If not abolished

Chapter 320 Unnamed Draft 8

Wu Yingyue realized that standing at the door was indeed suspicious, so she went into the room.

"Do you think Concubine Guo would lie to me? She never thought of helping me at all?" Wu Yingyue was getting really anxious and began to imagine that she was being deceived by Concubine Guo.

The system replied: "Not really. There is still time. Wait a little longer. She will definitely help you."

Wu Yingyue was still unsure, and finally, after Concubine Li left, Concubine Guo's people arrived.

"Miss Yingyue, our queen wants you to come over." Wu Yingyue was finally relieved when she saw that it was Lanzhi, who was beside Concubine Guo, who came over in person.

"Let's go." Wu Yingyue said and prepared to leave.

"Miss Yingyue, wait a minute. Have you forgotten what you promised our queen?" The reason why Lanzhi was asked to come here in person was to let her take action now.

"Right now, I want to wait until midnight tonight to take action, so that she will have no remedy..." Wu Yingyue said her plan.

"Miss Yingyue, the queen said that it should be now, and today is a festival, Concubine Qingluan should have drunk a lot of wine, she won't be drunk and still look at her clothes, so start now, and by then it will be the middle of the night, who knows if you have done it? If you don't want to, then I will take my leave, you can stay alone." Lanzhi said and prepared to leave.

Wu Yingyue quickly held her back and said, "Sister Lanzhi, don't leave. I'll do it."

Hearing this, Lanzhi immediately took out a pair of scissors and handed them to her.

Wu Yingyue took the scissors from her, walked into the room, found the box where the clothes were kept, and saw that it was locked.

"Do you know where the key is?" Lanzhi asked.

"No... wait, I know." Wu Yingyue didn't know at first, because the last time Qingluan showed her, it was not locked. It was the system that told her where the key was just now.

"Where?" Lanzhi asked.

"On herself?!" Wu Yingyue asked the system in surprise when she heard it.

"What should we do then?" Lanzhi saw that she was talking nonsense.

"Don't worry, sister. I have a way." After saying that, Wu Yingyue took off the hairpin on her head and prepared to unlock the door. Of course, she didn't know how to do it. She was just making a gesture for Lanzhi to see. In fact, the lock was opened by the system, and she even made a deal with the system.

With a click, the lock opened.

"Okay." Wu Yingyue turned around and looked at Lanzhi.

"Clothes. That?" After the box was opened, it was full of clothes.

"This." Wu Yingyue found a wrapped item from a pile of clothes and opened it.

"Let's get started," Lanzhi urged.

Wu Yingyue said sorry in her heart, but then she thought, what about the deep sisterly love, but in the end, wasn't she locked up to guard against her? Besides, didn't Qingluan say before that in order to climb up, you have to do whatever it takes. The system thought to itself, what a hypocritical woman, she found so many excuses for herself.

After destroying the clothes, Wu Yingyue put the things back intact and locked the boxes again.

"Can we go now?" After doing all this, Wu Yingyue turned around and asked.

"Of course, Miss Yingyue, let's go." Lanzhi put the scissors away again.

Finally it was dark, and the darkness covered the entire sky, just like everything done during the day was hidden in the darkness.

Wu Yingyue followed Concubine Guo all the way to the banquet. Concubine Li was seated next to Concubine Guo. When Concubine Guo sat down, the two nodded and greeted each other.

When Concubine Li saw Wu Yingyue behind Concubine Guo, she was startled and asked in a low voice: "Why did my sister bring her here? Does Concubine Qingluan know?"

"This girl doesn't know the rules. I brought her here specially to teach her the rules. Please don't meddle in other people's business," Concubine Guo said while looking at her.

"Is that so?" Concubine Li didn't say anything else.

At this time, Qingluan, who had just arrived at the small banquet, would not know that her clothes had been cut.

"Qingluan Concubine, we are here. Everyone is here. Let's start the feast."

"By the way, the banquet has started over there too, right?" someone said.

"It must have started. Alas, it's just that we are unlucky and have low positions. Otherwise, we could have gone too."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't be discouraged, okay? Isn't tomorrow His Highness' birthday? Didn't the Crown Princess say that sisters with talents can show off their skills tomorrow? Tomorrow is a good opportunity, maybe we can gain favor, and once we are promoted, we can go to the banquet next year."

"That's right, sister, have you made any preparations?" someone asked.

"It's meaningless to ask that. Who dares to say that they haven't prepared anything? A birthday gift must be prepared for His Highness, right? Well, let's have a drink first."

"That's right." Several people had their own ulterior motives. Qingluan didn't want to drink, but she couldn't resist their persuasion and drank a lot. She couldn't handle the alcohol. After a while, she got drunk and started talking nonsense: "You guys will wait and see tomorrow. I will definitely make His Highness look at me with new eyes..."

"Ah, yes, yes, sister Qingluan, is she drunk?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Speaking of which, my sister is quite impressive. You snatched the Crown Prince from Concubine Guo."

"That's right. Who is Concubine Guo? When she was in favor, even the Crown Princess had to avoid her."

"Well, now Concubine Guo is no longer viable. The only one who remains standing in the East Palace is still the Crown Princess. Fortunately, she is also a good person."

"Yes, indeed. Let's try to have a child so that we can have someone to rely on in the future."

"Tell me, in this palace, who doesn't want to live hard? Why does this woman have to make things difficult for other women..."

Several people were drunk and talked about irrelevant things. When they were almost done, their personal maids helped them go back.

When Qingluan went back, Wu Yingyue had not come back yet, but no one cared for the time being.

After Qingluan returned, she fell on the bed and almost vomited on it. She kept the palace servants busy for most of the night and even held them back from leaving.

On the other side, Zhu Zhanji and Hu Shanxiang also arrived at the banquet. Zhu Zhanji sat next to the prince, and Hu Shanxiang sat next to the princess, on the left and right sides respectively.

After waiting for a while, Zhu Di and Concubine Wang arrived.

"Your Majesty, long live the emperor!" Everyone knelt down.

"We are all family, please stand up." Zhu Di sat down and continued, "Today is a family dinner, everyone should be relaxed."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Everyone stood up.

The banquet was pretty much the same. We were drinking and watching the singing and dancing. I don't know if it was because the music was too loud, but suddenly we heard a baby crying.

Everyone looked towards the voice, and this time only Sun Ruoji brought the child.

"Wow, wow, wow..." The child kept crying.

The singing and dancing had to stop for the time being.

"Is the child feeling unwell?" Zhu Di asked. Everyone looked at him and no one dared to speak. They could only wait for Zhu Di to speak. If it were any other child, it would definitely be impolite in front of the palace, but this was Zhu Di's only great-granddaughter, so Zhu Di couldn't help but show concern.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I might have been frightened by the noise." Sun Ruoji came out and replied.

"Then let's not watch the singing and dancing, let's try to do something else."

But after the singing and dancing stopped, the child continued to cry, so Concubine Wang asked, "It's so late, does the child want to go to bed? Why is he making a fuss?"

"Maybe." Sun Ruoji usually doesn't take care of children, so how would she know? She stammered.

At this time, Wang Jundai stood up and said, "Your Majesty, Imperial Concubine, Yaoyao would normally rest at this time, but now she needs to rest. I wonder if I can let you carry her down to rest."

"Since the child needs to rest, take him to the next hall to rest." Zhu Di said.

Wang Jundai immediately took the child away from Sun Ruoji.

"It seems that Concubine Sun doesn't take good care of the child, and she doesn't even know what the Princess of the County knows." Concubine Wang had heard before that the child seemed to be raised by the Princess of the County.

Sun Ruoji lowered her head and stood there, not knowing what to do. Zhu Zhanqi couldn't let her embarrass herself like this, so he said, "Your Majesty, the concubine was not feeling well after giving birth, so the child is not with her for the time being, so it is inevitable..."

"Okay, go back and sit down." Zhu Di said.

"Yes." Zhu Zhanji looked up and was about to look away when he suddenly saw his pupils dilate and he looked at her several times with uncertainty. Sun Ruoji also raised her head and saw Zhu Zhanji looking at her several times. She thought: Could it be that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still can't forget me? Otherwise, why would he look at her so many times in public?

This is because Sun Ruoji has too much inner drama. There is a Concubine Li between Concubine Guo's position and Sun Ruoji's position. Zhu Zhanji just saw Wu Yingyue next to Concubine Guo, but from a big picture perspective, Zhu Zhanji did seem to be looking at Sun Ruoji again.

At this time, Wu Yingyue also found that Zhu Zhanji looked in her direction several times, and she was secretly delighted. She knew that as long as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince saw her, Zhu Zhanji would definitely remember her.

Zhu Zhanqi was also staring at Zhu Zhanji. Naturally, he also noticed Zhu Zhanji's actions. He was angry, but he couldn't vent it, so he could only drink cup after cup of wine.

Hu Shanxiang didn't see anything. She slept for a long time in the afternoon and didn't eat anything. She was a little hungry now, so she was eating. Anyway, no one would see her, so she ate quietly.