Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 231 Snowflakes

"Hua Rong, now that things have come to this, please stop asking questions and help me pack my things, okay?"

After lunch, I have to report to Wenhua College. Time is tight and I don’t have time to listen to Huarong’s nagging.

Hua Rong sighed and obediently went to pack clothes for Ji Anni. Suddenly she remembered something else and asked, "By the way, Madam, what is that pool of blood in the Demon Temple?"

"Oh, I'm hurt." Ji Anni said calmly.

"What?" Hua Rong was so frightened that she stood there like a wooden chicken. She couldn't believe that Ji Anni was actually injured.

"But the wound doesn't hurt anymore..." Ji Annie was afraid that Hua Rong would make a fuss, so she quickly added this sentence.

"That won't work, Your Majesty. I'll accompany you to the Imperial Hospital first." Hua Rong immediately put down the work in her hands and walked towards Ji Anni.

"No, no, just help me pack my things. I'll go to the Imperial Hospital with Yizhen." Ji Anni ran out of the door to find Yizhen. But Yizhen was not in the room. Did she go to the imperial kitchen again?

In the yard, Shui Furong and Liu Yingying hadn't finished arguing yet, but they had already attracted everyone's attention, and no one noticed Ji Anni's presence. Well, Ji Anni took the opportunity to swagger out.

After walking a few steps out of the palace gate, I suddenly realized that I didn't know where the Imperial Hospital was.

Just when he was in distress, he looked up and saw Yizhen coming towards him.

"Yizhen, it's so nice to meet you." Ji Anni hurried over and took Yizhen's hand, "I was just about to go to the Imperial Hospital."

"Imperial Medical Doctor? Are you feeling unwell?" Yizhen was slightly surprised.

"Yeah, a little." Ji Annie was afraid that Yizhen and Huarong's reactions would be as exaggerated, so she didn't dare to say that she was hurt by the fox demon.

Yizhen asked worriedly, "Xiao Zhao, where did you and Shui Congfei go last night? At three o'clock last night, the Queen Mother, Taoist Yuan Rong, Yan Niang, and many guards came. They said they found a pool of blood in the Demon Temple and suspected it was related to you..."

Having said that, Yizhen held Ji Anni's hands tighter, lowered her brows deeply, and looked at Ji Anni with concern.

Ji Anni didn't want to linger at the entrance of Dong Congfei Palace, so she pulled Yizhen forward and comforted her as she walked, "Yizhen, don't worry, I'm fine, right?"

"You went to the Imperial Hospital when you were fine..." Yizhen immediately found fault with her words, but she didn't expect that the pool of blood in the Demon-Suppressing Temple was left by Ji Anni.

It was not until she arrived at the Imperial Hospital and the imperial physician examined Ji Anni's injuries that Yizhen realized that Ji Anni's injuries were very serious. There was a long cut on her arm, and although it was gradually healing, the dark red blood on the edge of the wound still made Yizhen dizzy.

"Xiao Zhao..." After the imperial physician left, Yizhen sat next to Ji Anni, looked at her distressedly and asked, "Does it still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore." Ji Anni even deliberately moved her arm up and down for Yizhen to see. In fact, the wound didn't hurt at first, but after the imperial physician applied the powder, it became painful under the effect of the medicine.

"Xiao Zhao, no, no." Yizhen was afraid that her wound would be torn again, so she hurriedly stopped her from moving and asked, "What's wrong with this wound?"

"I was bitten by a fox demon." Ji Anni decided to make a unified statement with Shui Furong. Since Shui Furong said in front of the Queen Mother that she was bitten by a fox demon, she certainly couldn't say that she was chopped by Shui Furong.

This trick may fool the Queen Mother, but it could not fool Yizhen who was watching Ji Anni apply medicine.

Yizhen immediately exposed her lie and said, "Xiao Zhao, that was not a bite wound at all, but a sword wound."

The wound was smooth and neat, and one could tell at a glance that it was caused by a cut from a sharp weapon, not a tear from the teeth of an animal.

"Xiao Zhao, why did you lie to me..." Yizhen asked sadly. Ever since Ji Anni and Shui Furong got close, Ji Anni began to hide secrets.

"I don't want to make you worry." Ji Anni meant well, but unexpectedly it caused Yizhen's misunderstanding.

"Forget it..." Yizhen didn't want to listen to Ji Anni's explanation anymore, and just attributed all the resentment to Shui Furong. If there was no Shui Furong, Xiao Zhao would tell her everything. It was because of Shui Furong's appearance that Xiao Zhao was taken away from her.

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When Ji Anni and Yizhen returned to the East Congfei Palace, it was much quieter. Perhaps Shui Furong and Liu Yingying had finished their quarrel, and the others saw that there was nothing exciting to watch, so they went back to their rooms.

The East Concubine Palace was a large courtyard in the shape of a Chinese character “回”. Ji Anni and Yizhen were neighbors, living on the left side of the entrance. Shui Furong lived diagonally opposite them, on the right side of the entrance.

Normally, Ji Anni and Yizhen would go straight to the left when returning to their room and would not affect Shui Furong at all. But today the situation was a little special. When Ji Anni and Yizhen just turned around and walked to the left, they heard a "creaky" sound of a door being pushed open from the right.

Following the sound, I saw that the place with a small crack in the door was actually Shui Furong's room.

Shui Furong had probably been waiting in the room for a long time. When he saw Ji Anni coming back, he immediately opened the door. However, after he opened the door, he was reluctant to come out. He just stood inside the door, staring at Ji Anni with the sinister eyes of a wronged ghost.

Ji Anni didn't know what he wanted to do, so she stared at him in confusion.

At this time, Shui Furong stretched out a hand from the crack of the door and waved to Ji Anni gently.

That slow movement, that sinister expression, that empty gaze, it's really... really...

Fortunately, it is broad daylight now, otherwise Ji Anni would really think he was summoning ghosts.

Since he was not summoning spirits, he was calling Ji Anni to come over and talk. Ji Anni didn't know what he was up to, so she walked over. At this time, Shui Furong stuffed a small envelope into Ji Anni's hand like a thief.

On the front of the envelope were written three small characters neatly: Su Yizhen.

It seems that this letter is written to Yizhen.

Shui Furong said in a mosquito-like voice: "Concubine Zhao Cong, it's too difficult for me to apologize in person. How about writing a letter?"

Hearing this, Ji Anni suddenly realized.

After all the fuss, it turned out that Shui Furong wanted Ji Anni to pass this "apology letter" to Yizhen.

It seems that Shui Furong is a very trustworthy person. She remembered every word she promised me last night.

"Although your letter was insincere, I'll forgive you this time. You must apologize to Yizhen properly next time." Ji Anni was merciless in her words, but she was very happy to accept Shui Furong's apology letter.

"Oh, how dare there be a next time..." Because Shui Furong had already promised not to bully Yizhen anymore.

"Bye." Ji Anni kissed the envelope, then held it high and waved goodbye to Shui Furong.

Shui Furong got anxious when she saw this, and panickedly pulled down Ji Anni's hand that was raised in the air, growling, "Put it away quickly, put it away quickly, don't let anyone else see it, this... this is my first time..."

Tsk, it’s not a love letter, why are you afraid of being read by others... Ji Anni laughed secretly in her heart and turned to walk towards Yizhen.

"What's wrong?" Yizhen didn't dare to approach Shui Furong's room, and only asked after Ji Anni came back.

"This is for you. Take it back and read it slowly. I hope you can forgive him after reading it." Ji Anni stuffed the apology letter into Yizhen's hand with a warm smile on her face.

I don't know what Shui Furong wrote in the letter, I hope he can write it sincerely, so that he can heal the wounds in Yizhen's heart. As long as Yizhen can open up, it will be worth it for him to accompany Shui Furong to the Demon Temple and suffer so much.

Yizhen took the envelope doubtfully and read it over and over again.

"By the way, Shui Congfei is very shy and doesn't want other people to know about this. You have to keep it a secret for him." Ji Anni raised her index finger to her lips and reminded Yizhen mysteriously. In fact, she believed that Yizhen would not tell anyone else.

Yizhen didn't reply, but just nodded slightly.

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Yizhen said goodbye to Ji Anni and returned to her room. She did not open the letter or read it, and she did not even move. She just stood very stiffly in the middle of the room, staring at the wall in front of her in a daze.

She just kept on being in a daze, in a daze...

She didn't know how much time had passed, but when she came to her senses, the letter in her hand had already been crumpled into a ball.

The words on the envelope were wet and blurred by the sweat from her palms.

She suddenly pressed the envelope on the table, then pulled out a copper hairpin from her hair and scribbled on the envelope like crazy.

Until the envelope was shredded into pieces, until deep scratches were left on the tabletop, until the copper hairpin was gradually bent...

Finally, there was a crisp "snap" sound, and the copper hairpin actually broke into two pieces.

The broken pieces of the copper hairpin bounced towards Yizhen's forehead, leaving a shallow blood mark at the corner of Yizhen's eyebrow.

But Yizhen was unaware of this and continued to tear the letters with the broken hairpin.

In the end, the apology letter was cut into pieces smaller than a fingernail, but Yizhen kept cutting and cutting...

Her movements were fast and fierce, and the strong wind created by her long sleeves blew all the fragments on the table into the air.

The fragments flying all over the room were like snowflakes circling in the sky and finally falling all over the floor.

Only then did Yizhen's crazy movements gradually slow down.

She was already so tired that she was panting and gasping for breath. She had to support herself with her hands on the table to barely stand.

She tightly grasped the broken hairpin in her hand, and stared at the scratches she had made on the table with her bloodshot eyes.

She closed her eyes and took a long breath. After venting her anger just now, her emotions finally calmed down.

She squatted down, picked up the debris, and was about to clean up the room, but at this moment, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a strange figure squatting by the door. Looking closely, the figure turned out to be Die'er.

Die'er didn't know that Yizhen had seen her. She was lowering her head, concentrating on picking up the debris that had fallen by the door.