Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 235: Fox Demon 2

"My Lady..." Hua Rong took a deep breath, suddenly raised her head, and said calmly, "...I have something to tell you."

"What?" Ji Anni's heartbeat suddenly quickened.

At this time, Hua Rong suddenly turned around and left, as if asking Ji Anni to follow.

"Can't I listen?" Shui Furong asked curiously when Ji Anni was about to chase out. In fact, he really wanted to listen.

"Don't eavesdrop!" Ji Anni warned him seriously. Looking at Hua Rong's expression as if the world was about to end, it was clear that the situation was very serious. If it was something that Shui Furong could hear, Hua Rong wouldn't have to go away on purpose.

"Okay..." Although she was a little unhappy, Shui Furong still agreed generously.

At this time, Hua Rong had already walked far away, and Ji Anni chased after her while shouting "Huarong, Hua Rong..."

Although she was under house arrest in Wenhua Courtyard, the guards responsible for guarding the gate had not yet arrived, so Ji Annie was still free to move around.

Ji Anni and Shui Furong were the only two people living in Taoyuan, and Chang Sun Mingri and Zhuang Xiaomeng lived in Liyuan across the street. So the so-called "house arrest" only required soldiers to guard the entrance to Taoyuan.

Hua Rong did not leave Taoyuan, but chose a more remote corner in Taoyuan and walked over.

This corner is surrounded by walls on three sides, making it a great place to tell secrets.

Hua Rong turned around and faced Ji Anni, but did not speak for a long time. She seemed a little hesitant, not knowing whether she should say what was in her heart.

Ji Anni had been impatient for a long time, but at the critical moment, she couldn't help but feel a little nervous. She clearly wanted to urge Hua Rong to make things clear, but she was afraid of hearing something she shouldn't hear.

At this time, Hua Rong spoke up: "My Lady, don't ask why I'm telling you this, and don't tell anyone, but you must remember it firmly."

Seeing Hua Rong's serious look, Ji Anni's expression gradually became serious and she nodded firmly.

"Your Majesty..." Before she could get to the point, she sighed again, "If you can't become the queen... then, then... then the emperor..."

"Your Majesty?" Ji Anni was puzzled, wondering why she was suddenly involved with the Emperor? And looking at Hua Rong's painful expression, it seemed that the consequences were very serious. Even if she was not the Queen, the Emperor would at most be a little lonely, and Concubine An would nag him a little more. Apart from that, there seemed to be no adverse consequences. What did Hua Rong want to say?

"Your Highness..." Hua Rong lowered her voice even more. She walked towards Ji Anni and whispered in her ear, "If you can't become the queen, the emperor..."

The next two words were almost whispered into Ji Anni's ear: "...will die."

Death... At that moment, Ji Anni's mind was blank except for the suspicion that she had heard it wrong.

She looked up in a daze, staring at the beautiful face so close to her.

This time, Hua Rong did not avoid her gaze, but looked at her calmly. From Hua Rong's expression, Ji Anni finally realized that what she had just heard was not an illusion. Just now, Hua Rong did say something very scary.

"Why?" Ji Anni asked subconsciously, tightly grabbing Huarong's wrist.

"I told you not to ask why." Hua Rong also grabbed Ji Anni's hand tightly and pulled her hand away from her.

"Hua Rong, what happened? Can you explain it more clearly?" Ji Anni grabbed Hua Rong's shoulders and pushed her against the wall. After hearing such shocking news, how could she not ask for the truth?

Facing Ji Anni's anxious questioning, Hua Rong just turned her face away and stared at the ground quietly. Not to mention that she was only facing Ji Anni's questioning now, even if she was facing severe punishment, Hua Rong would still be indifferent.

"Hua Rong!" Ji Anni shook her.

She was like a puppet, letting Ji Anni shake her back and forth, just biting her lips and refusing to speak.

"Okay, I won't ask anymore." Ji Anni finally gave up and slowly let go of the hand that was holding Hua Rong's shoulder, but she did not move her body away from blocking the only exit. In addition to the true meaning of Hua Rong's words just now, she had another question that she couldn't understand.

"Hua Rong, why did you tell me? No matter what you are planning with whom, no matter what will happen after September, but... why did you tell me such a big secret?... Aren't you afraid that I will tell others?"

If Ji Anni leaked even a word of what Hua Rong said just now, there would be a huge storm in the palace.

By then, Hua Rong will definitely become the target of severe torture. Isn't she afraid?

At this time, Hua Rong smiled gently and replied: "My Lady, since I have told you this, you have already realized it. Whether you keep it secret or leak it, it is no longer something I can control."

"What if I leak the secret?" As long as I leak the secret and take precautions, perhaps I can protect the emperor and he won't die.

Hua Rong said: "If the queen leaks the secret, the person who will die... is me."

After Ji Anni leaked the secret, once the Ministry of Justice tracked down the case, the only clue would be Hua Rong.

As long as Hua Rong refuses to speak, all clues will end here.

Even though the Ministry of Justice sentenced Hua Rong to death in a fit of anger, the person behind Hua Rong was still hiding in the darkness.

In the end, Huarong was the only victim.

It was because she had already made such mental preparation that Hua Rong dared to tell Ji Anni what she had just said.

Even if Ji Anni really leaked the secret, Hua Rong would use silence to cut off the clues.

"Why...why..." Ji Anni became anxious and hugged her head tightly, not knowing what to do. She seemed to have suddenly learned a very terrible secret, but the secret was still a secret to her, and she didn't know what conspiracy was behind the secret. The person who told her this secret even gave her his life.

From now on, all her decisions and actions will be related to the life and death of Huarong or the emperor.

After receiving such a valuable "gift", Ji Anni had no idea what to do with it.

"My queen, I believe you will not watch the emperor die, nor will you watch me die. If you want, you can save us." Hua Rong's bewitching words rang out again. At this time, Ji Anni gradually understood that Hua Rong was just gambling. However, she made the biggest bet, even her own life, to get Ji Anni to join.

Before this, Ji Anni had always turned a deaf ear to Hua Rong's words, but now, it was difficult for Ji Anni not to listen to her.

"My queen, as long as you become the queen and then slowly push the An family out of the core position of the palace, those who are ready to fight for power will not surface. As long as you help them get rid of the An family, they will not use more radical and dangerous methods to achieve their goals. If you don't do it, you will force them to do it. If they do, the means will definitely be more cruel!"

"Did the young general say anything to you just now?" Ji Anni couldn't help asking. The An and Kang clans were already at the core of the struggle, and there would be no one else except the Kang family who wanted to put the An clan to death.

"Your Majesty... the Major General, the General, and I are all on your side." Hua Rong did not deny it, which confirmed Ji Anni's guess. "Your Majesty, even if it's not for yourself, just for an innocent life... can't you stand up?"

"What exactly do you want me to do?" Anyway, since the first time they met, Hua Rong had been encouraging her to become an enemy of the An family.

"The Emperor wants to make you the Empress, but the Empress Dowager is trying to stop him because she wants the Emperor to make her niece, Concubine An, the Empress. As long as the Empress Dowager feels disgusted with Concubine An, she will no longer ask about the matter of making you the Empress."

"Do you have any solution?" In fact, Ji Anni had secretly vowed that anyone could be the queen except Concubine An.

"There has to be a way..." In other words, there isn't one yet.

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On the other hand, in the Empress Dowager's Palace, there is the Zhining Spring.

In the misty water vapor, one can vaguely see people in the spring.

The Queen Mother slowly walked towards the figure, scooped up a bucket of hot spring water, slowly poured it on her shoulders, and asked, "Has your injury not healed yet?"

The figure replied indifferently, "Soon."

The Queen Mother scooped another bucket of hot water and asked, "Is Yun Zhen really that powerful? This is the first time I've seen you get injured so badly... It's been almost thirty days, right? Why haven't you recovered yet?"

This time the figure did not answer.

The Queen Mother asked again: "It was because of your injury that Tang Yu's memory almost recovered. Why didn't you cut the grass and root it out?"

Tang Yu is the Imperial Concubine Yu of the Qingle Palace in the Xian Palace. Imperial Concubine Yu suffered from a strange disease three years ago and her memory became confused. But on the day Ji Anni entered the palace, she suddenly remembered some past events, such as that Shui Furong's sister was killed by a fox demon.

Tang Yu’s strange illness is not a disease, but just a kind of sorcery.

The monster that cursed Tang Yu was the one standing in front of the Queen Mother now.

That was the one that blocked the knife for Ji Annie on the execution ground.

The Queen Mother asked the figure why he didn't kill Tang Yu to eliminate the root of the problem. The figure said gently, "I didn't kill her because I was accumulating merit for you... Queen Mother, how many more murders do you want to commit?"

This made the Queen Mother's expression turn pale. She changed the question and asked, "Did you leave the bloodstains in the Demon-Suppressing Temple?"

"It's not me." The figure replied indifferently.

"Are there other fox spirits in the palace?" The Queen Mother couldn't help but wonder.

"No." The figure answered so decisively that it seemed as if he was deliberately concealing the truth.

"But Taoist Yuan Rong said that it was the blood of a fox demon..." The Queen Mother concluded that the figure was hiding something from her, and her tone became stern.

"I don't know." The figure interrupted the Queen Mother with these four words.

The Queen Mother was a little annoyed and said in a low voice: "You must know, why did you hide it from me? Could it be that the fox demon who attacked Zhao Ji was really the demon concubine who was burned to death during the reign of Taizu?"

"It's not her. She died a long time ago." The figure seemed to have something to do with the evil concubine during Taizu's reign. After hearing the empress dowager mention the evil concubine, his mood was affected and he changed his previous calm tone and became a little excited.

"Then why..." The Queen Mother's voice gradually became shrill.

"Don't ask anymore." The figure said in a low voice, as if he was annoyed by the Queen Mother's questions.

The Queen Mother was also very angry. When the figure shouted at her, she suddenly stood up, raised her sleeves and threw the water scoop into the spring. She took a deep breath, and then warned the figure in the spring sternly: "Yanniang, don't betray me."

At this time, the mist in the hot spring slowly dissipated...

The figure soaking in the spring water finally revealed her beautiful face - it was Yan Niang.