queen Mother coming, she suppressed her anger and asked, "Nanny Wang, what's the matter with you?"
Nanny Wang smiled and said, "I pay my respects to the Imperial Concubine. The Empress Dowager asked me to bring a message to her."
"What?" Concubine Xiao had a bad feeling. The old woman, the Empress Dowager, had never liked her and she was sure that she would send her servants to add insult to injury.
"The Queen Mother said so. If it was just you who lost the things, then you should close the door and look for it carefully. Don't make trouble for the whole palace. Since you are in a high position, you should not act arbitrarily."
"Yes." Concubine Xiao gritted her teeth. She was very angry in her heart, but she had to pretend to be well-behaved and sensible on her face.
Now is not the time to fall out with that old thing, the Queen Mother.
Once she truly holds power, wouldn't it be easy to deal with the Queen Mother?
As soon as Nanny Wang left, Concubine Xiao immediately sent the two maids to prison.
"Useless people don't deserve to live in this world. Since you don't know where those things have gone, just leave with those treasures!" After she finished speaking, she winked at the maid beside her, who quickly took action and broke the necks of the two maids.
The crisp sound reached Concubine Xiao's ears, the corners of her lips curled slightly, and she felt extremely comfortable all over.
"My lady, those gold and silver are not rare things. If they are lost, they are lost. You don't have to worry. When you become the wife of the sect master in the future, all the wealth in the world will be yours."
Concubine Xiao nodded her little head: "What are you talking about, little girl?"
When did she ever say she wanted to be the sect leader's wife?
What I want to do is to be the sect leader!
Only by standing at the pinnacle of power can you truly control your own destiny.
She touched her belly with a complicated look in her eyes.
"Did the guards who searched Ningshou Palace say anything?"
"I have asked carefully. According to the servants, the little princess of the City Prince's Mansion was very impatient when she was woken up. It was obvious that she was not awake yet, and her eyes were red. I think these things were not done by her. How could she move so many boxes by herself? Besides, there are so many guards in the palace. If she was carrying such a large box, she would have been discovered long ago."
Many mysteries troubled them, and Concubine Xiao felt more and more upset.
Shang Ruoyi returned to the space and looked at the mountains of gold, silver and jewelry in front of her. She couldn't help but feel in a good mood, and even the wound on her arm didn't hurt much anymore.
She took the short arrow and examined it carefully.
Where did that person appear from?
The arrow was so fast that she couldn't even react to it.
If I didn’t have the space to protect me, I don’t know what I would be like today.
It’s not that I can’t beat him, but my identity will be exposed.
The Emperor of the Western Regions detained me in the palace just to hold the emperor hostage to control the princes. He wanted me to be bait and force my father and brother to attack Tianshun according to his wishes. If the city was really massacred, the City Prince's Mansion would owe too many lives. I would have to die to thank the world.
Right now, looking at the situation in the palace, the Queen Mother seemed to be on her side, or it could be said that the Queen Mother hated Concubine Xiao as much as she did. As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The Queen Mother had a high status in the harem, so she could be counted on for a while.
The most important thing these days is to make the Emperor of the Western Regions revoke his order, otherwise countless innocent people in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun will die.
A general's success is achieved at the cost of thousands of lives, and most of the victims are ordinary people. How innocent are they?
Shang Ruoyi did not notice that while she was thinking about these things, those places in the space that could not be opened and the spaces that had not been opened were trembling slightly.
The Western Region Emperor sat in the study, frowning. He looked at the man in front of him and whispered, "Hasn't the person been found yet?"
"Your Majesty." He clasped one hand in front of his chest and bowed slightly. "He has not been caught yet, but he has injuries on his body. This is absolutely true. Because I smelled a trace of blood in that place, it must be left by that person. As long as we look for it again, we will definitely find it."
"Humph." The Western Region Emperor snorted coldly: "Useless, a bunch of useless people, you can't even catch a wounded person, why should I keep you?"