Harem Daily Life

Chapter 275 Tracking the Whereabouts of the Demon Cult

Seeing the two children crying breathlessly, the Queen Mother sighed and said, "You two, stop crying. Concubine Tao was injured and needs to recuperate, so she was sent to the hot spring palace. When she recovers, she will come back to reunite with you."

Xiao Jinan immediately stopped crying, wiped his tears, sniffed and said, "Really? Then can I go to the hot spring palace to accompany my mother?"

Xuan'er also wiped away her tears instantly and looked at the empress dowager eagerly.

The Queen Mother said, "Not for the time being. You two must study hard at the elementary school and not delay your studies. This is what your mother said herself. Don't you listen to her the most?"

The two children were a little confused, but in the end they did not make a fuss about going to the palace.

The Queen Mother raised her eyebrows and said, "Also, choose one of the concubines in the palace to take care of you."

Xiao Jinan shook his head wildly: "No, no, I can take care of myself. I only want my mother, not any other queens."

Xuan'er was a little hesitant. Her biological mother was not in the palace, and she had always been taken care of by her mother. Even if she didn't have a mother, she still had Concubine Tao. Children with a mother were treasures, but without a mother, they would be nothing but pitiful children in this palace, unable to move forward.

But after thinking about it, she couldn't think of anyone who could replace Concubine Tao.

"Hey, Grandmother, Xuan'er has thought about it and found no one she likes. Then I will follow my brother Jin'an. We will depend on each other."

Seeing that neither of them wanted to find another concubine to raise them, the Queen Mother said, "Then the two of you will live in Changle Palace first, and be taken care of by the palace maids and palace servants. If you have any problems, just come to me directly, and I will take care of it for you."

After the Queen Mother finished speaking, she looked at Qingfeng and Mingyue and said, "You two are close maids to Concubine Tao. From today on, you will be promoted to first-class maids. The eldest princess and the second prince will be handed over to you two. You must take good care of them and raise them well. When Concubine Tao returns in the future, you can explain to her."

Qingfeng and Mingyue knelt down and said, "Yes, we will do our best to take care of the eldest princess and the second prince. Please rest assured, Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother then asked Eunuch Qin to give Mingyue the gold medal representing the Queen Mother: "I have seen that you are usually steady and prudent. This gold medal is like my presence in person. If anyone dares to provoke the eldest princess and the second prince, you can punish him with the token. You must not let these two children suffer any loss."

Mingyue took it with both hands: "Yes, I will obey the Queen Mother's order." She breathed a sigh of relief. With the Queen Mother protecting the two children and the people in Changle Palace, they could finally live in peace during the time when Concubine Tao was away.

After the two of them brought the two children back to Changle Palace, they closed the palace gates and called everyone together to convey the Queen Mother's decree. They also asked everyone to cheer up and guard Changle Palace and take good care of the two children during the Queen Mother's absence in order to repay the Queen Mother for her life-saving grace.

Everyone wiped away their tears, and their hearts were more united than ever before.

He Linzhang was busy making arrangements before leaving the palace.

Needless to say, the arrangements in the court were made. In the harem, the queen was due to give birth in July, and Concubine Shu was due to give birth in June. There were still a few months left, and he visited them one by one. He only said that he had to accompany Concubine Tao to recuperate, so he had to leave the palace for a while, and if he could make it, he would come back to accompany them in their births.

But only he himself knew that this trip would be dangerous and the time he would spend there was uncertain, and he didn't know when he would be able to return.

On the other hand, he asked the imperial physician to increase the dosage of the medicine so that he could recover as soon as possible. He also asked the shadow guard to continue to explore the traces of the evil cult, and asked eunuch Zhang to search for the remnants of the evil cult in the palace. Eunuch Zhang actually found the person who sneaked into Tao Yanyan's room to take blood.

It was the man's own bad luck. When Chief Steward Li heard Eunuch Zhang asking if there was any palace maid in the palace with suspicious behavior or who had martial arts, the young eunuch following Chief Steward Li talked about how he once saw a palace maid in the outer courtyard who had good martial arts and could climb walls and fly over eaves.

Eunuch Zhang immediately captured the maidservant.

The man felt that he had been exposed, so he used force to try to escape in the chaos. As a result, he was surrounded by guards and finally taken to the Ministry of Punishment.

After severe torture, the palace maid admitted that she was a pawn planted by the cult into the palace specifically for Concubine Tao's blood.

"When did you enter the palace? How do you usually contact the evil cult outside the palace? Tell me everything you know quickly and I will kill you quickly. Otherwise, I will cut you ninety-nine times and make you live a life worse than death." Yin Jiu interrogated the woman personally, wishing he could cut her into pieces.

"I entered the palace...last year...in September. Our Great Protector once saw Concubine Tao's face and said that she looked 70% like the old lady of the Demon Cult when she was young. That's why he suspected Concubine Tao's background."

After she finished speaking, she took two deep breaths and continued, "I usually go to the third courtyard from the left on Liuyang Street. It's a base of our Demon Cult in the capital. But I can't guarantee that there's still anyone there."

Yin Jiu took note and continued to ask, "Where exactly is your Demon Sect?"

The woman glanced at Yin Jiu, shook her head and said, "I can't answer you. It's in a place that can't be found in the Three Kingdoms. That place is a restricted area. You can't go there."

Yin Jiu angrily said, "There must be a direction. Just tell us which direction it is and we will naturally look for it."

"Hahahaha, direction? There is no direction. If it weren't for the Demon Cult's own people who were there in person, there would be no way to tell where the direction is. We have our own way of distinguishing, and you wouldn't know even if I told you."

Yin Jiu was so angry that he was extremely anxious, but this woman didn't say anything useful, which was really a waste of time.

"Apply medicine to her and don't let her die. We still need her to lead the way." Yin Jiu had no choice but to give instructions and hurried to report to the emperor. He had to take people to Liuyang Street, maybe they could catch a few people from the Demon Cult.

Unfortunately, when they arrived at Liuyang Street and kicked open the door, there was no one there. The building was already empty.

The shadow guards turned the courtyard upside down and checked it carefully two or three times, looking for any clues.

"Yin Jiu, look, this is a prescription from a pharmacy. The date on the prescription is yesterday, which means that at least someone was here yesterday."

Yin Jiu was very upset. If he had known, he would have gone to sleep and arrested him yesterday. It was a pity that they only found the spy in the palace today.

"Let's take the prescription back first and ask the imperial physician what it is used to treat." After the group left, Yin Jiu went directly to the Imperial Hospital.

It happened that Doctor Liu was on duty today. When Yin Jiu handed him a prescription, he looked at it carefully and said, "This prescription is for treating vertigo, such as carsickness from riding in a carriage or seasickness from riding on a boat."